Steve remembers to throw enough melodic hooks down to keep it listenable for laypeople. With the expert rhythm section of Stu Hamm (bass) and Chris Frazier (drums), there is no way this would suck. It’s that 7th string that enables Steve to dig low on the groovy “The Animal”. I believe he stated in an interview that there is hardly any 6-string on Passion and Warfare at all. Steve was using his new Ibanez 7-string guitar exclusively now. Those bizarre sounds compounded with Steve’s impossible fretwork means this is one hell of an ambitious song and album. Steve used an Eventide harmonizer to give his guitar flute and keyboard-like tones. The “concept album” aspect means that the songs have movement and go to different places, trying to convey these ideas to the listener. It’s not mindless shredding for the sake of shredding. Guitars build layer after layer, playing melodies that don’t seem possible to perform with fingers. Steve composed a chunky rock track with so much guitar that I doubt he even knows how many tracks of shredding is on it anymore.
There is some dialogue on and between songs (some performed by Steve’s then-Whitesnake bandmate David Coverdale), and the liner notes trace out some of the dreams that inspired the music.
“Liberty” opens the CD, which is actually a lyricless concept album. Of the dream, Steve remembered saluting a flag he didn’t recognize, with an anthem playing. “Liberty”, said Steve, was a melody he heard in a lucid dream and tried to recall. Some of the music dated back almost a decade. Some consider it to be Steve’s “real” debut album. Now his student Steve Vai was on the charts with his own solo album.ĭifferent from Flex-able, which was basically just released demos, Passion and Warfare was a fully realized piece of art. Joe Satriani had recently become a household name with albums such as Surfing With the Alien and Flying in a Blue Dream, but Flying had vocals on some songs. I didn’t expect it to chart, but it did! It was an exciting time for instrumental guitar records. Passion and Warfare was released in 1990. These concerts are also good because the three guitartists team up at the end and have a massive guitar frenzy blowout with solos aplenty.STEVE VAI – Passion and Warfare (1990 Relativity) The ones I have feature Eric Johnson and Yngwie Malmsteen.
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Also seek out the G3 Live in Concert series where he usually teams up with Joe Satriani and a guest guitarist. Billy Sheehan appears on bass and is phenomenal. In terms of DVDs I would recommend Live at the Astoira London which showcases some of his best material.
IMO his best records are Passion and Warfare, Alien Love Secrets and Fire Gardens. Since then he has put out other records like Real Illusions and Ultra Zone. He then started singing himself on his next record, Fire Gardens. In 1995 he put out his heavist guitar instrumental record, Alien Love Secrets. He then hooked up with Devin Townsend who sang vocals on Sex and Religion, a harder rocking record. After appearing with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake, Steve put out Passion and Warfare, a more conventional work which was his defining statement. Flexable was Steve Vai's first album and was definitely "out there" with oddball songs like Little Green Men but also a couple of good guitar workouts like The Attitude Song.
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