„Widely acclaimed as his best album, Passion and Warfare finds Steve Vai coming into his own as a composer, as well as bypassing vocals almost entirely. Vai says it best when he characterizes this album as 'Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc.' The album was recorded in his home studio, the Mothership, and released on Relativity/Epic Records. The album was inspired by sequential dream patterns Vai experienced earlier in his life, and results in one technically electrifying ride filled with vivid mysticism and groovy instrumental imagery. The one and only Satriani-taught and Zappa-tested virtuoso, Steve Vai, returns with his self-produced 1990 release, „Passion & Warfare“. Newly remastered in 96 kHz, 24bit from the original analog tapes, the Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition disc includes, as bonus tracks, four previously unreleased recordings from the Passion and Warfare sessions. The now-classic album, which took several years to record, features 'For the Love of God,' 'Liberty,' 'Erotic Nightmares,' 'The Animal,' 'Blue Powder,' 'The Riddle' and several other legendary Vai tracks. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of his landmark 1990 album, Passion & Warfare, Steve Vai has announced an extensive world tour that will celebrate the groundbreaking recording. Steve Vai celebrates the 25th anniversary of his 1990 album, „Passion & Warfare“, with reissuing a remastered version of it with a companion album, titled „Modern Primitive“. Pink and Blows Over: Part 2 (Mars Attack)ġ3.Info for Passion & Warfare (25th Anniversary Edition - Remaster) Modern Primitive / Passion And Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition Track Listingġ2. There is only one word of caution… if you actually play guitar… after hearing this you may smash your instrument and refuse to ever play it again. This is his master work with the gray areas of his mind thrown in for good measure. Look, the guy is better than good… he’s greater that great. These tunes range from jazz to rock to Vai stuff, which are ideas that ONLY Steve Vai could come up with. Vai has recently completed these dusty mid-80’s tracks and has added this new disc to the package. These are songs based on works-in-progress and song ideas and sketches that Vai had lying around since his 1984 debut, “Flex-able” (which cannot truly be enjoyed or understood without kick ass headphones or some insane home separates system). Vai has added to the package Modern Primitive. wait… it is! First, Vai has remastered this release for the 25th anniversary from the original analog tapes, and has included 4 previously unreleased tracks from the same recording session! Now, to make this sucker even better… as if that were possible. He sees, hears and plays musically differently than anyone else on the planet, which is why this album will always be celebrated with wonder. He went from guitar hero to guitar god at once. With Passion and Warfare Vai created something the world had been waiting for but was not sure it could have. Even Steve, who is from outer space when it comes to musical talent, has never put this magic back in the bottle like this… though he has come close many times.
Truth be told, it has not really been done as well since. He did what Edward Van Halen did with “Eruption.” Steve recorded a lot of shit that had never been done before. Steve simply did, with this album, what Hendrix did when he released his debut offering.
STEVE VAI PASSION AND WARFARE 25TH FULL
Yes indeed, 25 full calendars have been tossed in the garbage (some with kitties and puppies, others with wheelbarrows filled with flowers, or.) since Passion and Warfare changed how people looked at, and listened to, electric guitars. It has been a quarter of a century since Steve Vai told David Lee Roth to suck it and created one of the most definitive guitar albums of all time, celebrated here.
Steve Vai – 'Modern Primitive' + 'Passion And Warfare 25 th Anniversary Edition'
RATINGS: A = must own B = buy it C= average D = yawn F = puke
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