KoRn inspired me to start playing guitar back in either 1998 or 1999. I remember the exact moment I decided to pursue the instrument and what I was doing, I was in the basement of my old house and I was listening to their song Got The Life. I love the guitar parts that Brian plays during the intro/chorus. Such creative/unique guitar playing, Such a legendary band!
I hear you bro and feel the same. KoRn was and still is a big inspiration to my playing on 7 string. From listening to them in high school to actually learning to play guitar and then playing their songs is just awesome! And naturally we play Ibanez UV's or their signatures ;) Got The Life has a great rhythm and lead riff going on. Another banger of a riff is Play Me off Take a Look in The Mirror.
Steve rules but he is WRONG. Morbid Angel and Carcass used 7 strings BEFORE KORN. In fact, Korn were inspired by Morbid Angel. Korn also have a very similar Morbid Angel riff (MA=Angel of Disease, Korn=Ball tongue)
@@RolanTHUNDER Steve Vai's Universe with Blaze pickups. The first album is Covenant (1993), Korn released their debut in 1994 and their album has two riffs VERY similar to Morbid Angel. Check out Angel of Disease and Korn's Ball Tongue..
George Van Epps designed a 7 string with Grestch decades ago. He was ahead of his time. Also drop tuning has been well known and used in classical music before we were all born
I saw Steve @House of Blues Chicago. I did the Evo Experience. We got to sit with him for about 45 minutes and have a Q & A session/picture autograph session. Then got to watch soundcheck. He was 7 feet in front of me shredding away, it was F'n incredible. Highly recommend. Plus great seats right above the stage. Best overall concert Ive ever been to.
I've been following Joe and Steve since the 80's. Can't wait for this collaboration and enjoy their music. I'm sure it'll be great. Got to see the G-3 show a couple of weeks ago. Amazing show. Keep on rocking guys.
Thanks for the interview Mr. Vai! I have been lucky to see you twice and Satch 3 times as well as Petrucci twice (once in Dream Theatre and once on his solo tour). All amazing stuff! I saw you when you want on your Passion and Warfare tour a few years ago. Man that was so good watching you play that entire album live. You pretty much nailed every note on that album to a T! I have been playing for 27 years. I started when I was 11. @38 today, I hope one day to get on the stage with someone like you in front of a huge audience and rock the **** out. I do all the antics like you and Malmsteen do. Its so much fun! I am about to become an Executive in the energy business but I want to trade it away to get into music and just rock out all the time writing great music. I also started off like you going for a music degree but backed out of it (for me because I figured I could get better $$ somewhere else and still have time for music which I certainly have today). I do have a Jem as well, one of your old school floral jems from the early 90s. Take care Mr. Vai, Chris from Canada thanks you!
It’s amazing that at 63 he’s auch a powerhouse. I love the fact he’s taking something on like this. I can’t imagine doing was he’s going to be doing. Very inspiring.
What a legend! I love hearing Steve Vai talk about anything but in particular the birth of the JEM (it's sister instrument the RG), Universe and the KoRn story. Those are my favorite guitars and Korn is one of my favorite bands! Mr. Vai signed my 1990 UV7 PWH which is a dream come true 🤩Hopefully next time I meet him he'll sign my '91 JEM777 VDY or '94 JEM7V WH 😉🙏
@@merioni.visual Thanks friend! They are great guitars indeed and that JEM70 SFG of yours is too. It's one of those guitars I still really want to own :)
I would see Vai at Berklee... He was 10 feet tall then.. we would crowd around the small window of a practice room and watch Morning Thunder rehearse with our mouths hanging open. Fun ! I have used Ola's suggestion on getting used to the 7-string ( play it and ignore the low string for a while.... :) Oh, and Steve is still 10 feet tall.
I met Steve Vai In the elevator at the Marriott hotel in Salt Lake City after a David Lee Roth concert (skyscraper tour). I was probably 14 and well on my way to 6'2"... However, I will never forget Steve's stature, he just seemed a thousand feet tall, we shook hands and it felt like his fingers wrapped around mine two or three times. I was very much in awe. He was a gentleman. They say "Never meet your heroes, they'll just disappoint you" I can say without question after having met Steve then and countless times since, Steve Vai is the exception to that rule. Thank you Steve Vai 🙏🏼
Steve, were you aware of Morbid Angel's use of the 7-string back from 1992 onto their highly praised 1993 record Covenant? Trey the brain child, mastermind did some brilliant stuff with the 7-string Ibanez and is still to this day doing brilliant things with it.
