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Now I don't have to mention Vai's tremendous amazing technical ability, because you'll get bored Notice that in some parts of the song, the sustain of the guitar is very long, don't try to copy that without a sustainer.

The song begins with sick arpeggio tapping, for those of you who have seen G3 , you can see how Vai played that song. The story is about the Pamposh walked down to a town, where later he will make a church. Well his vocal style is not too bad, he can sing nicely.

The story is about Pamposh who found that humans are mostly selfish and don't have love. So he tried to find the purest part of humans, Dying For Your humans Love.

The song itself contains more vocal sound than the guitar sound, very unusual for Vai's songs. Glorious - Cool intro, with heavy guitar and drum riffs. Again, Vai used strange sound effect, more like wah - wah pedah effects but its more, ahh, I don't know, if you know what he is playing, he is not Steve Vai.

Its about all the citizen of the town has consider that Pamposh is in town and they are gathered glorious. Calm deep guitar sound for the intro, very nice, real fat and nice tone. After that, followed by crazy arpeggio, really fast but beautiful. The song slows down at the second minute, and the sound effect of the guitar getting unique, combined with his great techniques. Firewall - This is the most unique song, started with Vai's extremely unique vocal.

In this song, there are trumpets, saxes, trombones and other percussion played. In some way I feel it is like Santana's song.

Overall, this song is great, especially when the part "Boom Shika Boom Shika ba-ka-tu-ka" sang once more, but this time with rhythm section, very cool!!! Freak Show Excess - Quite unique intro, with sort of like a mandolin sound, with percussion. Then followed with very nice arpeggio, simply amazing. The story is about the appearance of The Whirling Devilish. At minute, the mandolin-like sound played again, with nice rhythm section. The song is ended with Vai's crazy sweeping arpeggio, the notes increased in every section, truly a virtuoso.

Lotus Feet - I bet you will like this song, very beautiful!! In fact, I can say this is the most beautiful instrumental rock song I have ever listened to.

The first half of the song is very peaceful and calm, then at the third minute, the energy increased, amazing how he can create such an amazing song, WHOA!! The best part of this song is the sweeping arpeggio at minute, fast but still beautiful. After that, the song cools down and the notes are quite simple but still have deep feeling. Again, I think this is the best song in the album and the most beautiful instrumental rock song for me. Yai-Yai - Very unique song. Somehow he can create such an amazing guitar effect, that the guitar sounded like "yai-yai", just like human.

Steve Vai is truly a virtuoso. Unfortunately, the whole song is just the "yai-yai" sound, no solo or such thing like that. The title is also the name of one of the cast. Midway Creatures - Heavy and metal intro with cool guitar effect. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip.

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Freak Show Excess. Lotus Feet. Yai Yai. Midway Creatures. I'm Your Secrets. Building The Church opens the album with a keyboard blast followed by some dark guitar while Dying For Your Love proves that Vai is still really good at writing brooding rock songs. Likely the best of it's type since 'Genocide' from his Fire Garden album. Firewall is the kind of song hat is pure fun to sing along to, especially that opening bit don't ask me how many times I've embarrassed myself doing that Lotus Feet is a beautiful song that really shows Vai as a great composer along with the excellent Under It All There's some filler here, and a little bit of weirdness, case in point - Yai Yai Along with the tracks already mentioned, the rest of the songs on the album are all very very well composed and played, and each one a construct of it's own grandeur with all their own atmospheres and charms.

Such good things to say about it, why not 5 stars? Well, while it may be Vai's masterpiece IMO , its not a progressive masterpiece. Almost pure prog in many parts, this is an album that really deserves the very literal title of prog related. Definitely and album for prog heads to invest some time in, and really the only Steve Vai album worth your time if you're not a fan of his. Great for anyone who loves guitar or anyone who just wants a solid album.

It is an instrumental concept album, part one of three. The concept is difficult to follow because, while Steve has explained the part of the narrative that each song corresponds to in the liner notes, the songs are intentionally out of order. However, what we know so far is that Captain Drake Morgan experiences a spiritual epihpany and an angel named Pamposh builds a giant church named Under It All. Doesn't make much sense to me either.

But I'm expecting that it will eventually. There are a couple technical displays on this album, mainly in Building the Church and in Freak Show Excess. But that isn't the point of this album. Instead, he focuses on evoking atmospheres and emotions with his playing. I've always considered Steve Vai to be one of the more tasteful shredders, and it shows on this album. There's enough wankery to impress and remind you who you're dealing with, but it's made more effective by the way he holds back most of the time.

I personally think Steve has a great voice, perfectly on key and knowing to stay within his limits no doubt this is due to his having perfect pitch.

All in all, I think this is a great album. There are many who say it's the worst thing he's ever done. The key is to approach with an open mind. This is not necessarily a guitar hero album, despite the large quantity of instrumental tracks and amazing guitar playing. The flashy solos take a back seat to the songwriting, and if you're willing to accept that, hopefully you can enjoy this album as much as I do.

Just as a warning though, my idol as a guitarist is Steve Vai, so there may be some bias playing in here. If nothing else, some of his absolute finest guitar work can be found here.

Although the concept is fairly weak mainly because it is so hard to follow , the music more than makes up for this. Very diverse in style, Vai strikes an excellent balance between heavy and soft music.

Building the Church, the albums opener, ranks among Vai's absolute best, while Lotus Feet is perhaps the most emotional song he has made so far. Recorded live with a symphony orchestra, Lotus Feet is a remarkable composition which shows that Vai is much more than just a great guitar player, but is also a great composer.

Though the album is very vocally driven, Vai leaves plenty of room for guitar heroics. Plus, Vai's voice holds up very well, especially on the rocker Firewall. One reason why this album is an improvement for Vai is its lack of humor. While to some this may be a drawback, to me his attempts at humor got in the way of the music more then they inhanced it.

That isn't to say it's too serious, though. Tracks such as Yai Yai prove that Vai will never take himself too seriously, something that seperates him from most instrumental acts. His backing band, featuring bass wiz Billy Sheehan, is at the top of their game.