Does this guy ever age or show signs of slowing down ? Rock-n-Roll is the fountain of youth ! The birth of Rap Music was the devil which destroyed the entire Music Industry . This is not an opinion....it's a fact !! Sorry to all of my Brothers of another color.....but you know how I feel about this as music used to be my passion in life , and now I can't even turn on a radio without wanting to puke . So sad !
That guitar is the winner of a design contest. Random people submitted their dream jem and the winning design was made by ibanez. Steve did a brief tour with it then gave it to the winner.
@xarthurz just because it isn't white and doesn't have gold hardware, doesn't mean it isn't one. vai has jems in all kinds of colours and such. chances are this one hasn't been released to the public. kind of custom shop.
Vai takes the shape of Midnight VERY seriously and renders it lovingly. I've heard him speak of how much he loves it as a unique example of Hendrix's enormous future possibilities, sadly cut short. Vai does it wonderfulyl here. Outstanding.
Hey, Vai swings into Hendrix's instrumental from 'War Heroes' called' Midnigh't. It's a futuristic technical and emotional wonder. Jimi doing it that is. Vai is a very very good player.
Hell if i had Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun to play with on some Hendrix i would be jammin' with them not all over them, we know you can play like a motherfucker Steve but for fucks sake jam like one will you!!!!!.
I fight against being a blues purist as all purists are ass holes. I only really listen to the blues for close to 30 years, but damn, this mutha can play. I got into having an open mind listening to frank zappa which leads to steve vai which leads to listening and hearing and finally to realizing there's mure to music than purism.
Awesome Guitar playing! He always makes me grin from ear to ear when he plays! His joy when he plays just jumps off of him and hits you in the face! His sustain is sweeeeeeet =D
@jasonlefort its sick aye?i reckon the lads at the shop custom whatever they want and offer it to him.i just love the shade of blue on it with the orange.very pretty guitar.(not to mention the mongrel weilding it)
@shane69999 poser?what are you,a failed guitar player?you most definetly are,considering youre calling "poser" one of the best guitarrists out there.you're a troll/faggot/failure
Wrong place, wrong artist, wrong genre...sorry Steve, you are an awesome guitar player, but in the future...stay away from Blues Festivals hahahhahahahaha......not your scene...:-)
the guitar salesman´s ever recurring nightmare, do that in a guitar store and you get "Can I help you at all" in about a nanosecond. the security guys face at 2:06 shows how exhilarated and touched he ways by steve´s incendiary performance!Eyebrows n Spoo!!
This must be the most be down to earth unshredded and relaxed scene show, that Vai have ever performed. – I can see you blues-scale people thinks, that he does something else ;-)
@chueychu Yeah. There was a fan design competition not to long ago. There are only two of those guitars in existence. That's one and the other is owned by the designer.
I should probably say something regarding the "blues or not blues" discussion here. The Santa Cruz Blues Festival uses the word "blues" in a pretty loose way to encompass a lot of music on the fringe of blues but not for the blues purist. Additionally, Vai appeared on the day described as "Experience Hendrix". The other day of the festival was more traditionally bluesy, I believe.
@williansoul100 Se vc ñ é fã é só ñ assistir o video, o cara foi consagrado assim, um dos maiores guitarristas dos ultimos tempos, mas se vc prefere essa nova geração de guitarristas coloridos que fazem beicinho pra tocar é com vc msm, eu sou + Steve Vai, então é só ñ curtir e parar de inveja.
@fippysteed I fight the same thing. I'm not a Blues purist. Interestingly, the 'old' guys from Chicago and the South, who are the creators, are more open than the modern purist. Now, I LOVE Steve Vai, he does some amazing music. I mean I really love HIS music... But, having said that, he, on this recording, Well, I don't hear any Blues, there is no core energy that even modern rocked out Blues has. Sorry to say, on this vid, Steve Vai is not showing Blues of any substance.
who cares if he's playing too many notes on a blues festival...he is Steve Vai. he's not a bluesman...he is Steve Vai. why did they invited him in the first place if they'll restrict him...the world knows who Steve Vai is.
Way to be Steve!! If I was a young man (or woman) at this show and didn't know anything about you, this could have been life changing for them. You're one of the closest guys to a modern Hendrix. Way to make that guitar sing and scream. And no, I don't want to see you play a strat. Your Jem guitars are truly extensions of your mind and body. You can play the Blues fest one day and the Metal fest the next!
