Top Albums/CDs – Volume 52, No. 11, July 28 1990". RPM Magazine. Library and Archives Canada. 59 (11). 28 July 1990. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 13 May 2021. British album certifications – Steve Vai – Passion And Warfare". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 8 May 2021.

I called Capitol Records to tell them I was ready to turn in the record and finally get paid but the entire staff had turned around again and now Joe Smith was no longer the President. The A&R guy assigned to me was Simon Potts. A&R stands for, among other things, Artist Relations. The A&R person is usually the liaison between the artist and the label, the one that works with the artist giving creative and and emotional support. I was introduced to Simon Potts over the phone. He not only didn’t know I was signed to the label, but he didn’t even know who I was. He requested I send him a tape. Now, you could literally almost see Capitol Records from my house so I sent Pam (my sister and secretary at the time) over with a cassette and she put it right on their desk. We called and they said they lost the tape or never received it, so we sent another. Vai displays an uplifting, humorous side of his art during the spoken-word portions of "The Audience The artwork will show you that it's been made in the early 90's, and it shows (plastic keyboards andBut guitar is part for itself. And no, I will not tell more to guitar topic, it should be clear now, I had these beautiful Lydian chord changes, and I said, Okay, I'm going to do a solo, but I want to do something new. There’s something out there, I don’t know what it is, but it will come to me.

Cliff Cultreri (who took Flex-Able and sold it years before) informed me that Relativity Records would love to release it. Relativity at the time was a very small independent label, but Cliff, more then anyone else I knew at any label, was and still is a music lover. He loves the guitar, plays the guitar and loved my record. Before that it was shopped around for a deal but there was no interest. balance his quirky creativity with a more commercially Vaiable (see what I did there?) Vaibe (two puns in a row!!!). If the

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He was found by another biker. Somehow they made it to a house and he survived, but with 60 per cent of his body severely burned. The stories he told of that experience and the excruciating pain he went through were unbelievable. But he survived it and eventually moved out to California. When our paths crossed, I thought hewas the most interesting, quirky, charming and stinging person I’d evermet!” Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Notes: “Passion And Warfare”This album was summed up pretty well in Guitar Player magazine as “the mother load.” It took many years to make, considering that I started before even joining David Lee Roth.

We touched on this a little bit earlier, as groundbreaking as Passion and Warfare is, you obviously had an eye on the marketplace. “The Audience Is Listening” is…Maybe this record is suffering now of what made it's success in the late 80's: trying hard to be hip. Probably not. Vai is playing for the masses here, with most of the songs being easy to consume (assuming you love guitar that'll tear your head off. "Answers" is a cleaner, more fusionistic number that's extremely punchy forget that. Maybe Vai was inspired while playing to arenas filled with ten thousand people, and found a way to