Agreed man. I was 16 or 17 when I first watched this. 29 now, this year I'm gonna be 30. I was also blown away that I learned the lydian part that the first Steve plays at the beginning. Beautiful!
@@justanotheranhedonicguy5132 Crazy how fast time flies right!? Haha I've been meaning to do that for so long but I forgot. Have you ever seen the video of him playing the Jem with 3 guitar necks at G3? He actually plays the exact same melody with the clean channel as part of a song! Definitely check it out if you've not!
Dude same age range too! This video has aged like really good wine and reminded me when I first found o it about Steve Vai fully. Beyond for the love of God. This made me want to look up more info about this guy! This video made him more awesome!!
I just can't help feeling that while the rest of us are struggling to bring our genius to the surface, he's struggling to keep his genius close enough to the ground where we can still understand it enough to enjoy it.
@@TheSuperwireman it's the closest to his tone I've ever been able to get. Does it sound exactly the same? No. But pretty damn close. Keep in mind the amp and the fact that other effects were used in these videos.
+Alan Peach Yah, he's become more humble year by year, especially after losing the world championships guitar battle against Ralph Macchio in the Discovery Channel documentary entitled "Crossroads".
+Alan Peach. That was a surprise for everyone. I lost money there. I lost badly when I bet against Rocky in "Rocky II as well. Gambling in the 80s was hard on me.
Alan Peach actually he is more humble than satriani ( he was very though with Vai on the past but trough the years Vai was better like a guitar player and sometimes play the 7 strings guitar )
No one sounds like Steve Vai. Sure, there's lots of technically skilled guitarists in the world, but in addition to the technical skills, Vai composes and plays like he's from another planet.
Regardless of his style or what you think of Steve Vai....he is very consistent! Always pushing to be creative in new ways with everything he does, and this video is perfect example. Heck of an entertaining piece to self promote, self deprecate, demonstrate the nuts out of a new product and make it funny all at same time. I bet the editing was quite the technical task to boot! Nice job Steve.
It is! It lives rent free in my head. It’s been 11 years yet I never knew where this chord progression was from. Anyone know where to find the full song? Or is it just Steve’s improv?
Steve is the kind of guy who stands in front of his bathroom mirror every morning...gives himself a big smile and says something like "Dude..you are so AWESOME..gimme 5!"
I've got a bunch of concert recordings of Mahavishnu from between 1972 and 1975 and there is some stuff that's on these recordings that just flat out unreal in how McLaughlin played. A lot of it isn't on TH-cam or released albums. Fast? Depending on the gig, they would sometimes kick up the tempo to unreal levels that was mind blowing. He didn't rely too much on trick playing, no real gimmicks being used, but he brought different forms of styles of music which aided in his musical expression.
He mentioned gas prices being so high with the 2008 election around the corner in the beginning...gas was $1.84 a gallon then. It's $3.50 a gallon now. Can I return the pedal for a full refund?
No, YOU rock Vai, no YOUU rock Vai! I loved this, and I apprecaite your sense of humor:) I now have to go and check out this pedal, even if this is a few years old. Thanks!
He is beyond amazing. He has always been humble just in the begging he was more caught up in a whirlwind. He went from Zappa to replacing Yngwie in Albatras, to Solo, to David Lee Roth, to solo, to Whitesnake, to solo again. He has been so stinking busy and now older and slowed down to enjoy it more. He has always paid his respect to the man who taught him, Joe Satriani. And listen to him humble himself when he is speaking at the Les Paul awards.
This video is absolutely brilliant! Great product, great production, great playing and truly the best portrayal of "twins" I have ever seen. We have come a very long way since the Patty Duke show, Steve!
Steve Vai is So Fuc*ing Awesome. I will never Play like Vai, Even though i love improv on my guitar. Its just Everyone has a Style, And If that sounds good to other guitarists then Embrace that Style!!! Rock On Everyone (Including you Steve!!!!)
Was 13 when this video came out, just starting guitar. Stuff like this video used to be so common. Guitar legends making entertaining demos/videos with personality and effort.
