Sorry Kein but you're wrong. He's more close to Zen Buddhism. "The secret" is more close to a fertile field of imagination wrote down to allow people to be more close to their spiritual comfort themselves, with all due respect to people that believe on it. Vai's way of thinking reminds Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, one of the most recent scientific recognized psychology theories considering others, that works on the structure and shape of one's dysfunctional thoughts that lead this person to it's dysfunctional way of living by resignificating them.
And this is something that people tend to lack in modern times, which is contextual analysis. What Vai is saying there goes way beyond where it comes from. If you can't see the forest from the trees, you don't have anyone to blame but yourself. You don't have to believe in any of that stuff to see it. And, ironically enough, what you're doing is pointed out several times in the interview by Vai. If everything you want to see in what's being said is the religious overtones it might have, then that's everything you'll see because of your apparent dislike of certain brands of religious thinking, despite it being much more than that.
In all dead honesty, while I love his music, I love his musical and spiritual discussions even more. Over the years, I've spent more time listening to him talking on UA-cam than I've spent listening to his music.
So glad to hear that others feel the same way I do. I'm not exactly a fan of his music, but man, he has a lot to say that I find so spiritually inspiring, that I've become a fan of him as a person!
Hands down... that was....the....best talk from any musician I have ever heard.....the most insight.....and value.....from a well respected guy in the business! I could listen to Steve Vai talk forever......because it would always produce something good.....and something to pass along to others.....
Common sense wisdom, humility, generosity, authenticity, and he didn't even play a note. Totally amazing to hear (and it's true what he says, "it's all out there" to read) an elite level rock musician talk about this. Brilliant! Thanks Steve!
Steve is a great storyteller, really talented musician but his deep passion for music is bigger than is immense talent and he love to tell to all the people. I think i could be a great teacher.. passion teacher.
Sounds like Steve is spiritually awakened! Seeing he also knows about manifesting principles like the Law of Attraction! 😀👍 And I believe he's right when he says the younger generations are quite open-minded to such information; It's the _older_ generations that from my own experiences can be quite stubborn and are stuck in old beliefs and old paradigms. And I definitely have been struggling myself a lot at times to let go of five decades of societal programming. But in any case: There's a new World coming, and the one as we've known it for a veeery long time is ending 🙂
at 38. Steve mentions the News ( without calling it Fake news ) GOOD. I Like that part. the whole interview of course. ( focusing on the news all the time & Not tryin to fix what's going on in your own Life is Not a smart move )
Steve is the (Eckhart Tolle) spiritual guru of guitar gods. Just a phenomenal communicator. I could listen to his deep wisdom as much as his playing. Would love to hear more about the books and teachings that influenced him in detail.
Who might be a guitar god? (yes little g).. Confused about your gods? Please check out Trey Smith documentaries UA-cam also AoC network UA-cam. Only with an open mind my friend a not putting you down in any way we're only here for a breath and after that there's only two places we will go for eternity.This is the most important choice of our lives but nobody seems to think so, but it is... Also on point preparedness as some great testimonies from people that have been heavily involved in a new age. I'm not judging you and you could probably be my best friend is far as I'm concerned but I just want you to take a minute and check these sites out please...
Only one book my friend. ItsThe Bible! Check out Trey Smith documentaries UA-cam , You might learn a few things you didn't know. Learning is a good thing right??.
I wish I would have had someone point me in the right direction about thirty five years ago. There were no resources available to me other than "Go out and play gigs" and the people I associated with were satisfied with that. I always felt like things could be better but was too young to know what steps to take! Steve is an inspiration!
"Those fears are in the collective, they're not even your own" - Oh em gee, I sooo understand what Steve is talking about there! And it's not easy to switch that chatter of the mind off or to at least ignore it either! 😏 I've been watching a whole bunch of these interviews over the past two days, and one recurring thing I've noticed is the advice to be in the Now, to be in the present moment; Which I agree with, too! And _that_ really is a great way to quieten that negative chatter of the mind! 😀👍 Thank you Dom and team for these great and very inspirational talks! 😀 And I'm happy to hear that Dom's health has been improving 😊🙏
Steve is just one of those rare, wonderful people, who create from a place that is all there own, and yet, can give so much, can inspire so many, to create from their own space and place in this world and time itself.
I was never a fan of his style (which means nothing!) but what Vai had to say was right at the top with the one I watched on Dan Rather's talk with Carlos Santana. Sometimes people are just wired the right way.
As a non guitar player I am always excited to hear someone as good as Steve talk about inspiration and drive rather than just guitar playing. He is deep and very inspirational
I don’t know much of Steve’s music other than Passion & Warfare however I could listen to him speak for hours - he’s such an advanced spiritual being, completed connected and aware.
I mean this totally sincerely, I also was totally blown away and still am to this day by the west side story soundtrack, still the greatest piece of music I’ve ever heard, polyrhythms, atonal harmony , beautiful tasteful dissonance , melody , you the man Steve!!!!!!!!
Dom I just would like to say,Thank you! You`re an incredible talent.And You really make people feel comfortable when you sit down to do your interviews.Steve was very honest and candid. Thank you
This interviewer is AMAZING! Never seen a better interviewer in my life. He asks all the right questions, and forms this amazing discussion with the artist.
