Steve Vai: Biggest dick alive

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  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    enharmonic wrote:
    Mclaughlin destroys just about any guitarist who has ever walked the Earth. I wish he played electric more often...or could just suck it up long enough to to a Mahavishnu reunion :)

    Oh man, I had a copy the bootleg, session the Holy Grail. Long misplaced, but I still have the published version The Lost Trident Sessions.
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  • MissYouAllDay
    MissYouAllDay Posts: 939
    Man I'm gonna check this guy out.

    Iw as just shredding a wicked uke solo personally :)
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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    ed gein is dead


    :o You're right!! I wasn't paying attention to the "living" part.

    Ok,



    maybe Kenneth Lay!

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  • CherubRockBob
    CherubRockBob Posts: 18
    ive heard hes kind of an elitist so he has been short to certain people but i havent really heard of him being a complete asshole. ok now kenny g is an asshole im serious.
  • MissYouAllDay
    MissYouAllDay Posts: 939
    There was a malmsteen thread on the porch. It made me remember this thread. So... steve vai: STill a giant dick
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Could you sing one of his solos note for note? I can kind of sing a John Coltrane sax solo. He was faster than Vai and more harmonically sophisticated, so why doesn't Vai's stuff register? Answer? Because it doesn't really say much, perhaps?
  • thunder_balls
    thunder_balls Posts: 117
    Steve Vai is actually a really nice guy. From personal experience. Not by deciding he's an asshole because of how he dresses.
    7/10/06
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    Ah yes, the Malmsteen thread.

    Now there's a guy who's known to be an arrogant dick.
  • karma defect
    karma defect Posts: 5,483
    This guy like Satriani doesn't play guitar, he plays his ego.

    This isn't music, it's a circus act.

    Fuck it.
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  • karma defect
    karma defect Posts: 5,483
    This guy like Satriani doesn't play guitar, he plays his ego.

    This isn't music, it's a circus act.

    Fuck it.
    « One man's glory is another man's hell.
    You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
    Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
    I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
    I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Could you sing one of his solos note for note? I can kind of sing a John Coltrane sax solo. He was faster than Vai and more harmonically sophisticated, so why doesn't Vai's stuff register? Answer? Because it doesn't really say much, perhaps?
    Cotrane was faster than vai? On a sax? how the hell does one play 20 notes a second on the sax (check out Vai's "The Riddle") I think the hating on Vai is harsh - He IS harmonically gifted as well as technically although I agree, he dresses like a tit. Anyone seen the poster on the sleeve for passion and warfare? what the hell is he wearing??!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Cotrane was faster than vai? On a sax? how the hell does one play 20 notes a second on the sax


    Check out Coltrane - particularly his later work, and find out.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I like is stuff, and I think Malmsteens a bigger dick.
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  • bill_maloney
    bill_maloney Posts: 23
    John Holmes.. biggest dick Dead!
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  • Milhouse VanHouten
    Milhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    There's a relevant bit in a book called "Fargo Rock City". It's about the cultural importance of 80's hair metal, authored by a guy called Chuck Klosterman. He includes a chapter about Guitar Gods like Yngwie and Steve. He's more harsh towards Yngwie. He then points out the ridiculously inflated sense of self-importance that seems to ooze out of Vai's every pore. Vai actually goes so far as to refer to himself as a "guitar god" in an interview with some guitar magazine. Statements like that, when combined with the stage outfits and the unintentionally hilarious album covers, tend to make the case that Steve Vai is either an egotistical asshole or that he's seriously deluded, like Robin Williams in The Fisher King.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Check out Coltrane - particularly his later work, and find out.
    Its coltrane on Kind of Blue by miles davis right? Thats about my only exposure to his work but I'll check him out. Anyway, on the subject of Vai, the guitar trio of John Mclaughlin, Al di Meola and Paco de Lucia blow him away. Friday night in san fran is stunning and Mclaughlin's playing on "The inner mounting flame" with the mahavishnu orchestra is stunning.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • cookie5798
    cookie5798 Posts: 396
    I have never met him, so I can't judge whether he is a dick or not, but I do like his music!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Its coltrane on Kind of Blue by miles davis right? Thats about my only exposure to his work but I'll check him out. Anyway, on the subject of Vai, the guitar trio of John Mclaughlin, Al di Meola and Paco de Lucia blow him away. Friday night in san fran is stunning and Mclaughlin's playing on "The inner mounting flame" with the mahavishnu orchestra is stunning.

    Check out his later work, such as "Ascension", "Kulu Se Mama" and "Intellstellar Space". That's where he really does some serious playing.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Check out his later work, such as "Ascension", "Kulu Se Mama" and "Intellstellar Space". That's where he really does some serious playing.
    ok will do man. thanks for the recommendations. So what other jazz are you into? are you a fan of fusion?
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    SOME of Vais stuff has feel (For The Love Of God) and some is just shredding.
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