Steve Vai - Without Me (VaiTunes) (2010)
Steve Vai - Without Me (VaiTunes) (2010) [single]
Instrumental Guitar Rock | Mp3 | 320 kbps | 12 Mb | 00:05:00
Instrumental Guitar Rock | Mp3 | 320 kbps | 12 Mb | 00:05:00
TrackList:
01. Without Me
This track was spontaneously born at a soundcheck sometime in the mid 1990’s. The basic gist of the melody and chord changes were captured and put on the shelf. Sometime later when I was pulling potential tracks together for the Fire Garden album I came across this melody.
In listening to the disheveled and damaged recording, I heard in the melody a sort of longing. A vision of my wife Pia came to me. She was very sad, yet wore a sliver of a bittersweet smile. She was sitting on our favorite couch in the “dangerous nook” off our bedroom. (We call it that because once you let the room embrace you, it’s difficult to leave it.)
I had left the world and she was left to put the pieces back together. The melody of this song is what she was feeling.
The track was recorded during the demo sessions for the Fire Garden album and put on the shelf again. A few years later I was asked for a track that would be part of a compilation called “Musicians for Minneapolis Benefit”. It was for the survivors of the I-35 Bridge Disaster in Minneapolis. I was happy to find this song, brush it off, and donate it to the record. Recently, when I decided to start releasing VaiTunes, the track was remixed and re-mastered in January 2010. It is now available as a VaiTunes release.
Since it was originally a studio demo I believe the guitar track is one take. It’s interesting to hear how I played back then — my choice of notes, intonation, vibrato, etc. It’s fascinating to listen to older musical sensibilities and see what was important at the time.
Steve Vai is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, producer, actor and hairdresser. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai also recorded and toured in Zappa's band, starting in 1980. The guitarist began a solo career in 1984 and has released 13 solo albums as of 2008.
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01. Without Me
This track was spontaneously born at a soundcheck sometime in the mid 1990’s. The basic gist of the melody and chord changes were captured and put on the shelf. Sometime later when I was pulling potential tracks together for the Fire Garden album I came across this melody.
In listening to the disheveled and damaged recording, I heard in the melody a sort of longing. A vision of my wife Pia came to me. She was very sad, yet wore a sliver of a bittersweet smile. She was sitting on our favorite couch in the “dangerous nook” off our bedroom. (We call it that because once you let the room embrace you, it’s difficult to leave it.)
I had left the world and she was left to put the pieces back together. The melody of this song is what she was feeling.
The track was recorded during the demo sessions for the Fire Garden album and put on the shelf again. A few years later I was asked for a track that would be part of a compilation called “Musicians for Minneapolis Benefit”. It was for the survivors of the I-35 Bridge Disaster in Minneapolis. I was happy to find this song, brush it off, and donate it to the record. Recently, when I decided to start releasing VaiTunes, the track was remixed and re-mastered in January 2010. It is now available as a VaiTunes release.
Since it was originally a studio demo I believe the guitar track is one take. It’s interesting to hear how I played back then — my choice of notes, intonation, vibrato, etc. It’s fascinating to listen to older musical sensibilities and see what was important at the time.
Steve Vai is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, producer, actor and hairdresser. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai also recorded and toured in Zappa's band, starting in 1980. The guitarist began a solo career in 1984 and has released 13 solo albums as of 2008.
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