Vai's "Secret Jewel Box Set", a deluxe 10"圆"圆" gloss black box, lined with red velvet, features compartments for a total of ten CDs, three guitar picks and a hundred-page booklet. So far it's my favorite album that I ever made."
"As a result, there was an opening up to a powerful and personal creativity that allowed me to find the most stimulation music I could conjure. "The music on 'Modern Primitive' was written and recorded with virtually no expectations for its future," Vai said. The album represents that missing link that exposes the colossal growth period between "Flex-Able" and "Passion And Warfare". Vai completed the recording in 2016, thirty years after its inception. He formed THE CLASSIFIED - consisting of Tommy Mars on keyboards, Chris Frazier on drums, Stu Hamm on bass and Sue Mathis on vocals and keyboards - after his first solo record "Flex-Able" (1983) and prior to the writing and recording of the music on Vai's renowned "Passion And Warfare" (1990). "Modern Primitive" is comprised of material that was written and partially recorded with Vai's band THE CLASSIFIED back in the early '80s. This stand-alone release of "Modern Primitive" will be a limited-edition album and has been modified specifically for Vai's "Secret Jewel Box", making this an instant collector's item for Vai fans around the globe. Originally included as a companion disk to Vai's 25th-anniversary release of his seminal "Passion And Warfare" CD, "Modern Primitive" will be released by itself as the seventh instalment of the Steve Vai "Secret Jewel Box", an ambitious ten-CD box set that was originally released in December 2001. Which, thankfully, is the exact kind of thing Ibanez are masters of.Virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer Steve Vai will release "Modern Primitive" on July 7 through Favored Nations Entertainment, the indie label founded by Vai in 1999. Ultimately, if you’re looking to recreate these sounds and tones - you’re going to need some sort of Superstrat with 24 frets, a five-way selector for an HSH pickup configuration and a double locking tremolo system that can handle extreme whammy bar abuse. It has this personality virtually shaped like my mind and body.” It’s like the gift that keeps on giving, but most importantly it’s the guitar I love playing.
The Strat is first and then it’s neck and neck between RGs and Les Pauls. Its sister guitar, the RG, is one of the biggest-selling guitars in the world. “Looking back I think, ‘Holy mackerel, how did that happen?’ The JEM has been so consistent and successful for over three decades. I still can’t believe it,” Vai commented, in the same interview. “My career with Ibanez has been extraordinary. The series was launched in 1987 alongside his original signature JEM, with many similarities between the two instruments. Guitars are very rarely as tied to an artist as the RG is with Steve Vai.
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