Thank you....and we're glad to have Dom on our team at The Sessions! He's does an amazing job there too! Come out to one of our events or to NAMM and maybe able to meet Dom!
I would like to thank Dom for being a BRILLIANT interviewer!! So many times I have seen a clip where the featured Artist seems to take a " backseat" to the interviewer. This seems to be two pals hanging out on a Sunday and shooting the shit. Brilliant
That was an amazing interview. Thanks Mr. Famularo and Mr. Vai for this. These virtuosos are truly genuine heartwarming individuals. Great insight. Thanks again!
I saw Vai with Zappa when I was 16. I had front rows at Maple Leaf Gardens. I was blown away. Many years later , I took my 16 year old son to see him at Massey Hall. We met him afterwards and he was kind, funny and very approachable . We had a good laugh at the fact we were both kids in the Zappa days and now we had teenage sons. I must say, however, Vai speaks so eloquently and knowledgeably about the mind, psychology and the human condition . Very impressed.
Steve's last comment really resonated with me in regard to offering appreciation, and in return it gives you energy or power. It's very true because at the end of the day our own journey and our own success is drawn from those around us, and that's only possible if we're good to eachother and behaving in an unselfish way
I love how Steve just comes right out and says Joe Satriani was his teacher and mentor, and that Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page is what got him into music.... Love it...
There is ABSOLUTE GOLD between 31:00 to 41:00 if you pay REAL CLOSE attention to what Steve is saying. Thank you so much The Sessions Panel team for this interview!
It never ceases to amaze me how well articulated Steve Vai is. All of his interviews are insightful and full of awesome advice not only applied to a musical career but to life in general too.
I took time to put down what Steve said in this GOLDEN interview... just AMAZING! "The most important thing is the way you feel, being in touch with the way you are resonating emotionally, but keep your focus on the now because that's where your whole life is unfolding and this is the only place you can ever be creative" In any event they're all lies and they're not real and the moment you can see that as such then you can really start focusing on the task at hand which is to enjoy what you're doing right now you know, that's really owning now, only now so... really passion is the momentum of enthusiasm and you can't find the enthusiasm for anything if it's obscured by fear, it doesn't work, so if you can identify the things inside of your mind... this is the core it's all you, it's all how you perceive your, it's your perspective on your own carrer or own enjoyment really, your own mind so to speak, because if you can identify that your thoughts are projecting into a fearful future or an uncertain future or even an overpowering.. i'm gonna be famous, I am the best, I'm gonna do this and then I'm going to do that, sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn't... The quality of what's going to happen to you is based on the quality of what you're doing right now in this moment. So to bring your attention out of all of that stuff and what comes naturally it comes on your radar at the right time.. if you're not caught up in the fear of it all. So how do you find the thing that you're passionate about, because there's things that we have fantasies about but a passion is something different. When you're engaging in something that fells really natural to you well there's no fear in it there's no fear of failure is no concern with anything like that, there's just the simple enjoyment and the natural flow of your what feels like a unique type of creativity because it's important to know that everybody has a unique sense of creativity, this is just obvious beacause everybody's unique, but finding and expressing it can be a little tricky for some people if they're caught in their head about what they thnik they need to do beacuse conditioning we're all very heavily conditioned ... it's a compromising of your own personal freedom really and it never works When somebody says something that is inspirational and it resonates with you then that's you'll know but it might be something for you but not for somebody else, so one way of doing that all bets are off, you need to find your own unique way of doing it and you are doing it. Everything you told me about what you're creating came as a result of looking and measuring out your skills with what you think is needed and then when you have that aha moment, that moment is the seed of passion bacause what that aha moment has in it is one of the things that's of great value to look for and that's enthusiasm. Everybody knows what the feeling of enthusiasm is and once you get that aha moment it's beacuse an inspiration arose in you, you know the difference between a fantasy and a real inspiration. A Fantasy has wishing in it, it has doubt, it has fear in a sense. But when you give the whatever when get that aha moment none of that is there, it's just that's it, that's it and by the way that's it. It's a very clear knowing now well and it could be very very something very simple see the ego is gonna tell you well no this isn't gonna change the world how are you gonna make twenty million dollars...and then along with that comes the fear of failure and all that stuff.. Clean feeling of enthusiasm that has integrity in it, it's not a belief it's like a knowing. A belief in something means you don't know. When you believe something what you're really saying is I believe this but I don't know right... but knowing can only be you know inside of you, it's different, there's a different quality to it When you feel that feeling of enthusiasm and you line up with it along with it come the knowing of what to do in the moment not in ten years or in the next day, whatever Really your only shpere of focus needs to be right here and now and the simple looking for a creative idea that gives that feeling of enthusiasm and then you hold on to it and if you can hold on to it because there's always gonna be right after that a rush of and it always starts with BUT, dubts comes in, but da da da da da da da, then do i do that...that's fine but they doeasn't need to be a problem, these are just parts of the steps along the way, these challenges they're necessary. When you start viewing challenges as necessary opportunities