The famous guitarist
Steve Vai is going to record this week a new version of "Stairway To Heaven" , the classic
Led Zeppelin's song . He will work with the R&B singer Mary J.Blige , the drummer Travis Baker (Blink-182) , the bassist Randy Jackson (who is also one of the "American Idol" judge) and the Michael Jackson's guitarist Orianthi .
Steve Vai recently said that he was nervous to cover the song , but once he heard Blige was on board, he was ready to go.
"You know, you gotta be really careful when you're gonna consider playing a song like this because it's just steeped in folklore and respect and it's been played by everybody," Vai said. "I believe it's the most requested song in history. So I was trying first to imagine how it was going to sound and then the moment that I heard that Mary J. was doing it, I actually have her records, so I went, 'Oh my God, this is going to be great.' And we got into the studio and just
blasted it out. It was amazing. It was really special."
"We're doing it in D Minor which is up a major fourth, which is much higher," he said. "So it's breathing a completely different kind of an air than any version you've ever heard and that in itself just gives it a whole different quality because now it's like, it's sparkly. And what you can do up in that register, it just sounds like a whole different beast."
"My challenge with this is - what am I going to do for this song, this sacred piece of music to make it the best that I can do, and I'm just putting together this series of adjectives, you know," he said. "It's just gotta be the most beautiful, respectful, amazing thing that I could possibly do and then I tell myself I'm capable of doing it and it's just all coming to me now."
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Steve Vai , Iron Maiden's McBrain , Bernie Marsden (ex-Whitesnake) and Toto's Steve Lukather are confirmed for the Guitar Nation Festival 2010 , to take place at the Olympia Conference Center in London , on May 8-9 , 2010 .
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