I've got this pedal and I love it! What's best about this demo to me is besides the comedy, it isn't misleading. Y'know how sometimes the demo sounds awesome but then you sound nothing like it because you don't have all of the other awesome goodies that the artist in the demo has and their pedal has maybe been modded, but here this isn't the case. I don't sound anything like Steve Vai and I don't aim to, but you can get Vai sounds with this pedal. Thanks for this great and accurate demo :)
Musically speaking, as good as everyone says he is, the more you know about music the more you're blown away by what Steve Vai does and can do. Production-wise, I would've called this video/infomercial cheesy if it wasn't for his acting and editing chops. This video was well done!
I am a true Gemini too. It would be so kool to have this Jemini pedal available again. See ya at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ with Frank Zappa. So good watching Frank conduct ya'll. Seen ya again many years later in Morristown NJ. Full circle. Living and gigging in Nashville thanks to Katz like ya'll. It's all about the tone!
I've watched this at least fifteen times and I still crack up while I'm simultaneously being amazed with his awesomeness. And yeah, he does have a massive ego but how can you not have an ego like that when you're this amazing and you know it. The beautiful thing about Vai is that he's not an asshole about it. He knows how amazing he is but he also knows how human he is.
I don't think Ibanez makes this pedal anymore, but before it was produced, Vai used a Boss DS-1 and Ibanez Tube Screamer. I'm pretty sure that the Jemini is a combo of both of those specific pedals. They are all you need to dirty-up your sound.
I think Vai is extremely nice personally, straightforward, and has a great sense of humor. He's a nuyawka! It goes without saying that he is probably the greatest rock fusion guitarist to ever exist. On top of that, he plays and writes with great emotion, sings very well, and is gorgeous to boot. As to his sexuality, his bio is straight but his androgynous looks fit the times for those cool enough to appreciate them. Vai's the whole package. I pray he never stops playing.
The "Raw" Clean sound of this amp set-up is phenomenal... You could make a Bozz Metal Zone sound brilliant under these conditions, oh, and with Steve driving it!
Just got my pedal in the mail and hooked it up to my 150 watt line6 amp and it sounds amazing straight up! Thank you Steve for this wonderfull pedal youve designed, everything about it is just really cool. Its making me hot just looking at it!!"oh I wish I had my fan on" !!
Steve! Great video! I loved the pedal AND the editing concept! Very interesting! I can't believe i'm saying this, but I hope to see more videos of you playing with yourself!
This pedal is basically an Ibanez TS-9 tube Screamer on one side & a Boss DS-1 distortion on the other, which is what Steve & Satriani used for years in their setups.
So it's kind of like having overdrive and distortion in the same pedal? Very utilitarian I must say, since it can accomodate usage with just about any clean or dirty setting on any given amp channel. This would be a good workhorse pedal for the gigging guitarist. Seems like you can get a wide variety of distorted tones. Very well-designed on Steve's part!
What's crazy to me is that Vai seems to have reached a point with rock music, as limited as it is sheet-music wise, where he's essentially mastered any technique of any modern era rock guitarist and it's almost like he sleepwalks through it he's so good. He's a pretty esoteric dude who CAN read music and being a Zappa acolyte, and watching other videos of old Stevie boy online, is obviously playing some searching material. A lot of Vai's earlier solo stuff was a little grating (OK, a LOT grating) for the uninitiated, but it grew like mold. Can't tell you how many Vai Flexable tapes I basically stole from the Bradlee's I worked at just to get the music out there and demo the shitty home audio systems that were the rage at the time.
By the way Steve, if you ever notice this online, I CAN play guitar and what would be brilliant is that...I don't aspire to be like you. I don't want to sound like you yet playing with you would be a dream. I'm just a basic rock guy who's read sheet music for tenor sax for a few years in band. But rock music is in my bones, and I feel it's also in dire need of a kick in the ass to relaunch itself onto the world stage and usurp the rappers.
There's nothing else that can fill you with such a powerful sense of self-confidence as this video :D Now it's enough to think that no matter what occurs to me in this endless, tiresome earthly struggle, my life can still be fulfilled after I purchase that pedal... Thanks, Steve, without you I wouldn't have been able to pass my A-levels :D
I first watched this when I was 17 and I was absolutely blown away, here I am at 31 still just as in awe at his playing.
