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Vai a prick? I don't know about that. He's definitely one strange dude, but when a person thinks and lives on a different plane than everyone else, its easy to get the wrong idea. I met him a few times. Usually he didn't say a word - a few times the guy wouldn't shut up. His mind is in one place - on music. Always. 24/7.
I used to love his playing (and actually have a signed copy of his eight track demo), but the last few years he's just gone too far outside. First time I heard him was on a little floppy single stapled in Guitar Player magazine. Stunning shit.
Eat Em & Smile will always be one of my favourite albums - insane playing with Vai and Shehan. His work with Zappa and on the movie Crossroads (not the Brittney Spears movie) was stellar. I started losing interest when he joined Whitesnake (wtf?) but his solo stuff is amazing.
Have hours of solos downloaded from Napster. Brilliant man, but on a different planet.
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