Search - Steve Vai :: Ultra Zone

Geoff C. from WATERTOWN, MA
Reviewed on 10/30/2006...

I bought this by mistake - I had intended to buy the live CD with a similar title.

Oh my God, Vai has taken it up a notch or twenty!

Dale D. (demon1@worldnet.att.net) | Tucson, Arizona | 10/01/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Guitar fans must agree that Steve Vai defines technique and skill, so much that it was hard to immagine a higher level. With The Ultra Zone, Vai has accomplished the seemed impossible--taken the world of guitar technique, creativity and thus, virtuosity beyond our solar system. From the opening lineof the opening tune, Blood & Tears, the table is set for a feast of visceral rhythms, complex melodies, and solos loaded with improvisations that travel at the speed of light. It is possible to wonder how one could have ever existed without the emotional affect gathered from tunes such as The Ultra Zone, Jibboom, or Windows to the Soul. This CD is one that will never grow old."

A composers guitar haven...breathless.

Dale D. (demon1@worldnet.att.net) | 09/17/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are of the faint of heart, or find Britney Spears music to be too complicated, you are out of luck with this one. If you enjoy well arranged and beatuifully composed and performed guitar music... This is the one! As always Steve Vai surprises with every note he squeezes out of his instrument. The album covers the absurd and comical, as well as the deep and philosohical, mixing the styles of "Flex-able" and "Passion and Warfare" with some new, eastern twists. He will take you on a journey you have never been before, and rock you with "jibboom" and "the ultra zone", and bring you to spiritual heights with "windows to the soul". Don't expect this to be like anything else he has ever done, but it's still pure Steve."