The two guitar gods then jammed together for the song “The Riddle”. Joe Satriani appeared on the screen live (wink wink) and congratulated Steve on the 25th anniversary of the album. Steve’s tone and mastery of the guitar is amazing. The man certainly becomes one with his guitar. The visuals on the screen were quite interesting, but I’m sure the guitar players in the audience had their eyes on Steve the entire evening, trying to figure out “how’d he do that” on all those great solo albums he’s released over the years. A video clip on the screen above has Brian May, one of Steve’s “all-time guitar heroes,” introduce “the master of the Space guitar” at a concert in Seville, Spain where they played the first track “Liberty”. Steve once summed up the album as “Jesus Christ meets Jimi Hendrix at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc.”Īfter four songs, the band starts playing the whole album in it’s entirety. He never did a tour for the album, telling us how he waited for “the right time (now), the right place (here) and the right band (this one).” He explained to the audience how he started working on the album Passion and Warfare 30 years ago and released it in 1990. (l-r) Dave Weiner, Jeremy Colson and Philip Bynoe. Steve and his virtuoso band of musicians. 26, 1997 in Vancouver at the Plaza of Nations for the G3 concert with Joe Satriani and Kenny Wayne Sheppard (Robert Fripp opened the outdoor show and Mike Keneally was also there). I was there in the 14th row on the floor. The last time Steve Vai played Winnipeg was Jwith Whitesnake at the Winnipeg Arena.
Looks like no one wants to miss even one note.
It looks like some weird type of transformation is taking place with both the space axe man and his audience.Īfter the first song, I look around in my amazement at the flabbergasted audience. I didn’t see many people leave their seats the entire evening. He seems to be taking us with him as he fully absorbs himself into his guitar. He’s playing “Bad Horsie” and it appears that this horse has come from hell (in a good way, this horse of course). Immediately he starts wrenching sounds out of his guitar like no one else can. The two hour and 20 minute journey has begun. The film clip ends and the lights go up only slightly. In the darkness of the theatre, four figures take to the stage, the hooded fellow at centre stage is wearing illuminated sunglasses, his guitar is also lit up.
DOUG KRETCHMERĭuring the famous guitar duel scene in the movie, a deal is being made with the devil.
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