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Check here regularly for the latest news from Steve Vai - including new releases, performances, events, appearances, competitions, publications and site updates. For information on live shows, check out our Tour Dates page.
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June 19, 2006Steve Vai Las Vegas Instore - June 20Steve will be at Sam Ash Music (2747 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas) for an in-store appearance and autograph signing on Tuesday June 20 at 3pm! For more info, you can call Sam Ash on: 702-734-0007. See you there!
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June 15, 2006Original Passion And Warfare Artwork For SaleWant to own a piece of rock history? Aaron Morgan Brown, the artist responsible for many Steve Vai album covers including Flex-Able and The Ultra Zone, is selling the original artwork he created for the cover of Steve’s landmark album Passion And Warfare. This is the original, in excellent condition, hand painted by artist Aaron Brown, signed (AB) lower right, and on the back. The painting comes framed with a basic black metal frame with glass cover. Dimensions of the painting are 3 x 3 ft., plus 1/4" frame. This item had been in the collection of the artist since its creation, and is being sold for the first time ever! Note: Original painting does not contain the text "Steve Vai" that appears on the album cover. That text was added for reproduction. Original pictured here is actual appearance. The auction ends on June 21 at 9am. Click here to visit the auction!
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June 13, 2006Steve Vai National Guitar Workshop MasterclassSteve Vai will be doing one 3-hour guitar clinic/master class during the week of July 1st thru 6th. This will be held at the National Guitar Workshop Los Angeles, CA campus. To learn more about this please visit www.guitarworkshop.com
UDO Music Festival, Japan - July 22 & 23Steve Vai and The Breed are headlining the second stage on both nights of the UDO Music Festival in Japan on July 22 at the Fuji International Speedway, and on July 23 at Osaka Izumiotsu. Godsmack will also be opening for Steve and the Breed on both dates. The main stage will feature KISS with Paul Rodgers opening on July 22, and Santana and Jeff Beck headlining on July 23. For more info, visit udofes.jp.
Steve's Birthday Gift From Joe TraversAs you may have read in Steve message on the Vai.com Message Board Online Birthday Card, Zappa Plays Zappa drummer Joe Travers presented Steve with a birthday tribute at Paris' Charles de Gaulle international airport during a travel day from Paris to Athens. We think you might enjoy. Click here to see...
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June 6, 2006Happy Birthday Steve!Steve's birthday is today, June 6, and we have a virtual birthday card on the Vai.com Message Boards which lets fans add their comments and congratulations. To read the card click here. To add your own message, simply log in and hit the "Post Reply" button.
May 10, 2006Jemfest Germany - This Weekend!Don't miss Jemfest Germany this weekend! This fantastic event features some amazing performers including headline sets by Marcel Coenen, Pascal Vigne and Kai Stringer. There will also be mini sets from Martin Behr, Eric Vandenberg and Ricky Garcia. The event begins at 2pm with 3 one-hour workshops from each headline artist. The live msuci begins at 7pm. Jemfest will also feature some great raffles, with all proceeds going to the Make A Noise Foundation. Jemfest Germany will take place in Cologne - at the POGO-Youth Center: Zur Offenen Teur 10, 50259 Pulheim. For more information, visit this special thread on the Vai.com Messageboards dedicated to Jemfest. You can also visit Jemfest.com.
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May 9, 2006Vai.com 10th Anniversary Giveaway WinnersCongratulations to our lucky Vai.com 10th Anniversary Giveaway winners! 1st Prize - Ibanez Jem: Joe B., Point Mugu, CA Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. We hope to bring you more great giveaways like this in the future...
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May 8, 2006A Note From SteveThe ZPZ rehearsals are coming along tremendously. It's such a thrill to be playing Frank's music again. Dweezil has gone above and beyond in reproducing Frank's music with the band and he is playing his ASS off! I don't believe this material has ever been performed as authentically in the past, with the exception of Frank with his band. Regarding my contribution, I join the band for the last 30 or so minutes of the set, plus a song in the encore. I have an exciting solo section in a song called - well, you can judge for yourself. And Dweezil and I get to tear it up together on - yeah, you'll have to be there. I have been told (and have read) that there are some folks that are wondering if we are playing any of my songs. We are not. This is Zappa Plays Zappa. Please keep in mind that this is all about Frank's music and my role is that of a dutiful soldier. I venture to say that you will be hard pressed to hear this music played this way again in the future - unless and until Dweezil takes ZPZ out on the road again. If you're a Frank fan, or have never even heard his music, I strongly recommend you treating yourself to this extravaganza. It will enrich your life! s.
