Steve Vai Live Clinic & Interview w/ Andy Aledort at The Music Zoo 

Every Steve Vai clinic turns into a motivational speech eventually..gotta love the dude, so inspirational

remember buying passion and warfare on cassette tape when it first came out been a fan ever since. steve vai is a god.

Opened RU-vid, 2hrs with Mr Vai on a rainy Sunday morning in Scotland...yes pls!

Steve always has that fan blowing his hair back on stage, which of course, is the real key to success as a shredder :)

If it's too loud too bad. Amen

One of the most important things I've learned from Steve is that while you're creating something, you have to follow your own creative inspiration and trust it completely. You can always analyze what you've done after you finish, but if you allow analysis and self-criticism while you're creating, you're more likely to get frustrated and give up. If you do manage to push through, whatever you make will be a less pure expression of your own creativity. Separating creativity from analysis and judgement has made it much easier for me to finish things instead of getting stuck in the middle. They don't all turn out good, but some of them do, and that's much better than not finishing anything at all.

Freaking love Steve Vai. Not just the gorgeous guitar playing, but his wisdom, and experience as well as his attitude cement him as a class act. Godspeed Steve!

Best guitarist who ever lived. Def the most creative and inspiring!

Steve Vai playing Orange head&cab, so weird but awesome!

I met Steve when he was with Roth, such a nice guy....amazing musician. I'll never forget that day.

Heads up! Now you kids, you, all of you. Calm Down. That's good. Okay. Everyone in your own Seats. That's good, okay, now, little Stevie Vai is going to play a composition on the Guitar. He wrote it all by himself Okay, Stevie. Bring your 3 friends up, they can Play with you. That Steve Vai, what a nice Little boy...

Best of the Steve Vai series so far..hands down!!!!

Listening to Steve, whether he's talking or playing, is so joyous and inspiring. How wonderful that this is here for me to share with my friends.

Great interview. And the "conscious awareness" talk at the end shows Steve is AWAKE like Jim Carrey and many others. Well done

Super cool 🎸🎶🎵🎼🎤🎹🎧🕪

"Don't underestimate the power of your own inspiration, be friendly with it ". Steve Vai. wow!! what an amazing teaching!! thank you master Vai

"if its too loud, too bad" words to live by!

Vai is the most original guitarer ever

For the love of God sounded so good here!!

Amazing!!!!!!!!!

Pure wisdom from a very passionate guitar genius.. I enjoy every interview with him, such an inspiration.

I love Via hes the best ever,I never thought I'd see him play thru an orange amp tho I gotta see this lol

Thank you MR.Vai!!!

Steve Vai has a Big Heart when He plays and when He doesn't . Not just a technician about "how many things you can do on the guitar", he plays with FEELING, loads of that!!!! He has A TOUCH. He LOVES melody, he SAID, he ALWAYS says that!! He just creates new melodic weird lunar lines of notes. And this makes a huge difference from being just a "shredder". He is not, let's make it clear! He is a VERY BIGHEARTED GUY, AN EXPERIMENTAL AND A VERY MELODIC MUSICIAN .

I imagine - but may be wrong - it may be a little bit hard sometime for those guys (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Y.Malmsteen, and many other guitar heroes) to find themselves in a world when now there is thousands of people who can play classics like "For The Love of God" or other classic songs at the same technical level or better then Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen, or others guitar heroes. But a thing to remember is, no matter how good copy is, it is a copy still. We love you guys for what you did for us! For making so many songs which are now classic and inspiration to millions of people around the world.

Fantastic.

Ohh Mister Vai, you're one of my favorite guitar player , and at the same time I love your sens of humor, you are such an entertainer, you make me laugh ... number One :-) Thanks for all !

Respect the honesty about guitar..still f*ckin' impressed!!

Looking forward to my 3rd Vai Academy coming this January.

thank you Steve

i like this , follow what gets you exited your ideas are worth following keep going ....dont stop

I wish Steve wouldn't have been interrupted when he was going down this line...I've always told my students. You can play ANYTHING you want if you learn it in small bites, very slow and flawlessly to the metronome and then very slowly speeding it up, and only speeding it up once you have it 100% accurate to the point that you could play it in your sleep at that speed, no matter how slow it needs to be for that condition to be true. If you follow that, to a metronome that is, the speed will come naturally, and you can play anything.

Sounds good on the Orange amps .

This was awesome

I'd love to see one of these with Joe Satriani!

This was a great event (as ueual at the Zoo!)

In another interview he elaborated even more. He said that song (For The Love Of God) came to him in a period of high spirituality mindedness, and he had just completed a ten day's fasting. Yes: Ten was the number that he mentioned!

when he starts singing the melody to For the Love of God i had to pause this and watch a live performance of him expanding the universe with that song. i doubt i'm the only one.

I was loving seeing the Vai v Satriani debate.... Some National Guitar Institute named Shawn Lane the greatest guitarist ever... The thing is everyone has their own taste. I always say there are 2 kinds of music.... good and bad, and everyone's good and bad is different!!! To me, and he may not be the best player ever but to me he is my favorite of all, with his technique and range, from full-on Metal to Classical and Jazz and Blues, is Rik Emmett. I discovered Triumph in 1984 and decided then I was going to play guitar and that I have..... ever since! Vai V Satch? I tend to Satriani, a lot because he's more "accessible" to me but I LOVE both.

BEST ELECTRIC GUITARIST OF ALL TIME....................

