Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare (1990) First U.S. Pressing
EAC Secure Rip | FLAC (Image + Cue + Log) - 405 MB | Complete Scans (Jpeg 600 dpi) - 375 MB | MP3 (CBR320 Kbps) - 133 MB
Hard Rock, Progressive Metal, Instrumental Rock | Relativity Records | 88561-1037-2 | 53:21 minutes | 5% WinRar Recovery | Hosted on: FilePost
EAC Secure Rip | FLAC (Image + Cue + Log) - 405 MB | Complete Scans (Jpeg 600 dpi) - 375 MB | MP3 (CBR320 Kbps) - 133 MB
Hard Rock, Progressive Metal, Instrumental Rock | Relativity Records | 88561-1037-2 | 53:21 minutes | 5% WinRar Recovery | Hosted on: FilePost
Passion and Warfare is the second instrumental solo album from guitarist Steve Vai. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA. It was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had when he was younger, and in the guitar music book of the album, Vai sums it up as 'Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc'. It was all recorded in 'The Mothership' studio at his home in the Hollywood Hills, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building where his guitar parts for Whitesnake's album Slip of the Tongue were also recorded. (Whitesnake singer David Coverdale has small talking parts on Passion and Warfare.) Vai has many strange recording techniques, and for one of Passion and Warfare's tracks, "For the Love of God", he fasted for ten days and recorded this song on the fourth day of the fast. The track Blue Powder was actually recorded in 1986 as a showcase track for Carvin amplification and given away with Guitar Player magazine in flexi-disc format. The song Blue Powder was recorded using Carvin's X-100B amplifier. Steve was introduced to Carvin Amplification by his mentor Frank Zappa who used the X-100B. The drum performance was subsequently re-recorded for the album.
The gear used to record this album was: Ibanez JEM and Universe guitars, Charvel Greenie Meanie, Marshall JCM900 amplifiers, Carvin X-100B amplifier, Boss DS-1 pedals, ADA-MP-1 preamp, Eventide H3000 harmonizer, Lexicon etc.
Widely acclaimed as his best album, Passion and Warfare finds Steve Vai coming into his own as a composer, as well as bypassing vocals almost entirely. His style isn't quite as derivative of influences Frank Zappa and Joe Satriani as it was six years earlier on Flex-able; while some of Vai's sense of humor is still evident on tracks like the cock rock strut of "The Audience Is Listening," it is mostly replaced by a spiritual reflectiveness on ballads like "For the Love of God" and "Blue Powder" and dignified, committed rockers like "I Would Love To" and "Liberty." Vai is a more distinguished composer than most of his guitar-shredder contemporaries, and rather than simply showing off his technique, he isn't afraid to experiment or take chances in his playing. Thus, Passion and Warfare is arguably the richest and best hard rock guitar-virtuoso album of the '80s. Reviewed by Steve Huey allmusic.com
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Steve Vai / Passion And Warfare
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==== Log checksum 11D6A52FCAAF5D4AB8CC92E7033D5E27F7AC1A42CEF69D85E66B620A66B47DFF ====
All songs written by Steve Vai
01. Liberty
02. Erotic Nightmares
03. The Animal
04. Answers
05. The Riddle
06. The Ballerina 12/24
07. For The Love Of God
08. The Audience Is Listening
09. I Would Love To
10. Blue Powder
11. Greasy Kid's Stuff
12. Alien Water Kiss
13. Sisters
14. Love Secrets
Album Released: July 1990
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Ripped and Scanned from the Stadium Studios Library June/July 2012
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