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Pre-sale tickets are now available for my 2022 INV

Pre-sale tickets are now available for my 2022 INVIOLATE U.S. Tour through the link in my bio! While you’re there, be sure to check out our limited EVO Experience VIP packages, which range from exclusive merch items to a pre-show Q&A, access to soundcheck, official meet & greet and more! Pre-sale code is EVO2022

📸: @michaelmeskerdesign

Hey Folks… Well, I didn’t realize how much I w

Hey Folks… Well, I didn’t realize how much I was missing touring, feeling that stage under my feet, swimming in the atmosphere of your vibe, and all those other delights of being with my band and traveling from city to city. So it gives me great joy to announce my upcoming INVIOLATE U.S. Tour. We will be kicking it off in late January, 2022. Just looking at these tour dates invigorates me. I also so much enjoy the EVO (special packages) where I get to sit for an hour and chat with you in an intimate setting. Pre-sale begins tomorrow, so stay tuned and thank you for the support! I really am chomping on my whammy bar to get out there and feel your energy again. Link is in my bio.

My signature Universe @dimarzioinc straps are 20%

My signature Universe @dimarzioinc straps are 20% off today only during #straptember! Link is in my bio.
📸: @michaelmeskerdesign

This is when my tour took me to Venus 👽 Happy 2

This is when my tour took me to Venus 👽 Happy 22nd Anniversary to “The Ultra Zone”!

Pia and I will have been together for 42 years thi

Pia and I will have been together for 42 years this October, but today is our 33rd wedding anniversary. But something tells me we’ve been joined at the hip for hundreds of lives. One thing I know for sure is that this one is a really good one.

Happy Birthday to my brother @dweezilzappa. The fi

Happy Birthday to my brother @dweezilzappa. The first time I met Dweezil, he was wearing a little-league baseball outfit and was 12 years old. Shortly after that he picked up the guitar and to this day I've have never seen another individual so naturally gifted on the guitar and able to improve at such a dizzying pace. Frank asked me to show him a few things back then so I basically gave him some exercises and scales and turned him onto a few records, but his inspired ability to embrace the instrument and own it was a stunner for us all. Within a year he was on the stage with us and jamming like an accomplished player.

Then he started making records and if you haven’t heard some of his solo records, I highly recommend it. Although his solo music is unique to him, one of his other focussed goals has been to pay tribute to and recreate his father's music with fiery accuracy and integrity. This is a gift to all of us who are connected to Frank’s music. Frank gave me hard guitar parts to play, but there was music in his catalog that has elements that were quite impossible for me to wrap my fingers around, but Dweezil does them with bullet-proof form, WTF!

I’ve had the privilege of touring with Dweezil with his “Zappa Plays Zappa” band and we got into some fantastic jams. What a band! What I discovered on that tour was, in all of the hundreds, (if not thousands) of hours that goes into what it has taken through the years for him to rehearse all that music, his passionate resolve to make the best recordings of these performances, the countless hours of touring and all the challenges that come with that, etc, was and still is for one specific reason, and that reason is his love for his father.

Happy Birthday Dweezil. You continue to inspire, thank you.

My @dimarzioinc signature UtoPIA straps are 20% of

My @dimarzioinc signature UtoPIA straps are 20% off now through September 9th! The link is in my bio.
📷: @michaelmeskerdesign

My older brother Michael has been a mentor for me

My older brother Michael has been a mentor for me through my whole life. He strives for and achieves excellence every time. I’m so happy for this recognition he received for his fine eatery “Vai’s” in Naperville. I’ve been traveling the world for the last 41 years and have eaten in some of the finest restaurants in the world, and I’m happy to say, without bias, that Vai’s is my very favorite, (with La Giostra in Florence second). If you live in the area of Naperville, Illinois or the Chicago area and haven’t visited Vai's yet, I highly recommend it. And if you do visit it and mention my name you get a a free meal, a new Ibanez PIA, a personal guitar lesson from me and $10,000.00. Well… maybe not, but what you will get is one of the best meals you've ever had.
Congratulations to my brother Mike, his sons Anthony and Nick, and all the fine folks who contribute to this spectacular eatery. A very well deserved recognition.

Did you know that this print came from curtains th

Did you know that this print came from curtains that @piavaiherself and I had in our living room? Her idea!
📸: @ale_fap

Happy #InternationalDogDay! Amazing art of me and

Happy #InternationalDogDay! Amazing art of me and Phoebe by @gentlevillain_

Thanks to everyone who joined me for my @patreon e

Thanks to everyone who joined me for my @patreon exclusive live Q&A video chat! I had a great time, and I am definitely going to start doing these more often. Join me on Patreon and I'll see you on the next one! Link is in my bio.

#FBF with @billysheehanonbass. Caption this photo!

#FBF with @billysheehanonbass. Caption this photo!

Episode 12 of Alien Guitar Secrets is live now on

Episode 12 of Alien Guitar Secrets is live now on @patreon! In this episode, I answer some of your questions. Link is in my bio.

Happy 9th Birthday to “The Story of Light” 🌅

Riffing on the beach in Bali

Riffing on the beach in Bali

I’m on track to finish my new record... or somet

I’m on track to finish my new record... or something.

Vaideology Episode 3 is now live on @patreon! The

Vaideology Episode 3 is now live on @patreon! The link is in my bio.

Happy Birthday to @jacobcollier. 27 years ago toda

Happy Birthday to @jacobcollier. 27 years ago today the Universe birthed one of our most inspired musical souls. It has been a thrill to see him evolve thus far, and looking forward to more of his inspired gifts.

A special shout out to the incomparable @jasonbeck

A special shout out to the incomparable @jasonbeckerofficial on his birthday today.
Jason has shown us that the creative spirit of a human can surpass intense limitations. Some of his most inspired music was composed by just the use of the movement of his eyes. Now that’s divine intention. It does not see limitations, only the goal. And in all this, he has retained perhaps the most important thing in life that one has access to, a really great sense of humor.
Thank you Jason. You are truly a phenom.

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