Very well stated. Vai is limitless and as much as I enjoy Yngwie, he's definitely a one trick pony... its one HELLUVA trick though!!!

Seen’em both. Apples n oranges man. Apples n oranges A quick personal observation though. Bonnet and DeSoto sound remarkably alike don’t you think?

i agree, Graham Bonnet's vocals are hard to beat

he was Rainbow's singer..

@@brogoram he was their first lead singer then it was Ronnie James Dio then it was Joe Lynn Turner I think the problem was rainbow was Graham didn't have a middle name I guess LOL

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Also sang on Michael Schenker Group's Assault Attack album in 1982.

yasushi ?lololol

ChildoftheCorn666 holy shit, funniest thing I've heard in a while

+ChildoftheCorn666 I knew something was bothering me about Graham! Hahahahah!

😂😂😂😂yes

He looks like Graham Bonnet.

And Nitro?

how stupid 😂 thats his style and he literally picked it before he tapped it anyway😂 hed actually a cleaner picker i think even malmsteen would say so

Vai's era of Alcatraz is better. He had a very short time to learn these songs.

That was Mr. Bonnet's style from the beginning (even in Rainbow). BTW, Alcatrazz was his band, so he got to dress how he wanted.

I agree

I was just thinking the same same thing. Graham Bonnet was a great singer.

Ofcourse not, he play’s like Vai. That is completely different. Both great, but Vai way more tastefull for my taste.

jany cordova haha esas son las Charvel So-Cal, excelentes guitarras y hermanas de las Strat

+Joel Trochez Hasta ahora que Fender compro Charvel les empezaron a llamar So-Cal a las charvel con pickguard, antes no se les llamaba asi.

El usaba súperstratos cuando recién se habían inventado :v

Tambien cuenta la leyenda que esa guitarra era de Grover Jackson. Vai la pidió prestada, al tiempo le cambio el color a verde y nunca la devolvió. Esa es la green meanie. Esa guitarra fue la inspiración para Ibanez Jem

Bonnet BLOWS

Yes, agreed

***** well said mate, i love yngwies music until 1992, fire and ice, after that he became only speed, i like some seven sign songs, but thats it

+JimiRayYng Black his early stuff was fantastic and the solos works of art for the most part, from roughly mid 90's onwards it was tedious repetitive boring stuff. Recall Yngwie saying in interviews later he started improvising nearly every solo and you could tell a mile away as it was mainly 100mph not very melodic stuff separated by the odd sustained vibrato note. Yngwie is really irrelevant today as a guitar player but he could have been one of the all time greats.

I think you accidentally posted this in a Steve Vai video. Just saying ...

That's no accident. The song and guitar solo were written by Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Yngwie was the original guitarist of the band. Vai replaced him.

I remember a video of an Alcatrazz concert, after Steve had just joined the band and some guy yelling "You suck, without Yngwie!" All the while, Vai is playing Yngwie's guitar parts, note for note. Pretty funny!

do not get me wrong nothing against YM and his fans, but did you think that Vai simple did not wish to copy anybody, when i listen YM and some classic guitarists from my academy malmsteen is funny He robed Bah all the way (and regarding stile Blackamoor and Uli VR), personal i love more Vai due to his perfect whammy a sort of talking playing He put Jeff Back stile in stratosphere, and imho Gambale and Meola are far better than YM, simply i find that fusion guitarist have more skills, neither can YM write Meolas 'Race with Devil on Spanish Highway' or any other neoclassic guitarist or any song from Gambale Live (1989). anyhow there is a lot to learn from YM beside picking technique many forget his great vibrato, and it is great that such guitarist hit the scene in early 80s, all the best.

MusicHunter Di Meola is a super expressive jazz stylist . Yngwie doesn't even have that dimension in his writing Tony Mac Alpine is the best in the whole Shred Genre . Yngwie put modern guitar together from Segovia through Hendrix and blackmore to DiMeola and Holdsworth . Yngwie is the only true Rock Star of the genre . Vai really couldn't handle the rockstar life and went back to fusion All the Debut albums from Vai Satriani and Malmsteen were brilliant . All the British invasion Guitarists were brilliant It comes down to guitar having no limit in music synthesis ! It can borrow techniques of a Keyboard a violin a Sax .It can create percussive textures ,it can be a mandolin or a sitar .It can make animal sounds .It can be a flute It can talk it can make motorcycle sounds .It can be a harp , it can be a bell . Guitar to me has primarily the voice of a rock blues or country instrument . Those motor skills are impressive to see. To see those telecaster bends done right in front of your face ,and real blues chops put together with the right intervals to build and release ' Everything else is an augmentation .Violin Technique ,fret tapping,sweep picking ,things all taken from Sax Keys and fiddle . Peace out !

