No one but Steve Vai can play so many notes with so much soul and such a sense of humor in each and every one of them. He started out as Frank Zappa’s guitarist in 1980, then became part of David Lee Roth’s band, before moving on to an extremely successful solo career. Since the 1990 classic Passion and Warfare, he has kept on evolving and stills confronts his otherworldly guitar virtuosity to new challenges.