The legendary solo continues to challenge even elite guitarists decades after its original release.

Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai has been reunited with his beloved guitar 'Bo' after the instrument was stolen at a benefit show earlier in the week. The custom axe would have been hard to miss should it ...

On the album’s 40th anniversary, we revisit Vai’s classic Guitar Player interview when he stepped into rock guitar’s most intimidating role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whitesnake in 1990 (from left): Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo, David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg, Steve Vai. | Credit: Getty ...

The song opens with a rapid drum fill, leading into a frenetic bass line and gorgeous, soaring melodies married with crystalline keyboard work. "Never Forever" is unbelievably airy, evoking images of ...

Steve Vai remembered being left feeling sick and scared after his first tour with Frank Zappa. And after completing three gruelling road trips with the notoriously demanding bandleader, the young ...

When Whitesnake’s album Slip Of The Tongue was released in 1989, singer David Coverdale made an extraordinary claim about the band’s newest recruit Steve Vai — comparing him to the greatest guitarist ...

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A new Mike Keneally album is always a thing of humming excitement and intrigue. And pending contradictions eloquently resolved. Forever searching along and within nooks and crannies of the soniverse ...

It was rock’s version of the heavyweight championship of the world. In one corner, Van Halen. In the other, the band’s former singer David Lee Roth. It was 1986, and there was outright hostility ...

Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin started the Juilliard guitar program. Her new album, Guitar Passions, features collaborations between Isbin — who studied with Andres Segovia, among others — and ...