I really encourage you to check her out on the web, or on Vai‘s recent album ‘The Story Of Light’, on which she handles vocals on some tracks.Īfter her set was over in came the main eventer - and he came in to blow the crowd away. The first one came at the very beginning, as the opening act was a mind blowing southern blues singer named Beverly McClellan, who showcased one of the strongest live voices I have ever heard (no exaggeration). Surprises were, aside the unbelievable instrumental skills, a second factor that would define the show.
Since those times Vai made a brand of himself both in the studio and live and he proved that at his recent concert in my hometown of Warsaw. However since then time has passed, records were released, and Vai is now very far removed from the days when he was a guitar playing magician - a sidekick backing up singers who made their mark with legendary bands and needed to uphold their status by hiring the most over-the-top and technically superior musicians available. Considered one of the greats of modern rock guitar, Vai has played with many of rock’s heavyweights, whom we don’t even have to mention here. Some discount his music as just constant noodling, but there is so much more to Steve Vai than that. This guitar virtuoso went over the musical edge, in every possible way, to give his listeners one of the most bizarre, yet complex and innovative, guitar works ever. ‘Genius often goes in pair with eccentrics’, and in the music business nobody embodies this better than Steve Vai. And as artists come and go, a lot of them are also very eccentric, which to a lot of people is just another word for ‘out of their mind’, but to some it equals inspiration. Apart from the guys who get into the business to score girls, creating something artistic is surely the main driving factor for a majority of musicians. STEVE VAI SENDS WARSAW INTO ANOTHER DIMENSIONīand Websites: – Rock stars are artists… that seems pretty obvious.