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Steve Vai on the one guitarist he considers more revolutionary than Jimi Hendrix
By Phil Weller published
Vai says most players aren’t ahead of their time — but one guitarist definitely was

Joe Satriani taught guitar wizards like Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett and Alex Skolnick. But one player didn't get along with his methods
By Phil Weller published
Satriani has taught some of the greatest shredders in the game, but this alt-rock guitarist believed he had his intentions all wrong

Steve Vai on the theft that got him Frank Zappa’s number — and the job that changed his life
By Elizabeth Swann published
Vai was just 16 and called Zappa repeatedly over the next year until he got through to him, putting his guitar career on the launch pad

Steve Vai reveals the grueling practice routine that helped him become a virtuoso, and what drove him to do it
By Phil Weller published
The guitarist says he isn’t disciplined, but practicing became an “addiction”

Steve Vai on accepting his most impossible guitar gig: playing Eddie Van Halen to David Lee Roth
By Phil Weller published
Vai says he approached the opportunity from a place of love and freedom, not to cut down one of the world’s greatest guitar players

Brian May says he can’t compete with the world’s best shredders, but his alternative approach means he doesn’t have to
By Phil Weller published
The rise of virtuoso guitarists inspired him to explore a very different side of guitar playing

Playing King Crimson's strenuous guitar parts left Adrian Belew in need of surgery. Steve Vai came to his rescue
By Phil Weller published
The guitarist's left hand was plagued by carpal tunnel as the Beat tour celebrating the group's 1980s music wound its way across the U.S.

Steve Vai and Joe Satriani tell how a 50-year-old riff inspired the creation of the SatchVai Band
By Joe Bosso published
In a fun- and laugh-filled chat, the two guitar star pals discuss how they formed their new band — and why it took so long
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