![T.M. Stevens performs in concert at ACL Live on June 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. Steve Vai performs for G3 project at Castello Sforzesco](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fQB5BP4wayfvhkze79mzW3-320-80.jpg)
“I was scared to death. Miles didn’t say a word to me. Afterwards, I asked what he thought of my playing. He said, simply, ‘It was cool’”: T.M. Stevens on playing with Miles Davis and James Brown – and what went wrong on Vai’s Sex & Religion project
Vai hired the “flashy bassist with the long hair” after spotting him in a Joe Cocker video