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“I didn’t tell anybody when I started playing the guitar. Then I entered a talent contest and I played The Star-Spangled Banner with my teeth – and I won”: Why Steve Vai kept his guitar playing a secret when he first started

Vai didn't tell anyone when he began learning the guitar, but eventually announced his new-found fretboard abilities in quite spectacular style

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“When it comes to heavy rock, the definitive icon always has been RG”: How Ibanez raised the bar for high-performance electric guitar with the RG

With its quick Wizard neck and super-stable Edge tremolo, the RG arrived in '87 to deliver speed and the promise of the spectacular – and decades on, it remains the go-to electric for virtuosos and shred radicals

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“I felt like Ken Parker had taken 20 years to eliminate all the things that normally go wrong with a Fender or Gibson”: Adrian Belew on how he persuaded the famed luthier to create his mind-bending signature Parker Fly

Belew is using his signature Parker Fly as his go-to guitar on the 65-date Beat Tour with Steve Vai, Tool drummer Danny Carey, and King Crimson alumnus Tony Levin

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“The boutique amp market thrives and exists as it does today largely thanks to Mike Soldano”: From Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler, the Soldano SLO-100 changed the sound of shred and blues alike

The SLO-100 made its bones in the hard-rock and shred scenes and yet found its true calling as the amp of choice for Clapton, Knopfler, et al. What makes it such an enduring, versatile model?

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“You can rehearse until you're blue in the face, but once you hit the stage and the lights go out, all bets are off”: Steve Vai and Adrian Belew tackle King Crimson classics as their much-anticipated Beat tour kicks off

The pair have joined forces with Tony Levin and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson’s 1980s albums across a sprawling 65-date tour

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“I didn’t realise how diverse,eclectic andinnovative my guitar collection was”: Steve Vai’s monster guitar collection to be documented in epic upcoming book – and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition that includes a super limited edition Ibanez JEM

Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took Michael Mesker 5 years to finish, and features more than 1,000 pages

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"I’ve been a Steve Vai fan since I was 15, and never thought I’d ever get the chance to do something amazing with him": Slipknot's Corey Taylor collaborates with his hero Steve Vai on new Billy Morrison track

Incite The Watch is lifted from The Morrison Project, which sees the Slipknot vocalist fulfil a lifelong dream of working with the virtuoso

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“He scoured the globe to find these guitars. I had given many away or sold them through the years, but he tracked them down”: A 1,000-page book showcasing Steve Vai’s iconic guitars has been announced – and it will be joined by a super-limited Ibanez JEM

Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took five years to complete, and tells the story of over 100 guitars in “exquisite detail”

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“It’s amazing to see Adrian Belew and Steve Vai playing together. My temptation is to pick up the camera! I have to remind myself to stick to my job playing bass”: For the King Crimson-channeling Beat tour, Tony Levin is a virtuoso among virtuosos

The bass icon on how he’s being challenged by parts he wrote, changing classic tracks –and when his Funk Fingers will make their next appearance

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“A staple for pro players revered for its rich hybrid sound": Boss brings back a legendary delay loved by Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and Steve Lukather in its most compact and affordable form yet

The Roland SDE-3000 became a staple for numerous guitar heroes, and now it's been repackaged in a new pedalboard-friendly form that has extra enhancements to boot

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“It’s just amazing to see those legendary Keith Tuners ready-fitted on a guitar!”: Jon Gomm unveils revolutionary Ibanez signature model and it looks every inch the ultimate high-performance acoustic

With Gomm's signature triple-source Fishman electronics, locking banjo tuners and Passionflower inlay, is this to the acoustic guitar what Steve Vai's JEM was to the electric?

