Don't ask John Gustafson or Max Goldman, the beloved characters of 'Grumpy Old Men' fame,'How Old is Too Old to Shovel Snow?'You just might get a big, "Why don’t you do the world a favor and take your lower lip and pull it over your head and swallow?” Ask someone who may ...
Well, the first time I talked to Steve Vai, Scrote [tour organizer Angelo Bundini] gave me his number and I was sitting in the Publix parking lot, at the grocery store. I was so excited, because Scrote said, “Well, he sounds like he might be into it!” I called him and we talke...
As I mentioned earlier, you need to ensure that your content delivers on the promises made in your headline. This technique is a useful way to get additional content ideas. Going back to the example, we could do articles covering other famous guitarists such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ric...
Joe Satriani (1987):Steve Vai and Kirk Hammet's former guitar teacher proves that guitar wizardy is about 100 times more impressive when paired up with great songwriting on his commercial breakthrough, 'Surfing With the Alien.' Plus, for crying out loud, the guitar islaughinglike a chimpanzee...
Joe Satriani (1987):Steve Vai and Kirk Hammet's former guitar teacher proves that guitar wizardy is about 100 times more impressive when paired up with great songwriting on his commercial breakthrough, 'Surfing With the Alien.' Plus, for crying out loud, the guitar islaughinglike a chimpanzee...
David Lee Roth's first solo band was just too good to last very long. After recording 1986's phenomenalEat 'Em and Smile, Roth, guitarist Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Gregg Bissonette began to fracture while recording 1988's overly poppySkyscraper, with Sheehan leaving before ...
“These techniques are very effective for giving your lines a slippery, rubber band-like sound”: Steve Vai and Guthrie Govan love these long-slide glissando techniques – here’s how you can bring them into your playing “We asked Troy to come up with six of his favourite ‘next level’...
Steve Vai's interest in bees crystalized when he noticed how a nearby hive kept the flower garden pollinated and healthy at his first home in Hollywood. "Honeybees have always seemed beautiful to me," the guitarist once enthused. If you look at their faces with those big almond eyes ......
“It was two days after Chris Cornell passed. Steve said, ‘I know you lost your friend – it's too soon now, but the time will come where you think of him, and it'll be happy memories’”: Once just a hero and mentor, Steve Vai is now Pete Thorn's bandmate 5 “You’re pla...
Following his acrimonious split from Van Halen after the smash success of1984, David Lee Roth set out to beat his former bandmates at their own game by assembling an all-star backing band comprising guitarist Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Gregg Bissonette for his full-length solo...