MusicHunter I like what you said .No .I don't think Vai wanted to copy anybody ! Replacing Yngwie in Alcatrazz was like the Graduate program in his schooling! Passion and Warfare is a super expressive album full of color and innovation

Shred Sixsixsix Agree 100%, i adore Hendrix, 'guitar is easy to learn but hard/impossible to master' forget the name of the person who said this. nice that you have mentioned Tony Mac Alpine ( un fer underrated guitarist), many of today's Kids do not nothing about him, guess that His composing abilities are the strongest from those shred gods from 80's, last that i'v herd about him is that He returned to piano moreover He still shreds awesome due to what i saw on Vai concerts. Depending from day i love to listen last 2-3 months Maiden old stuff from 2-4 album, or YM, then i switch to Vai, next day i'm in fusion world, but i enjoy the most in Hendrix stuff (even in robert Jhonson as well and other blues masters from 30s). i had a problem due to it is a sort forbidden to bend strings, and to do hamer on-pul ofs stuff on jazz academy but i love it, the best thing is to take what we like from each musical genre and to make our music with a personal expressions. so it is great to have so many different stiles and players, friendly regards.

MusicHunter Oh cool. Yes Fusion . my one guitar friend was telling me Jazz guys tended to spend their money on a really nice Semi Hollowbody,and in turn neglect the quality of the actual guitar amp! For Jazz I usually listen to Wes, Les ,or Pizzarelli . Fusion i like Stern and Scofield . Actually JazzEveryone .com has the guy willie Thomas on trumpet,he does a "Know and Blow" series I always watch,and for picking Mechanics on guitar I watch Troy Grady Cracking the Code. Also Mac Alpines instructional ,and The Shawn Lane Instructional from early 90s , had some good explanations of picking and unpicked Legato playing . Some guys just don't have the pinky,or the dexterity to hammer and pull notes cleanly .. .I noticed the hammering is developed but the pull offs are a problem because of playing with the tip of the pinky I see violinists look like their Pinky is an index finger !!! Bach Bouree in E is actually very good for pinky development . I don't think low action is super critical for clean unpicked legato I would love to buy a Ibanez S Series from eary 90 or a Steinberger with a trans trem !!!

Did you have a stroke when you typed this 5 years ago?

***** I agree..But I have always thought vai is a bit shaky with his bends live..And I'm a huge fan, but can't deny this. He is very very far from Yngwies pitch perfect bends, in any situation.

***** I hear you. I have to give them a bit of leeway because playing stuff like this live is very difficult. I have had performances where I thought I completely crushed it and then I got home and saw the video and thought "okay, never watch that again" lol These guys are monsters. The fact that they can screw up just shows they are human. (thank God :P)

I love Vai's work with DLR, especially Eat'm and Smile era, I also liked when he formed Vai with Devin Townsend, but I felt he was out of place in Whitesnake being that they were more blues-based than what he usually does

@@TacomaGraphicArtist oh..i thought whitesnake was interesting. I never thought he was out of place at all but u knew he was limited a great deal

Steve was so incredibly limited when he played with White Snake and David Lee roth. We got to hear so much more out of him as a solo artist. The thing is though had he played with a band for a good long time I don't think people would be having an argument over who was better him or Eddie Van halen. It's clearly Steve Vai. Now when we're talking blues it's Stevie Ray Vaughan. Blues is the one genre that neither Eddie nor Steve truly mastered

+Cajun9000 Steve has apologized to Yngwie in person for not being able to pull off Yngwie's solos note-for-note. Yngwie was gracious about it, saying "that's why the solos are there - to play your way." Neither can play like the other, nor would they want to I don't think.

If you honestly believe Yngwie can't play Steve because of technical difficulties then you're either biased or completely out of your mind. Both are legendary guitarists and can play each other.

You overestimate the generality of guitar skills. I wouldn't expect you to be able to copy my accent, nor I yours... so what makes you think their styles are so interchangeable? Music is the same way. Steve Vai said what he did in print, I believe it, and that settles it. Either could probably do what the other does if they truly committed themselves to the task, but that ain't gonna happen.

I clearly state the reason to be "technical difficulties." Yngwie can mostly surely technically cover every guitarist on this planet (besides styles that are variously different than his for example Flamenco.) I didn't mean "feel" or mimic the "style. The comment was pointed at the original poster "Cajun9000" for stating that Steve can play Yngwie but not the other way around.

+BeamRider100 African bands , wow, if you can send me over a link to a vid of one , I really wannna see this, Africa can use a dose of Metal , that will light a fire in their pants , it might become their " march " to re igniting " who they are as people in Africa "!! Great movement for Africans , this can be a " take down the Iron Curtain moment " !! African head bangers " !! Gotta see this !

+sab287Leporidae I was getting mixed up with Botswana edition.cnn.com/2014/02/13/world/africa/africa-botswana-metal-heads/

Charvel

That's his famous green monster strat before it was green.