Arson Smith wrote:

BadComrade wrote:Why does Steve Vai swing his guitar around?

Aw shit man - I read that, and thought it was going to be a setup for some awesome (or perhaps shitty) punch-line...


Q: Why does Steve Vai swing his guitar around?

A: It's not going to suck itself.


(or something like that)

burun wrote:Man, those people on the Ibanez forum are snippy.

GTF wrote:To answer your question, Steve implemented it into his guitars because he thought it would look cool. He tried various "trial" monkey grips before settling on the current design. There are pictures of the early monkey grips in his guitar gallery at his website.

Does it serve any purpose besides aesthetic? No. To my knowledge, all it does is, like Sephiroth said, give Steve a handle to grab onto when he swings his guitars around on stage. So, in essence, it's a purely aesthetic addition.

-GTF

burun wrote:Man, those people on the Ibanez forum are snippy.

Shredders own the greatest genre of thousands of years of human music...

FuzzBob wrote:And just what purpose does this "monkey grip" serve?

Steve Vai in October 2007 Guitar World wrote:"VAI: i just thought it would be cool. when all of a sudden you're in a band like david lee roth's, people instantly think anything you say or do is cool, just because you're famous. if you don't have a firm grip on reality, you start believing them. it's impossible for it not to affect your ego. so i thought, i'm going to put a mokey grip on my guitar and everybody will think it's cool. oddly enough, a lot of people did."

btcol wrote:http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150220716132

Venkman got me hooked on this Ibanez forum, trainwreck central...are these people for real ?

bent_christian wrote:This is the ugliest I've ever seen...

Ha, top THAT!

Boombats wrote:Osiris actually got chopped up and had his johnson cut off by Set. Apparently when Isis stitched him back together (sans wang) there were some aftermarket upgrades.