Satriani vs. Vai
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Topic: Satriani vs. Vai
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Satriani vs. Vai
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 08:02
 sorry for me to close to call
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 08:03
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For me not....Vai by some way! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:11
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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 By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:40
Wow ... let us quickly forget that. IF ANY person deserves to be called Vai's "teacher", then it would be Zappa.
Not just his SOUND, but ALL aspects of his music. Like you say in the second sentence.
That's your prerogative. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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sularetal wrote:Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date 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. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:01
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I prefer Vai's playing over Satriani's. -------------  |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:14
Not exactly, i will choose Vai, only because he is better than Joe ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:16
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Both absolute w**kers!!!!
Jesss kidddddiiiiinnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!.........................., MeR! 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. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: porter
Date 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.  ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Erik
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:49
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/erikpostma/?chartstyle=artists"> 
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Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 11:54
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Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:01
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 By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:23
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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. ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Shaman
Date 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). |
Posted By: Calvo
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:37
| Satriani all the way!!! |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:41
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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. |
Posted By: jdtrbn
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:42
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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. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:46
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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 By: dysrhytm
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 12:53
| I prefer Vai and his band is great especially Tony MacAlpine! |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 13:08
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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. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 13:29
| Satriani- writes better songs, more musical!!! |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 13:34
What have you heard by either? |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 13:39
You weren't wrong. Satriani did at first teach Vai a bit of playing early on. I'm sure Mike knows this, but he was referencing to Vai being in Zappa's band for awhile. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 14:00
you´re right ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 16:26
Wow!!!!! Not the answer I expected.... I'm happy to see that in this forums there are no egomaniacs!!!!! Been to many forums but everywhere else everybody thinks he's right. PROGARCHIVES= -------------
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Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 16:28
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What does prerogative mean? My english is poor...... -------------
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Posted By: Suki
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 16:52
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That's also bullsh*t. You wouldn't be able to judge between their techniques, if you do, you'll probably judge on base of who has made much more impression on you and what sound you prefer the most.. That's all..
Ahh.. too bad. When I see his stage performance, it makes me see the guitarist with great technique who's playing with great emotion. All I see is just a man who enjoys music and sings with his guitar. Besides, even if his stage performance wasn't to my liking, I'd probably have prefered it over seeing him standing in one place and without any movement..
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Posted By: Xymphony
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 17:16
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I prefer Satriani...
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Posted By: Erik
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 17:22
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