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April 28, 2006Tour de FrankClick the image on the left for a new photo from the Zappa Plays Zappa Tour rehearsals yesterday. Fans attending the Zappa Plays Zappa shows in Prague and Athens should note venue changes for the two shows. Visit the Tour Dates page for more info.
April 27, 2006Vai.com 10th Anniversary Giveaway - 3 Days Left!There are only 3 days left for our Vai.com 10th Anniversary Giveaway Contest. Entering is easy: simply spend a subtotal of $45 or more (before shipping charges are added) in the Vai.com Online Store before May 1, 2006 and you'll be automatically entered into the draw. What's more, all purchases of $45 or more will receive an autographed photo of Steve and one of Steve's guitar picks shipped with their order. Visit the Vai.com 10th Anniversary Celebration Giveaway info pages for prize details, or click here to proceed to the Vai.com Online Store.
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April 11, 2006New Hoodie In The Vai.com StoreDue to popular demand, we have a new black zip-up hoodie in the Vai.com Store. The hoodie design features a graphic similar to the page header of Vai.com along with the VAI logo and cherry blossom motif from Real Illusions. Sizes range from S to XXL. Pick this hoodie up along with a couple of VAI logo stickers and be entered in the Vai.com 10th Anniversary Celebration Giveaway - ending soon! Click here to visit the Vai.com Online Store to see the new hoodie and other fine Vai Merchandise.
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Steve Appears on Halo 2 Volume Two SoundtrackSteve appears on the long awated Halo 2, Volume Two soundtrack - a followup to the widely acclaimed Halo 2, Volume One soundtrack album - which also featured Steve’s guitar work. Steve contributes guitar parts to the track “Reclaimer” - which was recorded during the initial Halo sessions in Seattle in October 2003, but remained unreleased until now. Halo 2 Music Composer Martin O’Donnell explains: “In the summer of 2004, Nile Rodgers and I decided that it would be a good idea to present the music of Halo 2 in two separate volumes. The first volume would contain all the music that was finished and mixed plus some ‘inspired by’ music from music groups whose music was being used in the game. Since the first soundtrack was assembled before the game actually shipped, the second volume would contain the rest of the music, some that I was still composing and producing, and would be arranged for maximum listening pleasure. The music in Halo 2 will play back a little differently each time someone plays the game but on the soundtrack, I have the opportunity to arrange the music in a way that will never change.” Halo 2, Volume Two will be released on April 25. You can pre-order the album by clicking HERE.
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March 31, 2006A Note From SteveHey folks, I just returned from Russia and the Ukraine where I did 3 clinics and autograph sessions. If it got any better I think I would have exploded. I so so so much enjoyed it, though it had its challenges. The trip there took 30 hours from pillow to pillow, chasing the sun and landing in temperatures as low as five degrees below zero. Then the work started. But I use the word "work" loosely. After 3 or so days without sleep you just sort of start to coast and nothing rubs ya. After all these years I have found the proper word to apply to this most hopefully avoidable situation, (and you too can use this word to work miracles in your life) "whatever". Yes, that little word has whisked away much anxiety in my life. I did make it to the gym once. Serge and Alex were my confidants for the duration of the trip. They whisked me about from the nicest restaurants in town to the 4:30 am wake up calls to get to the airport, get to the next city, get to the hotel quick, prep for huge press conference, autograph session, to sound check, to clinic, to a jet-lagged bed. But those two guys sure did make me smile the whole way. The people from this place of the Earth are just beautiful creatures. They emanate a sincerity and maturity, but at the same time there's an innocence that reflects the discoveries a culture identifies with when they are only one generation past entering a new world, deluged with freedom of choice. They are very polite too. The clinics seemed to go very nicely. It gets challenging to hear the same question for the... hmmm, 500th time? and respond in a way that redeems my own interest in the question. But when there is someone there that has not heard my answer before, then I look forward to expressing it again because it's important to them. Who wants to hear someone sound bored? Plus, it gives me an opportunity to make the point clearer each time, but keep it tempered with understanding. But most