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Luscious and his Dargie

In the article it says Luke was concerned with playing with Satch and Vai, to be honest l don't think he has anything to worry about, Luke's right up there, l'd even say beyond them.

Scott.
 
slukather said:
In the article it says Luke was concerned with playing with Satch and Vai, to be honest l don't think he has anything to worry about, Luke's right up there, l'd even say beyond them.

Scott.
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I think they would have been more concerned being with Luke. On and off the stage :eek:
 
I'd be scared of Paul Gilbert there more than anyone else on that stage. That boy is ridiculous! :eek:

I think Luke has a lot more feel than Vai or Satch, personally. I'm sure that comment can fall under great scrutiny, but give it a thought for a moment. ;)
 
slukather said:
In the article it says Luke was concerned with playing with Satch and Vai
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Nothing to worry about!!!!



Colin said:
I think they would have been more concerned being with Luke. On and off the stage :eek:
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Exactly!!! :p



jeffrey said:
I think Luke has a lot more feel than Vai or Satch, personally.
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.., and that's just in his big toe!!! :p

Personally, I think Satch and Vai are good players, but highly overrated.
In the G3 tours, Yngwie and Petrucci blow them away.
and I don't even like Petrucci. :)
 
Agree about Luke playing with Vai and Satch. The last G3 was just a bit embarassing in a lot of ways. Satch just played the same old speed riffs he's been living off of for the past 20 years on the improv jam and Vai just seemed to be interested in stunt guitar without really playing the songs. Petrucci was the only one on stage actually listening to the song. The others could have been playing along to anything and you'd never know what it was without the backing band.

As for G3 Live In Denver, I keep that DVD for fun. It's goes beyond being bad into the realms of pure comedy. In addition to the above comments, Yngwie just stood there, balancing his giutar on his huge belly, and belted out arpeggioafter arpeggio with absolutely no idea as to what he was playing either. And the karate kicks? It was Yngwie, the Vegas years!!!!!

Now, a G3 with Luke, Petrucci and Eric Johnston? THAT I'd pay to see.
 
Stop the Madness! You guys sound like high school chicks criticizing prom dresses. Vai is brilliant and if you are tired of his approach so be it. Satch is a wonderful player and ditto. JP is a worldbeater and Luke is a genius.

Luke was very concerned playing with the boys. The boys respect the living daylights out of Luke. It is consumate professionals showing total respect and not an ounce of pettiness.

I am good friends with many of these guys and Steve Vai uses our strings but is a very dear friend and a very kind man. He is a great father husband and friend. He is generous to a fault for those less fortunate or struggling and a model artist. He is funny articulate and forget about standing in the audience, try being next to him on stage...I have. My favorite comment after finishing playing with him and being astounded, "hey Steve!, you play from a different corner of the school yard" I was blown away.
That night it was Luke Jay Graydon Me and Rick Neilson. THey made me take my turns soloing...talk about feeling stupid!

I talked to Vai two days ago. we both have to be careful when we talk because it is going to take some time. It was over 1.5 hours. He said that Luke was the unquestionable star of that night at the houe of blues.

How bad would it be if everyone played the same? lets celebrate what a wonderful instrument the guitar is and its abaility to allow such diverse expression.
 
Sorry BP. :o

I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers.
I was just trying to express my frustration with super talented artists doing the same thing over, and over again instead of pushing the envelope even further.
They're all awesome and I'll never be able to play that well. :cool:

btw: I like the black prom dress the best! ;)
 
I would love to see G3 too, but because I am a big fan of JP's, I'm most interested in seeing G3 with JP. Unfortunately, I was living in the abroad when he did G3 in 2001. So, I'll have to just be content with the G3 Live in Tokyo DVD, or I'll have to hope that he gets to do another G3 in the U.S.
 
I guess I should've embellished my original post a bit more. :o

I like a lot of Vai's stuff, specifically his older stuff. 'Flexable' is one of my top 10 favorite guitar recoreds. The stuff he did on the first DLR record is legendary arena rock stuff, some great playing and great tunes there.

I've only gotten er... bored? I guess, with Vai's music in recent years. To my ears, his music has gotten very predictable from record-to-record over the last few years.

Now, do not misunderstand me. This by no means is undermining Mr. Vai's abilities. He is simply one of the most talented guitarists of my generation and very likely, considering all his additional contributions with his label and music programs, one of the greatest rock musical figures we'll ever witness.

I really used to like Satch when 'Surfing' was a new album. I was fortunate enough to catch that tour (with Stu Hamm and Johnathan Mover; ironically the week prior to seeing Steve Morse for High Tension Wires). My only problem with Joe (musically of course) is he sounds like he's playing the same stuff. Call me crazy, but I think he should give up the tapping and whammy bar stuff and play blues. I've heard him play some serious blues on a few occasions and it's magic. :eek:

To partially eat my own words, I would like to say I saw Vai last year sometime for whatever tour that was (something illusions) and it was very cool. He played for over 2 hours and Eric Johnson made a cameo appearance. Vai actually played some Zappa and a bunch of old stuff from Flexable. He won me back as a fan a good bit that night. Now if he'd just play a real guitar.... ;)

Like Yngwie or not, Rising Force is and was a monumental album in instrumental guitar music. I think it's still pretty amazing, personally. And if Yngwie didn't kick guitar picks up into the air.. well, it just wouldn't be Yngwie, would it?

This all boils down to why I prefer JP over most electric guitarists. John has a very no-nonsense approach to playing, writing and performing. It's very much an in-you-face t-shirt and jeans kind of experience. Meat-n-potatoes, as it were.

I guess I just identify with that more. ;)

*Disclaimer* These are just my opinions and the way I see things through the few neuron paths that are still functioning between the hemispheres of my grey matter.
 
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