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.

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 ...

Steve Vai joined Roth's band in 1985 Vai, a session wiz who had played with played with Frank Zappa as a teenager, was the perfect fit for David Lee Roth's aggressive rock. He played guitar on ...

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 ...

Steve Vai had a great time in the ’80s, playing guitar for ex-Van Halen singer David Lee Roth and with former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale’s band Whitesnake. But as Vai admits to ...