I just bought Steve's Blu-ray, Where the Wild Things Are. If you like his stuff, it's an amazing 27 song show. His band is top-notch, a bunch of virtuosos. If you're not familiar with Steve's solo stuff, it's mostly instrumental, jazz-fusion/prog rock type of stuff. The guy is a phenomenal, but can be a little annoying with his stage antics. He thinks of himself as a "showman," I assume. He drips arrogance with every look and move. But if you can get past that, the music is out of this world.
This is a 7 minute preview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgObLPOUPVA
A couple of my favorites are at 1:30, 3:40, 4:17, 5:00.
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All you have to do is hear "For The Love Of God" live to appreciate what an amazing talent Vai is. I also don't always appreciate his antics on stage but sometimes I just have to trust he's just feeling the music. I've been known to get a bit out of hand on stage myself from time to time.Zarathustra wrote:I just bought Steve's Blu-ray, Where the Wild Things Are. If you like his stuff, it's an amazing 27 song show. His band is top-notch, a bunch of virtuosos. If you're not familiar with Steve's solo stuff, it's mostly instrumental, jazz-fusion/prog rock type of stuff. The guy is a phenomenal, but can be a little annoying with his stage antics. He thinks of himself as a "showman," I assume. He drips arrogance with every look and move. But if you can get past that, the music is out of this world.
This is a 7 minute preview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgObLPOUPVA
A couple of my favorites are at 1:30, 3:40, 4:17, 5:00.
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I absolutely LOVE this song Paint Me Your Face--Now We Run they have a ton of fun and the violinist is hotter than hell! 
(he owes a lot to Jeff Beck, as do we all...)
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Vai's a great guitarist, but needs the structure of a band (Zappa, Roth, Whitesnake) to really shine. This freeform stuff gets tedious quickly.
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Honestly, I probably only listen to about 50%-75% of the concert, and skip the rest. I get tired of endless noodling, too. But he does have quite a few really good songs that allow him to work off distinct, pleasing melodies and chord changes. And I love watching his band at work. All their solos are very interesting. The violinists "solo" together (duet), and end up playing the guitar dual from the 80s movie Crossroads. Cool. (Anyone see that movie with the Karate Kid playing a blues apprentice?)
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wish i had seen the Roth/Vai/Sheehan (no idea the drummer) tour.
Vai on his work with Public Image Limited (Johnny Lydon)
Steve Vai (session guitarist, 2004/06): “Bill Laswell, the producer, called and I flew in and out of New York from Alcatrazz shows to cut the [solo guitar] parts. I did basically all the guitar parts in two days.
Bill Laswell took a very interesting approach to the production of this disc. Some of the material I'd never heard and just went in and started playing on it. At the end, Johnny Lydon came in and liked it [...]
There was the consideration of putting a band together - him, myself, Bill Laswell on bass and Ginger Baker on drums. Would have been quite a band.” “I went in in a day and did everything, then I flew back out on tour. And then I went in for another half day, and Lydon came in on the second day. He's just like ultracool and it's the first time he's heard any of my parts and he goes 'This is fucking great, man, how did you fucking know I wanted it like that?' [...]
We were thinking about turning it into a band - me, him, Bill Laswell and Ginger Baker, but well, I was doing some other things, you know? It would have been cool. To this day that's one of the projects I'm most proud of.”
Vai on his work with Public Image Limited (Johnny Lydon)
Steve Vai (session guitarist, 2004/06): “Bill Laswell, the producer, called and I flew in and out of New York from Alcatrazz shows to cut the [solo guitar] parts. I did basically all the guitar parts in two days.
Bill Laswell took a very interesting approach to the production of this disc. Some of the material I'd never heard and just went in and started playing on it. At the end, Johnny Lydon came in and liked it [...]
There was the consideration of putting a band together - him, myself, Bill Laswell on bass and Ginger Baker on drums. Would have been quite a band.” “I went in in a day and did everything, then I flew back out on tour. And then I went in for another half day, and Lydon came in on the second day. He's just like ultracool and it's the first time he's heard any of my parts and he goes 'This is fucking great, man, how did you fucking know I wanted it like that?' [...]
We were thinking about turning it into a band - me, him, Bill Laswell and Ginger Baker, but well, I was doing some other things, you know? It would have been cool. To this day that's one of the projects I'm most proud of.”
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I actually did back in 1988, at the Monsters of Rock festival here in the Netherlands.sgt.null wrote:wish i had seen the Roth/Vai/Sheehan (no idea the drummer) tour.
One of the things I like about Vai is the way he approaches his musical ideas. These vids are nice examples:
Explains how the main riff of Building the Church came about
'Freak Show Excess' demonstration
Greg Bissonette was the drummer. Those were great shows.Spiral Jacobs wrote:I actually did back in 1988, at the Monsters of Rock festival here in the Netherlands.sgt.null wrote:wish i had seen the Roth/Vai/Sheehan (no idea the drummer) tour.
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Spiral, thanks for those! "Tongue twister for your fingers." I like that.
I just bought a Dream Theater concert blu-ray, and their boring, rambling songs make Steve Vai's excesses sound downright accessible. God, how does that band even stand to listen to their own music? Every single person on stage looked bored out of his mind, except the drummer, who kept reminding me of the Muppets drummer. He would have been interesting if he hadn't simply rumbled double-bass beneath every single rhythm he played. So 80s.
I just bought a Dream Theater concert blu-ray, and their boring, rambling songs make Steve Vai's excesses sound downright accessible. God, how does that band even stand to listen to their own music? Every single person on stage looked bored out of his mind, except the drummer, who kept reminding me of the Muppets drummer. He would have been interesting if he hadn't simply rumbled double-bass beneath every single rhythm he played. So 80s.
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DT opened for Iron Maiden 2 years ago. Dear God it was awful, self-indulgent masturbation.Zarathustra wrote:Spiral, thanks for those! "Tongue twister for your fingers." I like that.
I just bought a Dream Theater concert blu-ray, and their boring, rambling songs make Steve Vai's excesses sound downright accessible. God, how does that band even stand to listen to their own music? Every single person on stage looked bored out of his mind, except the drummer, who kept reminding me of the Muppets drummer. He would have been interesting if he hadn't simply rumbled double-bass beneath every single rhythm he played. So 80s.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I met Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater ex-drummer) a couple years ago at a Rush concert in Kansas City. Got my picture taken with him too - was pretty cool. He was sitting just a few seats away from me. Was funny to watch him air-drumming along with the rest of the crowd 
He was actually pretty cool about taking pictures with people, even though he was there with his (totally hot) girlfriend/significant other. He could have been a total douche about it and told people he was there to watch the show, but he was very personable.
Dream Theater can be brilliant (Scenes from a Memory, Images and Words, for example), but yeah, their recent stuff is just 'noise'. Their latest album (without Mike) is pretty much the worst of theirs. I just can't bring myself to listen to it and I've been a DT fan for years.
He was actually pretty cool about taking pictures with people, even though he was there with his (totally hot) girlfriend/significant other. He could have been a total douche about it and told people he was there to watch the show, but he was very personable.Dream Theater can be brilliant (Scenes from a Memory, Images and Words, for example), but yeah, their recent stuff is just 'noise'. Their latest album (without Mike) is pretty much the worst of theirs. I just can't bring myself to listen to it and I've been a DT fan for years.
