How tall is steve vai

Steve Vai has celebrated the total number of 61 birthdays till date. See the analysis by days count and bar graph. Steve Vai Musician. Steve Vai Popularity on Social Media. Facebook Twitter YouTube. He started his career while he was still in his teens in the year as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa and later joined Zappa's band for 3 years in He also performed on the track "Never Surrender".

He later featured in the second volume of the soundtrack, where he performed on the track "Reclaimer". Vai returned to re-record his Halo work for the Halo 2 Anniversary Original Soundtrack, which was released in and included as part of the anniversary edition of Halo 2.

Vai cites this record as one of his favorites, saying "The recording and release of Alien Love Secrets marked another turning point in my personal evolution. I was more concerned with making the record that I wanted to make, and not worry about what some others thought I should be doing. Vai left Whitesnake in to pursue his own musical avenues, and formed a band that included Devin Townsend on vocals, T.

Stevens on bass, and Terry Bozzio on drums. After the following tour in support of the album, the group disbanded. Vai began working with Ozzy Osbourne in , with whom he wrote and recorded the Ozzmosis album. Due to conflicts, the album was re-written and recorded with Zakk Wylde on guitar.

In , Vai's signature series high-output "Evolution" humbucker pickup set was released by DiMarzio. The "EVO 2" humbucker, a lower output model, was released in In May , Vai released Passion and Warfare through Relativity Records, and following its release, the album had reached number 18 in the Billboard , selling over a million and a half copies worldwide. Passion and Warfare has been cited as one of the most pertinent instrumental albums released. Since the late s, Vai has resided in Encino, Los Angeles with his family.

Vai is married to Pia Maiocco, former bassist of the band Vixen who can be seen in the film Hardbodies , with whom he has two children, Julian and Fire Vai. Vai is also a vegetarian and a beekeeper, regularly tending to the beehives kept on his Encino property.

Upon its release in November , Slip of the Tongue sold over three million copies worldwide, reaching number 10 on the Billboard while Vai joined the band on their thirteen-month world tour.

Another design by Vai was the Ibanez Universe, the first production seven-string guitar, which was released in Used by Vai on much of Passion and Warfare and all of Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue, the Universe was a large stepping stone for the burgeoning Nu-metal genre with bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Fear Factory and Meshuggah having adopted the instrument and incorporating it into their signature sound.

Roth's subsequent album Skyscraper, released in , was produced by both Roth and Vai. Like its predecessor, the album was a commercial success, reaching number six on the Billboard chart. In , following the successful Skyscraper Tour, Vai departed from the band.

He was replaced by Cacophony guitarist Jason Becker. In , Vai performed "Amazing Grace" in the film Dudes. Vai had several custom prototypes of these guitars built which were used on the Eat 'Em and Smile tour by Joe "Jem" Despagni, a custom guitar luthier and friend of Vai's. Due to Vai's highly coveted position in Roth's band, many guitar companies were eager to propose endorsement opportunities.

In response to these offers, Vai sent out the specifications of the JEM guitar, detailing that the company that returned the best guitar would be given the endorsement. Dissatisfied with the guitars returned and unwilling to compromise, Vai held out on a guitar endorsement until Ibanez approached him, sending him an instrument superior to that of the other companies and willing to follow his instructions. Since its original release, the JEM has become one of the longest-running and most successful signature series guitars in history, with its sister guitar, the Ibanez RG, being the second highest-selling guitar behind the Fender Stratocaster on the market.

The foursome's debut album Eat 'Em and Smile, released on July 7, , was both a critical and commercial success, reaching number four on the Billboard albums chart and selling over two million copies. Guitar World magazine editor Brad Tolinski commented on Vai's playing at the time, saying that "Steve Vai's guitar wizardry is so profound that in earlier times he would have been burned as a witch.

In , after having joined Roth's band, Vai designed the JEM guitar, a unique instrument that incorporated a series of groundbreaking designs that have since become staples in feature throughout the guitar industry. Vai began working with Ibanez in to develop the guitar, and the first production Ibanez JEM guitars were released in From , Vai recorded Passion and Warfare at his home studio, his second studio solo album.

After leaving Roth's band in , Vai bought out of his Capitol Records contract and signed on with Relativity Records for the release of Passion and Warfare, which was completed shortly after he began recording the guitar parts for Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue album, where he replaced the injured Adrian Vandenberg.

Vai designed the Ibanez JEM guitar, a unique instrument that incorporated a series of groundbreaking designs that have since become staples in feature throughout the guitar industry, in In speaking of the development of the guitar, Vai says, "Stratocasters had whammy bars—which were fantastic—but they were very limited, were always going out of tune, and had single-coil pickups.

Les Pauls had humbuckers—which gave you that real scream in the bridge position—but no whammy bar, and I didn't like the way they sat. Neither guitar had twenty-four frets. So I went to a guitar shop in Hollywood, where I had these elements implemented into a guitar what would have been considered a Superstrat at the time. The guitar was designed with a sharper body shape, a large cutaway around the neck, twenty-four frets, a fully floating tremolo system, a specially wired five-way pickup selector switch, and an output jack angled on the side of the body so that when you step on the cable, it doesn't pull out of your guitar.

I knew of course that these features would eventually be taken and used in other guitars, so I did something completely preposterous: I said, 'Put a handle in it! In between solo work, Vai replaced Yngwie Malmsteen in June as the lead guitarist of Alcatrazz, with whom he recorded the album Disturbing the Peace. Vai left shortly after the subsequent tour to join David Lee Roth's band. Post Mon Dec 08, pm. Post Mon Aug 09, pm.

