Agreed man. I was 16 or 17 when I first watched this. 29 now, this year I'm gonna be 30. I was also blown away that I learned the lydian part that the first Steve plays at the beginning. Beautiful!
@@justanotheranhedonicguy5132 Crazy how fast time flies right!? Haha I've been meaning to do that for so long but I forgot. Have you ever seen the video of him playing the Jem with 3 guitar necks at G3? He actually plays the exact same melody with the clean channel as part of a song! Definitely check it out if you've not!
Dude same age range too! This video has aged like really good wine and reminded me when I first found o it about Steve Vai fully. Beyond for the love of God. This made me want to look up more info about this guy! This video made him more awesome!!
@@TheSuperwireman it's the closest to his tone I've ever been able to get. Does it sound exactly the same? No. But pretty damn close. Keep in mind the amp and the fact that other effects were used in these videos.
I just can't help feeling that while the rest of us are struggling to bring our genius to the surface, he's struggling to keep his genius close enough to the ground where we can still understand it enough to enjoy it.
+Alan Peach Yah, he's become more humble year by year, especially after losing the world championships guitar battle against Ralph Macchio in the Discovery Channel documentary entitled "Crossroads".
+Alan Peach. That was a surprise for everyone. I lost money there. I lost badly when I bet against Rocky in "Rocky II as well. Gambling in the 80s was hard on me.
Alan Peach actually he is more humble than satriani ( he was very though with Vai on the past but trough the years Vai was better like a guitar player and sometimes play the 7 strings guitar )
Regardless of his style or what you think of Steve Vai....he is very consistent! Always pushing to be creative in new ways with everything he does, and this video is perfect example. Heck of an entertaining piece to self promote, self deprecate, demonstrate the nuts out of a new product and make it funny all at same time. I bet the editing was quite the technical task to boot! Nice job Steve.
No one sounds like Steve Vai. Sure, there's lots of technically skilled guitarists in the world, but in addition to the technical skills, Vai composes and plays like he's from another planet.
Steve is the kind of guy who stands in front of his bathroom mirror every morning...gives himself a big smile and says something like "Dude..you are so AWESOME..gimme 5!"
I've got a bunch of concert recordings of Mahavishnu from between 1972 and 1975 and there is some stuff that's on these recordings that just flat out unreal in how McLaughlin played. A lot of it isn't on UA-cam or released albums. Fast? Depending on the gig, they would sometimes kick up the tempo to unreal levels that was mind blowing. He didn't rely too much on trick playing, no real gimmicks being used, but he brought different forms of styles of music which aided in his musical expression.
It is! It lives rent free in my head. It’s been 11 years yet I never knew where this chord progression was from. Anyone know where to find the full song? Or is it just Steve’s improv?
No, YOU rock Vai, no YOUU rock Vai! I loved this, and I apprecaite your sense of humor:) I now have to go and check out this pedal, even if this is a few years old. Thanks!
He is beyond amazing. He has always been humble just in the begging he was more caught up in a whirlwind. He went from Zappa to replacing Yngwie in Albatras, to Solo, to David Lee Roth, to solo, to Whitesnake, to solo again. He has been so stinking busy and now older and slowed down to enjoy it more. He has always paid his respect to the man who taught him, Joe Satriani. And listen to him humble himself when he is speaking at the Les Paul awards.
Steve Vai is So Fuc*ing Awesome. I will never Play like Vai, Even though i love improv on my guitar. Its just Everyone has a Style, And If that sounds good to other guitarists then Embrace that Style!!! Rock On Everyone (Including you Steve!!!!)
This video is absolutely brilliant! Great product, great production, great playing and truly the best portrayal of "twins" I have ever seen. We have come a very long way since the Patty Duke show, Steve!
He mentioned gas prices being so high with the 2008 election around the corner in the beginning...gas was $1.84 a gallon then. It's $3.50 a gallon now. Can I return the pedal for a full refund?
