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Date Posted: 16:22:48 12/25/02 Wed
Author: Hog Wash
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 63.119.217.5
Subject: Re: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
In reply to: Jason Morris 's message, "Re: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani" on 10:48:33 12/22/02 Sun

Thanks for your responses. I find Vai somewhat immature sometimes, having always prefered more substanive musical expression and tones over tricks and mere weird sounds. At the same time, though, I like a lot of his more serious work, especially Passion and Warfare. I like Satriani, but not so much that I think that he some sort of preeminent god of muisc, as the Guitar mags paint him (or them, for that matter). The little I know of Petrruci has failed to move me to dive into his music further, at least for now. Now, I'll tell you someone who I think is amazing on a par beyond them is Greg Howe, who seems to be among a musical elite who have transcended instumental guitardom with more diverse, fuisony albums, although I also loved his thundrously rocking debut album.
>My main concern about those two is that the whole G3
>thing is about "instrumental rock" as if it were an
>entirely separate thing from fusion, especially now
>John Petrucci is onboard. I dug them years ago, when
>learning, but now I have discovered more jazzy
>players, their stuff seems somewhat primative to me -
>they both seem to have ignored the jazz potential to
>develop their music and have painted themselves into a
>creative dead-end (albeit a commercial one). It does
>irk me when people say Satriani and Vai are so great,
>I feel like saying "Go buy some Holdsworth, now THAT
>is great - way beyond what Satch & Vai are doing". For
>me, a player who does the instrumental rock thing
>better than the pair of them is Andy Timmons, but he
>hasn't ignored jazz in his brand of instrumental rock,
>and it makes a BIG difference. As for a lot of Vai, I
>don't hear any blues, either, which is pretty poor -
>mind you I still quite like Eat Em & Smile.

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