for growth or for a pointer into another direction. Whatever challenge comes up you know that it's there to help you find the solutions, how could you have a solution if you don't have a challenge, but people get caught in the challenges in their head and they hold on to the challenge as opposed to... okay this is a challenge what's the solution? The fear gets ahold of them and they don't make the shift into looking at the solution, it's a very easy shift you just have to tell yourself okay now I know what the problem is or the challenge or the obstacle. Within the obstacle is also the solution it's showing you the solution. But if you caught in all that other mind stuff it doesn't work, so you don't have access, you get stuck and then the world sucks right and everybody is screwing you over, it's just in your head. But if that's your perspective then that's what you're gonna see that, that reality becomes your reality you create your own reality, what I'm saying is not unique, there's a lot of people that see this and understand. It becomes almost like you either think or you word yourself to failure. You do both, either you allow ideas to come up, you allow inspired ideas which can arise as thoughts or they can you'll see something that is of a cooperative component into the world, like you find a space, you're say what was it that what is it that would really like to do, what is it that would give me that sense of freedom, creativity, because I can tell you a lot of people then go to their mind with they say well once I have ten twenty million dollars in the bank, once everybody knows who I am and how great I am and once everybody once I have all the awards and I'm on all the magazine covers and everything then I could be happy you know, it just doesn't work that it does. It could make happy for a little while but it comes with its own challenges, it's not what success is really. It can be nice, but it is not that's the real truth of where it's at. If you happen to get there because that was your goal most of the time there's a rude awakening when you get there and you realize you're the same person you were before you and fame and fortune have a tendency to exaggerate your foibles DOM FAMULARO: there are 3 types of people in the world there are the wave makers that the matter what happens is they get up and they make proactive they make the wave, then there were the wave riders they wait to see the wave made and if it's a good wave then they get on, then there's a whole another level of people that spend their entire life looking for the beach they're completely oblivious to what's happening. When something exciting or an idea that I feel is fresh and unique when arises in me it's just a very natural oh that's what I want to do and it's very simple the things that I do to me are very simple and to everybody else when they find that uniquely creative outlet the everything is simple, it's fun. What I was saying before is if you find that feeling of enthusiasm it will lead to the natural flow of your own unique creativity and then that become that grows that grows and it grows and then it becomes a passion. For me I was always just lit up by a good idea I work within a very narrow field, a little field but it's fine because that's what I love, I don't know why you know karma whatever that's like I don't know maybe the lord of life said this is your role in life, you're gonna be a musician. To the young musicians a vital thing, the one thing for me that was always paramount was the feeling of an idea that felt different or an idea that had that enthusiasm a minute now that could manifest in someone like myself within a riff, in a chord, a melody, but to me I would get these visions of compositions or pieces of music whether they great or not does no matter, they have to be exciting for me and they have to be exciting your have to be exciting for you that's the priority, that's a prime value in the creative process is that you're excited about it, it's so important. THAT IS THE CORE, what of who we are as individuals bringing it through this language of music. So be careful when the insecurities of others may weigh you down it's unnecessary to buy into it and there are enough challenges in the world that in the music industry that are gonna bring you obstacles don't gring obstacles yourself don't create your own obstacles. The only obstacles there are the ones you create, the mind will tell you no no that guy won't let me... don't figure out another way to do it there's infinite ways to do.
@@TheSessionsPanel THANK YOU VERY VERY much!!! Incredible, awesome interview... there are a lot of great interview but, for me, this one is the best in my favorite ones! THANKS DOM!!!
How i wish everybody thought like a musician i dont know why but being a musician just makes you see world in different way and everything seems so be so happy in a way
Dom, great interview! Steve is truly a 'Gem' eh' ...awesome clarification and a candy bowl of epiphany like realizations. Philosophy via Vai ~ I dig, big time super cool shhhtuff!!! Thanks guys, big up, positive vibes ...genuine and generous both of you, a couple of Gatsby lads from Long Island, wild.
SO INSPIRING,,, SUCH WISDOM,,, POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS,,, JUST BE FLOWING IN THE NOW, THE ONLY THING WE HAVE IS NOW. ,,,,Knowing who you are ,ALL IS WELL, thank you Steve Via. For the enthusiasm. It will always be there in my life,,, guitarist /musician - RJ Bacha.
Me, I'm a guitar player myself, he's not my favorite musician (it would be Eric Clapton, but I am not a blues player, rock instead), but, IMHO, no one ever in guitar history has more technique or knowledge of the instrument than himself and this I must - and I do - respect. The thing about "He's the best", She's the best" it's a bit ridiculous... I believe it to be a personal choice after all, what inspires you, what makes you happy. On the other hand, one must be able to recognize talent and respect it. Steve Vai is pure geniality, it is so nice to hear him, he shares a lot, always, he shows that he cares. To grow in life we must be humble and trying to follow this path I did watch this interview, to learn form Steve Vai, and I did, more as a human being than music-wise, for my happy surprise. This is a fantastic material for business training, for life training - fantastic. Superb! Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom... This interview was enlightening. Thanks Don, thanks Steve !