I've watched this at least fifteen times and I still crack up while I'm simultaneously being amazed with his awesomeness. And yeah, he does have a massive ego but how can you not have an ego like that when you're this amazing and you know it. The beautiful thing about Vai is that he's not an asshole about it. He knows how amazing he is but he also knows how human he is.
Musically speaking, as good as everyone says he is, the more you know about music the more you're blown away by what Steve Vai does and can do. Production-wise, I would've called this video/infomercial cheesy if it wasn't for his acting and editing chops. This video was well done!
I've got this pedal and I love it! What's best about this demo to me is besides the comedy, it isn't misleading. Y'know how sometimes the demo sounds awesome but then you sound nothing like it because you don't have all of the other awesome goodies that the artist in the demo has and their pedal has maybe been modded, but here this isn't the case. I don't sound anything like Steve Vai and I don't aim to, but you can get Vai sounds with this pedal. Thanks for this great and accurate demo :)
Was 13 when this video came out, just starting guitar. Stuff like this video used to be so common. Guitar legends making entertaining demos/videos with personality and effort.
Just got my pedal in the mail and hooked it up to my 150 watt line6 amp and it sounds amazing straight up! Thank you Steve for this wonderfull pedal youve designed, everything about it is just really cool. Its making me hot just looking at it!!"oh I wish I had my fan on" !!
There's nothing else that can fill you with such a powerful sense of self-confidence as this video :D Now it's enough to think that no matter what occurs to me in this endless, tiresome earthly struggle, my life can still be fulfilled after I purchase that pedal... Thanks, Steve, without you I wouldn't have been able to pass my A-levels :D
I think Vai is extremely nice personally, straightforward, and has a great sense of humor. He's a nuyawka! It goes without saying that he is probably the greatest rock fusion guitarist to ever exist. On top of that, he plays and writes with great emotion, sings very well, and is gorgeous to boot. As to his sexuality, his bio is straight but his androgynous looks fit the times for those cool enough to appreciate them. Vai's the whole package. I pray he never stops playing.
@SuperPacman777 True Temperament fret system. Keeps the guitar intonated throughout the fretboard. For most of us weekend warriors, being slightly sharp or flat across the board probably wouldn't be that big of a deal, but those thin necks do tend to warp, and mr. vai seeks more perfection than the rest of us.
Steve! Great video! I loved the pedal AND the editing concept! Very interesting! I can't believe i'm saying this, but I hope to see more videos of you playing with yourself!
@mooniethecat no. He said "Dip Jems" His Jem Guitars with a swirled paint design like the design of the pedal. The swirled paint design is done by dipping the guitar body into a deep bucket (or a vat) with the paint floating on the surface of water.
its crazy seeing that i come back about a week or so later an so many people ask or know. Its a great thing to see people share the same interest in steve as me. I just wish i had the For The Love of God Universe
@DarkFire2313 the frets on his guitar are like that because a company whos name i cannot remember showed him the design and he liked it. He explains it in his gear tour and it makes it so that every cord is actually in key not somewhat and every cord be a little off.
I am a true Gemini too. It would be so kool to have this Jemini pedal available again. See ya at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ with Frank Zappa. So good watching Frank conduct ya'll. Seen ya again many years later in Morristown NJ. Full circle. Living and gigging in Nashville thanks to Katz like ya'll. It's all about the tone!
@SolKingGutiar98 its from the Movie Crossroads Steve plays a guitarist who sold his soul to the devil an his name in the movie is Jack Butler. He battles Ralph Machio or how ever its spelled.
The "Raw" Clean sound of this amp set-up is phenomenal... You could make a Bozz Metal Zone sound brilliant under these conditions, oh, and with Steve driving it!
So it's kind of like having overdrive and distortion in the same pedal? Very utilitarian I must say, since it can accomodate usage with just about any clean or dirty setting on any given amp channel. This would be a good workhorse pedal for the gigging guitarist. Seems like you can get a wide variety of distorted tones. Very well-designed on Steve's part!
This pedal is basically an Ibanez TS-9 tube Screamer on one side & a Boss DS-1 distortion on the other, which is what Steve & Satriani used for years in their setups.
