g3

The G3 tour has just finished its final leg of this years tour in South America. Its a concept thought up and organised by guitarist Joe Satriani, featuring him alongside 2 other world class guitarists. Steve Vai regularly appears on the tour along with other guitarists including John Petrucci and Eric Johnson.

Alongside Satriani, this years lineup consisted of combinations of Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Steve Lukather and John Petrucci. The tour travelled worldwide to South America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand and is definitely worth seeing live should you ever get the chance.

There have been a number of live recording of various shows, released on both CD and DVD, but here is G3 live in Tokyo in 2005 playing Smoke on the Water with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and John Petrucci.

zappa

It's Frank's birthday today!

Here's Steve Vai talking about his audition for Frank Zappa's band.

Now here from the man himself in an interview with Washington D.C. deejay Cerphe (Don Collwell) in 1985.
It was at a time when Zappa was to testify on Capitol Hill at the infamous Senate Porn Rock Hearings on record labelling. His controversial comments on the matter might just have been the reason that the interview was never shown. This is the unedited version.
Frank talks about the state of modern rock and roll, censorship, conformity, sex, consumerism, MTV. It still sounds contemporary with events today.

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