@mistervicenteblues Yeah, you're very right mistervicenteblues, I got headache listening his boring taping and other "poser's" techique...hehe. I wish that Terry Kath from Chicago is alive, takes strat, and starts to explaining to Vai what is the guitar, as firstly....hehe. Cheers
he could put some new and old stuff in his music.. is the same 30 years old sound nothing new since fire garden.... the blues part with the hendrix's chords sounds a litle artificial... i like him, but he became almost a anonymous to the new generation because that 80´s style forever
Before they employ security guards for a concert, they ask them if they like the artist. If the guy had said "ye I love Steve Vai" he wouldn't have gotten the job. Still he looks like a Miley Cyrus fan.
I do agree, that loser should at least acknowledge Vai. He seems to be one of those try-hard pansies, if I was in that show I would've moved that guy out of the way myself. The lack of respect is unforgivable.
Hendrix's playing wad EXAGERRATED? LMAO!!!! That has to be one of the stupidest fucking statements ive ever heard. Shows complete and utter ignorance of what he did for the guitarand for music. What a douchebag! Hahahaha
The way Steve's mouth opens and shuts when playing those Great Guitar licks. Brings to my mind memories of a Dentist i went to for teeth exstraction years ago.
@KnottPatriot My favorites are Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Malmsteen and Allan Holdsworth, but I and any guitar player can see that Hendrix was hugely inventive electric guitar player, amazing blues player and an incredible composer and a wise melodic improvisator.
@KnottPatriot hendrix was the pioneer of solo guitar man, you can't compare him to artists of today. Guitar has come a long way in the past 50 years. Don't compare, just enjoy for what they are.
@P00TANARA Whatever........Hendrix's sound was exaggerated because no one else was doing it. There was no one else to compare it too. Later on Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Sabbath took the spotlight from him after his death. There are 100s of guitars players alive today that can run circles around him. Bill Peck, Michael Angelo Batio, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Yngvie Mamlsteem, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and countless other blues and rock guitarists around the world.
@P00TANARA Just because someone is the 1st doesn't mean he's better, Id take a pass on flying in a plane with the Wright brothers, cloth diapers are inferior to today's. Get over it. Hendrix was good, but not as good as today's players. News flash ts 2011 not 1967.
@KnottPatriot i somewhat agree with you. Many guitarists of today are better than hendrix, but he still has to be paid respect because he was a great musician. what really pisses me off is when nobody recognizes Les Paul. he wasn't by any means the greatest guitarist, but he invented the first solid body electric guitar, the LES PAUL! He has truly innovated guitar more than anybody...
@KnottPatriot i agree, he is no better, BUT he is the first and you dont judge the first how did it. for example (as you said, vanhalen was the first who tapped...there are better ones....malmsteen waw the first fast-shred-neoclassical, whatever...there are better ones...etc (gege???)
@Easleytee You want a modern day composer like Bach? How about Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer, Johann De Meij, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Jay Flippin, Samuel Hazo, David Gillingham, just to name a few. You know Ford innovated the motor, but we don't drive model t's anymore. Get a clue.
@KnottPatriot Did you see him in 1967? Nobody were doing the things he created in those days, and many of the modern electric guitar techniques that usually plays all of the guys you mentioned, were played by him first. Maybe they know more scales and plays it faster, but Hendrix were more inventive, maybe Vai and Van Halen may come closer to him in his level of experimentation, and Malmsteen shows love for him everytime he copy Hendrix's onstage performance, like teeth playing, feedback, etc.
I literally quit playing guitar because Vai is ultimate and since he's one of my biggest idols, I would be getting nowhere. Lol, I might pick up guitar for expressing myself.. but I would never do it to show off now that Steve Vai has made his mark in time! I love him so much for being ultimate!!!
@salasvalor01 Dude do you know how many guitarists he has inspired to play that can now shred him under the table? Steve's fantastic but you never know what you'll accomplish if you don't try man.
@elixergtarist Shredding isn't the whole of a guitarist. In my opinion, No one beats Vai because anyone who is heavily inspired from him doesn't have much room to take their ideas because Vai's explored the instrument through and through. Given all of his innovation and level of sophistication, it's an ultimate level that if even possibly surpassed, it wouldn't be by that much and Vai came before those people. Basically saying, he is the end-all on guitar as far as human goes.
