Henry Rollins Chats With Guitarist Steve Vai | In Partnership With The Sound Of Vinyl 

I'd pay good money to hear vai a Rollins Band joint

And then it turns out they both love Tom Waits

yes. nothing more to add but yes.

Yes. Not the same questions. Awesome.

Yes indeed!

vai looks strangely fat. the yngwie diet.

@@commentfreely5443 They both look great for 60 .. lets not be too harsh.. Vai is not fat at all, I think its the way he is seated and the lighting.. ;)

I can listen to this for a day, food and drinks on me!

about 10 years ago I saw Henry's spoken word tour. I was amazed how he spoke for 3 hours straight, never reaching for his water bottle. he never stumbled over his own words, never lost where the stories were going, and uttered an "um" or an "uh". Would love to meet him one day.

this interview has single handedly helped to like steve vai. his style of music is not my taste, but the conversation about the micro details of composing and active listening to music was wonderful. now what made me love steve vai is he said his favorite musician is tom waits!!!! mine too.

I think what makes Rollins a great interviewer, apart from his intelligent and articulate questions is he sees himself as second on the bill. He wants people to be able to get to know the interviewee. This makes for entertaining viewing.

I also think part of why he's a great interviewer is that most times he also a genuine fan of the person he interviews and that comes thru in his questions

Exactly my thoughts! We want more!

@Joe Passenger If you're talking about Vai, he's been married for 30 years and has two grown children.

@Joe Passenger loser af

No, that Varonica Vaughn is one fine peice of ace. I know from experience! Me and her got it on! Whoah!

@Joe Passenger Oh, I'm not up to date with terminology at all then. I only meant like it's a great interview, good vibes between them. I had no idea that "ace" meant anything else.

Great guy...very cool

Unlike many well known people, he's a truly great person.

I can listen this guy for hours to end and never get bored ... I don’t like black flag tho ... Steve vai is a god

I've long been aware of the existence of Henry Rollins and I knew him from punk days and as a spoken-word guy, but he seems an energetic and confident guy.

He learned from all the young journalists he used to bully I guess.

he auditioned, there is an interview where he mentions all this.

Go out and get bone machine

Just won SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many brownie points in my book.

I did. Frank loved Waits. Waits opened for Frank often. Frank was his mentor.

@@urbanwizardsacademy9730 i recommend "Rain Dogs".

the black rider is excellent by Tom Waits

The FZ re-issues on vinyl by Bernie Grundman are awesome!

Made him drool upon his dork And gave him a wanking Very silly. Please forgive me. I could't resist. Zappa fans will get that reference.

@@loafersheffield ....and eat the banana !

Wait a sec... Lemme get this straight. The guy who spends a large chunk of every day perfecting his craft finishes a set where he puts his whole body into it celebrating a milestone in his life didn't give the couple who crashed the party the love and admiration they think they deserve? I think Steve might have thought you to be a jerk.

@@thefog7067 regardless of your personal feelings you are still a jerk for what you did. And when you post to a public forum expect the public to reply. Have a good day!

@@thefog7067 Unfortunately, celebrities and rock stars can't always be "ON", they can't always be charming, gracious, humble or happy to interact with fans. It's not as simple as, "We love you, Steve Vai! We've been following your career since 19__ ! We own everything you've ever done! We named our son Steve after you! Now please recognize me as the amazing super-fan that I am, and reward all my years of fandom by being genuinely ecstatic to see me, and want to talk to ME, and take a photo with ME!" The guy gets off the stage, probably had a crazily complex long-ass day and night, he's probably tired after giving 110% on stage. If you met him at a different time, under different circumstances, I'm sure he'd be the most awesome, gracious person and you'd have an incredible encounter. But life is all about timing, and I'm positive you simply caught him at a not-ideal moment. Like I said, he's fucking human, and we can't all always be happy-as-fuck to see everyone all the time. This is kinda like the people that leave a negative Yelp review: there can be an amazing establishment, where people have worked and slaved for years to make it an awesome spot. And one customer has ONE (perceived) bad interaction with a staff member, and they write a 3 page Yelp thesis on how shitty the establishment is, how they shouldn't be in business, how dare they, blah blah blah. I've met a bunch of celebrities/rockers multiple times, and sometimes they were in a great mood and we had a great convo, other times they were in a "I don't really feel like talking/interacting" kinda mood. Give ole Steve another chance!

