ALBUMSatch/Vai: The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1 - SingleJoe Satriani & Steve Vai
Albums by Steve Vai
ALBUMVai / GashSteve Vai
ALBUMInviolateSteve Vai
ALBUMModern PrimitiveSteve Vai
ALBUMThe Story of LightSteve Vai
ALBUMReal Illusions: ReflectionsSteve Vai
ALBUMThe Ultra ZoneSteve Vai
ALBUMFlex-Able Leftovers (25th Anniversary Remastered)Steve Vai
ALBUMFire GardenSteve Vai
ALBUMSex & ReligionSteve Vai
ALBUMPassion and Warfare (25th Anniversary Edition)Steve Vai
Steve Vai's Popular Music Videos
Highway to Hell
2CELLOS
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (Live In Concert)
Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Eric Johnson
Tender Surrender
Steve Vai
Going Down (Live In Concert)
Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Eric Johnson
The Attitude Song (Live In Concert)
Steve Vai
For the Love of God (Live In Concert)
Steve Vai
For the Love of God
Steve Vai
Ego Death (feat. Steve Vai)
Polyphia
The Audience Is Listening
Steve Vai
Highly Strung
Orianthi & Steve Vai
Artist Playlists
Steve Vai Essentials
Instrumental hard rock that's brainy, dazzling, and passionate.
Artist Biography
Zappa collaborator, heavy metal hired gun, experimental guitar virtuoso—no one else has a résumé like Steve Vai’s. Born in New York in 1960, Vai learned guitar as a teenager from Joe Satriani, transcribed Frank Zappa’s complex songs during his time at the Berklee School of Music, and wound up touring and recording with the famously out-there bandleader, to whom Vai mailed his work. Vai’s solo work is highly experimental itself—his 1984 solo debut Flex-Able covers frenetic sci-fi (“Little Green Men”) and swaggering guitar fireworks (“The Attitude Song”)—while 1990’s instrumental, dream-inspired Passion and Warfare does heavy and unsettling (“Erotic Nightmares”) as well as psychedelic (“For the Love of God”). Vai’s rare skills have made for an astounding body of solo material, but they’ve also made him an in-demand session player and pop-metal ringer for groups like David Lee Roth’s band and Whitesnake (1989’s Slip of the Tongue). He crafted some of his grandest compositions to date for 2022’s Inviolate, invoking none other than a Greek god for the booming “Zeus in Chains.”