Agreed man. I was 16 or 17 when I first watched this. 29 now, this year I'm gonna be 30. I was also blown away that I learned the lydian part that the first Steve plays at the beginning. Beautiful!
@@justanotheranhedonicguy5132 Crazy how fast time flies right!? Haha I've been meaning to do that for so long but I forgot. Have you ever seen the video of him playing the Jem with 3 guitar necks at G3? He actually plays the exact same melody with the clean channel as part of a song! Definitely check it out if you've not!
Dude same age range too! This video has aged like really good wine and reminded me when I first found o it about Steve Vai fully. Beyond for the love of God. This made me want to look up more info about this guy! This video made him more awesome!!
I was 15.. lmao god damn time flies
This is hilarious, same exact thing. Saw this around the same age and still come back to watch it 15 years later.
I just can't help feeling that while the rest of us are struggling to bring our genius to the surface, he's struggling to keep his genius close enough to the ground where we can still understand it enough to enjoy it.
Nine years, not one like? Here ya go pal:
You described perfectly
This comment is as godly as his playing!
It’s 2023 and I finally got myself a Jemini. That tone still rules today. ❤
They sound nothing like this
Does it sound like this demonstration? I heard some hate on it that it’s not as good IRL
@@TheSuperwireman it's the closest to his tone I've ever been able to get. Does it sound exactly the same? No. But pretty damn close. Keep in mind the amp and the fact that other effects were used in these videos.
This "Advertisement" continues to inspire me all these years later. Vai is the most emotionally intelligent guitarist of all time. Praise Hail VAI
this video literally made me change my opinion of him, he's a funny guy!
+Alan Peach Yah, he's become more humble year by year, especially after losing the world championships guitar battle against Ralph Macchio in the Discovery Channel documentary entitled "Crossroads".
+Alan Peach His attitude has always been as great as his playing.
I met him a while back. He's probably one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet
+Alan Peach. That was a surprise for everyone. I lost money there. I lost badly when I bet against Rocky in "Rocky II as well. Gambling in the 80s was hard on me.
Alan Peach actually he is more humble than satriani ( he was very though with Vai on the past but trough the years Vai was better like a guitar player and sometimes play the 7 strings guitar )
Steve Vai - "I like playing with you!"
Steve Vai - "Yeh, I know"
I had to check Wikipedia to see if Steve Vai had a twin brother, because seriously, that is some good editing!
Right? I was really surprised too!
Nicely said. I knew the score when i first saw this, all those years ago, but yeah, it's so cleverly done... \m/ (:o)
If only there were two Steve Vai's omg
reminds me of the Jared Dines videos
@@sashingopaul3111 its the other way round, jared was nearly in diapers in 08.
It doesn't matter which "Vai" plays, they're both amazing. Pedal sounds phenomenal.
This video is gold in so many ways haha. The back and forth, the playing, ... Just killer
this was the best-coordinated split-screen conversation I've ever seen. Only a good musician could pull something like this off.
Decades of double-tracking!
Only a true creative mind and genius artist like Steve Vai could legitimately pull this presentation off so effectively.
Steve is so hilarious, he is a guitar virtuosso and I would love to meet him one day and be his friend.
Aye I know this is 6 years old but...
Don’t we all
No one sounds like Steve Vai. Sure, there's lots of technically skilled guitarists in the world, but in addition to the technical skills, Vai composes and plays like he's from another planet.
Who's here in 2021?
This vid still holds up and was way ahead of its time.
Great stuff #stevevai
I am and you're right. Vai is a master at his craft.
2022
How about 2023!!!
2023😎
2024
I've never heard of steve vai, but so far my impression of him is that he really likes playing with himself while everyone watches.
He's doing this for both entertainment value and because it had never been done before in this manner.
No one better like this comment
One of the best live shows I’ve ever been to was Steve Vai in Houston. Just rocked the roof off the place.
Very poor choice of words
🤣
He just has that tone that no one else has. Signature tone like EVH that no one else has. Damn is it beautiful.
