Ori & Vai

First and foremost, I'm glad to see anyone who inspires a new generation to play and listen to guitar based music. That being said (you knew it was coming...) it seems to me that Vai was holding back BIG time. I wonder if there would have been near as much buzz had she been around say 25 or so years back?? Seems to me it takes a lot less skill to impress joe public than it did back in the days of excess.

Jennifer Batten she is not...

 
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jettster said:
First and foremost, I'm glad to see anyone who inspires a new generation to play and listen to guitar based music. That being said (you knew it was coming...) it seems to me that Vai was holding back BIG time. I wonder if there would have been near as much buzz had she been around say 25 or so years back?? Seems to me it takes a lot less skill to impress joe public than it did back in the days of excess.

Jennifer Batten she is not...
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+1...I was thinking pretty much the same thing. Some of the Mike Varney produced Shrapnel artists were technically brilliant yet received little more than a blurb in the back of a guitar magazine back in the day.

When I see the video it kind of reminds me of the Brad Paisly/Keith Urban Start A Band video where you have one very good guitar player trading licks with an amazing guitar player. She is very good and will most likely become even better, but she ain't ready to be cuttin' heads with the likes of Steve Vai just yet /emoticons/default_biggrin.png

 
Does it bug anybody else that the stereo panning is backwards? In other words' Vai's on screen right, but his guitar is panned to the left speaker. Ori is on screen left, but she is panned to the right. It's really confusing for me to hear .

 
kenjones said:
Does it bug anybody else that the stereo panning is backwards? In other words' Vai's on screen right, but his guitar is panned to the left speaker. Ori is on screen left, but she is panned to the right. It's really confusing for me to hear .
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I heard it on an archaic Mac G4 with one lousy factory speaker. Didn't notice the panning.

 
I bought her album out of curiousity. It isn't bad, and it certainly isn't all teenie bopper stuff. Some AOR type stuff on there, as well. Her playing is great throughout, and I love that she sneals some great leadwork into that first single.

 
kenjones said:
Does it bug anybody else that the stereo panning is backwards? In other words' Vai's on screen right, but his guitar is panned to the left speaker. Ori is on screen left, but she is panned to the right. It's really confusing for me to hear .
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Maybe you should turn around when you listen? /emoticons/default_biggrin.png

 
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