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Vai is zen.
Vai was amazing. Beautifully intense with a cool charm; he had the rock-star look and strut but this was no shred-guitar goon.
Let me just break off here and say I had expected to find a live set by Steve Vai in 2012 to be quite ridiculous, possibly painful.
I was a fan. But that was 20 years earlier. And only really because of Passion And Warf…
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