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Tosin Abasi presents Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with a pair of custom ēmi 8 8-string guitars
Tosin Abasi gifts Joe Satriani and Steve Vai Abasi Concepts 8-strings with signature finishes

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Abasi got guitar art wizard Dave Bonvillain to replicate the Chrome Boy's finish for Satch's ēmi 8, and to put together a special Passion And Warfare swirl finish for Vai

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Steve Vai and Joe Satriani pictured with their signature Ibanez guitars
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai officially announce release of their first-ever studio album together

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The much-anticipated Satch/Vai record will be out November 6 via earMUSIC and it's called The Sea Of Emotion. Watch the video to new single Mayhem here

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Matteo Mancuso taps out a solo on his Yamaha Revstar while Steve Vai gets creative on his Ibanez PIA
Mancuso on his blockbuster Steve Vai collaboration – and the crucial advice the guitar icon gave him

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on

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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai perform onstage during the Satch/Vai Tour.
“I’m watching this genius develop right in front of me”: Joe Satriani on what it was like to teach a teenage Steve Vai

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Here's this "goofy" Ace Frehley fan with big hands and he keeps coming back for more... Satch says it wasn't long before he recognised Vai's potential

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Brian May [left] leans back and feels a chord as he performs live with his Red Special. Steve Vai [right] wears a ballcap and looks pleased as punch as he shows off his custom 'Green' Red Special that May had built for him.
Steve Vai once played Brian May’s guitar “like a baby giraffe on roller skates” – now the Queen icon has gifted him his own ‘Green’ Red Special

By Jonathan Horsley Published

“I will treasure it for the rest of my life, and yes, I’m taking this one to the grave with me,” says Vai

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Whitesnake in 1990
"Your golden pipes remain this guy’s all-time favourite rock voice": Steve Vai salutes Whitesnake legend David Coverdale

By Paul Elliott Published

“David has shaken the earth for over half a century with a voice that could level a mountain”

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A composite image of Steve Vai [left] playing his green PIA Ibanez signature guitar onstage with the Satch/Vai band, and right, the late, great Allan Holdsworth playing an S-style with a cigarette smoking wedged on the strings.
Steve Vai on why Allan Holdsworth – the fusion virtuoso who wrote his own rules – was the GOAT

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Most players Vai can work out where they were coming from. Holdsworth, he admits, was something different entirely

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Whitesnake in 1990
“We needed the right person to join the family”: How Steve Vai put the sizzle into the last big hair metal album

By Andrew Daly Published

And he wasn't even supposed to be on the record in the first place

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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai fistbump onstage during their show at the Valley Center, California in May 2024. They have their signature Ibanez guitars. Satch has the Chrome Boy JS1. Vai is playing his Daphne Blue PIA in Powder Blue
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai get their teenage kicks in video for new single featuring Glenn Hughes

By Jonathan Horsley Published

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

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Vai in 1995
"I’m not a blues player - but this song called for a bluesy touch”: Steve Vai’s greatest song is 30 years old today

By Amit Sharma Published

Tender Surrender is Vai at his most poetic

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