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Posted: December 13 2005 at 08:02

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 08:03

For me not....Vai by some way!

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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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Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:40

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.

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.

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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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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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Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:01

I prefer Vai's playing over Satriani's.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:14

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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Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:16

Both absolute w**kers!!!!

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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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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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Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:49

Yesterday there was a Vai concert with a metropole orchestra on TV. It was recorded this July in the Netherlands. Vai wrote the bulk of the music for this concert and I have to admit he did a really good job.

I havn't heard enough Satriani to really judge, I only own one Vai album so I'm not in a position to judge.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:54

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

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.

Yes sorry. Too strong word . I agree with that but he surely influenced him.

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That's your prerogative.

Don't know what this means..... sorry

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:01

memowakeman wrote:

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.....

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

Bull*hit how do you know that? I hate it when people say that.... "Oh I'll vote for Portnoy of course.....he's much faster and more creative than neil peart is ever going to be"

The point is which one appeals you..... Which one YOU enjoy the most. To know who's better you have to put them next to each other and tell them to play the same things but still I think you wouldnt be able to say.......

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:23

satch owns vai.

I simply cannot stand Vai's personality on or off stage, and I think overall he focuses way too much on image and flash rather than content of music.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:35

Vai not only studied music with Satriani, he also graduated from Berklee school, and studied theory with several jazz musicians and of course he learned a lot from master Zappa (his main influence).

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:37

Satriani all the way!!!

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:41

I much prefer Satriani. He's a much more melodic guitar player at puts more emotion into his playing IMO.

MikeEnRegalia,
Satriani was Vai's first teacher before Vai fell in love with Zappa's music and you can still hear a lot of Satriani's influence in Vai's playing, particularly when they're jamming together.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:42

Vai has one good song (For the love of God), Satriani has two(Always with me, always with you and Mountain Song) .
So, I choose Satriani. I'm not really fond of either's playing, it's somehow ear-numbing.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:46

Vai - he's far more inventive/creative than Satch.

I'd like to choose Satch, because his mastery of melody is stronger than Vai's, but I kind of stop caring about melody when Vai lets loose the fireworks.

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:53

I prefer Vai and his band is great especially Tony MacAlpine!

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Posted: December 13 2005 at 13:08

dysrhytm wrote:

I prefer Vai and his band is great especially Tony MacAlpine!

Yea, I saw that MacAlpine and Sheehan played with him on the G3 DVD, and I was quite pleased. They're both incredible, incredible musicians. However, among all of the talent up there, his drummer seemed rather mediocre.