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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

This is especially true if the gear in question was customized or one of a kind—much like Steve Vai's "Swiss Cheese" guitar that the ace shredder used during his time playing with David Lee Roth ...

Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal ... Passion and Warfare dripped with grandiose sound and playing, showcasing varied compositional styles and new guitar ...

It has intense guitar playing. It has some complexities ... Everything else is useless." Steve Vai's new album 'Inviolate' is out now and tickets for his show at O2 Academy Bristol are still ...

Joe Satriani, left, performs with Steve Vai Daniel Durchholz Special to the Post-Dispatch Given how many times guitar heroes Joe ... I mean, we were just two little New York, Italian-American ...

Credit: FilmMagic/FilmMagic for Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival The fact that Steve Vai does not approach the electric guitar like any ... the release of his new Strandberg signature ...