You could well be right !

Many artists are manically depressed 😥

As a hobbiest writer, he is correct in my view..even my lamest nuggets must be seen through to make way for the hopefully next slightly less lame idea lol

My thoughts exactly. This philosophy liberates you from feelings of guilt once you realize that you MUST honor your creative impulses: it's really not even a choice.

⁠@@neurotraumatized-thrall- Never feel guilty for buying your next piece of gear and continue to glory in creating. Let your freak flag fly!! 💥

One of my favorite story-tellers is GE Smith. Granted, he’s no Steve Vai, but an accomplished player himself. He could read me the yellow pages, and I’d hang on every word. Joe Bonamassa is another……But GE is my favorite story-teller.

his wisdom is unapparelled in rock

you have got to be joking

Because He thinks before He talks!

A great storyteller and one of the best guitar players ever....

It would be weird if Vai were saying something negative about a fellow bandmate. He's known to be the nicest guy around. 😁

I kinda guessed that Vai hadn't meant what the clickbait title implied.

Coverdale is probably a monster considering how often he fires everyone in his band, his ego is probably up there with Ritchie Blackmore, no shocker they never got along

Yeah I hate when they clickbate crap.

I have yet to see Steve or Joe to say anything negative about anything. That’s the difference between musicians and “rock stars”. I’d rather hang out with a musician any day. If you haven’t heard Passion & Warfare treat your ears, it’s definitely a front to backer. 🎸

Oh please

That version of FFYL was absolute garbage. Coverdale shat on his original version for reasons I guess only he can explain.

@@CB-xr1eg I agree the 1980 version of the song is much better, with Mardsen and Moody on the guitar. Whitesnake was better as a Deep Purple style blues band than the hair band they became in the late 80s IMO.

@@pulsarlights2825 I agree wholeheartedly. The "old" Whitesnake, with Marsden, Moody, Lord and Paice was THE Whitesnake, in my opinion. Live In The Heart Of The City is the ultimate document of their thing they had. After that, David Coverdale sold his soul to the dark side, and it all got utterly silly.

@@pulsarlights2825everyone agrees with this. Saw them live, in period but after that Cov became a knobhead.

@@79devo: Speak for yourself and we'll do the same. I enjoy both those eras of Whitesnake.

How did you even know about it when it first came out? You must have been a huge Vai fan!

@v4v819 I was into guitarists like Vinnie Moore, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen etc. If you knew them, you knew Vai.

I've always been into guitar and played since i got a guitar at age 11 and i never knew about any of those players but didn't mean i wasn't into guitar and guitar music... Not everyone knows every single guitarist on earth silly! LOL @@Beez27

@v4v819 For sure. Could be an age gap thing. You probably know guitarists I've not heard of.

Do you know Tina S? @@Beez27

And especially the solo, 'cause it's a killer!

Judgement Day

Coverdale on Soldier of Fortune for me ( Deep Purple originally,)

Eat em and smile too

Modern und Avantgarde ! 💥💥❤

Passion And Warfare was his peak. Simply a monster album, packed with masterful playing, riffs and splendid ideas. After that, he started to slip into (for me) a weird groove with occasional departures (that were actually exciting), only to get back to that groove that rubs me simply wrong way. I hardly listen to his latter stuff anymore, even as I listen to everything he creates because he was my favorite guitar player. I still respect him great deal - who in his right mind wouldn't - but his music lost something with me personally. Maybe it's because I gradually stopped responding to not just him but to most of these modern age guitar wizards and returned to my favorite bands from 70's, like Blackfoot, Deep Purple, early Kansas, Rory Gallagher, early Steve Morse solo albums and some of his SMB stuff, like Vista Grande, and music where guitar playing has a prominent role but it's friendly to my ears and mind. Still, it's fascinating to hear from these guys how everything was intertwined, how tight this community is on top level and the level of respect they have for each other. Recently, I developed tons of respect for all of them because I started to learning guitar playing in my older years and I realized how difficult it is to play this instrument even on mediocre level, compared to playing keys (which is my department). So when I say I tuned out to modern guitar players, it in no way means that I am not painfully aware how good they all are. I saw total of 3 of Vai's shows, each and every one was a blast, each time with great band members, each time great sound, too. When Vai says he was bit of a primadonna in those years....well, he still is, but he was trying to make a name for himself in era where you had to cultivate your image to become memorable, where you not only had to be in great command of your instrument but also be a kind of a circus performer with some feminine element to it. He is one of the few that survived that stretch largely unscathed but I think some of it stayed with him until these days. He even said that "not only you have to be good at playing: you have to look good doing it". That part of him I really don't care for. That's for girls.

What year was this, as I saw this tour and Vai wasn’t involved.

Saw That Tour As Well. Kix Opened For Them In Memphis, TN. Great Show😎👍🏻🤘🏻

@@musicman3641 bro I was at that show! I just remember that glitter guitar that Vai picked up during his solo. The arena blacked out and the guitar was spotlighted. Must’ve been 1989-90 timeframe because I was stationed at NAS Millington for training as a young Marine.

@@rockhopper01 Your Right. I Remember That. It Was A Sold Out Show At The Old Mid- South Coliseum. I Had Floor Seats. Still Have My Ticket Stub, Great Times.👍🏻🤘🏻😀

Ahhh, but how is Vai on guitar compared to you my friend ?

Most creative musicians are hard to work with. They know what they want and don't buckle to be nice or compromise.

Definitely a snake lol....yeah 1987 was a kick ass piece of work

I believe he is referring to the album “Ready and Willing”. Not the 1987 “cover” album….🙄

DC says he always envisioned WS as a flexible band where members come and go. (which when you think about it is how a lot of bands are anyway.) But yeah, definitely always had that "I'm a rock god, you're my servant" air about him. Karma's a b though, now he's immortalized on video as the weakest member of his own band in latter years as his high range disappeared into cackles, rattles and cringe

And needed 2 guitar players to replace John sykes wall of sound..

Correct. Whitesnake *could* have been up there with all the best, but it was Coverdale's hubris that killed them. Such a shame.

He was! But now?

@@tklrrbccar3906 Well, he's older now. Father Time spares no one.

On my personal opinion, this is at his best, I was trying to find this comment, and I did, lol. I remember very well where I was, who I was , I even think I remember the face I did that first time I hear it.

I had that album, & played some songs from it just this week, I may go & see Alcatraz, they playing the UK next year, Joe Stump on fretboard duties.

I loved Vai era Alcatrazz, when he joined they stopped being the Bonnet/Malmsteen vehicle or Rainbow wannabes and started being an actual band. Everything about the music and the nature of the band was better.

I love PIL. So sad for John Lydon after he lost his wife, he also lost his manager and friend Rambo Stevens last year.

Tf ! I just saw PIL a couple months back and Rambo looked pretty alive to me ...when was this again ?@@DutchEddie

That’s not what the headline was referring to. It was clickbait. He was saying that he’s a monster in the rock music business. Meaning he’s huge.

Yes ! 👍

Always annoys me when people think Whitesnake began in 1987, totally disregarding the brilliant back catalogue

@@stevosguitars Aye - I think my favourite is still Trouble even after all these years :)

@@stevosguitars Absolutely right.

Come and get it album is a classic..