Andy Timmons & Steve Vai - Beat it RIP Michael Jackson

thats wicked!! tribute to an icon by 2 other icons. lol.

Almost brings tears to my eyes. Well done on both of them.

The King Of Jemsite pays tribute to The King Of Pop. Slightly ironic, but very cool.

Wow, they just put my video on the official Vai website, what an honor!

http://www.vai.com/News/index.html

Its funny how Vai makes everything seem just fine!!

Nice of them, but i think that tribute sucked big time...

deeman said:

Nice of them, but i think that tribute sucked big time...

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Yep gotta agree there. It's typical Vai overindulgence noodling.

yes, it started out fine then turned into a mess......

Oh, Andy. My favorite guitarist. Beautifully done.

jemswirl said:

yes, it started out fine then turned into a mess......

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Ended up as just noise

Would've been cooler if EVH and Lukather were doing it

I think Steve butched the song.

Jimmy:smile:

jb4674 said:

I think Steve butched the song.

Jimmy:smile:

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Yeah, what's up with that... especially the solo.

That's the worst Vai(Andy) clip I saw.Not only because sound is crap but because they ruinned that song in so many levels.
Well this is the prove that even those guys sometimes sound like crap.

I shot that with a photo camera, so of course the sound is not perfect.
And considered that they may have rehearsed it maybe only once it´s not too bad I guess.

sorry man I didn't know you shoot it.
So probably sound was really better there.
Still Vai solo has nothing to do with that song but Vai can't not sound as himself so....
What's the point ?
They sound like crap LOL

Andy is great as ever

what camera did you use, nice job.

Nice job filming. You framed the shots perfectly.

And now for the flame. Those two guys put together harmonized melodies in a day, played some goofy solos in tribute to a guy who wore one glove and walked on his toes alot, and did it on probably a single rehersal. Steve and Andy have turds that can play better than probably everyone on this site. They were doing what they do. If you don't like endless noodling and guitar ****ery, don't hang around a forum dedicated to a guitar designed for noodling and ****ery. I know everyones entitled to an opinion, and I know this is one, but does everybody like to crap on people just to crap on people? The internet truly exposes how much people suck sometimes.

abwalsh said:

Nice job filming. You framed the shots perfectly.

And now for the flame. Those two guys put together harmonized melodies in a day, played some goofy solos in tribute to a guy who wore one glove and walked on his toes alot, and did it on probably a single rehersal. Steve and Andy have turds that can play better than probably everyone on this site. They were doing what they do. If you don't like endless noodling and guitar ****ery, don't hang around a forum dedicated to a guitar designed for noodling and ****ery. I know everyones entitled to an opinion, and I know this is one, but does everybody like to crap on people just to crap on people? The internet truly exposes how much people suck sometimes.

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Sorry - I still think this is still pointless noodling. I've noticed that a lot of times when Vai plays live he just goes into "masturbation" mode on the guitar and this is what you end up with, something that goes nowhere.
Yes the Jem/RG series of guitars may be suited to fast playing but that doesn't mean that everything coming out of them has to be a ****fest, also I don't think this forum is dedicated to mindless noodling either. There have been some great tunes and playing on the Jem/RG as well as stuff that's shown up from players on this site from time to time. So if you don't mind, I'll reserve my privilege to keep hanging around the forum hoping from time to time to hear something inspirational.