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Neat Steve Vai interview mentioning Prince http://www.ballbusterhard...2/vai.html
I really like how he gives props to Prince and Joe Satriani (my two favorite artists). He goes nuts when he talks about how Prince played Tender Surrender! Neat little story. | |
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really koll...i have been diggin vai since his david lee roth days... | |
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It's kinda old and apparently it's not even 'Tender Surrender' he's playing on the boot but it's Hendrix (Villanova Junction, I think). It's nice to see Vai all excited though. | |
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mynameisnotsusan said: It's kinda old and apparently it's not even 'Tender Surrender' he's playing on the boot but it's Hendrix (Villanova Junction, I think). It's nice to see Vai all excited though.
Vai and the interviewer sure seem to believe it was Tender Surrender he played. Were they wrong? | |
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manthevan said: mynameisnotsusan said: It's kinda old and apparently it's not even 'Tender Surrender' he's playing on the boot but it's Hendrix (Villanova Junction, I think). It's nice to see Vai all excited though.
Vai and the interviewer sure seem to believe it was Tender Surrender he played. Were they wrong? - Probably were 
Anyway, it´s great to see Vai praising Prince...both are great musicians | |
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So everyone has their personality that they express through their art. Everyone has different things that they gravitate to. Like I adore Frank Zappa. I really love Prince.
Q: Did you hear Prince's version of Tender Surrender? (Prince covered this song of Steve's live in concert and the show ended up on a bootleg cd) Vai: Oh yeah! Q: Did that blow your mind? Vai: Blow my mind are you kidding? I almost died!! I was in Japan and I found this bootleg, and I remember seeing that there was a song called Tender Surrender, and my first thought was "of course there is a song called Tender Surrender on here, because it's a really cool name, and It sounds like something Prince would come up with!" All I thought was is "Prince is going to get credit for such a cool title!" Then later, I was listening to the cd, I just forgot about it, and then the song came on, and I just thought "No. It CAN'T be! It CANNOT be!" I just stopped, I got up, my wife was with me, it was four o'clock in the morning, and I said "you are NOT going to believe this!!" I turned the light on and looked at the cd an it said Tender Surrender (written) by Steve Vai. I started pacing the hallway! I was like "this can't be happening!" Then I remembered that I had sent (him) a copy of Tender Surrender. Q: Didn't you play for Prince at Paisley Park, but he watched from some booth or something? Vai: He was watching us on a video (monitor) while we played. Q: Then didn't he just send someone down to get your number? Vai: Yeah. Q: So you never even met him? Vai: I did meet him a while after that on the last G3 tour he was playing in town also. He held court in a club. I got in. Q: Talk about heavy cats! Vai: He's as heavy as it gets! Q: I'm SCARED of him! Vai: I'm scared too. He was an unbelievable gentleman. He really made me very very comfortable and happy. Q: Did you ask him about Tender Surrender? Vai: I kind of started to, but it was part of a bootleg, and he's really against bootlegs so... | |
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GustavoRibas said: manthevan said: Vai and the interviewer sure seem to believe it was Tender Surrender he played. Were they wrong? - Probably were
Anyway, it´s great to see Vai praising Prince...both are great musicians What's great is that he liked him enough to listen to a boot. It seems incredible that both he and the writer are mistaken about the song. | |
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I've been trying to find the thread as this was definitely discussed on npgmc and I've read it somewhere else as well but can't find the source. I'm sure I didn't just imagine it because I thought it was cool too but then was kinda deflated when it wasn't the case. Anyone back me up on this?? | |
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Aerogram said: GustavoRibas said: - Probably were
Anyway, it´s great to see Vai praising Prince...both are great musicians What's great is that he liked him enough to listen to a boot. It seems incredible that both he and the writer are mistaken about the song. - Yes, Aero...judging from this interview, Vai seems to be a huge Prince fan. His website used to have a link for prince´s site in the past (don´t know if it´s still there...) In fact, "tender surrender" sounds a lot like Hendrix "Villanova Junction" and I don´t know why Steve Vai said he wrote it. Being a fan of Jimi, he certainly heard "Villanova", so the chances of being a coincidence are minimal... I think Prince was listening to Vai in the mid-90s, but Prince was always a big fan of Jimi...so, I don´t know if Prince was covering Hendrix (it seems like) or Vai...anyway it´s cool this Vai-Prince connection. Vai talked about it in an online chat again to Steve Lukather (another guitar master) and Lukather praised Prince also, saying that Purple Rain solo is great | |
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mynameisnotsusan said: I've been trying to find the thread as this was definitely discussed on npgmc and I've read it somewhere else as well but can't find the source. I'm sure I didn't just imagine it because I thought it was cool too but then was kinda deflated when it wasn't the case. Anyone back me up on this??
http://www.prince.org/msg...00?jump=21 Neversin. O(+>NIИ<+)O
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |
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Thanks Neversin...now I understand why Steve considers ´Tender´ his song...I think it was an honest answer...
UV: At the beginning of 'Tender Surrender' [from 'Alien Love Secrets'] you play an octave melody that's reminiscent of... SV: Wes Montgomery? UV: Yeah, or I was thinking of the instrumental Jimi played at the end his Woodstock performance, 'Villanova Junction Blues'. SV: Right, right. It's very reminiscent of that! UV: That wasn't intentional then, no? SV: Well, it probably crept up form my subconscious somewhere. 'Tender Surrender' sounds like a cross between Jimi's song, Santana's 'Europa' and 'Call It Sleep' [from Vai's album 'Flex-Able' (1984)]. I don't claim to be original, by the way! | |
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Neversin said: mynameisnotsusan said: I've been trying to find the thread as this was definitely discussed on npgmc and I've read it somewhere else as well but can't find the source. I'm sure I didn't just imagine it because I thought it was cool too but then was kinda deflated when it wasn't the case. Anyone back me up on this??
http://www.prince.org/msg...00?jump=21 Neversin. Cool, thanks Neversin | |
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