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    Steven Siro Vai[better source needed] (/ˈvaɪ/ VYE; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner...
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    Steve Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He started his career in 1980 playing with Frank Zappa and has since recorded and toured...
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    Joe (November 23, 2011), "G3 2012 dates announced: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Steve Lukather", MusicRadar, Future Publishing, retrieved March 6, 2012...
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    Music in Boston, where he met guitarist Steve Vai and, through him, met Joe Satriani. Hamm played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able, which was...
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    produced in 1987. The guitar's most notable user is its co-designer, Steve Vai. As of 2010, there have been five sub-models of the JEM: the JEM7, JEM77...
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  • Epic Records. This lineup of G3 includes Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai. In 2005, a DVD of this concert was also released. All songs written by...
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    including Steve Vai (Satriani's former student), Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Robert Fripp, Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse...
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  • best known for being one of Steve Vai's touring guitarists. He also gives online guitar lessons. Weiner first joined Vai's band when Weiner went to Los...
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    instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, including Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter...
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    who asked him to perform lead vocals on Steve Vai's album Sex & Religion. After recording and touring with Vai, he was discouraged by what he found in...
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  • classical guitar by William Kanengiser and harmonica by Sonny Terry. Steve Vai appears in the film as the devil's virtuosic guitar player in the climactic...
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  • Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology is Steve Vai's compilation album that was released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). This two-disc compilation spans Vai's entire...
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    solos without the use of a pick. Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Joe Bonamassa and others have publicly praised him, with Vai calling him "the future" of electric...
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    This was accompanied by a video, both of which feature guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Remember That You Will Die was released on October 28, 2022, and also...
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    album through guitarist Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. From 2001 to 2005, MacAlpine played both guitar and keyboards in Vai's touring band The Breed...
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    sound, but I can't do Brian May. He's just walking on higher ground.  —Steve Vai His tone immediately grabbed me. Brian has his own style and sound, so...
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  • Passion and Warfare (category Steve Vai albums)
    Passion and Warfare is the second studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on May 22, 1990, through Relativity and Epic Records. It has been certified...
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    guitar and producing music. Able to learn directly from guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Zappa released his first single (produced by Eddie...
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  • Look up Vai or vai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: Vai people Vai language Vai syllabary Vai (Unicode block)...
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    Malmsteen as their lead guitarist for a year, who was then replaced by Steve Vai, with whom they recorded one album. Following an internal disagreement...
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    Halen, Roth assembled a virtuoso supergroup, consisting of guitarist Steve Vai (previously of Frank Zappa's band), bassist Billy Sheehan (previously...
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    his work with Joe Satriani, The Aristocrats, Dethklok, Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, James LaBrie of Dream Theater and Dweezil Zappa, as well as his four...
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  • guitar album of 2022 by Guitar World readers, who also ranked the solo by Steve Vai on "Ego Death" as the best guitar solo of 2022. Polyphia Tim Henson –...
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    Video". Blabbermouth. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-11. "All About Steve Vai". Vai.com. Retrieved 2008-08-12. Sos, Mike (August 2005). "Interview: Strapping...
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  • Pasadena, California. Originally featuring a supergroup lineup of guitarist Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan, and drummer Gregg Bissonette, the band released...
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  • Bissonette (later of Ringo Starr's All-Star Band); and virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai, who had played with Frank Zappa, PiL, and Alcatrazz. Roth later said...
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    joined a rock/heavy metal supergroup called 'Generation Axe', formed by Steve Vai. The group also includes guitarists Nuno Bettencourt (of Extreme), Yngwie...
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    in bands since the age of 14 and performed in her first stage show for Steve Vai at the age of 15. Orianthi met and jammed with Carlos Santana when she...
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    with artists and bands including Annihilator, Extreme, James LaBrie, and Steve Vai. Before joining Dream Theater, Mangini was a faculty member at Berklee...
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    from October to November 1996 with fellow guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Named the "G3" tour, it resulted in a platinum-selling compact disc and...
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