@salasvalor01 No shredding isn't the whole of a guitarist. I don't agree that no one has room to take their ideas. Everybody has their own interpretation of music, period. There's always going to be someone to take it to the next level. I don't agree you should have stopped playing either. You don't know how good you might have gotten. As far as the end all of human, there are people like Di Meola who was before Vai that by Vai's own admission, can do things he could never do.
@elixergtarist Hmm, I agree to disagree. But, I found it funny when I read the "Di" part of your message, because I was expecting you to reference Leonardo Da Vinci. The relevance of this would have been he's my number one idol and when I view individuals like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach as the ultimate for musical composition, Vai, Vivaldi/Paganini, and so on as the ultimate for specialization of an instrument, I view Da Vinci as the ultimate for human as a whole. YT message limit is too short.. :(
@elixergtarist But, in summary, my mind has always fascinated with hierarchies for some reason. I don't know why, but for everything there's a reason and I hope to come to a conclusion for that. Anyway, to go back to my first post, I was basically saying I won't play guitar to show off after witnessing Vai, because of the ultimate factor I've come to perceive. However, I will still play guitar to express myself and I will still continue to improve my skills. It's just I won't gloat with it.
@salasvalor01 I agree, sometimes you do come across something or someone that has some kind of major impact on you. Vai is indeed one of those people. When I first saw him in the movie Crossroads back in 86 when I was a kid, I was like "Eddie Van Who!?". He definitely impacted me as well.
I love you Mr. Steve Vai. and thank you for not giving up on music and life. peace brother
blueskyyishigh 1 week ago
show...
albertoquimicoufc 1 week ago
Does this guy ever age or show signs of slowing down ? Rock-n-Roll is the fountain of youth ! The birth of Rap Music was the devil which destroyed the entire Music Industry . This is not an opinion....it's a fact !! Sorry to all of my Brothers of another color.....but you know how I feel about this as music used to be my passion in life , and now I can't even turn on a radio without wanting to puke . So sad !
JohnnieRhodes 2 weeks ago
@JohnnieRhodes Radio? What the hell is that? Pandora or Satellite my friend and all your passion will return. Radio is dead.
yjmsrv 1 week ago
@JohnnieRhodes Lol; thats what they said about Rock and Roll too!
soniccinema 1 week ago
yeah man , that is a hendrix tune!!!.
brokeandhungryxx 2 weeks ago
Woke up this morning and my dog dun left me so I went a played some geetar. I said I woke up this morning.... well if that ain't the blues!
rayb6379 2 weeks ago
Amazing, Steve is getting better and better.
tonon67 3 weeks ago
ibanez Custom Shop manufactured only 2 of that JEM, one for the winner and one for Steve.
Alexandro1976 3 weeks ago
That guitar is the winner of a design contest. Random people submitted their dream jem and the winning design was made by ibanez. Steve did a brief tour with it then gave it to the winner.
jem7bsb 3 weeks ago
What guitar. Is that.
xarthurz 3 weeks ago
@xarthurz Ibanez jem
DennChooch 3 weeks ago
@DennChooch a jem 7vwh? doesn't look like one
xarthurz 3 weeks ago
@xarthurz just because it isn't white and doesn't have gold hardware, doesn't mean it isn't one. vai has jems in all kinds of colours and such. chances are this one hasn't been released to the public. kind of custom shop.
DennChooch 3 weeks ago
@DennChooch ah, so it's a custom jem 7vwh
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Vai takes the shape of Midnight VERY seriously and renders it lovingly. I've heard him speak of how much he loves it as a unique example of Hendrix's enormous future possibilities, sadly cut short. Vai does it wonderfulyl here. Outstanding.
gmakepiece 3 weeks ago
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gmakepiece 3 weeks ago
Hey, Vai swings into Hendrix's instrumental from 'War Heroes' called' Midnigh't. It's a futuristic technical and emotional wonder. Jimi doing it that is. Vai is a very very good player.
gmakepiece 3 weeks ago
@gmakepiece that War Heroes LP has always been one of my faves, some real gems on there!
