I was invited to play with Dweezil in the Zappa Plays Zappa band when they first toured Australia in around 2007? I was shocked when Steve asked me to play Evo on the gig. It was like Clapton asking me to play Blackie or David Gilmour asking me to play the black strat. A moment I'll never forget. To play one of the most historic guitars owned by one of the greatest guitarists, musicians, composers in history....amazing. Thanks Steve!
I know how that feels. I've had the privilege of playing one of Eddie Van Halen's guitars up at his studio as well as one of Uli Jon Roth's first Sky guitar models.
His hesitations, pauses, thoughtful breaks in his speech, even for a season pro like him tells you all about the magic of the musical instrument itself.
I like how he said the wood matters but he can't hear the differences, but rather it's the whole package and how it all sounds together. Completely agree!
When I went to get my first guitar at a Guitar Center in Las Vegas in 2006, Steve Vai was there. As a teenager at the time, I didn't know who he was -- but I just happened to pick an Ibanez as my first guitar, and he signed it for me. I remember he was really nice -- and I wish I knew who he was back then. Besides two employees at that section, I was pretty much alone with him for 30 whole minutes.
FLO (the first one) actually was a floral pattern guitar repainted white! It was a main guitar for about 10 years (1999-2009), and from some speculation it is thought that it was one of his main skyscraper guitars, that had the monkey grip destroyed by thomas mcrocklin (hence the new paint job, chosen as the 7vwh was becoming the new standard model)
I’m new on the scene and keep seeing Steve’s name all over. This is the first video I watched with him in it and he’s is truly a special person. He deserves all the praise.
I envy Steve. He still has his first "real guitar", a Fender Stratocaster (10:10). I'm about Steve's age and I also got my first "real guitar" at the age of 16. Opposed to Steve, who got money from his mother, I worked all Summer in a stinking steel factory to save the money. I also modified my Strat but only as far as that I could revert it back to the original. I remember sweating as to whether I should route out the single coil cavity to be able to fit a Bill Lawrence humbucker... and I did. But because it sounded horrible, I put the single coil back in. Had I not moved around so much, I'd probably still have my Strat and early Ibanez guitars. Great video. I enjoyed it.
I've been listening to Steve since the Attitude Song came out in Guitar Player magazine in 84, I was just a kid. I still have the vinyl disc that came in the magazine. I don't like seeing Vai grow old. Maybe I'm foreshadowing, because I'm 47 now.
It's kinda hard to accept that all these 80s virtuosos are pushing or past 60...Satch, Vai, Timmons, Yngwie, Vinnie Moore, Michael Angelo Batio. Even Paul Gilbert who used to be the young kid has aged. Meanwhile Marty Friedman still looks the same as Rust in Peace era.
Same here buddy, except I'm 49. I ended up finding Flexible after that, in a small town K-mart. Told my parents I wanted a guitar for Christmas that year, and got one of those built in speaker ones lol.
Glad to hear you mention bad horsie for your next tour can't wait to meet you your flow and evo are so legendary to me as an Ibanez player I own 3 rgs ...very cool video thank you
When He showed the Strat 70s with which he played with Zappa, all modified... It is really surprising to see the Darwinian evolution towards his later models by Jem!!!✨💖🌞
Wish you'd write a book not so much about guitars(don't get me wrong I love them and own 62). But your view on life, love, hardships and reflections of your own life
Imagine Satriani sending you his tour guitar that he personally painted! Great video. Steve always is great at interviews and seems like a good person. I've been a fan since Eat'em And Smile. Got to see him on a G3 tour, second row center. Wow. What a show.
@@comfortablynumb9342 I forgot to mention I saw the Eat 'em and Skyscraper tours, also with Whitesnake after that, all in Seattle but not so close those times. =) Also saw him at a smaller place called Parkers in 1993.
These are great.. I really like the look and sound of that Strat, the Onyx Pia.. but I can't keep eyeing that Green Jem hanging in the background.. That has been my dream guitar since I was a teenager back in the late 80s..
The Woodies are absolutely gorgeous but they don't sing with passion like the white Jems. Steve's was one of a kind, but the production models were a bit lacking. Not to say they're bad, because they aren't...they just don't have quite the same elegance and response.
