And, of course, I'm talking about my little part of the playground it's a very small corner, really. It still has a quirkiness to it, but it's very musical. And it's a dense record, it's an intense record, really as a matter of fact, it's my favorite Vai record, so to speak.
So when we decided to do the 25th anniversary release of "Passion and Warfare," I just thought it'd be nice to add something to the package that was a whole new record. And I knew one day I had to finish it, because there was an energy in that music that I really liked. And around that time I was also offered a solo record deal through Capitol Records, and that's when I started to work on "Passion and Warfare." So all that stuff from The Classified was just sitting on the shelf. So when I was doing "Modern Primitive," which at the time was called The Classified, I was starting to create different musical perspectives, and when you hear that record, it's really sort of the Cro-Magnon between "Flex-Able" and "Passion and Warfare."īut when I was working on it, I got an offer to play in this band Alcatrazz. "Passion and Warfare" really defined my own unique inner musical person, so to speak, more than "Flex-Able," in that with "Flex-Able," I was very much into the Zappa thing Frank's music had a big impact on me. It was interesting music to me because "Flex-Able" was so playful and innocent and quirky, and "Passion and Warfare" was so much more mature. But I was certainly pleasantly surprised, to say the least.Īfter I made my first solo record, "Flex-Able," back in '84, and released it, that record was very experimental and, again, I had no expectations, and then I realized after I released it, "Hey, I can make records whenever I want." So I put a band together called The Classified and I started writing music and we started playing it, and I started to record some of it I got some tracks recorded. At the time, I had no expectations for it.
And when I went back and listened to it in depth and tore it apart because we're performing it, it's really interesting to see how much work I put into it how much patience and passion was really in the making of that record. I just really had to create the music that felt very natural to me, and I was lucky it found an audience. And when I went to make it, I really kind of felt like I was turning my back on my career, in a sense, because it wasn't a conventional kind of instrumental guitar record or anything. And it was a period when I was having a great time with all these big rock/metal bands of the '80s, but there was something in me that always had this pull to make a different kind of music. And all the people who were so supportive at the time. I feel a tremendous amount of gratitude for many things first, for the young man who had the courage and the drive and the passion to make it.
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