As Vai and Joe Satriani set out to create their new SatchVai band ... Cornell had passed,” Thorn tells Guitar World. “A friend who did some work for Steve invited me to get me out of the ...

Check out the stunning reveal video above, soundtracked by Steve Vai's new track Teeth Of The Hydra from Inviolate ... and Revocation’s David Davidson unveil 2025's hottest metal guitar so far, the ...

Steve Vai believes he created a new guitar technique during the pandemic. Well, the Long Island rocker already had come as close as anyone to mastering the electric guitar, so why not?

is a question you'll likely hear upon seeing the latest Ibanez-Steve Vai collaboration, and the guitar company and iconic ... While The Hydra is breaking new ground, Vai is also venturing into ...

Credit: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Steve Vai has accomplished more than most on the electric guitar, but when he first ... it because he was too shy. In a new conversation with Positive Grid ...

In May 2021, they had a three-week recording session, and this 2023 performance at the Bridge Guitar Festival, in Eindhoven, led by conductor Jukka Iisakkila, was a chance to play some new stuff. You ...

Adds Steve Vai, “I was pretty stunned when I heard Matteo. The evolution of the guitar is firmly secure in the hands of people like him… It’s just a new level: the tone, the touch ...

The fact that Steve Vai does not approach the electric guitar like any other guitar player ... recently celebrated the release of his new Strandberg signature model, The Boden JC 5 Djesse, which ...

Vai has co-authored a new twelve-week online course: Steve Vai Guitar Techniques. The course offers students a chance to gain a deep understanding of Vai's death-defying techniques, repertoire, styles ...

Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai was the latest guest of Full Metal ... Getty Images Not only did you write liner notes for a new Frank Zappa archived live album, you also inducted Twisted Sister ...

Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin started the Juilliard guitar program ... collaborators on the album is veteran rock guitarist Steve Vai, who may not have studied with Segovia but was discovered ...

Although Vai plays guitar like an alien lifeform he speaks with a salt-of-the-earth New York accent. Edited excerpts below. Steve, how often do you think visually when you’re creating sonically?