Steve Vai
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Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcri
Vai performing in Wrocław in 2023
Steve Vai in 2017
Steve Vai (on guitar in between the drums and keyboard, to the right), Frank Zappa and band during a concert at the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York (October 25, 1980)
Vai performing in 2001
Joe Satriani
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Joseph Satriani is an American rock guitarist, composer, record producer, and songwriter. Early in his career, he worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, includ
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…Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" at age twelve, decided to begin playing the guitar. In 1973, Vai began to take guitar lessons from fellow New York native Joe Satriani, and played in local bands (the Ohio Express, Circus, and Rayge) throughout his high school years. His friend John Sergio gave him Joe Satriani's number…
Satriani performing in 2010
Satriani with Steve Vai (center) and John Petrucci (right) as part of G3 in Melbourne, 2006.
Satriani with Stuart Hamm in the Rijnhal, Arnhem, 2008
Satriani performing in Aarhus, 2016