STEVE VAI LOST HIS GUITARS ‼️(Plays Fan’s Guitar) 

Steve can adapt and overcome anything!! Great story Dante…thanks for sharing.🙏

Great that people helped out , that must be a real blast seeing Steve actually use your own guitar at a gig !! Loved that build a song !!

fantastic update! Steve used you talk about the quality of the Jems and how he could walk into a music store and grab one and feel at home. Granted each guitar has its own mojo but it's a great testament to Ibanez Quality. Thanks for sharing! Great story!

Bro, thanks for sharing. So cool people help out to get the show done. Well done to whomever shared their equipment

Saw you guys in New Zealand. Awesome to hear these stories and will be watching your career with a keen eye as you've got some SERIOUS chops yourself!

Man!! what a completely freaking story! haha i'd like to hear from steve's part of the story, like his thoughs about that and how he felt with a completely extrange guitar! grettings from Colombia man!

imagine having steve vai play YOUR guitar, that must be what heaven feels like.

Excellent! Saw the G3 show in Feb 1,2023 in Salem, Oregon. Excellent show!!!

Thanks for being our "inside guy" with the scoop on all of the behind the scenes awesomeness!

Wow, thanks for sharing that amazing story, Dante! What a testament to the talent and resourcefulness not only of Steve, but of all of you. Can't wait to see you in April! Safe travels!

Hey Dante this is Matt Schulze actor from fast and Furious etc... I was in the front row Sat night at G3 in LA with my two kids. Thank you for being so kind and Jeremy... That was a very emotional show. It was incredible for my whole family to be there. Tell Steve I said hello. Next time I will try and come see you guys after.... Peace.

Steve should embark on a Play the Fans Guitar Tour. My son is a big fan of Vai. He did a whole school project on him. Its awesome hearing this

It's great how everyone did their best to help make the show as good as it could be! Everyone had a unique show - what a memory to treasure!

Thanks for the reply Dante. That's fascinating! I was at the recent Wellington New Zealand show, so thanks for tearing up the stage, you were amazing!

Steve has got some of the best fans on earth. ❤

I was at the Fresno show’s and you guys were amazing! Man you and Steve were on point the whole night. You should do a rundown on what you’re using in the FM9 cause the tone is sick!

That is incredible! It makes me wish I could just teleport myself anywhere and travel through time to attend that show. Thank you for sharing this with us!

WOW, great vid, i saw you guys in Nasville TN last year and it was one of my bucket list shows!

Stoked that I landed on your channel, Dante! You rocked it when I saw you in Tucson last July for Inviolate and just last week for the G3 kick-off show - you wanna talk about rig failures x2!! But you guys pulled off a great set. I had a f'n blast. btw, great vamp during the rig swap.

Gold, because not all heroes wear a cape. Some wear shoulder straps 🎸⭐

Very cool stories, well documented and reported on. Keep em coming! 🤘🎸🤘

Great story and great video ! Thanks for posting it !

i enjoyed this video i'm glad you had a great experience on stage . and to learn about the challenges of going on tour is so interesting . hope you find the music equipment , i guess you guys had to sumup all your. experience together to overcome these challenges

The fans coming through with the guitars . It’s definitely gonna hype the fan . For years and years !!

Listen man, all I could tell you, I want to see you again in Wrocław Hala Stulecia once again! That story you've told is a totally Steve's way of living life and meet the problems with open heart, filled with light and love. And through this approach any problem solving turns into another beautiful story about helping each other and making people happy.

Good job young fella! Great video. Thank you.

It's very sad. Steve Vai have many stories of losted and/or stolen equipment. Sad, but you did the lemonade with these life's lemons...

love stories like this man thanks for sharing!

Hey Dante - was a pleasure hanging out, and playing with you and Steve and the rest of the band in Orlando! Thanks for sharing - we love these kind of stories. Me playing through Steves rig affirms tone is in the hands - no matter where I go, there i am :p

Thanks for documenting this….this is great

Awesome, Dante. Stay well!

Another fantastic video my BROTHER!!!

Wow. Steve is not only a great musician, he is a great performer and showman. Thanks for sharing this experience.

