The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

"And the way we think has a reflection on what we create. Vai played on the Alice Cooper album Hey Stoopid along with Joe Satriani on the song "Feed my Frankenstein. Zappa referred to Vai as his "little Italian virtuoso" and listed him in the liner notes as performing "stunt guitar" or "impossible guitar parts".

Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1995. ".