The Real Illusions trilogy record wasn’t gonna do it. My fans got a kick out of it.Īt that point, I just had to get on tour, but it was years, and I’m a touring machine, so I had to make a choice quickly as to what to do to get on tour. So I thought, “I know I’m gonna make a song with just one hand”, and I called it “Knappsack” and released it. If you have a legato guitar style, you can make notes sound. So challenge, challenge, but then, “Wait a minute, I could play it”. It was so beautiful, and there I was with one hand going, “I wanna play! I wanna play this thing”. So I was wearing this Knappsack and I got this new guitar from Ibanez that we were working on for years, it’s the Pia. So here I am, I was wearing the sling, that’s called a Knappsack that my doctor actually invented, and his name is Dr. That’s a perspective, and it serves a person really well, because when you look at situations that way, and instead of complaining in your head about them or why they should be different, or what people should have done or any of that stuff, you just ask yourself, “Well, how can this serve me? Something in this is for my best interest, I don’t know what it is, but I wanna find it”, and if that’s the perspective, you will find it. Then after that, you’re recovering, but even then, I always try to see any challenge as something that’s in my best interest. So I started working on that and I really was really enjoying it, and then the shoulder thing hit, and I had to go get the surgery.
#GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU STEVE VAI PLUS#
So I thought, “Hey, you know what? With this lockdown, why don’t I make a record of acoustic solo, acoustic and vocals?” I have a ton of songs that fall into that category that they don’t sound conventional, as far as the chord changes and stuff like that, plus my voice doesn’t really sound like a conventional pop or anything all that. I did that ’cause it was just something to do that I wanted to do and I got a great response. I like singing and I like my voice a lot, but it’s extremely limited on a rock and roll thing, and it has to have the right song. So I released that and the response was really good, and then I did an acoustic version of a song of mine called “The Moon & I”, which is solo, acoustic and vocal, which is very rare for me. It was really great because I recorded that song, “Candle Power”, and it gave me an opportunity to fool around with some techniques I had wanted to. I like to set up parameters sometimes because they force you to discover things that you wouldn’t otherwise, sort of like the pandemic. So I gave it some focus and I got this really great team together, Steven and Stephanie Bradley just did miraculous things with my social media for me, and one of the things I wanted to do was complete an idea that I had for a song that consisted of a clean guitar tone, a non-Gem, a no whammy bar. I’m an old-timer in a sense, 61, so I like to embrace new technology, but then it was made apparent to me how valuable it is in reaching people that are interested in what you’re doing. I paid very little attention to social media in the past. I think I did about seven of each, and then I started posting stuff. That’s where I would take questions from people about guitar and music, and that was nice. Then there was one, Alien Guitar Secrets.
#GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU STEVE VAI SERIES#
I had two kinds of series going on, one was called Under It All, and that’s where I kind of just answered questions from folks, more esoteric principles. One of them was to post these live streams. I think that was probably the case with a lot of people. Everybody’s zooming and trading files online, and I don’t really think that was gonna work for that record, so I kinda shelved it and started just fooling around with the time that was available to us during the lockdown, and it really was nice because it gave me an opportunity to do some things I wanted to do.
Musicians had to kind of figure out different ways to navigate, and a lot of good things came out of it like our Zoom meeting right now. But that was gonna be a big project, very dense, a lot of vocals and this kind of thing, and then the pandemic hit and I really couldn’t. Before the pandemic, what I was gonna do was work on a record that was gonna be the third installment of the Real Illusions trilogy, sort of this series of records that are creating a story. They’re kind of dense and over-produced perhaps, but to reproduce them live is difficult. On changing the direction of the record as it was coming together – Well, you just said it begs to be played live, a lot of times when I make records when I compose or make songs, they’re not so practical to play live.
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