It's gotta be Jeff Beck tribute he's talking about for the fall tour, my guess at least. Who else given that he said its someone outside of his wheel-house?
Is so true!!! Wow Steve you absolutely great person beside you great professional guitarist composer. Guitar become just part of our body despite what the future preserve to us. Cheers
I agree. Admittedly, I'm not a big animals as leaders fan, but I love Tosin and his approach to guitar. He's one of the only guys, if not the only guy who is really taking his own path and coming up with all new techniques and ways to play guitar. I can't wait to see what kind of crazy stuff he will do in the future
He says the same things a lot but everything he says is gold. I don't know whether it was the room or his Synergy modules + power amp, but I didn't enjoy it as much on his recent tour as I enjoyed his Carvin Legacy era. I've actually bought a Carvin X amp and I am so impressed by what it does, so I 100% agree the reaction and response of a tube amp is very different to modelling.
I remember when Vai went with Ibanez. The brand absolutely exploded. They had endorsers galore. They built the ultimate shred sticks. I dug the RG and Sabre, now known as the S. And the Edge was a far superior take on the Floyd. To this day I haven't owned an Ibanez but I will, probably an S model. Regarding the HSH pickup configuration, the Jem was the first guitar produced with that configuration. It was common for New York session cats at the time like Hiram Bullock, but otherwise not very popular. The Jem popularized it by demonstrating all the tonal possibilities, and it came with a great pickup set. Two DiMarzio PAF Pros and an HS-2 middle.
Played in this band... Who's has passed away or can't play anymore that Steve would fit jumping in for? It can't be Van Halen cause satch is doing that. My first guess would be Jason Becker. But that's not Steve's style.... Any thoughts?
Now I think about it, it could be Jeff Beck. I know there is a Holdsworth documentary in the pipeline too, that Steve is a part of, which could be a clue. Steve considers Allan and Jeff to be the best electric guitarists. Vinnie C. on drums for either possibility :) @@danktopus
THE BAND has been announced- Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Tool drummer Danny Carey. Called Beat, the band will play King Crimson music and they've been announced by none other than the King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp.
7 strings started existing after Vai decided to design 7 string with Ibanez with the aim to mass produce them(Universe). After that 7 string metal was born. Without Vai, Meshuggah would be a 6 string band now.
@@MusicheadRickI tend to agree with you, Meshuggah established their 7 to 8 strings guitar in around middle 90s while 7 strings Universe firstly launched in 1990.
@@cpamiseso yes, as soon as Vai launched the idea of 7 strings and the mass production of them, all downtuned 6 string bands started to jump on it like crazy.
We love Steve. Could the new fall project is related to Whitesnake, Lee Roth, Alcatrazz, Zappa?? Could the « monster » guitarist is nothing but himself 🤔
Steve rules but he is WRONG. Morbid Angel and Carcass used 7 strings BEFORE KORN. In fact, Korn were inspired by Morbid Angel. Korn also have a very similar Morbid Angel riff (MA=Angel of Disease, Korn=Ball tongue)
He CAN'T feel 3 ms, it is the time from the cab to his ears. BUT when you add 2-7 ms for what the modellers will have to do, then you may have more than 11-12 etc. And that you can feel easily. It is the added latency. Also, about the modelling crap (yeah yeah I am trolling) in the battlefield...It's obviously not an amp in a room and it never will be and that is why they work so well in the recording environment. About the battlefield he is also right. Those pesky modelling cab sims, kemper etc. They have "room sound" built in. Like reverb. Like a million eq points sort of. Which is great for character but live, you already have another room and the whole mix going on differently. So you may get phase cancellation and try to find out why your guitar dissapears even with the other mix controlled with the same logic (DI drum sound for example). Room in a room, reverb. Yak.
