Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Passion and Warfare [CASSETTE]
  
Share your own customer images

Passion and Warfare [CASSETTE] [Import]

Steve Vai | Format: Audio Cassette
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)

Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.


Jubilee Offer: Patriotic Classics for £2.50

Jubilee CD for £2.50
Join in the celebration with Diamond Jubilee: A Classical Celebration, featuring rousing classics like "Land of Hope and Glory", available for just £2.50 on CD until Wednesday.

›Shop now

Amazon's Steve Vai Store

Image of Steve Vai
›
Visit Amazon's Steve Vai Store
for all the music, discussions, and more.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

  • Audio Cassette (11 Oct 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Epic
  • ASIN: B00005AGQS
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 974,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

From Amazon.com

The second solo album from Steve Vai shows the guitarist coming into his own as a composer, matching his prodigious talent as a performer. The result is an entertaining mix. The hilarious "Audience is Listening" complements more reflective pieces such as "For the Love of God." The high-powered "Animal" and "Greasy Kid's Stuff" are balanced by "Blue Powder" and "Alien Water Kiss." Unlike most guitar-god solo recordings, Passion & Warfare avoids the sort of technical noodling that is uninteresting to everyone except other guitarists, opting instead for a collection of high-quality music that is full of compositional experimentation without ever getting out of control. --Genevieve Williams

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(19)
(12)
(10)
(10)
(8)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(2)
(2)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Guitar magic 21 Dec 2004
Format:Audio CD
The first point to be made here is that this is an instrumental album of guitar music, some acoustic but predominantly electric. If you don't like this form of music, then you are unlikely to find much here to praise. If however you do like this form of music, chances are you already own it. If you are unsure as to whether this is the music for you, welcome, you couldn't have found a better introduction.

Passion And Warfare is often referred to as Steve Vai's finest album. This is largely because of the lack of vocals on the album to interfere with the fantastic display of musicianship on display. However, Passion And Warfare is the most 'Rock' orientated of his albums and so immediately more accessable. It features a strong mix of pumped up rockers such as Erotic Nightmares and The Animal, and more gentle ballads such as the Vai signature tune For The Love Of God.

There is a nice variation in his playing styles throughout and a welcome dose of humour is present making the listening experience more of an enjoyable one and not such a musicianly one, which is where many instrumental albums do fall flat.

Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist, one of the best in fact. This is never in dispute. What sets him above many of his contemporaries is his personality that shines through into his music. Passion And Warfare has this in spades and benefits from it greatly. Each of the tracks on this album is outstanding, and together they form a truly great album worthy of its high praise.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There was never anything quite like this - before or since. Even the great man himself has never matched this masterpiece. The greatest instrumental guitar album ever, by some way too.

Absolutely crammed with ideas, technique, feel, style and melody, and of course stamped with Steves' trademark eccentricity and humour. It sounds like every guitarist who has ever lived has turned up at the studio to play six notes each. There's never a dull moment, and there certainly isn't a weak track.

If you were an alien who had just landed on this planet and wanted to know what a guitar is for and what it does, this is all you'd need.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have most of Steve Vai's albums and I only really got listening to Vai a few months ago, and listened to him all the time for about a month. In fact I listened to his albums whilst doing a time consuming painting and I think that it proved to be good background music for this task, seeing as it is very mentally stimulating. Passion and Warfare is the most interesting of Vai's albums because it is the least messy, and one thing that I find to be greatly in its favour is that it's instrumental. When listening to the final track I think that Vai must be one of Aphex Twin's only contemporaries. Combine this with the fact that Vai is one of the most technically skilled guitarists imaginable and you have a perfect album. Don't you? No; because although Vai is one of the most technically skilled, he isn't the greatest artist. His artwork is better in this album than in any of his others though, but he clearly lacks the ability of being able to sound consistently beautiful; an ability that guitarists like Tony Macalpine always has and Vinnie Moore usually has. This album manages to largely be consistenly beautiful though, whereas most of his albums are a mess, (and not a purposeful 'mess' like the extraordinary complexity and beauty of Planet X or Aphex Twin), in the worst sense of the word. This album though is really nice and also stunning in terms of musicianship. I have the tab book for this album and Steve writes quite a few pages of philosophical though about the album, and clearly a lot of feeling went into making the album. It is undoubtedly Vai's tour-de-force to date, (and it is probably the reason that Vai has managed to stay on the top of the well-known guitarists list despite releasing so many subsequent albums with many many weak songs in them next to the occasional amazing songs).
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Still a cracker
This still stands up as perhaps Vai's finest hour. It's not that his other albums are any less inspired from a performance and soloing point of view it's just that the compositions... Read more
Published 3 months ago by albassmusic
Great player, shame about the tunes...
Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist,but whether he is anywhere near as adept as a writer of tunes is a matter for some consideration.You decide..... Read more
Published 7 months ago by os
This album changed my life
I was brought up with rock albums - my dad played guitar and the likes of the Queen, Eagles and many other rock greats graced the family stereo during my early life. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Aaron Gill
It's Instrumental Rock how can you not like it?
Well Usually i dont like a band or album because of the vocals, but i dont have that problem with this album cause it's just instrumental awesome rock. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2008 by MrMetalheadO'Hagan
Landmark in guitar writing, perfomance and production
Showcasing a wonderful sense of range and versatility, a skillful mix of funky fast playing and a genuine sense of feeling, this is clearly among the best instrumental guitar... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2008 by Alister King
Indulgent and very dated
After being very impressed with another of Mr. Vai's albums, 'Alien Love Secrets', I quickly hunted down his most highly regarded album, Passion and Warfare. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2007 by M. Roberts
HIS MOST CONSISTENT AND BEST
I have no doubt whatever that this is Steve Vai's best solo cd. Why? Because on this one the staggering guitar technique is matched by the quality of the compositions. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2007 by James J. Porter
Unique in this genre
Unlike other "shredders", Steve has actually wrote an album here rather than just a series of chord changes designed to back up his soloing. There is genuine soul in this album. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2005 by "andyharrison74"
An instrumental masterpeice
This is up there with Becks "Blow By Blow" and Satriani's "Surfing with the alien" as one of the best guitar instumental albums ever. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2004
Filth
Steve Vai is possibly the most repulsive musician alive, his playing is cheesy, over the top, showy, self indulgent and repetitive. Read more
Published on 14 July 2004 by A. Cameron
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

› Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback