Steve Vai

The second solo album from rock’s greatest entertainer divided fans. Forty years on, it sounds like an underrated masterpiece

By Ed Mitchell published 21 February 26

Ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth’s second solo album is crying out for reappraisal

Steve Vai gave Devin Townsend his big break in the early 1990s. Decades later they got back together

By Tom O' Boyle published 8 February 26

Metal Hammer brought the guitar master and his former apprentice back together in 2018

Steve Vai on the wild genius of Frank Zappa – and the two words that made him want to join his band

By Classic Rock published 26 October 25

They say never meet your heroes – Steve Vai would disagree

Joe Satriani on G3 pranking, handling Yngwie Malmsteen and the Halloween costume he’d rather forget

By Henry Yates published 13 February 25

After three decades of changing line-ups, the original G3 – Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson – returned to the stage

How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an album with the humanity of Star Trek

By Grant Moon published 11 January 25

Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others

How King Crimson offshoot BEAT moved from an all-star dream to reality

By Andrew Daly published 23 December 24

When Adrian Belew failed to persuade the 80s line-up to reunite, he had to come up with another way of bringing that decade’s three albums back to life – and he did it