The PIA Black is definitely my favorite, especially after hearing it on the song Knappsack- was blown away by its playability. How many guitars you know that can be played one-handed?
They really should release that 21 fret strat-JEM (but with 22 frets), I'm very sure it would be a hit. A lot of people can't stand double locking trems and there's now NO fixed bridge JEMs. Or JS models either for that matter.
Always thought (actually told in various guitar magazines in the nineties) the flo guitars were repainted floral Jems, that were given the white treatment because he wasn't pushing the floral jems anymore for Ibanez, as they weren't making them... but loved a couple of the floral jems, and wanted to keep them and use them on the road, so had them made up to look like the newer white jems he was pushing at the time.
I think this is mentioned on his website as well. He has All About Evo and All About Flo and if I'm not misremembering you're right he described Flo as a repainted floral JEM that even had the neck pocket converted to the new style AANJ to fit the new necks on it. Maybe one of the Flo models was the story he told in this video but he's always said everywhere else it was previously a floral JEM
Traditional Russian acoustic guitar is a 7 string. When I was a kid I played guitar (I mean, I still do ;) ) and my friend wanted to play too. His dad bought him this 7 string guitar. He said "I didn't know which one to buy so I've bought the one with most string on" :D This was the worst guitar I have ever had in my hand. Incredibly bad craftmanship :D
Wow Amazing ternyata Steve vai punya gitar Fender Stratocaster, ttapi warna yah terkeren yg pernah Saya liat dari Fender2 yg lain, sperti gitar Yngwie hanya berwarna kuning??? Hahaha... ®
thats what i thought and i'm sure vai actually said so somewhere, and evo because it had evolution pick-ups in it. mabe vai is taking us for a little ride here?
@@theburkett67 true but the guitar is in fact named because of the pick-ups coz he said he needed to identify what guitar it was in the rack. evo he said was now unplayable because of a huge crack running almost the full length of the guitar, i offered to mend it but no answer lol.
@@inspectorcal Right, I was saying that maybe he came up with the original name of the pickups from the bike. If that makes sense. And I had seen that crack in the body too. End of an exception piece of wood.
@@theburkett67 yeah he was a big harley fan, wonder if he owns any harley's? just read ha ha his wife bought him a 1946 knucklehead for his 30th birthday lol
No wonder you guys can do so much with your guitars because you put so many things in it to make it sounds good. Money can make whatever you want to happen, happen. Off course skills count for the most of it for sure.
Its awesome when he shows and talks about the personalities of his guitars more than anything and the character of his old guitars Oh gosh his strat style jem only 21 frets :( ew isn't his guitars supposed to be more modern? No 22?
I was invited to play with Dweezil in the Zappa Plays Zappa band when they first toured Australia in around 2007? I was shocked when Steve asked me to play Evo on the gig. It was like Clapton asking me to play Blackie or David Gilmour asking me to play the black strat. A moment I'll never forget. To play one of the most historic guitars owned by one of the greatest guitarists, musicians, composers in history....amazing. Thanks Steve!
I'd let you play my guitars too Brett...
That's so awesome! I got to play a few notes on Flo III at Vai Academy and it was just surreal.
I know how that feels. I've had the privilege of playing one of Eddie Van Halen's guitars up at his studio as well as one of Uli Jon Roth's first Sky guitar models.
I was there :)
I would shake just picking it up.
His hesitations, pauses, thoughtful breaks in his speech, even for a season pro like him tells you all about the magic of the musical instrument itself.
I like how he said the wood matters but he can't hear the differences, but rather it's the whole package and how it all sounds together. Completely agree!
7:54の表情、老いてもなお若々しい気持ちがあって最高です
When I went to get my first guitar at a Guitar Center in Las Vegas in 2006, Steve Vai was there. As a teenager at the time, I didn't know who he was -- but I just happened to pick an Ibanez as my first guitar, and he signed it for me. I remember he was really nice -- and I wish I knew who he was back then. Besides two employees at that section, I was pretty much alone with him for 30 whole minutes.
4:50 same man same. It’s the fretboard radius and volume knob location 😅
Very cool! That gift from Joe is really awesome!
NILE !!!!!! the most beautiful guitat i ever laid my eyes on.
Glad to see Steve fully-recovered, it seems, from his shoulder injury. Good stuff.
