Play drums for a guitar god...
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Can you splain it please?
- but I'm not impressed with him either. Feel free to disagree...)
Golly, didn't expect these responses.
I put Steve Vai on the same hallowed ground as Paganini - a great performer, technician, artist, writer and entertainer. Both have wowed audiences with both technically impossible playing and easy stuff which sounds complicated. They both wrote original music showcasing their talents. They both experienced massive fame and a devoted following. And they both are/were posers to look(ed) like show-offs even when they don't/didn't have an instrument in their hands.
I know my views won't convince you haters who listen to crap like Bananamassanaba, but I do think few have matched Vais artistry, talent, skill and writing virtuosity.
I put Steve Vai on the same hallowed ground as Paganini - a great performer, technician, artist, writer and entertainer. Both have wowed audiences with both technically impossible playing and easy stuff which sounds complicated. They both wrote original music showcasing their talents. They both experienced massive fame and a devoted following. And they both are/were posers to look(ed) like show-offs even when they don't/didn't have an instrument in their hands.
I know my views won't convince you haters who listen to crap like Bananamassanaba, but I do think few have matched Vais artistry, talent, skill and writing virtuosity.
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I think somebody is forgetting who is chief moderator here. And how come we don't have a banana emoji?
mcad64
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On a completely unrelated note...well not really..but sort of. I watched an 11 part piece on Joe Satriani on Youtube the other week. Something called Living Legends Music or something like that. I recognized his name but wouldn't know one of his songs if it hit me in the face. Why I kept watching? He seemed like a genuinely nice human being!! Oh, and the sort of related part...he taught Steve Vai.
Steve Vai is a genuinely nice guy and he is very humble in real life, especially when compared to most high earning musicians. But, he always wears the douche-inspired rock gawd clothes and makes faces at the wrong time while playing - stuff like kissing the neck of his guitar or appearing to either be at the peak of sexual ecstasy or struggling to pass a kidney stone while playing the high notes. But, his showmanship aside (one reason I compare him to Paganini), he is a genuinely talented player in every possible aspect. If you could see a list of all his work, especially the stuff he doesn't get label credit for, you'd be blown away at what he is capable of.
Ok, so that is what I was waiting for. I get that some don't like him, I was just curious as to why.
I happen to really appreciate the guys playing and loved what he did with David Lee Roth. I don't listen to a ton of Vai's solo stuff, but I can identify almost immediately it 9 times out of 10. I also LOVED what he did in the movie Crossroads (the cool one, not the Brittney Spears one), and I think he an Ry Cooder did some amazing work on that soundtrack.
Eh... tastes are tastes.
I hate listening to or watching Prince, I am mature enough to acknowledge his genius and talent.
Dude, Prince was a badass. Super funky, super rock n roll, keeping it real and controversial at the same time. Man, I love Prince.
Eugene Martone : Where and when for this thing?
Scratch : Ohh, I can get us there real quick... Jack Butler's gonna like you.
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Of course, Steve played all the guitar parts in the entire movie - he even helped choose the music, worked with the director to make it fit the theme, and more.
I am pretty sure Steve and Ry Cooder shared those duties.
Hold on... I've been wrong about that since I saw it in the theater during its first run? Damn!!! I need to apologize to a ton of people.