Please Listen to Vai

I AM NOT A GUITAR PLAYER!! (Remember that for later)

I am a huge proponent of Satellite radio. I love it!! No censorship very little interruptions, for a price I am willing to pay. Clear channel and other such a-holes gave are actually driving listeners to satellite because they systematically killed every station that I used to listen to in multiple cities, but out of the so-called destruction comes new life for the radio industry. So as I have a new ear for radio and am being exposed to things I've never heard before I ask as many people as possible to listen to a man that I consider an absolute genius that you may have never heard before.

I am a 36 year old guy with a 4 year old daughter but since she was 2 she has listened to this man. His name is Steve Vai and he is not your typical musician. For you older folks, he studied under Frank Zappa starting at 19. He has played with everyone in the biz and the biz has not rubbed off on him. He celebrates music and if you have a soul for music and even if you dont you can really feel what he is playing. I have been listening to him for 20 years now and I have seen him every time he comes to town and will take my daughter with me if he is still playing then.

My wife is very much a lyrical person but if I may quote her "He's like houdini with a guitar"

I dont ask for much, but I do ask that you close your eyes and listen as you hit the links below.
"For the love of god" Stay with it and see how easy he make it look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NfZBvRvkIg

You should watch this one beacuse of the triple guitar parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIq1xeCXwKQ

He did battle Ralph Maccio for his soul in Crossroads so that should give him some cred ;\
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb2dUtTpuU

For the real guitar geeks (look at it Tom, its cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FV51itmcuA

Peace-