I always tell the bad stories when I was on the road. Bad news sells best! I faced ruin, but I'm still here!

Awesome solution to a terrible situation. It proofs the quality of the Jems. Love my 777vbk ;)

Wow that's a very interesting video ! Thanks for explaining all of this incredibly live ! That's fantastic the solidarity of fans borrowing their guitars for Steve to perform, what an honour ! 🤗That was the casting of the smarter guitars ! 😉But did Steve recover his lost guitars in London ?

That’s possibly my favourite Vai story. What a pro. What great fans. Love it

Thanks for sharing this story man. Team work makes a dream work.🔥 Gold is really gold tho.

Love this!! Such a great story😂 I’m sure Doug was so nervous haha🤣😅

What a movie production my bro!! hahahaha Incredible. Thanks for this video!

We just got tickets to the show in NY. Really looking forward to it.

Hey Dante! I saw you live in Bangalore. You're an amazing player!!

WOW!Very interesting insight,thanks for sharing!❣your videos are so funny and entertaining,I´m looking forward to each new one!

Awesome video and story, good time

How Exciting!!!!

Hold Your Fire🇨🇦

Very cool. Can’t wait for feb 1st in Salem!

This is very sweet ❤

Steve Vai borrowed guitars. Fans lend him their guitars.

Dante, this would be probably proof positive that Steve is probably one of the most professional, dedicated, with a level of ability that is probably limited to a very small group of musicians in the world. Goes to show you what happens when you've developed muscle memory with a routine and then you get all that thrown out the window! Congratulations on the success of the tour and the music! you guys rock! Have been a huge fan of Steve since the 80's! He's an incredible human (alien) being! :D

Great stories man! Thanks

Awesome story @Dante. Without his usual gear, like the sustainer, how did Steve pull off a track like Building the Church?

Great story! It’s pretty inspiring, not just that the fans stepped up, but that in 2024 with all that’s gone on, an instrumental guitarist can be doing well enough to play India for only four shows. That’s great! 🤘🤘🤘

What a story to add to the memory bank! I guess the EVO VIP experience needs to be permanent for every tour, just in case Steve needs to borrow some gear 😁 Like your own personal pop-up guitar store at every show. Maybe suggest now, that the guests to bring along pedals and other gear - just in case. 🤣

Thats such an epic story.

hey look, its a long hair italian boy doing his sad face for a tragedy that befalls Steve Vai. Im so glad I get these human interest stories in my youtube feed, this is the kind of real life drama that I live for. Thanks for sharing Dante. And that is such a cool exotic first name you have.

The night before I flew to Bahrain I thought to remove the neck so it’d be easy to carry on the plane. Then my wife told me ‘hey you know what, it’s a quick flight to Bahrain, why don’t you carry whole thing so you can have your case signed too’ then I was like, ‘yeah you’re right’😂😂. Gosh!! Next day this happened!!🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️ Imagine missing an opportunity like this 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️. Man!!! I was f&@king lucky! Dante you’re a legend man!! Hope to see you guys again soon! Cheers!!

Awesome video Dante, and I’m so glad the gig turned out so well! Looking forward to seeing more from the tour(s) 😊

I was in the audience for that night you guys killed it! It was a bit of a shame that I didn’t get to witness the Hydra but seeing Steve play a fender that still had the sticker still on it just shows how gear don’t matter as much as the player

Great story!

The show must go on, well done.

Totally cool

Man that's crazy!! I hope he gets them back!

Fantastic story.

Brother that is fucking crazy 🤣🔥🔥🔥

That was cool. Is there any chance you can talk to Steve and get him to release a bunch of the footage. It would be awesome to watch completely unscripted with unfamiliar equipment not knowing how anything's gonna go and getting to experience that.

LOL WUT. Crazy. See you tonight at G3 in Scottsdale.

Amazing story. Even more fan of Steve now. And all the band of course. You guys Rock 🤘 Hey, my covers band has been thinking of ways to include the audience more. Is it to bad if I steal the idea? 😅

So cool! Did Steve get all his gear back?