Great interview. I'm not a a big fan of Steve (musically speaking) but I think I'm begining to admire him very much as an incredible human being with so many interesting points of view that can help create positivity in your life. Greetings from Portugal.
Definitely the best interview that I saw of Steve Vai. Steve is always amazing and revealing but this one counts with an interviewer who is clearly in the moment listening the interviewed,, interacting and also giving valious points of view. Great Job The Sessions Panel and Dom! You definitely made my day today, it just felt it like a chat of two friends, not just one guy doing normal questions but someone who was in and present.
I know this is geared toward young people, those who are up-and-coming as it were. But man, I swear that as a 45 year old wanna-be musician, this is gold and completely inspirational. This interview was meant for me, almost. And like a good sermon on Sunday - it feels like it is talking to specifically you.
Great, great man. So very few people at the top of their game are secure enough to discuss their emotions, good & bad, like S.Vai. This is the level of honesty required to succeed in life. Also, like all winners, he realises the waste of time that yesterday & tomorrow present as life is lived today.
Truly inspiring. I can’t say how many times, actually, Steve was an inspiration and a teacher to me. I will always be grateful to this extraordinary human being.
Steve Vai is amazing! He makes a lot of sense. Good words! A clear mind! Side question- where was this video recorded? Such a cool backdrop! The stair case is classic looking. The whole scene is so classic looking and cool!
You listen to this guy and you realize that an actual playing ability is a small part of what makes him great
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Mы United very well said
I've met him personally and I have spent almost one hour talking to him. Your assertive is enormously right.
Sorry Kein but you're wrong. He's more close to Zen Buddhism. "The secret" is more close to a fertile field of imagination wrote down to allow people to be more close to their spiritual comfort themselves, with all due respect to people that believe on it. Vai's way of thinking reminds Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, one of the most recent scientific recognized psychology theories considering others, that works on the structure and shape of one's dysfunctional thoughts that lead this person to it's dysfunctional way of living by resignificating them.
And this is something that people tend to lack in modern times, which is contextual analysis. What Vai is saying there goes way beyond where it comes from. If you can't see the forest from the trees, you don't have anyone to blame but yourself. You don't have to believe in any of that stuff to see it. And, ironically enough, what you're doing is pointed out several times in the interview by Vai. If everything you want to see in what's being said is the religious overtones it might have, then that's everything you'll see because of your apparent dislike of certain brands of religious thinking, despite it being much more than that.
In all dead honesty, while I love his music, I love his musical and spiritual discussions even more. Over the years, I've spent more time listening to him talking on UA-cam than I've spent listening to his music.
Me too. I respect his playing tremendously but it isn't really my cup of tea, but when he speaks it resonates with me.
I absolutely agree.
Yup its obvious that he is intelligent, spiritual and deep ALL the qualities 95% of the people in world need more of.
So glad to hear that others feel the same way I do. I'm not exactly a fan of his music, but man, he has a lot to say that I find so spiritually inspiring, that I've become a fan of him as a person!
My favorite guitar player of all time!!
He’s is the reason I picked up the guitar, and I feel great!!
Thanks Steve!!!
One of the best Vai interviews I've seen in the last 10 years.
Thank you! Be sure to see video on our channel of when Vai was with Colaiuta at NAMM also!
12:01 "The quality of what's going to happen to you is based on the quality of what you're doing right now." Best inspirational quote ever.
Dom Famularo and Steve Vai had a conversation that is a timeless masterpiece.
All of the Session Panel interviews are inspiring, but this one takes the cake in that department. Essential listening.
"You can't find the enthusiasm in anything if it's obscured by fear." Well said Sir Vai.😊
or... as Christ says "fear not " hundreds of times in the bible - But Steve Vai is all knowing ?? Only about the guitar.
@@pdodo388 pious piece of shit!
Interview of Michael Jordan.. "work ethic eliminates fear."
"Frank had big wings." Awesome statement.
Hands down... that was....the....best talk from any musician I have ever heard.....the most insight.....and value.....from a well respected guy in the business! I could listen to Steve Vai talk forever......because it would always produce something good.....and something to pass along to others.....
Common sense wisdom, humility, generosity, authenticity, and he didn't even play a note. Totally amazing to hear (and it's true what he says, "it's all out there" to read) an elite level rock musician talk about this. Brilliant! Thanks Steve!
Vai was my next door neighbor back in the early 2000s, he’s a great dude. This interview is in the Penthouse of the Sunset Tower btw. Great location.
Thanks! Nice eye to note the location!!
Steve is a great storyteller, really talented musician but his deep passion for music is bigger than is immense talent and he love to tell to all the people. I think i could be a great teacher.. passion teacher.
Sounds like Steve is spiritually awakened! Seeing he also knows about manifesting principles like the Law of Attraction! 😀👍 And I believe he's right when he says the younger generations are quite open-minded to such information; It's the _older_ generations that from my own experiences can be quite stubborn and are stuck in old beliefs and old paradigms. And I definitely have been struggling myself a lot at times to let go of five decades of societal programming. But in any case: There's a new World coming, and the one as we've known it for a veeery long time is ending 🙂
Steve Vai dropping that existential knowledge!!!🙏🙏🙏
Dom is a great interviewer, he knows how to listen and what to ask, also knows who is he interviewing!