14 years later and I'm still wondering if he went to Tahiti. I need to know!
Regardless of his style or what you think of Steve Vai....he is very consistent!
Always pushing to be creative in new ways with everything he does, and this video is perfect example.
Heck of an entertaining piece to self promote, self deprecate, demonstrate the nuts out of a new product and make it funny all at same time. I bet the editing was quite the technical task to boot!
Nice job Steve.
That first chord progression that he does on the 7 string is amazing.
It is! It lives rent free in my head.
It’s been 11 years yet I never knew where this chord progression was from.
Anyone know where to find the full song? Or is it just Steve’s improv?
@@luiswres21just improvise
this vid makes me smile every time i watch it...gotta love the guy.
I love this video, your love of music and how you continually evolve both yourself and music itself is inspiring. Thanks man for being you.
when steve vai called himself jack butler, it was a reference to the movie crossroads, where he plays a guitarist. this man is amazing
Steve is the kind of guy who stands in front of his bathroom mirror every morning...gives himself a big smile and says something like "Dude..you are so AWESOME..gimme 5!"
i am proud to say iv had a guitar lesson with this great guy :) you would think someone of his talent had no patients but he was really awesome :)
This world needs more Steve Vai's. Genuine Vai's. Love you man.
2:43-4:47 This solo alone made Steve Vai my guitar hero.
5:30 I love his 7 string playing
Bryce Saylor van Halen cant stop loving you post solo guitar, same notes btw
4:47 I spat out my drink....
I've got a bunch of concert recordings of Mahavishnu from between 1972 and 1975 and there is some stuff that's on these recordings that just flat out unreal in how McLaughlin played. A lot of it isn't on TH-cam or released albums. Fast? Depending on the gig, they would sometimes kick up the tempo to unreal levels that was mind blowing. He didn't rely too much on trick playing, no real gimmicks being used, but he brought different forms of styles of music which aided in his musical expression.
"you wanna play Jack Butler?" crossroads reference totally made my night! haha
Yes but what song is that
Jemini Distortion Pedal is great ! A really amazing performance Steve ! Best regards !!!
You make the most gorgeous faces when you play
Vai‘s pickups are really powerful，the sound is extremly bright，like a golden light from the sky.
clean channel my ass
Does this not count as playing with yourself? Glad nobody has put video of me playing with myself on TH-cam.
:D made my day
He mentioned gas prices being so high with the 2008 election around the corner in the beginning...gas was $1.84 a gallon then. It's $3.50 a gallon now. Can I return the pedal for a full refund?
Wow! Only $3.50!
Way more in New Zealand lol
14 years later still holds up
I admire people who don't take themselves completely serious and can make fun of themselves! xD
5:15- takes me somewhere, some amazing galaxy,.. Vai is a legend.
No, YOU rock Vai, no YOUU rock Vai! I loved this, and I apprecaite your sense of humor:) I now have to go and check out this pedal, even if this is a few years old. Thanks!
He is beyond amazing. He has always been humble just in the begging he was more caught up in a whirlwind. He went from Zappa to replacing Yngwie in Albatras, to Solo, to David Lee Roth, to solo, to Whitesnake, to solo again. He has been so stinking busy and now older and slowed down to enjoy it more. He has always paid his respect to the man who taught him, Joe Satriani. And listen to him humble himself when he is speaking at the Les Paul awards.
Vai has a PhD in music. Therefore he has sonic healing powers.
"Dammit Jim, I'm a musician not a physician!"
that's funny
an honorary doctorate!
6:38 lol
"I like playing with you"
"Yeah, I know!"
Even making a goofy video, he's STILL the greatest guitarist ever!!!!
This video is absolutely brilliant! Great product, great production, great playing and truly the best portrayal of "twins" I have ever seen. We have come a very long way since the Patty Duke show, Steve!
Steve Vai is So Fuc*ing Awesome. I will never Play like Vai, Even though i love improv on my guitar. Its just Everyone has a Style, And If that sounds good to other guitarists then Embrace that Style!!!
