Steve Vai, A Man and His Guitars: At Guitar Center
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2010
- This month at Guitar Center we feature guitarist Steve Vai who helped establish the shred guitar phenomenon in the Eighties, and transcended the genre from the very beginning becoming a legendary guitarist in his own right. Vai
has remained as popular and influential as ever thanks to his adventurous, exploratory spirit, which constantly reveals new possibilities for the guitar.
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The moment he said he knew the seven string would inspire kids in a basement, I knew he would mention korn.
Devon Errigo huh?? Lol
Richard Martinez and Korn invented the U bar
Korn = Rich, melodic music..... straight from Vai’s mouth.
Try using color when showing guitars
+Joseph Bernard They were both black and white for the most part anyway haha
+Joseph Bernard The words are what is important anyway
Joseph Bernard until two strokes took that away
try showing a little respect for an artist
Most retarded video I’ve seen
Steve also invented hot dogs, oxygen, and the color yellow. A true innovator.
Good F One Mate !!! :)))
those are hard jokes man :)) you are on something ?? :))
haha! good joke bro
Gene Simmons invented shoes
Haha love it
Not only is he an amazing musician but also a very interesting person to listen to. Steve Vai is just awesome !
I wanna thank both Steve and Ibanez, my '87 RG plays like a dream. I'm glad Steve knew what to tell them, and Ibanez was smart enough to listen.
I love that when he says its Christmas when he looks at a guitar, I have the exact same feeling, love it!
Shame it's black and white, I'd like to see the colors on those gorgeous guitars
I was thinking the same thing, especially when he started talking about the swirl guitar.
Steve didnt say that KORN were the first to use 7 string. He was just saying that they were the first to be heard in the popular more main stream music circles. Stop getting precious about everything. He actually said 7 strings were around before his 7 string....
I love him because he's such an amazing artist yet he's so down to earth and humble. I remember the first guitar magazine I ever got had an interview with him and he would let regular people play on one of his guitars, like the one he'd be playing with on stage. I mean, how many musicians would do that? he's such a cool person
Steve just seems like such a great guy
He loves telling that Korn story, which is good. It shows that he genuinely was impressed by them and that he ain't too proud to admit it to everyone.
FacePalm or it’s a cool story he made up
@@stitcha123 idiot.
I met Stevie at the Guitar Center in Manchester Ct in 1999 I always wanted that white gem with the gold hard ware and I finally bought one from the Guitar Center it was $3400 best guitar I ever played ,probably the best neck ever made so comfortable and so fast you will fly off the fret board lol.steve was a gentleman to meet very nice intelligent man.
Love Steve and his take on things. What a unique player and visionary.
Wow This is so great!!!!!
Steve Via is such an amazing musician!
Thanks for the interesting talk about your guitar,.the best
One of my favorite guitarists !
...and I love Vai too he is an amazing player, musician, and also a great music entrepreneur
Such a cool guy!
He speaks out of my heart
YESSS!! now i know what to get vai for christmas.
steve vai..u're really amazing..
i saw one of his guitars at guitar center yesterday, it was blue and black, was absolutely beautiful
great guitar i own one
I totally agree! Thats another reason I started building!
jus all round awesome guy
perfect video
What a great guitarist!
Thanx steve!
I heard that Korn was originally called
"Blow it out your Korn Hole"
Later it became
"...out your Korn Hole"
then
"Korn Hole"
Until finally
"Korn"
+PIlotrcm i heard they were originally called "Vai Predicted this" then later just "Vai's Prediction" then just Korn
Steve you are great!! I love your guitars i only use ibanez cause are great!
I would love to have them all.
Leo Fender used names like that on numerous occasions. He wasn't a guitar player himself. Steve was one of the first people to have a cavity below his tremolo system to allow him to pullup. That much is true. In the frank zappa and alcatrazz days, his strats were setup floating. He had one of the original versions of the floyd rose without fine tuners as well then.
Love the dark guitar.
I don't listen to his music but I like the dude. Not a guitarist either but it was very interesting.
