Steve Vai - "Salamanders In The Sun"

[jtyrubnah8r]

@joselito80 i hav heard zappa,dont like it.u couldnt pay me to listen to frank for more than 20 mins. flexable had annoying songwriting with a few exceptions,the ones that didnt sound like zappa.as he grew away from the zappa crappa he found his own niche and didnt follow the status quo,thats zappa's influence.of course steve has remnants of franks style,his best music started with passion n warfare and everything after that.vai today is light years better than flexable was.salamanders r.i.p.

[salasvalor01]

This is THE video to watch on repeat.

[jtyrubnah8r]

Sounds like grocery shoppin muzak.or a womens casual shoe store soundtrack.vai can blow ur mind 1 song and make u think wtf is he recording this?

[joselito80]

@jtyrubnah8r clearly you've never heard zappa

[PaoloSciola]

Here is Frank Zappa and Gershwin all mixed together. They are just salamanders in the sun over this Earth. This guy gets an overextended talent capable to open rooms in unexplorated territories. This kind of music is simply called Grace.

[cesar7marques]

This version is much better than the studio one! Amazing! Go Steve!



[knuckleheadzup01]

his creativity knows no bounds - brilliant

[METALLICA19961000]

2:12 TRIANGLE!!!! YEAH BOI

[saimsboy]

this is a real eargasm

[MrHarry0000010]

friggin awesome...very inspiring steve......

[britocho]

as someone said, in little things is the difference...just like that triangle

[max75016]

c'est laid et chiant et c'est pas ces petits entrechats grotesques qui vont faire la difference

[TheJPM2000]

@max75016 j estime a 9 chance sur 10 que tu n habite pas sur la cote

[max75016]

c'est laid et chiant

[max75016]

vacuum

[kristofor12345]

Floor 12 please.

[MikeyboyMovies]

@kristofor12345 Hahaha

[orhanc1]

Steve's triangle player is THE MAN!

[Zanthxs]

wow this is very early Zappa-ish ... innovative, zany ... weirdly different... surreal... more coffee!

[richiman007]

@Zanthxs so, I'm not the only one who thinks that way!

[decisivecrewful]

Stevie.You are so great.it,s fun listening to you.Bless youre heart

[oOMakotoOo]

THIS IS SO FUCKING AMAZING!!! I LOVE IT!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!

[TIAGO92TF]

the best

look my channel

[SynesthesicVision]

sderftgyhujikdsefghnjmtgyhujik­ol, just clean jizz off my keyboard. That was Epic~!

[y64u8f]

steve vai makes the most epic facial expressions :P

[edshift]

Luv this.

[TheJPM2000]

53 innocent child



[bogusfer1]

perfeito vc steve vai!

[adrielchng]

2:31 EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ScwantoeSTEVEVAI]

Steve your genius is showing :P



[bryonshea]

actually, part three will be lotus feet and gentle ways, Salamanders will be its own part.

[bryonshea]

writing a drum core show. Part one is For the Love of God, this will probably be part two, mixed with some lotus feet and a percussion feature at the beginning, then it goes into Gentle Ways in part three, and then For the Love of God again for the finale in part 4. if you don't know what drumcore is look up DCI. I'm surpries Vai hasn't been used already.

[Ibanez3789]

@bryonshea I haven't marched in a couple years and I can't believe I'm doing this, but...

Corps**

[bryonshea]

@ScwantoeSTEVEVAI why does he need wires?  Can't he just fly?

[ScwantoeSTEVEVAI]

@bryonshea yeah your right. lol

who else here plays guitar??

[francisco4202]

@ScwantoeSTEVEVAI me

[ScwantoeSTEVEVAI]

hey steve why dont you suspend yourself on wires and fly above you'r orchestra while somebody shines a ton of lights on your symbol so a prisma colour shines on you while your above playing your godly riffs of Justice.. just and idea.

[NickoTheGuitarist]

Can't handle his guitargasm faces. Much better listening to the record... Geez.

[adrielchng]

2:12 The mic beside the triangle probably costs more than the triangle

[Feverdream7777]

Ya know, for a masterful as he is, it amazes me how he can let certain REALLY important note holds stay flat and sharp like he does in this song.

[roksor1000]

Expensive backing track Oo

[FeedMeForiAmATroll]

so beautiful. his hair is so beautiful.

