In a recent appearance on LifeMinute, Vai recalled the first time he was introduced to Satch and said that the man has since become such a big part of his life that he “can’t even fathom what [his] life would be like without him”.
“When I was 12, a friend of mine, John Sergio, who was a friend when we were in diapers, was also a great mentor, because he introduced me to all this music that I was unaware of — progressive rock from the ’70s. He brought me to my first Queen concert. He brought me into his band; it was the first band I was in when I was 13. He’s been a dear friend. Incredible musical taste, and he was playing the when I was 12, and I couldn’t believe it, ’cause he lived two houses away, ” Vai recounted.
“And then he said, ‘If you think I’m great, you should see my teacher, Joe Satriani.’ So he gave me Joe’s number, and I started taking lessons. And my lessons with Joe were all that mattered to me.”
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“Joe was always cool, ” Vai said. “He was always solid, sharing and strict. And it was the best thing because he was great, and that’s what you want in a teacher; you’re inspired by seeing.”
The ist also expressed his gratitude for the two’s ongoing bond, saying, “To this day, the thing that I got most… There’s so many things. And we’re so fortunate that all through these years we’ve been joined at the hips.”
“When I would watch him play, when I was 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, everything he touched on the instrument sounded like music, ” Vai continued. “When it came out of his fingers, it just sounded good; it sounded like there was a soul in it.”
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“It wasn’t just noodly nothingness, the kind of academic exercises and stuff like that. I mean, we did some of that; that’s part of the training. So I always appreciated that. And still, he’s so solid and he’s so musical. His inner musical ear is inspired, that he’s continued to be an inspiration my whole life.”In a recent interview on Behind The Vinyl, Joe Satriani talked about giving guitar lessons to Steve Vai when they were 15 and 12 old years old respectively.
“Yeah, almost three years older. I had just turned 15, I think, and he’d seen me play in high-school bands. I think I was teaching one of his friends John Sergio, and yeah, he’d literally show up at the house. But he didn’t live far from me, we were less than a mile away.”
“We grew up in this teeny town in the middle of Long Island. But yeah, he had a stringless guitar in one hand and a pack of strings in the other, like, ‘Can you show me how to play?’ He was so excited, he was so good, he learned so fast… it was impossible to keep up with him. And it was a good lesson for me to learn early on.”
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“Because you know when you’re in high-school and you’ve got friends who think you’re great, you just think like, ‘I am great!’ All it takes is a 12-year old kid to show up at your door and you go, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not so great, maybe that kid is greater.’”
“So it’s a good lesson to learn early rather than when you’re in your thirties or something like that. You bounce back earlier when you’re young. With music back then, because there was no internet, there was no cable television. It was really super-old-school days back then, there wasn’t a lot of rock that you could see.”
“So it was really hard for little kids to actually see rock musicians play guitar. You had to go to concerts; you couldn’t go to clubs, maybe once a week some kind of rock music was on television, that was about it.”
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“We felt like it was really hard to get information to move forward. The good side of it is that we’ve had a lot of uninterrupted time to sit and just play by ourselves or with each other. After – I’d say – two years of lessons, Steve and I did a lot of literally sitting with our backs against each other in the backyard. If the weather was nice – and we could just improvise.”
“We would just sit there without amps. We would just play and see where we could go. So we wound up sort of like comrades. We both wanted to become amazing musicians, we had no idea really how that was gonna work. Of course, we wanted to be rock stars. We were young kids from Long Island who wanted to change the world.”
“Because you know when you’re in high-school and you’ve got friends who think you’re great, you just think like, ‘I am great!’ All it takes is a 12-year old kid to show up at your door and you go, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not so great, maybe that kid is greater.’”
“So it’s a good lesson to learn early rather than when you’re in your thirties or something like that. You bounce back earlier when you’re young. With music back then, because there was no internet, there was no cable television. It was really super-old-school days back then, there wasn’t a lot of rock that you could see.”
“So it was really hard for little kids to actually see rock musicians play guitar. You had to go to concerts; you couldn’t go to clubs, maybe once a week some kind of rock music was on television, that was about it.”
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“We felt like it was really hard to get information to move forward. The good side of it is that we’ve had a lot of uninterrupted time to sit and just play by ourselves or with each other. After – I’d say – two years of lessons, Steve and I did a lot of literally sitting with our backs against each other in the backyard. If the weather was nice – and we could just improvise.”
“We would just sit there without amps. We would just play and see where we could go. So we wound up sort of like comrades. We both wanted to become amazing musicians, we had no idea really how that was gonna work. Of course, we wanted to be rock stars. We were young kids from Long Island who wanted to change the world.”
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