Who rated him so low? I’ve never read or heard anybody say: “that Vito Bratta guy, he’s just not that good. I don’t rate him very high”. How high do you wish to rate him? Remember, there are millions of guitar players in the world, and thousands of famous ones. Players like Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen and…Steve Howe…. Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani . Slash, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Whoops…I forgot: Jimmy Page. Bro, I could go on and on and on listing players that are/were great. Vito Bratta was a great guitar player in the style of music he played. He only played on like 4 albums before that style of music faded out. He was very good at what he did, but he isn’t going to be rated up there with the game changers like Jimi and EVH and Malmsteen. Hes not “underrated “. Hes rated right where he belongs: as a top player in the 80s hair metal era.
Love Vito. I would encourage any aspiring guitar shredders out there to give any of his solos a shot, "Wait" and "Little Fighter" are both EPIC! and are a challenge for even veteran players. We love you Vito!
Vito was for sure the classiest player of that era, such a beautiful note choices in everything he played. I've come through a playing hand injury myself, and it just seemed to need a LOT of time, and then, my hand was just OK again all of a sudden, and I could play, so, all power to Vito to get back out there and retake his place amongst the legends.
Vito was phenomenal. He replaced EVH as my favorite player. Vito didn't like the way the music industry worked. Apparently the band was screwed out of money and the record label no longer wanted to support them because Grunge was the new thing on the scene. I'm confused on the hand injury story. It's been said that he feels something similar to an electric shock when he touches the strings. But now the story says the injury is in his right hand. That's the picking hand. Not the fretting hand. Vito seems like a quiet, introverted person (like me). I get that he doesn't want to be in the spotlight anymore. I'd want to be able to go out in public without having people hounding me for pictures and autographs all the time. But what Vito COULD do, is upload a 5 minute video of himself just noodling on guitar in his house. Once a week, or twice a month. No need to put together a band, go in a studio, make an album and go on tour. Just a quick video every so often would be enough to make us fans happy. It's a shame to have such talent and let it go to waste. Hell, Jason Becker can't move a muscle in his body but he still composes music. It's too bad we'll never see him play guitar again because he can't move. It's even worse we'll never see Vito play again......because he doesn't want to. 😞
Considering how many bloated and balding 80's rock stars that are still performing to make a living, I don't blame Vito for disappearing. He knew when to call it quits unlike so many others that just look ridiculous
I'm not so sure about underrated. All my guitar slinger buddies ranted and raved like I did. His stuff is pretty hard to cop and frankly can be plain difficult.
My father told me when I was a young teenager, No matter how incredibly, breath-takingly, knock out, gorgeous the woman of your dreams is... there is some man, somewhere, that's sick of her bullshit! I'm sure that's what we have here. Learn a lesson kids.
I felt like I was going to shit my pants year ago, went on a flight with a friend who only flew private, got on the plane and met our pilot, it was Chris.
IMO, he’s the only guitarist to even come close to EVH but with his OWN style. Even Eddie said so. If your hero says it’s ok then you know you’ve done it right. One of my favorites. 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽
Being a musician and retired medical specialist your wrists just don't snap. So that's just an excuse! He's a quitter....plain and simple. This band had doors open up made excuses for family problems, band breaks up? They must of been one of the children that cried when they were children, this band had the looks and the talent and they just fucking gave up! There's been lots of outstanding bands just couldn't hang.
Vito's playing is SOOOO tasty, awesome riffs and every solo is a joy. Wish he was still playing. For me he joins a group of 80's guitarists that were so underrated: Ronnie LeTekro, Bill Leverty, Harry K Cody...
It’s all subjective of course, but, the bottom line is, he wrote some great music, and as a guitarist, his work moves people emotionally, and inspires people to want to play guitar, of if they do already, inspires their playing. The power to do that, in my humble opinion, makes him one of the all time greats.
I listen for the music. I don't care about lyrics. That being said, they did have some cheesey song topics. I mean, nobody is going to go cruising on a Saturday night, blasting "Til Death Do Us Part" on their car stereo. Had they written some harder, edgier songs, they might have had a bigger audience.
@@safelyanonymous5717 Partly true lol but it's interesting no one talks about grunge anymore like they do rock and Bratta. Fact I keep seeing people talk about the intro to Lay it down by Ratt more than toilet sink *grunge* "music" lol I mean what a name toilet scum smell E "grunge." Why not just ass wipe on a paper towel? Weird on how toilet grunge killed many bands but on those many bands millions are *still* watching on YT...??? All good toilet grunge has some lol catchy numbers, when you're depressed af. Peace
dvd videos were never officially released ......that was a mtv live concert of tv !!!!!!!...the only one that came out was the escape vhs at the end of the band !!!!!!
This is the answer to Vito's wrist problem. I too popped my left wrist while mowing the lawn, OH did it hurt like a bitch. It hurt to play and was taking forever to heal. Months would go by and it seemed that it was never going away. Then I saw a doctor and went to physical therapy, I honestly didn't think it was going to work. Boom - problem solved. I highly recommend it.
People said Vito was an Eddie clone, I dont see it at all, totally different players. Listen to Lady of the Valley or Lonely Nights and tell me you hear anything like EVH, nada.
His tapping wasn't even remotely close to EVH. Edward was doing the insane "Mean Street" intro back in 1981 and did the incredible "Woman in love" intro back in 1979 . Get a clue dude LOL.
@@2216sammy obviously u don't play guitar. I do that's how I have a clue. If u did play u would know about guitar playing. There r better tappers out there than EVH. GET A CLUE!
Vito is more than a guitar hero, to walk away from fame to take care of his parents and the family buisness is some true real life hero stuff. Would love to see him join up with Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and the singers of Van Halen (all 3) and Wolfie and do a tribute concert for Eddie and fufill Eddie's kitchen sink dream.
I am 57. I love all music but I my favs. My fav guitarists are Vito, Edward, G. Lynch, M. Kendall, D.Struermer, P. Metheny, L.Breau, W. Demartini, R. Montrose, P. Reynolds, J.West-Oram.
I loved watching the recent clip of Joe Elliot flipping out on grunge in the 90s!he asked how many of the grunge bands are still around!they had a run till the 2000s, then everybody wanted to have fun again!
@@Gmantsb That's really awesome! Thanks for sharing that story with us here. I just bought a killer 1984 Kramer guitar not too long ago from Long Island, NY. Music Zoo.
VIto needs to realize that the days of a possible reunion are not infinite. He needs to make it happen like soon. No ones getting any younger. Cmon on already bro. He's gonna end up regretting it.
He was like a refined Eddie Van Halen. I don’t mean that in a good way. Everything was too clean. There was no raunch to his playing and he overused the finger tapping way more than Eddie ever did. Very creative. Very inventive. But he was kind of a one trick pony.
I disagree 💯, The “little fighter” solo is a masterpiece and he doesn’t do crazy finger tapping in it. He is a real melodic soloist which makes my ears perk up. If he is indeed a “one trick pony” his trick is melody. 🤔🤘🏼✌🏼
Edward was the king, but I'd never call Vito a one trick pony. A person can never finger tap enough! The music today stinks, I dare anyone to try to compete with Bratta's playing. Won't happen...
Everyone was tapping after Eddie brought it to the spotlight. People single out Vito because he did it best. His solos were more intricate than other players. Vito could do blazing fast runs. But he preferred to be more melodic with his playing. His solos fit the songs.
