Steve vai passion and warfare jem series#
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Steve vai passion and warfare jem download#

The song 'For the Love of God' is available for download for the 2007 video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and was voted the 29th best solo of all time by a readers' poll in Guitar World magazine. The equipment used to record Passion and Warfare was: Ibanez JEM and Universe guitars Charvel Green Meanie guitar Marshall JCM900 and Carvin X-100B amplifiers ADA MP-1 preamplier Boss DS-1 distortion pedal Eventide H3000 harmonizer Lexicon 480L. The drums were subsequently re-recorded for the album.

Vai was introduced to Carvin by his mentor Frank Zappa, who had also used the X-100B. 'Blue Powder' was originally recorded in 1986 as a showcase track for Carvin, using their X-100B amplifier, and given away with Guitar Player magazine in flexi disc format. For what would come to be one of his most popular songs to date, 'For the Love of God', he fasted for ten days and recorded the song on the fourth day of the fast. Vai utilized many unusual recording techniques on the album. Vai states that planning the album started as early as 1982, but was shelved after joining the David Lee Roth band and not picked up again until parting ways with Roth in 1989. As such, Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has small spoken parts on Passion and Warfare. It was all recorded in The Mothership studio at his home in the Hollywood Hills, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building in which his guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue were also recorded.

Steve vai passion and warfare jem series#

It was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had when he was younger, and in the guitar music book of the album, Vai sums it up as 'Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc'. History of JEM guitars, IbanezVintage.Passion and Warfare is the second studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released in September 1990 through Relativity and Epic Records.He has used a number of rack effects units controlled via MIDI. Vai's effects pedals include a modified Boss DS-1, Ibanez Tube Screamer, Morley Bad Horsie, Ibanez Jemini Twin Distortion Pedal, TC Electronics G-System, Morley Little Alligator Volume pedal, Digitech Whammy, and an MXR Phase 90/Phase 100 on the Passion and Warfare album. Vai wanted to create an affordable amp that was unique, and equal in sound and versatility to any guitar amp he had previously used.

Steve Vai has also worked with Carvin Guitars to develop the Carvin Legacy line of guitar amplifiers. Ibanez also built a couple of custom guitars for Vai, including two heart-shaped triple neck models, another triple neck based on the JEM7V and a double neck resembling the JEM77B. Some of them do get modified to some extent, such as the installation of a sustainer pickup or a True Temperament fingerboard. Most of Steve Vai's stage and studio guitars are stock or made out of stock parts, meaning that they are not specially made for him but come from the regular Ibanez production lines. Due to extensive wear and tear, Vai's guitars occasionally get parts replaced, such as the tremolo and even the neck. His current main guitar dubbed 'Evo' is an early production model and 'Flo' is a Floral JEM77 painted over. Currently, he mainly uses a couple of models resembling the JEM7V production model. Steve Vai owns an plays several Ibanez guitars.