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Steve Vai’s tech Doug MacArthur reveals what is in the guitar legend’s rig when he is playing with an orchestra
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
“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
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”
