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Title: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: donovan.x on March 01, 2009, 02:14:07 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBLnB3ze5Y&feature=related

This is actually quite funny, wait for the 'duet' at the end.

Good stuff.
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: Dmoney on March 01, 2009, 02:18:08 PM
thought you were posting this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: hunter on March 01, 2009, 02:42:51 PM

Vid is fun, but the pedal sounds quite a bit like poo to me
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: donovan.x on March 01, 2009, 02:45:02 PM
I agree, wasn't impressed at all. The Satriani Vox pedal however sounds tasty. MMMmmmm
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: dave_mc on March 01, 2009, 08:13:43 PM
haha, sweet. i'm never that keen on vai's tone, but he's an awesome, awesome player. :)
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: nfe on March 01, 2009, 08:15:52 PM
I'm glad he's ripping the piss out of himself throughout. For a man that can come across as quite pretentious it's nice to see him able to laugh at himself.

Course, on the other hand there's always that outside chance he's not mocking himself, in which case I probably want to vomit  :lol:
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: dave_mc on March 01, 2009, 08:33:19 PM
i think he's taking the piss. to be fair to vai, he's never said he's particularly talented, just that he practised his ass off. Which is pretty modest... i mean even if it's true, he doesn't have to say it, and i can't see how you could get that good with no talent...
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: Ian Price on March 01, 2009, 08:45:47 PM
I'm not a fan but did enjoy pretty much every minute of that. Not sure I would buy one of those pedals or a JEM though. It's really not my scene!
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: ilÿti on March 02, 2009, 02:57:35 AM
i think he's taking the piss. to be fair to vai, he's never said he's particularly talented, just that he practised his ass off. Which is pretty modest...
Vai is very modest. Most people just hear him shred, see the fan that blows his hair back and thinks he's your typical larger-than-life rockstar when in fact nothing is further from the truth. It's just an image.
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: hamfist on March 02, 2009, 07:13:20 AM
Very funny, even though the pedal is not my thing.

He clearly is having great fun taking the p1ss out of himself. From that, I like the man !
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: Davey on March 02, 2009, 12:08:10 PM
yes, Vai is modest.. he does have a bit of an ego, but you do have to keep a distance from the usual run of the mill fanboy. when i had that interview with him, it was a LOT of fun and chit chatting afterwards. shame we didnt have more time, cos it was a really small group (3 guys) he'd let us play through his rig.

anyway. i LOVE that demonstration and how he takes the piss out of himself. there was also one, where he explains the stuff he uses on stage and he pointed to the fan and said that is the biggest most important piece of kit that he has on the stage hehe
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: AndyR on March 02, 2009, 12:22:30 PM
I really enjoyed this. He's not exactly my cup of tea (and the tones definitely aren't :lol:), but he's a fine musician and this shows he's got a good sense of humour and a really healthy attitude towards hisself and his ego...

And he's not a bad actor neither - ever tried to record a conversation with yourself on a multi-tracker :lol:? It's not as easy as you imagine, takes a lot of "timing", etc...

:D
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 02, 2009, 06:04:08 PM
I thought he did a great job on that. It was funny and it was obvious he was mocking himself. A lot of rock stars 'Get Into Character' for their live shows. Being able to switch that off is what makes them normal people and good actors really.

Mick Jagger is a another example. John Lydon/Johnny Rotten. Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull

Mind you when he was younger I'm sure he wouldn't have done it that way!
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: MrBump on March 02, 2009, 09:49:28 PM
That just made me remember how much I like Vai - so DIFFERENT!

That's gotta be good in this world...

Mark.
Title: Re: Even if your not a fan, watch this. Vai content
Post by: Stevepage on March 03, 2009, 04:54:04 PM
That video made me buy the Jemini. But I ended up selling it about a month later. At first I loved it, but after a while, I realised that the distortion channel was either too fuzzy or too thin.

The overdrive channel sounded really fat though.

Not worth the £100+ price tag to be honest.