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Summary: Steve Vai Alien Love Secrets DVD
Review: I will start this by saying that I am a huge Steve Vai fan. I own all of his CDs and have been listening to his music since 1986. That being said, I would caution anyone to preview a copy of this DVD before you purchase it. The high points for me were the sound quality, and more importantly, hearing Steve describe his inspiration behind the songs. I would have liked to see more of this type of thing in the future. More of this information would have made the DVD longer and helped increase it's viewability over time. The low points were the image quality, and the performance itself. Much of the time, the picture was slightly fuzzier than I have seen on other DVDs. It may have been a transfer problem, and it really surprised me knowing how Steve can be about production. The performance was mediocre at best. Many times I felt that they weren't really playing the songs when they were being video taped. The performance seemed a little fake and forced. All in all, it's an average DVD. I know that Steve Vai is capable of better production than this. Hopefully his next production will be either a filmed concert or a strictly instructional one, rather than this type of studio DVD.
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Summary: Steve Vai the Man
Review: If you are Steve Vai fan or high quality guitar music lover, get this DVD as you can watch Steve playing (This not a Live Show), Steve even though not playing in real time, faitfully follows his solo lines, Great music but bad cameraman, constant moving camera gets bit annoying after awhile. But the music is fantastic.
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Summary: Wonderful Audio Quality, Mediocre Video Quality
Review: If you like Vai it is well worth the money even with the poor quality of the video transfer. Basically a collection of performance videos for all the songs. DVD also contains an audio track with Steve explaining each of the songs (inspirations, etc.) along with some other cool features. I just wish they would have spent a little more time and money to get a killer video track to go along with the killer audio.
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Summary: Quite good, but...
Review: Is his guitar even plugged in
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Summary: Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets
Review: Is Steve Vai really an 'Alien' ?? ..He has to be,he's got about 40 hr days!!ha! Only Steve would take time to make this studio video FOR GUITAR PLAYERS!!! Alot of hand shots & check out the 'now u see it, now u don't' slide trick(BAD HORSIE). When I'm in a rut practicing & I need a pick-me-up - I throw this in & STEVE KICKS IT OUT!
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Summary: Alien Love Child DVD Review
Review: It was only a matter of days after seeing Steve Vai play live on the most recent G3 tour with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci that I decided to purchase this disk. There is nothing more exciting than seeing Vai play live, he is one of the most captivating performers of all time. That being said, you can imagine my disappointment when, during the first song, I realized that this is a collection of music videos and not live performances. I kept trying to tell myself at least I could still watch Steve's showmanship, but that thought went away every time I saw the drummer tap another crash cymbal. I know millions of people watch MTV to see their favorite artist pantomime their songs, but it just seems wrong to watch Vai do that. I'm not sorry I bought it; I'm happy to have it in my collection. I just won't be watching it much.
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Summary: is this a live dvd?
Review: ive watched the vhs version so many times now and still cant see that this was not a live show. (was it a live show? did steve actually split into 3 versions of himself on one of the songs?).
the sound quality is superb and the choreography is perfectly matched with the songs.
(i could do without the little kid playing drums though....)
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Summary: A Simple & Effective DVD
Review: Like all great ideas this DVD concept is both simple and effective. It contains all seven songs from the corresponding CD and features Steve mimicking his live performance for the cameras. A variety of different clothes, guitars, and skin colours (!) all help to sustain visual interest. The picture quality is average, but the sound is so great you'll soon have the neighbors banging on your walls! The DVD also contains a few extra gubbins and as well as Steve's audio commentary also includes multiple camera angles, a short interview and a useful programmable playing order. Although some people have criticised this as an MTV style performance, it is very representative of Steve's live show and ultimately shows many close ups of his unfeasibly dextrous digits performing dazzling fretboard gymnastics! The DVD itself is only 40 minutes long, although cheap in the first place, and is worthy of many repeated plays. As stated above the concept of this DVD is startling effective and obviously cheap to produce, and yet still makes good use of the DVD as a platform. The gauntlet has now been thrown down to the likes of Satriani, Gilbert, and Petrucci, so don't be shy boys, just go for it!
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Summary: Good God.....He's only making a video
Review: No its not a live performance...but looking at most of these reviews would make you think Steve Via is the only musician on the planet that shouldnt be able to do a video!!.. Remember, he was in whitesnake, and david lee roth, and alcatraz..its not like he's never been on the mtv production bandwagon...so give him a break...its a good dvd that wasnt expensive and gives you a glimps into his thought prosess while making a music production...what the [heck] more do you want.,
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Summary: Steve is untouchable, this dvd is not.
Review: Steve Vai is untouchable, I love his playing and I consider Vayguy a true artist, one of the few in music biz. I'm a bit disappointed about this dvd because it is cheapily produced. The music is great, but if it was for the music we were talking about a cd. We're talking about a dvd instead so it's the video part that matters to me. It's cheap. And moreover the fact that it's not a live recording left me with a sort of bad taste. So they are videos and cheapily produced. In my opinion, you should buy this dvd only if you are in one of those moments when you want to buy something from the artist and you already have all the music he has recorded. As I did. It's funny in a certain sense but it's not the dvd you would expect from Steve. The three stars are only for the music which is caught between good and excellent. The dvd is really a lost opportunity to publish something really good and memorable. What a shame. Steve, I'll wait you next time with a lot better product. In a range from 1 to 10 I'd give Steve 10, music 7/8, dvd 4.
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