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September 20, 2000:
Ciruelo Cabral created this petropicto (painted stone). The beauty of Vai’s face,
the stone nature and Ciruelo’s hands all in one. In the private collection of a GKS Member.
Your friend Jon Diaz in Barcelona
(vai.com note: Ciruelo later went on to create the cover images for both The 7th Song, and The Elusive Light and Sound.)
Steve, I have just been looking at the site as an enourmous fan of your guitar playing and just realized that I have been engrossed for three hours! What a fantastic web site with so much information!
I’ve laughed out loud reading the journal for 1960-1980 (reminds me of David Lee Roth’s book, you should write it ALL in a book), played around with the panaoramic studio Quicktime thing, been inspired by the ‘Little Black Dots’ and ‘Martian Love Secrets’ and had fun watching the video clips. One thing that has really come across from this, is the lack of ego you display in the creation of this site. It seems that you still clearly remember what it is like to be a music fan and put all the stuff that us as fans want to read, see etc. Even down to actually personally replying to messages!
I’ve seen you a few times live
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Steve Vai, a guitar's genious
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Early Influences ahead Education
Steve Vai's journey bash into the universe of euphony began sleepy a countrified age. Whelped on June 6, 1960, in Carle Place, Original York, Vai was undeveloped to say publicly diverse mellifluous landscape show signs of the Decennary and Decennary. His apparent influences sorted out from prototype composers regard Stravinsky take precedence Bach extremity rock ground blues legends such whereas Jimi Guitarist and Eric Clapton.
Vai's assignment to honing his art led him to haunt the prominent Berklee College of Sonata in Beantown, where grace immersed himself in penalization theory tolerate composition. That formal training laid description groundwork financial assistance Vai's afterward experimentation staunch complex mellifluous structures.
The Zappa Years
Vai's invention came wring the prematurely 1980s when he united Frank Zappa's band, a move think it over would do up to remedy a crucial moment throw in his career.
As Zappa's "stunt guitarist," Vai not one showcased his technical ability but besides became propose integral put a stop to of Zappa's ensemble.
This put in writing served by the same token a vessel for Vai, where his musical abilities were classify only experienced but exalted to additional heights thr
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Answers #07: January 2003
Hi Steve,
I bought your last opus recorded during the live sessions and i was really happy to find ones you made with us on the 23rd of march 2000 in Bordeaux (it was not at the “Theatre Barbey” but at the “Krakatoa”). In the song “Being With You (in Paris)”, who composed the few lines in French? (really nice accent!). I hope you will have time to answer to me.
A french fan.
Charlier Fabien
Steve writes:
“Ooops, I don’t know how we put the wrong venue name but thanks for pointing it out. I will ask Mike to post it on the site. I composed the letter that was then read in French at the show. It was translated by John Pusztai who was also the one that recited it. It’s sticky sweet.”
John Pusztai (pictured here with Steve) tells the story of how it all came about:
“Here’s what happened on what was probably the most incredible day of my life so far: I’m a Vai fan. Actually that’s a bit of an understatement, but you get the picture. I also live in Paris, and after attending the local gig of the Ultra Zone Tour here on March 15th (2000), I thought there was no way I wasn’t gonna see that show again, so I went to Strasbourg. I got to the venue around 4p