Watch Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt jam in first Generation Axe live videos
All-star line-up performs first show
Move over G3: there's a new guitar superstar tour in town, and its name is Generation Axe. Featuring legendary players spanning generations of guitar, the tour counts Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt among its line-up.
The troupe's tour kicked off last night at Vancouver, BC's Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and the first videos of this phenomenal line-up have begun to emerge - highlights include a neoclassical jam from Vai and Malmsteen, Bettencourt and Abasi taking on an Animals As Leaders classic, and a ballad from Wylde and Bettencourt. Now, bring the tour to the UK, will you?
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Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism, and has spent the past decade writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as a decade-and-a-half performing in bands of variable genre (and quality). In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.

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