Steve Vai Interview on DLR
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Wow. Credit to the interviewer, that's an awesome conversation. I have read lots of interviews with Vai over the years that asked many of the same questions and didn't get nearly the same kind of enthusiastic and honest response.
The line that gave me a bit of a Holy Shit moment:
I can’t speak for Dave, but I think that that was relatively influenced by his like of Tom Waits.Comment
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I always resented his move to Whitesnake. And the whole silly way it came about drove me nuts. Adrian Vandenberg writes all of the music, then injures his hands during hand exercises and can't record any of his own music, so someone who is clearly a better player gets to step in and play his tunes?! How did that guy not throw himself off a bridge? I also hated that Steve acted like Tawney Kitaen in the videos. You got my cheese whiz boy? (The Blues Brothers)Comment
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Ya know, I don't think I ever saw a Whitesnake video with Steve in it. Or if I did I killed off those brain cells years ago... Sounds like he shoulda put a little Jack Butler into his act.American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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I think the video for The Deeper The Love had him crawling along his guitar like an XJS. He definitely had the pouting down and the wind machine on the hair. Not good I tell ya.Comment
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Or, ask him about playing the part of the Devil's guitarist in the movie Crossroads, and doing that famous duel at the end (with Ry Cooder doing the slide parts of that Karate Kid kid who was playing the other guitarist). Ask him how that came about? What does he think of Ry Cooder as a composer of film music?!
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen HawkingComment
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When that film came out, I (and about a million or so other guitarists) went out looking to buy the soundtrack. The disappointment at finding the guitar duel had not been included was considerable, until it was later discovered that for one reason or another (ego?), Cooder had left it off the album because he had nothing to do with it. Vai played both parts, which in a nutshell created the film's climax and outclassed everything that came before it.
I think that very end bit is on a Steve Vai compilation.THINK LIKE THE WAVESComment
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I' didn't listen it for a while but in the Steve Vai' compilation "Elusive Light and sound Vol 1" there're songs from Crossroads : "Head- Cuttin Duel" and 3 others songs "Fried Chicken", Butler's bag" and "Eugene's Trick Bag"http://vhfrance.activebb.net/ (1 er Site Francophone sur Van Halen)
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The more interviews I read with Vai, the more I like him. He seems like a decent guy who is good to his fans.
Personally, a lot of his solo stuff leaves me cold. That being said, I respect his unflinching willingness to challenge both himself and his audience.The Power Of The Riff Compels MeComment
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He should have been honest enough though to say that the move to Whitesnake was entirely for the money.
I heard at the time he was paid $1 million.Comment
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The irony, of course, is that Vai's output with Whitesnake is the worst of his career. He's just not bluesy enough for that band.....The Power Of The Riff Compels MeComment
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