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And then what happens is, I give it to the copyists, they type it in, using Finale and then I get those and I’m very familiar with Finale.
But ‘Is It Over Yet?’ is a piece I orchestrated by hand. For a piece like Helios and Vesta, I completely used pencil and paper, I did that for a piece called Bledsoe that’s actually not in the show and ‘There’s Something Dead In Here’. :: Working on this piece, did you program everything into a computer to hear all the notes back or did you use the old fashioned way of pen and paper? We had to take a couple of pieces out, because it was too long (laughs) ‘ ‘The concert with all the many pieces will probably end up being an hour and a half. It’s kind of like everything else I do where it’s a little left- field. So I think for those people, they’ll be able to accept the fact that you know, Steve wrote this music and he orchestrated most of it, but it’s not a like song on one off my records. And they’re starting to appreciate me not just for the fact that I’m, you know.this guitar player, but they like the music.
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‘Well, it’s sort of like this.I’ve been fortunate in the fact that in the past 25 years that I’ve been touring as a professional musician, I slowly gathered an audience of people that liked the kind of thing that I do. :: I didn’t get a chance to hear the piece at rehearsals but will see the gig tomorrow, what kind of stuff can Vai fans expect? he was like a overseer of a lot of the scores, because he has such a vast understanding of the orchestra. The Murder Prologue was done by David Cole.Tom Trapp was. The song For The Love Of God was orchestrated by Chris Opperman.
And I had a couple of wonderful guys working with me, Chris Opperman and Tom Trapp and some other orchestrators who I delegated certain parts and songs to work on. So I’ve had these songs I’ve been wanting to hear for decades, so I reorchestrated them for the concert. That’s why this project is so exceptional, I mean it’s such an unbelievable opportunity for me to hear this stuff. Getting into that little circle of the orchestra is very difficult. discriminations, being a rock guitar player. difficult to get your music performed with an orchestra, because of the costs. And I’ve had them around and through the years I’ve done a lot of orchestration, but it’s just so. When I was a young man living in Hollywood. the first several pieces were I’m not performing and I’m just listening (laughs) I actually composed those many years ago, like 24 years ago. :: Can you tell me about composing this piece? You did the whole thing in a pretty short period? :: Does it have to do anything with the themes from the Fire Garden piece? But it’s still a good name for the project.’ So the original idea of The Aching Hunger has kind of been altered. But then, with time constraints being what they are for a project like this, the concept changed a bit. And the concept in the beginning was to create like a little musical you know, with a couple of actors. :: Right, Mike Keneally was up a while ago. He talked to me about doing this about two years ago.’ We’ve followed each other’s careers and Co worked into NPS and was artistic enough to start creating these concerts with the Metropole Orchestra. As a matter of fact, he is the first one that bought Flexable from me for Europe. See, the musical director Co De Kloet (organizer-from Dutch NPS) he has been a friend of mine for many years. :: The piece you’re performing with the orchestra is called ‘The Aching Hunger’, let’s start off with that does it have to do anything with the same titles piece on Fire Garden? I will check this cd out tonight in my hotelroom. He might play on my upcoming Australian tour, too. :: It’s called RHP, we got a great band there, Lale Larson on keys, Brett Garsed is playing there too. (Pia) ‘wow’ (Steve) What’s the album you did together? :: Some lung complication from what I’ve understood. (Vai)I heard you played and recorded with Shawn Lane, but did he pass away? What happened exactly to him? Copying or use elsewhere without the clear approval of the author is strictly prohibited.:: :: Copyright Richard Hallebeek and Guitar Magazine 2005.
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This interview plus some extras will be printed in the upcoming issue of Guitar Magazine. Steve’s wife Pia was sitting next to him during the interview. The guitar player in the Metropole is my former teacher and he had mentioned RHP to Steve, so this conversation actually began with Steve asking me some questions. This interview took place may 21th 2004 in Hilversum at the Metropole rehearsal building, NOB studios. Steve Vai performed his piece ‘The Aching Hunger’ last may 2003 in Amsterdam, Paradiso with the Metropole Orchestra.
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