Vai play Fripp

[yellowlght]

Fripp is very fast he just doesn't do Van Halen he does Mclaughlin

[valjean1ful]

Why 36 don't like this ????

[RicardCastro]

@valjean1ful y a des cons partout ^^

[Chillyfretlesswilly]

I wonder ho Vai looks when he's taking a massive shit!

[yuriha1977]

Matte Kudasai at The Cliffs of Dover?

[yuriha1977]

@yuriha1977 PS: boOoOoOoring !

[MultiPi3tro]

Vai play Zappa

[ThoughtThinkerTomas]

He's using Frippertronics! ha!



[redcatfive]

This is VAI, plain and simple...you could also say there's a taste of Hendrix in there at about 2 minutes...and you could say it moves directly into Fripp...but I think quibbling about it and sniping is a bit, er, outmoded...it's an amazing piece of guitar work no matter what it may or may not sound like.

[12mulatu]

Fripp is amazing, so unique and original. But so is Vai. He is stunning, if a bit of a ham. But he is amazing.

[Schneiderrst]

@matthewlesco and your face? sure yes :)

[worldcitizengrendel]

Steve Vai is a Monster, but Sir Fripp is GOD, capishi assholes?!

Well the hell is "Matte Kudasai" in here??!!

[visog]

Cool but this ain't KC or Fripp. Similar 11th and 13thy chords to Fripp and Zappa though.

[BUDDHAWELCH]

Fripp would play a triple neck, grow a brain you asshole. Fripp is GOD but needs a new drummer, Bill Bruford is GOD Jr.

[MasterYumyums]

Fripp would never be a huge enough asshole to have a triple-neck guitar. He's at least creative with his assholery.

Come on, when would that ever be necessary?

[namklak6]

Ain't Fripp. Is the bottom neck fretless?

[littletingoddess96]

@matthewlesco what? go die you condesending fuck!

[Viniciuslira0]

What a tribute. Vai really played it all seated!

[drds89]

Vai is awesome, but only Fripp can do Fripp, and this ain't Fripp.

[LoKimLinProject]

I think this is called fripp because he solos like fripp does on his solo albums and eno stuff.

[MrAdrianbelew]

This is terrible................

[vituraoy]

This is not "Madde kudesai."Nothing to to with Crimson.Some Adrian Belew influences for sure,but this is more like F. Zappas music at first. (long intro)

[vituraoy]

This is not "Matte Kudesai" Some Adrian Belew influences i can hear ,but this is a pure improvisation ,or perhaps it's composed.I don't Know. More i'ts like F. Zappa

than Crimson.

[mozo2112]

@matthewlesco

Very true. Saw him years ago. He was doing his weird Ian Anderson-with-a guitar-dance with a electric fan blowing his thinning locks in front of him.

[UnDead483]

Say what you like about Vai and Satch... Those two have a very healthy respect for Robert Fripp and look up to him as a musician and guitar player. As it should be. Fripp is the master of rock guitar, as long as they understand that, they're alright in my book.

[gurduloo]

His guitar is defective. It has two extra necks stuck to it.

[miniaciloops]

all good with vay but

anything of this performance solo guitar is FRIPP

very very diferent !!!!!! way

vay have one face for every note

robert play with many more right hand tecnique very clean and better

attention

satriani and robert is more near of music

vay is a good showman distorsion all time in guitar!

bored! let the music speak

[crazyedd123]

@miniaciloops fripp is left-handed so he has a more dominant left hand technique, i think it's clean because he has better fretting strength/control.

i have to admit, it's impressive how he can play those crazy licks on the discipline album so precisely

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@matthewlesco

Eminently so. It calls for blows from a shovel.

[TheHumfreegokart]

Impressing technique as always. But this has NOTHING to do with FRIPP.

[riskybusiness80]

ohh fucke offf

[MalquiLans]

Wot? This is not Fripp. Some people are so vague. It's actually Belew who plays fretless & in no way does it emulate "Matte Kudasai". It's a guy, I'm mean a Vai, playing guitar. Do you need more info than that to appreciate it?

