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Happy birthday Steve!!!

Hi, firstly, I must say I have been enyoing the AGS live streams a lot. Thanks Steve and team for doing that. I would just like pass on an idea for one of those. I think it would be a great idea for Steve to speak how he develops a bond with a particular instrument. We know that there are a couple o...

Amazing video from Pete Thorn about Steve's modded Marshalls from the late 80's. It features Steve and Dave Friedman, who rebuilt those amps recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbRJeFYfwjU Also the video solves a thing that that was confusing me for a long time. In All About Evo section there ...

They are Synergy amps modules. Steve uses 4 of them in the combination with Legacy pre-amp pedal. The bottom two are the Morgan designed AC-30 style pre-amp and a Plexi pre-amp and the top 2 are Fender Twin and Fender Hotrod Deluxe pre-amps. Steve said that he was using the Morgan designed AC-30 pre...

Ok, a few more... -#SV310, Flame, was used on DLR tour as a main drop-D guitar on "Unchained". -Flame #2 (owned by Thomas McRocklin with Ibanez neck) was used on Whitesnake tour on Cheap An Nasty. -#SV176, YJ, was Steve's main drop-D guitar during Alcatrazz, used on "Night Games". https://www.youtub...

No problem.

Will post here if I remeber anything else.

Found another thing: The Stucco Blue guitar (#SV314) was used on Breaking The Heart Of The City with Alcatrazz and it seems to be tuned to drop-C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKaSPrLRT8 So, is it possible that it was this guitar that was used for the opening riff on the Crossroads movie scene a...

Hello @Jeroen and the rest of Vai team (and Steve if he comes through here). Long time no see (post), but I've been lurking from time to time around here. First of all, amazing work on the new guitar gallery. Pure guitar porn. Love it. A lot of interesting information, like that the guitar on Gravit...

Hi again.

In the Youtube comments of the rig walkthrough, Greg commented that FLO has a huge crack and is in bad shape.

@Jeroen Is that true, or did Greg simply mistake FLO for EVO?

P.S. Will you be able do a feature on FLO III in the forseeable future?

Another question for you Jeroen. Is the original Flo also suffering from cracks an is it one of the reasons why it was retired? Also next year is anniversary of Steve's 3 main guitars. Flo turns 30, Evo 25 and Flo III 10 years old. Could we get a special feature about those 3 next year?

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Well I got answer to my question from Greg's Vai Rig Rundown video. It seems that Evo's crack is getting bigger again.

found this on youtube enjoy https://youtu.be/5TfcDz5K_NQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That is the heavily edited version. I think the other posters in this thread are searching for the one with at least two extra songs (The Animal and a song from Satch that was also edited out, ca...

So FLO III now sports an new engraved backplate (like the one that is on EVO). Does anyone know if the engraving is the same as on EVO's backplate or is it another picture?

I've watched quite a few videos from this tour and I noticed that Steve is often switching Evo for Xavia (which is now a general backup guitar) in the middle of the song. Also it's evident that Flo III is now the main guitar (used on more songs). There was also the picture of Evo being shipped to Ib...

Not only that. Flo is also the floral Jem that was used in Just Like Paradise video and was one of two main guitars on Skyscraper tour (the other was the number 1 Jem). Also from the videos of recording sessions of PAW we can say that Flo was used at least on Ballerina 12/24.