Passion And Warfare (25th Anniversary Edition)

Often cited as one of the greatest and most influential instrumental rock guitar albums ever recorded, Steve Vai's second studio album, _Passion And Warfare_, was originally released through Relativity/Epic Records in September 1990. Inspired by a series of dreams Vai had experienced as a young man, he describes the album as Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur threw for Mel Blanc. Sketches and concepts for the record started as early as 1982 but were shelved after Vai joined David Lee Roth's band. When they parted ways, Vai was determined to finish it and ended up recording it in his home studio The Mothership while also working on the guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue. The album includes the classic track For the Love of God, cited as one of the best solos of all time in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll.