Vai or Satriani

schizoid_man77 wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: schizoid_man77 wrote: Satch,  super collosal is incredible.   It seems like when you've heard one Vai song, you've heard 'em all Super Colossal was a very, very disappointing album for me ... one word: "boring" ! As far as Vai is concerned ... do you even know Vai songs other than For the Love of God? Consider other well known songs such as Bad Horsie, Answers, Sisters, Call it Sleep?, The Attitude Song, ... are you really saying that they all sound alike?   I love guitars, and I love metal, but I am one of those losers who say almost all shred sounds alike. Super collosal is very divers and not as pretensious (depending on who you ask that could be a good or bad thing), and well rounded.   Vai's albums on the other hand, tend to flip flop from fast, to slow, to acoustic, to fast. Thats just me though.

So first it all sounds the same, and now it's too diverse?

^ I don't think that Vai sounds like Satriani *at all* ... of course one tapping solo will always sound somewhat similar to another tapping solo which uses similar patterns/technique (same applies to sweep picking etc). But the tonal material of Vai is fundamentaly different from Satch. The closest Vai comes to Satriani is on Fire Garden (first half) ... but even there Vai's music is inherently (and in this case subconsciously) quirky and experimental, whereas Satch is always more melodic and conventional - even with all the unusual scales and tunings he uses.

I like both very much btw ... I'm not trying to "diss" Satch - I'm just saying that he's typical Guitar Shred (he defined the genre) while Vai is shredding too (obviously), but at the same time much more inventive in terms of songwriting and "unusuality".