Sold my Green Universe 7 String decades ago when things got extremely tight money wise , I had played and recorded with that guitar for years. Found out after I sold it … Ibanez only produced 300 of the Green Universe. Kicking myself to this day. 💔
Ultimate guitar - the ultimate scammers when it comes to subscriptions. Note the plethora of PayPal disputes that have been won by us plebs. Fade away and disappear.
Everything I see with Vai seems to have pagan connotations, in some shape, way or form. He's a great musician but it makes me wonder what kind of person he really is in his private life? What was with the ouija board in the background of the interviewer's room for too? A bit strange
Peace be to you, I bind you Zoso, with Solomons ring in Jesus name. I'll send The Demon of Ouija to a scourging to rival all Hell. You both serve two masters. Burn the God Damned board. Read The Deeper Mystery. There's only Christ The All
Guitar companies....not many to choose from ☝️ Today many others can build custom guitars.... for gorguts to voivod ☝️ Ibanez is a big business ☝️ and all idiots like myself need to have a monkey jem, but i don't play anything Vai.....i more like Play Yngwie Malmsteen ☝️ But today i almost never Play my Jem..i build my own guitars like Eddie Van Halen did and even more from a Wood plank ☝️ Steve is a business man a make a Lot money from Ibanez ☝️ There is other who can Play guitar on something more spaciel from Vai Jem Ibanez guitars ☝️ Hallo Vai 😁
Vai..... carefull you NOT be that special that you are getting boring ☝️ Business (making dreams of furnitures) are a ugly Business No one can do NOTHING with ☝️
It's never boring listening to Steve Vai talking about anything.
Absolutely. I loved the "Under it all" videos he did when we were in lockdown worldwide.
Vai's a fountain of wisdom, love listening to him!
KoRn inspired me to start playing guitar back in either 1998 or 1999. I remember the exact moment I decided to pursue the instrument and what I was doing, I was in the basement of my old house and I was listening to their song Got The Life. I love the guitar parts that Brian plays during the intro/chorus. Such creative/unique guitar playing, Such a legendary band!
So true
I hear you bro and feel the same. KoRn was and still is a big inspiration to my playing on 7 string. From listening to them in high school to actually learning to play guitar and then playing their songs is just awesome! And naturally we play Ibanez UV's or their signatures ;) Got The Life has a great rhythm and lead riff going on. Another banger of a riff is Play Me off Take a Look in The Mirror.
Steve rules but he is WRONG. Morbid Angel and Carcass used 7 strings BEFORE KORN. In fact, Korn were inspired by Morbid Angel. Korn also have a very similar Morbid Angel riff (MA=Angel of Disease, Korn=Ball tongue)
@@kingpriapatius5832 Which 7 string guitars did MA use?
@@RolanTHUNDER Steve Vai's Universe with Blaze pickups. The first album is Covenant (1993), Korn released their debut in 1994 and their album has two riffs VERY similar to Morbid Angel. Check out Angel of Disease and Korn's Ball Tongue..
I have been waiting for almost 30 years for these 2 guys to do a studio collaboration together, i cannot wait!!
I've loved Steve since the 1st day I heard him back in 84-85. He's awesome.
2024 G3 was amazing. Thank you Steve, Joe, and Eric. I will never forget that evening. 💚🎸
George Van Epps designed a 7 string with Grestch decades ago. He was ahead of his time. Also drop tuning has been well known and used in classical music before we were all born
I saw Steve @House of Blues Chicago. I did the Evo Experience. We got to sit with him for about 45 minutes and have a Q & A session/picture autograph session. Then got to watch soundcheck. He was 7 feet in front of me shredding away, it was F'n incredible. Highly recommend. Plus great seats right above the stage. Best overall concert Ive ever been to.
I've been following Joe and Steve since the 80's. Can't wait for this collaboration and enjoy their music. I'm sure it'll be great. Got to see the G-3 show a couple of weeks ago. Amazing show. Keep on rocking guys.
