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The BEAT Tour is a musical high-wire act. Here was Steve Vai, Tool’s Danny Carey and King Crimson alumni Adrian Belew and Tony Levin performing ‘80s-era King Crimson classics Discipline ...
As he releases his new album, 'Recovery,' he talks about gear, Jeff Beck and why you don't need to know every scale and mode ...
Last year, when Joe Satriani and Steve Vai issued their incandescent collaborative track, “The Sea of Emotion, Part 1,” millions of fans across the globe celebrated the news they’d been ...
“If you listen to that record, there are oceans of vocal harmonies.” Steve Vai: “Joe Satriani has an ear like none other. When I was a kid he would say, ‘No, don’t vibrate it out of tune. You’ll sound ...
King Crimson‘s beloved Eighties albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair will be brought back to life in the fall on a special tour featuring guitarist Steve Vai, Tool drummer Danny ...
Steve Vai isn't just a guitar virtuoso; he's a creative force that defies limits. Beyond his unmatched skill on the guitar, he's navigated the complexities of fame and fortune, emerging as an ...
In Steve Vai’s hands, a guitar sounds like a living thing. He can make it laugh, breathe fire, climax, beam to other planets, rustle like leaves or reduce to primal ooze. As such, his powers ...
Steve Vai released “Inviolate,” his first studio album in five and a half years, during January. And he had every intention to tour in support of it during the spring. But those plans went ...
“This is the project that Adrian Belew called me about last autumn, a project which I support and fully encourage, and discussed with Steve Vai recently at McCabes in Santa Monica ...
One member who remained a constant during the band's peak, though, was guitarist Steve Vai. Steve Vai joined Roth's band in 1985 Vai, a session wiz who had played with played with Frank Zappa as a ...
Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, "shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990).
However, don’t ask Steve Vai to consider the gig. The guitar virtuoso, who was Roth’s right hand man after the incomparable frontman left Van Halen for a solo career during the mid-80s ...