Steve Vai's first concert with Alcatrazz: Suffer Me

Another one from this infamous concert!!! Nobody in the crowd knew that Yngwie had left the band and some fuckers started to insult Steve! This is a great concert with a great Steve (only two days to learn the songs) and an incredible Graham Bonnet in a great shape! The " you suck " at 1:04 by some idiot is really funny . Sorry for the last seconds...They're part of another concert with Steve in Japan! I'll put it online soon.

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• Alcatrazz
• Steve
• Vai
• Graham
• Bonnet
• Michael
• Schenker
• Rainbow
• Blackmore
• Impellitteri

[rideon77]

I don't understand so Much this Steve vs Yngwie thing, c'mo...they're both icons, let's talk about the Graham's super-human performance...a mix of power, soul, and melody...This guy had an unique voice...the most incredible voice I've ever heard in my life

[TimmieTunes]

Both Vai and Malmsteen are masters but I think Vai is more versatile.

[SuperGuitarZone]

If steve had blonde hair he wold look like ken from street fighter

[funkster007]

@kidsTeachGuitar2kids I hear ya man. I got into Vai a bit later too..... probably more so with Passion and Warfare than the DLR stuff. We're definitely from the same generation.

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@funkster007 You are exactly right. I was a 16 year old metal kid at the time and the one thing that I knew about Frank Zappa was that his daughter sang "Valley Girl". I became a fan of Vai later on through his work with DLR and as a solo artist. I waz working at McDonalds for $3.35 an hour while going to high school, so it was just a shock that we had spent time, gas, and money to go see Yngwie and out comes someone else in his place that we had never heard of before.

[funkster007]

@kidsTeachGuitar2kids Most people didn't even know who Vai was back then, unless they were Zappa fans. Ironically I saw Yngwie open for Triumph about a year after this and he wasn't exactly welcomed either. He got verbally massacred for having technical problems plus pelted with beer cups. You could hear a guy toward the front yell "Go back to Sweden you f**k!" Yngwie heard it and just chuckled. At least he had a good attitude. lol

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

I was at this concert and we totally had expected Yngwie. Was it the Pomona Valley Auditorium? We were really mad and felt ripped off during the first song. We were 16 years old and I think it was one of my friends that yelled the loud "You Suck" during the quiet part of the song. Unfortunately, it got worse with people throwing pennies at Vai and calling him hateful racist names. I then realized that we were there to see and hear music and that people needed to calm down and quit acting dumb.

[GitarStu]

@AetroyayorteA LOL!!! Thats the funniest post I've read in a while!

[AetroyayorteA]

non musicians have no clue, they have no idea that there are entire networks of guitar swap assholes that make bootlegs and barter licks, it used to be via Varney and Shrapnel records contacts. There are many victims of this bullshit that have had their style, licks, riffs, songs ripped off by assholes like Vai etc... and never get credit for their own shit. Vai took lessons, and studied... but I'd still say 99% of his so called style is somebody else's shit. Paul Gilbert is another massive con.

[AetroyayorteA]

Vai is a punk, ripped off many of my licks via bootlegs, even copied my guitar paint job for his Jem bullshit guitarist, basically this is what he really sounds like, crap. Take away the wah pedal, harmonizer and you get this crap. I still have my original black Aria guitar that i painted with fluorescent yellow, pink and green paint, i painted the pickups too and the headstock, long before he copied it. Wind machines for his Farah Faucet poses etc, he's a punk, chump.

[Neurontis]

Guy's gotta make a living.

[TheJamescastle]

@PowerGuitar i imagine vai playing mariachi O.=