Post Mon Aug 16, am. Post Mon Aug 16, pm. Post Tue Aug 17, am. Post Wed Nov 03, am. Post Sat Nov 06, pm. Post Wed Oct 11, pm. Quick links. I'd guess he was somewhere around 5'6", maybe 5'7". One of the most intimidating guitarists ever though.

Him and Andreas Oberg are just monsters. He could be a Richie Sambora rock star 6'2" of course, but he did look near it as I say next to the others. He's an absolute gem of a guy. The best acoustic guitarist in the world and a very funny lovely guy in general. Pure entertainment watching him. Check this out: Click Here. I was surprised to hear he is supposedly 6'2" but he did look near it compared to Frank Vignola roughly 5'7" and several others.

He's a solid 6 foot, probably 6'2 or 6'3 with those big platform boots he wears. I'm a solid 5'9 and I was around 5 inches shorter than him while he was wearing boots and I was wearing regular Vans shoes. He's a very skinny, lanky guy. He probably looks a lot taller than he really is. He could be 6'4. Click Here He looms above guys like that!!

He looks extremely tall to me, would you agree? He towers Doug Aldrich who himself has about 4 inches on Joe Satriani. Aldrich looks around 5 ft 11 but I honestly think Gilbert looks around 6 ft 6 here. He looks much taller than Yngwie how looks 6'1 tops here not in his usual boots probably.

Possible he is 6'2. But i have seen some photos of Guthrie looking 5''11 and others of him looking proportionally 6'-6'1" so I guess 6 ft even is probably right as you say.

Yeah I had a feeling Minneman was probably really tall and yes, Paul Gilbert looks a genuine 6'4" guy no doubts. I'd guess 6'1. I've been working out chord inversions of things like E major 9 and E lydian chords with the raised 4th A sharp and it sounds superb with reverb on clean.

She has an amazing tone agreed with such tiny hands quite scary really. OK I believe you Guthrie is 5'11'. What about Marco Minneman? There are pics of him and another guitarist called Rob Chapman and another young talent called Jess Lewis check her out if you don't know her, she's great! I've known Rob personally and he's 6' on the dot, and as you'll see the height difference between him and Jess is pretty much the same as between Guthrie and Jess, considering camera angle and posture.

So by those pics he could be anywhere between 5' Also, if you compare Guthrie with his Aristocrats' partner Bryan Beller who by the way can also be compared with Vai, since they've played together for a long time , you'll see he always looks taller than him, but not much more than 0. Since Bryan is a legit 5' What I find a bit weird is that pic you posted of Govan, Kotzen and Howe. I have no idea about Howe's height, but I know for certain that Kotzen is 5' The thing is, he often wears heeled boots, so he could actually be close to 6'1" in that pic.

Add to that the fact that Guthrie's quite a bit behind them, and it starts to make sense for him to appear Steve Vai is a skinny 5'10" barefoot. I initially thought he was near 6'2" but I think he's more 5'10"-5' I'm 6 ft 1 in and I was taller.

I'd say he's about 6 ft now, maybe 6 ft 1 in peak, much taller on stage with the big boots he sometimes wears. Yeah Guthrie reminds me of the typical long haired guy who works in the city music store and embarrasses every customer when demonstrating the guitar and equipment. I've been there, trust me! Very technical and astonishingly fluent, like they've been playing non stop since birth.. Judging by his colouring I'd say his natural hair colour is probably medium to light brown, it looks a little too obviously dyed jet black.

He's actually 5' As you may have guessed now, part of my username comes from Richie Kotzen! Guthrie and him are my favourite guitarists. It's a bit depressing to see them live and knowing I'll probably never play half as well as them :P. Guthrie in that photo looks like a typical 5 ft 11 guy, maybe 5' Yeah I'd have guessed 6 ft 1 but as I say very difficult to tell with guys who look like him who naturally give off a long look because of their build and long hair.

I think he looked a bit shorter than Richie Kotzen in a gig they did though I think. I'm guessing Kotzen is 6'2" ish. He seemed like a legit 6'. A friend took a pic of us and he was about 0. I'm about 6'0. Justin and Guthrie have the "I'm a lanky scrawny 6 ft 2 rock star with bad teeth and hair" thing going on which adds 3 inches LOL. I'd guess 6'-6'2", but he's similar build to Justin Hawkins. I think it's fair since Sheehan does look close in height to Paul Gilbert, who is most definitely a 6'4 guy.

What do you think Rob? I know many more people have said this. And, in fact, he also looks like 5ft Also, in that pic I posted here last month of him and Gilbert, he looked 4" shorter than Paul in my opinion.

Back in the 80's everybody used to claim being taller. OK then, Vai is 5'3" and wears 12 inch lifts which make him look really tall I've met him twice personally, and he's not a hair over 6'. I came here to see how tall he was, not your thoughts on his use of modes. But yeah, tall guy, my friend met him and said he was around my height 6'2. I don't know if it's my computer or the video itself, but the volume is pretty damn low! Anyway, I think you're right, that intro is mostly in A major, and he definitely uses many chromatic runs as a bridge between intervals.

Towards the end of that part he goes a bit into B major too. I'm not hearing any diminished scales though, I think. I could be wrong, though. My theory knowledge is a bit rusted, I have to admit it in fact, because of college, I haven't been able to study at all in the last 2 years. Regarding Becker, I don't know, he's not one of my favourite, but I admire him, even if only for his strength. Also, he's technically and musically very impressive coming from such an unorthodox background, in my opinion.

Eventhough, if what I want is speed with musicality, of course , Jeff Loomis is the first man for me, always Click Here. But he did supposedly claim 6'2", maybe his height in boots? Henkka I need your help.