Vai Is Still God

[saarangnarayan]

I need to give that album a listen, it’s been years since I’ve heard the whole thing.

I played some of the songs with vocals on it for my partner yesterday and she was shocked out of her wits that I still remembered the lyrics to each one of them despite never having listened to them since c. 2012. This was the first she ever heard of Steve’s vocals and she was quite impressed. Ngl, Silent Within and Here I am along with Little Alligator and All About Eve would have been absolute top of the charts radio hits if they belonged to a more “mainstream” band.

 

[DrewJD82]

I played some of the songs with vocals on it for my partner yesterday and she was shocked out of her wits that I still remembered the lyrics to each one of them despite never having listened to them since c. 2012. This was the first she ever heard of Steve’s vocals and she was quite impressed. Ngl, Silent Within and Here I am along with Little Alligator and All About Eve would have been absolute top of the charts radio hits if they belonged to a more “mainstream” band.

Hahahah I used to say the same thing about “Little Alligator” and “All About Eve”….shit, I bet if Avenged Sevenfold covered either one they’d get some traction and they’d probably do them justice. “All About Eve” is a top 5 favorite Vai tune for me.

 

[norminal]

In one of my more “principled” moves, I quit marching band the day that album was released because they ran the practice past 9PM and I couldn’t get to the store to buy it until the next day. I spent the whole summer busting my ass on those quads to even get the spot, never mind the actual parts and when I told the instructor “If you don’t wrap this up in 15 minutes you’re going to need a new quad player”, he thought I was bluffing. “You’re going to quit over a CD? All that work you put in and how much the percussion section is counting on you?”, I told him “He’s my Satchmo” and that was that. At the end of that school year he told me he was very angry at me for quitting but he understood.

For some reason that reminded me of the story of when Joe Satriani quit the high school football team because Jimi has passed away and he’d rather spend his time playing guitar.