52 of 81 people found this review helpful. I was more than happy with the purchase and how quickly it was shipped. Shop and Buy Passion & Warfare sheet music. “What an experience that was! I wish I could say the heavens opened up and white doves flew down, but the truth is, I was so invested in playing it right from start to finish that I couldn’t be in the moment. Passion & Warfare By Steve Vai - guitar tablature songbook Sheet Music for Guitar - Buy print music HL.660137 Sheet Music Plus. With a laugh, he recalls the first time he performed it onstage, in 1991, in Spain. I always look to go deeper and deeper into every note.” “It’s such a privilege every time I play it,” he says. Vai can’t recall a live show in which he hasn’t included “For the Love of God” in the set. Relativity released Passion and Warfare, and it struck a nerve. “They told me, ‘We have no idea how to promote this,’” he says.Įncouraged by Whitesnake singer David Coverdale (who had recorded a spoken-word coda on “For the Love of God”), Vai played the album for Relativity Records’ A&R head Cliff Cultreri. When he played Passion and Warfare for his label reps, he was dismayed at their reaction. Vai had just joined the band Whitesnake, but he was also signed to Capitol Records as a solo artist. It was pure, infinite freedom of expression.

“Even in this state of mind, I wanted the solo to grow, and I gave it everything I had. “Because I was fasting, I alternated between feeling sick and experiencing this strange euphoria,” he says. While standing underneath a wooden pyramid he had built (“I was fascinated with pyramids at the time”), Vai, on the fourth day of a 10-day fast, performed the song’s breathtaking solo on one of his signature Ibanez Universe seven-string guitars. Working in his own home studio, Vai guided bassist Stuart Hamm and drummer Tris Imboden through their parts, then recorded his guitar tracks in his own inimitable fashion. It wasn’t until he was recording the follow-up to his indie smash Flex-Able that he felt ready to give the song the treatment it deserved. “I would walk past it, and it would kind of trip me, but I just didn’t know what to do with it,” he says. The cassette sat on Vai’s shelf for years. (Image credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Don’t Try This At Home

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