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“It’s blasphemous to put a whammy bar on a Les Paul? Screw you! I’ll do what I want.” Steve Vai on the radical guitar mods he learned from Frank Zappa — from a torched Jimi Hendrix Strat to the birth of the JEM

Summary by Guitar Player
Zappa was never a conservationist when it came to his guitars. That lit a fuse under a young Steve Vai
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Guitar Player broke the news in on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.
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