I don't understand the hate on vai. in all honesty, I think he plays more like frank than dweezil does! Dweezil goes to such great lengths to recreate franks work that he almost misses the point. Frank didn't play the same notes all the time, his solos were often crazy and unpredictable just like Steve's is here. Not saying Dweezil is bad, I'm just saying vai is great. I think he nailed this, and frank would have been happy to see it!
AND Steve is also a great human being. I got to find out in the early eighties when I wrote to Glotzer Management asking about him and got several letters back from him over the next year.
I am not sure who would throw any hate at him. He is truly a great artist and it sounds like he is actually a good person, which is more important. He can seriously play. Frank is smiling I am sure.
it's not about who is better. It's all about celebrating Frank's music. This band is comprised of top-knotch musicians who exhibit a true love & understanding of what Frank was doing. Try to enjoy it for what it is. Peace!
You guys have no idea how hard it was to get in Zappa's bands. He got to choose from the best of the best of the best. They were all world-class master players and singers
@ everyone complaining about feel and soul. Feel and soul is a misused term. Feel and soul can be shredding and stuff. If it fits in the flow/theme etc of the song it has feeling and soul. Also people complaining about feel and soul doesn't understand the music behind it because if you cannot understand the music how do understand the feeling of the song/solo. If people don't understand it they feel alienated and they cannot follow it. They claim it doesn't have "soul" but it does have soul. They just cannot find it. Most of the time those people have a narrow view. The same applies to other forms of art. If you cannot understand the creator/artist, what do you know about the art piece?
Very well put. Simple minds can only understand simple music. The “best music” is quite cerebral and usually requires more than just “passive listening”. The “best music” has an audience, but is simply beyond the grasp of the masses. This is well documented throughout modern times simply by popular music sales statistics. The state of popular music is very very sad. Just how far can they “dumb down” the music?
It's damn obvious that there was a shitload of feel and emotion in his playing. I guess there were just a few people so focused on their playing as Vai is.
@@JimmWare The "best music" is the music that makes you feel the way you want to feel at the moment. I don't disagree with you about the inaccessibility of complex musical themes and structures to the masses, though.
Podría ser este el mejor solo de STEVE VAI en toda su carrera sin lugar a dudas. No hay palabras para describrirlo, mezcla todas sus técnicas y un lenguaje que hace "aullar" la guitarra mejor que el Zomby Woof.
I saw the cover art for Overnite Sensation as one of the most amazing coolest artistic renderings of a Zappa band members recollected conception of a "road trip" while on tour, ...Of course I could be wrong,..but I reserve the right to my interpretations both public and private. The day Overnite Sensation came out,... a friend who was a total Frank Zappa afficianado played each track, ....then would discuss various aspects of whatever element of Frank Zappas playing had blown his mind, ......all the while I looked at the cover art and thought,...man, these Zappa freaks are gonna have me looking like the guy on the Zappa album cover in the Holiday Inn,...I shoulda went to the mall. I thought he would possibly slip me some acid or something....so I kept a sharp eye on him. That album cover was a little unsettling and this guy was such a Zappa fan,..it was unsettling. You know the friend,...We all had them,..they turned us onto Zappa. Then,...before we knew it,..we became them, telling everyone we knew about Frank Zappa. BTW,...none of the Zappa fans I knew actually did any drugs,...maybe a few beers or a small partaking of cheap weed. Zomby Woof is one of my MANY favorite Frank Zappa songs. I loved that era,...and consider Frank Zappa in a unique stand alone category of multi-talented entertainer that is an "out of the box, what the fuck is a box anyway" kinda creator... I learned a LOT from Frank, not just about music, but about thought processes, humor, independence, society, ...professor Frank covered a lot of ground, and was the soundtrack to many of my eras. One amazing time was when Steve Vai invited me to meet Frank Zappa and sit at his table after a show at the Palladium in NYC. I talked with Steve Vai for about a half an hour while they broke down the stage and put equipment onto the trucks. One of the things about Frank was that he had people working with him,..always involved with one thing or another that were very rare special souls themselves. Steve Vai was that person to me moments after walking off stage from an incredible Zappa show one time, ......a long thrilling lifetime ago. And he is still like that,...a teacher, like Frank was,.....I wonder where HE learned all that?
let me first say steve vai as great as he is, and he is great without a doubt, very few can play guitar on his level, its just quit NOT good enough to go up and down the fret board hitting as many notes as humanly possible, and the hammer on hammer off technique gets old, one dimensional style at best ! unlike frank who in my humble opinion was the greatest guitarist to ever live R.I.P.
S. Vai is the worlds most talented guitar wizard. He believes we are all unique and incomparable , I agree! SV is the human electric guitar. But his deep deep knowledge of music theory and abilities sets him at the top of the guitar food chain for evermore!
