Does Steve Vai play lesbian djent these days?

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Does Steve Vai play lesbian djent these days?

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Watching the story of light live from Nokia


Maybe not djent but guitar based dubstep complete with breakdowns??



Then angry lesbian singer and lesbian keyboardist.


It's all good and really not surprising. Actually, the dubstep drops were kinda interesting.





Also, he plays with an Led costume complete with light up helmet. Loop was beat to the punch
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:lol:

I haven't followed Vai's career since the 90's so I don't know what he's up to these days. I will try to watch this video later though, it sounds at least hmm.... interesting :lol:
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I haven't seen the story of light but his "where the wild things are" dvd is pretty fucking amazing
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Given that it's Vai and not my style at all, I will say its rocking and he does what he does better than anyone else!



I hate the tones he gets. He had 2 legacys, a mini legacy and a rack of AxeFX's.

I've heard better, less processed, tone for this style of shred.


Anyway, some of the dubstep like drops were coolz
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His tone has always been pretty average IMO. His cleans are horrendous. Like he plugged directly into the PA...
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Yeah live tone was never Vai's biggest strength. He has some good recorded tones on Alien Love Secrets though. I really love Bad Horsie and Die to Live.
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Die to Live is goddamn amazing, both in tone and phrasing. Awesome song
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Literally pretty much ROFL at the idea of "lesbian djent" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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GuitarBilly wrote:Yeah live tone was never Vai's biggest strength. He has some good recorded tones on Alien Love Secrets though. I really love Bad Horsie and Die to Live.



Alien love secrets is good for what it is. It's that tone that isn't for my style at all but I can appreciate it's the best for his style. This live show was particularly... processed.
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Ron Burgundy wrote:Watching the story of light live from Nokia


Maybe not djent but guitar based dubstep complete with breakdowns??



Then angry lesbian singer and lesbian keyboardist.


It's all good and really not surprising. Actually, the dubstep drops were kinda interesting.





Also, he plays with an Led costume complete with light up helmet. Loop was beat to the punch



He didn't beat me to the punch.

He inspired me.


I want to be him.
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Fair enough :lol:



You were the first one I thought of when he came out with lazer gloves!
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Ron Burgundy wrote:Fair enough :lol:



You were the first one I thought of when he came out with lazer gloves!



Those gloves are awesome. I have one!!!
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I went to a Zappa concert in the early 80's and just out of nowwhere this kid plays this little 30 second burst of awesomness and I was like "Whoa, who the fark was that!?!?". I think he sounds great, but apparently I know nothing.
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Last I heard he started a mowing service

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Telephant wrote:His tone has always been pretty average IMO. His cleans are horrendous. Like he plugged directly into the PA...


His clean tones are some of the worst I've ever heard. How can you play so well and be so tone deaf?
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paul88lx wrote:
Telephant wrote:His tone has always been pretty average IMO. His cleans are horrendous. Like he plugged directly into the PA...


His clean tones are some of the worst I've ever heard. How can you play so well and be so tone deaf?

This. I'll take it a step further and say Eric Johnson's cleans are insanely weak for using two blackface Twins. Its like he eq's all low end out of them and makes it purposely sound like direct to the board 80's cleans. His distorted tones however are brilliant.
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On the flipside of weak cleans, check out some of Richard Thompsons stuff. His dry, out of phase strat tone is so expressive. It's so simple it boggles my mind. It sounds pretty much like Strat>Cable>Fender Amp.

And he can make you cry with it.
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paul88lx wrote:
Telephant wrote:His tone has always been pretty average IMO. His cleans are horrendous. Like he plugged directly into the PA...


His clean tones are some of the worst I've ever heard. How can you play so well and be so tone deaf?


Well I can't imagine that you would loose a few frequecies of your hearing after playing loud music onstage for ~30 years :idk: :freak:
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I really havent been into him much after he left David Lee Roth.
Great player for sure though.
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