Marty friedman steve vai biography

He is a virtuoso guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer born Steven Siro Vai in Carle Place, New York who started concentrating on the guitar in when he was given lessons by the well known musician Joe Satriani.

He performed with several bands in his local area and formed his own called The Steve Vais and followed by going to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the Berklee College of Music.

In the late s he transcribed the drum instrumental “The Black Page” by Frank Zappa for the guitar and then, along with some of his own guitar performance, sent it to Frank Zappa.

This was a good move because his transcription made such an impression that he was taken on by Frank Zappa to transcribe more guitar solos for him and these ended up on his  Joe’s Garage, his  Shut Up ‘n’ Play Yer Guitar and appeared in print in The Frank Zappa Guitar Book in

Not only was he a transcriber, he was an overdubber on the  You Are What You Is and a member of the b