Carvin Legacy Amps Steve Vai Festival for Sale

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The Carvin Legacy I amps that Steve will be using during the Steve Vai Festival in Holland, have been made available by Mafico BV, the Dutch distributor of Carvin products. The 3 Legacy I heads and 3 Legacy I 4×12 top cabinets will be signed & for sale after the festival! For more information, visit www.mafico.com or www.carvin.nl

“The Burning Bush” VaiTunes #5 is now available!

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Steve’s latest VaiTunes song, “The Burning Bush” is now available to download from all major digital music retailers, including: iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Lala, IMVU, Shockhound, Amie Street, LimeWire Store and the Nokia Music Store as well as the corresponding digital booklet PDF on the VaiTunes page.

Song Juice:

Every now and then I get a new audio processor. I pump my guitar through it and fiddle about until something I think is interesting comes out. I was experimenting with a TC Electronic® G-force and I wrote this bizarre patch. The way it responded to the audio of the guitar compelled me to play a particular way and before I knew it this piece started to evolve. Before I could forget what I was doing I whammed the guitar part down onto tape and then layered it with some techno percussion loops, samples, and some backwards, upside-down, heavily processed chanting monks. For a while I called the track “Monks on Dope,” but then the atmosphere of the track started to remind me of the way church incense smelled so I named the song “The Burning Bush” (all due respect of course.) More…

Steve on Rock Band Network

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If you’re looking for an excuse to get out of your dinner plans this weekend (and for the next several weeks thereafter), four of Steve’s songs are available for purchase on the Rock Band Network! As you can imagine, the difficulty level is set to “very much so/this guitar controller is unusually hot to the touch.” Don’t forget to apply everything you hear and feel to your real guitar. Have fun and Good luck!

“Underground Garden” VaiTunes #4 is available for download!

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Steve’s latest VaiTunes song, “Underground Garden” is now available to download from all major digital music retailers, including iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Lala, IMVU, Shockhound, Amie Street, LimeWire Store and the Nokia Music Store as well as the corresponding digital booklet PDF on the VaiTunes page.

“Every now and then I pick up an instrument and something sweet comes out. I love when that happens and am very graceful for it. I believe it happens at times for all of us in our perspective fields. I was lucky to have a little take deck around to capture this riff when it first dropped off my fingers. I can’t even remember when that was, perhaps in the 1980′s? This little jewel was buried on the infinity shelf for a while and then one day, sometime in the 1990′s, I came across it and thought, “Hmmm, I could just rip this song out in a day” and that’s about how long it took me to complete the writing, recording and mixing of the whole thing…”Then the finished product sat on the shelf for another decade or so only not to show its festooned little note heads through these VaiTunes releases.
When weighing my catalog of work, a relatively small percentage has vocals sung by me. As a result of this rarity, every vocal take I do is an opportunity to explore without any real pressure. Sometimes I push very hard and try to sound as though I’ve been gargling with Drano®, but on this song I decided to get very close to the microphone and give a delicate and intimate vocal offering.
The song was written about a special person whom I love dearly and has been in my life since I was about 3 years old. The song is also about finding inner peace. Perhaps we all have a secret garden we yearn to dwell in.

Ibanez “Design a JEM” Contest Winner!

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Congratulations to Alessandro Serrago on his winning design submission for the Ibanez Design a JEM Contest! Ibanez will be manufacturing two JEM guitars featuring Alessandro’s design– one for Alessandro and one for Steve. Click here to see the top final design submissions from all over the world!

Update: We would like to congratulate Alessandro Serrago for winning the Jem 77,777 contest. Although elements were taken from a free art website, much of the design was based on his ingenuity. There were so many amazing designs & Steve looked at every single one. A heartfelt congratulations to all. Click here for a full gallery of all of the submissions!