[babioulin]

faire déplacer un orchestre symphonique pour une musique de merde comme celle-çi, c'est vraiment du foutage de gueule.

[SweeetPicker]

@babioulin Steve Vai c'est de la merde, et en plus jamais vu un type qui faisait preuve d'aussi peu d'humilité ... La musique devient mauvaise, à partir du moment ou il commence à jouer ...

[Vailover4ever]

@SweeetPicker Pourquoi regardé alors?Steve Vai est le plus grand guitariste qui soit.Ordinairement je suis contente de lire des commentaires en français sur You Tube,mais dans ton cas,non.

[SweeetPicker]

@Vailover4ever J'ai regardé, parce que je ne critique pas quelqu'un sans connaitre ce qu'il fait. Bien sur, je ne nie pas que Vai est un Virtuose ... Cependant, presque toute ses musiques se ressemble, et elles sont du arrogance rare. Il se prends pour LE dieu de la guitare (peut être parce que des gens comme vous l'appel ainsi), alors qu'il existe des guitaristes humble, et pourtant bien plus talentueux et innovants : Shawn lane, Guthrie Govan ... Et puis il est ridicule sur scène.

[Vailover4ever]

@SweeetPicker Vous avez droit à votre opinion,disons simplement que je ne la partage pas.Vai n'est pas le seul guitariste que j'aime:Satriani,Blackmore,Hend­rix,Clapton,Johnson et plusieurs autres,cependant Vai est celui que je préfère.J'espère que malgré tout nous avons peut-être un guitariste en commun.Tout les goûts sont permis :-)

[Paolo8772]

Everybody recognizes the Zappa influence, but I like this because it reminds me of Sesame Street inserts from the early70's in the form of animal films with music's #1 child Maestro Joe Raposo. I know Steve Vai's too old to have watched Sesame Street; he was 9 years old when the show 1st aired, but this sounds more like Joe Raposo than Zappa. Heck, the title even makes it sounds like an animal film score; "Salamanders in the Sun"

[FoxWBogart]

David Gilmour + Yngwie Malmsteen = Steve Vai

Great performance

[FoxWBogart]

David Gilmour + Ingwye Malsteen = Steve Vai

Great performance

[Radeon311]

What is the meaning of the "FLO" under the bridge of Steve's guitar?

[destinyrider22]

@Radeon311 he just names his guitars and writes it in Sharpie beneath the bridge makes for less confusion when own over 9000 of the same guitar

[jpjssv]

@destinyrider22 actually i think its because its a floral jem, one of the first ones, thats why its named FLO

[jonrivera]

@jpjssv You're correct. "FLO" was a tribute to his original Floral JEM. It was just painted over with white.

[pipsqueek14]

@jpjssv its a jem 77

[xTKxOvERSniPE]

@jpjssv Its because that guitar has an Original Floyd Rose as opposed to an Ibanez licsenced one!

[jpjssv]

@xTKxOvERSniPE now im confused dude xp

[nickdwaters]

I can't believe it's been 6 years since this was performed. All of his music is so expressive.

[nickdwaters]

I can't believe it's been 6 years since this was released.

[ScottNicholasSimpson]

I'll never be that good or clever... lol

[RunnerAlien222]

this is WAAAAAAY better than sex...

[driger888]

great guitar. just terrible music.

[Tbroman]

@driger888 Are you serious?

[whatthebollocks]

@driger888 WHAT? i don't wanna get in a youtube fight cuz that will waste both our time, but wtf?

[anormalnick]

@driger888 terrible? worst calificative ever..

[nolan067]

zappa what?

[otharennaur]

This sounds like Frank Zappa, indeed.

[TheMarcos772]

Steve Zappa . . . .jeje

[puppymaiden]

It reminds me Final Fantasy!!!

[TheEpicion]

@puppymaiden Yes, Nobou's style of composition is very similar.

[BlackAlpha95]

0:18 to 0:38 is the fucking music of the sims

[TheEpicion]

@BlackAlpha95 yup

[G30RG319]

STeve vai is a genius

[mcgaheefamily]

EXCUSE ME I MENT THE BEST DAMN STORY THAT I EVER HEARD

[mcgaheefamily]

It sounds like the Guitar is telling a story

[StevieVaibanez]

@mcgaheefamily

And it's not just a story, it's a damn brilliant one at that too. ;)

[mcgaheefamily]

It sounds like the Guitar is telling a story

[karljapo]

3:43 brad pitt plays the sax!

