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Article: Man and superman: Steve Vai is a guitar god with a mortal coil.(Cover Story)
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- Guitar Player
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- July 1, 2005
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As far as gods go, Zeus and most of his cronies on Mount Olympus were real scumbags. They totally dug being omnipotent and all-powerful, and they took every opportunity to screw with us mortals because, in the pre-television, pre-Playstation, pre-NASCAR days, tormenting humans was how those sick buggers got their jollies. I think us flesh-and-blood types have been suspicious of any god identified by a lower-case "g" every since.
Perhaps this is why it's so shocking that the guitar god known as Steve Vai is nowhere near as dangerous as Apollo, Mars, and Mercury after a bacchanal at a strip joint. Sure, his frightening command of the guitar can turn lesser ...