The Story Of Light - Vai content

[gorch]

The new Vai album came in today. I'm impressed and surprised. Complex music again that will take some time to be explored. Great sounds, playing, and composing for sure.

I've bought the extended version with the DVD included.

Anyone into it already?

[zorrow]

I've hesitated about that one. I used to like Steve Vai a lot, and I actually own all his albums --excepting the last two or three ones. But I don't know why, I just suddenly lost interest on his stuff. Well, maybe it's time for me to go back to it?

[lincsman]

Same as Zorrow the last Steve Vai album I bourght was Fire Garden,for some reason he just fell out of my music radar

[alantig]

The new Vai album came in today. I'm impressed and surprised. Complex music again that will take some time to be explored. Great sounds, playing, and composing for sure.

I've bought the extended version with the DVD included.

Anyone into it already?

Yes. "John The Revelator" is excellent - but it was even better live.

Alan

[ibanezfan1]

I too was reluctant about getting it - thinking I might be disappointed. But a friend strongly recommended it and he was right; and we both believe it's the best Vai album in quite a while. I don't think you'll regret getting it. Bodie

[Thundernotes]

I'm biased.

My son Sean made the engineering credits and "saviors" section of the liner notes. I think he appears in the DVD too, but I haven't seen it yet.

Vai was always so far over my head musically, that I just couldn't get my brain wrapped around what he was doing. I've been listening much more lately, (obviously) and I like a lot of the new album. "Gravity Storm" is pretty cool when you realize all those dive bombing sounds are NOT the whammy bar. He does it with his left hand by bending the chords first and releasing them. Like this:

[gorch]

I've hesitated about that one. I used to like Steve Vai a lot, and I actually own all his albums --excepting the last two or three ones. But I don't know why, I just suddenly lost interest on his stuff. Well, maybe it's time for me to go back to it?

It's the opposite with me. His turn into more complex and partly classic areas really turn me on. The "Sound Theories" are magnificent. Jon Lord's "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" is one of my all time favourites. I loved it from the first time I heard it. With Made in Japan they are the only 2 DP records I own. Bought the 30th anniversary version and now the first studio recording of it. It had been finished just before Lord past away. Came shipped with the Vai CD. Brilliant, with Vasilev, Bonamassa, and Morse on electric guitar.

I'm biased.

My son Sean made the engineering credits and "saviors" section of the liner notes. I think he appears in the DVD too, but I haven't seen it yet.

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I thought your son would have been on the liner notes, but couldn't identify him immediately. What a fantastic reference! I stepped through the DVD yesterday evening. It's almost as long as the CD, talking every song in detail with video sequences from building the studio, recording within and some stuff around. Haven't identified your son so far.

[fractal]

"Gravity Storm" is pretty cool when you realize all those dive bombing sounds are NOT the whammy bar. He does it with his left hand by bending the chords first and releasing them. Like this:

Are you sure? It looks and sounds like he has a Whammy pedal going for that.

[Thundernotes]

"Gravity Storm" is pretty cool when you realize all those dive bombing sounds are NOT the whammy bar. He does it with his left hand by bending the chords first and releasing them. Like this:

Are you sure? It looks and sounds like he has a Whammy pedal going for that.

Yeah, that's what I was told, anyway. You can see some of it around the :40 to :50 mark