Originally Posted by: LeedoggI'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.

I knew it would only take a couple of minutes before someone jumped on me for that. I think alot of Vai's stuff is written just to "raise the bar", which I commend, he is a guitar god. As far as feeling goes, I guess you can only base that on an opinion consesus, but you have to admit that you can clearly distinguish a level of feeling between, say, Vai and Vaughn, as opposed to Vai and Satriani.