"For the Love of God (Live)" is a song by Steve Vai which Every piece of music must have a title, so why not this? Perhaps a more fitting one would have been "An Exercise In Self-Indulgence", if Rush hadn't hijacked that twelve years earlier.
Vai recorded this piece on the fourth day of a ten day fast, apparently while pursuing some altered state of consciousness. The album version runs to 6 minutes 2 seconds. In 2005 he recorded a live version with the Holland Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Chris Opperman. Here, the solo clarinet introduction and the harp arpeggios are a distinct improvement on the usual lead guitar.
Overall, this version is reminiscent of the Deep Purple orchestration "April"; the only difference being that the supposedly so egocentric Ritchie Blackmore looks positively humble in comparison. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)
"A Drug Against War" • "Angel Lust" • "Another California Song" • "Arigato" • "Australia" • "Backyard Buildyard" • "Battles and Brotherhood" • "Buried Cold" • "Burn It Down" • "California" • "Can I Stay" • "Cease and Desist" • "Children of December" • "Creepy Doll" • "Crushed Beyond Dust" • "Day of Mourning" • "Disengage" • "Don't Let Me Down (Slowly)" • "Dove Nets" • "Drunken Lullabies (Live)" • "End Quote" • "Even Rats" • "Fade Away" • "Far Away from Heaven" • "Fight Back" • "For the Love of God (Live)" • "Fortune" • "Get the Hell Out of Here" • "Give" • "Goth Girls" • "Grumpytown" • "He Sleeps in a Grove" • "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" • "Homosuperior" • "Horses in Heaven" • "How We'd Look on Paper" • "Hyperbole" • "Icarus' Song" • "If Not Now When" • "If Trucks Drank Beer" • "Ikea" • "In Memories" • "Inside Out (Nick Gallant song)" • "It's Good" • "It's Not You, It's Everyone" • "Juke Joint Jezebel" • "Kick Some Ass '09" • "Lady in a Blue Dress" • "Lemon Juice" • "Lilith in Libra" • "Limousine" • "Liquid Smog (StompBox Remix)" • "Little Black Backpack '09" • "Liverpool Judies" • "Love During Wartime" • "Mechanical Love" • "Megatron" • "Mississippi Kite" • "Moonboy" • "Nancy Drew" • "No Direction" • "No Heroes" • "Not My Fault" • "Ox" • "Paper Valentines" • "Parhelia" • "Persistence of Vision" • "Race The Hourglass" • "Red Sky At Morn" • "Requiem For A Dying Song" • "Rip'er" • "River of Tuoni" • "Running for the Razors" • "Rx" • "Sequestered in Memphis" • "Sestri Levante" • "Sick" • "Signs" • "Sissyfuss" • "Sleep On" • "Stand for Something" • "Still There" • "Superhero!" • "Survive" • "Tadpole Search and Rescue" • "Talk About" • "Talk Them Down" • "Teeth, Face, Outerspace" • "The Attitude Song" • "The Buddy Disease" • "The Complexity of Light" • "The Future Soon" • "The Heist" • "Tongue Twister Typo" • "Top Back" • "Tricky Girl" • "Trippolette" • "Turn Yourself Around" • "VP of Booty Reports" • "Watch It All Go Down" • "We Are the Best" • "Whatever Is Wrong With You" • "What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?" • "You Got That" • "You're My Everything" • "Bleeder" • "Cali Girl" • "Code Monkey" • "Gave It Up" • "Genius" • "Makeup/Breakup (Original Version)" • "Minnesota" • "Packet Flier" • "Push Push (Lady Lightning)" • "Stegosaurus Song" • "White Heat" • "Approach the Podium" • "Demon Woman" • "Roll Over" • "So Says I" • "Push Me" • "Shiny Dark Bar" • "Do You Feel Like Breaking Up?" • "Mordecai" • "Stick Stickly" • "Africa" • "Car Windows" • "Descend Into the Eternal