Steve Vai

Steve Vai attended Carle Place High School on Long Island, New York, where he took guitar lessons from an older fellow student, Joe Satriani. Soon after, he began wowing local audiences with his band Rayge.

While attending the Berklee College of Music in 1979, Vai called Frank Zappa on a lark. Soon after, Vai began transcribing music for Zappa, the first of which was for the complex composition "The Black Page." A year later, Vai was invited to join Zappa's touring band.

His solo debut album, Flex-Able, has been issued several times over the years. It was originally released on vinyl via Urantia Records in 1984, reissued as a CD with bonus tracks via Akashic Records in 1988, and then remastered and reissued via Epic Records in 1997.