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hoever it is, it’s good. First you hear octaves
of that bluesy, Fender sound and you think
Stevie Ray (Vaughan). It isn’t because it’s so
wet. Stevie is drier and more in-your-face. Then it
was a bit updated in the sense of the vibrato and
stuff. It could have been Gary Moore. It’s not. Slowly it
started classic, and then you get to – all of a sudden –
turn up the volume, turn up the distortion.
It’s Steve Vai.
Passion and Warfare killed me. He is a player to be reck-
oned with. Nobody has put out an instrumental album like
he did. Not since Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen) had a
guitar album floored me and kept my interest like Passion
and Warfare. I would say this song is what he does.
You know the old cliché that when you have something
you want something else. When you have dark hair you
wouldn’t mind trying to go blonde because you’ve always
had black hair. You know it probably looks better black,
but you still want it. That’s sort of like Steve Vai.
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