I'm not a Steve Vai fan, but I have to admit that this guy has definitely revolutionized the concept of guitar making.
My guitars and motorcycles are like kids to me, I love them all.
Such a Long-Jem-ity? ;D
That last sentence of Steve is so true, it's not only modesty. I remember all those Vandenberg, Skolnick, Gilbert, Reb Beach etc. models and they are all gone. Some of the players got new signature models, but their original signature guitars disappeared from the market. I can't even find a photo of the original Ibanez Alex Skolnick Signature in black with white bevels, it's like it never existed.
They are gone because their makers lacked the vision for a really iconic guitar. Reb Beach cut out a peace of wood and Vandenberg reversed the headstock, but basically their signature models were simple superstrats.
The JEM was almost a whole new toy and will stay with us for the decades ahead.
a true genius indeed.........!!!
VAI....!!!
my new guitar is gonna be a jem. probably the 77 black and floral blue. I absolutely love IBANEZ. Steve vai is my favorite solo artist.
You just wanna hear him speak. Hes amazing
That black Jem 77 floral model is wicked!
That is my favorite guitar I have ever seen. I missed out on an ebony fretboard version from 1990 with the real silk flowers on ebay by like £100. I actually cried. It was the most beautiful one I ever saw with flowers going around the horns and it have been refinished to look like new.
By far the MOST wisest guitarist
that is all true. I just find that Steve and tons of people tend to exaggerate in these ads or perhaps it's selective memory pressured by the need to pump whatever product is being pushed. ? Locking "trems" (tremolo is the wrong term for pitch change, it is vibrato really) are the bomb diggety for staying in tune if you do the insane whammy stuff. I love Ibanez guitars.
True genius
Sei un mito 👍👌👏💪
Truly a Genious
behold the legend
Some salty folks in here for sure. Not much of a korn fan, however its well known vai did a lot for the 7 string gaining popularity. The man himself also said he is a fan of all kinds of guitars. Him and Mr. Gilbert did in fact help popularize the modern floating trem production guitar. Remember that Mr. Van Halen had a sort of Frankenstein that wasn't a readily available model. OH and of course he has an ego, have you seen what he can make a guitar do? So stop crying and enjoy the talent these older guys give us before they call it quits. It may be many years before we get a revival of actual guitar music.
ICON
He has been really the father of the seven strings electric guitar.
That's really cool ;)
Love my JEM with my whole soul ❤
"and there it's just like look out". Fuckin awesome!!!
Love my JEM!
When ya can play like Steve, you can have as big an ego as possible
Nah, he's a soulless shredder. His guitars are trash too.
dudeeeeeee, have you heard tender surrender??!
Yeah. Like all of his other stuff, it left me indifferent. He's definitely talented, just not that soulful IMO.
i just feel like your trolling right now...
Nope.
Uhem.......RE Invented, Thank You.
Steve Vai is mint.
He's really well spoken
I think I’ve found what guitar I want to get.
Right now I have a Squier Strat, and I’ve been saving up for quite a while. Looking at the things that Steve has done just with a JEM sums up what I want to do.
Get Rg550
I think this would look better in color. The 'black' guitar looks beautiful.
hes god. he really is good. he understands music to the last. theres no such thing called the best type of music eyes. he loves all.
I like the Js Ibanez it's awesome.
En blanco y negro, como un reportage entrevista antigua!
Trey from Morbid Angel was the first person I remember seeing/hearing playing a seven string. 91/92'ish on their Covenant album, very distinctive tone seven's have. Way before Korn.
most of the time....yes
Wow..
That's a simple explanation of why Ibanez guitars are chosen by virtuosos. Other trade marks, as Mayones, Skervensen, Hufsmidt and even Whashburn took many Ibanez ideas for heir models.
yeah, he reinvented the guitar.... it feels simply natural and right....
3:00 Low E string caught in the pickup. Tape around the pickup usually does the trick. He does that on his EVO.
@gunsproof : Evo is his primary guitar. FLO is the guitar with the sustainer in it. Flo is what he used in whispering a prayer.
cool that he really think of the important things for revolution.
