steve vai....... doing his thing live........

Keira-WitherKay

well i don't know how to explain it or won't even try but for all my jazz rooTs and acoustic world music passion........... I LOVE STEVE VAI..... maybe cos he's mostly instrumental....... but his tone is so smooth that it does not irritate me after the first 10 min like most other players in a similar genre........and my goodness those long fingers...talk about genetic advantage..... his hand intruige me for sure......and yeah even tho i have listened to so many other players in this genre when it comes to this style Vai is "the man" and a great sence of humour........... and not scared to poke a finger at himself ......... i like that in a player.......

anyway i found this on you tube......... gear junkies will love the 3 neck guitar , i loved the intro ( well first 5 min heheheh ) of experimental solo just him and his 3 neck guitar and a looper ........ BUT damn why does he sing ................ that spoilt it a bit for me.as he's a very mediocre singer when compared to his other virtuosity

oh and watch out for billy sheehan on bass as a double treat

enjoy i loved it

and this clip of steve vai and steve vai demoing the Jemini distortion pedal ..... is soooooooooooooo funny .......

AlanRatcliffe

That's from the G3 Live in Denver 2003. A nice clip in that you can see he is incorporating newer stuff other people are doing (looping, fretless). He's not really pushing the envelope the way he used to though.

Here's a great clip of Vai trading Riffs with Dweezil Zappa on Frank Z's More Trouble Every Day. Also some killer sax playing from Scheila Gonzalez and an understandably nervous looking Jamie Kime (playing a Les Paul) gets a few riffs in too.

Keira-WitherKay

yah alan he seems to work with awesome muso's ...... i see in some vids he uses two electric violinists........ and wow violin and guitar in this genre sound awesome together .........

btw what does one call the genre thats steve vai plays........ cos i wouldn't call it rock or metal maybe" instrumental experimental guitar rock" ????
what do you guys and girls think????

Keira-WitherKay

wow alan that clip you posted was awesome and yeah what a sax solo ............. but yeah the dude on the les paul .... he was somewhat dwarfed by the virtuosity on that stage......but lets be honest all but a few would be......... isn't it stange how one gets so used to hearing steve and dweezil trading licks at that level and kinda forget how high they setting the bar till you hear that les paul player play a few licks........ and i bet he's no slouch amongst the rest of us players but the sax player held her own and way way up to steve and dweezils standard ........ also the drummer was way cool ...... cool clip ........ just gotta love this stuff

Renesongs

Opinion Alert: I watched most the G3 concert. I find that after 5 to 10 minutes of Sach , Eric Johnson, Malmsteen or Petrucci I get bored and fast forward to Vai's slot which I watch two or three times and then scoot through to the jam section at the end. The thing that distinguishes Vai from his contemporaries is his wonderful use of dynamics both in volume and tempo as well as his melodic approach to improvisation. (*oh flame me if you must I'm old enough and wise enough to take it*) ?

IceCreamMan

mesmerising ...how much further i gotta go to get there? ?

right on the fingers ....never really noticed them before...

Renesongs

mesmerising ...how much further i gotta go to get there?

I have been playing guitar 3 years longer than Vai so for me the answer is a simple never ?

21Fretter

Keira WitherKay wrote: i see in some vids he uses two electric violinists........ and wow violin and guitar in this genre sound awesome together .........

I love the heavy break in the middle somewhere.

@Keira: if you look at Paul Gilbert as well, monstrous hands. His pinky is like the longest finger on his hand.

Renesongs

Paul Gilbert another fantastic guitarist - Hendrix also had enormous hands - sigh genealogy wasn't that generous to me in the hand department. I have long adopted the oriental maxim of striving to be smaller faster and cheaper ☹

guidothepimmp

i would lurrrve to see a G3 with vai, satch and bettencourt...

would absolutely lurvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve that

Keira-WitherKay

Renesongs wrote:
mesmerising ...how much further i gotta go to get there?
I have been playing guitar 3 years longer than Vai so for me the answer is a simple never ?

mmm but never forget Vai........ learnt guitar from joe satriani when he was at school ....... cos joe satriani was his friends tutor...so a great way to begin ......... and of course steve vai developed a 10 hour a day practise schedule yes thats no typo "10 " hours a day and when an interviewer asked him how he kept to it he replied well when he wasn't playing guitar he was in "pain" so he did it cos it was fun and cool ......

but see the short interview below 1st video is about joe satriani as a tutor and the 2nd is about his pracise routine quite well worth the watch

Renesongs wrote: Opinion Alert: I watched most the G3 concert. I find that after 5 to 10 minutes of Sach , Eric Johnson, Malmsteen or Petrucci I get bored and fast forward to Vai's slot which I watch two or three times and then scoot through to the jam section at the end. The thing that distinguishes Vai from his contemporaries is his wonderful use of dynamics both in volume and tempo as well as his melodic approach to improvisation. (*oh flame me if you must I'm old enough and wise enough to take it*) ?

yeah rene his tone is awesome and never gets harsh on the ears however wild he gets........ so he's being quite clever in keeping ones attention too with his "dramatic' way of playing he puts his whole body into it ....awesome........ so yeah me too even as someone who never likes loud /harsh music loves vai...... despite he's playing so loud and insanely he 's always melodic ......