Pits of Possession" • "Life Unworthy of Life" • "Love and the Triumph Of" • "Second Best Friend" • "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" • "Whatever Happened To You" • "Day to Day" • "Destructive Device" • "Moonshine Hollar" • "Still Alive" • "What a Trip" • "Dirty South Rock" • "One Bad Man" • "Battle Royale" • "Elements" • "My New Favorite Disaster" • "Nothing There" • "Rise" • "The Mob Goes Wild" • "You're A Wolf" • "50,000 Unstoppable Watts" • "Dragonfly" (Symbion Project Remix) • "We Are Not Anonymous" • "Business Time" • "Dirty King" • "I'm Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?" • "Midnight Ride" • "Semi-Charmed Life '09" • "Bodies" • "Collapsing" • "Days Without" • "One Step Further" • "Being Here" • "Dance With Me" • "Remedy" • "Energy" • "First We Feast, Then We Felony" • "Hot Sexy Girls" • "I Know What I Am" • "I'm Alive" • "Past Lives" • "Taking Apart a Gigantic Machine" • "Too Hot to Handle" • "Under Water I Drown" • "Anything" • "Do Not Disturb (Tell Me How Bad)" • "Gravitate" • "Roll the Dice" • "Scavengers of the Damned" • "Upstream" • "Hook, Line, and Sinner" • "I Don't Think That's OK" • "A Thousand Nights" • "Not Your Enemy" • "A Little Faster" • "Gasoline" • "Synthesized" • "Trash Candy" • "Burn" • "When I Get Home, You're So Dead" • "Never Let You Go '09" • "Perfect World" • "Step Up (I'm on It)" • "Eveready" • "Scream Ceremony" • "Unstoppable" • "Burning Rome" • "Love Is the Only Thing" • "Sound of the Redeemed" • "Young Bloods" • "Home" • "Rearview Mirror" • "Sending Signals" • "Where the Light Was Born (Thule Ultima a Sole Nomen Habens)" • "Where We're Goin" • "1348" • "All Eyes on Me" • "All My Friends Are Crazy" • "Doomsday Party" • "Midnight Daydreams" • "Forever in Your Hands" • "Gravity (Don't Let Me Go)" • "Wings of Infinity" • "Bow Down" • "Chalk Lines" • "Drag Me Away" • "Eden was a Garden" • "Let the Games Begin" • "Motorcide" • "Rude Awakening" • "The Price" • "I Am Legion" • "Last Mistake" • "The Girl at the Video Game Store" • "Numb" • "One Step Behind" • "You Stay. I Go. No Following." • "Close Your Eyes" • "Elisheva, I Love You" • "Blink" • "Bringing Love to the Party" • "Caught" • "Death Comes (The Wedding Night)" • "Frontier Factory" • "Goodnight Technologist" • "Henchmen Ride" • "Indigo Friends" • "Jumper '09" • "Take Control" • "We Are the Nightmare" • "HTML Rulez D00d" • "In Memory" • "NDE" • "American Dream" • "Beautiful" • "Dead to the World" • "Delaware Are You? I Don't Know Alaska." • "Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over" • "Exploited & Exposed" • "Homeward Bound" • "Plans & Reveries" • "Undone" • "Dethroned" • "End of This" • "Even Seconds" • "Heads or Tails? Real or Not" • "Montana" • "Paralyzer" • "People Like You" • "Shot at the Title" • "Swine Houses" • "The Funeral" • "Chelsea" • "Death Quota for Purification" • "Doomed" • "Radiator" • "The Crying Machine (Live)" • "Unfurling a Darkened Gospel" • "Where Were You?" • "You've Got Someone" • "Beauty Queen" • "Dr. Doom" • "Inheritance" • "Last Train to Awesometown" • "Redemption" • "You Take It All" • "Automatic Doors" • "Chemical Infatuation" • "Don't Feel Like That Anymore" • "Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)" • "Light of Day" • "Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)" • "Rock Your Socks Off" • "Swallow the Razor" • "Wrong Side of the Sky" • "Everyone I Know is an Alcoholic" • "Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)" • "Knifeman" • "You're Not Alone - Rock Mix" • "India" • "The Great Plains" • "Til I'm Gone" • "Walls" • "We're Not Getting Any Younger" • "Bra Off Party On" • "Death Metal Guys" • "It's Not Paranoia If They're Shooting Live Bullets" • "Now Demolition" • "Paper Dolls" • "Tastes Like Kevin Bacon" • "Valkyries" • "Eency Weency Spider" • "Santa Fe" • "Shape 3" • "Sunday Suit" • "By Yourself" • "Five More Minutes" • "Is There a Ghost" • "You're an Egg! (Evolution)" • "Fat Kid" • "Satellite (Live)" • "Dance Floor" • "Fight to Kill" • "Footprints" • "Mr. Sun" • "Oye Vaya" • "Stay Up With Me" • "You All Everybody" • "Dharma Lady" • "How We Roll" • "The Way You Move" • "We Are the One" • "American Hero" • "Disappear in You" • "Freakshow" • "Hail Destroyer" • "Live For Today" • "Shake" • "Sorceress" • "This F***ing Job" • "When We Fall" • "Blow at High Dough" • "Dead Wrong" • "Haunt My Mind" • "Higher" • "Riot Act" • "Smile (Live)" • "Surprise" • "Walking Away" • "Fake It" • "Soldier from the Surface" • "Tap Dancing In A Minefield" • "Daughter" • "I Wanna Be An Alien's Pet" • "Friday the 13th" • "Molten Death" • "Tree Village" • "Young" • "America Underwater" • "Anybody Else" • "Bang Camaro" • "Cheating, Lying, Stealing" • "Circles" • "Detroit City" • "Fire Away" • "I See Georgia" • "I'm Coming Home" • "Ice Cold" • "Let Me Down" • "Nightlife Commando" • "ShadowBang (Head)" • "Shop Vac" • "Yo Shakespeare" • "An Exercise in Futility" • "Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - Scherzo" • "Infected Nation" • "Rise Above This" • "Scared to Death" • "Serial Killer" • "Travelin' Freak Show" • "Wake Up" • "Dream About the Future" • "Hitch Up (I'm So Stupid)" • "Hot Stuff" • "Painted" • "Bled To Be Free (The Operation)" • "Bleed" • "Bright Side of Life" • "Bury You Slowly" • "Cookie Monster" • "Crash Years" • "Crooked Strings" • "Janie" • "Mandelbrot Set" • "Six Is One" • "The World Is a Thorn" • "Three Words" "Turnpike Ghost" "A Better Forever" "Engine"
"The Lesser Man"
"Ramp Truck"
"Run"
"The Me You See"
"Believing"
"Deliver Us"
"Nosophoros"
"Touche, Miss Indenial"
"Buster Voodoo"
"Divine"
"Outta the Band"
"Beautiful Machine"
"Real Love"
"Throughout"
"Tomorrow She's Mine"
"Why Bother?"
"Big Deal"
"Black Cloud"
"Burst Into Fears"
"Hard to See"
"Told You Once"
"Death By Cancer"
"Flicker"
"In My Head, Out My Head"
"Liberated by Blasphemy"
"Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom"
"Seven"
"Simple Man"
"So Easy"
"The Ultimate Showdown (RBN Mix)"
"Tora Tora Tora"
"War Against the Radio"
"Wytches 2010"
"Piranha"
"So Awesome"
"Why"
"Lights Out"
"The Anthem of the Angry Brides"
"Ain't Life Grand (Live)"
"Attraction"
"Filthy Dog"
"Happy Little Tune"
"Leaderless and Self Enlisted"
"Pedal Down"
"Right Now Romeo"
"Deathbed Atheist"
"Do It to Me"
"Love Song"
"Take Me Away"
"The Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel)"
"Until the Night"
"Embrace Your Rage"
"Jigsaw Man"
"Come Along"
"Here and Gone"
"Hey Elevator"
"Beautiful Collapse (Stalker)"
"Blinded"
"Charmed"
"Curse You All Men! (Live)"
"Desperate Days"
"Doublecrossed"
"Hell or Hollywood"
"Inno a Satana (Live)"
"No Mercy"
"No One's Gonna Love You"
"Rollercoaster"
"Surf Spy"
"To the Otherside"
"Blood Red Rock"
"Plague to End All Plagues"
"Electro-Heaven"
"Incubus"
"No One In the World"
"Fighting Back the Bullies"
"Sabretooth"
"Every Day Is Sunday"
"Just Hang On"
"Beautiful Disaster"
"Chiron Beta Prime"