The JS guitar, love it! Looking forward to hearing your solo acoustic material.
未だに"EVO"、"FLO"が現役なのが素晴らしい。スティーブ、ジョーに憧れてIbanez党になった者としては嬉しい限り。
👍一個しか押せないのがもどかしい
素晴らしい動画に感謝
Steve doesn’t give the Jem77fp enough love and attention. It’s the only vai guitar that I’ve always loved
Exactly - for me it's the coolest guitar ever made.
I own that guitar and absolutely love it, it sounds different from any other Jem I own in a great way. I definitely agree with you on that one!
I had one for a lot of years. It was the most versatile guitar I had played until very recently.
I have an 88 that I bought in 89 and the toured with for 13 years...It's still my go to guitar
FLO (the first one) actually was a floral pattern guitar repainted white! It was a main guitar for about 10 years (1999-2009), and from some speculation it is thought that it was one of his main skyscraper guitars, that had the monkey grip destroyed by thomas mcrocklin (hence the new paint job, chosen as the 7vwh was becoming the new standard model)
I’m new on the scene and keep seeing Steve’s name all over. This is the first video I watched with him in it and he’s is truly a special person. He deserves all the praise.
10:06 うわ懐かしいギター。
このストラトに憧れてフロイドローズ付けたりステッカー貼ったりしてた...。
Obviously he is an incredible musician, but I admire more as a human being.
must be a hard work for his Guitar Tech to restring all those guitars
He really loves that black PIA too. Can't wait to see him rock it when I go see him live next month.
Yea its gonna be my first concert
@@Phoenix-ss1pr Mine too.
Where are you going to see him?
@@Jmilillo fargo ND
@@Jmilillo sick
I envy Steve. He still has his first "real guitar", a Fender Stratocaster (10:10). I'm about Steve's age and I also got my first "real guitar" at the age of 16. Opposed to Steve, who got money from his mother, I worked all Summer in a stinking steel factory to save the money. I also modified my Strat but only as far as that I could revert it back to the original. I remember sweating as to whether I should route out the single coil cavity to be able to fit a Bill Lawrence humbucker... and I did. But because it sounded horrible, I put the single coil back in. Had I not moved around so much, I'd probably still have my Strat and early Ibanez guitars. Great video. I enjoyed it.
That gem strat was the most straty guitar I’ve ever heard.
I've been listening to Steve since the Attitude Song came out in Guitar Player magazine in 84, I was just a kid. I still have the vinyl disc that came in the magazine. I don't like seeing Vai grow old. Maybe I'm foreshadowing, because I'm 47 now.
It's kinda hard to accept that all these 80s virtuosos are pushing or past 60...Satch, Vai, Timmons, Yngwie, Vinnie Moore, Michael Angelo Batio. Even Paul Gilbert who used to be the young kid has aged. Meanwhile Marty Friedman still looks the same as Rust in Peace era.
Same here buddy, except I'm 49. I ended up finding Flexible after that, in a small town K-mart. Told my parents I wanted a guitar for Christmas that year, and got one of those built in speaker ones lol.
Glad to hear you mention bad horsie for your next tour can't wait to meet you your flow and evo are so legendary to me as an Ibanez player I own 3 rgs ...very cool video thank you
The first Flo is my pick. Gold True Temperament frets, upper frets scalloped, sustainer, edge trem with carbon bar, dang. 100% dream guitar.
Vai looks more italian than ever with that glorious stache.
I bought the black PIA mid February 2021. Still waiting for it. Tentative arrival Jun 2022. 😕
I like what those guitars are tryin' to do.
Beautiful. Black pia and evo. There all cool I dream of trying one . Steve is a real gem 💎
That black and gold one is fucking dope you can see the quality of it the neck inlays are insane same with the frets.
True That !
thank you so much for putting this together!
Vai is starting to look more and more like Zappa
Amazing the black pia ...💫🔝
Every time I watch one of your videos I end up drooling over the Green Pia. Gotta find me one.
The GOAT right there.
the stratogem should be a production model.
I have one of those original X2N's. Great pickup. Big fan of the Duncan Invader if you want a fat, hot tone with smooth mids
アイバニーズはヴァイとの関係はホント大切にすべきだね♪
(06:01): I wish I could hear much more of that kind of stuff from Steve
ヴァイ先生、新譜良かったです♪
Holy Crap. He has so many Synergy modules. What a Superb Museum he keeps.