of the time the questions were unique. Someone asked me to make my guitar sound like what a bird looks like when it flies. So I soared up to the rafters with the mellifluousness of a phoenix in all its audio glory. Then I went out and crapped on somebody's windshield. When I returned.... I brought a CD with the backing tracks for Crying Machine, Lotus Feet and FTLOG. But the fun stuff was when the real drummer and bass player came out and we just went for it. Very smooth. That's the communication level I miss when I'm home and there is no band around. That's what starts the itch. Next thing you know, I'm poison ivy man and booking a tour. At the clinic the main point I was harping on was, although it can be very helpful to do finger exercises and scales, it's also very important to make musical statements that speak when you play. Through all the translation, comedy, playing and feeling, I think they got the picture. Mission successful. I was surprised at how many people came out for this and how they knew the music. It was humbling and inspiring. I could go on about this for hours, but I really was taken back by what I was feeling from them. On the flight home I started to take a hard look at the next year and although things are always changing, I need to get back and get those Zappa songs under my fingers. Those songs take completely different muscles both in the fingers and brain to make them work on the guitar. It's starting slow and working it up. Have not done this kind of thing in a while and it kind of feels nice. It's that liberating thing again. I just have to learn the music this time and not put the entire tour on myself. Then I go out and play some of my favorite music with the band. Just.. gotta.... get this... Urhgghg !!!! under my &#@^#%@$@* FINGERS! In the meantime, I have to finish mixing and editing the Metropole DVD. I'm hoping I can finish the DVD before I go into rehearsals with Dweezil. Just.. gotta.... get this... Urhgghg !!!! under my &#@^#%@$@* FINGERS! And finish the DVD, yeah that's all, (helpless look into space). Anyway, I'm excited about it all and I hope you get to hear Dweezil's band because they sound fantastic really. Dweezil is paying especially close attention to reproducing the music as close as it can get. He's even digging out some of Frank's old stomp boxes to get those sounds. For Zappa fans, I can't imagine any more care being put into Frank's music as Dweezil and his band are putting in here. So, projecting past the ZPZ tour I should be working on the Metropole CD's, I hope to have them for a release by the end of the year, but that may be a challenge. Just.. gotta.... get this... Urhgghg !!!! under my &#@^#%@$@* FINGERS! I miss you.
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March 30, 2006Zappa Plays Zappa - USA Dates UPDATEDFurther dates for the upcoming Zappa Plays Zappa US Tour have been announced. Visit the Vai.com Tour Dates page for more information, or visit Zappa.com.
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March 01, 2006Vai.com 10th Anniversary Celebration GiveawayThis month marks the 10th Anniversary of the Official Steve Vai Website - Vai.com! We've also recently opened our brand new Vai.com Online Store with Bandmerch - featuring a whole collection of new merchandise including many items of clothing available on the recent 2005 Real Illusions Tour. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary milestone and the new store, we're having our biggest Vai.com online giveaway ever - open to Vai fans all over the world. You could win one of seven amazing prizes from our sponsors, including:
Entering is easy. Starting today, simply spend $45 or more in the all-new Vai.com Online Store before May 1, 2006 and you'll be automatically entered into the draw. What's more, all purchases of $45 dollars or more will automatically receive an autographed photo of Steve and one of Steve's guitar picks! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONTEST!
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February 19, 2006Vai.com Charity Auctions!We are auctioning 3 autographed posters this week and donating the proceeds to a number of charitable organizations! The following posters are up for grabs! AN AUTOGRAPHED 2005 STEVE VAI FILLMORE TOUR POSTER AN AUTOGRAPHED 2005 STEVE VAI SWEDEN TOUR POSTER A G3’05 JAPAN TOUR POSTER SIGNED BY STEVE VAI, JOE SATRIANI AND JOHN PETRUCCI We thank you for your support! Stay tuned to Vai.com for more charity auctions in the coming weeks.
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February 17, 2006Vai.com Charity Auctions!Stay tuned this weekend for major announcements regarding a number of charity auctions Vai.com will be conducting in the coming week. Included in the auctions will be a number of autographed, rare posters, as well as one of Steve’s guitars...
