Mastering

At Bernie Grundman's, mastering the sountrack for the film "Crazy".
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Meeting with the boys from Ibanez

On a new secret that will eventually stun you.

Back home finally

Julian, Dad, and Fire's feet, at home.

At the Venetian in Vegas

Here's my foot having dinner with everyone else.

Mary's cake

Getting tired of my foot yet?

Steve's turn for some "Vaiscream"

Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas

Throwin' it down with Pia's family. What a hoot.

At the pool at the Wynn in Vegas

CPH frogs

q&a at my old high school.

Rest spot

Well, it's that elusive break time between tours with a breather at Mother Theresa's on good ol' Long Island. In this shot my foot got in the way of a mirror.

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Last note of the last song of the last show of the US tour

Packing up to go home.

Zack with Steve's Vaiscream

Jeremy and Steve's Beast

Well,here we are on our last bus ride for maybe 2 years. There comes that time when you gotta leave the bunk behind. We are on our way to Westbury and the last show of the USA tour. The boys were so good tonight that I decide to make them what they like. It consists of chocolate and vanilla chai ice cream covered in chunks of milk and dark chocolate, crumpled up brownies and a special secret sauce... roasted almond butter. They sure like it and deserve it. It's called "Steve's Beast". Then they try to sleep.

Die To Live

Dave rocks

Building the Church, Providence

Zack in the house some more

Zack in the house

Jeremy says hi in his rear view mirror

Annie tries a new look...

Berklee freaks

Drum tech Xtraordonaire "MaGee" & Ann Marie

Darth Colson

Let them eat cake

Backstage in Hartford

Guess Who?

Juice

And now I'm on fire...

Hello Hartford!

The Venue In Hartford...

Annie On Tour

Oh how lovely it is to be a woman on tour with the Vai band! I get to live on a tour bus full of boys, share a dressing room full of boys, and perform on stage to an audience full of boys. It's a good thing that I like boys, especially the boys in the Vai band and crew. Being the only girl in the band has taught me some unique life lessons that I would like to share.

1. It IS possible to put on a little black dress in a room full of guys without flashing anything scandalous. My modesty in the high school locker room finally pays off.

2. It takes the perfect pair of heels to rock out on a stage littered with cables and pedal boards. The "prance-test" in the shoe store is embarrassing but crucial.

3. Boys look cute in the morning when they wake up on the bus. I've learned how to pretend that I look cute too.

4. I've learned that the guys in the band don't spare me from teasing just because I'm a girl. They call me "stinky" and are always honest with me.

5. I've learned how to de-odorize a very stinky pair of performance shoes. (See previous lesson)

6. I learned that I need an i-phone. Steve, Mikey, Dave, Paul… I'm jealous.

7. Starbucks. I can't resist the siren call of the two-tailed mermaid and her green ring of fury.** I've also learned that buying Roger (on stage monitors) a medium mocha keeps him from practicing karate moves on me. Mikey's quad grande lattes keep him from killing people.

8. "Meh" is a perfect word. Meh. Meeeeeeeh!

9. Including chocolate in the dressing room rider is absolutely brilliant and necessary. Jeremy concurs.

10. It is good to be a girl in the Vai band. I have fifteen boys that I've come to love and respect like brothers.

** Mikey is not a man to mince words. He coined "the sweet siren call of the two-tailed mermaid and her green ring of fury" before we knew her as anything but "Starbucks".

Beller, Colson & Vai: Juice

The Audience Is Listening

Tender Surrender

Now We Run

Vai takes the stage

The Egg with Fans

Pre-show Steve

Annie practicing her prance...

iPhone Geeks

Zack rockin' The Egg

Outside "The Egg"

Inside "The Egg"..

Albany 2

My foot with 2 deer in the background. I had to tell them where to
stand.
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Albany river

Here I am on my day off in Albany NY riding my bike on a beautiful 6
mile trail along the river.
Enough of my foot in the photos. It's too hard! Perhaps my hand is a
better and easier choice. Can you find this location?
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View from the hotel, Albany