Joe Satriani and Steve Vai launched their Surfing With the Hydra Tour on Friday night in York, England. The two guitarists each performed several of their own solo songs, both with and without one ...

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 ...

Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are part of a dying breed: flamboyant shredders lighting up their fretboards with highly technical prowess, impervious to changing trends. This archetype hasn’t had a ...

Guitar gods Joe Satriani and Steve Vai went on the Satch/Vai tour together in 2023, and now they’re taking it further. They are fully joining forces for the first time in one shredding group, forming ...

Steve Vai says he came within an instant of performing with the rest of David Lee Roth’s original solo band at a club show in 2015. In fact, he had to fight the urge to hit the first notes. Then Vai ...

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 ...

Steve Vai has singled out channeling Robert Fripp’s “relentlessness” and unique picking style as some of the biggest challenges as he prepares to play the King Crimson legend's material on tour later ...

"It would be nice if they sounded good, but there’s even a charm in the way that they don’t sound good, sometimes.” We live in an era where smartphones reign supreme, and capturing a moment at a ...

Guitar shredding legends Steve Vai and Joe Satriani return to Cincinnati on their first co-headlining tour Friday. Both are known for their virtuosic tapping, picking techniques and dedication to the ...

A blast of guitar power chord and a room-shaking drum beat assured those at the Fisher Theatre on Tuesday night, April 16, that they were not there for…oh, “Mama Mia.” Instead the usual home of ...

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Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, who both played in King Crimson in the ’80s, will be performing that material with Steve Vai and Tool drummer Danny Carey as BEAT. King Crimson founder Robert Fripp ...