Like sonic light cutting through the darkness, listening to this track is guaranteed to take you to a higher plane. It has been called one of the of the greatest guitar songs ever written. And it contains one of the greatest solos ever played. Steve Vai’s For The Love of God came about in an instinctive moment after this virtuoso picked up his guitar and everything just started to flow. He had fasted for 10 days to gain the spiritual intuition to get to a higher vibration. But amazingly, it would sit on the shelf years before it ever made it to record. In this episode I sit down with the legendary guitar hero himself and discover the origin story of one of the most powerful and inspirational rockers of all time. Oh ya and he also tells us about losing to his son when they play this on guitar hero. It’s a good one coming.
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So, I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations. This is where featured artists reveal rare stories about their biggest songs. Along with fascinating insight about their careers. On this installment of Revelations, I get to sit down with legendary guitar virtuoso Steve Vai to talk about his 1990 masterwork For the Love of God, from his album Passion and Warfare.
As many of you likely know...Passion and Warfare was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had. Vai was doing a lot of reading at the time, including reading about lucid dreams, or becoming conscious in your dream state. As he started to experiment with his sleep patterns. And he got results he was looking for. He became vividly aware of what was happening in his dreams.
Sketches and concepts for the album started as early as 1982, but were shelved after he joined David Lee Roth. But even during his time with Roth, the concepts for Passion and Warfare were bubbling over. Although he enjoyed collaboration with Diamond Dave, Vai had started to move in different directions, feeling like there was this whole other world of music to explore. Steve parted ways with Dave in 1989.
After Roth, Vai was determined to finish his nearly decade old record. This happened at the same time he was completing the guitar parts for the Whitesnake record Slip of the Tongue and touring with the band. It was all recorded in The Mothership studio at his home in Hollywood Hills. Passion and Warfare was released on May 22, 1990. When it came out there were a lot of people wondering what exactly it was. It wasn’t a conventional guitar record. If there is such a thing. It was not genre specific.
Steve Vai summed it up as “Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc.”
Really, he had no expectations for the album, but was completely open to the creative muse. It was liberating. Said Vai, “When you are completely engrossed in something that feels natural to you, there’s no compromising. Compromising means that there is something else that you are fighting against. And there was none of that. It was pure creative freedom and joy. And that’s what I felt flowing through me at the time.”That is how the record came.