One of my favourite Zappa pieces and, although I've watched this version hundreds of times, and bought the DVD, I just can't get over Steve Vai's absolutely amazing guitar playing! Gives me a tingle up the spine every, every time!
Steve Vai est transcendé par la musique de franck Zappa. A un moment il est en trans et on pourrait croire que franck a pris Possession de son âme pour un moment le temps de nous visiter avec un solo venu du fond de l’univers C’est magnifique 🙏🏼
As any real guitarist can tell, from watching Mr Vai's face in the midst of the lead, Mr Vai is a strange and wonderful machine for making exceptional music be produced to reality via his guitar. One of the best leads ever played.
what happened to the soundman on this tune? Steve's guitar solo should have been at least 3db louder in order to stand out in the mix; as it was it was pretty much buried in the mix and sounds thin and lifeless.
+drumstud4u old comment I know but you do realize a +3db increase in via' s level would have been a MASSIVE increase & not in keeping with Frank Zappa recording style . Zappa music dosent work well with over emphasized solos ,take the solo on the song " I come from nowhere " ,it's more of the same uber shredding insanity & the only reason it works,and dosent tire the ear with listener fatigue is because all instruments are kept at reletave levels ,solos as long as Zappa solos get tiresome if recorded at increased db,something John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra could never figure out. Just listen to any McLaughlin solo with M O & see how fast you become fatigued & bored with senseless shredding .
This is typical Steve Via wanking of a higher order than usual. It works and because the band follow the protper tune it is not the usual mess but like Frank back when he was actually really really good (1969-1975) when he still wrote good not tiresome music. Anyway over done but well done with passion and attack. The best I've seen for a while. Great band with many original members who give the whole thing cohesion and class.
MegaRaven100 PS this might be the single best Vai performance ever. For once his tech wanking really shines and adds to rather than merely playing over piece as I feel he usually does. He shone there! Fairs fair!
+MegaRaven100 Frank never wrote a tiresome song in his life. If you never saw him live ,don't talk about his music. With your comments your evidently to young to understand his music and what we had as music during that time era. He was waaaaay ahead of his time musically.There was no one like him and there never will be.
Too young?! . Guess again I bought 'Hot Rats' (my personal fav) when it came out in 1969. Indeed if you followed what I said and how I said it you would have picked that up. (ie that as with the Grateful Dead I have followed SINCE THE BEGINNING!) Notice I said I LOST interest in the 1980's which implies LIKING him BEFORE! Your just like the worst Dead Heads. Love it all equally instead of intelligently with perception. You cannot REALLY appreciate someone if you cannot even tell their better from their weaker stuff. Everyone has better and worse. Simply spouting *He's a genius and ahead of his time' Means nothing even if true. Because he like other geniuses had peaks and troughs. This elementary stuff. I'll bet even you have favourite's and who knows maybe in those 60 LP's of regurgitation there is some stuff you like a little less than others. GO on admit it. It's the start of perception. The world is a bigger place than you know. and music is infinite. Frank was brilliant but anal. Too uptight and lacking the ability to say NO! I know it is very few LPs that have been ALL great. So few. Why quality control? Frank had none. Too much ego to admit it. Early and early mid Frank TRIED, later he coasted and spewed. It showed! (same with the Dead too)!
+MegaRaven100 All I was saying in my 60+ years,the best guitarist ,composer,ect was Frank and with the Mothers,Flo and Eddie,Capt. Beefhart it didn't get much better.Now days it's Buckethead,Joe Sat,Bumblefoot,John 5,Animals as Leaders.I like bands with strong guitarist I saw the Dead one time and I didn't see what all the fuss was about. I thought they were "boring" ! As far as your perceptions go, I think you need a chill pill and a doobie .Don't go all ape shit Dude,it's only My opinion.Peace out Frutti Tutti !
+Michael Smith Peace to you too. As for the Dead, It's like Frank. Put on 'Hot Rats' and 'Willie the Pimp' and the young one's ears prick up and they say. 'Who's that?! and it still sounds raw and heavy and not dated. Put on one of Franks 80's stuff and hey go like you did at the Dead gig; 'OMG it's so long and tedious and BOOORING!' I know I have a 14 year old. He loves 'I am the slime, and even 'Bobby Brown' but he will usually only listen to the stuff i like; Hot rats, Bongo Fury, Overnight sensation, Live at Roxy, Apostrophe, ie the late 60's and 70's stuff. Same with the Dead. In the 80's they suck most of the time and some times in the 70's and 60's but that's where the good stuff is, Energetic, excited, fresh and attacking. Success mostly ruins artists as does age and abuse. You HAVE to keep changing and growing or you rot. The last decade Frank was very hard working and yet mentally lazy (ie; he hired the best technically and coasted pumping out way to much). I've got some pure buds right in front of me. Peace!