Yes he "dances" with his guest, dont you think so?
at 38. Steve mentions the News ( without calling it Fake news ) GOOD. I Like that part.
the whole interview of course.
( focusing on the news all the time & Not tryin to fix what's going on in your own Life is Not a smart move )
Vai is an absolute icon of a man, not just as a musician, not just as a guitar player.
Steve is truly a blessing!! It's not the guitar...its the man. :-)
Steve is the (Eckhart Tolle) spiritual guru of guitar gods. Just a phenomenal communicator. I could listen to his deep wisdom as much as his playing. Would love to hear more about the books and teachings that influenced him in detail.
I can really see him as the next Doctor Phil.
You are right Bart: he must to clínicals but for psicology for musicians and professionals In every field
Who might be a guitar god? (yes little g)..
Confused about your gods?
Please check out Trey Smith documentaries UA-cam also AoC network UA-cam.
Only with an open mind my friend a not putting you down in any way we're only here for a breath and after that there's only two places we will go for eternity.This is the most important choice of our lives but nobody seems to think so, but it is...
Also on point preparedness as some great testimonies from people that have been heavily involved in a new age.
I'm not judging you and you could probably be my best friend is far as I'm concerned but I just want you to take a minute and check these sites out please...
Only one book my friend. ItsThe Bible!
Check out Trey Smith documentaries UA-cam , You might learn a few things
you didn't know. Learning is a good thing right??.
Frank was a zen or Chan sect Buddhist it rubbed off also Zen relates many Taoist doctrines such as Lao Tzu, Tai Kung .
I wish I would have had someone point me in the right direction about thirty five years ago. There were no resources available to me other than "Go out and play gigs" and the people I associated with were satisfied with that. I always felt like things could be better but was too young to know what steps to take! Steve is an inspiration!
Steve Vai and Tony Macalpine is my most favorite guitar players.
If u like Vai and TMac, then you would love Friedman and Becker
Such a humble and wise soul…and ok…a skilled musician as well😀
Forget about the music. This video was about making your life better.
Forget the guitar. This is humility!! An unassuming student even one is a master.
A brilliant and captivating interview ...I learned a lot ...and I feel better ! :)
Excellent! Appreciate your positive feedback!
Master of drums talking about the master of guitars. I saw it. I am a lucky guy .
The secret of life lies within this interview ...both Dom and Steve reveal it. This guys are wonderful...the way they laugh says it all! Amen
Every time I hear Steve speak, the already immense respect I have for him goes up another notch.
I could listen to Steve Vai talk all day. He's such an amazing person. And oh yeah, he plays pretty good guitar too. ;0-)
"Those fears are in the collective, they're not even your own" - Oh em gee, I sooo understand what Steve is talking about there! And it's not easy to switch that chatter of the mind off or to at least ignore it either! 😏 I've been watching a whole bunch of these interviews over the past two days, and one recurring thing I've noticed is the advice to be in the Now, to be in the present moment; Which I agree with, too! And _that_ really is a great way to quieten that negative chatter of the mind! 😀👍 Thank you Dom and team for these great and very inspirational talks! 😀 And I'm happy to hear that Dom's health has been improving 😊🙏
Thanks so much for watching & sharing! Stay inspired & hope to have more interviews headed your way soon, be sure to subscribe so you don't miss them!
Steve is just one of those rare, wonderful people, who create from a place that is all there own, and yet, can give so much, can inspire so many, to create from their own space and place in this world and time itself.
Now, little Steve Vai is going to play a composition on the guitar.....he wrote it all by himself! Fantastic interview!!!
Hands down the BEST interview I've ever seen with ANY musician! I'm a fan, but not a foam at the mouth fan. I mean it. Brilliant!
I was never a fan of his style (which means nothing!) but what Vai had to say was right at the top with the one I watched on Dan Rather's talk with Carlos Santana. Sometimes people are just wired the right way.
@@78tag because they work at it, bettering themselves.
"In fantasy there is doubt in it..."Thanks Steve!
As a non guitar player I am always excited to hear someone as good as Steve talk about inspiration and drive rather than just guitar playing. He is deep and very inspirational
I LOVE HIS MUSIC - he is a genius...
A lot of life wisdom in this interview. The musical angle is a bonus.
To listen to him IS music. He just transform it to his instrument. Simple as that :)
Suicidal musicians must listen to this guy. Such wisdom.
They'll not understand anyways...
@@yuliyankolev7672 some won't understand, some will....
Jowel Moises Ubaña they can take a lesson also with me! check my channel
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Suicidal race car drivers too.
I don’t know much of Steve’s music other than Passion & Warfare however I could listen to him speak for hours - he’s such an advanced spiritual being, completed connected and aware.
Aawesome interview hats of to Mr Vai
27 years later, Vai is still inspiring me... not only with music, but also with this life puzzle. Truly a progressive mind.
