Vai is hesitant to try and explain the meanings of the songs that his experience conjured up-“I’d rather let people free-associate right now”-but one run-through of the 14 tracks on Passion and Warfare and you know they wouldn’t be easy to pin down. The writings turned into the album, Passion and Warfare.”
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It had a pretty devastating effect on me as a musician, and from it came a whole series of writings. And this particular experience-later on I found out that a lot of people term it as an astral projection or an out-of-the-body experience-was extremely vivid.
I was studying dream states, and I stumbled across a couple of things that were like experiments or exercises in this particular avenue of investigation. It took place when I was about 16 years old. “I think a lot of people get their inspiration from dreams,” says Vai, “but this was a different type of thing. Vai was busily correcting musical transcriptions for his upcoming guitar method book when the Straight reached him at his hotel room in Billings, Montana and got the low-down on his latest project, which is bound to become a landmark recording for rock guitar in the ’90s.Įver since he was 12, Vai has kept an extensive journal of his dreams, and he says that the concept for Passion and Warfare came from a nocturnal experience that occurred when he was a teenager. The lanky guitarist-who turned 30 the day of his Vancouver appearance-has just released his second solo album on Relativity Records, a multi-coloured instrumental excursion into the outer reaches of guitardom titled Passion and Warfare. Matter of fact, several Vancouver fans might still be reeling from the band’s local appearance on Wednesday (June 6) at the Coliseum.īut the blues-based shenanigans of David Coverdale and his troupe are not the only things Vai has on his mind these days. Mainstream rock fans who don’t normally pick up the latest issues of Guitar Player or Guitar World or any of the other glossy mags honouring today’s top axemen might not be aware of Steve Vai’s reputation, but more than likely they’ve heard a tune or two by his current band, Whitesnake. They don’t do badly in the album, tape, and CD departments, either. Vai and his childhood buddy Joe Satriani are the fave cover boys of today’s guitar publications the dynamic duo from Carle Place, Long Island moves a lot of copies. Walk into any magazine shop, glance at the rock ’n’ roll section, and chances are you’ll see the handsome, raven-haired guitarist grinning wickedly from a cover or two, his psychedelic seven-string Ibanez electric guitar slung provocatively at his hips. In rock guitar circles, Steve Vai is the type of personality that Entertainment Tonight might giddily term hot. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, JUNE 7, 1990
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