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After two serious surgeries, Vai could have simply packed it in. Instead, he gave himself some familiar-sounding advice and emerged with his most dazzling new album – and triple-neck guitar – in years
While often seen as one of the elite group of ‘shredders’, Steve Vai has always been on its periphery, as a musician who is much more versatile than that.He's a player who values melody, harmony, form, tone and texture far more than explosive or lightening-fast fretboard workouts, which of course he’s masterly capable of. The last two both feature on Inviolate, of course, but they're wrapped up with all those other attributes.
Guitar master Steve Vai launches first tour in two years, and playing one-handed is just one trick up his sleeve