steve vairiff notes
13:00 Monday, 5 September 2022
Guitar legend Steve Vai has checekd in with the following update:
"Alan Berry (The Tapes Archive) is a filmmaker and has created an informative, quasi-animated, and at times hilarious short film on the first 30 years of my career. It drops Sept 7th on his YouTube channel. Enjoy!"
The 77-minute Steve Vai-approved documentary has been in the works for over a year and a half.
The documentary covers the life of Steve Vai from his birth in 1960 until after the release of his landmark album Passion And Warfare in 1990.
The documentary covers:
• His first guitar
• Learning from Joe Satriani
• Berklee College of Music
• Frank Zappa
• Flex-Able
• Alcatrazz
• Crossroads
• The David Lee Roth band
• Ibanez JEM guitar
• Whitesnake
• Passion And Warfare
The documentary has hundreds of Vai-centric facts and stories that even the most ardent fan will not have known. Complete with a Vai’esque quirky sense of humor and never before seen photos and rare videos.
Vai recently posted a clip from his archives on social media along with the following message:
"Here’s a little clip from the vault taken from a show on April 16, 2000 in Sofia, Bulgaria where I’m wielding the heart guitar on the track 'Fever Dream'. In order to prepare to perform this track, I had to practice being a helicopter."
