Back in my teens when I had no money, I got busted at my favourite guitar store taking notes from the Extravaganza book with a notepad and pen, but the shop owner was cool enough to let me carry on because I said I was saving my paper round money and I promised to buy the book as soon as I had it, and I did, and still own it to this day!
This is such an awesome story!! …I did the same with the Metallica and Justice for all tab guitar book… …bad taste or not, I totally relate and love your story regarding the Vai Extravaganza book!!!
I happened to have the same book sitting on my desk right now - I pulled it out after watching your Eventide videos to brush up my Skyscraper licks! Also found it years ago in a local music store, great book.
Really glad I subbed your channel. I'm suddenly filled with the inexplicable urge to open up my box of old Guitar For The Practicing Musician magazines lol. The nostalgia is strong with this one Obi Wan.
Thanks a lot for this treat! I’m about to record one of my favourite Steve Vai solos, Ladies Nite in Buffalo, and this info was absolutely necessary! 🙏
Before Steve updated his website last year, he still had the Extravaganza book available for sale. They can be found, but really, it should see a reprint.
great contribution, I am studying in depth the delay and the truth your video opened my head, thank you very much, very good info and you have great audio and a very good equipment, congratulations
Those records are why I ever picked up a guitar. I have that book... it's falling apart but I still have all of it. I never got to experiment with all of Steve's settings 'cause well I frankly never had or could afford the equipment but at least I was learning all the "little black dots"... Cool video thanks.
Your videos are nothing but ebay trouble. After buying an ART SGX-2000 last month(which I gotta say is sooo much fun to just mess around with), I just bought the only copy of Vai's Guitar Extravaganza on ebay. :-)
Awesome book. I bought it when it came out, years ago. I can chart my guitar progress back then through learning those songs. Shy Boy definitely sorted my legato!
Sush a great music book! So glad to have found it around 1p years ago. Definitively Collectible. Great rig and recording info from the DLR era. The live rig for the EEAS tour is more cloudy though, almost sure it is two Jose modded and two Lee jacksons mod
John Sykes used a very slight delay into his stereo Mesa Mark IIIs on the 1987 album, I think as a thickener as well. One side was dry, and the other was slightly delayed. I've been trying endlessly to replicate this with my Mark III and Subway Rocket, but just can't quite get the delay timing right. But yeah, if you did a video on anything related to John Sykes, that would be really cool.
I was just Going Crazy ( no pun intended lol) looking for my copy of this last week, Saw this and decided too look for it again and finally found it. Ive owned it since it 1st came out in 89.
Just hearing these riffs in isolation wooow...and so well executed.. Takes me straight back back to 88/9 13 years old when your idols where your big bros idols... Steve Vai come back..... and just give us just one or two more good old sexy guitar rock n roll albums with Sheehan and i'll settle for any singer or drummer. Do those, and then continue on the zen ghostwalk .🙏😉😁
Shy Boy is a Billy Sheehan song from when he played in Buffalo New York area in the late "70's to early 80's . Billy was in a band called Talas, Shy Boy is from that band.
H I N A - - holy shit you did it! I've come close with no explanation to the notes, now I'm gonna ape it off your vid! Best song on the album, aside from Two Fools THANK YOU MICHAEL
Maaaan! Two Fools is incredible, and it's sorta thrown away at the end. I wish DLR did more of that stuff. I guess it's Dave's version of a blues tune.
I just dug out my copy of extravaganza as I've just bought a Katata artist and now have access to loads of effects (including a virtual sde) I didn't have before and remembered the book has loads of settings.
Another affordable way to get the SDE 3000 delay sound is via the Boss GT100 floor multi fx unit,it has all the algorithms and sounds Beastly!!! Michael that Steve Vai preamp by Synergy you are using on this video sounds killer I hope you have already done a review/playthrough on it if not you must it sounds rad👍🤘🤘🤘
So I got that Steve Vai book for $1.00 out of a used bin (along with several other gems). I never thought to recreate the patches he used.... Gonna dig it out now....
@@CarbonBasedLifeform7810 Thanks for the heads up Blues. Working my way through Lindy Fralin now. I would love to hear more about Michael and what he does. Besides 10-15 minutes of cool 90s gear and old magazine flip throughs we get each week.
Like a lot of the tab books from back in the day, sometimes they had cool explanations on how to phrase the stuff or what effects they used, even comments by the players themselves. Used to see a lot of those books on ebay, but lately people find out that real books still exist and buy them up ;)
Hi Michael, top notch sound on Hina. Also one of my favs from the one and only Master. Could you please tell me, do you have have stock friedman pu‘s on your guitar? I like that black very much and the colored pu‘s look like wow!! We haven‘t so many friedman guitars here in Germany, is yours a special Cali with a custom neck? I‘d like to push the trigger on a Cali........Cheers Frank
MICHAEL NIELSEN, What rack mount gear did Kurt Cobain use for In Bloom the Pitch shifter effected used on the guitar solo of In bloom? its a nice pith shifter that doesn't sound digital glitches tracking issues
Yea but what were the sought after features of that unit? For instance KORG made the SDD3000, a favorite of The Edge, and besides modulation on the repeats it has an input knob that doubles as a preamp giving the entire signal flow a special type of “warmth”. The pedal version of it also features such preamp. EDIT: It just dawned on me that maybe this unit didn’t have such preamp stage and that’s why it was sought after by them tone snobs as they didn’t want their sound colored any further. Wow I can’t believe i figured it out all by myself