"Done"
"Guitar Sound"
"Guitars SUCK"
"Muéstrame un Poco"
"Shallow Waters"
"Strut"
"Betty and Me"
"Anna Maria (All We Need)"
"Believe"
"Lately"
"Rain Falls Down"
"Spin"
"What You Do to Me"
"Wrong Side of the Tracks"
"Genocide"
"I Hope You're Happy"
"Magician"
"Summer Love"
"Building a Robot"
"Entertain"
"(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar"
"A Prophecy"
"Crazy X"
"Hey There Mr. Brooks"
"Satisfied"
"The Great Salt Lake"
"Cheat on the Church"
"Hey Satomi (feat. Justine Skyers)"
"Jumpers"
"Shoot the Zombies"
"The Last Sound"
"Heavy Plastic"
"On the Airwaves"
"Rabbits"
"We Like the Moon"
"Belladonna & Aconite 2010"
"In Circles"
"Broke Down on the Brazos"
"Echo (My Only Regret)"
"Forgotten Tragedy"
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel"
"Swim"
"The Pose"
"(Random Song)"
"Floating Vibes"
"Mr. Spock"
"The Ending Is Death"
"Damn Good Man"
"Devoid of Thought"
"Fence Jumper"
"Flesh Pull"
"Hell's Sweet Hands"
"Kokko - Eagle of Fire"
"Song About an Angel"
"Uncivilized"
"You Ain't No Family"
"Your Petty Pretty Things"
"Howling at Summer"
"I Cut Off My Arms"
"I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT !!!1"
"Spring"
"XIV"
"Honest Man"
"Living in a Whirlwind"
"Money Honey"
"Pawns"
"Time No More"
"Violent Center"
"Burn Her Out"
"Buy You a House"
"Cherry Red"
"Disco Rocket"
"Lionheart"
"Return to Blood Beach"
"Time-bomb"
"Welcome to My World"
"White Table"
"Evil Inside Me"
"Head Up High"
"Pale Sister of Light"
"Revolution"
"Determined (Vows of Vengeance)"
"Girls Love Techno"
"Beautiful Girl"
"Bridges and Overpasses"
"Down Below"
"Fool"
"I've Got a Feeling"
"iPhone"
"Picture Perfect"
"Ring Capacity"
"Skate or Die"
"The Gun Show"
"The Pizza Morgana Song"
"United"
"Latest Heartbreak"
"Modern Mathematics"
"Welcome to Our Town"
"World on Fire"
"Your Hands (Together)"
"Appetite"
"Burn"
"Dial M for Murder"
"Difference"
"Dirty Hair Party"
"Erratic Eruption"
"Hello Fascination"
"I Want You to See"
"Radioland"
"Stick Tight"
"The One You Want"
"Army of the Damned"
"I Couldn't Explain Why"
"I'm Amazed"
"Smash the Control Machine"
"Americadio"
"Chasing the Light"
"Cup of Coffee"
"Epic Symphony in A Flat Minor, First Movement: Marching Out"
"Ready for Anything"
"Steppin' Lightly"
"Threads"
"Holy Ground"
"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
"Roman Candle"
"Shiver"
"999,999 Girls!"
"Discharge"
"Elevator"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
"Giant Magnets"
"Hanuman"
"Indulgence"
"Light"
"Saint Simon"
"BBQ Nation"
"Bittersweet Melancholy"
"Dying Wish of a Living Man"
"Headed for the Ditch"
"Laceration"
"Midnight Eyes"
"Mrs. Right"
"Thank You, Pain."
"Buttersnips"
"Dirt"
"Electricity is in My Soul"
"Far Wanderings"
"High Class Trailer Trash"
"How We Operate"
"Now or Never"
"Saga"
"Warmachine"
"Arcaedion"
"Chilly Water (Live)"
"Forgot Love"
"Girlfriend"
"Johnny Ace 2010"
"Rain"
"Right to the Apex"
"Signed With Love"
"Surprise Valley (Live)"
"The Deceiver"
"The Permanent Rain"
"Bang Bang Bang"
"Daisy"
"Old Lady Trouble"
"Rotten Cat Halloween Rat"
"Second & Sebring"
"Spill"
"Standing in Your Stuff"
"Wake Up"
"Antman"
"Frostbite Cavern"
"Hand Me Down"
"Nihilanth"
"Snowmaiden"
"The Touch"
"White Knuckles"
"All I Want"
"Drum Exercises for the Sufficiently Masochistic"
"I Thought I Knew You"
"Miss America"
"Philip K. Ridiculous"
"Refugee"
"Soulless"
"The Way You Move"
"Bullet with a Name"
"Ceraunophobia"
"Dark Horse"
"Gabrielle"
"Ghost I Own"
"P.W.M.O."