[COSMICBUM]

Ya, when you the idea of Fripp into the picture I can really hear the influence in Steve's playing.

[maxinedal]

i think thats more belew tha fripp get it staight please

[dannopper]

I watched G3 with Fripp, It was clear to me that S. Vai respects Fripp a lot.

The good point of this video is to show to this new generation of "pseudo-musicians" who usualy thinks the faster the better or the hardest the better that, Seteeve Vai, one of the most respected guitar players, DO HAVE solid influences of good music.

Remember chidren: music is not racing.

[DavidKinner]

@dannopper Well Steve Vai did start out playing with one of the greatest composers that EVER lived! Frank Zappa!!! Same with Adrian Belew! Both believe had it not been for Zappa they wouldn't be anywhere near as great as they are today.

[aaszx1]

Boring like hell. Is it joke ? What a stupid playing it is.

[TheDancingSaxophone]

@aaszx1 You know what else is boring? The Beatles, Nirvana, Elvis Presley, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, Beethoven, and Pythagorus.

[etalorsvoila]

Many notes. No Matte, no Kudasai. Extremely boring in fact.

[johnscottartist]

frippin guitarge artois!

[benofoz]

Fripp makes music, this is noise.

[evelwmn]

@benofoz i think you gotta start usin some Q tips to clean the shit outta your ears

[DavePerry2012]

@dave422x I agree, I couldn't pick it out either but I haven't heard it in a while. This just sounded like Vai improv to me.

I did hear some Robert Fripp essence, though.

[MrLizardisle]

variations on MATTE KUDASAI, HEAVENLY MUSIC CORPORATION, perhaps a couple of other fripp-inspired stuff too, but most of it is the kind  one would expect from S. Vai...

[einemenge]

@matthewlesco seriously what a self indulgent deuche bag schmuck. No one is so good they need a guitar like that. If he were GREAT he would play a guitar with one string and do all of that.

[gormarx]

@einemenge ... and you'd know about being great because you read a lot about it, I suppose? Can't recall I ever saw your name among top guitarists.

[TheDancingSaxophone]

@einemenge Sorry to burst your bubble, but you can't play chords on one string. ;) hahaha.

[bishopdante]

@TheDancingSaxophone

Actually as it happens you can...

[TheDancingSaxophone]

@bishopdante You can get chord-like sounds with overtones, but not a chord, as in multiple notes played simultaneously.. right?

[bishopdante]

@TheDancingSaxophone

There's a lot of ways to go at chords off one string.

There's the overtones, but you can definitely have two or three distinct notes. Pinch harmonics, sounding both sides of the string, esp hammering the pick near the bridge, in-between or semi harmonics (where you get a bit of the root note ringing in). Then there's cheating pitch shifter pedal. And *then* there's exciting the string with an electromagnetic signal (feedback or mod-job electronics).

[sircharliesavior]

the fretless part and tapping at the end was amazing.

[extopiastudios]

there's no frippertronics in it...

but MAYBE some of the choices do sound like '80's Crim...

[MikeyRGuitar]

funny how a NIN song with 3 chords is more enjoyable

[zirelon]

The title is right.

Vai is playing his personal version of Matte Kudasai.

Go listen to King Crimson rednecks.

Clean up your ears.

[murcuryvapor]

@zirelon Actually, it's closer to 'Outside Now' from Joe's Garage.



[miniaciloops]

@zirelon nothing near of mate kudasay ja!

[westprice]

@zirelon king crimson redneck? isn't that a contradiction of terms? maybe they are like me and prefer to listen to the hard rocking 1974 king crimson over fripp's wanking.

[zirelon]

@westprice rednecks was referred to them who didn't understand that the song is Matte Kudasai, from Discipline.

[amadeogui]

@zirelon no estoy de acuerdo con lo que decís, las canciones tienen estructuras bien diferentes

[Stoner075]

@RicardCastro Which is why you answer him. HAHAHAHAH. BLESS YOU ALL DUDES.