Rock On Everyone (Including you Steve!!!!)
thet means: Steve Vai's favorite person is Steve Vai
no shit.
Yes exactly !
Man,some real talent. Best of the best imo.
No matter how many times I watch this video, I never cease to be amazed and amused...plus, his tone is phenomenal
2024 anyone? I come back to this video at least once a year.
4:41 lets be real.. that tone with that chord. fucking nice
2:42 - 4:47 = Fuckin' Amazin!! This guy is one hell of a guitarist!
Was 13 when this video came out, just starting guitar. Stuff like this video used to be so common. Guitar legends making entertaining demos/videos with personality and effort.
This is so cool. 6:08 is priceless.
What song does he play at 5:15?????? I love the sound.
it's a modified drop a tunning
excuse my english i'm french
+SharkTooth57 I don't know what song it is, it could be just one of his licks, he is freaking great. I don't know what it is but I love it too.
Seven string improvised song. Nothing I've heard in any of his songs.
the crying machine
4:47 is priceless haha
I've got this pedal and I love it! What's best about this demo to me is besides the comedy, it isn't misleading. Y'know how sometimes the demo sounds awesome but then you sound nothing like it because you don't have all of the other awesome goodies that the artist in the demo has and their pedal has maybe been modded, but here this isn't the case. I don't sound anything like Steve Vai and I don't aim to, but you can get Vai sounds with this pedal. Thanks for this great and accurate demo :)
he calls himself Jack Butler... it's funny, coz he played Jack butler in crossroads...
+The Mongoose Man ha well I did not know that
steve vai feat. steve vai.
No, it's the otherwise. It's Steve Vai feat. Steve Vai
Pedal? I've just been watching god.. I mean Steve Vai beat his guitar stupid. *bowing*
This is how all reviews should be done.
Hey look it's Steve Vai and Christian Bale.
This is like Joe Rogan interviewing Joe Rogan
If you look closely, you'll notice that this is indeed the same person playing with himself
Just in case people are too dipshitty to notice that for themselves? I'm not sure there are no non-Steve Vai fans watching these videos.
You must be fun at parties
Nyanaid
Incredibly. Thanks for noticing. You'd probably know that if you got out of your armchair.
Nyanaid So? I play with myself all the time, in fact doing it now
This video is very funny! Love the reactions from the 2 Steve's. Great sounds from the pedals and stellar playing, of course.
"Clean"...+ chorus, reverb, delay, noise reduction and Vainess.
jajajaja vai's technics
Hahahahaha
Steve is the least vain person yiu could ever meet
7:00 i always laugh at this XDDDDDD
Jack Butler :D
Musically speaking, as good as everyone says he is, the more you know about music the more you're blown away by what Steve Vai does and can do. Production-wise, I would've called this video/infomercial cheesy if it wasn't for his acting and editing chops. This video was well done!
I think first watching this one when I was like 11 is the thing that made me wanna start playing 7 string guitars!
That tone on the 7 is just godly :)
Damn this is from 2008 IT'S IN 720P
Steve looks good here
Homie still looks good
keep looking good
i came back to this at 28, first heard it at 15, it still sounds as good
I am a true Gemini too. It would be so kool to have this Jemini pedal available again. See ya at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ with Frank Zappa. So good watching Frank conduct ya'll. Seen ya again many years later in Morristown NJ. Full circle. Living and gigging in Nashville thanks to Katz like ya'll. It's all about the tone!
I've watched this at least fifteen times and I still crack up while I'm simultaneously being amazed with his awesomeness. And yeah, he does have a massive ego but how can you not have an ego like that when you're this amazing and you know it. The beautiful thing about Vai is that he's not an asshole about it. He knows how amazing he is but he also knows how human he is.
Yeah I agree! It's fun, entertaining and actually demonstrates the product in it's full glory.
And man, the song on the end was a free gift!
Vai's got a great sense of humor, very cool to see that he doesn't take himself seriously.
That actually sounds really good. I'm a huge fan of the sound coming from their amps. I might have to look into this pedal.