What pedal board did Steve use? And that first guy with the Gold guitar was dope. He got Steve's DNA on the guitar. Loved it.

If there's ever a strong endorsement of an artists signature guitar, its this situation. Thanks for sharing Dante and I hope all is well

No headroom without the amps, you can't replicate it

Bro!! I've thought about this exact scenario in my head.. What if Steve checked in his guitars and they lost it? I was considering checking mine in and I was like nope.. imagine the whole academy without a guitar??? AAHHH !! That's freaking crazy he played a fans guitar. Thats some next level stuff right there wooo

I saw some pics from this show, and it looked like the Edge Pro trem on that white Jem was changed to a Lo-Pro for the show...is that true?

I hope Steve got his guitars back

When I moved from the UK to South Africa, they "lost" my Revv Generator 120 for nearly a month. Thankfully I was able to take my main guitar with me in the cabin. If you haven't already done it, may I suggest that Steve and/or the production company invest in asset trackers... They are USB sized GPS devices that you can remotely switch on and off. They usually have an accuracy of around 25m radius. At least you'll know before the plane takes off, whether or not the gear is aboard, or still in the terminal and can make arrangements before takeoff, rather than after the delay of a long flight. For the missing top end and middle frequencies, the 29 Pedals "Euna" and "Oamp" are phenomenal. They will give you that missing headroom. I definitely feel for you guys. Playing gigs with unfamiliar kit is not fun, no matter how high one's skill level is.

A bunch of people at G66, would like to get some of the presets you demo'd a couple days ago.

I like the tribute to Steve Lynch from Autograph with the red lightning bolt on your white guitar... Or is it?

Attorneys were made for playing the guitar. Jon Levin told me that truth ! 😆👍👍👍👍👍

Killer channel. You should have a million views on some of these vids. Cool content. My fav parts are when you talk shit to the tour manager.

More and more reason to do Kempfer and similar rigs for touring

I wonder what kind of a show this would have turned into if the people only had low end Squiers and such to share :D

this is cool story

WHERE ARE THE FANS! This should be at 100,000 views by now??? It just goes to show you, you pretty much have to ( I'm not going to say it, but imagine the only worse thing that could happen to a person) in order to get people to notice something like this??? I remember when Peter Frampton's gear exploded over the Amazon Jungle, and I knew about that the next day, it was all over the radio. But of course people have information overload in the computer age, so what do you expect. Crazy,

What the actual... 😮

Plus if anyone takes pics of the hydra, ppl will be dumb. Hope they come up. That’s just horrible,I would be annoyed and angry, I’m sure he’s feeling something, but cool that he did this, it did make an experience, but hope his stuff comes up. Steve can play, but man it just shows how professional he is.

How about Assuming The Best,instead of The Worst!So Stop,Manifesting a Bad Scene!Its Allways Positive!How About That!Take care,turning things Around 4 The Best 4 Every 1!Jcsx

I pray he gets the Hydra Back. It would take Ibanez a while to build Another one…

If that happened to me its gonna make me sooooo mad

Wait what the hydra is loose???

That DNA still inside the grain of the guitar.. will not transfer to human. Until you brainstorming yourself and make your own music like Steve. 😂👍

Airtags

Hey Dante you said you are in India? Come to Kolkata once again and borrow my guitar please 😅 Although I don't have a gem but I have an Ibanez RG 421 EX

This is what A REAL MUSICIAN does when he doesn't have gear....

Yes but did Steve ever get his guitars back?

But did he get his Hydra back, or is somebody gonna ransom it for a million dollars or something?

damn l;ucky fan lending the guitar for Vai

On behalf of Heathrow airport and all UK citizens- deepest apologies Steve🫡 Brexit, Boris, Truss, now this. I’m emigrating…

Tone is not in the hands ,the way he plays is brain to hands,sound and tone is gear choices of course vai allways sounds like him,its the choices he makes notes vibrato composition etc ,u keep jappin tone is different yeah buddy because he is forced to use different gear ,gear that changes things not hands ,his hands dictates the way he plays

Out of interest, has Steve let you play his guitars? Or does he not like other people playing them?