Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare (1990)

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare (1990)

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Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare

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1. "Liberty"   2:03

2. "Erotic Nightmares"   4:15

3. "The Animal"   4:01

4. "Answers"   2:56

5. "The Riddle"   6:24

6. "Ballerina 12/24"   1:43

7. "For the Love of God"   6:03

8. "The Audience Is Listening"   5:30

9. "I Would Love To"   3:41

10. "Blue Powder"   4:44

11. "Greasy Kid's Stuff"   2:58

12. "Alien Water Kiss"   1:10

13. "Sisters"   4:07

14. "Love Secrets"   3:40

Total length:   53:15

25th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks

15. "Lovely Elixir"  

16. "And We Are One (Solo #2)"  

17. "As Above"  

18. "So Below"  

Steve Vai Band Members / Musicians

Steve Vai – guitar, Eventide H3000, keyboard (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 11), bass (tracks 8, 9, 11), arrangement, engineering, production

David Rosenthal – keyboard (tracks 2, 9, 13), background vocals

Pia Maiocco (credited as Pia Vai) – keyboard on one chord (track 4)

Bob Harris – keyboard (track 10), background vocals

Chris Frazier – drums (tracks 1–5, 8, 10, 11, 13)

Tris Imboden – drums (tracks 7, 9)

Stuart Hamm – bass (tracks 2–5, 7, 10, 13)

Nancy Fagen – "vocals & hysteria" (track 8)

Jamie Firlotte – boy vocals (track 8)

David Coverdale – background vocals

Rudy Sarzo – background vocals

Adrian Vandenberg – background vocals

Pascal Fillet – background vocals

Laurel Fishman – background vocals

Lillian Vai – background vocals

Pam Vai – background vocals

Joel Kaith – background vocals

Corky Tanassy – background vocals

Jamie Kornberg – background vocals

Lauren Kornberg – background vocals

Corinne Larue – background vocals

Famin' – background vocals

Darla Albright – background vocals

Laura Gross – background vocals

Rupert Henry – background vocals

Suzanna Harris – background vocals

Julian Angel Vai – background vocals

Pascal Fillet – mixing

Bernie Grundman – mastering

Passion and Warfare is the 2nd studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released in May 1990 through Relativity and Epic Records. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA.

Passion and Warfare was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had when he was younger, and in the guitar music book of the album, Vai sums it up as "Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc". It was all recorded in The Mothership studio at his home in the Hollywood Hills, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building in which his guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue were also recorded. As such, Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has small spoken parts on the album; Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg and Rudy Sarzo are credited with backing vocals. Vai states that planning the album started as early as 1982, but was shelved after joining the David Lee Roth band and not picked up again until parting ways with Roth in 1989.