That time I asked Steve Vai if playing guitar with Billy Gibbons made him want to slow down a bit

I interviewed Steve Vai back in September of 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

That time Steve Vai told me that he wouldn’t want to play guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen

I interviewed Steve Vai for the third time back in 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

I interviewed Steve Vai back in September of 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

The last time I interviewed Steve Vai he was preparing to go out on the road with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen as part of the G3 Tour.

Back in 1997 I interviewed Joe Satriani while he was touring with Steve Vai, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Robert Fripp in the second G3 Tour.

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Thursday of I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck’s documentary Orwell: 2+2=5.

Being mainly a rock and blues fan, the mainstream Canadian pop acts normally celebrated by the Junos don’t really turn my crank.

I did my third interview with Joe Satriani in August of 1997, when he had just finished up recording his seventh studio album, Crystal Planet.

“We have bands that have broken out, but a lot of the finer moments in San Diego musical history are coming from bands no one’s heard of.”

“I’m a musician…not a politician. I think if you’re gonna make those comments, you need to pick up the torch and fully run with it.”

I interviewed Joe Satriani back in August of 1997, one year after he’d launched the very first G-3 Tour, with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson.

If you’ve been watching the NHL playoffs lately you’ve no doubt seen the 30-second Rogers ad that’s been running constantly.

“It was in [the Kinks’] revolutionary attitude. I mean, they really had a rawness to them, and they kept breaking their own boundaries.”