@@LtheDetective never really liked prince growing up, but over the past few years of music production I’ve started liking a lot of music I didn’t like. Probably should go back and give prince another chance or two.
@Vincent Junio imo evh has never been dethroned as the greatest guitarist of all time. like the fact that he improvised the beat it solo on the spot blows my mind
My God. This guy is an inspiration. I've been playing for like 12 years, and I can do a lot, but I'm still nowhere near that. The sheer level of musicianship this guy has, not to mention his songwriting and composing ability, is unmatched. I've watched this, For the Love of God, and I'm the Hell Outta Here over and over since I started playing, and watching these videos still blows my freaking mind.
+BadAxeGinger To quote, "I do try to push myself into relatively altered states of consciousness. Because in those states, you can come up with things that are unique even for yourself."
The techniques used in this song is quite flashy, but in fact, it's not really an impossible guitar performance. I would say, anyone with fairly good experience with the guitar could play this song if they practice. What should be praised is the way Steve Vai makes this song so groovy and beautiful. The song writing of Steve Vai is on a completely different league and so is his way of expressing the song by using WAH pedals. He composes music with a variety of unconventional scales and cords that makes it quite unique and at the same time entertaining with some mysterious feel. Steve Vai plays guitar like an art, not a sport. A lot of people out there do all these funky flashy stuff, but that makes it more of a sport than anything else. Steve Vai is a true artist. The artistic style of Steve Vai is not something you could imitate, much less even come up with such ideas. I love it, I really do. This guy is a once in a century type of guitarist, rather an artist. I really respect him. I really do.
+ifluxion Thanks for the narrative, but I we wanted to read such flowery descriptions, a quick look into the national online publications such as the Rollingstone.com or anyone else would have slaked or desire for polished knobs.
im a fairly proficient guitarist and i can tell you that some of what he does is very difficult to copy..i can play almost anytihng but some things are on another level. a lot is just filler but then you see as good as it gets for riffs, and i doubt very much you could do that. thats what i consisder the mark of a really really good guitarist, does things i cant copy
@@GCshredder No way ! I have seen him live and in person with Devin Townsend at Hammerjacks in Baltimore, Maryland. More like real-time, spontaneous expression. It's what happens when you push your limits beyond what's possible, in to the impossible, and then, get out of God's way and let the Spirit flow through you. It's supernatural ! Channeling the Spirit.
I have seen Vai miss a pinch harmonic. The real trick to playing at a high level is not to never make a mistake, but to move past it so seamlessly that the audience can't pick it up. Eric Johnson even chokes a note on the famous live recording of Cliffs of Dover, but he doesn't falter for a second (though in the video you can see him shake his head in disappointment). That said, Steve Vai is insanely accurate. Especially considering his theatrical physicality.
I love when he morphs into Sandra Bullock at that one point during the ending solo, around 4:34...rofl...seriously though...the man is otherworldly. I'm proud to have been a fan of his since the early 1980s..Alcatrazz..Crossroads..DLR solo early stuff. He channels the Hendrix "church" like no one I've ever seen.
Steve is very fun and entertaining to watch.He is a wizard!I can't believe some of the comments people make about him on you tube,like he uses the whammy bar to cover up mistakes.I can say with certainty that every nuance and note is carefully planned out,some people just get off on being trolls to get a rise out of others.Just a great musician having alot of fun!
@@diegolatorre6793 It's impossible for that Whammy, to be planned - As Steve is quoted as saying, the best stuff happens when you say, forget the rules - I'll just do this ! Of course, what you ultimately play is always a product of what you are able to play. You know why Steve Vai plays the way he does ? Because he can !
Rolling Stone made a not very amazing list. 100 guitarist are a lot, so....Steve....why you shouldn't put him in the top 100? I should put him in the top 1 but it's my idea.
I keep coming back to this clip and the one of him playing "Now We Run" every few months. . Just to sit and stare and smile and soak in the awesomeness. . .