[EugeneRealtor]

"V" to the "A" to the "I"

what's that spell?

"Awesome!"

[RushFanPix]

So nice!  I love this piece. :-)

[gypsyeyes29]

LOVE his stuff. He is so passionate about his music.

[kennmanntis]

much better than the version of the song i have from "Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology"

[rickyjshiznit]

@kennmanntis is it the same version from flex-able?

[tommonator]

@kennmanntis i got that album too, i do like both versions ,it does sound cool with the orchestra

[mykheaton]

that was lovely,

[Goniofewi95]

I loved the part from 0:00 to 4:46

[livingsongs1]

Great guitarist! Please check out my artist/Guitarist Marc Eric on my page! He played with Steve Vai..

[Porquinho99]

vsvsvsvsvsvs

[GuitarCompositition]

god steve vai is a god you should check out mentalgravity band!

[marcOantoni0]

3:38 Victory moment

[rodangib]

I'd like to make passionate love to the violinist @ 0:30 while having Vai play this piece acoustically sitting in the corner chair of the room, blindfolded.

[chebrujo]

@rodangib You could not illustrate better what this song feels like

[carmaj156]

Steve Vai is a true musician, he arranged the scores for the Orchestra, he is completely amazing on understanding what music is about. Not everybody is able to do this. He is an exapmle of the results of hard work and constance. Love it. The other person I know able to do it is the incredible Yoko Kano.

[andycapist1]

@carmaj156

wrong. chris opperman did the orchestration.

[carmaj156]

@carmaj156 Opperman helped Vai to put things into real life, true. But Steve had already the scores thought before they were performed. If there's someone who knows how to make a partition is Steve Vai. He transcribed one of Frank Zappa's hardest songbooks. He might need help from others. Who doesn't? Anyway if you listen the Orchestra's performances they're keeping the same structure as the original recordings. Steve was the mind behind the whole work. Not to diss Mr. Opperman of course.

[ianlorenz13]

that guy in 2:12 must have been thinkin what the fuck am i doing with this piece of shit

[B0Ka3]

@ianlorenz13

More like "OMG I can´t miss a note,otherwise Vai is going to kill me :S"

:D :D

[DrPeper271]

@ianlorenz13 you know what **** you!

[whatthebollocks]

@ianlorenz13 same at 2:50

[anormalnick]

@ianlorenz13 buahahahahaha..I cant fucking agree more..

[GanjaTroop]

@ianlorenz13 i had a good laugh.. :DDD nice one

[shadowfall33]

@ianlorenz13 lawl

[jordan2002100]

@ianlorenz13 u never herd of a percusion section he has other jobs too:P

[lisannhodges67]

@ianlorenz13 LMFAO!!! XD

[BvOBart]

@ianlorenz13 Haha, imagine him coming home to his mom from music school for the first time: "Hey, mom, I'm in the orchestra!" "Wow, nice job honey, what instrument do you play?" "I play the triangle!" "*holds laugh* That's great honey... *bursts out laughing*".

And imagine his dad, if he were a maths teacher, standing next to her: "Very good, kid. Is it a right, equilateral, isosceles or scalene triangle?" "Uhhm, it's a triangle?"

[phantomlord3883]

why there is thumbs down in this video???

[666aron]

@phantomlord3883 People need to have a basic musical literacy so that they can understand what good music is. The thumbs down proves that there are some people who actually don't have that literacy.

[ltd4all]

the two "strap buttons", or "coil tap buttons" are actually switches that control the Fernandez sustainer pick ups and circuitry built into the guitar..

[monkeyzrule86]

beautiful =o

[apokalypse666]

What are those 2 buttons in the guitar body??

[MONSTA01]

@apokalypse666 strap buttons? haha no uhm i believe they are coil tap swtches for the humbuckers

[apokalypse666]

@MONSTA01 oh, ok. Thanks man, i was wondering what that was.

[rickyjshiznit]

@apokalypse666 yea its switches for the sustainer. 1 turns it on, the other makes it play harmonics if i recall correctly

[ghostinthemean]

I like this arrangement.

[magamorph]

Go Xylophone Pwnage !!