RedroomStudios 3 weeks ago
@RedroomStudios Ah, you are clearly a person of insight. It's a fun and curious album.
gmakepiece 3 weeks ago
Hell if i had Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun to play with on some Hendrix i would be jammin' with them not all over them, we know you can play like a motherfucker Steve but for fucks sake jam like one will you!!!!!.
904tf 4 weeks ago
Guys, guys ...please stop... this is blues trust me...is just that your blues playing is pedestrian ...
Sebastianodelarada 1 month ago
.... possibly the best 'guitar mouth' in the industry.
runthemachine 1 month ago
.... possibly the best 'guitar mouth' in the industry.
runthemachine 1 month ago
YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT HE IS USING THAT THE WINNER'S IBANEZ GUITAR DESIGN. YOU KNOW FROM THAT CONTEST.
Keith6192 1 month ago
I fight against being a blues purist as all purists are ass holes. I only really listen to the blues for close to 30 years, but damn, this mutha can play. I got into having an open mind listening to frank zappa which leads to steve vai which leads to listening and hearing and finally to realizing there's mure to music than purism.
MBCplayerzoob 1 month ago
I still think Jimmy Page would kick his ass
91xRedemption 1 month ago
@DanielGrozier
SHUT UP ! SHIT MAN!!!
shameplane 1 month ago
Awesome Guitar playing! He always makes me grin from ear to ear when he plays! His joy when he plays just jumps off of him and hits you in the face! His sustain is sweeeeeeet =D
sonyaharter 1 month ago
Now I have the blues...
ReverendHogwash 1 month ago
Wow, His Guitar Kung Fu is very Strong!!!!!
EngineFuel 1 month ago
what bloody guitar is he using? as in, which model JEM is this?
jasonlefort 1 month ago
@jasonlefort its sick aye?i reckon the lads at the shop custom whatever they want and offer it to him.i just love the shade of blue on it with the orange.very pretty guitar.(not to mention the mongrel weilding it)
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
where is the blues?
shameplane 1 month ago
@shameplane up your ass TFF,its a Hendrix cover learn your history ,but i guess your name is shame and you are on the shame plane.fuck off
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
This guy had nothing to do there.
cheruguito 1 month ago
Nana Mouskouri avec une guitare ! non sans dec' il commence à vieillir pour ce genre de connerie...
eazerty 1 month ago
@eazerty lol
imamymay 1 month ago
turn the volume down and watch this 50 year old posers face... fukkin retard poser
shane69999 1 month ago
@shane69999 learn to play fucktard...
bmr21021975 1 month ago
@bmr21021975 fucktard or like cromatic says,TFF
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
@shane69999 yeah you dam right, steve at 50 is a poser , may be you at 50 could be a mummy
antidoto666 1 month ago
@shane69999 poser?what are you,a failed guitar player?you most definetly are,considering youre calling "poser" one of the best guitarrists out there.you're a troll/faggot/failure
cromaticas 1 month ago
@cromaticas T/F/F haha nice,I like that...
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
スティーヴン・ヴァイカッコイい！
ﾀｯﾋﾟﾝｸﾞ神
TheJuliet617 1 month ago
That fan in the hair gimmick has always irked me
Miles98892 2 months ago
steve is actually really great player when hes not playing all that new age synth sustainer whammy bar bullshit.
dredsky69 2 months ago
Wrong place, wrong artist, wrong genre...sorry Steve, you are an awesome guitar player, but in the future...stay away from Blues Festivals hahahhahahahaha......not your scene...:-)
vandaahl1965 2 months ago
Why this fusion shit on blues festival?
SparcoC4 2 months ago
not his greatest moment
stringmanipulator 2 months ago
What show would be complete without some yutz screaming "Yeah!" at the top of his lungs?
bluesborn 2 months ago
I see Mr Via is getting the Long haired Bald Spot in The back w The wicked Part
macdaddy12368 2 months ago
steve vai is the best ever!!
andyODD69 2 months ago
best facial expression :)
bryanpostlikeaboss 2 months ago
BIG NOOO
manmademan1983 2 months ago
vai is getting bald
Leadista08 2 months ago
2:55 Hey you! The fan is off!!
amabruri 2 months ago
absolutely amazing, a true musical craftsman
guysoceanharmonics 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
In my opinion he fucked up the song after the feedback part.
hesmon 2 months ago
I FUCKIN' LOVE THIS GUY :)
badboy867 2 months ago
Wanker
supafly1954 2 months ago
@supafly1954 in steves own words "yeah... so they say"
sunnyjim98 2 months ago
master
carlopsca 2 months ago
I just love this God. :)
tomek1995v8 3 months ago
omg he's yet detuned too?
