source file: m1412.txt Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:04:54 -0400 Subject: Vai From: "Paul H. Erlich" >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! His EP "Alien Love Secrets" from 1995 is free of effects -- just distortion and some samples of his baby son "talking". Have you heard it? I haven't heard the follow-up, "Fire Garden". To get back on the subject of this list, Vai did a piece with microtonal clusters, which is included on the CD "Flex-able". I believe he just overdubbed the same part 8 times, transposed one degree higher (in 96-tone equal temperament) each time.