[dragonman86]

@foliazione1 how is it for money if i never bought it... lol besides orchestras are high class expensive.

[yrsnkd]

@foliazione1 Are you crazy? Why would he go out and spend money on an entire fucking orchestra if this was only for the money? And for the record, Steve Vai doesn't limit himself to rock. No one who can compose like that would, it's just limiting oneself!

[1122Dragon]

@foliazione1 I think it's pretty obvious that you don't understand the beauty of music

[umpfco]

You can tell he was hanging around Zappa when this was written.

[yrsnkd]

@umpfco Yeah, in his jazz years... Can't remember the names of those albums ATM, but the trumpets and stuff remind me of comps like Twenty Small Cigars

[rickyjshiznit]

@umpfco you can tell he was when you listen to anything off of his first album... very zappa-esque

[devolve42]

@umpfco This is a direct descendant of Zappa's "Toads of the Short Forest".

[rockerMan0987]

@umpfco well he used to play with zappa

[eddietheheadful]

People that say guitarists like Vai, Malmsteen ect. have no feeling in their playing have no clue what they're saying. most of the guitarists they claim have all this "feeling" don't even write their own stuff. these guys are COMPOSERS not just players. Steve Vai's compositions and his playing make his guitar an outlet for his soul.

[merederem]

@eddietheheadful which solo guitarist does not write his own stuff?

[1234gnrslash]

@eddietheheadful STEVE VAI FTW. malmsteen? sucks. lol

[Rodrython4]

@1234gnrslash if they suck so much id like to see you write as good a song as them

[1234gnrslash]

@Rodrython4 lol i doubt you know what ftw means. its a good thing lol. i just dont like malmsteen

[RandyFoxKiller]

@1234gnrslash what does ftw mean

[1234gnrslash]

@RandyFoxKiller Umm its a stupid internet phrase but its used a lot and well i felt like saying it it means for the win

[IgnorantIntrude]

@RandyFoxKiller It means " for the win", or "fuck the world". depends on context.

[theguyfromplt]

Vai is such a dynamic artist...

[gerbebe]

Tank you Zappa

[TheOriginalThought1]

I can not even begin to explain the epicness of thjs vid. Liked and faved, shared and subscribed.

[GuigasFahd]

steve vai is for the eternity :D

[ttt303]

true true steve was mentored by zappa in his early days...flex-able was the album in response to oad?!? if thats what the waaat is meant?? :)

[rafauleciaelcarpio]

I love the studio version, but this one's better for my taste

[0adireita]

steve wrote this song while he was fighting shen-long, steve made and harmonic shred, and than shen-long was kicked brutaly out of solar system . that fight was named SALAMANDERS IN THE SUN

[bones9706]

The broad spectrums of Steve Vai's musical performances never cease to amaze me. Nobody else handles the guitar better

[seamonkeyguitars]

I can see how Zappa influenced him in his composing.

[RaphaelFragelli]

@seamonkeyguitars

yes, tis song was made in 1984, this is pura zappa !

sorry for my bad english !

[ttt303]

ERR does everyone realise this is from steve vai's Independent album released in 1984? so of course it sound a lil sims or not so impressive now..as it has been emulated n copied a lot since then...VAI is a genius and always ahead of the curve..

so if your not impressed by his note choices...your not much of a musician...

[0adireita]

@ttt303 waat?

[DesireeBansGuasch]

on this, my son johann explored calm pieces of all genres. my son eli played more pieces by Filipino alternative music/politics.

good to balance the blares i got used to again :-D

the only break from blaring pieces that i imposed on myself were nursery rhyme / lullaby days.

[ElusiveQuantumTheory]

Such a calming and beatiful song. I like especially that "aaa-whoppi-doo,whoppi-doo-aa, whoppi-whoppi-doo"-part :)

[funkelee75]

the bassline is just terrific....i love this version....

[Chardiieee]

Im sorry but I cant bring myself to like this too much when it sounds like a soundtrack for The Sims 3 or something. Even the name makes me feel like this is what it is. :\

[MrYngwie88]

47 loosers

[hhhkkkhhhjkjki]

how he did that starting part for sustaining it so long?

[morphicwraith]

@hhhkkkhhhjkjki With a Fernandez sustainer pickup :) they are quite a nice piece of gear.

