11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flawless, January 12, 2003
This review is from: Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (DVD)
This is essentially the "Alien Love Secrets" album, which was recorded around 1994, with Steve Vai and his group lip/finger synching along with the music. Mr. Vai accurately and quite interestingly synchs along, as precisely as you'd expect from someone of his perfectionist qualities. Needless to say, while it's not an authentic performance of the songs, but rather a recording of the guys synching along with a prior recording, it's the next best thing.
Not much else to comment on, as far as the performance is concerned. It takes place on one set, with Steve changing suits/skin colors (!!) between several of the tracks. His children even show up on "Ya Yo Gakk" and do silly things for the camera. The video transfer is pristine, and I have absolutely no qualms with it.
Now, the extras. The commentary track with Mr. Steve Vai is quite entertaining, although there are dead points here and there where he gets caught up in the movie and doesn't say much. His stories and description of things are always good....you get the feeling that he's sitting there, talking to you specifically about the songs. There are also alternate angles for a couple of tracks, which is nice, but probably won't be accessed more than once or twice. A featurette made as a promotion for his 1996 Epic Records recording, "Fire Garden", lasts about roughly 7-8 minutes, and is fun to watch. A discography, pictures, and other small things round it all up.
Although released pretty early on in the life of DVD technology, it remains one of the more fascinating and worth-while purchases of the musically-related DVD's that have been released up to this point in time. Steve Vai fans, guitar fans....I can't imagine you turning this one away.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Steve Vai the Man, July 5, 2002
This review is from: Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (DVD)
If you are Steve Vai fan or high quality guitar music lover, get this DVD as you can watch Steve playing (This not a Live Show), Steve even though not playing in real time, faitfully follows his solo lines, Great music but bad cameraman, constant moving camera gets bit annoying after awhile. But the music is fantastic.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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is this a live dvd?, April 22, 2004
This review is from: Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (DVD)
ive watched the vhs version so many times now and still cant see that this was not a live show. (was it a live show? did steve actually split into 3 versions of himself on one of the songs?).
the sound quality is superb and the choreography is perfectly matched with the songs.
(i could do without the little kid playing drums though....)
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