“I saw something coming at me and was about to catch it, then it blew up about six feet in front of me. I went up in the air. I was totally out, unconscious on my back”: Steve Vai recalls his on-stage calamities with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake

Vai on stage with Whitesnake in 1990.

Steve Vai had a great time in the ’80s, playing guitar for ex-Van Halen singer David Lee Roth and with former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale’s band Whitesnake.

But as Vai admits to MusicRadar, it’s a risky business when you’re up on stage strutting your stuff, night after night.