TheLordOfCoal 3 months ago
the guitar salesman´s ever recurring nightmare, do that in a guitar store and you get "Can I help you at all" in about a nanosecond. the security guys face at 2:06 shows how exhilarated and touched he ways by steve´s incendiary performance!Eyebrows n Spoo!!
azharkamal 3 months ago
@azharkamal hahaha nice one. But I bet the security guy is thinking about getting more roids and kicking someone´s ass, like MOST security guys.
casanovajako 1 month ago
Vai is great, but what the hell dos THIS have to do with "Blues"??...
Thirdgen83 3 months ago
this guy definately knows how to put on a show
cowbelltell 3 months ago
uUUAUAU genius
JoshSilasSidney 3 months ago
Clapton blows him away with one note..
dumbletone 3 months ago
@dumbletone You can't compare him with clapton...
I like them both, they're amazing, its just so different
Sh0ck36 3 months ago
@Sh0ck36 That's true.. nothing to compare, for sure lol
dumbletone 3 months ago
@dumbletone And the award for dumbest comment on youtube goes to....
bizzle1783 3 months ago
@bizzle1783 lol... Yes man ! That's right ! Flashy things and music aren't the same.. ;-))
dumbletone 3 months ago
This is a cover of "Midnight" - Jimi Hendrix, War Heroes album
andrew13758 3 months ago
This must be the most be down to earth unshredded and relaxed scene show, that Vai have ever performed. – I can see you blues-scale people thinks, that he does something else ;-)
ABshookme 3 months ago
Me want axe :)
Nevigo 3 months ago
New Ibanez?
chueychu 3 months ago
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Nevigo 3 months ago
@chueychu Yeah. There was a fan design competition not to long ago. There are only two of those guitars in existence. That's one and the other is owned by the designer.
ApexSolution 3 months ago
This Blues Festival 2011 baby!!))
Azomidd 3 months ago
I should probably say something regarding the "blues or not blues" discussion here. The Santa Cruz Blues Festival uses the word "blues" in a pretty loose way to encompass a lot of music on the fringe of blues but not for the blues purist. Additionally, Vai appeared on the day described as "Experience Hendrix". The other day of the festival was more traditionally bluesy, I believe.
Bgood11 3 months ago 7
@Bgood11 he just misinterpreted the brief, and brought a blue guitar instead ;)
SirCdogg 2 months ago
err... nice timeless blues solo :/
timothypaulking1 3 months ago
wow, awesome soloo by steve as usual, doesn't stop amazing me, but he's not a blues player imo...
nine9live5 3 months ago
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NCdoom 3 months ago
This dude can't play blues for shizz....
MrFunkFu 3 months ago
My GOD, what a cheeseball player Vai is.... damn.
MrFunkFu 3 months ago
Steve Vai o rei DAS PALHAÇADAS VAI TOCAR CUIKA NA PORTELA MISÉRAVEL PRA FAZER O PESSOAL RIR INDIOTA .......
williansoul100 3 months ago
@williansoul100 Vc eh o idiota willian.
Felipelima85 3 months ago
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@williansoul100 Se vc ñ é fã é só ñ assistir o video, o cara foi consagrado assim, um dos maiores guitarristas dos ultimos tempos, mas se vc prefere essa nova geração de guitarristas coloridos que fazem beicinho pra tocar é com vc msm, eu sou + Steve Vai, então é só ñ curtir e parar de inveja.
NCdoom 3 months ago
is that the jem that won?!! thats amazing such a beautiful guitar
museman91 3 months ago
That's one hell of a hair parting!!!!!!!!!!
thephantom955 3 months ago 8
@thephantom955 yeah i think moses pated it lol
fippysteed 1 month ago
@fippysteed I fight the same thing. I'm not a Blues purist. Interestingly, the 'old' guys from Chicago and the South, who are the creators, are more open than the modern purist. Now, I LOVE Steve Vai, he does some amazing music. I mean I really love HIS music... But, having said that, he, on this recording, Well, I don't hear any Blues, there is no core energy that even modern rocked out Blues has. Sorry to say, on this vid, Steve Vai is not showing Blues of any substance.