My first Floyd was in oh... 1983? It had the fine tuners obviously. But I can't even remember how an original Floyd could be tuned then if not for fine tuning AFTER locking it. Yeah, a regular strat won't have any room to pull back w/o carving the body out there. Wasn't Eddie VH the first guy to really use the Floyd Rose system? I'm not a trivia buff. hahaha I'd love to get a device to let me lock the bridge in place and drop top string a step. but... being broke..
I love Ibanez S series. I have 5 different Ibanez Prestige
"like everyday is like christmas" he says that in every interview :P
This guys head is so fuckin huge, I am speechless.
+Mark Lucio he predicted 7 string success in metal bruh lmao
my favorite guitar is the Ibanez Iceman.
the guitar KISS used.
First time I've seen him without glasses or shades. He looks like he has Red Indian in him, even though he's Italian
5:45 floral pattern 2, UV20th, EVO... wow, is a true dream
This handle in the guitar body is very important IMHO cause if you get a guitar most often keeping fretboard you can make the strings be out of tune! Not saying that our have sweat so the freatbord is simply dirty soon. I am full of respect for Steve Vais not only as a musician but also as inventor!
Korn just unlocked a new achievement: Be mentioned, in a good way, by Steve Vai.
Congratulations!
When he brought the 7-string Universe guitar, that opened so many creative doors for future bands. When I was growing up, Korn was my favorite band. Korn doesn't even exist without Steve Vai.
You and me both Steve, you know it.........
@IllusionaryMind8 I agree with you, as a matter of fact you could press down the tremolo (Floyd Rose) in a Kramer guitar back in the mid 80's, Kramer American or Kramer Focus, all the way down until you saw the strings just hanging completely loose, and it would not get untuned from doing so, also in Jackson guitars, that's why you see guitar players like George Lynch, Reb Beach, Warren Demartini, and even Paul Gilbert using Kramers in their early stages, what Ibanez and Vai really created...
I won't say Steve Vai is the best guitarist in the world (even if it's likely) but he is the best speaker in front of a camera. No other guitarist talks as good and open as he does.
my dream guitar: a steve vai jem with blue white swirl and blue tree of life inlay
when the master speaks, you keep quiet and listen!
@2:51-3:04: And that is why Steve put tapes on EVO's neck pickup.
I don't know for sure that he came up with that idea, but he very well may have done what he said he did to make it work. Floyd Roses werent always floating trems. They were just double locking trems that you could dive bomb and stay in tune. Look at a Charvel. There is no cutout under the trem so it could be pulled up - it just sits flat on the body like a vintage trem and that's how Floyds were originally done. SV is just saying he took a Floyd guitar and removed the wood so you could pull up.
Damn, just the other day while I was practicing I was thinking I wish you could pull up on the whammy bar instead, I didn't know they actually existed.
+TreSneaky ?? Most all floyd type trems are floating these days - since the late 80's or early 90's really...
sure but recessing it wasn't done before, first appeared on the meanie green, which was Steve and Wayne Charvel coming up with the perfect axe, the prototype for the Jem and the blue print for the superstrat.
I agree with you 100 % .Steve the man . Ibanez guitars Are the bomb everything else just don,t cut it.
i have 2 ibanez's they're great
Cool jacket.
0:19 of course it's like christmas to him, he can buy any guitar he wants 😭
i think i can relate to what his syaing, and most guitar players probably do...
every tiem i go into a guitar shop, no matter which one it is im taken away by the beauty of all the guitars, i wish i have money to buy them all
Are you sure about that? I know the Floyd Rose system was around for a few years before Vai broke-through, but I thought the recessed tremolo cavity was from Vai's Green Meanie.
it was pleasant to it KORN? oh, damn!!!
Would it hurt if I jammed a guitar head up my rim? It just looks like a fun toy to try use, them nobbly bits on the end would give a ribbed affect during insertion.
Is there a longer version of this?
I did not like Flexible when it came out. I went back and listened to it a couple of years ago, it was amazing to me.