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Jonathan Horsley

An A&R guy once walked into the studio and told Steve Vai to remove all the pinch harmonics from a record because they sounded “like a dying whale”

Steve Vai, onstage at "Las Noches del Botanico" festival in Madrid.

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Best of 2023: Just as one does not simply walk into the kitchen of L’Arpège and tell Alain Passard how to cook the duck, it is simply bad etiquette for the lay person to stride into the studio and tell Steve Vai what he can and can’t do with the electric guitar.

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