Originally Posted by: OSdaveI guess I'm just one of very few people (if any) that is completely unimpressed with the sheer technicality and lack of true feeling in both Vai and Satriani's music. Yes, they are excellent guitarists and good at what they do, I'm just not into the whole "technical" thing. I'll take even a mediocre blues guitarist over either of them any day...

That's exactly the way I feel about Vai's music, but not Satriani's. I like the way that Satch bases his noodling on a synthesis of blues-rock and pop, it gives his music a lot more personality.