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22:00 Sunday, 27 November 2022
Professor Of Rock has released the new video below, along with the following message:
"Like sonic light cutting through the darkness, listening to this track is guaranteed to take you to a higher plane. It has been called one of the of the greatest guitar songs ever writte, and it contains one of the greatest solos ever played. Steve Vai’s 'For The Love Of God' came about in an instinctive moment after this virtuoso picked up his guitar and everything just started to flow. He had fasted for 10 days to gain the spiritual intuition to get to a higher vibration. But amazingly, it would sit on the shelf years before it ever made it to record. In this episode, I sit down with the legendary guitar hero himself and discover the origin story of one of the most powerful and inspirational rockers of all time. Oh yeah; he also tells us about losing to his son when they play this on guitar hero. It’s a good one coming..."