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“I said, ‘I’m going to make my guitar talk!’”: When Steve Vai was in direct competition with Eddie Van Halen
Steve Vai shows us just what's needed to play '80s King Crimson in tour of his custom-built BEAT rig
If the Fractal Axe-Fx III is doing the heavy lifting for the effects, Vai's indomitable tech, Doug MacArthur is the power behind the tone
“Jesus, that was hard! But I got it”: Guitar hero Steve Vai reveals the difficulties of playing King Crimson music
“I’m a fan and want to play the exact notes,” Vai says
“Joe is on fire! What better inspiration can you get?”: Steve Vai's “crazy" new music with Joe Satriani
“I’ve never done anything like this,” Vai says
Steve Vai on the King Crimson riff that had him beat – and how a tip from Fripp helped him nail it
Celebrating the ‘80s material of prog trailblazers King Crimson, the BEAT Tour gave Vai a welcome fix of “high-information music” but some of Fripp’s material pushed him to the limit
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's SATCHVAI Band to take Surfing with the Hydra Tour to UK/Europe in 2025
The Surfing with the Hydra Tour is an early contender for guitar event of 2025, with over two dozen dates announced, and more to come, and the promise of new music from the SATCHVAI Band
Steve Vai’s guitar collection to be documented in upcoming book, and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition
Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took Michael Mesker 5 years to finish, and features more than 1,000 pages
Steve Vai and Positive Grid team up for a signature Spark Mini with preloaded custom presets
Vai has hand-signed 100 of these compact powerhouses. Sign up for a preorder for a chance to buy one
Jacob Collier says what Steve Vai taught him on guitar was bigger than technique
It's not just Vai's chops and musical vocabulary that are unearthly, his wisdom too comes from a higher cosmic plane...
“We were just kids playing together and then he built the song around that”: Joe Satriani says Steve Vai wrote a track for the Satch/Vai album featuring restored audio of the pair jamming as teenagers
Back in the day, when Satch was teaching Vai, they recorded 20 minutes of “brutal” jamming on a reel-to-reel, and Vai has put it to good use for the pair's first studio recording together