While the gig did not make the 20-year-old a pop star-Zappa’s music was too bizarre and underground for that-Vai was immediately put on the short list of “musicians to watch” in the guitar community.
Zappa, a guitarist and composer of complex, satirical music, had a reputation as a fearsome bandleader that demanded nothing less than perfection from musicians.
To really understand the genesis of the album, you have to travel back to 1980, when Vai was invited to join Frank Zappa’s band.
Passion and Warfare was nothing less than the guitarist’s bid for immortality, and if it had the added benefit of leaving contemporaries like Edward Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen in the dust, so be it.
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