Originally Posted by: dakine80Steve Vai's stuff is "harder to play" and is in most cases a "blatant shred fest" compared to Satriani, but I'd rather listen to Satriani because, again, I think he writes better, catchier tunes and has more feeling.

I'd agree that by and large Satch's tunes are catchier. But I completely disagree with most of Vai's songs being a "blatant shred fest". Vai is very tasteful with his note selection. The jury's still out for me on who plays with "more feeling" as that's a quality that's difficult to quantify.