Vai- Alcatraz

JohnnyGtar said:
Unpopular opinion maybe, but I always thought of Alcatraz as a second-string band that had 2 amazing guitar players. I bought the live album with Yngwie on it when it was released, back when I was a road musician in my early 20's. When I played the cassette for our guitarist, he said of Yngwie "He kicks Van Halen's ass". I can't stand Bonnet's voice. Fucking caterwauling IMO. Same goes for Glen Hughes and Ray Gillen. Blecch.
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You know . I felt that way too when younger but grew to appreciate vanilla singers . I think miles Kennedy is today’s version of them . Just vanilla . It’s good . But idk . But I know how you feel
 
espquade said:
That is an excellent one as well and certainly would be in my top 3 from him. I also really like Fire Garden , but it took me a long time to really absorb and get into it.
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Fire garden is my second fav . I used to acid and listen to it . It was an adventure . Fuck I need some shrooms now
 
I didn’t discover Vai until he was touring for Fire Garden on the first G3 run, it was the first Vai album I bought and while ALS is probably my favorite batch of songs in one collection from him, Fire Garden will probably always be peak Vai for me. P&W sounds more like a statement he really wanted to make but FG is more like “This is what I do when I’m not playing into the whole guitar wizard thing” and I think it goes much further into showing his songwriting than focusing on the playing.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I didn’t discover Vai until he was touring for Fire Garden on the first G3 run, it was the first Vai album I bought and while ALS is probably my favorite batch of songs in one collection from him, Fire Garden will probably always be peak Vai for me. P&W sounds more like a statement he really wanted to make but FG is more like “This is what I do when I’m not playing into the whole guitar wizard thing” and I think it goes much further into showing his songwriting than focusing on the playing.
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Not to mention it also has "When I was a Little Boy" which might be the single greatest song ever written
 
I loved that Alcatrazz/Vai album, I like it much better than his work with DLR or his solo work. I remember buying concert tickets to see them at Santa Monica Civic only to find out it was canceled when arriving, the other band on the bill was Uli Roth! Funny thing is around 15 years ago I auditioned for Graham Bonnet he only sang a little at the audition but got to play Alcatrazz Vai and Malmsteen songs, Schenker and some Rainbow songs with him..
 
Stradazone said:
I loved that Alcatrazz/Vai album, I like it much better than his work with DLR or his solo work. I remember buying concert tickets to see them at Santa Monica Civic only to find out it was canceled when arriving, the other band on the bill was Uli Roth! Funny thing is around 15 years ago I auditioned for Graham Bonnet he only sang a little at the audition but got to play Alcatrazz Vai and Malmsteen songs, Schenker and some Rainbow songs with him..
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Don't tell Dave! :p
 
If you listen to that track in the original post, the lead tones have no discernable 'grit' to the distortion - even with the bridge humbucker. They sound totally clean - but with tons of glassy compression. That seems to be his sound on virtually all of his recordings. Anyone know how he gets that signature 'no distortion distortion' lead sound???
 
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