I mean this totally sincerely, I also was totally blown away and still am to this day by the west side story soundtrack, still the greatest piece of music I’ve ever heard, polyrhythms, atonal harmony , beautiful tasteful dissonance , melody , you the man Steve!!!!!!!!
Dom I just would like to say,Thank you! You`re an incredible talent.And You really make people feel comfortable when you sit down to do your interviews.Steve was very honest and candid. Thank you
*Listening to him talk is as interesting as listening to him play. Such a dude.*
This interviewer is very astute, informed, and probitive. The best interview I have heard with Vai.
@William Lloyd-Roberts Desperate need of a life aintcha?
@William Lloyd-Roberts Look at the way you "composed" that sentence, Check your punctuation and get lost.
@William Lloyd-Roberts Just go away. You started it. asswipe...
This interviewer is AMAZING! Never seen a better interviewer in my life. He asks all the right questions, and forms this amazing discussion with the artist.
Thank you....and we're glad to have Dom on our team at The Sessions! He's does an amazing job there too! Come out to one of our events or to NAMM and maybe able to meet Dom!
Truth!!
That and he let's the interviewed actually speak without interruption,
He knows who is standing on the " soapbox " respectfully ☮️☮️👈🏽
A true icon. An ambassador for humanity.
I really enjoyed this interview. You guys should interview Yngwie Malmsteen next!
I would like to thank Dom for being a BRILLIANT interviewer!! So many times I have seen a clip where the featured Artist seems to take a " backseat" to the interviewer. This seems to be two pals hanging out on a Sunday and shooting the shit. Brilliant
He's talking so much sense! Lovely man. So grounded, spiritual and 'with it'. Great interview. Thank you
Steve Vai will be one of our guest panelists at NAMM this year! Hope you can make it for more inspirational info! thesessions.org/upcoming-events/
What a great guy!Brilliant musician,and even a better person.So much respect for this guy!
That was an amazing interview. Thanks Mr. Famularo and Mr. Vai for this. These virtuosos are truly genuine heartwarming individuals. Great insight. Thanks again!
I really love the passion you see on Steve's face when he is playing. He is the amazing guitar god. I just really love him and what he does.
I saw Vai with Zappa when I was 16. I had front rows at Maple Leaf Gardens. I was blown away.
Many years later , I took my 16 year old son to see him at Massey Hall. We met him afterwards and he was kind, funny and very approachable . We had a good laugh at the fact we were both kids in the Zappa days and now we had teenage sons.
I must say, however, Vai speaks so eloquently and knowledgeably about the mind, psychology and the human condition . Very impressed.
Steve's last comment really resonated with me in regard to offering appreciation, and in return it gives you energy or power. It's very true because at the end of the day our own journey and our own success is drawn from those around us, and that's only possible if we're good to eachother and behaving in an unselfish way
Magnificent interview. Both men are very intelligent 👌.
I love how Steve just comes right out and says Joe Satriani was his teacher and mentor, and that Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page is what got him into music.... Love it...
I have not chosen Steve as my guru, he has just come to me as such. Inspiring beyond music in this life!
Exactly!
Flow. Authenticity.
There is ABSOLUTE GOLD between 31:00 to 41:00 if you pay REAL CLOSE attention to what Steve is saying. Thank you so much The Sessions Panel team for this interview!
It never ceases to amaze me how well articulated Steve Vai is. All of his interviews are insightful and full of awesome advice not only applied to a musical career but to life in general too.
I took time to put down what Steve said in this GOLDEN interview... just AMAZING!
"The most important thing is the way you feel, being in touch with the way you are resonating emotionally, but keep your focus on the now because that's where your whole life is unfolding and this is the only place you can ever be creative"
In any event they're all lies and they're not real and the moment you can see that as such then you can really start focusing on the task at hand which is to enjoy what you're doing right now you know, that's really owning now, only now so... really passion is the momentum of enthusiasm and you can't find the enthusiasm for anything if it's obscured by fear, it doesn't work, so if you can identify the things inside of your mind... this is the core it's all you, it's all how you perceive your, it's your perspective on your own carrer or own enjoyment really, your own mind so to speak, because if you can identify that your thoughts are projecting into a fearful future or an uncertain future or even an overpowering.. i'm gonna be famous, I am the best, I'm gonna do this and then I'm going to do that, sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn't... The quality of what's going to happen to you is based on the quality of what you're doing right now in this moment. So to bring your attention out of all of that stuff and what comes naturally it comes on your radar at the right time.. if you're not caught up in the fear of it all. So how do you find the thing that you're passionate about, because there's things that we have fantasies about but a passion is something different.
When you're engaging in something that fells really natural to you well there's no fear in it there's no fear of failure is no concern with anything like that, there's just the simple enjoyment and the natural flow of your what feels like a unique type of creativity because it's important to know that everybody has a unique sense of creativity, this is just obvious beacause everybody's unique, but finding and expressing it can be a little tricky for some people if they're caught in their head about what they thnik they need to do beacuse conditioning we're all very heavily conditioned ... it's a compromising of your own personal freedom really and it never works
When somebody says something that is inspirational and it resonates with you then that's you'll know but it might be something for you but not for somebody else, so one way of doing that all bets are off, you need to find your own unique way of doing it and you are doing it.
