Latest about Steve Vai
Nita Strauss recalls her worst gig of all time — and the good that came from it
The guitarist also told us how her first show with Alice Cooper was nothing but a dream
Steve Vai says he underestimated Adrian Belew’s “brilliance” ahead of the Beat tour
The two guitarists have had the punishing job of performing King Crimson's 1980s output live onstage
Steve Vai says he's “admired” this guitar player “for quite a while"
The virtuoso adds that he and Joe Satriani are “feverishly writing” new music together for the SatchVai band, whose tour kicks off in June
Nita Strauss opens up about the support of her guitar hero, Steve Vai, and her hopes to inspire more female guitar players
She also credits Jennifer Batten as a female guitarist who "checked the boxes for me" at a time when few women were playing guitar
Can David Lee Roth pick guitarists? Just ask Steve Vai, Jason Becker and John 5
Looking to go one better than Van Halen, the singer recruited the best guitar playing talents he could find
Steve Vai and Marty Friedman on John Sykes' influence and guitar skills
Friedman has called the late guitarist a “game changer” when it came to solos, while Vai says he could never play guitar like him
“I’m going, ‘This guy is better at what I do than I am!' ” Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him
Ed's impressions of Steve Vai weren't entirely positive, and he wondered if others saw him the same way
Steve Vai says Robert Fripp saw something in his playing he didn't like. So he told him how to fix it
It was a song that had proved troublesome in the build-up and after scouring clips online, the guitarist received a valuable lesson from the man himself
