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Crazy how influential Vai has been to me as a player throughout my journey.

I remember being really young, like too young to be doing what I am about to say, and I found a VHS called Alien Love Secrets.

I thought it was something for adults...

I put in the tape one night really late and hit play.

It was, in fact, NOT what I thought it was....

Then up on the screen comes the "Silver Man" I remembered seeing once some years before.

I never forgot the 'Silver Man' that I saw before - it was really trippy to me as a kid for some reason.

I was around 10(?)

Bad Horsie left such an imprint on my mind!

I also remember there was a VHS of SRV. All I could think and remember was that he had the largest nostrils I had possibly ever seen.

I always labeled SRV as "The Horse Man".

So, in that same memory bank, I have the 'Silver Man' playing his guitar like a Horsie and 'The Horse Man' playing his guitar.....with huge red nostrils - soaked in sweat.


As a kid I also thought - "That is what happens when you don't brush your teeth."

It would be some years later that I would come to appreciate SRV lol
 
i always wondered if he actually carried the guitar anywhere by that handle?

He’s definitely swung the guitars around the stage with them a whole bunch.

first time i saw him was at a 96’ G3 show, his tech at the time walked across the stage with a JEM in each hand by the handle and i thought it was the coolest fucking thing i’d seen yet. I actually use the handle quite a bit when picking it up, but that’s it really. Vai will even tell you it’s more aesthetic/being unique than anything practical.
 
Wow...Vai..Macalpine..Sheehan..Donati...and Weiner for good measure...spectacular collection of talent
 

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