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This is Steves first solo album and it came out simply amazing, even being recorded on a little 8-track has not taken away any of its professionalism, probably due to Steves nac for profection. It has some heavily Zappa influanced tracks (I think he was still in Franks band at the time), three or four really great rockin songs that he still plays live today and, if you get the CD with the bonus tracks, one song, "So Happy", that I thought was really clever (matching a guitar part exactly with a womans voice). Maybe nextime he can do a nagging wife one. ha ha. Anyways, I started my Steve Vai journey with his Sound Theories DVD (his latest, really great stuff with a full orchastra) and loved it and wanted to hear how all this got started and I wasn't disapointed at all. I highly recommend it so pick it up. ENJOY!!!Read full review
I can see why I liked this in college!! SOo weird and UN mainstream!! musically versitile and off he wall.. He did play for Zappa for a time so I'm sure that is part of it!! Some songs, like Junkie and Bonus track So Happy(esp),are rather "disturbing" and "There's Something dead in here" is almost intolerable ( maybe I'm too old) but the album over all I think really lets you into the head of a young Vai. ( just look at inside pic!) I only bought it for "The Attitude Song" and I had forgotten much of the other good and tasty material. Some of which I liked and some I did not. Nonetheless, IF you are a REAL Vai fan; it is a MUST have!!. But beware of his New Age type thinking that is very apparent in this volume. Again, as w/ other reveiw, it was an impulse buy, revisiting my youth maybe.
this cd is a great example of frank zappa. steve played for zappa when he was younger. steve vai known for shredding skills always seems to put out music that is not mainstream rock,he tends to go more artistic. this cd is good cd to add to your rock cd collection. i have many vai cds, i would rank this as one of his best.
That's Steve Vai first album. I didn't liked at all because the concept of album was focused on more slow music with reggae roots. Good music is Attitude Song (a classic of Vai work). Go ahead if didn't listened this one or buy Passion and Warfare.
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This is Steve Vai's first solo cd, and it is very interesting. It is not like his other solo cds, to some degree, since it sounds like something that Frank Zappa would do on a few of the tracks. Some of the tracks sound like the traditional Steve Vai solo cd stuff though. If you want a sort of obscure Vai cd that does not sound all the way like any of the others, then this is the one to get.
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