source file: m1409.txt Date: Fri, 8 May 98 12:26:54 -0000 Subject: Page & Plant do Xen ? & Vai From: Drew Skyfyre Just caught a bit of a new Jimmy Page/Robert plant song on MTV,as I was passing through the living room. Interesting tonalities and atleast to my inexperienced ears,veers off 12-TET.If anyone could make interesting microtonal rock music AND get people to listen,it's these guys. I think the album is called "Walking into Clarksdale". About Steve Vai,he's never had a bigger fan than me ( I owned a Universe.No,no, I'm not a crazed megalomaniac,I speak of the 7-string thing),but as I've gotten smarter (i.e. abandoned 12-TET for anything else) and from what few words he's been quoted on non-12-TET ,I keep wondering if he's just pulling our collective legs ? OR,perhaps some wise magazine editor people have been filling up the cutting floor ? (No offence to David Beardsley or 'zine people in general) Paul Erlich,I believe,said: >I have two Ibanez 7-string guitars (which Steve Vai designed), one of which I >had refretted to 22-TET. I'm sure he would love to know about that, if I knew >how to get in touch with him! It would be very interesting to get Vai to speak a bit about his experiences with microtonality. Like Neil says,if someone of Vai's stature had to put out real microtonal music,it would make some waves.Besides,I have never come upon anyone with a higher level of skills with the electric guitar. Later, Drew