Steve Vai and Legacy Recordings are commemorating the 25th anniversary of "Passion And Warfare" with a special 2CD edition of the album which includes the first-ever release of Vai's "Modern Primitive" songs and recordings. Passion and Warfare is a classic of the guitar Overall, I'd give this a high three stars since it isn't prog and it fails to move me like Real Illusions or The Ultra Zone, but you will be astounded by his prowess nonetheless.Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Steve Vai's "Modern Primitive / Passion And Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition", a celebratory 2CD collection of classic tracks and previously unreleased music, on Friday, June 24.
His latest album, Real Illusions, is far better compositionally. However, the songs don't stick with you as much as Vai's later work, with the exception of the amazing For the Love of God. To date, it is my favorite guitar song and it's routinely selected as Vai's best composition.īottom line, if you own a guitar, you probably have this album, and it's certainly a shredĬlassic. It mainly shows images of war as well as the Holocaust and some religious icons thrown in for good measure. The accompanying music video has a ton of images involving man's corruption of religion. It's emotional, jaw-dropping, and engrossing. The song is six minutes of six string heaven, as Vai runs through a slew of techniques I could not even begin to identify. When Steve wrote this, he fasted and meditated for ten days.
Every song is a fretboard workout, but nothing compares to the epic instrumental ballad For the Love of God. Erotic Nightmares, The Audience is Listening, and The Animal display both Vai's incredible technique and his sense of humor. The licks on this album are legendary and no guitar player should be without it. This is Vai's second rockiest album behind the heavily flawed Sex & Religion, and the emphasis is more on skill than music. Passion and Warfare is Vai's most well-known record and it, along with his tours with David Lee Roth, made him nearly a household name in the mid to late 80s. He mixed fret-scorching licks with actual compositional skills, giving him a broader appeal than strat abusers like Michael Angelo Batio. Steve Vai is the kind of shred guitarist that could actually be commercially successful.
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