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Flex-Able is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Frank Zappa and Nina Hagen. Those roots explain a lot about how Flex-Able arrange songs and choose their tones. Altogether the chart holds 2 connections around Flex-Able, reaching back through Frank Zappa. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Flex-Able is the debut studio album by American virtuoso guitarist 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 from many of his other albums, and is largely influenced by Frank Zappa; Vai was a member of his backing band from 1980 to 1983. Flex-Able does not rely as much on 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.
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