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“We were just kids playing together and then he built the song around that”: Joe Satriani says Steve Vai wrote a track for the Satch/Vai album featuring restored audio of the pair jamming as teenagers

By Jonathan Horsley published 26 March 24

Back in the day, when Satch was teaching Vai, they recorded 20 minutes of “brutal” jamming on a reel-to-reel, and Vai has put it to good use for the pair's first studio recording together

Watch Matteo Mancuso light up the Crossroads with an expert fingerstyle cover of Steve Vai guitar classic Eugene’s Trick Bag

By Jonathan Horsley published 13 October 23

The fast-rising Italian guitar maestro was not just showing off – he was letting us all know that he will teach and perform at the Vai Academy 7.0, to be held in Orlando, Florida in January 2024

“I can’t wait to take the stage with Eric and Steve again!”: Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai to tour together as the original G3 return for 2024

By Jonathan Horsley published 12 September 23

Joe Satriani is getting the band back together as the original 1996 G3 lineup announces its return

Steve Vai and Devin Townsend play the Jay Leno Show in 1993

Steve Vai hails Devin Townsend as “a bona fide genius” – but admits HevyDevy’s talent was “a little squelched” when he fronted his band

By Jonathan Horsley published 14 July 23

Vai says Townsend is “as brilliant as they come” but he didn't fully appreciate it until the Canadian prog-metal virtuoso went solo

Mexican guitarist Rafael Flores stuns Steve Vai by playing For The Love Of God on two guitars simultaneously

By Jonathan Horsley published 23 June 23

Flores spent three years adapting the arrangement for two guitars and says performing it for Vai was "a dream come true"

Steve Vai’s tech Doug MacArthur reveals what is in the guitar legend’s rig when he is playing with an orchestra

By Jonathan Horsley published 13 June 23

Vai reunited with the Metropole Orchestra of the Netherlands for a special set in May, and surprisingly he took a minimalistic rig for the show

Steve Vai and Michael Angelo Batio lead some 7967 guitarists in a world record breaking rendition of Hey Joe

Watch Steve Vai and Michael Angelo Batio join forces for a world-record breaking jam of Hey Joe featuring 7,967 guitarists

By Jonathan Horsley published 2 May 23

“I sounded like someone kicked a bee hive!” said Vai, as Wrocław Market Square, Poland, hosted a little bit of guitar history to celebrate Hendrix and break another record

Ibanez NAMM 2023 Signature Models, featuring new super-premium options for Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Paul Stanley

NAMM 2023: Ibanez announces huge signature guitar launch, with new models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Stanley, Lari Basilio, Martin Miller and Ichika Nito

By Jonathan Horsley published 13 April 23

Vai, Satch and Stanley get super-premium ltd edition collector's pieces, Miller's new model based on a AZ-N, Nito gets a Talman-inspired ICHI00, and Basilio's LB1 now comes in white

Steve Vai on Vai / Gash: "Steve Vai: “I wanted to rip something out that was really straight ahead, no frills, no extended guitar solos or widdly-widdly in between”

Steve Vai: “One ear has been pulled towards rock my whole life, the other towards high-information music; my brain mixes it up and that’s when you get the weird Vai s**t”

By Jonathan Horsley published 10 March 23

Steve Vai drops in to talk Vai/Gash, Whitesnake, the unmatched integrity of Tom Waits, the appeal of ‘big, hairy guitars” and what guitarists can learn from the human voice

Steve Vai recorded a full album with Ozzy Osbourne that never saw release: “I’m sitting on a whole Ozzy record”

By Jonathan Horsley published 21 February 23

And Vai says there is a lot of good stuff on it, with all of his rhythm guitars processed through an octaver as the pair got carried away in the study during the Ozzmosis era