I am in the midst of listening to AE for the first time in something like a year. I'm up to 'Away' and when he started singing "It's hard to be back here in Sweden again" I started to think, "I wonder if this is in reference to something that happened during Vai's Sex and Religion tour".
Then next verse he gets to "As above and so below my friend" and there is that little harmonized guitar lick... which I never noticed sounds fucking heaps like Steve Vai (especially the big wide glissandos) Then it smacks me in the face that I should have picked that because of the Hermetic statement "as above so below". Everyone here is aware how into the mystic arts Vai is, right?
I can't believe I never picked this before. So I could just be extremely trippin here and be finding evidence because I want to find evidence, I'm not sure that vai's tour ever took them to Sweden. But it would be interesting to find out.
Then next verse he gets to "As above and so below my friend" and there is that little harmonized guitar lick... which I never noticed sounds fucking heaps like Steve Vai (especially the big wide glissandos) Then it smacks me in the face that I should have picked that because of the Hermetic statement "as above so below". Everyone here is aware how into the mystic arts Vai is, right?
I can't believe I never picked this before. So I could just be extremely trippin here and be finding evidence because I want to find evidence, I'm not sure that vai's tour ever took them to Sweden. But it would be interesting to find out.
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