I first watched this when I was 17 and I was absolutely blown away, here I am at 31 still just as in awe at his playing.
Agreed man. I was 16 or 17 when I first watched this. 29 now, this year I'm gonna be 30. I was also blown away that I learned the lydian part that the first Steve plays at the beginning. Beautiful!
@@justanotheranhedonicguy5132 Crazy how fast time flies right!? Haha I've been meaning to do that for so long but I forgot. Have you ever seen the video of him playing the Jem with 3 guitar necks at G3? He actually plays the exact same melody with the clean channel as part of a song! Definitely check it out if you've not!
Dude same age range too! This video has aged like really good wine and reminded me when I first found o it about Steve Vai fully. Beyond for the love of God. This made me want to look up more info about this guy! This video made him more awesome!!
I was 15.. lmao god damn time flies
This is hilarious, same exact thing. Saw this around the same age and still come back to watch it 15 years later.
It’s 2023 and I finally got myself a Jemini. That tone still rules today. ❤
They sound nothing like this
Does it sound like this demonstration? I heard some hate on it that it’s not as good IRL
@@TheSuperwireman it's the closest to his tone I've ever been able to get. Does it sound exactly the same? No. But pretty damn close. Keep in mind the amp and the fact that other effects were used in these videos.
I just can't help feeling that while the rest of us are struggling to bring our genius to the surface, he's struggling to keep his genius close enough to the ground where we can still understand it enough to enjoy it.
Nine years, not one like? Here ya go pal:
You described perfectly
This comment is as godly as his playing!
This "Advertisement" continues to inspire me all these years later. Vai is the most emotionally intelligent guitarist of all time. Praise Hail VAI
this video literally made me change my opinion of him, he's a funny guy!
+Alan Peach Yah, he's become more humble year by year, especially after losing the world championships guitar battle against Ralph Macchio in the Discovery Channel documentary entitled "Crossroads".
+Alan Peach His attitude has always been as great as his playing.
I met him a while back. He's probably one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet
+Alan Peach. That was a surprise for everyone. I lost money there. I lost badly when I bet against Rocky in "Rocky II as well. Gambling in the 80s was hard on me.
Alan Peach actually he is more humble than satriani ( he was very though with Vai on the past but trough the years Vai was better like a guitar player and sometimes play the 7 strings guitar )
This video is gold in so many ways haha. The back and forth, the playing, ... Just killer
Steve Vai - "I like playing with you!"
Steve Vai - "Yeh, I know"
It doesn't matter which "Vai" plays, they're both amazing. Pedal sounds phenomenal.
I had to check Wikipedia to see if Steve Vai had a twin brother, because seriously, that is some good editing!
Right? I was really surprised too!
Nicely said. I knew the score when i first saw this, all those years ago, but yeah, it's so cleverly done... \m/ (:o)
If only there were two Steve Vai's omg
reminds me of the Jared Dines videos
@@sashingopaul3111 its the other way round, jared was nearly in diapers in 08.
Who's here in 2021?
This vid still holds up and was way ahead of its time.
Great stuff #stevevai
I am and you're right. Vai is a master at his craft.
2022
How about 2023!!!
2023😎
2024
this was the best-coordinated split-screen conversation I've ever seen. Only a good musician could pull something like this off.
Decades of double-tracking!
Only a true creative mind and genius artist like Steve Vai could legitimately pull this presentation off so effectively.
He just has that tone that no one else has. Signature tone like EVH that no one else has. Damn is it beautiful.
Regardless of his style or what you think of Steve Vai....he is very consistent!
Always pushing to be creative in new ways with everything he does, and this video is perfect example.
Heck of an entertaining piece to self promote, self deprecate, demonstrate the nuts out of a new product and make it funny all at same time. I bet the editing was quite the technical task to boot!
Nice job Steve.
This world needs more Steve Vai's. Genuine Vai's. Love you man.
this vid makes me smile every time i watch it...gotta love the guy.
I've never heard of steve vai, but so far my impression of him is that he really likes playing with himself while everyone watches.
