They were difficult to find, but we found them. Steve Vai: Yes, they were being stored at Sony. It was to the left of everything else I was doing, but I just had to do it.”ĭigital Trends called Vai across the Pond while he was on a tour stop in Palma, Spain to discuss the sonic impetus of Passion, literally bleeding for his art in the studio, and why Frank Zappa still matters.ĭigital Trends: You went back and found the original half-inch master tapes to remaster Passion and Warfare the right way.
“I had been with all these big rock bands and everything was great, but I had to do this music. I thought my career was over,” Vai admitted to Digital Trends. “When I was making Passion and Warfare, I had no expectations at all. Passion and Warfare became a lightning-rod record for adventurous guitar players during the rising era of alt-rock, as Vai’s virtuosity on blisteringly soulful tracks like For the Love of God, The Audience Is Listening, and I Would Love To became instant litmus tests of the fretboard prowess of many a woodshedding guitarist across the globe. Now Vai is celebrating a milestone of his own - namely, the 25th anniversary of his highly influential breakthrough solo album Passion and Warfare, just released in a deluxe two-disc edition by Epic Legacy along with the bookend disc dubbed Modern Primitive, a collection of updated, never-finished works-in-progress from the era between his 1984 debut Flex-Able and Passion’s late 1990 release. From there, he replaced Yngwie Malmsteen in Alcatrazz, was the devil’s chosen guitar player in the infamous guitar duel with Ralph Macchio’s character in 1986’s Crossroads, and helped David Lee Roth establish himself as a solo artist to be reckoned with on Eat ’Em and Smile, which came out 30 years ago this month. Vai catapulted the art of guitar playing into new realms the instant he became the designated “impossible guitar parts” player in Frank Zappa’s band while he was still a teenager. There are guitar gods, and then there’s Steve Vai. “For some people, certain music needs to sink in.
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