That night I sat in my living room and watched the show. Right before we took to the stage I was on the phone settling a painful and costly litigation. Nothing felt right and I went against my feeling on almost every issue. Then there was that fateful day we played The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. There are scars from those growing pains. Bogus and pathetic lawsuits, bad real estate investments with people who I could at best consider criminals, the disillusionment of the creation of a band, listening to negative type music and letting too many people get involved with my creative decision making, touring with people that were bored and miserable with the situation, the falling out of dear friends and the loss of Frank Zappa, were some of the situations that passed during this period. It seemed that right after the success of Passion And Warfare, I found myself in an alien frame of mind as the wheels of karma were weaving their indefatigable voodoo.įrom the time I started the Bad 4 Good project, a sort of downward spiral started to transpire. There were outside influences that I let get too close to my secret garden. It was a real physiological metamorphosing period. From the letters we receive, it appears that more people each day are discovering it's mesmerizing peculiarity. It's funny though because there are actually people who feel Sex & Religion is the most important record in their life and that it changed their world. Most fans were expecting another CD similar to PAW but.surprise! I'm still stunned from the whiplash and beating I received from the press. It was a conscious decision to make such a radical departure from Passion and Warfare with Sex & Religion. Although it may have seemed unfair to the others, there were definite ideas on which way I wanted to go with the music. I was not ready for that kind of commitment on my part. Stevens and Devin Townsend, in order to have a band there needs to be an unconditional acceptance of everybody else's contribution. You see, usually the idea of a band is to get together with people who could contribute their ideas and talents in a healthy exchange. They were very talented people that had definite ideas of the music they liked to play, and it all clashed dramatically. I was hoping everybody could contribute their performance expertise while I sort of guided the band in the direction that I thought the music should go. There was the concept of putting this band together with all monster musicians. It turned out to be a hard record to make. So now the next one was supposed to be so important. The band broke up shortly after the record was released. But, instead of touring to support PAW and developing a concert audience for the future, then going in and making another record, I opted to take a bunch of preadolescent kids and spend 18 solid months of 15-hour days on making a record. "After the success of Passion and Warfare, there was pressure to make a more mainstream record. Here are Steve's notes on Vai, the band and the recording The industry desperately wanted a follow up to Passion and Warfare, because that's how the industry works. Terry Bozzio jumped in from the Zappa days on the drums, and a young Canadian called Devin Townsend came along as well.įor anyone interested here is the Devin Townsend album thread (minus Strapping Young Lad) Steve put together a great band after the Passion and Warfare album, and officially leaving Whitesnake. Jan 1986 Public Image Limited (PIL) - AlbumĮxtra tracks - Love Elixir, And We Are One, As Above, So Belowįor The Love Of God -live with the Metropole Orchestra Nov 1985 Frank Zappa - Meets The Mothers Of Prevention March 1985 Alcatrazz Disturbing The Peace Stevie's Spanking - live Vai and Zappa jam May 1982 Zappa Ship Arriving Too Late to Save A Drowning Witch Heavenly Bank Account, Suicide Chump, Jumbo Go Away, If Only She Woulda, Drafted Again Mudd Club, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Dumb All Over Society Pages, I'm A beautiful Guy, Beauty Knows No PainĬharlies enormous mouth, Any Downers, Conehead, You Are What You Is Panty rap, Tell me you love me, Now You See it now You don't, Dance Contest, Blue Light, Tinseltown Rebellion, Pick Me I'm cleanīamboozeld By Love, Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Peaches 3ġ981 - Shut Up And Play Yer guitar - Frank Zappa Guitar Bookĭoreen, Goblin Girl, Theme From the 3rd movement of sinister footwear