source file: m1410.txt Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 02:09:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Page & Plant do Xen ? & Vai From: Xou Oxno Drew Skyfyre wrote: >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 ? I remember him talking about this in other interviews so I don't think he's joking. Besides: all that wammy bar work is quite microtonal and he has a distinct style of bending the strings. There seems to be a target ratio he aims for. So he was thinking microtonal long before he got the guitars specially refretted. I like his earlier work better. The later work has too much dsp. Lush - yes but I'm a big fan of great guitar tone = power amp distortion! >OR,perhaps some wise >magazine editor people have been filling up the cutting floor ? (No >offence to David Beardsley or 'zine people in general) Nah...I'm not an editor or writer...except Juxtaposition Ezine and I don't exactly get paid for that! -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * xouoxnoREMOVE-THIS@virtulink.com * * J u x t a p o s i t i o n E z i n e * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm