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Steve Vai

A lightning fast, modern guitar god, Steve Vai took the electric guitar to new heights in the 1980s and 1990s and stands out as one of the finest virtuosos in living memory. Inspired to take up the instrument at High School in New York, Vai was given lessons by an older student who happened to be Joe Satriani - himself a future guitar legend. He got his break when he sent Frank Zappa transcriptions of his songs from the album The Black Page and a tape of him playing his own compositions. Zappa hired the 19-year-old to transcribe more tracks and asked him to join his band in 1980,...