[hojima]

Evidence that a single guitar can't sustain a concert.

[marcellduchamp]

@RicardCastro I agree. Vai learned everything from listening to Fripp, Belew, & Zappa . . . so maybe it should be titled "Half-Assed Derivation" ?

[shaman5150gmailcom]

¿Vai Fripp?. Hmmmm....Lo único claro es que en G3 en el tema Red, el maestro Vai cabeceó mojones.

[jamesha175]

dude make sure to suck your cheeks in while pouting your lips in order to prove how awesome you are.

[Chacoop]

@jamesha175 I guess you've never experienced someone making "guitar faces."

[jamesha175]

@Chacoop i make guitar faces all the time but i am not awesome like he is

[comokeno]

vai play fripp, hahaha.... well both are great guitar players, but styles are very very diferent.

[safetheory]

Maybe its a tribute to Fripp the man, not an imitation of his playing.

[robbiebenidorm]

any one who knows anything will know ,this is straight from the frank zappa school of modle playing .{this is the cental scutinizer again}

[CraftyGtrist]

Joss he wasnt playing with an Ebow, the bottom neck of the guitar was frettless... that with the sustain used could make you think that... Awesome player, and yes the 2 (Fripp and Vai) are from two different worlds with only 6 strings in common... and this sounds nothing like Fripp.

[jossbsure]

@CraftyGtrist , I'm aware that Vai doesn't play with an Ebow, (my guess is that he probably has a Sustaniac pick-up placed in this guitar), just that anything that sounds like this would be labeled "frippesque" by Mr. R.Castro.

[CraftyGtrist]

Joss he wasnt playing with an Ebow, the bottom neck of the guitar was frettless... that with the sustain used could make you think that... Awesome player, and yes the 2 (Fripp and Vai) are from two different worlds with only 6 strings in common.

[videocanone]

Great solo ! but I agree, not a relevant title.

[gip13g]

This is one of the best things I have ever heard.

[MrNux2You]

This shows how good Fripp is. Vai is impressive, and does something here outside the norm to strive for the sheer audacity of what music can be, by rightly imitating Fripp. Yet this attempt falls significantly short of Fripp's music, because he seems to be pursuing the audacity rather than the music itself. If only he sought out the music rather than strut, only then does the real audacity come alive.

[somewhere6]

The fretless soundscape was interesting although brief. The rest just sounded like cut and paste Vai without coherence or theme.

[darrenedesignedu]

once fripp farted and vai came out. he politely excused himself from the room, wiped, levitated and immediately moved on.

[Buggusmac]

@darrenedesignedu LOL!!

[meginis8]

Steve Vai is such a faggot, I'd like to punch those ridiculous glasses off his dumb ass face, and break all three necks off that ugly guitar.

[andsalomoni]

It's more like "Vai play Zappa".

[erflaz]

50 anni per scoprire il modo lidio,alla buon ora...

[mchampag]

I'm sorry, but that guitar has nowhere near enough necks.

[eyebelevi]

You're all too harsh on Steve, they're two completely different style guitarists. Also I don't think that this is a cover song, maybe it's just titled incorrectly and is supposed to sound like a typical "Vai" song.

[saturno32]

no fripp here

[vidgamer77]

I know I will be flamed for this but...what the hell is this garbage? Are people impressed by his face or something? Mediocrity at most, there is no melody here, nonsensical notes streaming together, this guy just plays like a teenager messing with scales or something. True talent is in the choice of notes/melody/feeling...sure he is fast, talented in a purely technical sense, but that this impresses people so much is boggling...please check out Andy Latimer, Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips

[rosskolnikov]

Frippertronics was an analog tape-based format, which is definitely NOT what Vai is doing here. This is closer to what Fripp now calls "Soundscapes" which he does with digital delays. But as mentioned earlier, Vai's version of the concept is more soloing over a previous loop. That's very different from what Fripp does, which is adding many more layers and not always doing much in the way of linear playing over the top.