He’s a Synergy artist now. Maybe he has each of every one of them.
人柄が素晴らしい
When He showed the Strat 70s with which he played with Zappa, all modified... It is really surprising to see the Darwinian evolution towards his later models by Jem!!!✨💖🌞
VEry similar looking (except color) to Brad Gillis' strat
Ibanez won’t make anything off that!
Nice collection!
All his whammy bars look HUGE!
とても興味深くみれました〜！
Yeah baby
Wish you'd write a book not so much about guitars(don't get me wrong I love them and own 62).
But your view on life, love, hardships and reflections of your own life
Cool stuff!
Imagine Satriani sending you his tour guitar that he personally painted!
Great video. Steve always is great at interviews and seems like a good person. I've been a fan since Eat'em And Smile. Got to see him on a G3 tour, second row center. Wow. What a show.
Small world, as I saw him at the G3 Seattle concert in 1996 from 2nd row. =)
@@Examigan that's about when I saw them.
@@comfortablynumb9342 I forgot to mention I saw the Eat 'em and Skyscraper tours, also with Whitesnake after that, all in Seattle but not so close those times. =) Also saw him at a smaller place called Parkers in 1993.
I have an ibanez jem, lovely guitar. I especially like the neck, feels so good. I know dome don't like the neck but it fits my hand perfectly
These are great.. I really like the look and sound of that Strat, the Onyx Pia.. but I can't keep eyeing that Green Jem hanging in the background.. That has been my dream guitar since I was a teenager back in the late 80s..
Love you Steve! Thank you for sharing! ✌️
I can't believe Woody didn't make the cut. That is my favorite. Tak Hosono outdid himself with that beauty
Didn't he donate that to an auction? I thought that's why they made it in the first place.
The Woodies are absolutely gorgeous but they don't sing with passion like the white Jems. Steve's was one of a kind, but the production models were a bit lacking. Not to say they're bad, because they aren't...they just don't have quite the same elegance and response.
The PIA Black is definitely my favorite, especially after hearing it on the song Knappsack- was blown away by its playability. How many guitars you know that can be played one-handed?
Anything in Vai's hands? Lol
@@xamislimelight8965 Pretty much.
I played it in store and had to get it. I honestly find the neck felt like an improved Jem. Definitely worth getting!
@@Beyond-Antares Do you remember the price tag on it?
I'm surprised that he didn't include Girly or the other one for his Gravity Storm/John The Revelator. Those songs are one of my favorite!
They really should release that 21 fret strat-JEM (but with 22 frets), I'm very sure it would be a hit. A lot of people can't stand double locking trems and there's now NO fixed bridge JEMs. Or JS models either for that matter.
holy,can't believe the most baeuiful JS guitar I think is in the Vai studio😁
Always thought (actually told in various guitar magazines in the nineties) the flo guitars were repainted floral Jems, that were given the white treatment because he wasn't pushing the floral jems anymore for Ibanez, as they weren't making them... but loved a couple of the floral jems, and wanted to keep them and use them on the road, so had them made up to look like the newer white jems he was pushing at the time.
I think this is mentioned on his website as well. He has All About Evo and All About Flo and if I'm not misremembering you're right he described Flo as a repainted floral JEM that even had the neck pocket converted to the new style AANJ to fit the new necks on it. Maybe one of the Flo models was the story he told in this video but he's always said everywhere else it was previously a floral JEM
Steve Vai needs a chib grip. 1:23
It makes so much sense that we cannot really explain why our favorite tools becomes what they are. As a musician myself, I totally dig this. Peace!!
I have an Ibanez performance 12 string acoustic guitar
Yes every different guitars have different songs "build in" which you can use.
Traditional Russian acoustic guitar is a 7 string. When I was a kid I played guitar (I mean, I still do ;) ) and my friend wanted to play too. His dad bought him this 7 string guitar. He said "I didn't know which one to buy so I've bought the one with most string on" :D This was the worst guitar I have ever had in my hand. Incredibly bad craftmanship :D
Thank You for sharing these Guitars.
