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Points: 362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:41
I think they are both great guitar players but both are way overrated as composers. I've listened to pretty much everything by Vai and I have the majority of Satriani's work and I am not a fan of their compositions. Especially Vai's ones are not that great imho, maybe because of the hype that they're surrounded with. There are guitar players around (see Jeff Beck) who can write a song around two notes and they are a thousand times more effective. IMHO.
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Actually this is a pretty hard choice to make. I really think that Satriani (I only heard his first three albums) is only convincing in his larder souding tracks. Once he gets smooth and spacey, he sounds very phoney to my ears!!

However I think I will go for Vai from what I heard.
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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:14
Originally posted by sularetal sularetal wrote:

Let's not forget JS is Vai's teacher. However I'm sure most people here will choose vai because his sound is closer to prog. I saw vai a month ago and he was amazing. His technique, his compositions, his F*ck!ng INCREDIBLE band....everything.

However having seen the first two G3 concerts and owing some vai and some satriani cds I have to say I'm more attracted by Satriani's playing.....

Not exactly, i will choose Vai, only because he is better than Joe


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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:01
I prefer Vai's playing over Satriani's.


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Points: 3083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 10:58
Satriani did give Vai lessons, and can therefore be called his teacher. I don't really listen to either of their music. Guitarist solo albums generally don't appeal to me as much right now. They both do have some great songs and they are both great players; I'm not going to choose.
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Points: 21328 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:40
Originally posted by sularetal sularetal wrote:

Let's not forget JS is Vai's teacher.

Wow ... let us quickly forget that. IF ANY person deserves to be called Vai's "teacher", then it would be Zappa.

Originally posted by sularetal sularetal wrote:

However I'm sure most people here will choose vai because his sound is closer to prog. I saw vai a month ago and he was amazing. His technique, his compositions, his F*ck!ng INCREDIBLE band....everything.

Not just his SOUND, but ALL aspects of his music. Like you say in the second sentence.

Originally posted by sularetal sularetal wrote:

However having seen the first two G3 concerts and owing some vai and some satriani cds I have to say I'm more attracted by Satriani's playing.....

That's your prerogative.
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Points: 264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:11

Let's not forget JS is Vai's teacher. However I'm sure most people here will choose vai because his sound is closer to prog. I saw vai a month ago and he was amazing. His technique, his compositions, his F*ck!ng INCREDIBLE band....everything.

However having seen the first two G3 concerts and owing some vai and some satriani cds I have to say I'm more attracted by Satriani's playing.....
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2005 at 08:03
For me not....Vai by some way!
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