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Since his days alongside Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew has refused to remain static. Now, at 74, the Kentucky-born Strato-slinger is at it again, this time with his latest ...

Steve Vai remembered being left feeling sick and scared after his first tour with Frank Zappa. And after completing three gruelling road trips with the notoriously demanding bandleader, the young ...

That’s a warning from Steve Vai, the creator of the crazy three-necked guitar that he plays on a song appropriately titled “Teeth of the Hydra.” “I am hellbent on bringing that beast (on tour), ...

Zappa referred to Vai as his stunt guitarist and the two performed together until 1982. “There was a riot at a show in Palermo, Italy in ‘82 and Frank stopped touring because of that,” Vai recalled.

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 ...

Steven Siro Vai (born 6th June, 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is a Grammy Award winning guitarist, composer and record producer. When growing up, the young Vai became interested in rock giants such ...

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 ...

Calling Steve Vai restlessly creative is an understatement. It’s a personality trait he’s carried with him from when he was hired by the late Frank Zappa to start transcribing for him at the tender ...