The concert begins on a high note with a smoking performance of the Sheehan-penned "Shyboy", from the fist David Lee Roth album. Vai takes the stage and performs the entire song blindfolded--one of his many gimmicks during this concert. From there, Vai tears through over two hours worth of songs from his solo albums, as well as faithful covers of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" and "Little Wing". Vai is sort of a modern day Jimi Hendrix, without the prolific songwriting skills. He sounds stunning playing these great songs, which makes me wish he was in a band with songwriters who could feed him some worthy songs to perform. Unless you are intimately familiar with all of Vai's album, I admittedly am not, many of these songs will tend to all meld together and sound like one long jam. Vai has a good sense of humor, and appears very down to earth, which is very contrasting to his flamboyant, "guitar-god" persona. He interacts with the crowd a lot, joking and teasing throughout the show, and flaunts numerous costume changes including an oversized pimp hat, and a headset full of strobe and laser lights  He does get a little annoying at times with the over the top flamboyance and nearly constant "look at how cool I am" facial expressions and mannerisms, but the crowd seems to eat it up.

Vai is generous to his bandmates and allows them to share his limelight by giving them ample solo spots and featured performances. Some of the concert highlights feature frenzied guitar duals between Vai and Macalpine, where they match each other's fretboard attacks note for note, and also play impossibly fast runs in perfect harmony. Macalpine equals Vai's speed and proficiency, but is no match for his charismatic technique. The highlight of these duels was during "Down Deep", where they simultaneously fingered each other's guitars while the other person picked, all the while spinning around in a circle. It took almost until the end of the concert to hear my favorite Vai song, "For The Love Of God". This stunning song is possibly the finest instrumental rock song ever written. Although I preferred Vai's performance of this song on the G3 Live In Concert DVD, he still brought the house down with his intense and emotional performance at this concert. He always plays this song with a genuine emotion that is very moving.