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Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare Audio CD

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Steve Vai Band: Steve Vai
Title: Passion and Warfare
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Release Date: 1990-05-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Liberty 2: Erotic Nightmares 3: Animal 4: Answers 5: Riddle 6: Ballerina 12/24 7: For the Love of God 8: Audience Is Listening 9: I Would Love To 10: Blue Powder 11: Greasy Kid's Stuff 12: Alien Water Kiss 13: Sisters 14: Love Secrets

Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai
He's one of the best guitarists I've ever heard
. This maybe the best album Steve Vai ever made.


Steve Vai at his "sickest"
It's spread out with all of his work. Steve Vai's playing here isn't his best in my personal opinion. However, this album is definitely his hardest rocking and most technical at the same time. The album definitely goes into several different realms of emotions. He also shows his patriotism with the opening track and has someone recite the pledge of allegiance on another track. "For the Love of God" is considered his big moment, when in my personal opinion, it's a very beautiful track, but he has done other stuff that has been just as good, if not better than that one. "The Audience is Listening" follows that one, contrasting beauty with comedy. Before "For the Love of God" is "Ballerina 12/24," which is a very beautiful track. There's a lot of talking on the album, but it really is an instrumental album.


great cd, early vai
vai is incredible how he plays. this cd was excellent, this is my third one over the years. this cd is legendary in the guitar world,.


MASTERPIECE BY WHICH ALL OTHERS ARE JUDGED
There's nobody better than Steve. Simply put, the best instrumental rock guitar album of all time.


pretty good
steve vai knows how to use a guitar and can do some pretty fancy things with one. . but listening to the album i couldn't help but think to myself 'if only he could channel that awesomeness into a great song'. don't get me wrong, i enjoy this album and think it's great stuff, but it's more a showcase of what he can do on a guitar and not so much an attempt at amazing song writing. you could say that the album lacks soul. so while i will enjoy it when i listen to it, i have to be in the mood for it because it's not a song i'm listening to, it's technique.

something that kind of bugged me a bit in this album was the talking aspects of the songs. like, the most prominent example, in the song the audience is listening, the supposed premise is that an elementary school aged vai is going to play a composition for his class and his teacher is glowing with praise, but as he starts to play she says it's too loud and wild and bad mouths it. . . throughout the whole song. trying a bit too hard to capture that something else.

i think the deal with this guy is that he was a student of joe satriani, or they had some sort of relationship like that. . . and i'm sorry to say but he has a ways to go in comparison.


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