Steve Vai & Dweezil Zappa - Ibanez & SG Workout (Trouble Every Day)

[geetarrulz]

dweezil lost at 8:34! great song. i had the tape dweezil put out back in the day and i liked it. yes, i admit it! frank left a great legacy with this pair.

[blee21483]

Christ I just got a boner and then it exploded

[hcn51984]

My favorite part is when Steve plays the guitar

[k1kac0]

Does anyone know which specific model of SG is that?

[henrique773]

frank should be proud, wherever he is =)

[myrtlepalmwasher]

I believe what Steve said about Frank is that Frank was not a 'virtuoso' on guitar meaning he wasn't trained in school in all the techniques like Steve was. He also said that Frank's playing was incredibly difficult and "cryptic" which is what made it so hard to reproduce. I believe that FZ was one of the most innovative and creative guitarists ever, his rhythmic phrases were so advanced, he played some of the most beautiful melodies and the tone and texture unparallelled.

[MarcielKalango]

Adorei...

[daytradeshow]

Realize: Steve Vai is on an Ibanez. It's got the hottest pickups and he plays that guitar through the most processed amp.  The Ibanez Steve plays is a formula-1 race car, a jet, or a slinky-surgical instrument. Dweezil is on an SG. Through an amp. Dude, if you play and understand the instrument you realize just how amazing Dweezil is and how much he pulls out of that SG. I NEVER would have dreamed this pairing on THOSE instruments would turn out so evenly-matched. WOW.

[KonkreteXXX]

@daytradeshow Complex setup doesnt mean better sound.

[Lallen785]

Great guitar playing, I preferred Dweezil's I think, but it's hard to not enjoy Vai :)

[Gabe872]

anyone know what scale they're using?

[radgainesmaster]

@reldditmot right on man,I meant in a technical sense...frank was maybe the worlds greatest improviser.I've heard Vai mention a few times (look up his GIT seminar) that frank wasn't a very technical player that's why he hired guys to do it...but his brilliance was and will always be in creating that stuff....just little black dots from his head on to some paper....and wow!

[reldditmot]

@radgainesmaster He didn't hire guys to play the guitar though, he was the absolute master, although Vai & Dweezil are phenomenal players, IMO they can never come close to the mastery and wizadry that Frank had on guitar, he was also technically brilliant both composing for guitar and also his vast knowledge of guitar gear and equipment was second to none..Cheers for dropping by!

[reldditmot]

@radgainesmaster Dweezil and Vai are both top guitarists, but to say he has twice the chops as Frank...That's going a bit far!

[HughClere]

Brilliant music

[stuartjamesbandcom]

Listen to zappas tone out the sg compared with that abortion that freak boy is playing, no comparison. And because he doesn't quite keep up he sounds way better, lesson to all players.....

[foathkent]

whos the guy on the jem?

[loislombardo]

zappa brother hood

[SJ9495]

that would be my friend with his SG and myself with the Ibanez haha

[lifeonmars45]

Bozio's kit is just plain indecent.

[wakingup2010]

ummm... wow

[musicheadt]

Is that Terry Bozio.....with NOTES on HIS SKINS.......amazing!........I need to get this DVD.....and HOW COOL is Sheila Gonzales in this clip??!.........She rocks the SaX!

[DrumminGuitar]

SG WINS!!!!

[Morelloforever]

This is the best jam I've seen in my life. Excellent.

[guitarbeast651]

see kids, thats what its like to make sweet love to ur guitar, then bend it over AND well u get my point

[TreyRoque]

Sorry, but not sorry - Vai is utterly absent of anything approaching feeling since Flexable, which is a faux Zappa album anyway. And his facial expressions? It's enough to embarrass any guitar player. Dweezil kick his ass.

[guitarbeast651]

holy shit??!! my mind is blown!!!

[chillichomper]

Where's Carlos Santana? Around 6:18 they should've invited him to join

[sacredgeometry]

man I love this DVD :D I still havent watched it all the way through yet.

[CacheTaFace]

Pretty amazing that Dweezil can actually keep up with Vai here. Man these guys are great.

[oldpunkster]

Wow is all I can say!

[philumber]

Zappa brings out the best in Vai.

[FreedomZealot]

What a magnificent jam! MUCH better than most of the G3 monster jams. Is this "Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression"?

[reldditmot]

@FreedomZealot No it's Trouble Every Day..

[FreedomZealot]

@reldditmot D'oh. I suppose my confusion would have been cured if I had simply READ THE TITLE, which was written, in large, friendly letters, in my NATIVE FRIGGIN' LANGUAGE. Sorry.

[Zombywoof91]

@FreedomZealot Reason being, at G3 monster jams, it's like a competition. Here they're just making music, playing what's necessary and not worrying about who's faster! haha

[antsdick]

Who is the guy on the Les PaUL

[reldditmot]

@antsdick Jamie Kime..

[NemoTn]

dweezil's sound is so cool...

