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On that solo I broke down each section and was not satisfied until I heard something that spoke with a new kind of voice. There’s a track called “And We Are One”, it’s the 7th song. In many cases I sit with a solo section and take it piece by piece and just wait for something fresh to happen, and then I grab the idea and exaggerate it. Sometimes I just wing it and sometimes I do various takes and comp them together but I’m always looking for quick things that I may not have heard myself do before. If you get to read the liner notes to Modern Primitive it indicates when certain things were recorded but all the solo’s were done this year. But it’s nice to hear that someone is noticing. I’ve always tried to keep an eye on evolving my style a little here and a little there and I’m aware that I can, anyone can if they want. Can you tell me a bit about what goes into that technique? It starts to sound fretless, with its “liquid” nature, and it’s a strangely out of tune but good sound. Future Primitive has a few sections in which that skill is expressed to an almost “inhuman” degree, to the point where it has departed from a strict chromatic tonality and rhythm. I emailed Steve to seek more understanding of what I was hearing.ġ.) After all these years, your playing has continued to develop (I can honestly say without any attempt at flattery that your playing has only gotten better), and one of those areas seems to be your use of string bending and slides. Unfortunately for me, I only have the headphones. My ego says I really am listening closely!Īnyway, Modern Primitive is that special sort of personal album that requires liner notes and headphones. I have a sick obsession with the album Sex & Religion, and I like to think I have a unique appreciation for his music outside of his day job as a guitar god. Steve goes down in my own personal history as being the musician I have listened to more than any other. A welcome return of Stu Hamm and Chris Frazier! This music is not guitar centric, and is actually quite band-oriented, using his original band from those days: The Classified. Portions of the music on this record could be considered cheesy these days, and even difficult to sit through, but that’s what you get with an unfiltered musician that can do whatever he wants with his ideas - ideas that are now 30 years old! But to be clear, a huge element of this record is Vai at his most developed, with his current playing abilities and compositional skills.
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It’s got the core ideas and style of those early Vai years (he even played several tracks on the first guitar he ever owned, the one featured on the cover of Flex-Able!), but a no-limits, mature compositional reinterpretation and expansion on those free creative ideas. It’s a 13-track collection of everything from Alcatrazz-era hair metal (a band in which he replaced Yngwie Malmsteen) to improvised, maniacal, free-form lounge jazz piano - and it features some of his most “evolved” guitar playing I’ve heard. If this music were architecture, it would be a strangely-shaped house indeed. Vai recently reworked and released an album of music he wrote in the mid-80s, between his monumental solo albums Flex-Able and Passion & Warfare. March 11 - Louisville, KY Old Forester's Paristown Hall
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March 10 - Morgantown, WV Metropolitan Theatre March 9 - Detroit, Masonic Cathedral Theatre March 1 - New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall 26 - Port Chester, NY The Capitol Theatre 24 - Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatreįeb. 21 - Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hallįeb. 19 - Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotteįeb. 18 - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Ponte Vedra Concert Hallįeb. 15 - Clearwater, FL Bilheimer Capitol Theatreįeb. 9 - San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theatreįeb. 1 - Salt Lake City, UT The Rockwell at The Complexįeb.
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29 - Riverside, CA Fox Performing Arts Centerįeb.
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His “Alien Guitar Secrets Live” series also premieres on Patreon, giving fans a closer look at Vai’s guitar techniques and music business insights. In April, Vai also launched a Patreon page where he posts exclusive one-hour Q&As for paying subscribers. Vai has kept busy during the coronavirus pandemic by working on a new studio album, the details of which will be shared imminently, according to a press release. A music concert has the ability to dissolve the many challenges we face, and celebrate one of the good things in life, live music." "It's been my life for the past 49 years, with the exception of the last two years, so we are at the bit to get out there and play for people.
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"A performer thrives on performing," Vai said in a statement.
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You can see the full list of tour dates below. Joining Vai on the road will be longtime guitarist and keyboardist Dave Weiner, bassist Philip Bynoe and drummer Jeremy Colson.