Taken from a two hour and 40 minute sold out show recorded at The State theatre in Minneapolis, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is yet another live showcase of meticulously mapped Steve Vai compositions. Much of the material is new, and tested out in front of an unfamiliar but eager audience, with Vai exercising his chops to the limits.

It's a chance for him to bust out every trick in the book: blazing through ridiculously difficult scales, double hand-tapping extravaganzas (where he plays the guitar like a piano), and sick string bends and whammy bombs to the point where his custom Jem neck should be left, imaginably, in the same shape as the rubbery guitar on the cover of FLEXABLE.

The listening experience is more geared towards frequent guitar clinic attendees than someone seeking background music for a day drive. It's the kind of stuff that deserves full concentration, and while most will furrow their brows while focusing on the guitar pyrotechnics, the rest of the instrumentalists are tightly locked and highly ambitious in their own right.

Touring for the first time as a collective, violinists/keyboardists Ann Marie Calhoun and Alex Depoe join Vai, along with bassist Bryan Beller, drummer Jeremy Colson and guitarist/sitarist Dave Weiner. The virtuostic tendencies run high, the musicianship is incredible, and as a whole, the group sounds more like one of Frank Zappa's stage bands than, say, David Lee Roth's.

Recording information: The State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN (09/19/2007).


  Steve Vai - Live At The Astoria DVD
  by Steve Vai
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This DVD concert video was recorde while on tour in 2001, supporting his "Alive in the Ultra World" release. Recorded in 5.1 surround sound mix, the DVD features backstage footage, interviews, a complete discography and commentary track from steve and his superstar bnad, including Billy Sheehan, Virgil Donati, Tony MacAlpine and Dave Weiner. Some of the songs featured in the 2 1/2 hour concert are being performed live for the very first time. Steve Vai is a world-renowned virtuoso guitarist, captured here at the London Astoria on December 6 and 7th, 2001.

With a tight band backing him, Vai lets loose with some awesome fretboard action, some of which will leave guitar aficionados gobsmacked. Two Hendrix songs are covered ("Fire," and "Little Wing") as well as some original songs including "Shy Boy," "Blue Powder," "For The Love of God," "The Attitude Song," and many more.

  G3 - Live In Concert DVD
  by Steve Vai
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This 75 minute DVD features 3 great guitaristss: Joe Satri ani, Eric Johnson, & Steve Vai playing separately & together. The material was filmed during G3's 1996 tour at the Nor throp Auditorium, Minneapolis. Songs include Cool #9, M anhattan, Answers, more. Three of the world's most influential Rock Instrumental guitarists, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson-- joined forces in the fall of 1996 as "G3" for an U.S. tour.

Each performing their own set of classics such as "Summer Song," blues standard "Red House," the program culminates with an all-out Jam session featuring all three guitarists to cover "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," and more. Hide Description

  Alive In An Ultra World CD
  by Steve Vai
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"Whispering A Prayer" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Steve Vai is nothing if not a highly ambitious guitar virtuoso. ALIVE IN AN ULTRA WORLD is a unique live album in that it is wholly composed of special songs written specifically for (and dedicated to) 15 nations along THE ULTRA ZONE 2000 tour trail. Each song e ither employs traditional music elements of the subject country or pays homage to them through the lyrics. It is interesting to note that many of these songs came together during soundchecks in as little as 15 minutes.

As Vai is well-versed in an eclectic range of music styles, the songs on this two-disc set are stylistically diverse. The tracks with vocals reflect the flavor of traditional folk anthems, and the instrumentals are rife with various scales, customary instrumentation, and of course, Vai's inimitable guitar technique.

Personnel: Steve Vai (vocals, guitar); Dave Weiner (acoustic & electric guitars, sitar); Mike Keneally (spoken vocals, guitar, keyboards); Philip Bynoe (spoken vocals, bass); John Pustai (spoken vocals); Scott Palacios, Bob Carpenter (accordion); Eric Goldberg (keyboards); Mike Mangini, Chris Frazier (drums).

ALIVE IN AN ULTRA WORLD was composed and recorded at concerts in various countries, reflecting elements of the traditional music of the cultures in which they were recorded.


  Elusive Light And Sound Vol. 1 CD
  by Steve Vai
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Coll. Of Film Music,Taken From The LTD.Ed. Box Set
Personnel includes: Steve Vai (vocals, various instruments, guitar); Shuggie Otis (guitar); Ry Cooder (slide guitar); ...

Full DescriptionSonny Terry (harmonica); CJ Vanston, Michael Keneally (keyboards); Bryan Beller, Jorge Calderon (bass); Chris Frazier, Robin Dimmagio, Jim Celtner (drums).

Recorded between 1972 & 2002. Includes liner notes by Steve Vai.





  Passion & Warfare CD
  by Steve Vai
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The one and only Satriani-taught and Zappa-tested virtuoso, Steve Vai, returns with his self-produced 1990 release, PASSION AND WARFARE. The album was inspired by sequential dream patterns Vai experienced earlier in his life, and results in one technically electrifying ride filled with vivid mysticism and groovy instrumental imagery. The album was recorded in his home studio, the Mothership, and released on Relativity/Epic Records. Vai says it best when he characterizes this album as "Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc." Recorded at The Mothership.

Personnel: Steve Vai (various instruments), Nancy Fagen, Jamie Firlotte (vocals); David Rosenthal, Bob Harris, Pia Vai (keyboards, background vocals), Stuart Hamm (bass), Tris Imboden, Chris Frazier (drums); Pascal Fillet, David Coverdale, Laurel Fishman, Lillian Vai, Pam Vai, Joel Kaith, Corky Tanassy, Jamie Kornberg, Lauren Kornberg, Rudy Sarzo, Adrian Vandenberg, Corinne Larue, Famin', Darla Albright, Laura Gross, Rupert Henry, Bob Harris, Suzanna Harris, Julian Vai (background vocals).


  Steve Vai - Visual Sound Theories: Live With The Holland Metropole Orkest DVD
  by Holland Metropole Orkest / Steve Vai
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This DVD consists of orchestral music and other rich compositional pieces that Steve has written. Vai was commissioned to compose an hour of music for the Metropole Orkest in Holland but ended up putting together an exceptional 2 hours of quality work.

The DVD includes 15 tracks plus orchestra only performance, behind the scenes featurette, interview at De Oosterpoort with Vai, and additional performance. These 2004 and 2005 live performances highlight the collaboration between instrumental guitar composer Steve Vai and the Metropole Orkest from Holland. Vai's trademark rock guitar creations are enriched by the accompaniment of a full orchestra, directed by conductor Dick Bakker.

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