Backstage and Uncovering the SECRETS of Steve Vai's Tour Guitars!
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- čas přidán 20. 10. 2022
- Ibanez invited me backstage with Steve Vai and I shot this video with his Guitar Tech - Doug MacArthur. We talked about all the mods Steve and Thomas Nordegg did to the guitars. We see the secrets of how Steve has his Pia, his Evo and his Jem's set up and modified. Nothing is stock here, everything is tweaked to just how the Guitar God wants it. The Guitar Geek was HAPPY that day.
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Steve's Link - www.vai.com/
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The tech talks exactly like Steve
Steve Has never babied his guitars or I’ve never thought of him keeping everything pristine, he’s always tinkering with them similar to Eddie. I’m sure Steve has sold enough guitars for Ibanez that he could break one every night on tour and Ibanez would be happy to overnight him one. I’m not a huge Vai fan but I love my RG and RGs in general . I still think his white evo is one of the coolest looking Ibanez of all time. Ibanez has super thick clear coats on them and for that guitar to show so many scars it’s really been loved.
Douglas is now the only guitar tech for the Vai tour in Europe, he's such a nice guy, I had the chance to meet him and chat with him after Steve's show in Spain, he even gave me one of Steve picks, glad you interviewed him!
Funny how Steve uses tissue to dampen his strings in the back like that. I've been doing it on my guitars for about 25 years now but with Velcro. Stick the Velcro to the back of your plate so the fibers just touch the springs. On my Jackson DK3M Pro HSS, I just got last year, I had to use two strips of Velcro crossways and then a large strip of pedal board Velcro to go over those to make it thick enough to touch the springs. But it works and doesn't stop any action of the bar doing it while cutting out that annoying spring sound you get on certain notes.
I wonder if there will be any Ibanez custom shop PIAs which would be ready for Mr Vais stage. Velcroed and with a sustaniac. But on the other hand Ibanez doesn`t nickl and dime people like al well known authetic brand ;-)
I like the video but I don't like the way you clickbaited trying to make it sound like Vai is doing something that's not up to par like how you said uncovering and this is fake almost like you were trying to dirty up his name but anyway good video you are mighty amazed and gracious in the video LOL
Steve also doesn't have to worry about damaging a guitar because Ibanez will just give him another one or a new neck or whatever... 😂
Was it Clickbait or what was fake ?
Anyone else thinks Doug has kinda Steves attitude to handle stuff and how he talks? no, judgement here. more an indication of admiration
I love Thomas. He's the greatest tech that's ever lived.
the counter springs on the trem is a nice idea
Thanks for this, Andy! Really lovely to get a peek behind the wizard's curtain!
Cool video Andy! Love to see this kind of stuff.
Ooh ooh black Pia
I've got meet and greet tickets for Steve vai in Missoula MT Nov 26th next month !! So freaking stoked !
Interesting to see the behind the scenes of his gear. It’s cool I went to Steves show recently at the meet n greet. He played the hydra at sound check twice. Ha
Perfect FriYAY video! <3
I've always been a sucker for Rg's...My second guitar,and it played beautifully.🤘😎👍First,was a Mim Fender strat Olympic white!!!👍
Thanks for sharing that with us, Andy! You lucky bugger!
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