White Lion - Vito Bratta - Fight To Survive - Live At The Ritz - 1988

[@robbiegarnz7732]

Vito’s tapping and lead playing gets a lot of attention and rightfully so…but can we talk about his chord voicings and song writing ability?!?! Unmatched!!!

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍🎸

[@johnward3874]

I see a bunch of Blackmore in Vito’s playing in addition to some Eddie and Randy

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍🎸

[@tjl8884]

I hear jake e lee .. They must of had same influences

[@cristongumban2086]

Vito is my top 1 guitarist of all time period!🎸💥🎶

[@vitobrattaforever402]

😍🎸👍🙏

[@joesilva8484]

I always thought that Vitto Bratto was up there with Eddie Van Halen and guitarist like that. Wish he was still playing to this day. White Lion very underrated to. Great band in my opinion. At least we have the great memories 🎤🤘🎸

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Thanks, Joe!!🙏👍

[@donavonmacallister3101]

I saw them live in 1989 big game tour and Vito has superior playing for sure.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍👍🎸🎸🙏🙏

[@joelmason4513]

Wish there were more videos of his special playing. He was in my top three guitar players growing up as a kid. His skills still a force to reconed with to this day. I wonder if he still plays or knows how much we love and miss him. ✨

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Vito, was interview in Guitar World Magazine in the 8/2022 issue. I know Vito knows he is missed! Enjoy the videos.🎸🙏

[@davidcarey5623]

@@vitobrattaforever402 is that the same interview where he said he was training himself back up on the guitar?

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@davidcarey5623 Yes. It's the Guitar World 8/2022 issue. Great interview. 👍🎸🙏

[@jokopariyanto4425]

@@vitobrattaforever402 would you please send me the link.... 🙏

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@jokopariyanto4425 www.guitarworld.com/features/vito-bratta-white-lion Enjoy!🙏🙏

[@keaulanakapule]

I wish I paid more attention to the hair and glam metal scene in the 80's and early 90's. I was so into thrash that I didn't really bother with anything else. Now going back and hearing guys like this again, I really missed out on some amazing guitar work.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Enjoy the videos.🎸👍🙏

[@deangawley5747]

ironic to think that Greg D'Angelo was the original drummer in Anthrax and James Lomenzo is on his second stint in Megadeth now

[@jefferybarnett2073]

Vito is one of my faves! He laid down some nice guitar work. Very creative with mean tone!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Thanks Jeffery!!🙏🙏

[@sergelombardo4352]

White Lion avait tout... je n'ai jamais oublié Vito...

[@bagtok_bugoy5903]

The guitar kills me.., Vito guitar god🤟

[@vitobrattaforever402]

🎸👍🙏

[@ingjn]

love them both but Vito is in my top 5 of all time

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍🎸

[@RiffLordExegesis]

This is my All Tim Favorite WhiteLion song . So intense . Awesome guitar work by Vito

[@vitobrattaforever402]

I love this song too!! Enjoy!!👍🙏

[@jokopariyanto4425]

Awesome... harmony and soul combination

[@bill3928]

Long Live Vitto!!!!!

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍👍🎸🎸🙏🙏

[@gatedreverb1]

As an 80’s kid… I always bought the latest Van Halen albums … and the White Lion albums in between those moments Wish I could’ve seen Vito play live… amazing guitar player with mad skills and with feel … one EVH’s greatest disciples

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Enjoy the videos. 🎸👍🙏

[@loveguitars]

Awesome VBF. 🤘

[@vitobrattaforever402]

🎸🙏

[@philwalter8393]

Great track

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍👍🙏🙏

[@jimcamp2423]

As a player, obviously inspired by EVH, probably every bit as good as EVH for skills & emulating EVH. The difference was EVH was multi-platinum for consecutive albums for the DLR & Van Hagar era. White Lion was like Winger, the backend of Hair Band era of the 1980's that eventually would have to compete with Guns & Roses & eventually gave way to the Seattle Grunge transition of the early 1990's. The same day but a month earlier, White Lion released Pride (06/21/1987), was the same day G&R released Appetite for Destruction (07/21/1987). Timing is everything in the business world. VB was that amazingly good.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Thanks Jim!!🙏👍

[@stratcat9432]

Add a horribly weak voiced obnoxious singer and that kept them boxed in too. Personally..He was the sole reason I never got into WL besides Vito Bratta's jaw dropping melodic guitar playing.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@stratcat9432 I am guitarist so I know what you mean by Vito Bratta's jaw dropping melodic guitar playing. 🎸👍

[@JoeR203]

@@stratcat9432 Tramp's voice is pretty good on studio recordings (like everyone else's) but I think what held them back was their choice of topics to sing about. Nobody really wants to get in their car and cruise around with friends blasting "Cry For Freedom", "Broken Home" (as awesome as that song is. Screw "My Name Is Luka"), "Til Death Do Us Part", "Baby Be Mine" (awesome use of delay in the solo), "You're All I Need" (another awesome song), "When The Children Cry" and any other song that might be deemed to have "Cheesey lyrics".

