Steve Vai (with David Lee Roth) playing his three-neck heart-shaped-guitar onstage at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, October 3, 1988. | Credit: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music via Getty Images ...

Stevce Vai, Roth's first hotshot shredder, faced similar pressure cooker scenarios. “My ideas were being depended on, because I was the guitar player and it was very cool,” he told VPR Rocks.

Alex Van Halen has revealed that David Lee Roth asked Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos. In his new memoire, Brothers, released last week, the former Van Halen drummer affirms that Roth's ...