"The Countdown"
"The Waiting One"
"R U Mine?" • "Shepherd of Fire" • "Something from Nothing" • "Back to the Shack" • "Rize of the Fenix" • "I Still Believe" • "Divide" • "Run for Cover" • "Throne" • "Mona Lisa" • "The Reflex" • "Move Over" • "Would You Still Be There" • "Sugar, You" • "Cowboys From Hell (Live from Monsters in Moscow Festival)" • "Summertime Boy" • "What If I Was Nothing" • "High Road" • "September" • "Backwards Company" • "One Big Holiday" • "Jane" • "Gimme Chocolate!!" • "King for a Day" • "Rebellion" • "All the Rage Back Home" • "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" • "My Own Eyes" • "Don't Wanna Fight" • "Failure" • "Trainwreck 1979" • "Follow Me Down" • "Cryin" • "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" • "Eat The Rich" • "Love In An Elevator" • "Seasons of Wither" • "Rats in the Cellar" • "People Are People" • "What You Need" • "Always Something There To Remind Me" • "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" • "Lust for Life" • "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" • "Like A Stone" • "Awake" • "Lying From You" • "Sing" • "Riptide" • "Shut Up and Dance" • "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" • "Runnin' With The Devil" • "Hot For Teacher" • Dance The Night Away" • "And The Cradle Will Rock..." • "Unchained" • "Dreams" • "Electric Love" • "Cocoon" • "First" • "Renegades" • "The Coma Machine" • "Heir Apparent" • "Nevermore" • "Ex's and Oh's" • "Irresistible" • "Stitches" • "Different Colors" • "Can't Feel My Face" • "Adventure of a Lifetime" • "On My Mind" • "What Do You mean?" • "Drag Me Down" • "Leave The Night On" • "Thank God for Girls"
"The Vengeful One" • "Immortalized" • "Warrior" • "My Wave" • "Wicked Garden" • "Hunger Strike" • "Get Lucky" • "Heartbeat Song" • "Hey Ya!" • "Locked Out of Heaven" • "Treasure" • "Dancing With Myself" • "Love Stinks" • "I Hate Myself For Loving You" • "speed fighter" • "Still The One" • "Got Your Six" • "Thunder & Lightning" • "Figure It Out" • "Chicken Fried" • "Homegrown" • "The Wind" • "What Makes You Beautiful" • "Never Enough" • "Best Song Ever" • "Story of My Life" • "Zombie" • "Dreams" • "Ode To My Family" • "She Looks So Perfect" • "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)" • "Everybody Talks" • "Blown Away" • "That's My Kind Of Night" • "House Party" • "Day Late Dollar Short" • "Lodger" • "The Heist" • "Blink" • "Signs" • "What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?" • "Synthesized (Inside Your Mind Mix)" • "No Mercy" • "Seven" • "Cake By The Ocean" • "Stressed Out" • "The Hills" • "Sorry" • "Boyfriend" • "Love Yourself" • "Redneck" • "What I Like About You" • "Dope Noise" • "Don't Do Me Like That" • "Learning To Fly" • "Breakfast At Tiffany's" • "Take Me To Church" • "Found Out About You" • "Hey Jealousy" • "We're Not Gonna Take It" • "Cherry Pie" • "Hook" • "Famous Last Words" • "All These Things That I've Done" • "Africa" • "Lips Of An Angel" • "Where Is My Mind?" • "Rock This Town" • "Jumper" • "Uptown Girl" • "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" • "Pompeii" • "I Gotta Feeling" • "Mr. Jones" • "Blurred Lines" • "Heaven Is A Place on Earth" • "Bad Catholics" • "If You Could Only See" • "Everything You Want" • "I'm Yours" • "Starships" • "What About Love?" • "Seventeen" • "Dirt Road Anthem" • "All For You" • "Dystopia" • "Road To Nowhere" • "The Devil In I" • "The Sound Of Silence" • "HandClap" • "Happy Song" • "Safe and Sound" • "Save Tonight" • "Sweater Wheater" • "Little Talks" • "Happy" • "Chandelier" • "Feel Invincible" • "King of the World" • "Hold My Hand" • "Only Wanna Be With You" • "Let Her Cry" • "Lovesong" • "Time After Time" • "She Drives Me Crazy" • "Complicated" • "My Happy Ending" • "What The Hell" • "24K Magic" • "Hymn for the Weekend" • "Still Breathing" • "Heathens" • "Ride" • "Royals" • "All About That Bass" • "The Greatest" • "Shadow" • "Bethany" • "Black Streak" • "I Recognize" • "Never Let 'Em Hold Ya Back" • "True Confessional" • "Mean Girls" • "Hours of Rats" • "Pain Killer" • "Closer, Closer" • "Constant Disaster" • "Black Corridor" • "Angel" • "Crazy" • "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" • "Janie's Got A Gun" • "Livin' On The Edge" • "Rag Doll"
"Enjoy The Silence" • "We Got the Beat (Previously from Rock Band 2)" • "Torn (Ednaswap song)" • "Open Water" • "Shy (HUNNY song)" • "Bloodhands (Oh My Fever)" • "Who's Your Lover" • "Radio (No Small Children Song)" • "I Remember You (Skid Row song)"" • "Here I Go Again (Previously from Rock Band 3)"" • "