JoeyJoelBand 1 month ago
thats blues festival not hes own concert..hes forget it ::D
nreygenxz 3 months ago
He pulled some Satriani style a bit.
RayuanGomball 3 months ago
who cares if he's playing too many notes on a blues festival...he is Steve Vai. he's not a bluesman...he is Steve Vai. why did they invited him in the first place if they'll restrict him...the world knows who Steve Vai is.
1dannyrios 3 months ago
5.44, love the face, Mr Vai you are awsome :)
stephj6 3 months ago
I forgive Steve for his Roth and Whitesnake days.I guess he had to pay the bills.
enos218 3 months ago
Way to be Steve!! If I was a young man (or woman) at this show and didn't know anything about you, this could have been life changing for them. You're one of the closest guys to a modern Hendrix. Way to make that guitar sing and scream. And no, I don't want to see you play a strat. Your Jem guitars are truly extensions of your mind and body. You can play the Blues fest one day and the Metal fest the next!
ClassofEighty2 3 months ago
I see there an AxeFx ultra in his rack!
dwg116 3 months ago
Stevie get a strat to play hendrix...this guitar sound like crap!!!
mistervicenteblues 3 months ago
@mistervicenteblues Yeah, you're very right mistervicenteblues, I got headache listening his boring taping and other "poser's" techique...hehe. I wish that Terry Kath from Chicago is alive, takes strat, and starts to explaining to Vai what is the guitar, as firstly....hehe. Cheers
chupeauxx 1 month ago
this aint blues this is "show time" well but the Hendrix war heroes was fine!!!
mistervicenteblues 3 months ago
De quem e esse cabeçao ai na frente de bone ? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk'
TheHardancE 3 months ago
Stevie Vai is very talented but his music will never measure up against JOE SATRIANI'S.
ptij0404 4 months ago
@ptij0404
They're pretty much best buds.
IAMCORNDOG123456 4 months ago
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yatiify 4 months ago
sensational, a lifetime of music depth
guysoceanharmonics 4 months ago
midnight fits him well
JimiPlaysWoodstock 4 months ago
Oh yeah and 4 the record....
In my very humble opinion Steve Vai is the onlyone alive qualified enough to play Jimi's songs....
He's the only-one who;s got the MOJO to tap into Jim''s spirit properly......
Tell me if i'm wrong!!!!
JB68
JimiBax68 4 months ago
@JimiBax68 vernon reid deserves as much credit as Vai surely?
fishboybyebye 4 months ago
@fishboybyebye
Yes sir i have to give credit where credit is due indeed;Vernon Read is not to be forgotten in this equation.
JimiBax68 4 months ago
This is a mindblowing version of Jimi's MIDNIGHT!!!!
So very very sweet,THANX for uploading this!!!!!
JB68
JimiBax68 4 months ago
if you are older then 27 you must be emberessed
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he could put some new and old stuff in his music.. is the same 30 years old sound nothing new since fire garden.... the blues part with the hendrix's chords sounds a litle artificial... i like him, but he became almost a anonymous to the new generation because that 80´s style forever
ttlenine 4 months ago
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ttlenine 4 months ago
the security guard is a virtuoso violinist whose like ''yeh,i can do that on me fiddle steve,and its missing a plunker''.......its no big deal.
MrCeltic76 4 months ago 10
@MrCeltic76 ....lol....cool dude...
1dannyrios 3 months ago
Before they employ security guards for a concert, they ask them if they like the artist. If the guy had said "ye I love Steve Vai" he wouldn't have gotten the job. Still he looks like a Miley Cyrus fan.
VertigonA380 4 months ago
I do agree, that loser should at least acknowledge Vai. He seems to be one of those try-hard pansies, if I was in that show I would've moved that guy out of the way myself. The lack of respect is unforgivable.
gabrules2003 4 months ago
the aura from his guitar is actually making his hair fly
sk8rdudeism 4 months ago
Wow look at that jem. incredible.
