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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

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
By Jonathan Horsley published
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”
By Jonathan Horsley published
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”
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
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