Steve Vai

Re-live Vai’s 2012 gig at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia.

Find out what these megastars have to say about their artist models.

Expect over 40 fresh guitars this year.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

The virtuoso talks to Darran Charles from Godsticks about his first ‘proper’ guitar, Univox, Teisco, JEMs and a whole lot more besides.

The journey to becoming a famous musician is long and winding, but reaching that point also has its perks and pitfalls, say these five guitarists.

Modes, scales, arpeggios, triads—they can be a lot to take in. But stick it out and you’ll find music theory will make learning the guitar far easier.

This interview was originally published in 2010. Steve Vai is one of those rare individuals who have taken musical virtuosity, bent it, hammered it, reshaped it, and made it succumb entirely and unequivocally to their wishes. His guitar playing and his compositional endeavors seem to know no boundaries, obey no laws at least none that have been discovered by the...