Neuromance27 4 months ago
Man, if I was the security guy, I would take those earknobs off, turn to listen Stevie and enjoy the shit out of the gig
WAltomaboi 4 months ago
beautiful guitar
MultiMrMuffinman 4 months ago
is that the ddesign your own jem contest winner? looks like it to me
silvano751 4 months ago
@silvano751 Yes it is ;)
RGplayer01 4 months ago
Absolute the best player.
When Steve had his Guitar in his hands I can listening the hole day.
What a man you are Steve, come from space?
janbbclubs 4 months ago
Hendrix's playing wad EXAGERRATED? LMAO!!!! That has to be one of the stupidest fucking statements ive ever heard. Shows complete and utter ignorance of what he did for the guitarand for music. What a douchebag! Hahahaha
td7474 4 months ago
That's the guitar tha won the Design Contest with Ibanez.
Zhaggysfaction 4 months ago
place your hand over his body so only his face is showing hahahahahahaha!
dmohr7 4 months ago
@xvengeancesynx so what now, you are the wonder kid?
P00TANARA 4 months ago
The way Steve's mouth opens and shuts when playing those Great Guitar licks. Brings to my mind memories of a Dentist i went to for teeth exstraction years ago.
MrPicklepick 4 months ago
Steve 's paying TRIBUTE here to jimi Hendrix by playing one of Jimi's instrumentals.
SmittyCustomGuitars 4 months ago
Nice.
PascalsWager5 4 months ago
I want that guitar!! Damn
dance2noise002 4 months ago
Was before he cut his hair.
PGm0nkey 5 months ago
Steve, you're playing too many notes it's a blues festival. :P
senseibrew 5 months ago 19
Tax Free!!!!
kokobirra 5 months ago
All you have to have is ears that can hear, a brain that can tell you what sounds clean and technical, and you can judge.
KnottPatriot 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot My favorites are Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Malmsteen and Allan Holdsworth, but I and any guitar player can see that Hendrix was hugely inventive electric guitar player, amazing blues player and an incredible composer and a wise melodic improvisator.
karlosed 5 months ago
Hendrix was overrated. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Malsteem, Hammett, are all better than Hendrix ever was.
KnottPatriot 5 months ago 2
@KnottPatriot opinions are not facts when are musicians going to realise that?
Strange0ne 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot hendrix was the pioneer of solo guitar man, you can't compare him to artists of today. Guitar has come a long way in the past 50 years. Don't compare, just enjoy for what they are.
manonmagiccarpet 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot insult...
P00TANARA 5 months ago
@P00TANARA Whatever........Hendrix's sound was exaggerated because no one else was doing it. There was no one else to compare it too. Later on Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Sabbath took the spotlight from him after his death. There are 100s of guitars players alive today that can run circles around him. Bill Peck, Michael Angelo Batio, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Yngvie Mamlsteem, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and countless other blues and rock guitarists around the world.
KnottPatriot 5 months ago
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Easleytee 5 months ago
@P00TANARA Just because someone is the 1st doesn't mean he's better, Id take a pass on flying in a plane with the Wright brothers, cloth diapers are inferior to today's. Get over it. Hendrix was good, but not as good as today's players. News flash ts 2011 not 1967.
KnottPatriot 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot i somewhat agree with you. Many guitarists of today are better than hendrix, but he still has to be paid respect because he was a great musician. what really pisses me off is when nobody recognizes Les Paul. he wasn't by any means the greatest guitarist, but he invented the first solid body electric guitar, the LES PAUL! He has truly innovated guitar more than anybody...
silvano751 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot i agree, he is no better, BUT he is the first and you dont judge the first how did it. for example (as you said, vanhalen was the first who tapped...there are better ones....malmsteen waw the first fast-shred-neoclassical, whatever...there are better ones...etc (gege???)
P00TANARA 5 months ago
@P00TANARA
he was far from the first who tapped.
but he made it famous to the public
pabcq 4 months ago
@pabcq But we all know the major showman behind bringing tapping to publicity is Mr. Van Halen.
ScottNicholasSimpson 4 months ago
@ScottNicholasSimpson HA..you mean the guy who killed it by making it seem like a gimmick?
TheLydianRocks 4 months ago
@pabcq who else tapped before vanhalen? keith richards?