@@thefog7067 if your butthurt over my opinion maybe not share your jerk actions on a public forum. Also, throwing your wife under the bus is a jerk move, ya jerk

@Ittybittybabybubbies the3rd That's spooky ! Glad you had such a cool experience with Steve though 🙂

Amen, Unfortunately the people of The USA couldn't handle his COLD HARD TRUTH.

BigStevie93 Shades of President Donald Trump!

Surprisingly profound

That's how my golf game improved ,Jack Nicklaus said ,visualize and do it .These guys are now buddies ,chemistry was there ,take care every one.

Dallas, salad. Check out “The Art of Mixing” by David Gibson. The whole book is based around the concept of mixing within a cube (basically a room). It’s a very visual book on how to pan instruments left to right, front to back and up and down. It’s very good.

I thought this as well, super interesting way to think of this concept.

Absolutely agree. I've seen him more times than I can count, but I saw him play Whispering a Prayer for the first time live in a small venue, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. Vai feels every note.

Probably his best stuff up there with Roth and Zappa

This is totally something Henry would ask as well

'people who are famous, go insane'

Botox in his forehead helps

I know of Tom waits but never listened to his music. So I should start with Bone Machine?

@@TeleCarlitos I'd start with Rain Dogs, but Bone Machine is pretty amazing too. It's just super weird, but with Tom, weird, is good.

Dan Mil.>> Rain Dog was like a best of..really but it was is 8th. studio album and Keith Richards was also on that album.

Carlos Riollano dude! Bone Machine!!!!! Ugh. Get some headphones, lock yourself in a dark room and listen to it immediately. Let it take you away to a land of broken speakers and concrete chicken coops.

@@TeleCarlitos Bone Machine and Mule Variations both have great range in the type of songs.

Food for thought ....

That's also what broke up the final Zappa band iirc… bass player was also Frank's straw boss, all the players absolutely stellar but didn't like each other, and it came out that they'd been demanding different money, NOT 'favored nations' status. I'm not sure if it's the bass player, drummer or who was getting paid more. Probably someone with a lot of other duties like that bass player/surrogate Frank. And when they confronted Frank demanding equal pay, he went 'see ya' and goodbye band. As far as the 'record company deals', Steve Albini has a famous essay on that subject too.

Yes man .. fz had huge impact in Steve playing

I was gonna say something similar. Its definitely nice to hear him talk about frank

Nod to the guru / old school mentor.

They do completelly oposite thing, thou, it would be interesting if Rollins comes back to music. I don't buy the reason is "i have no more good lyrics in me". These times give us plenty of harsh realitty for inspiration. He probably enjoys more to do current stuff. I love his music, i love this too.

@Christopher Castillo so what? I'm a fan, don't i have my right of opinion?

They could, but Rollins would just have to stand there because "For The Love of God" has no words to it................... AAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Don't buy reissues, buy the original pressings. A lot of reissues are released by labels other than the one that originally released the recording. Most use digital processing in the reissues and if it's an album that was made in the last 20 years it probably has a digital workstation source like ProTools

Since it’s a hot selling point and something enthusiasts look for, if it’s remastered from the original master tapes it will be indicated in the record notes...or is often the case for older music I should say.

I really enjoyed all the incarnations of Rollins band - my favorite was Henrietta Collins and Rollins band when Melvin was on bass

On the other hand, the world was blessed the day he started doing spoken word shows.

They could be brothers