Flex-Able

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Flex-Able
Flex-Able cover
Studio album by Steve Vai
Released January 1984
Recorded April-November, 1983
Genre Instrumental rock
Length 55:04
Label Epic Records
Producer Steve Vai
Professional reviews
Steve Vai chronology
Flex-Able
(1984)		 Flex-Able Leftovers
(1984)
Alternate cover
The 1984 original cover printed on the vinyl and initial UK CD versions.
The 1984 original cover printed on the vinyl and initial UK CD versions.

Flex-Able is an album by Steve Vai. This was his first as a solo artist, and was created in Stucco Blue, a shed converted into a studio in Vai's old back garden. It is very different than many of his other albums, and is largely influenced by Frank Zappa. Thus, some people feel it is only an album for die-hard Vai fans. Flex-Able is not as based around massive guitar arrangements and shred moments as the rest of his output from the 1990s onwards, with the exception of 'Leftovers' which is a compilation of bonus tracks and remasters from his sessions at 'Stucco Blue'.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Steve Vai.

  1. "Little Green Men" – 5:39
  2. "Viv Woman" – 3:09
  3. "Lovers Are Crazy" – 5:39
  4. "Salamanders in the Sun" – 2:26
  5. "The Boy-Girl Song" – 4:02
  6. "The Attitude Song" – 3:23
  7. "Call it Sleep" – 5:09
  8. "Junkie" – 7:23
  9. "Bill's Private Parts" – 0:16
  10. "Next Stop Earth" – 0:34
  11. "There's Something Dead in Here" – 3:46

[edit] Bonus Tracks (CD Re-issue)

These last 4 tracks are on re-issue of CD only, and not original pressings (including tape and LP versions). These four tracks can also be found on Flex-Able Leftovers.

  1. "So Happy" – 2:44
  2. "Bledsoe Bluvd" – 4:22
  3. "Burnin' Down the Mountain" – 4:22
  4. "Chronic Insomnia" – 2:05