[svtrs1]

This is the best orchestral concert i´ve seen so far, besides the S&M

[ironwolg]

@svtrs1 i think Jordan Rudess's Explorations concert is going to be right up there with them too

[ss4sithlord]

Amazing performance(by the whole orchestra), and amazing guitar playing. (Philosopheronweed) made a great point. Even the greatest guitarists are not necessarilly great musicians. Steve Vai is both. It takes moe than playing ability to write a great song, I`m glad to see some people still appreciate that.

[udi112]

i must know what kind of effect is vai using!

[olaf94NL]

@udi112 I don't really know what you mean, but sounds like he uses a lot of reverb and a little bit of delay... I think you can search for pedal boards on google..

[ss4sithlord]

@udi112 wah pedal mostly, reverb and delay definitely. set your highs high and your lows low, mids mid to low, depending on how much of any other sound you want to shine through:)

[morphicwraith]

@udi112 Loads of effects! He has his own "rack" which houses many effects, which he'll use plenty of in careful amounts to get his particular sound. Good analogue pedals actually have a better sound than racks, it's just racks do so much more in one package. I aim for a similar sound to Vai because I cover some of his stuff, use a kind of ambient delay, wah pedal when necessary, compression, quite a lot of distortion (valve amp definately) and fairly high mids and treble in your eq :D

[rockerEMG]

i've listened this song 38 time continuously !

[TheCortMetal]

@0:35 i love music (a)

[NickDezzy93]

0:30 and 0:35 the best moments of the perfomance

[mcreinhart]

@NickDezzy93 hey we got the same taste !

[TheCortMetal]

@NickDezzy93 Thumbs up indeed! :)

[gtarszzz]

@NickDezzy93 i think you mean of the video?

[mercilessfreak]

@NickDezzy93 LOL! hows about I put my salamander in her sun : P

[stavsantis]

I dont mean to be rude, but what is it that other guitar fans see in Steve Vai ?

I mean it as an honest question, so no hate-back replies please. What about his music interests people? I love guys like Paul gilbert, Doug Aldrich, Richie Kotzen etc, but i find this quite dry.

Because i find myself getting really bored .... His Album with whitesnake was good though.

[picklevai16]

@stavsantis

that is a good question. for me personally, it's his style of playing that interests me. he's got songs that are way better than this though.

[devax1986]

@stavsantis For me its the rest of the composition he brings in. The violins, horns etc. It isn't all just a one man show. These orchestrated ones I find o.k, but I like a lot of his other stuff, for example, Alien Love Secrets, Fire Garden, Ultra Zone albums. He certainly has a different way of playing than just speed arpeggio's. I guess it is the variety he brings for me. That is why I love Satch and Vai so much.

[thesk8rman765]

@stavsantis

First of all, I must say I greatly appreciate you're not being some dickhead coming in here saying "lulz viA suxx lollz>"

And that's a pretty good question, I guess it's his way of using the guitar, Vai has always seemed to use it a bit differently then others, and is always trying to find something new that he can do with it. He then puts his emotions and love for music through the guitar.

And he makes cool sounds with it. :P

He's actually a big inspiration to me.

[k0pikolombia]

@stavsantis : I just felt that Vai's tabs are much more dramatic and story-telling piece. The way how he used the Wah pedals, the changes of tones... but, I know it's good that I hear it all the time until I get bored too, and change the channel to some other type of music.

[Narut0Kur0saki]

@stavsantis i like that Eb lydian mode that he plays in alot

its really interesting to me

i just feel like vai is one of the worlds best i would absolutely love to get lessons from this guy

i also love how completely wierd he is

[diebydeath]

@stavsantis I think the reasons why people may NOT like him is because he uses the whammy bar a lot. It's very expressive, yes, and it sounds weird, but when we hear it repeated over and over in the piece too much it starts to just sound bad.

After hearing the album version, I was expecting a really epic live version because I really like that melody, but instead of playing the melody first, he soloed first and went a little overboard.

[PhilosopherOnWeed]

@diebydeath That's the beauty of a live performance, you don't have to do exactly what's on the record. You can showcase what you feel in the moment, specially with the music that Vai makes, wich is very expressive.

[diebydeath]

@PhilosopherOnWeed Improvisation is very good, and everyone can see that he's very expressive, but I personally would have played the melody first and then branched off. I know that that may be rather standard but it's part of the song and I like it when the solo is the solo and the melody is the melody.