Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's current Satch / Vai Tour is technically a pairing of teacher and student — but during their Friday performance at Austin's ACL Live, both guitarists displayed such a ...

After months of anticipation, the G3 2024 tour has officially kicked off, with fan-captured footage from the opening night giving us our first sonic taste of Eric Johnson, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani ...

While rock guitar hero worship may have begun its ascendancy with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and exploded beneath the fingers of Eddie Van Halen, it was arguably Joe Satriani’s 1987 release ...

Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, "shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990).

John Mayer is one of the most universally acclaimed electric guitar players of our time, and now he has another shred icon to add to his ever-growing list of high-profile fans: Steve Vai. The ...

There are guitar gods and then there are people so convincing in the role that they are cast to play guitar gods on film. Steve Vai is both. He has backed Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth, has his own ...

Steve Vai Won't Be Able to Play for a While After Finger Surgery Holding a chord for a long period led to his 'trigger finger.' The guitar great reveals the specifics about this massive undertaking ...