S
teve Vai is imagination unleashed. He is a
guitarist of seemingly unlimited technique.
But because he is a master composer,
all this musical muscle flexing is in service to
a song. Imagine something silly enough to
make you laugh out loud or touching enough
to make you cry. Steve Vai has made a career
of writing then playing music designed to make
you feel something that special. That he uses
the guitar as his main voice has stretched its
vocabulary in ways few other players have even
contemplated. To celebrate the 25th Anniversary
of his masterpiece Passion & Warfare, Steve
remastered the original recording and added a
whole new disc of tunes he had composed but
never recorded, dating from between Flex -Able
and Passion. To learn more about what Steve
Vai likes to hear, spend a moment with his list of
essential albums. ■
Steve Vai by Robert Knight
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
01.
Breakfast in the Fields
Michael Hedges
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GUITAR TRICKS INSIDER
DIGITAL EDITION
OCT/NOV