When Whitesnake’s album Slip Of The Tongue was released in 1989, singer David Coverdale made an extraordinary claim about the ...

Ibanez Artist Relations Manager Mike Orrigo saggs, “’The Hydr’, as Mr Vai has appropriately dubbed it, started off as a concept that Steve approached Ibanez with several years ago. While it was ...

From his Ibanez PIA all the way to his radical five-neck Hydra, Steve Vai is a man of many electric guitars – but the instrument he considers to be a “family heirloom” isn’t actually one ...

An exceptional guitar for an exceptional player: The steampunk beast known as Hydra rocks two guitars, a bass and a harp, and has been custom built by Ibanez for award-winning guitarist Steve Vai ...

Steve Vai’s guitars and the story of his groundbreaking Ibanez signature guitar, the JEM, is to be documented in a truly epic coffee-table book with a heavyweight 1,000-plus page count – and ...

Ibanez and Steve Vai have just unveiled the instrument behind the guitar virtuoso’s upcoming track.. Something out of a science-fiction novel, “The Hydra” is a triple neck instrument with a ...

Vai turned the plans for the Hydra over to engineers at Ibanez, the company that has made his guitars for decades. The Ibanez engineers added some features, like synthesized guitar and hold functions.

Ibanez Artist Relations Manager Mike Orrigo continues, “’The “Hydra,' as Mr. Vai has appropriately dubbed it, started off as a concept that Steve approached Ibanez with several years ago.

From his Ibanez PIA all the way to his radical five-neck Hydra, Steve Vai is a man of many electric guitars – but the instrument he considers to be a “family heirloom” isn’t actually one ...