Flex-Able
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Flex-Able
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Steve Vai
- Album.cover
- Steve Vai - Flex-Able (Original).jpg
- Album.released
- January 1984
- Album.recorded
- April–November, 1983
- Album.genre
- Progressive rock instrumental rock experimental rock
- Album.length
- 41:18 (without the bonus tracks)55:04 (with the bonus tracks)
- Album.label
- Urantia Records (original)Akashic Records (1988 reissue)Epic Records (1997 reissue)
- Album.producer
- Steve Vai
- Album.next_title
- Flex-Able Leftovers
- Album.next_year
- 1984
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 1984
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Followed by
- Flex-Able Leftovers
- Producer
- Steve Vai
- Performer
- Steve Vai
- Record label
- Epic Records
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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- studio album
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- Track listing (Original LP release)
- Side one
- Side two
- Track listing (extended edition re-release)
- Trivia
- Personnel
- References
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.
The cover of the May 2009 issue of Guitar World features a photograph of Vai in a pose similar to the album's cover, including the bending guitar neck.