[primachemichiami]

Non male, ma proprio un'altra cosa!

[robertanswerman]

How many people can play as 'fast' as Vai? But Fripp is in a different category. There is more than mere 'speed' to being the master...eh?

[ps3quinn]

@robertanswerman I agree

[GuitarKylePlays]

I wonder if Steve Vai can play a twelve string likes it's supposed to be..

[theo9952]

how about a fourth guitar neck ?

just joking,  Vai is one of the greats.

[Lyktwz]

@theo9952 Rick Nielsen, from Cheap Trick, has a four neck guitar. 

[theo9952]

@Lyktwz really ?  it must weigh a ton !

[Lyktwz]

@theo9952 Oops! and five neck too!

Look for a picture in google

[theo9952]

@Lyktwz yeah, i saw it. Ugly and ridiculous... even the fourth from the top, neck, is way too low placed, to be comfortable enough to play, as for the bottom neck, it would be nearly impossible to use for serious playing.

i've also seen someone with a ...6 neck guitar, the bottom neck 20cm from the floor ! And a picture of a ...12 neck (!!!) stratocaster !!! oh, it's such bullshit !

[theo9952]

@madekri i  thought so myself, but there is some certain resemblance in the begining.

[mikol58]

fantastic fripp-lica!

[astrosteve]

The guitar made me think of Spinal Tap, but after I got done laughing at that, I found the music to be quite good. Nothing particularly new or groundbreaking, but it's still good. I like it.

[biusKOCH]

This does not sound like Fripp and the music is trivial... ))-:

[NoGoats]

well, this is Vai, not Fripp....you shouldnt expect him to be Fripp.

But Vai uses the frettless guitar to improvise on one moment...thats why it sounds like Fripp.

The glissandos is the answer.

But Fripp uses a fretted guitar, the only thing he does is to use baby powder..or something like that, on his hands to get the glissandos right

[Rembeece]

Where would he be without his effects???? and faces. The fretless guitaring is hurting my ears...I think he almost gets the note at ONE point....

[thecrimsonking546]

frippertronics at work

[damphear2]

funny part is holdsworth and fripp put this fag to shame any day

[pOzz75]

steve=noob,

robert=pro

[coreyagraph]

he uses the top/bottom as drone/sympathic strings ala j.mac

with his shakti guitar

[Adyoz]

simply horrible; inept both for creativity and emotions, also, it has nothing to do with Fripp.

[talkingwall]

emotive. this has to do with one's own emotions. it doesn't mean something sounds like Fripp or is related to Fripp. In this case, it meant that the emotional response for this particular listener was similar. The person who posted this thought Matte Kudasai Lucky Poster. For me, PORTIONS of it raised emotions similar to Fripp's Sheltering Sky solo. It also is emotive of Zappa's Inca Roads solo (for me). Lucky me. For you, it was horrible and inept. Too bad for you.

[Adyoz]

@talkingwall It's association, not connotation, but this shallow soulless wanking off is still named 'Vai play Fripp'. I consider myself to be incredibly lucky to be not even able to listen to this for more than twenty seconds; I can listen to Sheltering sky or Inca Roads ten times in a row, and still get surprised and moved; for me, this video is empty.

[talkingwall]

@talkingwall I must say that I do not own a single Steve Vai recording it may even be the first thing I've heard by Steve Vai. I know little about him. For your taste buds, the wine is sour and bitter. For mine it is unfamiliar, mostly boring and similar to the hundreds of clarets I've tasted... but then there is that small hint of something I love.

[percydrums]

que l es puedo decir es un maestro que venga a lima asi como satriani vino

[donpancho321]

ESto es vai y punto no fripp en ningun momento

[talkingwall]

bits of this remind me of Fripp's solo on The Sheltering Sky, certainly it is emotive of that piece of music. Very beautiful.

[luburoi]

This is definitely not Fripp-style.

[FerranK68]

Vai is excellent... but Fripp is a genius

[Trapodactylus]

Somehow it makes me think of, hmm, steroids?