Steve Vai and Orange:)

His path to himself is unique

Legacy Drive on the Orange Rockerverb. The Legacy is Steve's "go to" amp tone.

as Stephen Covey says (me referencing him), Steve Vai says: you become what you think about and if you want to improve yourself you have to hear yourself in your own minds-ears and your own minds-eyes and actually see yourself doing something that you are incapable of doing, try it, and find tune the picture and could be anything you want!!!!! ooooooooohhhhhhhh master of guitar masters

Wow! When he played For The Love Of God he really put his money where his mouth is. It was note for note perfect! I also really enjoyed his philosophical stuff. When I was younger I used to think he talked bullshit but now, as silly as it sounds, I get it!

WOW STEVE ... ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT NOTE CHOICES ... NOT ALL OF YOUR STUFF I LIKE BUT THE MAJORITY IS MINDFULLY THOUGHT OUT AND ACHIEVED WITH A BIT OF STING ... )))

The Attitude Song I always thought was supposed to be a less is more lesson.

Does anybody remember the floppy album that came with hit parader or early 80s rock magazine when Steve won the billboards contest that landed him to fame and ended up with David Lee Roth. So that was part of the story? That I grew up hearing. But anyways Steve is one of the greatest!

Awesome....He's using his Carvin Legacy Drive

dude wow! this was an epic watch, does anyone know why the speakers are facing the back wall?

Since Carvin audio is closing for good, I wonder what amp he will endorse next. Possibly orange? He’s been known to use them in the studio at times and live next to his legacy amps.

No doubt one of the most technically proficient guitarists around. However, his real strength is composition. He has written, and performed his music with major symphonic orchestras in Europe. To be able to write music in all four clefs, bass, treble, tenor, and alto, as well as for percussion, is no mean feat. He’s also able to conduct a full symphonic orchestra.

It was 3 Hours a day that Pablo Practiced during an interview with George Carlin :)

for the love of god..... seriously EPIC song period. btw Steve plays this better than anyone else on youtube.. just sayin.. lol

Wow

1:37:55 What a legend!

Where the hell can I get that jam track? Lovin' it!

Uh, is it me or do those Oranges sound amazing? Rockerverbs? Such a nice, grainy, glassy strat-type sound when he's not in insane gain mode (which is great too).

what's hes gear here? whammy, carvin legacy preamp ,delay,volume . but what is that white pedal?

I want to see a conversation between Steve Vai and the Dalai Lama. I bet that would be interesting.

WHERE's CLIFF??? DID HE MAKE IT THERE OR WAS HE WORKING at EASTPORT MUSIC SCENE???

Holy F***K !

I can't believe it's not buddha...............love you steve.

What song does Steve start with?!

"Every night I write a symphony in my head"

I'm the bluesman he's from Long Island ... ;7)

Why are the cabinets backwards??? Anyone??

2:00:53, I think Steve mind melded with that guy to hear his question. lol

IM SURE HE JUST BECAME THE BEST GUITAR PLAYER SITTING IN HIS BEDROOM AND PEOPLE JUST CAME TO THE HOUSE KNOCKING DOWN HIS DOOR LOL.

With a little more practice, this guy might be pretty good. I'm going to go now and try and patch my skull back together.

I love Vai so much but I wish his newer music didn’t sound like Las Vegas show music. I’m finding to hear a whole album of Attitude Song style jams.

Those boom mic stands in the way are pretty distracting- it's weird that it's bothering me so much that it's in front of both Andy and Steve's faces while they're sitting and talking.

Too many ads right in the middle of Steve's solo....of all places.

This is what happens when a Son is fully supported by his father! (when a father is actually a father)

I know its the nature of human being but; I never thought off all people that steve vai would have a fear of not performing well. I mean It could happen. But his bad performance probably is the best some others might ever do at it hehe

name of the first song?

Amazing technical ability. His melodic sense, rhythm and phrasing aren't my cup of tea though. Satriani does it for me.

That was the wrong vamp for these guys to try to play along with.

Poor Andy, trying to tune -using the tuners, not the fine tuners, that jam didnt work out.

more like a genius philosopher/guru than a guitarist!

Nobody know's that Steve Vai is Christopher Reeve a bit

I love Steve.. and Joe. But Guthrie govans the god of the planet they're flying too 👌

I need indonesian translate

is it just me,or does Andy look&sound like an older version of john petrucci..????

It's a Dad moment...if your dad could shred

steve intenionally or not has a lot of CBT in him...control your thoughts, awareness of your thoughts

Flog is kung fu

there is a Book that is thousands of years old it is called THE BIBLE GOD THE FATHER.

Best tone ive heard him have in a while. Orange amps. Not a fan of the sound of his modeling amp he useing now.

he sounds like dave mustaine.

OMG that JAM..... LOL All the kids sucked and Andy was playing like it was his first magic mushroom experience....

wow you really just said anything short of govan or shawn lane is not talented!!!!

CLÍNIC IN SPANISH PLEASE

His music is weird as ever. But cool

piss poor sound engineering and an outstanding 2+ hours and why does this remind me of Syd Barrett :)

People have too many opinions. Shut up and listen for once.

Compared to Page, Blackmore and Hendrix NO!

Awkward @1:35:50

Must be cold there, cause he is out of tune, but splendid playing.

Stop talking about satriani . Vai is objectively better, more original, unique, etc...... He makes satriani sounds generic