Steve Vai Masterclass Tour - Russia & the UkraineSteve will be doing a short tour of Russia and the Ukraine in mid-March where he will be conducting three evening masterclass clinics, and three daytime in-store autograph sessions. The tour visits Ekaterinbug, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; and Moscow, Russia. Check the Tour Dates page for more information, and contact the music stores listed for ticket sales. We will have more details on the tour in the coming days
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February 3, 2006CBS.com GRAMMY Steve Vai Special FeatureSteve is featured as part of a special series of interviews on CBS.com's GRAMMY Awards special web feature. CBS.com spent an afternoon with Steve at The Mothership Studio in Hollywood. The website features an extensive video interview with Steve broken into excerpts - including clips of Steve playing the new Ibanez Euphoria 9 Acoustic guitar! In the interviews, Steve talks about his early years and becoming a musician; the making of Flex-Able; touring and life on the road; his love for the guitar; the Make A Noise Foundation; and keeping a spiritual balance. He also talks about the opportunity he had to have his music performed by an orchestra that lead to his Grammy nomination for “Lotus Feet.” Visit CBS.com to view this special feature. The site also features an exclusive interview with fellow nominee and guitar legend Les Paul. For more information on the GRAMMYs, visit grammy.com. The GRAMMYs air this Wednesday, February 8 in the USA on CBS. You can also keep up to date with the winners as they are announced on the GRAMMY website.
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January 18, 2006Steve On New Devin Townsend Band AlbumSteve appears on the new Devin Townsend Band album Synchestra. Steve performs an amazing extended solo on the track “Triumph” which he recorded while on the road during the recent Real Illusions European Tour. Synchestra, Devin’s sixth solo project outside Strapping Young Lad, turned out to be a very enjoyable experience for the unique and legendary Canadian musician/sound whiz and band. He worked on this project stress-free and in typical Devy style, did practically everything from song writing to mastering and engineering. Synchestra is a thirteen song collection of Devin stylings, with five or six “big Dev songs” and is a very refreshing change from the rest of the DT catalogue; stylistically closer to Terria or Ocean Machine, yet like all of his projects, still very much in a world of their own. Says Dev, “The main difference being: Synchestra is not music that 'tells you what to do' ...more like it invites you in to be a part of it, and through relatively vague lyrical content and some quasi instrumental tracks, allows you to experience it without being besieged with uncomfortable or particularly strange lyrics… for once, a record that is heavy, epic, melodic, and joyful… and it’s fun to listen to.” Order this record by clicking here, or visit Devin’s website directly at hevydevy.com New Official Steve Vai MySpace!Steve now has an official MySpace page at www.myspace.com/stevevai ! For some time, MySpace has been littered with impersonators and people claiming to be the "official" Steve Vai MySpace page. We've cleaned house, ensuring that Steve's page is the only Vai MySpace Music page. If you're a MySpace user, why not add Steve to your friends list!
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December 13, 2006Steve To Play Zappa Plays Zappa Updated** Just added: a show in Athens, Greece on June 7; and Rejkyavik, Iceland on June 9. Steve will be touring as a special guest with the Zappa Plays Zappa tour in Europe! Steve is among one of several special guests, also including Terry Bozzio and Napoleon Murphy Brock. The tour will begin on May 15, 2006 in Amsterdam and continue across Europe for three weeks, ending in Rejkyavik, Iceland on June 9. The special guests will appear alongside the band featuring Dweezil Zappa. This is the first OFFICIAL presentation of Frank Zappa Music since the Composer himself departed for his final tour in 1993. For more information, visit our Tour Dates page, or Zappa.com.
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January 13, 2006New Vai.com Online Store - Now Open!We're happy to announce the launch of our brand new Vai.com Online Store! The new store features a collection of new t-shirts available on the recent Real Illusions World tour, including the "Cherry Logo" t-shirt pictured on the left; the light blue blossom girls t-shirt, the power play hockey jersey and the embroidered Vai logo polo shirt are all available, plus a new Vai cap, and more! We're working on even more clothing designs too - so check back often. You can also find the beautiful Real Illusions Tour Book, plus a host of tab books from each of Steve's albums - with even more being added in the weeks to come. A wider selection of CDs and DVDs will also be added shortly. Click here to visit the new Vai.com Online Store! Looking for something that we don't have in the store yet or have a request?
