Latest about Steve Vai
Steve Vai's childhood home practice rig is up for sale – but it's not what you think
In the setting where he first learned guitar, Vai practiced – many years later – for New York-area shows with a rig far more impressive than the one he used as a young beginner
Steve Vai: “Everything I play, in mind, I derive from the blues scale. It just might not sound that way when you hear it against all those weird chords”
Steve Vai tells the amazing story of his ‘lost’ album with Johnny ‘Gash’ Sombrotto – biker music where he “shut up and played rock guitar” on songs written to “make people put their fists in the air”
Steve Vai recalls the time an A&R rep told him to ditch the pinch harmonics because they sound “like a dying whale”
Some unsolicited six-string advice sought to veto Vai's use of the humble harmonic squeal – though was met with a frank response from the guitarist himself
Watch Steve Vai shred on command for Jacob Collier as the pair work on Whammy-laden collaborative track
Vai is set to bring his six-string wizardry to Collier's upcoming album, Djesse Vol. 4, which will also feature Willow
Devin Townsend says seeing Steve Vai play guitar made him give up shredding
A young Townsend entered the studio to record vocals for Vai's 1993 Sex & Religion, and left with a drastically altered outlook on what kind of guitar player he wanted to be
It turns out Steve Vai isn’t sitting on an unreleased Ozzy Osbourne album after all: “I spoke a bit carelessly”
After seemingly revealing the existence of a “real heavy” album he recorded with Osbourne in the '90s, Vai has now set the record straight
Steve Vai says he once recorded an entire album with Ozzy Osbourne – and used an Octave Divider on all his rhythm guitar parts
The pair originally met in the '90s to write a track for Osbourne's Ozzmosis album, but got “carried away” and recorded a “real heavy” record as well
Why Steve Vai’s vibrato is unlike any other guitar player’s – and how he came up with his innovative ‘circular’ approach
The virtuoso wanted his vibrato to bend the note’s pitch down as well as up, so he figured out his own way of doing it
This instrumental virtuoso is evolving this tiny, traditional Brazilian guitar – and jamming with Steve Vai provided the inspiration
The four-string, 13”-scale Bahian guitar has remained relatively true to its heritage since it was invented back in the 1940s. Now, Igor Hereda – with the help of a radical six-string signature model – is aiming to bring the instrument into the modern era
