Steve will be presenting the “Best Live Band Award” at the 2012 Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles. The ceremony will broadcast live on all XBOX game consoles as well as Revolver’s Facebook page starting at 6pm PST tonight, Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Steve Vai & Joe Satriani will be joined by Steve Morse as the G3 tour tears through Europe this summer! Its a G3 World Domination as the first show of the New Zealand/Australia tour kicks off tomorrow featuring Vai, Satriani & Steve Lukather. Here are the “G3 Europe 2012″ dates, more shows are being added, stay tuned:

7/21/12 – Offenbach Stadthalle – Frankfurt, Germany

7/22/12 – 10 Giorni Suonati – Vigevano, Italy (ticket info coming soon)

7/23/12 – TonHalle – Munich, Germany

7/24/12 – Stadtpark – Hamburg, Germany

8/1/12 – Budapest Sportarena – Budapest, Hungary

For more information visit the Tour Dates page.

Steve’s 100 watt Marshall JMP & matching “white face” 4×12 cabinets used on David Lee Roth’s “Eat Em and Smile” record and the 1986-1988 David Lee Roth tour are for sale on the Official Light.Without.Heat eBay account.

The 100 watt Marshall JMP was given to Ted Templeman by Steve Stevens during the NYC recording sessions for “Eat Em and Smile.” The amp was then modded to Steve’s liking by Lee Jackson, famous for performing sought after custom modifications to Marshall amplifiers for top artists in the 1980′s and 1990′s. The 100 watt plexi head features an extra gain stage, frequency adjust control, effects loop & master volume. The head has been well maintained in Los Angeles and features matching Drake transformers, KT88 quad-matched power tubes & hand-selected pre-amp tubes to Steve’s liking.

The twin 4×12 cabinets are outfitted with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers made in Ipswich, England. Both cabinets bear Steve’s signature, certification & are in perfect working order.   This is your chance to bid on a historical piece of equipment used by a legendary performer in their international breakthrough role. This is an official Vai.com auction.

All questions will be answered as promptly as possible.  A portion of the proceeds will go to he Make-a-noise fund, a 501.3c which provides musical instruments to cultivate and preserve musical awareness, development, and education. For a full gallery & the item listing visit this link.

The VL300 Legacy 3 was chosen as one of the top products of the National Association of Music Merchants Trade Show. The Legacy 3 is a compact 3 channel 100w amp designed by Steve Vai and Carvin’s amplifier engineers. For more information on the amp and a video demo with Steve visit Carvin’s website.

Steve arrives at the GRAMMY Foundation’s Music Cares: Person of the Year” – an evening celebrating one artist’s outstanding contributions to music. This year’s recipient was Sir Paul McCartney. Here is a short audio interview of Steve from Grammy.org: http://bit.ly/MusicCares

On Friday February 9, 2012, Steve & Sharon Osbourne co-hosted “One Night Only” – A celebration of The Live Music Experience at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles . Performances with performances by Robert Cray, Jonny Lang, L.P., Mavis Staples, Robert Cray, Marc Martel, Dave Koz & Trombone Shorty.

Steve receiving the prestigious “Les Paul Award” through the TEC Foundation at this year’s NAMM Show. The award was presented by Randy Paul (Les Paul’s son) & Billy Sheehan.

Steve & Sharon Isbin were interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about their collaboration on Isbin’s latest release “Guitar Passions.” Isbin describes Steve’s playing as ‘An Opera Singer On Electric Guitar.’ Click here to listen to the interview: http://n.pr/GuitarPassionsNPR