It was Frank Zappa, who first hired a 21-year-old Vai as the new lead guitarist in 1981, who referred to Vai as a "stunt guitarist," and no one has since found a better description of his style. Here is a great retrospective of the past, present, and future of progressive metal guitar. Vai spent much of his career as a mercenary, adding his technical expertise to that of Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz, Public Image Ltd, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake. The anthology includes tracks from his first two solo albums, "Flex-Able" in 1984 and "Passion And Warfare" in the 1990s, particularly songs like "The Attitude Song," "The Animal," and the very Zappa-esque "Salamanders In The Sun." This anthology from 1984 to 2001 summarizes a killer career.
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