The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive 1 - a Compilation/Boxed-Set release by STEVE VAI artist / band

The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive 1

a Compilation/Boxed-Set release
by Steve Vai

Release Year: 2000

The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive 1 by Steve Vai

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On this CD, Steve is performing with some well known guests including Hamm, Bissonette, Townsend, Keneally, and Bozzio.
According to Steve Vai 'Traditionally, I have made the 7th song on all my CDs the mellifluous guitar ballad that serves the melody on a silver platter. In numerology, the number 7 is shrouded in mystique. In a record sequence, it has always felt like the sweet spot'.
This CD then are these 7th-songs.

Added To Proggnosis Database on: 5/11/2002 12:00:00 AM
Entry Last Updated on: 10/15/2016 6:36:00 AM by: DBSilver

Track List

For the Love of God
Touching Tongues
Windows to the Soul
Burnin' Down the Mountain
Tender Surrender
Hand on Heart
Melissa's Garden
Call It Sleep
Christmas Time Is Here
The Wall of Light
Boston Rain Melody

Performer Credits

Steve Vai
Guitars, Keyboards, Other Stuff, Discrete Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Mixing, Pro Tools Manipulation, Eventide H3000, Arrangement, Production, Engineering

Devin Townsend
Lead Vocals

Mike Keneally
Keys, Keyboard

Terry Bozzio
Drums, Percussion

Pete Zeldman
Percussion

Scott Collard
Rhodes

Bryan Beller,
Stuart Hamm,
Philip Bynoe,
T.M. Stevens
Bass

Gregg Bissonette,
Deen Castronovo,
Tris Imboden,
Mike Mangini
Drums

Reviews 1

Reviewed by DBSilver on 11 May 2002

This album is worthwhile on all counts and I am glad to see it listed at Prognosis because it is really really good. The album itself is made up of either slow ballads or open sounding songs (not rockers) of the type Vai has traditionally made track 7 on each of his releases (hence the name The 7th Song). It like the tenderloins of steaks, the juiciest parts of each album here in one place.
As you might imagine, this is not actually a prog album and it is not actually a fusion album. There is in fact, one proggish song on board - track 2, Touching Tongues and it is definately the best track on this album. This is a song that you must hear and is worth the price of admission by itself. Fortunately, there is nothing on this album that doesn't please - prog/fusion or not. I like Steve Vai a lot, but he has not ever been my personal pick for most expressive guitarist but here on The 7th Song he frequently turns my head. I now have to go back and re-listen to the whole catalog.