Until it launches far through the ionosphere into a blissfully fast and gripping Off with a beautiful and really emotional guitar lead that builds and builds Hit”, the epic and mind-blasting For The Love Of God. First is what can be referred to as Vai’s “biggest This leaves two tracks unmentioned, the best two tracks within that anchor His Jazz From Hell-years of experimentation. Zoot Allures-era instrumentals but with the freewheeling attitude of I’d say they bring sounds reminiscent of the man’s With the frantic album-closer Love Secrets, are the clearest Zappa-homages Vai goes crazy with the Eventide-H3000 Harmonizer effects processor. Ballerinaġ2/24 and Alien Water Kiss are the oddballs of the group where Though there isn’t a single song with traditionally sung vocals.īlue Powder and Sisters show Vai’s mellow chops withĬlean guitars dominating to soundscape with an orgastic tone. It’s notable that this album shouldn’t be called “instrumental”ĭue to the ample amount of speech parts that are sprinkled on many tracks, even Riddle grooves some more with grandiose speech-samples mixed in throughout Least “straight-forward” with that kooky Vai-flavouring. Kid’s Stuff pass out the straight-forward hard rock vibes, or at The latter of these tracks also beings the heaviest moment on thisĪlbum as the riffage is downright crushing.įrom there on out, the smorgasbord opens up with different treats following Stu Hamm (if you want some awesome and tasteful bass shred, check out that guy’s Erotic NightmaresĪnd The Animal bring a vicious yet delightful groove as skull-thumpingīass licks are provided by the “Eddie Van Halen of bass”, mister Liberty opens the album as a soaring piece of layered guitars thatĮven feels like it’s aiming for a symphonic feel.
So let’s take that for granted and delve more into the mood of the tunes. It’s downright redundant to try and modify the sentence “there’sĪn amazing guitar solo” to apply differently to nearly every track here Well beyond blues-based western music to dig for his melodies, being especially More challenging than your above-average cock rock technique display. Riffs (and there are plenty of those goodies), but overall the album is oodles Solo band and Whitesnake are surely audible in the most muscular That he had amassed as a member of Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth’s Guitarist” in the man’s live band, it’s no wonder that his Worn on his sleeve for a long time – really shines through in his moreĬonsidering that this is a guy who worked as court transcriber to the almightyįrank Zappa at the age of 19 (!!!) and soon after acted as his “stunt In different kinds of spiritual and mystical forces of the world that he has Vai does that too,īut the diversity of his musical background – along with the great interest Songs usually have a very straight-forward hard rock-drive where the guitarĪcts like a vocalist, carrying melodies like a singer would. Like the kind of laid back surfer dude who mostly just wants to rock out.
Logically to the respective players’ styles. It contains, Passion And Warfare is a blitz on the senses. Rock album that has a relatively “no frills”-approach to the tunes Me will always define the “guitar hero” solo album.įirst off, where I’ve always seen Surfing as a very versatile MR-treatment, so let us take a look at the other half of the album duo that to Surfing With The Alien already got the appropriate
There were two guys who stood above the pack in both quality and success – Of Shrapnel Records pushing out young, fleet-fingered fretboard studs by the dozens, As Crash so aptly put it in his review, back in the era of shred and the likes
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