Steve Vai

guitar, electric guitar, vocal, keyboard, arranger, producer, guitars, performer, bass guitar, electric piano, sitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, horn, instrument arranger

Sample recordings

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Frank Zappa
Dave Weiner acoustic guitar, guitar, sitar Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Building the Church, Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), K'm-Pee-Du-Wee, Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Audience Is Listening, The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Mike Keneally vocal, guitar, keyboard Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Mike Mangini (drummer for Dream Theater) drums Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Philip Bynoe vocal, bass guitar Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Dave Weiner acoustic guitar, guitar, sitar Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Building the Church, Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), K'm-Pee-Du-Wee, Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Audience Is Listening, The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Mike Keneally vocal, guitar, keyboard Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Mike Mangini (drummer for Dream Theater) drums Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Philip Bynoe vocal, bass guitar Alive in an Ultra World (Slovenia), Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France), Blood and Glory (United Kingdom), Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways) (Portugal), Burning Rain (Japan), Devil's Food (Holland), Giant Balls of Gold (Poland), Iberian Jewel (Spain), Incantation (Bulgaria), Light of the Moon (Australia), Principessa (Italy), The Black Forest (Germany), The Power of Bombos (Greece), Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Chris Frazier drums Answers, Blue Powder, Details at 10, Erotic Nightmares, Greasy Kid’s Stuff, Liberty, Sisters, The Animal, The Audience Is Listening, The Beast of Love, The Riddle, The X-Equalibrium Dance, Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Stuart Hamm vocal, bass, bass guitar Answers, Blue Powder, Details at 10, Erotic Nightmares, For the Love of God, Little Pieces of Seaweed, Sisters, So Happy, The Animal, The Riddle, The X-Equalibrium Dance, You Didn't Break It
Tony MacAlpine guitar, keyboard Building the Church, K'm-Pee-Du-Wee, The Audience Is Listening
Suzannah Harris vocal Details at 10, The Beast of Love, You Didn't Break It
Jeremy Colson drums Building the Church, K'm-Pee-Du-Wee, The Audience Is Listening
Billy Sheehan bass guitar Building the Church, K'm-Pee-Du-Wee, The Audience Is Listening
David Rosenthal (US keyboardist) keyboard Erotic Nightmares, Sisters, The Audience Is Listening
Bob Harris (US rock vocalist for Axe & Edge of Forever) vocal Details at 10, The Beast of Love, You Didn't Break It
Randy Coven vocal The Beast of Love
Laurel Fishman vocal Details at 10, So Happy
Larry Crane lyre, vibraphone, xylophone Bledsoe Bluvd, The Beast of Love
Scott Palacios accordion, snare drum Babushka (Romania), Being With You (in Paris) (France)
Pete Zeldman percussion Burnin’ Down the Mountain, Little Pieces of Seaweed
Robin DiMaggio drums #?@! Yourself, You Didn't Break It
Tris Imboden drums For the Love of God, I Would Love To
Chad Wackerman drums Bledsoe Bluvd
Bob Carpenter (of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) accordion Being With You (in Paris) (France)
Deen Castronovo drums Natural Born Boy
Eric Goldberg keyboard Whispering a Prayer (Ireland)
Jamie Firlotte vocal The Audience Is Listening
Joe Despagni vocal So Happy
Joe Kearney vocal The Beast of Love
John Pustai vocal Being With You (in Paris) (France)
Larry Kutcher vocal Little Pieces of Seaweed
Nancy Fagan vocal The Audience Is Listening
Scott Collard synthesizer Bledsoe Bluvd
Shankar violin Babushka (Romania)
Tommy Mars vocal, keyboard, violin Bledsoe Bluvd

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Frank Zappa electric guitar, guitar Baby, Take Your Teeth Out, But Who Was Fulcanelli?, Dirty Love (feat. Steve Vai and Dweezil Zappa), Do Not Pass Go, Frogs With Dirty Little Lips, Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room, Marqueson’s Chicken, Move It or Park It, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Sharleena, Sinister Footwear II, Sofa (feat. Steve Vai), Stevie’s Spanking, That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again, Things That Look Like Meat, Truck Driver Divorce, When No One Was No One, Whipping Post, Ya Hozna
John Petrucci electric guitar La Grange, Little Wing, Voodoo Chile
The G3 Jam guitar Foxey Lady, La Grange, Smoke on the Water
Randy Coven guitar Funk Me Tender
Mike Stern guitar Big Neighborhood, Moroccan Roll
Motörhead guitar Down on Me, Terminal Show
Pushking guitar My Reflections After Seeing the “Schindler’s List” Movie
The Devin Townsend Band electric guitar Triumph
Roberto Cominati guitar Never Surrender
Robbie Ost guitars Feed My Frankenstein
David Lee Roth instrument arranger Two Fools a Minute
Public Image Ltd guitar Rise
Marty Friedman electric guitar Viper
Lars Moberg guitars Halo Suite
John 5 guitar Perineum
Inhale electric guitar Hey Bulldog
Gonçalo Dias performer Bold as Love
Edane performer Shapes of Things
Dream Theater vocal Repentance
Al Di Meola electric guitar Race With Devil on Turkish Highway