I love what Steve Vai said in an interview. He said, "Man I just wish I could get my music played on the radio more often." Then the guy in the interview had asked him about Eddie Van Halen. Vai said, "Forget it, there is only one Eddie Van Halen. He will play every Riff better than yours, every song better than yours, and just comes up with amazing stuff that everyone loves."...SO what is the difference? I started guitar lessons at the age of 6, studied for almost for 4 years, then 7/8th grade band, high school band, played tuba, was 3rd best in tri state competitions, had an interview my senior year with the Philadelphia Philharmonics Orchestra, Berklee Music had a 4 year scholarship for guitar, keyboards and tuba.... Studied under Gary Hoey in Cambridge Mass for music theory until Gary said to me, STOP! You don't need lessons, you have a fantastic style, just get your ass in a band and play! You need to be out there being heard.....So, this is what I have learned. People like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani , Gary Hoey, they are classified as Students of the Guitar. THey study every aspect of music theory, every scale, every tuning, every song, every technique and they master them all. Then you have Eddie Van Halen, guitar players in Eddie Van Halens classification (which is Artist) are Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Chet Atkins, these guitar players are in contact with a Universal Consciousness Trance System that allows them to feel and express what they see and feel on the guitar. Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Chet Atkins and Eddie Van HAlen have all said the very same sentence, that being " I don't know where the music comes from, its as if something takes me over and plays through me." Pete Townshend is another of these Artists, who seem to just be touched by outside sources and the music is translated through them...... Keep in Mind, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and students of the guitar also say the very same thing, which is, "I wish I could come up with better songs that all the people would appreciate and want to hear, like van Halen." This isn't saying that these guys are not good, just that they are not in touch with the very same music spirits or gods that the others are.....Have a great day!
I think it's just there's not a great balance of songwriting and technicality and musicality and accessibility always with Vai's music. People don't want instrumentals in the popular realm of radio. Van Halen was blessed with an amazing guitarist, Eddie, and one of the greatest front people in rock music, Roth. Well written songs with guitar sounds the world had never heard before, very melodic and musical. Both of those things together made for success for the band. Vai has been in successful bands and projects with great front people (including Roth himself), but by himself, with occasional singing and technical heavy instrumental that's very progressive and unorthodox in nature, you can't be surprised that most of Vai's music is not on radio. Also, given the fact that the world in popular music isn't too interested in hard rock and metal guitar really really doesn't help. The trend seen in popular music when someone changes the landscape is very normal songwriting territory with gradual progressive elements little by little. We see this in ragtime becoming jazz, then jazz becoming blues, then blues becoming rock n roll, then the 60's, the 70's, the 80's, the 90's and so on. For change in music to happen, people need "safe" pop music with a small number of new, novel things that eventually catch on. That's just the industry. I don't necessarily like it. It's just the truth.
Very good point. My favorite soloist is Max Ostro but I think Led Zepp “rain song” may be the greatest thing I’ve ever heard on a guitar. Two very different things but share equal value to me.
Steve song composition is not usually my favorite, but this song is very well composed and great sounding along with amazing technique, especially the tapping sections that are siiiick..!
This is the best live instrumental song on RU-vid. The interplay between the guitars and the two violins is incredible. The melodies are complicated but very rich. Not just random crap like some of the jazz that's out there. I don't think that I can even think of a genre to describe this music. It's absolutely outstanding. I don't know if it's just me, but I think there are parts of it that wouldn't be out of place on Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds Soundtrack.
i think its funny how the beginning of the outro has another sick tapping part, yea steve that is all this song needs!!!!! the first time i watched this video my jaw dropped to the floor
@@Zadesniper Reminds me of my guitar teacher who was a Berkeley student. He was very expressive and specific in the pickup setting he'd play on, changing it very often, and I definitely picked that up from him. It used to be a handicap at times. I know many people will camp out on one pickup, for most of a song, but especially lead guitar, it can be a great source of expression. More options and ways to manipulate sound enable more expression. The prime example of this in guitar playing: Steve Vai. Every single parameter he can influence and control, he does, between how he uses the locking bridge, the pickups, the whammy pedal, the wah, the sustainiac/sustainer. He's pushed guitar technology farther than any guitarist in my opinion. Every new thing that comes out, he at least gives it a try, and if he can, he incorporates it.
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I love how his guitar reflects light beams. Its pretty cool. Somewhere at 1:45.
The God of all gods...Steve vai is very talented in so many ways...Steve sees music like art..and a vision that is hard to find in some artists...I would loved to see Steve vai and Eddie van Helen on the same stage doing a solo battle....now that would be the ultimate of all times...it would be like the movie..cross roads..but the different is..no one would fail..
I Love the futuristic tonality of this wonderful piece of music. Personally i think this is one of the most consistent, solid piedestal of music by Steve vai. Dont get me wrong, i Love his other stuff none the less. Though he has a tendency to over-indulge in extravagance and ostentation.
