By Steve Newton Steve Vai is one of those guitarists where you watch him play and you're like: "How the hell does he do that!?" This is the first interview I did with him, when he was only 29, touring with Whitesnake, and had just released his solo album Passion and Warfare. During the first … Continue reading 10 minutes on the phone with 29-year-old Steve Vai in 1990
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Two weeks before the launch of Joe Satriani’s original G3 Tour Steve Vai explained how it came to fruition
By Steve Newton I interviewed guitar virtuoso Steve Vai for the second time back in September of 1996, one week after the release of his Fire Garden album. Vai had also recently announced that he'd be part of the first G3 Tour, which saw him go on tour with fellow fretmasters Joe Satriani and Eric … Continue reading Two weeks before the launch of Joe Satriani’s original G3 Tour Steve Vai explained how it came to fruition