Steve Vai-Stillness in Motion BD

[Bluyoda]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Steve...lu-ray/248894/

Does anyone have it yet?
What is the audio codec? I really hope it's lossless surround this time.
How is the performance?
Really interested in it.
Is it true 1080p? How is the PQ? Etc.

[sancho]

Vai was great in the David Lee Roth Band, for the"Eat Em & Smile" album and Tour. He was never really a good fit in Whitesnake.

[monwobbbo]

Originally Posted by sancho

Vai was great in the David Lee Roth Band, for the"Eat Em & Smile" album and Tour. He was never really a good fit in Whitesnake.

well i dunno about that. the Whitesnake album he played on was pretty good and the tour he did was really good. met Steve and he's a really nice guy.

haven't seen anything from this blu though sorry OP.

[sandman slim]

Originally Posted by sancho

Vai was great in the David Lee Roth Band, for the"Eat Em & Smile" album and Tour. He was never really a good fit in Whitesnake.

I saw that tour, and he was a great fit with Whitesnake. One of the most epic guitar solos ever, Steve standing on the highest platform, reaching over his head to tease one last note out of his axe as a hook descended from the rafters to pull it out of his hands.

[Partyslammer]

What is the date/tour this is from and what is the setlist?

I saw Vai with David Lee Roth in 1986 and 1988. That '86 show with Billy Sheehan on bass was incredible, better than some of the Roth era Van Halen shows I saw in the early 80's.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Steve...lu-ray/248894/

Does anyone have it yet?
What is the audio codec? I really hope it's lossless surround this time.
How is the performance?
Really interested in it.
Is it true 1080p? How is the PQ? Etc.

Couldn't find info on the audio anywhere including Vai's own store, but I doubt they produced 2 separate mixes. I suspect it will be the same stereo audio mix as on the DVD (but lossless). There was another thread about this BD which claimed that video was 720p. The BD package supposed to have included a bonus blu disc with several hours of backstage and on the road footage.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Couldn't find info on the audio anywhere including Vai's own store, but I doubt they produced 2 separate mixes. I suspect it will be the same stereo audio mix as on the DVD (but lossless). There was another thread about this BD which claimed that video was 720p. The BD package supposed to have included a bonus blu disc with several hours of backstage and on the road footage.

It says 2 discs on amazon, but we all know how reliable they are.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by sancho

Vai was great in the David Lee Roth Band, for the"Eat Em & Smile" album and Tour.

I also liked his 2nd solo album, Passion and Warfare.

Steve Vai - The Audience Is Listening - YouTube

Steve Vai - For The Love of God - YouTube

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

It says 2 discs on amazon, but we all know how reliable they are.

On Vai's store it says 2 blue-ray (sic) discs + 2 audio CD's.
https://www.stevevaistore.com/collec...motion-blu-ray

I think the bonus material was also available as part of the 2-DVD set release of SiM. Quoting Blabbermouth:

One of the Blu-ray disks contains the bonus material titled "The Space Between The Notes (Tour Mischief)". It's an intimate and at times hysterically edited video diary comprised of more than three and a half hours of footage filmed around the world onstage, offstage, and behind the scenes during the world tour. This specific concert captured was the 49th show of the aforementioned global excursion that consisted of 253 engagements in over 52 countries.

In reflecting on this period of his life, and his global travels circa "Stillness In Motion", Vai says: "Making records, performing and touring live is what I love to do most in this life. This Blu-ray performance and tour bonus footage was culled from the 'Story Of Light' tour in support of that CD release. The tour was comprehensive and perhaps my favorite tour as of yet. To be with that band and those fans traveling to all those exotic locations represents a period of my life where I feel I was peaking both on a performance level and pure tour exhilaration.

"'The Space Between The Notes' has over three and a half hours of on-and-offstage 'B-roll' footage that has every stop along the way represented somehow. The compiling, editing and result of 'The Space Between The Notes' is a career highlight for me. It's interesting, funny, entertaining and informative. You get to see what touring the world with a rock band is really like in all its visceral and intimate expressions."

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by ravenus

On Vai's store it says 2 blue-ray (sic) discs + 2 audio CD's.
https://www.stevevaistore.com/collec...motion-blu-ray

I think the bonus material was also available as part of the 2-DVD set release of SiM. Quoting Blabbermouth:

That sounds great. I just hope the audio is lossless surround sound, and the PQ a 4/5.

[captainron_howdy]

Originally Posted by whiteberry

I also liked his 2nd solo album, Passion and Warfare.

Steve Vai - The Audience Is Listening - YouTube

Steve Vai - For The Love of God - YouTube

Alien Love Secrets & Fire Garden are pretty awesome also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=619kUYpVMBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHukBMJDqi4

[dobyblue]

I get the sentiment about Whitesnake, I think part of it stemmed with Steve's tone and sound playing someone else's parts as close to written as possible - it's my understanding AV wrote the guitar parts and solos for SLip right? Anyway, that said "Sailing Ships" is my personal favorite Whitesnake song.

I'd absolutely pick up a proper Blu-ray (ie from actual film, not VHS) of the Slip tour.

As for Steve, the only reason I didn't pick up the existing Blu-ray is I'd read it was Dolby Digital and 720p, so I'll stick to YouTube when I want teh occasional bit of live Vai. I would gladly pick up a Blu-ray if it's proper 1080p and hopefully lossless surround. I'm much more of a Satriani fan but back in the early 90s I was madly in love with Passion and Warfare and still pop in the CD from time to time for the couple tracks I think still stand up well - Sisters, Love of God, The Riddle and the stunning Blue Powder.

[monwobbbo]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

I get the sentiment about Whitesnake, I think part of it stemmed with Steve's tone and sound playing someone else's parts as close to written as possible - it's my understanding AV wrote the guitar parts and solos for SLip right? Anyway, that said "Sailing Ships" is my personal favorite Whitesnake song.

I'd absolutely pick up a proper Blu-ray (ie from actual film, not VHS) of the Slip tour.

As for Steve, the only reason I didn't pick up the existing Blu-ray is I'd read it was Dolby Digital and 720p, so I'll stick to YouTube when I want teh occasional bit of live Vai. I would gladly pick up a Blu-ray if it's proper 1080p and hopefully lossless surround. I'm much more of a Satriani fan but back in the early 90s I was madly in love with Passion and Warfare and still pop in the CD from time to time for the couple tracks I think still stand up well - Sisters, Love of God, The Riddle and the stunning Blue Powder.

Steve did his own solos for that album. the song structures were already put together for the album and had been demoed out. Steve just tried to play for the songs and did what worked. there is a DVD out for that tour as part of the Donnington 1990 deluxe CD. worth having even if it's not even close to high def.

[sancho]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

I saw that tour, and he was a great fit with Whitesnake. One of the most epic guitar solos ever, Steve standing on the highest platform, reaching over his head to tease one last note out of his axe as a hook descended from the rafters to pull it out of his hands.

I saw the Slip Tour also. Vai was very good in Whitesnake, and Slip is a very good album, but Whitesnake was never the same after Coverdale fired John Sykes.
John Sykes was the better fit for Whitesnake. Sykes and Coverdale were a great team. Slide It In and the S/T 1987 album, are far Superior albums.......IMO only.

I liked Vai best with David Lee Roth, for the Eat Em and Smile album and tour + The Passion and Warfare album from 1990, and his appearance in the movie Crossroads.