He reflects on how Frank Zappa helped him and Adrian Belew, the value of learning from rather than competing with other players and changing rig for his tour with Joe Satriani. But who’s going to be ...

“Meeting Steve Vai and having him express liking my music. That was pretty… I mean, I used to play his signature guitar,” he remembers. “This is a guy that basically spearheaded the genre ...

A new book offering a comprehensive view of Steve Vai’s staggering guitar collection has been announced, and a limited run of special-edition Ibanez JEM electric guitars has been produced to ...