Thanks for the interview Mr. Vai! I have been lucky to see you twice and Satch 3 times as well as Petrucci twice (once in Dream Theatre and once on his solo tour). All amazing stuff! I saw you when you want on your Passion and Warfare tour a few years ago. Man that was so good watching you play that entire album live. You pretty much nailed every note on that album to a T! I have been playing for 27 years. I started when I was 11. @38 today, I hope one day to get on the stage with someone like you in front of a huge audience and rock the **** out. I do all the antics like you and Malmsteen do. Its so much fun! I am about to become an Executive in the energy business but I want to trade it away to get into music and just rock out all the time writing great music. I also started off like you going for a music degree but backed out of it (for me because I figured I could get better $$ somewhere else and still have time for music which I certainly have today). I do have a Jem as well, one of your old school floral jems from the early 90s. Take care Mr. Vai, Chris from Canada thanks you!
The 7 strings guitar era of Vai ( Solo ,Whitesnake) is My favorite so far.
It’s amazing that at 63 he’s auch a powerhouse. I love the fact he’s taking something on like this. I can’t imagine doing was he’s going to be doing. Very inspiring.
When Steve talks you listen! Always a source of inspiration to see Vai talk music
I like it when guitar masters like Steve Vai speak the truth about modelling amps versus tubes.
When I got that first Korn tape it changed my life. Regardless of the nu metal scene that followed. It was watershed
What a legend! I love hearing Steve Vai talk about anything but in particular the birth of the JEM (it's sister instrument the RG), Universe and the KoRn story. Those are my favorite guitars and Korn is one of my favorite bands! Mr. Vai signed my 1990 UV7 PWH which is a dream come true 🤩Hopefully next time I meet him he'll sign my '91 JEM777 VDY or '94 JEM7V WH 😉🙏
Sure thing it will happen!
p.s. You own great guitars! I've got JEM 70v-sfg and I love it!
@@merioni.visual Thanks friend! They are great guitars indeed and that JEM70 SFG of yours is too. It's one of those guitars I still really want to own :)
One of the most underrated band was Haji's Kitchen, Crimeny and Derek Taylor...those guys were pre korn 7 strings guitars and shredders as hell
STEVE VAI IS A BIG INFLUENCE IN OUR BAND
This is such a great interview. Steve is a true guitar god.
wasn’t expecting anything recent from steve vai speaking on korn
I would see Vai at Berklee... He was 10 feet tall then.. we would crowd around the small window of a practice room and watch Morning Thunder rehearse with our mouths hanging open. Fun ! I have used Ola's suggestion on getting used to the 7-string ( play it and ignore the low string for a while.... :) Oh, and Steve is still 10 feet tall.
I met Steve Vai In the elevator at the Marriott hotel in Salt Lake City after a David Lee Roth concert (skyscraper tour). I was probably 14 and well on my way to 6'2"... However, I will never forget Steve's stature, he just seemed a thousand feet tall, we shook hands and it felt like his fingers wrapped around mine two or three times. I was very much in awe. He was a gentleman.
They say "Never meet your heroes, they'll just disappoint you" I can say without question after having met Steve then and countless times since, Steve Vai is the exception to that rule. Thank you Steve Vai 🙏🏼
What a humble man. Love him.
Stories with Steve Vai does make my day.
Steve, were you aware of Morbid Angel's use of the 7-string back from 1992 onto their highly praised 1993 record Covenant? Trey the brain child, mastermind did some brilliant stuff with the 7-string Ibanez and is still to this day doing brilliant things with it.
This is the best question that could be asked of the master.
Just saw him live. Amazing as always
The Synergy modules are fantastic! Love the Vai module🔥
See you and Satch in may in Kansas City! Can't wait for your fall project vai!
It's gotta be Jeff Beck tribute he's talking about for the fall tour, my guess at least. Who else given that he said its someone outside of his wheel-house?
Thank you Steve Eric Joe and yngwie rock guitar was in Black and White before you guys and now it's in color!
Just saw G3 in Spokane. Great show
I was riffing on my Universe UV777pbk, and here we have the master himself!
KUDOS for that charango hanging in the back! would love to hear him play it on a song!
Steve with Alex Skolnick hair! Epic
Fantastic interview !!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Steve is just an amazing guy, it’s good to see these, he’s one of those guys😂 lol. Mount Rushmore ppl, Joe of course is on there for me
Is so true!!! Wow Steve you absolutely great person beside you great professional guitarist composer.
