With Yankee Rose, Steve Vai’s status as a guitar hero was sealed ... And I was like a colourful fly on the wall watching it ...

Credit: FilmMagic/FilmMagic for Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival The fact that Steve Vai does not approach the electric guitar like any other guitar player owes as much to his philosophy as ...

As he releases his new album, 'Recovery,' he talks about gear, Jeff Beck and why you don't need to know every scale and mode ...

Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson ... celebration of the electric guitar with each other,” Satch notes. In true G3 style, the trio open up with one huge wall of riffage – with some ...

In Steve Vai’s hands, a guitar sounds like a living thing. He can make it laugh, breathe fire, climax, beam to other planets, rustle like leaves or reduce to primal ooze. As such, his powers ...

Steve Vai has been reunited with his long-lost guitar, nearly four decades after it was stolen from him in 1986. At Vai’s request, the custom guitar was the first to feature a monkey grip handle ...

Beware of the Hydra. That’s a warning from Steve Vai, the creator of the crazy three-necked guitar that he plays on a song appropriately titled “Teeth of the Hydra.” “I am hellbent on ...

Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, "shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990).

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante shared the negative experience of his only guitar lesson when he was misdirected into following in Steve Vai’s footsteps. He also shared what Vai ...

Sunday night at 713 Music Hall, Satriani and virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai performed together, more than 50 years after a 14-year-old Vai sought out an 18-year-old Satriani for guitar lessons.

Satch and Vai's musical careers have been intertwined since their very early days. Satriani served as Vai's guitar teacher during ... to sharing the stage with Steve again,” exclaimed Satriani.