He's doing this for both entertainment value and because it had never been done before in this manner.
No one better like this comment
One of the best live shows I’ve ever been to was Steve Vai in Houston. Just rocked the roof off the place.
Very poor choice of words
🤣
I love this video, your love of music and how you continually evolve both yourself and music itself is inspiring. Thanks man for being you.
No one sounds like Steve Vai. Sure, there's lots of technically skilled guitarists in the world, but in addition to the technical skills, Vai composes and plays like he's from another planet.
Steve is so hilarious, he is a guitar virtuosso and I would love to meet him one day and be his friend.
Aye I know this is 6 years old but...
Don’t we all
Vai‘s pickups are really powerful，the sound is extremly bright，like a golden light from the sky.
i am proud to say iv had a guitar lesson with this great guy :) you would think someone of his talent had no patients but he was really awesome :)
Steve is the kind of guy who stands in front of his bathroom mirror every morning...gives himself a big smile and says something like "Dude..you are so AWESOME..gimme 5!"
5:30 I love his 7 string playing
Bryce Saylor van Halen cant stop loving you post solo guitar, same notes btw
I've got a bunch of concert recordings of Mahavishnu from between 1972 and 1975 and there is some stuff that's on these recordings that just flat out unreal in how McLaughlin played. A lot of it isn't on UA-cam or released albums. Fast? Depending on the gig, they would sometimes kick up the tempo to unreal levels that was mind blowing. He didn't rely too much on trick playing, no real gimmicks being used, but he brought different forms of styles of music which aided in his musical expression.
That first chord progression that he does on the 7 string is amazing.
It is! It lives rent free in my head.
It’s been 11 years yet I never knew where this chord progression was from.
Anyone know where to find the full song? Or is it just Steve’s improv?
@@luiswres21just improvise
2:43-4:47 This solo alone made Steve Vai my guitar hero.
5:15- takes me somewhere, some amazing galaxy,.. Vai is a legend.
No matter how many times I watch this video, I never cease to be amazed and amused...plus, his tone is phenomenal
"you wanna play Jack Butler?" crossroads reference totally made my night! haha
Yes but what song is that
No, YOU rock Vai, no YOUU rock Vai! I loved this, and I apprecaite your sense of humor:) I now have to go and check out this pedal, even if this is a few years old. Thanks!
I admire people who don't take themselves completely serious and can make fun of themselves! xD
He is beyond amazing. He has always been humble just in the begging he was more caught up in a whirlwind. He went from Zappa to replacing Yngwie in Albatras, to Solo, to David Lee Roth, to solo, to Whitesnake, to solo again. He has been so stinking busy and now older and slowed down to enjoy it more. He has always paid his respect to the man who taught him, Joe Satriani. And listen to him humble himself when he is speaking at the Les Paul awards.
2024 anyone? I come back to this video at least once a year.
when steve vai called himself jack butler, it was a reference to the movie crossroads, where he plays a guitarist. this man is amazing
Steve Vai is So Fuc*ing Awesome. I will never Play like Vai, Even though i love improv on my guitar. Its just Everyone has a Style, And If that sounds good to other guitarists then Embrace that Style!!!
Rock On Everyone (Including you Steve!!!!)
This video is absolutely brilliant! Great product, great production, great playing and truly the best portrayal of "twins" I have ever seen. We have come a very long way since the Patty Duke show, Steve!
4:47 I spat out my drink....
Man,some real talent. Best of the best imo.
Vai has a PhD in music. Therefore he has sonic healing powers.
"Dammit Jim, I'm a musician not a physician!"
that's funny
an honorary doctorate!
14 years later and I'm still wondering if he went to Tahiti. I need to know!
6:38 lol
"I like playing with you"
"Yeah, I know!"
Jemini Distortion Pedal is great ! A really amazing performance Steve ! Best regards !!!
He mentioned gas prices being so high with the 2008 election around the corner in the beginning...gas was $1.84 a gallon then. It's $3.50 a gallon now. Can I return the pedal for a full refund?
