[Blazingmonga]

Btw, when Dev talked about it, he was speaking of both their next albums. Well, Vai already relaesed this "next" album (Real Illusions, right?) - and as we all know, there's no Dev on it... Wondering if Dev's guest appearance on a Vai record will still happen.

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

Haha, I just found it interesting that for some reasons it didn't happen - and I don't care that much for Vai. So "Dev on top", as you put it, sounds lightyears better to me than "Vai on top"

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

Haha, I just found it interesting that for some reasons it didn't happen - and I don't care that much for Vai. So "Dev on top", as you put it, sounds lightyears better to me than "Vai on top"

Either way it sounds disgusting to me

I met Steve Vai at his tour bus two years ago at teh end of a G3 show. I asked Steve if he liked Devy's work over the years. As he signed my Sex and Religion REPLACE,...he looked me straight in the eyes and said "Are you kidding?,...I LOVE his music" I said to him "You you own any of it?" Steve said (again, looking me right in the eyes) "I have EVERYthing of his,...all his stuff" I then asked him if he thought he would ever work with Devy again,...He said: "Hmmm,...well,....Ehh,..prolly not". (He didn't look me in the eyes on that one)

Strangely enough,...a short while later, this web site reported that Steve had contacted Devy about all this talk about working together!

I kinda wonder if it wasn't me that planted the seed in Steves head by accident.

Something else that was really cool was that I got to meet Steve's son Julian. ( the boy being born on Sex and Religion) I asked him of he remembered Devy,...he said "no,...not really". The kid was super cool though,...Steve was taking him to Walt Disney World the next day in Orlando.

CT

i can't wait to hear vai on this album, damn this thing sounds so damn sweet so far i can't believe it. I'm really hoping for giant layers of epic choruses kind of like terria on this one. Thats a cool story also cliff

I know that Vai had originally planned for his next project to be some sort of crazy concept album with all sorts of different guest vocalists. The project apparently got too overwhelming though, and it was also very difficult to book all the vocalists that Vai wanted and get their schedules to coincide.... so instead of doing the album that way Vai scratched that idea... and went ahead and recorded the album that is now known as "Real Illusions". (A good album if u ask me!)

My guess is that Vai wanted Devy to be involved in that original project idea... but then when Vai scratched it... I guess scratched any guest vocalist/musician that he had planned as well... so thats what I am guessing happened... i dont think it was anything to do with something bad that happened! And now obviously Vai has a guest spot on Dev's new record... so all must be well with them!!

Departing from the Vai thing for a bit, i wondered over to MTV.com to make sure there weren't any other Synchestra bits & pieces that were excluded from the blabbermouth post. Here's the complete MTV post (and there are a couple of new things including when the recording will be finished (the MTV post was made on the 13th) and the lack of any expletives):

Exalted guitarist and musical visionary Devin Townsend — respected on even terms as Strapping Young Lad's outlandish frontman and as Hevy Devy, the revered solo artist and creative force behind the Devin Townsend Band — is, as he explained, "in a pretty cool place," and he's "really savoring it." Come this time next week, he'll have finished the Devin Townsend Band's forthcoming disc, Synchestra — 13 tracks of which he's calling "sunshine metal."

"Strangely enough, this is the first record I've done that was made to [be] enjoyed," Townsend said. "I'm expecting people to hate [this music], because it's really sensitive and heavy and epic, and everything's really pleasing about it. I don't know how many people want to listen to pleasing music. A lot of people are still into being assaulted every time they turn on their stereo. Those people will think it's a wussy, pain-in-the-ass record. People who're sick of dudes yelling at them will love it."

Synchestra, which will include the songs "Let It Roll," "Hyper-Geek," "Notes From Africa," "Judgment," "A Simple Lullaby" and "Sunshine and Happiness," is even completely devoid of curse words. It should surface in either February or March, he said, and will be distributed throughout the U.S. by Inside Out; he'll also be selling it through his own label's Web site at HevyDevy.com.

Six of the album's 13 cuts, Townsend promised, will clock in at or just under 10 minutes. One even features a guest appearance by imperious guitarist Steve Vai; Townsend wielded the mighty ax and handled backing vocals on Vai's 1993 album, Sex & Religion, and later toured with the virtuoso. So Synchestra's the first time the two have worked together in 12 years.

"I love writing music and songs, but I'm getting more and more tired of playing guitar and singing," he said. "There's this big long part I'd written for this solo, and sometimes, I'm in the headspace for guitar and other times, I'm just not. Right now I'm not. I just couldn't give a f---. So I gave [Vai] a call."

But don't be fooled by Townsend's shiny, happy mien; Synchestra's still going to sound like a true metal record.

"It's super f---ing heavy — like bludgeoningly heavy," he said. "But they're all bludgeoningly heavy lullabies. This is a record you can put on that'll make you feel good. It's like a celebration — something you put on in the morning, or when you want to sing along and laugh and smile, but still have it so heavy that when you crank it up, it will level any of your death-metal competition."

*edited to improve appearance*

I'm sure everyone appreciates ypou going to the effort of getting the whole article djt06, but did you have to post it in blue? It makes it kinda difficult to read (Probably not the case for those not using the 'dtb' style board setting).

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

Haha, I just found it interesting that for some reasons it didn't happen - and I don't care that much for Vai. So "Dev on top", as you put it, sounds lightyears better to me than "Vai on top"

Either way it sounds disgusting to me

The second time today that one of your posts makes me laugh...

Actually, when tiping it, strange pictures came to my mind too... But I thought it might be better not to share them

I'm sure everyone appreciates ypou going to the effort of getting the whole article djt06, but did you have to post it in blue? It makes it kinda difficult to read (Probably not the case for those not using the 'dtb' style board setting).

Sorry...first post. I'll know better next time.

[Blazingmonga]

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

Haha, I just found it interesting that for some reasons it didn't happen - and I don't care that much for Vai. So "Dev on top", as you put it, sounds lightyears better to me than "Vai on top"

Either way it sounds disgusting to me

The second time today that one of your posts makes me laugh...

Actually, when tiping it, strange pictures came to my mind too... But I thought it might be better not to share them

Sorry for the imagery guys...but you know I like it kinky!

Vai and Dev?? yeah that is really kinky, i wonder what Tracy would have to say about the subject

*runs off to scrub her mind's eye with wire wool*

To be fair, Dev has already appeared on enough Vai material...I think it is quite about time that Dev was on top for once!

Haha, I just found it interesting that for some reasons it didn't happen - and I don't care that much for Vai. So "Dev on top", as you put it, sounds lightyears better to me than "Vai on top"

Either way it sounds disgusting to me

The second time today that one of your posts makes me laugh...

Actually, when tiping it, strange pictures came to my mind too... But I thought it might be better not to share them

Sorry for the imagery guys...but you know I like it kinky!

I like to share my disgusting mental images with others.

As far as Vai playing on "Synchestra" in my eyes.....

I'm beyond stoked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is easily one of the best guitar players in the world. He is sick ! I would have never imagined when I was a teenager listening to David Lee Roth's "Eat 'Em and Smile" that Steve Vai one day would play to my drum tracks on an album ! It's very surreal but very cool at the same time. I'm personally honoured and very stoked about Vai playing on the new DTB record and I can't wait to hear it all come together....that'll be soon !

RVP

Oh thank you thank you thank you!

I really can't understand how can people take Vai as some kind of "just another guitar player". He doesn't even PLAY guitar, he is so beyond that. I would describe it as "making the guitar do weird things for him". Can't wait for Synchestra!