Passion and Warfare

Passion and Warfare
Studio album by Steve Vai
Publication (s)	July 1990
Label (s)	Relativity / Epic
Genre (s)	Hard rock, heavy metal, instrumental rock
Title (number)	14th
running time	53:15
production	Steve Vai
Studio (s)	The Mothership
chronology Flex-Able (1984) Passion and Warfare Sex & Religion (1993)

Passion and Warfare is an instrumental studio album by guitarist Steve Vai . It was released in 1990 by Epic Records and is assigned to both the instrumental rock and metal genres.

Emergence

The album was recorded in Steve Vai's studio "The Mothership", where he had previously recorded the guitar parts for the Whitesnake album Slip of the Tongue .

Professional reviews
source	rating
Allmusic

The album was awarded gold by the RIAA . Passion and Warfare is considered to be one of the most famous and most stylish albums of instrumental rock. It contains some of his most famous songs like Liberty , The Audience Is Listening, and For the Love of God . For the latter song, he fasted for 10 days and recorded the song in one take on the fourth day of the fast. For the Love of God was ranked 29th among the best guitar solos of all time in a Guitar World reader poll.

The track Blue Powder was recorded in 1986 for "Guitar Player Magazine" as a sound example for the Carvin's X-100B amplifier. Steve Vai uses his signature guitars Ibanez Jem and Ibanez Universe, the amplifiers Marshall JCM900, Carvin X-100B and ADA-MP-1 preamp, as well as the effects pedals Boss DS-1 and Eventide H3000 Harmonizer etc. on the album.

Track list

All songs were composed by Steve Vai.

1. Liberty - 2:02
2. Erotic Nightmares - 4:13
3. The Animal - 3:55
4. Answers - 2:41
5. The Riddle - 6:22
6. Ballerina 12/24 - 1:45
7. For the Love of God - 6:02
8. The Audience Is Listening - 5:30
9. I Would Love To - 3:40
10. Blue Powder - 4:44
11. Greasy Kid's Stuff - 2:57
12. Alien Water Kiss - 1:10
13. Sisters - 4:07
14. Love Secrets - 3:35

occupation

• Steve Vai - guitar (on all tracks), keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 11), bass (tracks 8, 9, 11)
• Stuart Hamm - Bass (Tracks 2 - 5, 7, 10, 13)
• Chris Frazier - drums (tracks 1 - 5, 8, 10, 11, 13)
• Tris Imboden - drums (tracks 7, 9)
• David Rosenthal - keyboard (tracks 2, 9, 13), backing vocals
• Bob Harris - Keyboard (Track 10), backing vocals
• Pia Maiocco - Keyboard (Track 4)

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	gold	35,000
Canada (MC)	gold	50,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold	7,500
United States (RIAA)	gold	500,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver	500,000
All in all	1 × silver 4 × gold	1,092,500

Main article: Steve Vai / Discography # Awards for Music Sales

Individual evidence

1. ↑ musiciansfriend.com: recording details. Retrieved July 31, 2014 . 
2. ↑ guitar.about.com: 29th place among the best guitar solos. Retrieved July 31, 2014 . 
3. ↑ musiciansfriend.com: Equipment. Retrieved July 31, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Sales for Passion and Warfare in the United Kingdom ( July 11, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive )