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NAMM 2023: Ibanez announces huge signature guitar launch, with new models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Stanley, Lari Basilio, Martin Miller and Ichika Nito
Vai, Satch and Stanley get super-premium ltd edition collector's pieces, Miller's new model based on a AZ-N, Nito gets a Talman-inspired ICHI00, and Basilio's LB1 now comes in white
Steve Vai: “One ear has been pulled towards rock my whole life, the other towards high-information music; my brain mixes it up and that’s when you get the weird Vai s**t”
Steve Vai drops in to talk Vai/Gash, Whitesnake, the unmatched integrity of Tom Waits, the appeal of ‘big, hairy guitars” and what guitarists can learn from the human voice
Steve Vai recorded a full album with Ozzy Osbourne that never saw release: “I’m sitting on a whole Ozzy record”
And Vai says there is a lot of good stuff on it, with all of his rhythm guitars processed through an octaver as the pair got carried away in the study during the Ozzmosis era
Steve Vai warns touring is so expensive now “you are lucky to break even”
Vai says his 2022 Inviolate European tour was his “most challenging ever” and says even big bands are cancelling because they can't make the numbers work
Steve Vai to reveal long-shelved Gash album, loses Dave Weiner from band
His 'lost' '90s album will finally be released but guitarist Dave Weiner is stepping down after 23 years
Steve Vai explains why And We Are One is his “greatest accomplishment” on guitar
Taming the Hydra and the majesty of For The Love Of God can't compete against the Modern Primitive track with “more phrasing and melodic intimacy than anything I’ve ever recorded”
Steve Vai is auctioning off a heap of ultra-collectible guitars, rare amps and effects
Custom electrics such as his “Muscle Boy” Ibanez JEM and a bizarro Conklin seven-string are going under the hammer alongside gear ephemera from across his career
Steve Vai takes the throne as he teams with Polyphia for new song Ego Death
A match made in Ibanez heaven
