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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

“I open the door and there’s this 12-year-old kid, a stringless guitar in one hand, a pack of strings in the other”: How Joe Satriani and Steve Vai met, became fast friends, and changed guitar forever

After decades of pushing the envelope for instrumental guitar, the two giants of the instrument are touring together, writing together, and new music is coming. Satch and Vai take their story back to the beginning, and tell us where it’s headed

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“My face has melted”: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani cover Metallica’s Enter Sandman during opening Satch/Vai Tour show – and give their first-ever collaborative single its live debut

After their own solo sets, the two virtuosos shared the stage to perform The Sea of Emotions, Pt. 1, and the Kinks' You Really Got Me – before wrapping things up with a wah-drenched cover of the Metallica classic

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“I couldn’t play the Hydra and I was in a lot of pain. Then things shifted into gear. I felt like I’d reached another dimension of performing”: Steve Vai on his Inviolate tour struggles, upcoming G3 reunion and first-ever music with Joe Satriani

With his longest-ever road trip and most rewarding Vai Academy camp behind him, the virtuoso teases what to expect from the upcoming G3 and Satch/Vai tours – and gives Satch some advice on tackling Eddie Van Halen’s guitar parts

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“I don’t want to generalise and say that he made everything sound good, but he did”: Joe Satriani reveals his strategy for replicating Eddie Van Halen’s tone on upcoming Sammy Hagar tour

It's one thing playing EVH's parts, but for The Best Of All Worlds Summer 2024 Tour, Satch has got to recreate one of the most sought-after tones in guitar. He has a plan for that

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“This is impossible to play!” Joe Satriani and Sammy Hagar name – and nail – Eddie Van Halen’s hardest guitar riffs during first-ever Best of All Worlds performance

Joined by bandmates Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham, the supergroup performed 5 tracks from the Van Halen catalog live on air ahead of their 2024 tour – mere minutes after getting together for the first time

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“The music is going to outlive us all… It’s time we go out and serve the fans that music while we still can”: Joe Satriani to perform Van Halen classics with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham on epic 2024 US tour

The Best Of All Worlds Summer 2024 Tour will see Satch play Van Halen classics alongside hits and deep cuts from the Red Rocker's back catalogue

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NAMM 2023: Ibanez announces bumper signature guitar drop, introducing new models for Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Lari Basilio, Paul Stanley, Martin Miller and Ichika Nito

Finishing techniques never before used on Ibanez models, revived retro classics, new-look iterations of famed favorites and celebratory models headline the standard and limited-edition collection

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NAMM 2023: Ibanez announces huge signature guitar launch, with new models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Stanley, Lari Basilio, Martin Miller and Ichika Nito

Vai, Satch and Stanley get super-premium ltd edition collector's pieces, Miller's new model based on a AZ-N, Nito gets a Talman-inspired ICHI00, and Basilio's LB1 now comes in white

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