Wow! Only $3.50!
Way more in New Zealand lol
I think first watching this one when I was like 11 is the thing that made me wanna start playing 7 string guitars!
That tone on the 7 is just godly :)
4:41 lets be real.. that tone with that chord. fucking nice
Does this not count as playing with yourself? Glad nobody has put video of me playing with myself on UA-cam.
:D made my day
clean channel my ass
I've watched this at least fifteen times and I still crack up while I'm simultaneously being amazed with his awesomeness. And yeah, he does have a massive ego but how can you not have an ego like that when you're this amazing and you know it. The beautiful thing about Vai is that he's not an asshole about it. He knows how amazing he is but he also knows how human he is.
What song does he play at 5:15?????? I love the sound.
it's a modified drop a tunning
excuse my english i'm french
+SharkTooth57 I don't know what song it is, it could be just one of his licks, he is freaking great. I don't know what it is but I love it too.
Seven string improvised song. Nothing I've heard in any of his songs.
the crying machine
You make the most gorgeous faces when you play
This is so cool. 6:08 is priceless.
Musically speaking, as good as everyone says he is, the more you know about music the more you're blown away by what Steve Vai does and can do. Production-wise, I would've called this video/infomercial cheesy if it wasn't for his acting and editing chops. This video was well done!
2:42 - 4:47 = Fuckin' Amazin!! This guy is one hell of a guitarist!
Even making a goofy video, he's STILL the greatest guitarist ever!!!!
steve vai feat. steve vai.
No, it's the otherwise. It's Steve Vai feat. Steve Vai
I've got this pedal and I love it! What's best about this demo to me is besides the comedy, it isn't misleading. Y'know how sometimes the demo sounds awesome but then you sound nothing like it because you don't have all of the other awesome goodies that the artist in the demo has and their pedal has maybe been modded, but here this isn't the case. I don't sound anything like Steve Vai and I don't aim to, but you can get Vai sounds with this pedal. Thanks for this great and accurate demo :)
4:47 is priceless haha
he calls himself Jack Butler... it's funny, coz he played Jack butler in crossroads...
+The Mongoose Man ha well I did not know that
thet means: Steve Vai's favorite person is Steve Vai
no shit.
Yes exactly !
This video is very funny! Love the reactions from the 2 Steve's. Great sounds from the pedals and stellar playing, of course.
If you look closely, you'll notice that this is indeed the same person playing with himself
Just in case people are too dipshitty to notice that for themselves? I'm not sure there are no non-Steve Vai fans watching these videos.
You must be fun at parties
Nyanaid
Incredibly. Thanks for noticing. You'd probably know that if you got out of your armchair.
Nyanaid So? I play with myself all the time, in fact doing it now
"Clean"...+ chorus, reverb, delay, noise reduction and Vainess.
jajajaja vai's technics
Hahahahaha
Steve is the least vain person yiu could ever meet
7:00 i always laugh at this XDDDDDD
Was 13 when this video came out, just starting guitar. Stuff like this video used to be so common. Guitar legends making entertaining demos/videos with personality and effort.
Hey look it's Steve Vai and Christian Bale.
Pedal? I've just been watching god.. I mean Steve Vai beat his guitar stupid. *bowing*
Jack Butler :D
Yeah I agree! It's fun, entertaining and actually demonstrates the product in it's full glory.
And man, the song on the end was a free gift!
Just got my pedal in the mail and hooked it up to my 150 watt line6 amp and it sounds amazing straight up! Thank you Steve for this wonderfull pedal youve designed, everything about it is just really cool. Its making me hot just looking at it!!"oh I wish I had my fan on" !!
There's nothing else that can fill you with such a powerful sense of self-confidence as this video :D Now it's enough to think that no matter what occurs to me in this endless, tiresome earthly struggle, my life can still be fulfilled after I purchase that pedal... Thanks, Steve, without you I wouldn't have been able to pass my A-levels :D
this video is hysterical. classic Vai. can't wait to see him in October. Vegas is gonna rock!
