Passion and Warfare

Passion and Warfare is an instrumental album by guitarist Steve Vai. It appeared in 1990 under the label Epic Records and is both the genre of instrumental rock as well as the Metal attributed.

Formation

The album was recorded at Steve Vai's studio "The Mothership ", where he had already played the guitar parts for Whitesnake album Slip of the Tongue. The album was honored by the RIAA with gold. Passion and Warfare is one of the best known and most stylish albums of instrumental rock. It contains some of his most famous songs such as Liberty, The Audience Is Listening and For the Love of God. For the latter song he fasted for 10 days and recorded the song on the fourth day of fasting in one take on. For the Love of God was chosen of all time in a poll of readers Guitar World number 29 of the best guitar solos.

The track Blue Powder was recorded in 1986 for the "Guitar Player Magazine " as a sound example of the Carvin 's X -100B amplifier. Steve Vai used on the album, among others, his signature Ibanez Jem guitars and Ibanez Universe, the Marshall JCM900 amplifiers, Carvin X -100B and ADA MP-1 preamp, and effects pedals Boss DS -1 and Eventide H3000 Harmonizer, etc.

Title list

All songs were composed by Steve Vai.

Occupation

• Steve Vai - guitar (on all tracks), keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 11), bass ( tracks 8, 9, 11)
• Stuart Hamm - Bass (tracks 2-5, 7, 10, 13)
• Chris Frazier - Drums (tracks 1-5, 8, 10, 11, 13 )
• Tris Imboden - drums (tracks 7, 9)
• David Rosenthal - keyboards (tracks 2, 9, 13), backing vocals
• Bob Harris Keyboard ( Track 10 ), backing vocals
• Pia Maiocco - Keyboard ( Track 4 )