[finnbjerke]

whos sexy miss sax?

[reldditmot]

@finnbjerke Scheila Gonzalez..

[tollbooth0909]

vai's got fernades sustainer on that one ... haha ibanez wouldnt permit that on the design contest.. but here he is using competitors product on that sustained 24th fret note in the very beginning

[Scholzy127]

The transition back from the modulation and the descending tapping lick at 2:05 are epic.

[nevynnuggie]

i'm going to buy vai's guitar, 2300 euros:D

[Scene8]

@nevynnuggie do it , great guitar , i think ^^

[sk8ordiet15]

man dweezles got such a kool vibe about him hes so chilled out and can play like fuck!

i thought hed be a bit sloppy if anything but hes got chops! frank zappa would be proud!

[RaidenNoKishi]

O_O . . . 2:35-3:05 sounds like Brian May in space . . . I need to get a Whammy pedal . . .

I love Dweezil's tone in this video - he sounds classic, but with a very progressive feel as well. Makes me want an SG quite badly.

[Specksworld]

Nothing but the best for my dog....

[Specksworld]

Man I was there, The Wiltern in Hollywood... Followed that up at the Roxy 2 nights in a row!!! I cant get enough of this shit... To bad Aaron left the band, but Sheila is there... Good stuff!!!

Peace

[MrDoochebag]

Man, I just can't get enough of this video!

[assfacedfucker]

8:06 what a great lick

[cletusthefetus4]

never was a fan of vai, somewhat into frank, hell you have to admire what he gave us with his guitar. but after seeing this im def going to catch a zpz show if they are still touring. Never thought i could like vai's insanely techniqual style but here its just orgasmic with dweezil. Would be nice to have jimmy herring up on there with them during the peak.

[zewerw]

wow.....

[cletusthefetus4]

surprisingly the sax player is the musician that gave me goosebumps 9:30-9:45

[MrDeadeyes]

Holy fuck....

[RamBozo3]

The name of this concert is "Zappa Plays Zappa"....... Now go write that on the chalk board 469,375 times.

[YoLpIsBest]

I think the Vai's tone is thinner than normally, Maybe he didn't have his full rig because on his solo gigs his tone is perfectly awesome.

[lufc550]

The drummers face at 7:38 made my day

Awesome guitar battle, dweezil definately won this one though.

[48perkins]

sounds awesome....

[kroggwaff]

Bozzio killed it too^^

[RoyalBlue43]

This video is filled to the brim with win.

[zakalwe101]

smokin'

[ai4281]

@badbrad Vai probably didn't have his full rig. His live tone is pretty awesome when he's doing the solo tours.

[firebird116]

The Revenge of Jack Butler!

[vermillion88]

7:42....steve's thinking......"why the fuck didnt i think of that?"

[badbrad]

one thing for Sure Dweezil's tone smoeks Steve's.

[Mattm1986]

Awesome vid, i went to this at Meadobrook in Rochester hills MI that year, Napolean Murphy Brock and Terry Bozzio were there too. First ZPZ and best so far.

[ChicagoDunn]

who has the better o face while play?

[omly85]

steve is so influenced by franks style it a little hard to say who's better??..him or his son..vai solo at the start reminds me some of bavarian sunsets off trance fusion..but iam very impressed with dweez...he's so calm on stage but he is really good!!!

[ChaseWatkins]

7:11 is beauty

[ChaseWatkins]

7:11 perfection

[zaladil333]

that guy with the les paul for the win!!.. idk i mean as always steve is unbelievable, and dweezil did rip in this video but i think steve as always takes it because i mean come on... he's steve vai hahah

[bigbigsound]

yeah i reckons dweez had steve there..shockarama!

both amazing gtr players tho...

i would fucking shit myself trying to even hold a gtr whilst standing next to steve..

[XAlphaZEROX]

I think we all agree that Dweezil took this one this time. Vai, no doubt is amazing. I'm sure Frank is extremely proud of both of them.

[Chronepsis5]

Come on you can,t be surprised by the return of the son of shut up and play your guitar course the Dweez is fuking electrifrying.

[drking9313]

Dweezil killed it in this video. I expected this kind of performance from Vai but man Dweezil won that one. what's the name of this song?

[reldditmot]

Trouble Every Day..

[paulusmagirl]

haha he calls his guitar Flo.

[gwmcklintock]

WOW! Great musicians, every one of them. Dweezil Zappa just skyrocketed up on my guitar player charts!

[KORNEREDIN]

Even though Vai is god, this one goes to Zappa (at least in my opinion)

[jimmyc4321]

..the band that has it all..

[bigbossman72]

considering what a god vai is, dweezil held up pretty well

[danlovesnan]

great guitarist..great solo!

[ticklesitter]

10:39 Dweezil and the sax player, priceless. That right there is why I absolutely love music.

