Originally posted by BadHorsie
Enough with this "only blues players play with soul" stuff.

i must disagree with you on this one.. altough i think steve vai is a great player, his only song i've ever heard that had really good feeling is for the love of god, and in other songs altough he's doinf great things it really doesnt played with soul like a blues solo... i mean really fast players can't play with the true blues feel, because they mostly just run up and down on a freat board, while blues people like jimmy page are not so speedy, and sometimes even sloppy but they doing all the bends and vibratos stuff, that i dont hear in vai, malmsteen and other fast players music.. for example i once heard a concert of malmsteen, from leningrad and he was doing a blues solo on one of the tracks, and it was speedy and cool, but it was soul-less, he was just putting hundreds of notes in a short solo, and then none of the notes has any meaning,and its not blues anymore....

i know that all i wrote is probably long and meaningless, but it's a fact - non blues based players, and especialy shredders dont play with soul