Latest about Steve Vai
“He’s the funkiest dude in the shredder family tree”: The world’s greatest guitarists explain why Nuno Bettencourt isn’t your typical guitar hero
Brian May, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and Tom Morello join an all-star cast to explain what makes the Extreme virtuoso one of the guitar world’s most valuable players
John Frusciante’s guitar teacher once told him he wasn’t a good guitarist – so he learned to play like Steve Vai: “No-one was going to say that to me again”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero recalls being criticized because he couldn’t play the blues scale fast enough: “It was about the worst feeling I could imagine”
Joe Bonamassa called him his new favorite player and Steve Vai hailed him as the evolution of guitar: how Matteo Mancuso developed a technique like no other
The Italian virtuoso unpicks the inspiration behind his eye-opening approach, and explains why he never wanted to become a lead guitarist in the first place
Steve Vai rocks up to Mexico gig to find street performer playing For the Love of God… on two guitars
Rafael Flores spent three years working on his hypnotic arrangement, and finally had the chance to flex his two-hand tapping chops in front of Vai himself
Meet Dante Frisiello, Steve Vai's new guitar sideman who went from law school to playing with his hero
The guitarist reflects on his disastrous solo on the first night of his new gig, the hardest part about playing with one of the world's leading virtuosos, and why the Abasi Larada is his favorite guitar he's ever played
Nuno Bettencourt says one of the new Extreme songs made Steve Vai and Tom Morello cry
Spoiler alert: it wasn't Rise – a track that Bettencourt says has become so popular because he didn't play it sitting down
Why Steve Vai’s new rhythm guitarist says he almost got fired on his first night
Dante Frisiello formerly teched with the band but that didn’t stop him from having a nightmarish first show
Steve Vai leads 7,968 guitarists in a world record-breaking performance of Jimi Hendrix classic Hey Joe
Fellow shred icon Michael Angelo Batio was also among the massive lineup of guitar players in Wrocław, Poland
NAMM 2023: Ibanez announces bumper signature guitar drop, introducing new models for Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Lari Basilio, Paul Stanley, Martin Miller and Ichika Nito
Finishing techniques never before used on Ibanez models, revived retro classics, new-look iterations of famed favorites and celebratory models headline the standard and limited-edition collection
Steve Vai’s prototype Hamer JEM – one of many models built before the virtuoso partnered with Ibanez – goes up for auction
Before the JEM777 was launched in 1987, Vai was approached by numerous brands to build the model of his dreams. Hamer's own valiant attempt is estimated to sell for $60,000
