![]() Pearl is the official soundtrack album from the film of the same name. Friday Music is honored to present another exciting installment in our David Lee Roth/Friday Music 180g Audiophile Vinyl Series with his masterpiece Skyscraper. Vai and Sheehan would jump ship after this one to follow their own careers, with reasonable success. Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller film written and directed by Rawson. Dave's energy is great as always but you get the feeling the band isn't quite as excited as they had been on the first album. This is a very good, but not great album. Vai contributes his trademark acoustic interlude which Dave turns into "Damn Good." "Hot Dog and Shake" features blistering legato soloing by Vai, and "Perfect Timing" see Dave in classic form. The only single off this album was "Just Like Paradise," a nice feel-good anthem that would have easily fit on a Van Halen album. The resulting album is very consistent but offers no surprises we hadn't already heard on the album before. This time guitarist Steve Vai was no secret, and he gets a larger role in the songwriting. So he essentially followed the same formula and put out Skyscraper. It was then that Steve revealed that his soloing on the album had some from the rough demos that they had done prior to recording “My guitar solos? Well, okay, for instance, I demoed all that Skyscraper stuff, and Dave liked the guitar solos so much that I had to use the demoed solos”, he said, concluding “I didn't really want to, but the committee was involved.Still Rockin' but Nothing New Dave must have been pleased as punch when Eat 'Em and Smile did so well. It's different Ted Templeman was just like "alright, let's go", and he knew how to capture 'something', but Dave had been doing that for so long he wanted to navigate to something differently.” Going on to discuss the production of the Skyscraper record, Steve admitted “Dave and I were just really forensic, because it was his first production outing, and he's got great ears and all but we probably lacked being producers that made rock and roll records as a career. That wouldn't have happened with any other situation.” I just loved the way the guitar just floats through the whole thing. I'm not competing with anybody it's loose, but it's tight, but it's free and it's liquid, but it's appropriate. When you listen to those rhythm tracks, that's as Steve Vai as I can get. I say to myself, I say to the 'committee’ "you're going to make a record that has that rhythm guitar playing that you love". Okay, I go into the studio, I locked the door, and I want to build a record. He went on “When I made the Gash record, it was a committee of one. So, even songs I wrote, there's a committee that has an involvement in it "what is the band feel? The singer, where is he going to fit it’s his band?!”, you know?! And what does the producer say the producer is always saying "now, here, listen let's try this", and then you've got the record company that just says "no, not that song", and so many suggestions.” He continued “Like, even with a song like 'Knucklebones' I didn't write it, Greg came in with that. Said Steve “I had a fight at times not 'fight', but I had to argue hard for doubling a guitar part”. Talk of the album arose when Vai discussed the Vai / Gash album (recorded in 1991), and how it differed to his experiences in the studio on the two Roth albums. ![]()
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