Alien Love Secrets

Alien Love Secrets
Extended play by Steve Vai
Publication (s)	March 1995
Label (s)	Relativity
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Hard rock , rock
Title (number)	7th
running time	33:34
occupation	Steve Vai - guitar , keyboard , drums , bass Tommy Mars - Hammond organ Deen Castronovo - drums Julian Vai - baby voice
production	Steve Vai
Studio (s)	The Mothership Studio
chronology Flex-Able Leftovers (1984) Alien Love Secrets -

Alien Love Secrets is the second EP from American rock musician Steve Vai . The EP was released in March 1995 under the label Relativity Records and reached number 125 on the Billboard 200 and stayed in the charts for 2 weeks.

Trivia

According to Vai, the EP was recorded with minimal instrumentation ( guitar , bass , drums and keyboard ) within six weeks, as Vai's recording sessions for Fire Garden were too long and therefore the EP was released before Fire Garden . Well-known pieces from the EP are Bad Horsie , which contains guitar passages from the film Crossroads - Pact with the Devil and is characterized by its enormous guitar and sound skills. Juice has the familiar complexity again and was used on the PlayStation game Formula 1 . Ya-Yo Gakk is a call and response interaction between Vai's son Julian and Vais playing guitar. Tender Surrender is one of Vai's most popular songs and has a high level of difficulty as well as diversity and was inspired by the Jimi Hendrix composition Villanova Junction Blues . The song The Boy from Seattle is a tribute to Hendrix. It is based on the theme of his piece Wait 'till Tomorrow . The trademark of speech and sound imitation, which was developed as a member of the band around David Lee Roth , is used several times on Alien Love Secrets : as horse crawling, baby babbling and "alien dialogue".

Chart placements

Professional reviews
source	rating
Allmusic

Chart (1995)	placement
Billboard 200	125

Track list

All songs were composed by Steve Vai .

1. Bad Horsie - 5:50
2. Juice - 3:44
3. Die to Live - 3:53
4. The Boy from Seattle - 5:04 am
5. Ya-Yo Gakk - 2:52
6. Kill the Guy with the Ball / The God Eaters - 7:02
7. Tender Surrender - 5:01

Alien Love Secrets DVD, VHS

Alien Love Secrets
Steve Vai's video album
Publication (s)	September 1997
admission	1995
Label (s)	Favored Nations
Format (s)	DVD, VHS
Genre (s)	Rock , metal
Title (number)	9
chronology - Alien Love Secrets Live at the Astoria, London (2003)

Alien Love Secrets is the first solo DVD of Steve Vai and appeared in September 1997 under his own label Favored Nations Entertainment.

Track list

1. Bad Horsie
2. Juice
3. The to Live
4. The Boy from Seattle
5. Comments from Steve Vai
6. About Steve
7. Discography by Steve Vai
8. Fire Garden EPK
9. About this DVD

Professional reviews
source	rating
Allmusic

Individual evidence

1. ^ Releases Allmusic
2. ↑ ^{a b} information, criticism of Allmusic
3. ↑ ^{a b} Charts, Awards Allmusic
4. ↑ Charts Billboard
5. ↑ Steve Vai : Notes ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ ^{a b} Helt Deister: "I enjoy entertaining people". Guitarist Steve Vai answers questions about himself and his album "Alien Love Screts" . In: Darmstädter Echo . May 18, 1995, Rock and Pop, p. 28 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} DVD information, review Allmusic