In the past, whenever electric guitar virtuoso Steve Vai found himself with a run of dates on the East Coast, he'd typically set up shop at his parents' house in Long Island, New York. There – in the ...

Being the only musician in his entire family, Steve Vai felt like an outsider in his formative years. Yet despite going against the grain, the guitarist’s parents were behind him all the way.

The BEAT Tour is a musical high-wire act. Here was Steve Vai, Tool’s Danny Carey and King Crimson alumni Adrian Belew and Tony Levin performing ‘80s-era King Crimson classics Discipline, Beat, and ...