Steve will be performing with Living Colour at the Sunset Stage in Rock in Rio Brazil September 2021.
Full details on tickets will follow.
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DiMarzio released this beautiful digital booklet about Steve’s Green Meanie guitar. It includes photo’s made by Larry DiMarzio himself and our very own Mike Mesker. You can check it out here!
Join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a free exclusive live stream interview with legendary guitar virtuoso, songwriter and producer Steve Vai on wednesday, November 18th at 7 p.m. EST on the Rock Hall’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
Vai will discuss his career, current projects, and legacy, which is celebrated in the Rock Hall’s Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll exhibit. The program will be hosted by Andy Leach, the Rock Hall’s Senior Director [ … Read More ]
Read MoreHey Folks, I’ve been enjoying the two weekly Facebook Live sessions we’ve been holding. Our Tuesday at noon (PST) “Alien Guitar Secrets: Live” has been geared towards music, and guitar-related things, and our Thursday (noon PST) “Under It All: Hard Questions” sessions are focused on more esoteric principles, and I will perhaps not be playing the guitar in these episodes. Through the years, I occasionally get requests to talk about meditation, which is a subject I’ve been practicing [ … Read More ]
Read MoreGreetings Folks,
We hope everybody is staying safe during these challanging times! Lockdown can be tough, so Steve decided to do some live Alien Guitar Secrets Facebook streams.
Be sure to check out Steve’s Alien Guitar Secrets each Tuesday at Noon PST, where Steve discusses guitar and music related things.
And each Thursday at Noon PST, Steve will answer the Hard Questions in Under It All, going a bit deeper…
Where: Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/stevevai/
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The folks at @reverb came over to the Harmony Hut for a tour of my guitar collection!
In June of 1980 I had just turned 20 years old and the next day moved to Los Angeles from New York, I found myself in the Zappa’s studio surrounded by these musical giants I had studied for some years. It all felt surreal. Every member of the crew seemed godlike. But there was one crew guy I met that seemed to stand out. He had a thick Austrian accent, quirky, funny mannerisms, seemed to know his shit [ … Read More ]
Read MoreHey Folks, Steve Vai here. One of my favorite things about being a musician in this grand industry is all the amazing artistic people I have met along the way. I’m constantly being exposed to super talents and some of them completely strike a golden nerve in my soul, and Richard Peikoff is one of them. From the first time I heard his mellifluous acoustic guitar playing, I had that feeling that I had uncovered a treasure. His playing is soulful, [ … Read More ]
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