{"id":44157,"date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stillness-in-motion\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"stillness-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stillness-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillness In Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Steve Vai embarked on his \u201cThe Story Of Light\u201d tour on August 15th<sup><\/sup>, 2012, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tour ended 52 countries and 253 concerts later on September 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2014, in Szczecin, Poland. The 49th<sup><\/sup> stop on the tour was at the Nokia Club in Los Angeles. Of all the concerts, this was the one chosen for release on the <i>Stillness In Motion <\/i>two-CD set \u2013 or if you are so inclined, a DVD set with three and a half hours of behind the scenes bonus material. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vai\u2019s career began as a student of Joe Satriani and a guitarist for Frank Zappa. He also spent time with Whitesnake and David Lee Roth\u2019s backing band. He has toured with a number of artists, including Satriani. His solo career began in 1983 and he has released over 15 studio and live albums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vai has always been an excellent composer and bandleader, but as a guitarist he ranks as one of the best in the world. His expertise is best chronicled on his live releases, and <i>Stillness In Motion <\/i>brings his concert career and live performing up to date. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He and his backing band had jelled four months into the tour. Drummer Jeremy Colson, bassist Philip Bynoe, guitarist\/keyboardist Dave Weiner, and stand-up electric harpist Deborah Henson-Conant are a veteran and tight band that are wise enough to allow Vai room for his guitar improvisations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The 22 tracks span his career, with about a third taken from his last release <i>The Story Of Light. <\/i>The music is not a regurgitation of his studio recordings but undergo re-interpretations. An example is \u201cSalamanders In The Sun,\u201d which is transferred into an acoustic piece. There is a new intro to his ode to \u201cFrank\u201d Zappa. \u201cPusa Road,\u201d \u201cThe Moon And I,\u201d and \u201cRescue Me Or Bury Me\u201d find him delving a little deeper into his catalogue of songs. The ringing \u201cTaurus Bulba\u201d was a good way to end the concert.<\/p>\n<p>  Vai has always been a road warrior and <i>Stillness In Motion <\/i>catches a master musician plying his trade. He may not explore a lot of new ground, but he does produce a well-crafted rocking album and in this case, that is more than enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6056],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44157","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-steve-vai","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44157"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}