Vai Is Still God

I never knew he recorded all those guitars in his home studio, that’s pretty crazy for the 80’s and surely having a good amount of pressure to follow up to Eat Em And Smile with something big. Also cool to hear how into recording he already was at that point, he definitely had opinions about wood floors in studios. :rofl
Yeah, got into home recording very early on in his career. Flex-Able is a crude example, but some of his solo work sounds incredible.

Passion and Warfare is :chef
 
Mine as well.

I took my dad with me to that show and he was floored by Vai.

We've been to 3 G3's since

The '96 G3 tour was my first introduction to Vai in general and I was hooked ever since. I had heard bits of P&W previous to that but wasn't really interested, when I saw him jumping all over the place while playing that shit, it was a different story.
 
Man, I’d eat up any video of any of his 90’s sessions, but it would be particularly great to see stuff from the P&W recrossing just due to the timing and where he was at in his career. Obviously everyone knew he could play and was a little above the average after Alcatraz and DLR, but that little period before P&W came out and he really solidified himself as the Vai we know today would be cool to get a look at.
 
Fire Garden was a strange album, but it really seemed to feature Vai at the peak of his technique... Those live shows for that era (mid 90s) he was unstoppable.

He kinda shot past the threshold on that album... Went a bit too far, even for him.
 
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