I don't think Ibanez makes this pedal anymore, but before it was produced, Vai used a Boss DS-1 and Ibanez Tube Screamer. I'm pretty sure that the Jemini is a combo of both of those specific pedals. They are all you need to dirty-up your sound.
two Steve Vai's, who is the best?? unbelievable this guy!!! sorry for the bad English, but I'm Brasilian! kiss (Neto ribeiro)
I think Vai is extremely nice personally, straightforward, and has a great sense of humor. He's a nuyawka! It goes without saying that he is probably the greatest rock fusion guitarist to ever exist. On top of that, he plays and writes with great emotion, sings very well, and is gorgeous to boot. As to his sexuality, his bio is straight but his androgynous looks fit the times for those cool enough to appreciate them. Vai's the whole package. I pray he never stops playing.
The "Raw" Clean sound of this amp set-up is phenomenal... You could make a Bozz Metal Zone sound brilliant under these conditions, oh, and with Steve driving it!
Just got my pedal in the mail and hooked it up to my 150 watt line6 amp and it sounds amazing straight up! Thank you Steve for this wonderfull pedal youve designed, everything about it is just really cool. Its making me hot just looking at it!!"oh I wish I had my fan on" !!
Steve! Great video! I loved the pedal AND the editing concept! Very interesting! I can't believe i'm saying this, but I hope to see more videos of you playing with yourself!
This is amazing, the song they jammed on together rocks. I want one of these pedals for the stuff I am going to be doing.
Oddly I enjoyed Steve collaborating with Steve. Great pedal too!
The 252 that gave Steve Vai thumbs down are clearly not guitarists.
Such a sense of humor! I could watch this all day.
This pedal is basically an Ibanez TS-9 tube Screamer on one side & a Boss DS-1 distortion on the other, which is what Steve & Satriani used for years in their setups.
So it's kind of like having overdrive and distortion in the same pedal? Very utilitarian I must say, since it can accomodate usage with just about any clean or dirty setting on any given amp channel. This would be a good workhorse pedal for the gigging guitarist. Seems like you can get a wide variety of distorted tones. Very well-designed on Steve's part!
Steve sent me here - to this day, still amazing and hilarious!
two vais facial expressions at once is probably one of the finest things ive ever seen
this video is hysterical. classic Vai. can't wait to see him in October. Vegas is gonna rock!
Your statement implies you're on the same skill level as Steve Vai. Classy.
Apart from the incredible playing, hats off to the incredible double act. That's timing!
What's crazy to me is that Vai seems to have reached a point with rock music, as limited as it is sheet-music wise, where he's essentially mastered any technique of any modern era rock guitarist and it's almost like he sleepwalks through it he's so good. He's a pretty esoteric dude who CAN read music and being a Zappa acolyte, and watching other videos of old Stevie boy online, is obviously playing some searching material. A lot of Vai's earlier solo stuff was a little grating (OK, a LOT grating) for the uninitiated, but it grew like mold. Can't tell you how many Vai Flexable tapes I basically stole from the Bradlee's I worked at just to get the music out there and demo the shitty home audio systems that were the rage at the time.
By the way Steve, if you ever notice this online, I CAN play guitar and what would be brilliant is that...I don't aspire to be like you. I don't want to sound like you yet playing with you would be a dream. I'm just a basic rock guy who's read sheet music for tenor sax for a few years in band. But rock music is in my bones, and I feel it's also in dire need of a kick in the ass to relaunch itself onto the world stage and usurp the rappers.
There's nothing else that can fill you with such a powerful sense of self-confidence as this video :D Now it's enough to think that no matter what occurs to me in this endless, tiresome earthly struggle, my life can still be fulfilled after I purchase that pedal... Thanks, Steve, without you I wouldn't have been able to pass my A-levels :D
7:08 "I'm satisfied, I just like *arguing* with you". I wanna get a t shirt with that quote on it.
Damn
Still blown away by this demo.
One of the greatest guitarists and composers of our generation.
6/10/67
& still step'n
all over your
TONE
MY LORD
I don't know about the sound of this pedal, got to hear it by itself without any other pedal added. but I loved this video, Steve you are awesome.
I am so lucky to have been born in a time while you are here...