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    Jan 07, 2022 3 minutes

    Steve Vai

    Inviolate

    Favored Nations/Mascot Label Group

    A new chapter of fretboard mastery from guitar’s Captain Quirk

    When Steve Vai released his first solo album, Flex-Able, in 1984 the guitar community shut up and listened in amazement. The Attitude Song alone was enough to convince everyone that the bar of six-string virtuosity had just been raised significantly higher than before. But who was this guy with the modded Strat and a unique take on fretboard finesse?

    Fresh out of Zappa’s band and still in his 20s, Steve was to go on to replace Malmsteen in Alcatrazz and then

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