I thought the FLO guitars were repainted floral JEMs. That's what he said in the past. Also, wasn't EVO the resonant one?
They were the first run of white JEM77V mid 90's I think?
I teared up for the JS guitar because I've never had a friendship like that
I like Steve, love how passionate he is about music. But couldn't he have bothered to tune the acoustic?
Whoa did via almost play a blues lick....? 1:57
Digging the facial hair Steven.
Gitar2 yah Steve vai emang yg pling keren dan nyentrik bentuk dan warna yah???hahaha...®
Black Pia is my favorite!!
Wow Amazing ternyata Steve vai punya gitar Fender Stratocaster, ttapi warna yah terkeren yg pernah Saya liat dari Fender2 yg lain, sperti gitar Yngwie hanya berwarna kuning??? Hahaha... ®
i love IBANEZ, Japan exilense for ever!! lovely people god bless them the lovely Japanese, much love from the Norway
masters of craftsmanship.
Such a lovely guy!!!
The green pia is beautiful. I actually put a deposit on one but then cancelled it. Still regret it.
anybody know why JS likes a no angle head stock? just wondering
God hand of Guitar master very kind handsome and perfectly guitarist in my mind ❤
Humble steve via
That Black Pia 😍
Man !! So cool !!
Someone needs to show PRS and John Mayer that green Jem77 as to what a proper Strat clone should look and sound like. Wow!
Lol 👏🤣
I thought "FLO" was named after the Floral pattern.
thats what i thought and i'm sure vai actually said so somewhere, and evo because it had evolution pick-ups in it. mabe vai is taking us for a little ride here?
@@inspectorcal I was going to say something about the pickups, but he could have gotten the original name for the Evo's from the Bike.
@@theburkett67 true but the guitar is in fact named because of the pick-ups coz he said he needed to identify what guitar it was in the rack. evo he said was now unplayable because of a huge crack running almost the full length of the guitar, i offered to mend it but no answer lol.
@@inspectorcal Right, I was saying that maybe he came up with the original name of the pickups from the bike. If that makes sense. And I had seen that crack in the body too. End of an exception piece of wood.
@@theburkett67 yeah he was a big harley fan, wonder if he owns any harley's? just read ha ha his wife bought him a 1946 knucklehead for his 30th birthday lol
No wonder you guys can do so much with your guitars because you put so many things in it to make it sounds good. Money can make whatever you want to happen, happen. Off course skills count for the most of it for sure.
I use to go to Matthew Music back in the day on Long Island too!
Hi Mr Steve!!! Can you tell me what Potentiometers and Capacitors are in your beloved Jem Guitars!!!
Thank you,
B
So Robert Carlyle can officially plays Vai in his bio pick ?
Evo was the best engine.
Wah ternyata Ibanez ada yg bentuk dan suara yah sperti Fender Telecaster??? Hahaha... ®
Ibanez Jem scalloped
ヴァイさんがアイバニーズを使い出す前
80年代を通じて愛用していたパステル･グリーン･フィニッシュのシャーベル・カスタム・モデルがないですねぇ
そのシャーベルや黄色いジャクソン、炎の形をしたパフォーマンスなど
デイブ・リー・ロスのMVの頃まで使ってたギターは全部盗まれてしまったのです。
@@山坂沙武朗 さんへ
あわわわわわ････そんな事があったなんて。
MR STEVE VAI ! YOUR GREAT !
His great what?
Anybody knows name of the song start at 6:15 ?
Its awesome when he shows and talks about the personalities of his guitars more than anything and the character of his old guitars
Oh gosh his strat style jem only 21 frets :( ew isn't his guitars supposed to be more modern? No 22?
ファイヤーは？緑のは？ハートのは？
The JS is beautiful 💖✌️🤘🇦🇺
Spinal tap moment at 4:20 😆
Bruno!??? "We don't talk about Bruno!" ;-) great video!!!
It makes me feel like a kid in a candyshop.
Steve vai gitar yah buanyak tp jarang pda di pakai di panggung??? Hahaha... ®
Someday when Steve gets into the Rock-'n'-roll Hall of Fame, that fender Stratocaster would make a great display piece.
Wah gitar yah Joe satriani jg punya Steve vai??? Hahaha... ®
Where's the burst? He is good enough to play one