P00TANARA 4 months ago
@P00TANARA
many tapped before van halen but in a less "fancy" way. and i believe holdsworth did the fancy tapping before van halen.
pabcq 4 months ago
@KnottPatriot
You failed to mention that Hendrix was an INNOVATOR.
So, Bach lived some 250 years ago. Name a modern day composer his equal or better?
You're a stone cold imbecile.
Be gone...fool!
Easleytee 5 months ago
@Easleytee You want a modern day composer like Bach? How about Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer, Johann De Meij, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Jay Flippin, Samuel Hazo, David Gillingham, just to name a few. You know Ford innovated the motor, but we don't drive model t's anymore. Get a clue.
KnottPatriot 5 months ago
@KnottPatriot Did you see him in 1967? Nobody were doing the things he created in those days, and many of the modern electric guitar techniques that usually plays all of the guys you mentioned, were played by him first. Maybe they know more scales and plays it faster, but Hendrix were more inventive, maybe Vai and Van Halen may come closer to him in his level of experimentation, and Malmsteen shows love for him everytime he copy Hendrix's onstage performance, like teeth playing, feedback, etc.
karlosed 5 months ago
IT WAS RAINING xD
gothick2 5 months ago
Total Bell end!
Hendrix is King.....!!
this bloke belongs in Spinal Tap.
SOAPSCONTINETASEASE 5 months ago
@SOAPSCONTINETASEASE hahahahah! Im glad im not the only one who thinks playing shred at a blues festival is retarded.
MrJohntube12 5 months ago
realy cool guitar
MrCod496 5 months ago
Steve looks exactly like he did 25 years ago.
zackvanhalen 5 months ago
.....that Steve Vai. Throwing a pick at a stage hand to get his monitor suited well :-) at 2:53
Ramiroocampo 5 months ago
I literally quit playing guitar because Vai is ultimate and since he's one of my biggest idols, I would be getting nowhere. Lol, I might pick up guitar for expressing myself.. but I would never do it to show off now that Steve Vai has made his mark in time! I love him so much for being ultimate!!!
salasvalor01 5 months ago
@salasvalor01 Dude do you know how many guitarists he has inspired to play that can now shred him under the table? Steve's fantastic but you never know what you'll accomplish if you don't try man.
elixergtarist 5 months ago
@elixergtarist Shredding isn't the whole of a guitarist. In my opinion, No one beats Vai because anyone who is heavily inspired from him doesn't have much room to take their ideas because Vai's explored the instrument through and through. Given all of his innovation and level of sophistication, it's an ultimate level that if even possibly surpassed, it wouldn't be by that much and Vai came before those people. Basically saying, he is the end-all on guitar as far as human goes.
salasvalor01 5 months ago
@salasvalor01 No shredding isn't the whole of a guitarist. I don't agree that no one has room to take their ideas. Everybody has their own interpretation of music, period. There's always going to be someone to take it to the next level. I don't agree you should have stopped playing either. You don't know how good you might have gotten. As far as the end all of human, there are people like Di Meola who was before Vai that by Vai's own admission, can do things he could never do.
elixergtarist 5 months ago
@elixergtarist Hmm, I agree to disagree. But, I found it funny when I read the "Di" part of your message, because I was expecting you to reference Leonardo Da Vinci. The relevance of this would have been he's my number one idol and when I view individuals like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach as the ultimate for musical composition, Vai, Vivaldi/Paganini, and so on as the ultimate for specialization of an instrument, I view Da Vinci as the ultimate for human as a whole. YT message limit is too short.. :(
salasvalor01 5 months ago
@elixergtarist But, in summary, my mind has always fascinated with hierarchies for some reason. I don't know why, but for everything there's a reason and I hope to come to a conclusion for that. Anyway, to go back to my first post, I was basically saying I won't play guitar to show off after witnessing Vai, because of the ultimate factor I've come to perceive. However, I will still play guitar to express myself and I will still continue to improve my skills. It's just I won't gloat with it.
salasvalor01 5 months ago
@salasvalor01 I agree, sometimes you do come across something or someone that has some kind of major impact on you. Vai is indeed one of those people. When I first saw him in the movie Crossroads back in 86 when I was a kid, I was like "Eddie Van Who!?". He definitely impacted me as well.
elixergtarist 5 months ago