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“I am so in love with it, they asked, ‘You wanna sprinkle a little Vai fairy dust on it?’” Steve Vai and Positive Grid have launched a signature Spark Mini inspired by his five-neck Hydra guitar – and it’s got four Vai-designed presets

The latest artist-approved Spark Mini features a unique Hydra artwork and a quartet of guitar tones that cover Vai's favorite practice sounds

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“Classical-flamenco percussive playing is not a gimmick – it’s a level-up of the guitar world”: Steve Vai mentored him, Tim Henson lent him his talents, and now he’s invented his own “semi-open” tuning – Marcin is on a mission to redefine acoustic guitar

Flamenco-classical sensation Marcin Patrzalek is in the enviable position of releasing his debut album with millions of fans already in awe of his talents. Now he wants to steal some limelight off the “electric guitar big boys” and showcase the future of the acoustic guitar

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"There has been no better ambassador for the electric guitar": Bernie Marsden, remembered

Best known for co-founding Whitesnake and as a writer of some of their classic songs, Bernie Marsden spent a lifetime walking in the shadow of the blues

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“Rory Gallagher’s a saint in my house. There’s even a saintly painting of him above where I hang my guitar”: Meet Louise Patricia Crane, the solo-loving songwriter, seeking new prog sounds with King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk

Netherworld is the sound of Crane and producer Jakszyk testing the boundaries of where guitar can go, in the company of special guests Tony Levin, Gary Husband and Ian Anderson

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“Steve Vai… I listen and I think, ‘How does he do that? That’s crazy!’”: Jacob Collier says what Steve Vai taught him on guitar was much bigger than technique

It's not just Vai's chops and musical vocabulary that are unearthly, his wisdom too comes from a higher cosmic plane...

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“He’s taught me a lot about the guitar, but not from showing me stuff on the neck or talking about picking”: How Steve Vai helped Jacob Collier become a better player without even touching a guitar

The newly crowned Strandberg signature artist discusses how Vai’s progressive mentality informed his approach to the guitar

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Matteo Mancuso’s otherworldly technique has blown the minds of Al Di Meola, Steve Vai and Joe Bonamassa – in this exclusive video masterclass, he shares the secrets behind his breathtaking fingerstyle approach

Mancuso has lit up guitar since his arrival on the scene, with his debut album, The Journey, a modern classic. And he has nothing to hide; here he is showing us exactly how he does it

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“Billy Gibbons pulls out this big-ass yellow 17-string bass and he’s like, ‘Okay, we’ll play it for a song, right?’” ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis on teching for Joe Perry, lying to Steve Vai – and the curse of playing that viral 17-string bass

The gear-trashing DIY enthusiast once had to choose between Vai and Joe Perry, before being fired and rehired by Guns N’ Roses –in a matter of days

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"A lot of people are going, 'Joe, he doesn't play like Eddie.' I know that – but he can": Sammy Hagar on why Joe Satriani was the only man for his Eddie Van Halen job

Exclusive: Sammy Hagar on why Joe Satriani is a guitarist in a million

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“Anybody that doesn’t get along with John Petrucci must be a really big asshole”: Why the Dream Theater guitarist is Steve Vai’s prog hero

They met at college and watched each other’s careers develop as the decades pass – but Vai remains in awe of how much his friend’s playing has developed too

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“I had a ridiculously long, complex chord and key change solo section. And who comes to mind? Steve Vai!” How Billy Morrison assembled a guitar lineup that includes John 5, Steve Stevens and Steve Vai for his triumphant comeback solo album

Inspired by a basic signal chain and the “simplest guitar album on the planet”, Billy Idol’s right-hand man feels vindicated with the unplanned success of The Morrison Project

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“Create some crazy content of me performing at a historical location near you, or in a hilarious situation”: Ever wanted a private Steve Vai concert? This new app literally beams the virtuoso into your home

The Zeus in Chains app utilizes augmented reality to project Vai on any backdrop – and the best clips are going to be used in an upcoming video

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"It was like a joy filled my eyes – and ears": Why I love The Mothers Of Invention's Freak Out!, by Steve Vai

Steve Vai recalls how buying this “abstract and experimental” double album inspired him to actually join Frank Zappa’s band

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“I'm auctioning these for some wonderful charities”: Two of Steve Vai’s Ibanez JEMs found their way back to him after auction – so he’s selling them again to raise even more money for charity

The two guitars were originally auctioned off in 2022, but have been put up for sale once more to help raise funds for two charities

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