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Credit: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Steve Vai has accomplished more than most on the electric guitar, but when he first started playing the instrument, he didn't tell anyone about it because he ...
Steve Vai gave a kid an experience that he'll never forget, letting him play an onstage solo with Vai's very own guitar. You can watch the video of what the kid describes as "the happiest day of ...
In May 2021, they had a three-week recording session, and this 2023 performance at the Bridge Guitar Festival, in Eindhoven, led by conductor Jukka Iisakkila, was a chance to play some new stuff. You ...
Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai was the latest guest of Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio program, chatting about being reunited with his long lost "Swiss cheese" guitar that was stolen over 30 years ...
Here’s how it works. The fact that Steve Vai does not approach the electric guitar like any other guitar player owes as much to his philosophy as it does to the techniques he has developed over the ...
Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin started the Juilliard guitar program ... collaborators on the album is veteran rock guitarist Steve Vai, who may not have studied with Segovia but was discovered ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...