[BucksStudent]

Fripp would play with the neck pickup and tone down. I've never been much of a Vai fan, as he seems very dry in terms of emotion and creativity.

[Asymmatrix]

2:13 - 2:24, Frippish slide/ sustain, followed by a weird Belewish sound. I agree w/ the Matte Kudasai comment, though yeah doubt he was doing it on purpose. And of course Frank is all over it. But then so is Vai.

[RonansRecordingShow]

The Fripp part is that Vai references King Crimson's "matte kudasai" a few times in the improv.

I was on the G3 tour working with Robert Fripp, and there was great mutual admiration between Fripp and Via. Vai (and Keneally at the time) were amazing. I would watch their set every night and never tired of it.

[Unus1Mundus]

This is not a reference to Matte Kudasai, this is just Vai unoriginally doing Frippertronics and Soundscapes. And I don't think this is a tribute to Fripp, he's just copying Fripp!

[theo9952]

i can't hear anything about his playing that would sound like Fripp really. It does sound like variations  on matte kudasai, but more like adrian belew, rather, than R. Fripp.

[cutiespankie]

I think this video's title is a bit uninspired...

I watch it all waiting for some "Fracture" or schizoid man solo excerpt :)) ... and there's nothing like that!

The only part that somehow reminds me of Fripp (frippertronics, better said) is the short part that Vai's device memorizes and then plays over and over (in a loop).

Other than this, this is pure Vai in my opinion, nothing to do with Robert Fripp!

[florgat91]

why not have a couple more necks open-tuned that he can bang with his feet ?

[tobycat11]

@florgat91 Now that would be a, erm, feat!

[chaosIsTheOnlyPower]

omigod - Nigel Tufnel looks so much better with those spiffy new blue glasses. And he got an extra neck for his guitar.

Nige is the MAN!

What? Oh. That's not Nigel? And this video isn't a joke?

opps. my bad.

[borzas]

This seems to be inspired by some of Fripp's works with Brian Eno. The very first piece of music that I kinda like by Vai. :D

[arundel213]

cant think why fripp would want to share a stage with these 3rd rate hendrix wannabes? fripp was,is and always will be light years ahead of hendrix and all these fretboard wankers-sorry,cant think how else to describe them!

[Crosso979]

Actually i find it quite moving to see Fripp "Satch"and him share the same stage (whatever one may think of Vai's playing here )

[BlaDrago]

LOL!!!

Vai... Compared to the originals Frippertronics ou soundscapes, this is only some big shit...

[timi0000]

This sounds very uninspired to me

[dantean]

I can't quite understand how one can find music inspired by someone else uninspired. This seems a logical contradiction to me. Whether you like his playing or the composition itself or whathaveyou is another story, but it seems that if it's inspired by Fripp's "Frippertronics" work it is by definition "inspired" (which is not to say that you or I or anyone else is obligated to enjoy it).

[chromakey84]

no it is not fripps song, its a stupid loop station that is kinda like frppertronics or whatever, the song name is I know your here or something like that, ou can find vais full version w/vocals

[podiumzweet]

perhaps it's called "Fripp"because he is using Fripp's techniques, "frippertronics"?

[mashcot]

@podiumzweet

Frippertronics was more of a musical concept than a simple matter of device or technique. Vai simply plays on a loop, nothing exclusively "frippish". However, the way he plays the fretless neck along with the sustainer did remind me some Fripp's solos. But the rest is pure Vai, imho.

[SkummelMaske]

Isn't this "I Know You're Here" from G3 in Denver?

[pyroseed13]

I'm not positive, but I think the name of this song is "Fripp" and it's a dedication to the master himself.

[towelboy12]

trying to figure out what fripp/belew song this is. anyone know?

[theo9952]

it doesn't sound to me like anything  that fripp or belew have ever played.

[ELP71]

yeah Adrian Belew era stuff

[nineinchfeetnails]

is this a Fripp's song??!