Happy 33rd Anniversary to "Eat 'Em and Smile"! This week in 1986, the record was released. I was barely 26 and had no idea what this all meant, but I found out quick. What a ride! Photo by Neil Zlozower / Atlas Icons
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Your solo in Ladies Nite in Buffalo is still one of my all time favorites!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Gimme a glazed donut and a bottle of anything. To goooooooooo
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Ladies Nite in Buffalo... What a track.
@stevevai @Roth_Army @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Sick record w some sick solos and songs. Ladies Nite and Big Trouble 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@stevevai @PartyPriyaPanda @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Bought that album the day it came out. Double Parked in front of a Crazy Eddies in Brooklyn. Album cost $7.99. Parking ticket : $35. Still the best overall money I spent in a long while !
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette yeeehaaaw 💜🎶👊🏼 in spanish of course....
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette The best band money could buy!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette A genuinely brilliant and truly flawless album To do this after a run of 6, absolutely perfect, Van Halen albums took incredible nerve It’s better than 5150 And 5150 is absolutely fantastic Brilliant, just brilliant @stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette had arrived !!!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette You guy's Rock that was one of the best shows that I've went to Steve Vai Billy Sheehan awesome the greatest combination right there who's better Billy Sheehan and Steve Vai I just have to say they're split I think the greatest combo bass guitar players ever over and out Twisted
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette LOOOOVE THAT ALBUM! It's just incredible!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Great album! Loved it.
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Hard to believe Billy was 40 then
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette what a great record Steve :)
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette it stands in my personal top 10 rock albums of all times chart! the laughing guitar on Yankee Rose, Shyboy, Elephant Gun, the guitar solo on Big Trouble, what a record!!!!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Still listen to it often. Fantastic guitar work, still sounds as good now as it did then!
@stevevai @orphe666 @BillyonBass @greggbissonette One of my favourite all time records
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Clearly Eat em and smile beat the shit out of 5150. Its too bad that lineup didn't last long. One of the best bands ever. Saw you guys at the Nassau Coliseum and it was one of the best shows I ever attended.
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette You were a beast on that album. It’s what introduced me to you and I never left.
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette I saw the videos back then. I thought you were cocky & arrogant. But then I saw you play & I knew that’s was confidence & your genius musically from the soul. Been a fan a long time. Congrats Sensei! #practicEpracticEpracticE
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette We need an Eat EM’ And Smile (again) tour! Take my money please!!! 🙏🏻
@stevevai @jonboyes @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Good times!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette BEST Hard Rock Lineup EVER! The Musicianship and Chemistry was at the Nuclear Scale! :)
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Loved that album!!! Awesome guitar playing. It was my first introduction to Mr Vai
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Now can we get it remastered already!!!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Entire Eat Em And Smile tour program autographs were completed at the Hard Rock Cafe Studio City Fire Garden CD release party - Stevie also autographed my Skyscraper Tour Prorgram that night 🎸photos coming up soon! You broke out your double neck ♥️guitar that night
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette remember that tour. great show
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Great photo!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette When I first heard Shy Boy - my head exploded. Now I own two Jems and I never miss a chance to see Steve in concert. Caught that tour in Providence,RI - still one of the best shows I have ever seen...
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Happy birthday to a classic album!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Saw you in Birmingham UK and was blown away. Feels like yesterday.
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Love this photo!
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette Steve, do you still have that green guitar in that pic? I forgot about that one.
@stevevai @BillyonBass @greggbissonette What a album brilliant from start to finish