Ibanez Steve Vai Signature Guitars Overview 

Russel Schultz hahahahaha he really wanted to hold it

LOL

'i'm not as versatile as people think i am'

tbh also Mitch is great interviewer)

Exactly why I watched, Vai is so interesting!

Steve Vai is the perfect ratio of talent to ego. So much of one, so little of the other. He never says a bad thing about anyone.

He's a great dude!

@some random guy I disagree but each to there own I guess

true. Although if you keep playing everyday you don't lose the skills

what you mean

True rare and collectible. Cost 10000$ and up?

Not only that he knows about living life well and manifesting.

There's a reason Korn picked up those original Vai 7 strings and started the Nu-metal legacy back in the day in the early 90s. Not only was it nearly the only 7 on the market at the time, but they were still badass guitars!

Doesn't write much albums compared to satriani

AVOID SWEETWATER ^^^^^^^^ Im still in contact trying to get a playable JP Majesty.

Will comeback to update. The process has been 3 months and on going.

Sweetwater in the US and Andertons in the U.K. for sure...

I've got an 87 RG 550, almost the same as a Jem: it has a standard 5 way, and doesnt have the trem rout scooped or the scalloped frets, but otherwise the only differences are cosmetic. It's a dream to play. I can go up a major third with a finger bend with no fret out, and about a minor third on the whammy bar. The action is

Nice story bro, big Vai fan here as well. I saw him here in Atlanta back in 2012, and he did a half electric set for The Story of Light album, and half acoustic set. Venue was super small, general admission, we were right there in front, man. Magical night for sure, but nothing tops when we saw him in 2016 for the 25th of Passion. My brother and I and a friend bought silver body paint and painted our arms, necks, and entire faces just like the album I'm sure you know. He opened up with Bad Horsie that night, and it was fucking awesome! We got called out and he made a joke. We were the coolest mauhfuckas in there bro! Cheers!

@Stephen Docherty Doinker

"It's pretty... dope." Can't believe he actually said that, lol :D :D :D

Word.

yep, he was alluding to the Hydra :)

not every sustainer work so well, with every guitar, thats why...

@@siewierap tell that to Schecter

Idk, I really like evolution neck. Maybe there should be two separate versions

Observing Humanity like 5k lol

Steve doesn't want that. So yes he can. But no he won't

@@olafvanrijnsbergen1177 why tho? My dream guitar is pretty much a white jem with a sustainiac

Abdo Khaled you can get one fitted if you want

IDK Maybe Because Steve Using Fernandes Sustainer While JS & Syn Was Sustaniac.

is this an speciel guitar?=

Agree! I like PRS now but ibanez is my first love guitar.

@@siegmac3267 I have A GRG 🎸🇬🇷🇬🇷

@@SKARKIBANEZ i have RG 7620 and still a killer guitar though its 90s made.

I agree I have many guitars but my RGs are the best. They're incredibly versatile, they can mimic any other axe....except a tele.

Hello comrade.

The Home Guitarist it’s actually gonna be a bit more strat like and your correct about the single coils :)

The ultralite trem arm is actually included in the Japanese model

Yep for 2 years now actually

@@donnythei awsome he looks better with long hair. Short hair doesn't suit him

Zack and yngwie donated some of their hair for bald vai

Really? There are LOTS of videos of Steve playing live and in gear demos. If that's what you want to hear, go find them. Complaining that an interview is mostly talking instead of playing is like complaining that you didn't find enough apples in an orange grove.

Yeah, so damn beautiful. :D

@@tonedef2380 I have it and it's amazing, many people underestimate the premium series

He also forgets to mention that Tom Anderson did a lot of work on his guitars and was involved in the design of the Jem.

@@MrWolf5150 Yeah, he kind of goes with a press release kind of story, the one where he makes it look like it was only him and Ibanez and nothing else. But there's more events that happened that led to the JEM. He used a modded Strat with humbuckers in Alcatrazz when he replaced Yngwie. He used the Green Meanie Charvel with David Lee Roth's band and some tracks on Flexabe.

@@MrWolf5150 Did he build the heart guitar?

The guitar he used in Alcatraz is the Green Meanie. It was originally a cherry sunburst Charvel that he borrowed from Grover Jackson and never gave back.

@@stevemineer2857 Thanks for the correction. But still, why does Steve leave that part out?

Sort of. The RG as we know it today was introduced the same year as the Jem was. It had the same overall body shape and funtional features, but without the Jem-specific accoutrements and DiMarzio pickups. The RG models continued to evolve from there.

He did, but Dimarzio was a mass market product since their introduction of the Super Distortion. Seymour Duncan was more of a custom shop back then.

He just said DiMarzio was the first. I'm sure Steve has custom wound DiMarzios also. He'd laugh at you if you handed him a mass produced package of DiMarzios.

@@DerpDart He'd laugh at you too, because the original JEM had the PAF Pro and Tone Zone, both mass market pickups.

Hendrick?

Roger Cardenas went Bankrupt and Kissel didn’t want to continue the carvin name ??? Idk

@@rollipollirock thanks how unfortunate they made quality musical equipment.

second!!! lol

Call it the djem 😂

korg has a very interesting tremolo.... that goes in 4 directions

Maybe he shakes the piano : )

Maybe add a whammy bar (pedal) at the bottom. It's technically doable but of course only a weirdo would buy it.

Prolly did it on a keytar, like Jordan Rudess. xD

The Lord Of Confusion Keyboards (not regular pianos) have had a wiggle stick option since the 80’s. I’m not sure about the 70’s. I have a full size 88 key keyboard with one. Very fun to use.

The guitar he is holding is one of his personal original jems. He’s been playing it and touring with it for years

They are I have one!

made me look :))

He’s actually a huge monster fan and had them dimples designed to like like the logo.