Everything you told me about what you're creating came as a result of looking and measuring out your skills with what you think is needed and then when you have that aha moment, that moment is the seed of passion bacause what that aha moment has in it is one of the things that's of great value to look for and that's enthusiasm.
Everybody knows what the feeling of enthusiasm is and once you get that aha moment it's beacuse an inspiration arose in you, you know the difference between a fantasy and a real inspiration. A Fantasy has wishing in it, it has doubt, it has fear in a sense.
But when you give the whatever when get that aha moment none of that is there, it's just that's it, that's it and by the way that's it. It's a very clear knowing now well and it could be very very something very simple see the ego is gonna tell you well no this isn't gonna change the world how are you gonna make twenty million dollars...and then along with that comes the fear of failure and all that stuff..
Clean feeling of enthusiasm that has integrity in it, it's not a belief it's like a knowing.
A belief in something means you don't know. When you believe something what you're really saying is I believe this but I don't know right... but knowing can only be you know inside of you, it's different, there's a different quality to it
When you feel that feeling of enthusiasm and you line up with it along with it come the knowing of what to do in the moment not in ten years or in the next day, whatever
Really your only shpere of focus needs to be right here and now and the simple looking for a creative idea that gives that feeling of enthusiasm and then you hold on to it and if you can hold on to it because there's always gonna be right after that a rush of and it always starts with BUT, dubts comes in, but da da da da da da da, then do i do that...that's fine but they doeasn't need to be a problem, these are just parts of the steps along the way, these challenges they're necessary.
When you start viewing challenges as necessary opportunities for growth or for a pointer into another direction.
Whatever challenge comes up you know that it's there to help you find the solutions, how could you have a solution if you don't have a challenge, but people get caught in the challenges in their head and they hold on to the challenge as opposed to... okay this is a challenge what's the solution? The fear gets ahold of them and they don't make the shift into looking at the solution, it's a very easy shift you just have to tell yourself okay now I know what the problem is or the challenge or the obstacle. Within the obstacle is also the solution it's showing you the solution.
But if you caught in all that other mind stuff it doesn't work, so you don't have access, you get stuck and then the world sucks right and everybody is screwing you over, it's just in your head. But if that's your perspective then that's what you're gonna see that, that reality becomes your reality you create your own reality, what I'm saying is not unique, there's a lot of people that see this and understand. It becomes almost like you either think or you word yourself to failure. You do both, either you allow ideas to come up, you allow inspired ideas which can arise as thoughts or they can you'll see something that is of a cooperative component into the world, like you find a space, you're say what was it that what is it that would really like to do, what is it that would give me that sense of freedom, creativity, because I can tell you a lot of people then go to their mind with they say well once I have ten twenty million dollars in the bank, once everybody knows who I am and how great I am and once everybody once I have all the awards and I'm on all the magazine covers and everything then I could be happy you know, it just doesn't work that it does. It could make happy for a little while but it comes with its own challenges, it's not what success is really. It can be nice, but it is not that's the real truth of where it's at. If you happen to get there because that was your goal most of the time there's a rude awakening when you get there and you realize you're the same person you were before you and fame and fortune have a tendency to exaggerate your foibles
DOM FAMULARO: there are 3 types of people in the world there are the wave makers that the matter what happens is they get up and they make proactive they make the wave, then there were the wave riders they wait to see the wave made and if it's a good wave then they get on, then there's a whole another level of people that spend their entire life looking for the beach they're completely oblivious to what's happening.
When something exciting or an idea that I feel is fresh and unique when arises in me it's just a very natural oh that's what I want to do and it's very simple the things that I do to me are very simple and to everybody else when they find that uniquely creative outlet the everything is simple, it's fun.
What I was saying before is if you find that feeling of enthusiasm it will lead to the natural flow of your own unique creativity and then that become that grows that grows and it grows and then it becomes a passion.
For me I was always just lit up by a good idea I work within a very narrow field, a little field but it's fine because that's what I love, I don't know why you know karma whatever that's like I don't know maybe the lord of life said this is your role in life, you're gonna be a musician.
To the young musicians a vital thing, the one thing for me that was always paramount was the feeling of an idea that felt different or an idea that had that enthusiasm a minute now that could manifest in someone like myself within a riff, in a chord, a melody, but to me I would get these visions of compositions or pieces of music whether they great or not does no matter, they have to be exciting for me and they have to be exciting your have to be exciting for you that's the priority, that's a prime value in the creative process is that you're excited about it, it's so important.
THAT IS THE CORE, what of who we are as individuals bringing it through this language of music.
So be careful when the insecurities of others may weigh you down it's unnecessary to buy into it and there are enough challenges in the world that in the music industry that are gonna bring you obstacles don't gring obstacles yourself don't create your own obstacles.
The only obstacles there are the ones you create, the mind will tell you no no that guy won't let me... don't figure out another way to do it there's infinite ways to do.
Thank you Dario! This was great & we appreciate your support of The Sessions Artist Series and helping other musicians!!
