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Steve Vai Wiki Biography

Steve Vai is not only one of the richest celebrities in our century, but he is also one of the greatest guitar players too. Steven Siro Vai’s net worth has reached 14 million dollars, and music fans from all around the world know him as a great rock star, songwriter, singer and even a record producer. Of course, S. Vai is known for his appearance in the movie entitled “Steve Vai: Where the Wild Things Are”. Steve Vai is also a former music transcriptionist for famous musician Frank Zappa.

Steve Vai was born on June 6, 1960, in Carle Place, New York, United States. He was interested in music from the age of 13 years, and about that time started to play guitar himself. He is a pupil of the famous Joe Satriani, but at the beginning of his career Steve Vai’s main inspirations were Glen Buxton, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Brian May. In order to become a guitarist Steve studied at Berklee College of Music and later began earning his net worth as a music transcriptionist of Frank Zappa. He received this job almost accidentally – Vai was transcribing Zappa’s compositions only for himself in order to learn more about technique, but once sent a transcription copy of “Black Page” to Zappa. The artist was so amazed and fascinated by this job that Vai was invited to join his band.

During all of his career Steve Vai’s net worth has been constantly rising as he was admired as a great guitar player and played in many different bands. To better understand how rich is Steve Vai, we should take look at the some bands he has performedin or with. When at the beginning of his career Vai played in such bands as “The Ohio Express”, “Bold As Love” or “Circus”, Vai’s net worth was not so large, but after he started to work with Zappa, the net worth established by Steve Vai started to increase immediately.

The Frank Zappa band was the first professional band of Steve Vai’s career, but later he also performed with “The Classified”, “Alcatrazz”, “David Lee Roth”, “Whitesnake” and “777”. However, after 1991,Vai decided to earn net worth for himself while playing as the main person in the group and made the “Sex and Religion” album – there he performed on stage together with Devin Townsend, TM Stevens and Terry Bozzio.

The net worth established by Steve Vai and his band rose even more when they had an opportunity to play an opening for another famous rock and alternative metal band: Bon Jovi. But that was not all – during his amazing musical career Steve Vai has had the opportunity to collaborate with many amazingly famous rock stars – heavy metal king Ozzy Osbourne and his band, Alice Cooper and Greg Bissonette. In total he has released 8 studio albums, and the most recent is “The Story of Light” released in year 2012.

So now you know why the net worth earned by Steve Vai is this huge.

IMDB Wikipedia “777” “Alcatra zz” “Black Page” “Bold As Love” or “Circus” “Sex and Religion” “Steve Vai: Where the Wild Things Are” “The Classified” “The Ohio Express” $14 Million 1960 (age 55 6 ft (1.83 m) Actor Alice Cooper Beekeeper Beekeepers Berklee College of Music Bon Jovi Brian May Carle Place Crazy Crossroads David Lee Roth Devin Townsend Film producer Film Score Composer Frank Zappa G3 Glen Buxton Greg Bissonette Gregg Bissonette Guitar Guitarist Iwrestledabearonce Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Joe Satriani June 6 Lead guitarists Lemmy Live at the Astoria London Mike Keneally Music New York Ozzy Osbourne Philanthropist Pia Maiocco Pia Maiocco (m. 1988) Record producer Ritchie Blackmore Rock music Rock Stars Sex & Religion Singer Songwriter Steve Vai Steve Vai Net Worth. Alcatrazz Steven Siro Vai Terry Bozzio The Black Page TM Stevens United States United States of America Where the Wild Things Are Whitesnake

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Steve Vai Quotes

• Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
• I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It’s funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom’s music, it surprises them.
• I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
• It’s hilarious, because my guitar has what’s known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
• My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it’s just not on my radar.
• Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.
• I’ve always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one’s musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.
• You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
• When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
• It’s very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can’t hear the inflections in your voice.
• The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It’s just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you’re using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
• I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
• I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
• When I was a teenager in the ’70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
• I’m a big fan of cultural music, and that’s how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
• What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
• As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that’s an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.
• I’ve been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I’m just not interested.
• A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody’s head.
• I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, ‘Wow! I gotta play something like that!’
• When I was young, I wasn’t a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues – just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
• I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, ‘I could put this guitar on this track…’ and so on.
• Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It’s emotional, theatrical and technical. It’s everything.
• Reps once took chances on art, History’s most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.
• History’s most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.
• I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it – it’s called the Jem – it’s 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.
• I’ve never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen’s stuff.
• It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion – you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.
• I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what’s going on.
• My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.
• That’s the thing about great artists: They find the thing that’s most obvious to themselves, what’s most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I’m home and do music the rest of the day.
• I didn’t have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
• I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don’t remember ever having to make a choice.
• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we’ve been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives – one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.
• I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.
• Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
• If I remain true to what’s in my heart, that’s all the success I need.
• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there’s times when you should play and there’s times when you gotta hold back. It’s an extremely dynamic instrument.
• Besides being a guitar player, I’m a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
• If you’re feeling emotional when you’re creating something, it’ll sound that way.
• The only time I’m miserable is when I can’t keep an instrument in tune.
• All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her ‘ear’ – the understanding and recognition of musical elements – for guidance.
• I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
• When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time.
• I don’t believe in ‘greatest’. I believe in favorites.
• Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I’m doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
• I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
• Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
• Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
• I’m always pursuing knowledge; I’m a seeker of spiritual equilibrium – and music is a big part of that.
• I could never overstate the importance of a musician’s need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good ‘inner ear’ – the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening – is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
• I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that’s where I was.
• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
• The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I’m tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It’s about the notes more.
• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
• I’ve learned over the years that you’re going to be most successful at the things you’re most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you’ll find an audience for it. I’ve been very fortunate in that respect.
• You know, there’s times when you should play and there’s times when you gotta hold back.
• I can tell you this: I’m an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.
• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they’re iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don’t think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

Steve Vai Important Facts

• 48th Annual Grammys [February 2006]
• Releases his new album “Real Illusions: Reflections”. [February 2005]
• (Late 2004) Putting the finishing touches on his new album, “Real Illusions: Reflections”, which will be out in stores on February 22, 2005.
• For director John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001) soundtrack, music producer Bruce Robb called upon his talent, along with some other famous rock musician friends — Anthrax, Guns N’ Roses’ guitarists Buckethead and Robin Finck, and Elliot Easton (formerly of The Cars). The results yielded an award-winning soundtrack, and Vai can been seen in the DVD behind-the-scenes bonus feature filmed while recording in Robb’s Cherokee Studios.
• In the movie Crossroads (1986), he plays a demonic rock guitarist who has a final “cutting-heads” guitar showdown with Ralph Macchio. Both Vai and Macchio were born and raised on Long Island, New York.
• Studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Recieved a Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Instrumental Rock Performance” in December of 2005 for his song “Lotus Feet” from the album “Real Illusions: Reflections”
• Also has a younger son, name Fire.
• Son’s name is Julian Angel Vai.
• Was taught the guitar by guitarist Joe Satriani.
• Keeps bees as a hobby; harvested over 900 pounds of honey in 2001.
• He appears on a number of Frank Zappa albums from the 1980s. He also made a cameo appearance in the movie Crossroads (1986).
• Vai wrote two tracks on the soundtrack, plus he wrote and performed every air guitar solo for Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991).

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