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Steve Vai’s guitar collection to be documented in upcoming book, and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
Watch Matteo Mancuso light up the Crossroads with an expert fingerstyle cover of Steve Vai guitar classic Eugene’s Trick Bag
By Jonathan Horsley published
The fast-rising Italian guitar maestro was not just showing off – he was letting us all know that he will teach and perform at the Vai Academy 7.0, to be held in Orlando, Florida in January 2024
“I can’t wait to take the stage with Eric and Steve again!”: Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai to tour together as the original G3 return for 2024
By Jonathan Horsley published
Joe Satriani is getting the band back together as the original 1996 G3 lineup announces its return
Steve Vai hails Devin Townsend as “a bona fide genius” – but admits HevyDevy’s talent was “a little squelched” when he fronted his band
By Jonathan Horsley published
Vai says Townsend is “as brilliant as they come” but he didn't fully appreciate it until the Canadian prog-metal virtuoso went solo
Mexican guitarist Rafael Flores stuns Steve Vai by playing For The Love Of God on two guitars simultaneously
By Jonathan Horsley published
Flores spent three years adapting the arrangement for two guitars and says performing it for Vai was "a dream come true"
Steve Vai’s tech Doug MacArthur reveals what is in the guitar legend’s rig when he is playing with an orchestra
By Jonathan Horsley published
Vai reunited with the Metropole Orchestra of the Netherlands for a special set in May, and surprisingly he took a minimalistic rig for the show
Watch Steve Vai and Michael Angelo Batio join forces for a world-record breaking jam of Hey Joe featuring 7,967 guitarists
By Jonathan Horsley published
“I sounded like someone kicked a bee hive!” said Vai, as Wrocław Market Square, Poland, hosted a little bit of guitar history to celebrate Hendrix and break another record
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