Guitar become just part of our body despite what the future preserve to us.
Cheers
Wow, you actually have a Dweezil's Peavey, i haven't seen that one in a while, cool looking amp.
Great interview!
Tosin is amazing! I love his shout out. Tosin is taking it in a different direction and the rhythms more than the shredding.
I agree. Admittedly, I'm not a big animals as leaders fan, but I love Tosin and his approach to guitar. He's one of the only guys, if not the only guy who is really taking his own path and coming up with all new techniques and ways to play guitar. I can't wait to see what kind of crazy stuff he will do in the future
I’ve seen Vai on stage with Sepultura. He can do anything.
He says the same things a lot but everything he says is gold.
I don't know whether it was the room or his Synergy modules + power amp, but I didn't enjoy it as much on his recent tour as I enjoyed his Carvin Legacy era. I've actually bought a Carvin X amp and I am so impressed by what it does, so I 100% agree the reaction and response of a tube amp is very different to modelling.
I remember when Vai went with Ibanez. The brand absolutely exploded. They had endorsers galore. They built the ultimate shred sticks. I dug the RG and Sabre, now known as the S. And the Edge was a far superior take on the Floyd. To this day I haven't owned an Ibanez but I will, probably an S model. Regarding the HSH pickup configuration, the Jem was the first guitar produced with that configuration. It was common for New York session cats at the time like Hiram Bullock, but otherwise not very popular. The Jem popularized it by demonstrating all the tonal possibilities, and it came with a great pickup set. Two DiMarzio PAF Pros and an HS-2 middle.
Tom Anderson shoutout yessss.
First time I've heard him mention it!
@14:56 Couldn't agree more🤘🤘
Ibanez guitars are incredible and the JEM is one of the very best. The RG's are taken from Steve's design and that is why i have 5 of them!😁
Missed out on G3 this year. Only show close to me is Salem and they sold out fast.
well mr via thank you be safe an keep busy
Bello/magnifico.💪💪💪💪💪💪🏆
Wow I been on your website for as long as I remember. I never knew you had a UA-cam Sweet. And yes I can always listen to vai
Great to see you here too - subscribe for more interviews like this one!
I did, your site has always supplied good "stuff" kudos@@UltimateGuitarTv
Just wondering...does it take all day to change the strings and tune the Hydra?
Suicidal Tendencies used a 7 string too on 89/90 recordings.
Wonder if he's playing Ozzy's last 2 shows? Randy Rhoads was a monster guitar player.
Played in this band... Who's has passed away or can't play anymore that Steve would fit jumping in for? It can't be Van Halen cause satch is doing that. My first guess would be Jason Becker. But that's not Steve's style.... Any thoughts?
Could be Holdsworth, Shawn Lane or Jeff Beck, would like to add Van Halen to this list. I think the latter is more likely.
@@nogbadthebad2609 yeah I think you hit the nail right on the head with Holdsworth. Just listened to city nights. That might as well be Steve playing.
Now I think about it, it could be Jeff Beck. I know there is a Holdsworth documentary in the pipeline too, that Steve is a part of, which could be a clue. Steve considers Allan and Jeff to be the best electric guitarists. Vinnie C. on drums for either possibility :) @@danktopus
@@nogbadthebad2609 It sounds like it's more of a higher-profile band situation than a solo artist, hence why he can't really talk about it yet....
Yes, I think you are right I'm pretty sure now it's Van Halen @@Imperialmusicfan
Is Korn the band that your are going to play with secretly as a guitarist? or Mahavishnu?
6:50 I'm might be sure about who might be...Tim/Scott but the more I think about it...the more I question who it might be😅😂😂😂
Vai plays Holdsworth?
I had no idea that we had Steve Vai to thank for Korn's sound. Talk about an unexpected crossover
I have the same flannel shirt
THE BAND has been announced- Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Tool drummer Danny Carey. Called Beat, the band will play King Crimson music and they've been announced by none other than the King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp.
Thank you Steve for giving us Korn 😂
Steve 👍😘🇸🇪
Meshuggah didn't use 7 string back then?