@@TheSessionsPanel THANK YOU VERY VERY much!!! Incredible, awesome interview... there are a lot of great interview but, for me, this one is the best in my favorite ones! THANKS DOM!!!
How i wish everybody thought like a musician i dont know why but being a musician just makes you see world in different way and everything seems so be so happy in a way
maestro vai is an incredible force of nature in multiple ways! thank you so very much for this!
Thank you for giving him that intro. Love you both
I just watched an amazing therapy session- Dr Steve Vai.
thanks Maestro, you are always a great inspiration even without a guitar in your hands
Vai is such a down to earth guy
"Ignant McNugget"!!! 😹😹😹 Quote from my favorite Zappa record, ever! Thing Fish. I love you, Steve Vai. You keep giving me hope and inspiration.
20 year old Steve Vai, getting his first professional gig, touring with Frank Zappa. That's a badge of honor!
One of the greatest of our time.
I was in Rome when he made his Zappa debut! Amazing!! Everything but his short pants!!
For the love of God I love this man on all levels
Dom, great interview! Steve is truly a 'Gem' eh' ...awesome clarification and a candy bowl of epiphany like realizations. Philosophy via Vai ~ I dig, big time super cool shhhtuff!!! Thanks guys, big up, positive vibes ...genuine and generous both of you, a couple of Gatsby lads from Long Island, wild.
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SO INSPIRING,,, SUCH WISDOM,,, POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS,,, JUST BE FLOWING IN THE NOW, THE ONLY THING WE HAVE IS NOW. ,,,,Knowing who you are ,ALL IS WELL, thank you Steve Via. For the enthusiasm. It will always be there in my life,,, guitarist /musician - RJ Bacha.
Me, I'm a guitar player myself, he's not my favorite musician (it would be Eric Clapton, but I am not a blues player, rock instead), but, IMHO, no one ever in guitar history has more technique or knowledge of the instrument than himself and this I must - and I do - respect.
The thing about "He's the best", She's the best" it's a bit ridiculous... I believe it to be a personal choice after all, what inspires you, what makes you happy.
On the other hand, one must be able to recognize talent and respect it. Steve Vai is pure geniality, it is so nice to hear him, he shares a lot, always, he shows that he cares.
To grow in life we must be humble and trying to follow this path I did watch this interview, to learn form Steve Vai, and I did, more as a human being than music-wise, for my happy surprise.
This is a fantastic material for business training, for life training - fantastic.
Superb! Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom...
This interview was enlightening.
Thanks Don, thanks Steve !
So Vai has more "technique or knowledge" than John McLaughlin? Hmmm.
@@adityatyagi4009 Or Allan Holdsworth?
Thank you for this interview, and online show.
Wonderful interview and wisdom from Steve!
Great interview. I'm not a a big fan of Steve (musically speaking) but I think I'm begining to admire him very much as an incredible human being with so many interesting points of view that can help create positivity in your life. Greetings from Portugal.
Definitely the best interview that I saw of Steve Vai. Steve is always amazing and revealing but this one counts with an interviewer who is clearly in the moment listening the interviewed,, interacting and also giving valious points of view. Great Job The Sessions Panel and Dom! You definitely made my day today, it just felt it like a chat of two friends, not just one guy doing normal questions but someone who was in and present.
Always a pleasure to hear Steve talk. Always something to learn.
I know this is geared toward young people, those who are up-and-coming as it were. But man, I swear that as a 45 year old wanna-be musician, this is gold and completely inspirational. This interview was meant for me, almost. And like a good sermon on Sunday - it feels like it is talking to specifically you.
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying, it's never too late to learn & be inspired!
Great, great man. So very few people at the top of their game are secure enough to discuss their emotions, good & bad, like S.Vai. This is the level of honesty required to succeed in life. Also, like all winners, he realises the waste of time that yesterday & tomorrow present as life is lived today.
Truly inspiring. I can’t say how many times, actually, Steve was an inspiration and a teacher to me.
I will always be grateful to this extraordinary human being.
Steve Vai, it look like you are in my mind, once again you keep on inspiring me, making not wanting to QUITE!!
Humility personified, Steve Vai is so talented and we're lucky to be able to have these words to hear and visit again. Wonderful interview.
I saw Dom do a drum masterclass at ACM and it blew my mind. He’s an absolute legend.
Amazing person
This interview is excellent! thanks for sharing your views Steve
Steve Vai for President 2020
i just want every creative person to hear this ! so inspiring !
Great stuff. Steve is not only an amazing musician but always kind to share his inspirational views.
One of the most enlightening interviews I've ever seen.
That intro summed up how so many people feel about Steve perfectly.
so good and half of why I love Steve! How he is as a person actually makes me like his music even more!
He's so down to earth
I can safely say that I can listen to steve all day without feeling bored at all!!!
One of the best Interviews ever. It goes beyond music, but reach the meaning of life. Congratulations.
Steve Vai is amazing! He makes a lot of sense. Good words! A clear mind! Side question- where was this video recorded? Such a cool backdrop! The stair case is classic looking. The whole scene is so classic looking and cool!
"You will evolve the state of the art of anything that you keep your focus on with enthusiasm and appreciation"