That actually sounds really good. I'm a huge fan of the sound coming from their amps. I might have to look into this pedal.
I think Vai is extremely nice personally, straightforward, and has a great sense of humor. He's a nuyawka! It goes without saying that he is probably the greatest rock fusion guitarist to ever exist. On top of that, he plays and writes with great emotion, sings very well, and is gorgeous to boot. As to his sexuality, his bio is straight but his androgynous looks fit the times for those cool enough to appreciate them. Vai's the whole package. I pray he never stops playing.
@SuperPacman777
True Temperament fret system. Keeps the guitar intonated throughout the fretboard.
For most of us weekend warriors, being slightly sharp or flat across the board probably wouldn't be that big of a deal, but those thin necks do tend to warp, and mr. vai seeks more perfection than the rest of us.
Easily my very favorite video of all time. A true gift from the Gods.
This is amazing, the song they jammed on together rocks. I want one of these pedals for the stuff I am going to be doing.
Such a sense of humor! I could watch this all day.
i came back to this at 28, first heard it at 15, it still sounds as good
Steve! Great video! I loved the pedal AND the editing concept! Very interesting! I can't believe i'm saying this, but I hope to see more videos of you playing with yourself!
@mooniethecat no. He said "Dip Jems" His Jem Guitars with a swirled paint design like the design of the pedal.
The swirled paint design is done by dipping the guitar body into a deep bucket (or a vat) with the paint floating on the surface of water.
its crazy seeing that i come back about a week or so later an so many people ask or know. Its a great thing to see people share the same interest in steve as me. I just wish i had the For The Love of God Universe
@DarkFire2313 the frets on his guitar are like that because a company whos name i cannot remember showed him the design and he liked it. He explains it in his gear tour and it makes it so that every cord is actually in key not somewhat and every cord be a little off.
I am a true Gemini too. It would be so kool to have this Jemini pedal available again. See ya at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ with Frank Zappa. So good watching Frank conduct ya'll. Seen ya again many years later in Morristown NJ. Full circle. Living and gigging in Nashville thanks to Katz like ya'll. It's all about the tone!
14 years later still holds up
This is how all reviews should be done.
two Steve Vai's, who is the best?? unbelievable this guy!!! sorry for the bad English, but I'm Brasilian! kiss (Neto ribeiro)
Apart from the incredible playing, hats off to the incredible double act. That's timing!
Damn
Still blown away by this demo.
One of the greatest guitarists and composers of our generation.
Cool! It's everithing sounds good in your hand through amazing Carvin amp. Without any pedals.
This is still my favorite video on the Internet!
@SolKingGutiar98 its from the Movie Crossroads Steve plays a guitarist who sold his soul to the devil an his name in the movie is Jack Butler. He battles Ralph Machio or how ever its spelled.
The "Raw" Clean sound of this amp set-up is phenomenal... You could make a Bozz Metal Zone sound brilliant under these conditions, oh, and with Steve driving it!
I'll vouch for the Jemini. I picked one up used and it sounds as good as it does here (provided you have a quality guitar and a nice tube amp).
Chris Hare line 6 is just as good
So it's kind of like having overdrive and distortion in the same pedal? Very utilitarian I must say, since it can accomodate usage with just about any clean or dirty setting on any given amp channel. This would be a good workhorse pedal for the gigging guitarist. Seems like you can get a wide variety of distorted tones. Very well-designed on Steve's part!
This pedal is basically an Ibanez TS-9 tube Screamer on one side & a Boss DS-1 distortion on the other, which is what Steve & Satriani used for years in their setups.
Steve sent me here - to this day, still amazing and hilarious!
Vai's got a great sense of humor, very cool to see that he doesn't take himself seriously.
Jack butler, what a guy!
Great demo and some top notch editing 👌
The editing and quality was especially good for 2008
Oddly I enjoyed Steve collaborating with Steve. Great pedal too!
2:43 is this a song off one of his albums?
Its a few riffs from his intro solo on You’re Here. Never tracked or released in the studio but its on the live album with G3