Inherent eclecticism that in this debut is even more pronounced than in later works. The first thing that catches your attention when one faces Flex-Able is that already with Little Green Men, it is clearĪside from his undeniable abilities as a guitarist, Vai has a unique personality and compositional ability, apart from an Posted Wednesday, Decem| Review this album | Report (Review #2650662) Hard to explain if you don't know it.įor my closing thoughts, see my opening thoughts. That weird alien guitar tone that shimmers and wavers. Moment(?) and this compilation was saved(?) by the very, again, Sleep Dirt-esque "X-Equalibrium Dance". Just another proof, if we needed one, of Vai being one of the greats (love Regardless of when it was actually recorded (even if it was recorded yesterday-the recording for this ended inġ998, by the way), "Massacre" is insane. Some of the greatest (straightest) playing that we've been offered on this journey. This made the very handsome "Natural Born Boy" all the more satisfying. some admittedly awful things (this bit sort of reminded me of "Greggery "Thana" Harris (wife of Bob) is the main female vocalist on the album she is most famous as the (I thinkĮxcellent) vocalist on Zappa's Sleep Dirt's 1991 overdubs for CD (my preferred version). It is most apparent on this track that Suzannah I really actually like his voice sorta forgot how decent Hilarity continues on "So Happy", a strange rambling about "never being sad" and eventually featuring Vai-penned guitar-transcription (I can't believe he continued with this insanity after getting out from under "theĬontinuing on, "Details at 10" is quite the early-Vai tune. Silly lounge tune (not unlike some early-80s FZ repertoire-replete with *snork(s)!*). This is followed by "The Beast of Love", a low-energy, saved(!) by the beautiful "Bledsoe Bluvd", theįirst of many Zappa-esque likely-Zappa-homages, perhaps most reminiscent of Vai's own "Salamanders In The Sun" of the aforementioned release. "You Didn't Break It" nearly broke me: just terrible. I guess I'm dealing with a different song order than what's listed above, as I'm listening to the 25thĪnd of course, being Flex-Able Leftovers, these are (please forgive me) the supposed leftovers fromįlex-Able (1984), and we gotst plenty of quirk and ZAPPA-isms herein (see below). Why this artist must be listed in : Progressive guitar composer and Zappa alumni.Ī decent compilation of early Vai, but. VAI is highly recommended to any guitar player (if somehow you don't already know him), and any fan of great guitar and rock composition in the vein of ZAPPA. VAI's big albums are "Flex-Able", his first landmark debut album and the incredible "Passion and Warfare". playing duets with jazz saxophonist Andy Shepherd). along side AL DI MEOLA (reconstructing Al's "Race With The Devil On Turkish Highway") and on the critically acclaimed Indo jazz fusion album by Surinder Sandhu, 'Surang Orchestra', where Vai plays the closest you find to jazz, (e.g. Since then other solo albums have been issued and VAI has continued to innovate and impress as a great composer and incredible guitar player. G3 tours also ensued, featuring VAI and SATRIANI and a new guitarist each year, notably ROBERT FRIPP and JOHN PETRUCCI. STEVENS and another ZAPPA alumni TERRY BOZZIO. VAI in 1993 created his rock unit called VAI featuring DEVIN TOWNSEND, T.M. VAI also joined ALCATRAZZ and DAVID LEE ROTH to create hard rock music in the vein of VAN HALEN. In 1984 VAI went out on his own and started creating his own albums. VAI was given the name "Little Italian Virtuoso" and sometimes "Stunt Guitarist" by ZAPPA, because of VAI's technical skill and sounds produced. He was in ZAPPA's group, playing very complex pieces, sometimes even transcribing out ZAPPA's solos and music just to play them live (something he had done in his final year at university according to room-mate Happy The Man's Stan Whitaker).
STEVE VAI is one of the greatest guitar players of all time, studied master classes under JOE SATRIANI, and student of the Berklee School of Music, Vai later was invited to join FRANK ZAPPA's band by ZAPPA himself. Steve Siro Vai - Born J(Long Island, New York)
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