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Before he was a superstar solo artist, becoming David Lee Roth's choice of guitarist to wage war against Eddie Van Halen, and ...

Steve Vai is on most any “Greatest of All Time” list of guitarists. He’s won three Grammys. He played with Frank Zappa as a teenager and with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake during their 1980s ...

Steve Vai is on list after list of the top guitar players of our time, and has rocked alongside legends Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, John Lydon, and Ozzy Osbourne. The guitar hero took time out from ...

"What is that and how do you play it?" is a question you'll likely hear upon seeing the latest Ibanez-Steve Vai collaboration, and the guitar company and iconic player have teamed up for the big ...

Steve Vai has never shied away from innovation. Since his early days with Frank Zappa who would occasionally introduce him on stage or credit him on albums as "impossible guitar parts," the guitar ...

They say no good deed goes unpunished. While in Los Angeles to play a charity gig, Steve Vai had his guitar stolen. Vai's custom mirror JEM, which Vai had nicknamed 'Bo,' was taken from outside the ...

There are few contemporary players with a reputation as weighty as Tosin Abasi. The Animals As Leaders guitarist, and the man behind gear firm Abasi Concepts, has revolutionized the instrument through ...

Happy Birthday to one of the rock world’s most virtuosic guitarist, Steve Vai, who celebrates 65 spins around the sun today (June 6). At age 12, Vai took guitar lessons from fellow New York native Joe ...

The instrument, a mirror Ibanex JEM with blue LEDs pictured above, vanished from the loading area of the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Vai is appearing there with Zakk Wylde, Billy Sheehan, Derek ...

Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin started the Juilliard guitar program. Her new album, Guitar Passions, features collaborations between Isbin — who studied with Andres Segovia, among others — and ...