These great guitar players like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani should just stick to playing instrumentals because when they bring in a vocalist with good lyrical content it just sounds to cheesy. It always seems to me that these songs are always geared towards the guitar and instrumental arrangements and it takes away from the lyrical content and the great singing from someone like Devin Townsend. Devin Townsend leaving Steve Vai and forming Strapping Young Lad was the best thing that Devin did back in the mid 1990s. His music with Strapping Young Lad blows this music with Steve Vai away by alot. With Devin Townsend in Strapping Young Lad and with his solo projects Devin Townsend proved that he is not just a great vocalist but a top level songwriter as well.
It's so mind boggling to me that this this man had so much success immediately in the industry, and still kept going on only based on whatever the hell he wanted to make , and stay around. It seems like one hell of a life honestly
That would be Tool. Devin hasn't even gotten the true grandiosity of the psychedelic message. I do believe he is a genius though and everything he touches is gold.
It's hilarious that stupid fucking Ricky has no clue that he's sitting in front of a genius in Devin as he keeps kind of talking down to him, Like Steve Vai isn't capable of picking out extraordinary musicians. This was by far the best Steve Vai band line up, Steve, Devin, Terry Bozzio, and TM Stevens, fucking incredible and way to ahead of it's time. I played this cd so many times I actually wore 2 of them out learning the songs on guitar, fast forwarding, pausing, and replaying certain sections over and over. Devin's vocals on this album are stellar.
Saw them in Lyon, France. December 2nd 1993. Two days before FZ died. Got Steve's pick (still have it somewhere) and some autographs. I was the happiest 15 year old son of a bitch on Earth that night.
@@mattchurchill ...on a sidenote, that is some fine picking you have posted !...that tube screamer blues has eric johnson/Holdsworth ? tone...real real nice
I think you missed the joke of screaming just to literally scream because they were just talking about screams without indicating they meant scream vocals. Don't forget how ironic Devin Townsand is...
Hi Becky ! If you are into Devs work check out Vai's Sex and Religion, or Devs solo album Infinity, or Devin Townsend Project "KI". Completely unique brilliant music, super diverse atmospheres, and some of the best vocal performances youll ever hear :) (yes im a big fan of his since 1993😉)
How are they able to stays focused, by stuff like that?? I would've laughed my ass off like hell, and Steve just answered Dev's question as if it's the most normal thing in the world 😂😂😂
Funny... Steve Vai says he wasn't looking for a good looking guy with long hair, but still he was trying to look his very best and he never lopped off an inch of his own hair...
@@GFJDean35 i wish i was wrong. Watch Devin sing Here and now in 2017 Starmus. Hes not into it at all. www.blabbermouth.net/news/devin-townsend-still-cant-listen-to-vais-sex-religion-album/
Saw them in Toronto. I don't know. Townsend didn't do anything for me. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm not dogging him. Later I ended up working with a woman with the same last name....wasn't till years later that I found out from a guitar player bud at work that she and Townsend are cousins. Cool
Back when the MTV name ment what it was for. Now TV channels have things have stuff that has nothing to do with their name/theme. Example...Scy Fy channel showing stupid WWE Wrestling.
@@christianrosfontanus9773 It isn't necessarily all that surprising. He has bipolar disorder. So it depends on the drug the person but a lot of people with mental illness use drugs to slow down, speed up, and/or generally medicate which would definitely be understandable given the Devin in this video and the knowledge that he's bipolar. Common understanding is that drugs make you erratic and while that's definitely a common occurrence sometimes people are *already* erratic and try to use drugs to try and be normal. Not saying this is the case with Devy but it wouldn't surprise me. It's entertaining as all fuck to watch in this video but if we're real he's going absolutely ballistic.