You people fail to remember that Steve was there at the beginning with Frank for these cuts and learned the difficult writings that were Franks, who else could do it with justice?
OMG. I love when steve tells the story about joining zappas band. how frank made him play all this weird, crazy stuff. vai was very young too. I want to say like 21. he is simply one of THE GREATEST guitarists on planet earth.
Yo he visto a su papa no me acuerdo la de veces, el chavalote no lo hace nada mal espero que haga algo suyo, que seguro que tiene ideas para eso y algo mas, por cierto a el también lo he ido ha ver en BCN Palau de la MUSICA y encima rifo una guitarra de su papa y le toco al de al lado mio (Manda Guevos)
when frank died i quit my job and went into the mountains of northern arizona.i said i wasn't coming back until i played everything i had of his.it took me a week.what a genius
SRV was one hell of a bluesplayer, he was a bluesplayer and a Hendrix player, and I know a lot of guys who play a hell amazing too, just you get this prestige once you have made it successful such as SRV did. He earned this prestige. But he played with so much emotion and that's what I like about him, but he isn't the only one who plays with A LOT of emotion, I consider that myself I play with A LOT of emotion... I have composed many catchy riffs, yet with it's purpose of sounding in its own way
I've seen them due this at the Paramont in Seattle and it was the best performane of this song you will ever see our hear. Dweezil Zappa and the band have done Frank proud. Thanks for sharing this with all of us anthing Zappa Fans. Zappa Fanatic
Dweezil and Zappa Plays Zappa are amazing. Their level of musicianship is incredible! These songs are very hard to play correctly and Dweezil and band acomplish that.
I love Steve Vai, He is one of the most inovative guitar players there are, and a huge contribution to Farnk. I only wish I could have been him, Im not. But what I did like is the soslo is Steve ..... AMAMZING AS ALWAYS but this moment wasnt about Steve it was a bout Frank. And he did not do Franks solo from the album. Dweezil would have come close to what frank would have played . I Play that solo note for note from the album its my favorite. I wnted to hear Frank not Steve. and by the way I love Steve, and all of them . Zappa plays Zappa shiould be Zappa plays Zappa
Napoleon Murphy Brock is Outta Sight! Dweezil is taking a comfy back seat to this original Mothers veteran, and Former Zappa student Steve Vai is on fire. I do want this Dvd!
Via is a GREAT technician, but for my money this solo wasn't massively engaging musically. Compared to some of the jamming I've seen him do with Zappa on versions of Stevies spanking anyway.
I think Vai is great and Dweezil also has come far without blatantly copying his fathers style. But Vais solos always seem to be 20% awesome and 80% noise.
I can see why Frank dug Steve's playing so much. The guy is a virtuoso in terms of his traditional chops but also of the unorthodox...and that always interested Frank above all else.
WATCH OUT STEVE VI ! I'M COMING YOUR WAY! !!!!!!! STEVE HANCOCK BETTER KNOW AS (STEVIE THUNDER! !) JUST LIKE THEY VE SAID, " (YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET! EEK! STRAIGHT FROM LINDENHURST! STEVIE THUNDER! ! FUSION FROM THE MOON! )
Bon, le solo de Vaï est grandiose pas de soucis. Mais j'apprécie particulièrement le solo original de Frank sur Overnite. C'est vraiment sauvage, ça gémit , une espèce d'agonie, mais toujours musical, bien construit, ce solo est juste incroyable, la guitare jouit littéralement.
Not sure Stevie got to spank a guitar like that when he was on tour w/ FZ...he sure didn't the two times I caught him w/ Zappa back in the stone age. He's a true brain melter and the mold got busted.
@ESmithStringSlinger Nappy was not the original singer, it was Ricky Lancelotti, who sang it an octave higher than Nappy does here. There's a live version of me doing it in the correct octave on the '82 tour: Apparently RU-vid won't let me post the link in a comment, but if you'll find it if you search for "Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof [live]"
Classic. Vai is amazing. I saw the old comment that he should use a strat. Why should he If the Jem plays easier why fight a strat. I love my yJM strat but a JEM would be a good tool also.
@fassman316 Tal's been jammin with Stevie quite a bit, so that threw me...plus I don't think she plays the sax. They do look alike though. I knew she wasn't Ruth. Thnx!
If you gonna make a solo in a FZ style you eighter gonna do them better than FZ or in a different way, and that is what SV do. in a different way. He´s great!
Vai playing Zappa turns into another Vai. The guy with the light blue hair. He is not the main artist anymore, but part of a band and gives its best without control.
posting whilst drunk is always consequential ... so i answered a few posts honestly whilst still sober enough to spell check ... no guarantees ... anyways ... i stand by all the posts ... and the reason for this post is to tell all the haters ,,,post your better shit