[ticklesitter]

that guitar cam on Dweezil's headstock, is totally rad :)  Oh yeah, and the jam isn't too bad either ;) (understatement of the year) It's gnarly seeing these two taking on a simple 1-4 blues pattern, the epitome of jam bands. And they obviously would school any jamband in existence, well maybe with the exception of The Breakfast, in which case, it'd be one hell of a collaboration :)

[GuitaristAidan]

Who's the guy playing the LP?

[reldditmot]

Jamie Kime..

[GuitaristAidan]

Lol never heard of him

Cheers anyways :]

[pedrowrt]

i just love that 5th intervals that steve does

[ticklesitter]

you talking the 5th interval climb he does at 0:42-0:48? If so, I couldn't agree more, it is one of my favorite magical melodic patterns possible.

[SatchJimmy]

did i just see terry bozzio behind the kit

[reldditmot]

Bozzio & Travers..

[edibleclam]

@SatchJimmy Yes.

[thespewking]

so stop watchin'your TV

no riots here.. hihi

[MrKillenmeskillen]

if i remeber right this is a instrumental ending of "the torture never stops" FZ did this version a couple of times in the mid 80's

[HeelofTim]

I love this video, especially since you can tell they're not dueling, but like alystair said, having a conversation through the guitars. :D

[hristerix]

grandi

[visiting31]

what song are they jamming over by the way?

[visiting31]

crazy as HELL

[alystair]

what a fantastic non-verbal discussion

[zeppelin051]

7:41 all the way!!!!

[jesse1291]

Steve should tour with Dweezil and his band again and they should add Stevie's Spanking to the setlist

[dopeurwhatuuse]

@jesse1291 Yea they should and Terry

[Nevigo]

Dweezil.

[angrygoldfish]

Who plays the Cornford?

[sanahie]

the man himself,dweezil

[rogerthehat]

would love to see steve play a sg aswell it would awesome

[MrDavidhowellevansDB]

best part for me was zappa's arpeggio run from 6:42-6:46 , it was technically and sonically great and the feel of it was different from the rest of the phrasing that was going on! Great playing from two great players

[gstrummer]

holy sh-t.

[Woudreus]

Fine guitarplaying by our guys, but who is number three?

[reldditmot]

Jamie Kime, I saw ZPZ here in England in June, amazingly talented musicians!!

[AimmarCair]

shiiiiiiiiiiiiit, I wanted to go to that but I couldn't afford that at all! envious to the bone I am

[Fr3derick]

Excellent!!!

Grandma mary

[boogster123321]

man i wish more people see could see this

[Jstinb]

Vai>Zappa but there both amazing

[bengreenmusic]

i dunno, i think i prefer zappa's phrasing

[soitupapy]

impresionante¡¡...Dweezil es increible...pero es imposible brillar con steve vai al lado tuyo tocando...

[musiccalgary]

Frank would have loved this performance so much...

[stevevaiisnumber1]

AMAZING! COME TO PORTUGAL!

[hanumann]

That SG of Dweezil's sounds terrific!

[dockaiser]

yeah, I thought the same, could it be his dad's old one

[reldditmot]

It isn't Franks old one, he had it custom made for the ZPZ tour, although it is a lot like it..

[SteveSparx]

know him Shaun

[skaterocknroll]

nice...

[manutd15754]

thats some good shit right there

[RORYzRIGHT]

Damm!! sax fill 10:07 yes!

[RORYzRIGHT]

10:07 love the sax fill.

[RORYzRIGHT]

10:07<--cool sax fill

[sbrave]

Who is the Les Paul player? Saw them at the Greek in LA Saturday night and he played some crazy stuff. Dweez was very impressive! Vai is always Vai...lol.. awesome!

[reldditmot]

Jamie Kime..

[dumdumdum21]

hell ya

[SaintJimmy36]

i'm surprised at how well dweezil can hold his own against vai

[puredes]

reminds me of that Frank & Vai clip of them on stage dueling. SG sounds nice too

[Toracube]

Bloody Hell! That was something. Zappa was great here. Via was smokin'.

[guillermodelnoche]

Amazing footage! That is Joe Travers on the other drum kit.

Please keep posting Great stuff like this!

[strav12]

Always felt that The Dweeze never quite hits his potential - but gorgeous double fret shredding from Vai - was that Bozzio on 2nd drum set? So many Italians on stage.................!

[reldditmot]

It is, little skinny Terry Ted Bozzio, that cute little drummer! ...

[strav12]

Who's holding his pickle? ;)))))) See you lather. Moo.

[GiuliaBernardHerself]

The best: Steve Vai and Zappa!!!

Steve Vai the best 4ever

[experimentalrock]

Vai Blues. Gotta love it! Good one Shaun.

[SteveSparx]

Shaun-I KNOW HIM!!!

[skaterocknroll]

Vai is very talented.

[strav12]

Er, Dweezil is very talented - Vai is God on Guitar!

[dobrav99]

BRAVO!! A Great job! Top ratings!

[Toracube]

I can do that.. in my head.