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December 14, 2005Want More Vai Webcasts? Read On...If you're one of the many Vai fans who has enjoyed the amazing 4FM/NPS webcasts of Steve Vai performing with the Metropole Orchestra, and with The Breed live in Tilburg, Holland, send an email to with the subject line "Just Go For It In 2006!" before December 19. If NPS Producer Co de Kloet receives 100 or more of these emails before the 19th, he will broadcast a bonus show featuring all sorts of cool stuff in January 2006. December 10, 2005December Is Steve Vai Month at NPS Holland!Dont forget! NPS Holland will be featuring over 7 hours of Vai specials on both television and radio in the month of December! These specials feature both The Aching Hunger Phase II as well as Steve Vai and The Breed: Live in Tilburg 2005! The second show in the series will be broadcast this Sunday night!* And if you're in Holland, don't forget to catch The Aching Hunger Phase II: Part 1 on NPS TV on Monday night.
December 11, 22:30 - 24:00 on Radio 4FM: The
Aching Hunger Phase II Fans outside the Netherlands can listen to 4FM over the web by clicking here. Don't forget to stop by the Vai.com Chat Room for our listening party! *Note these international times: 1:30pm Sunday USA West Coast; 4:30pm Sunday USA East Coast; 8:30am Monday Australian Eastern Time; 6:30am Monday Tokyo time. Check other time zones here. If you're hungry for even more Steve Vai/NPS collaborations, click here to read our recent interview with NPS Radio producer and Aching Hunger creative catalyst Co de Kloet. A download of the 4FM Radio broadcast “The Aching Hunger - A Work In Progress” is also available on this page!
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December 8, 2005Steve Vai GRAMMY Nomination!Steve Vai has received a GRAMMY nomination in the category of “Best Instrumental Rock Performance” (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal. Singles or Tracks only.) Following is a list of this years nominees: “Beat Box Guitar” “Birds Of Prey” “69 Freedom Special” “Mercy” “Lotus Feet” The 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
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December 6, 2005Steve Lukather and Steve Vai on RocklineSteve Vai will be appearing with Steve Lukather on Rockline Radio (USA) this Wednesday night at 8:30pm PST! (11:20pm USA EST; 5:30am Thurs Central Europe; 3:30pm Thurs Eastern Australia; 1:30pm Thurs Tokyo; other time zones.) Lukather will be promoting his new "Steve Lukather and Friends" album Santamental, recently re-released by Favored Nations. As is the tradition at this time of year, Rockline will center around songs dedicated to the holiday season. Santamental features an amazing line up of Lukather's friends including Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Edgar Winter and more luminaries and studio dogs. Some of the songs include “Joy to the World,” “Greensleeves,” “Silent Night” and many more, including originals all done in the incomparable Lukather style. Santamental is also avalable though all good music retailers, or you can order it online here. You can listen to Rockline live over the internet through affiliated station 92.3 KGON. Just click on their "Listen Live" links to hear the broadcast. Listeners in the USA can see a list of radio affiliates in their area by checking out the Rockline affiliates list. If you're looking for other great guitar-related Christmas albums - why not
check out the Steve Vai-produced Merry
Axemas: A Guitar Christmas - featuring Steve's amazing rendition
of "Christmas Time Is Here"; and Merry
Axemas Vol 2: More Guitars For Christmas - both featuring an amazing
lineup of some of guitar's greatest players.
