| Nope - haven't heard that CD... and that's a shame, considering his "not-like-anyone-else-soundwise"-ocity is exactly what made him cool!
And yep - totally obsessed on vai's Alien Love Secrets when I started playing. Vai led to Satriani led to Eric Johnson... my personal style is probably most like Satch (except less whammy bar and effects - that's EJ's influence), but Vai's attitude to music is so refreshing... I know those three are almost trite answers to the "who influenced you" question every guitarist has to continually answer, but they were there when I was starting out and Vai especially shaped the way I compose rather than jam out a riff, solo, minor modulation, keychange, and call it a song. That stuff's been done and his playing is always nonconforming.
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