The trek features five guitar virtuosos displaying their impressive skills, often collaborating throughout the set. Wasting no time, the show starts with all five guitarist on stage. Tearing into the ...

After months of anticipation, the G3 2024 tour has officially kicked off, with fan-captured footage from the opening night giving us our first sonic taste of Eric Johnson, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani ...

Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's current Satch / Vai Tour is technically a pairing of teacher and student — but during their Friday performance at Austin's ACL Live, both guitarists displayed such a ...

While rock guitar hero worship may have begun its ascendancy with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and exploded beneath the fingers of Eddie Van Halen, it was arguably Joe Satriani’s 1987 release ...

The Warner Theater played host to the Generation Axe Tour, a unique super-group comprised of five of the world’s most respected virtuoso electric guitarists on April 24. No stranger to hosting some of ...

Devin Townsend has evolved as a musician over the years and during a recent chat with Ultimate-Guitar.com, the singer-guitarist revealed that there was actually a pretty prominent guitarist that ...

Calling Steve Vai a virtuoso is the epitome of an understatement. Ever since heading out to California fresh out of the Berklee College of Music in 1979 and cutting his compositional teeth playing and ...

Steve Vai has released a shredding new track called “Busted,” taken from his upcoming album featuring late singer Johnny “Gash” Sombrotto. Vai/Gash was recorded in 1991 when the pair decided to ...

Steve Vai recently had trigger finger surgery and while he is still recovering, that hasn't kept him from debuting some new music, albeit one-handed. Vai just revealed a jaw-dropping new video for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. ‘The guitar connoisseur’s Mecca’, would be another fitting ...

There are guitar gods and then there are people so convincing in the role that they are cast to play guitar gods on film. Steve Vai is both. He has backed Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth, has his own ...

Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, "shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990).