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Steve on stage in Istres. France - October 31, 2005 |
December 2, 2005A Note From SteveGreetings folks, As I write this I am on an airplane on my way home from the Real Illusions European Tour 2005. Events in our life pass into memories and that's what we have at the end of the day. Well, this tour will go down in my memory banks as a true treasure. It was a perfect way to close a particular chapter in my career. The band grew so very close on this tour. I will miss all the time we spent together bonding, supporting each other, laughing and just living life as a family. I was truly fortunate on this tour to also have the very best crew I can remember touring with. All consummate professionals with great attitudes - even when their lives were being threatened from some freak club owners in Turkey. Eric Sardinas and his band rose to the occasion every night and contributed to the overall vibe of the evening in the most effective of ways. Eric is charisma and confidence personified on the stage and I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to invite him on this, the 5th tour we have done together. Not only are Eric and his band our friends, but his brilliant sense of humor is becoming legendary. On our last show of the tour, during "Midway Creatures", his entire band took to the stage dressed in these spaced-out outfits that they made themselves. You will see it on film eventually. Some of the things we accomplished on this tour was a ton of filming. At the beginning of the tour we thought of filming a few shows for a live "Real Illusions: Reflections" DVD, but I felt that we already did this with the Live At The Astoria London DVD and did not want to repeat the concept, so we brought one very fine digital camera with us, and one very fine camera operator, Mike Mesker. Mikey shot a ton of footage and although there will be live performance footage from this tour in the DVD, It will be composed of takes from various places around the world. There are also some surprises in store that I think you'll get a kick out of. The EVO Experience and all of its participants were one of the true highlights of the tour for me. I so much enjoyed being with them, hearing their thoughts and conversing on various topics. I always feel a unique bond with the EVO folks and feel comfortable being candid and open with them on simple and delicate topics of discussion. And though one of our secrets is safe for the time being, you will all be let in on it eventually. To all of you who have attended the shows, mere thanks could not convey my gratitude for your support. It's such an honor to have had the opportunity to play for you. I will miss this in the next year or so as I retreat to the studio, after a bit of a vacation. I have read every review post and am enormously touched. Your feedback inspires me to continue to strive for the highest vision of what might be possible through my performance and playing. God bless, and deep love to you. s
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New Vai-Related Goodies Available!Looking for the perfect gift for the Vai fan in your life? Are you the Vai fan in question and feel like treating yourself? Check out the following recently released DVDs, CDs and books! G3 Live In Tokyo DVD and CDG3 Live In Tokyo was recently released on DVD and features amazing footage from the G3 Tour of Japan in May 2005 with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and John Petrucci. Steve performs both “Building The Church” and “K'm Pee Du Wee” from the new album Real Illusions: Reflections, as well as the classic “The Audience Is Listening” from Passion and Warfare. John Petrucci performs “Glasgow Kiss” and “Damage Control” from his latest album Suspended Animation; and Joe Satriani performs “Up In Flames” and “Searching” from his latest album Is There Love In Space? along with “War” from The Extremist. Click here to order the G3 Live in Tokyo DVD from Amazon.com. We also have a special G3 companion download available through our VAI-Tunes
Music Download Store! This exclusive download is Steve's commentary
track for his set on the “G3 Live in Tokyo” DVD -
which does not appear on the released version. The track also features
appearances from Billy
Sheehan, Tony
MacAlpine, Dave
Weiner and Jeremy
Colson. If you haven't checked out VAI-Tunes - you can also download
a bunch of other unreleased Vai tracks there. Click here to visit VAI-Tunes.
The Dub Room SpecialZappa and Vai fans alike should check out the newly re-released The Dub Room Special on DVD! Previously released on VHS and Beta through mail order, Frank Zappa’s Dub Room Special is a rare TV special comprising two live performances from one of music’s greatest composers - one from Los Angeles public television station KCET in 1974 entitled “A Token of His Extreme”, and the New York Halloween show in 1981 (featuring a very young Steve Vai), interspersed with then-cutting edge claymation/stop motion animation from Bruce Bickford and assorted comedy bits. Much of the assorted footage on the DVD was shot by Steve’s now guitar tech Thomas Nordegg. Although visible throughout the DVD, Steve is featured heavily during “Stevie’s Spanking.” The DVD also features the “Valley Girl” documentary. See if you can spot Dweezil playing Steve’s sticker strat! Click here to order The Dub Room Special DVD from Amazon.com.
Ten Eternal QuestionsSteve is featured in an amazing new book titled Ten Eternal Questions. The book asks leading political, artistic, and religious figures the timeless spiritual questions. “What is your concept of God?” “Do you think this life is all there is?” are just two of the ten questions author Zoë Sallis puts to such diverse figures as Nelson Mandela and U2's Bono, musician Steve Vai, Shimon Peres and Jack Nicholson, Paulo Coelho and the Dalai Lama. Chapters are organized by question with extracts drawn from Sallis' interviews with almost 40 personalities, among them Bob Geldof, Steve Vai, Gore Vidal, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Gianfranco Ferre, Farah Pahlavi (the exiled Empress of Iran), Anjelica Huston, as well as other artists, scientists, and religious figures. In these days of increasing commercialism and religious polarization, this absorbing book speaks to an impulse for a stronger spiritual dimension in our lives and its range of answers—spontaneous, surprising, and insightful; provocative, considered, and personally revealing—offers readers much to ponder and reflect upon in their own quest to understand life's mysteries. According to the publisher Chronicle
Books, this book is due for release
early next year, but some fans have already found it in their local
book stores. You can pre-order the book on Amazon.com. 
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