[@christophergordon7433]

Heavy!!!

[@vitobrattaforever402]

🎸🎸👍👍

[@troyelliott390]

Sharing

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Enjoy

[@JoeR203]

Okay I solved the mystery of the sticker on the back of the guitar. If you pause the video at 5:21 and hit the Period on your keyboard to advance frame by frame, it'll come into focus enough to show the word "FARTED?" And you know I already saw the "WHO" on the back of the guitar in another video. So there you have it. "WHO FARTED?"

[@vitobrattaforever402]

That is AWESOME, Joe!! 👍👍"WHO FARTED"🤣🤣🤣🤣 That will be a great question to ask Vito! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JoeR203]

@@vitobrattaforever402 UPS updated tracking. The Pango guitar is in the US. It doesn't say where in the US, or what day it'll be delivered. I just hope they drilled the tremolo post holes and painted the body.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@JoeR203 Let me know when you get it.👍👍🎸🎸

[@zackvanhalen]

It's like a mix of EVH and Randy Rhoads.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Enjoy Zack!👍👍🎸🎸

[@JoeR203]

I remember watching this when it aired on Mtv. I didn't know they had another album before Pride. So when they played this song and I loved the dark, heavy intro and the quick staccato playing, I went and got Fight To Survive as soon as I could. I listened to the studio version and was disappointed that instead of the staccato, he just did volume swells. Needless to say, I prefer this version more. He also did the staccato on this live version of "All Join Our Hands", but not on the album. Again, live version is better. 🙂

[@vitobrattaforever402]

I like the live version better also!🎸👍

[@JoeR203]

@@vitobrattaforever402 Those extra stickers are finding new homes. 🙂 I have a cheap Amazon strat with no logo on the headstock so one sticker went on that. I stuck one on the Spirit GT Pro that is used in my profile pic, and two others went on the pickguards of a couple of Les Pauls. I have two small ones and two large (or maybe "medium" since the ones that are being made now are even larger lol) left. I'll save those for the Chineberger with the Floyd Rose. (If I go thru with that deal.)

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@JoeR203 Awesome!👍. Did you get a chance to put new strings on your Chineberger and see if you could adjust the action?

[@JoeR203]

@@vitobrattaforever402 No. I'm waiting for the stickers. It would be real hard to apply it if the strings were on. Too much work to take them off, put the sticker down, then restring and set up. Also, I'm going to try Rotosound's Roto Oranges strings. They're coming by the end of the week.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@JoeR203 Let me know how it goes when you put the stickers and strings on 👍

[@shekinahsophiah]

🤘🕯️🤘

[@trevor5100]

James going to be the bassist of Megadeth awesome !

[@mrlynch52]

👍👍

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍👍🙏🙏

[@80srocker65]

🔥

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍👍🙏🙏

[@brianduval8664]

Damn! Either I don't remember this song or I never had it back in the day... But what an awesome song! What album is it from?

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Its from the Fight To Survive album. 👍👍 Thanks to Joe.R. 👍👍🙏🙏

[@JoeR203]

@@vitobrattaforever402 Nope. It's from the "Fight To Survive" album.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@JoeR203 Correct!! 👍👍. Joe, You are a true White Lion fan!! 👍👍.🙏🙏

[@JoeR203]

@@vitobrattaforever402 Nah, if I was a true fan, I'd camp out in Vito's driveway waiting for him to come outside so I can pester him to play again. lol

[@vitobrattaforever402]

@@JoeR203 🤣🤣. You are a true fan👍

[@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi]

Same level like van Halen.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

👍🎸

[@bryanwilliams3665]

Vito . Not better or worse than EVH but probably harder to play than EVH for someone trying to cover it.. Doesn't sit under ya fingers as easily.. Choice of notes jump around more.

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Yes, I agree. Vito style of playing is very hard to emulate. 🎸👍

[@whenrosesfadeaway]

Typically 80's guitar .Similar sound and techniques like Richie Sambora .🤔

[@anonymouse984]

bullshit.

[@97warlock]

Im sorry but ... he may hate the comparison but he tried so hard to be like Eddie.

[@renovo56]

Eddie did it first and more importantly he did it better, his solos were always melodic, not just speed shredding.

[@265308]

#GOLDMINE ENDORSED!!!

[@vitobrattaforever402]

Enjoy the videos!🎸🙏