“But there was also a particular type of music that I knew was in me that was eventually gonna have to come out. Vai and his band hit Europe, the U.S., South America, and Mexi-co.
And I knew instinctually that it was gonna pass. The re-lease, which included previously unreleased material, was celebrated by a very special 100+ date world tour in which he performed the entire Passion and Warfare record live from top to bottom for the first time. “So it was really great because I didn’t get sucked into it. I liked the money, but I never bought fancy cars or stuff like that. I didn’t do drugs, I was in a relationship, I wasn’t promiscuous in that way really. “But as I was going through it, I knew that it was a fun game, so to speak. And on tour with Dave it was there in, like, exponentially.
You could clearly say that it wasn’t a staged. A great thing about the show was Vai‘s contact with the audience. The live set was a wild ride all the way throughout his repertoire, from the times of ‘Passion And Warfare’ to his latest excellent record ‘The Story Of Light’. “But you have access to money, all kinds of sex, anything you’re interested in, it’s just there. Steve Vai was all over the place, and his music was also. When you’re in a situation like that – you’re selling out arenas around the world, you’re virtually famous over night, you’re selling tons of records and people change around you… And that’s okay, I get it. I don’t know how people tour now in rock bands. “I tell some people and it sounds unbelievable what went on. Steve Vai remembered the wild days of being in David Lee Roth‘s band between 19, telling The Andertons during a recent interview: I experienced the excess when it was appropriate to experience it, and then I moved on from it. Back then, man… Like with Dave Roth, there was nothing like it. “I experienced the excess when it was appropriate to experience it, and then I moved on from it. Steve Vai remembered the wild days of being in David Lee Roth‘s band between 19, telling The Andertons during a recent interview: