Steve vai habla de brian may biography

Congrats Bri. You will always be my hero. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name. Sign in View Profile Sign out.

Bass Player. It speaks volumes. His contribution to orchestrated guitars is unprecedented. There was nothing like it before him. To me, it was like when Edward Van Halen came along and reshaped the sound of electric guitar. That's what I heard in Brian May's playing. It's something that's inherent in the brain of the guitar player.

I had just moved out to Los Angeles, and nobody knew me. Funny you mention that song.

Steve vai habla de brian may biography

Jimmy and Brian May are my biggest influences. The way Page plays with so much attitude — I could never play like him. No one comes close to him. He had direct access to the greatest riffs of all time. Was he an inspiration here? That is absolutely Hendrix. My first chordal influences when I started were in the jazz idiom. I was learning chord-melody solosbut there was something kind of predictable and stagnant in that, to a degree.

There is this unbelievable depth to the chordal playing underneath virtually any Jimi Hendrix song.