Essential Classics
Steve Vai
Flex-Able 1984
Although many would suggest the iconic as the Vai album to go for, the Zappa-tinged is Vai and the peak of ‘stunt guitar’ instrumentals , it was no surprise that Vai was poached by David Lee Roth a couple of years later; DLR’s is a shred album with vocals, after all. A stalwart of guitar magazines since, Vai remains at the top of his game, producing albums that tread the line between baffling chord changes, and music laden with enormous hooks.