7 strings started existing after Vai decided to design 7 string with Ibanez with the aim to mass produce them(Universe). After that 7 string metal was born.
Without Vai, Meshuggah would be a 6 string band now.
@@MusicheadRickI tend to agree with you, Meshuggah established their 7 to 8 strings guitar in around middle 90s while 7 strings Universe firstly launched in 1990.
@@cpamiseso yes, as soon as Vai launched the idea of 7 strings and the mass production of them, all downtuned 6 string bands started to jump on it like crazy.
You and Joe have no sounds that sound the same, you both sound Fantastic on your own!!!!
Archetype Vai coming up...?!
🤘
Steve Vai describing himself as an old man compared to Korn, Johnathan Davis is only ten years younger
We love Steve. Could the new fall project is related to Whitesnake, Lee Roth, Alcatrazz, Zappa?? Could the « monster » guitarist is nothing but himself 🤔
Steve rules but he is WRONG. Morbid Angel and Carcass used 7 strings BEFORE KORN. In fact, Korn were inspired by Morbid Angel. Korn also have a very similar Morbid Angel riff (MA=Angel of Disease, Korn=Ball tongue)
Robert Johnson played a 7 string guitar he rigged up himself the man was ahead of his time
Steve Via, What a great guy!!!
🇨🇦👽🎸👍🏼
He CAN'T feel 3 ms, it is the time from the cab to his ears.
BUT when you add 2-7 ms for what the modellers will have to do, then you may have more than 11-12 etc. And that you can feel easily.
It is the added latency.
Also, about the modelling crap (yeah yeah I am trolling) in the battlefield...It's obviously not an amp in a room and it never will be and that is why they work so well in the recording environment.
About the battlefield he is also right. Those pesky modelling cab sims, kemper etc. They have "room sound" built in. Like reverb. Like a million eq points sort of. Which is great for character but live, you already have another room and the whole mix going on differently. So you may get phase cancellation and try to find out why your guitar dissapears even with the other mix controlled with the same logic (DI drum sound for example). Room in a room, reverb. Yak.
Fear Factory ....
So I guess with Carvin going out of business he had to move on.
So by the sounds of it he doesn't use the fractal unit on stage anymore.
Via is going to play for Megadeth 😂
I heard dino then felt korn was more moronically approachable, to sell guitars...ya know.
promo sm
YOU made White Snake such a Better band when you were a sub. You are a MASTER!!!!
Sold my Green Universe 7 String decades ago when things got extremely tight money wise , I had played and recorded with that guitar for years. Found out after I sold it … Ibanez only produced 300 of the Green Universe. Kicking myself to this day. 💔
Same here. Miss my UV777GR
:’(
bro! I have high cholesterol!
Zappa😅
Too bad this is an Ultimate Guitar video.
Ultimate guitar - the ultimate scammers when it comes to subscriptions. Note the plethora of PayPal disputes that have been won by us plebs. Fade away and disappear.
Everything I see with Vai seems to have pagan connotations, in some shape, way or form. He's a great musician but it makes me wonder what kind of person he really is in his private life? What was with the ouija board in the background of the interviewer's room for too? A bit strange
Peace be to you,
I bind you Zoso,
with Solomons ring
in Jesus name.
I'll send The Demon of Ouija
to a scourging to rival all Hell.
You both serve two masters.
Burn the God Damned board.
Read The Deeper Mystery.
There's only Christ The All
It's a board game, Grow up.
Guitar companies....not many to choose from ☝️ Today many others can build custom guitars.... for gorguts to voivod ☝️ Ibanez is a big business ☝️ and all idiots like myself need to have a monkey jem, but i don't play anything Vai.....i more like Play Yngwie Malmsteen ☝️ But today i almost never Play my Jem..i build my own guitars like Eddie Van Halen did and even more from a Wood plank ☝️ Steve is a business man a make a Lot money from Ibanez ☝️ There is other who can Play guitar on something more spaciel from Vai Jem Ibanez guitars ☝️ Hallo Vai 😁
Vai..... carefull you NOT be that special that you are getting boring ☝️ Business (making dreams of furnitures) are a ugly Business No one can do NOTHING with ☝️