Ibanez jem7vwh steve vai biography wikipedia

The guitar's most notable user is its co-designer, Steve Vai. Although the Ibanez JEM series is a signature series guitar, Ibanez mass-produces several of the guitar's sub-models. This type of guitar is more aggressively styled in terms of shape and specifications compared to the Stratocaster on which they are based.

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Previously, Vai used handbuilt guitars by Charvel and Jackson. Vai also began to bring his Tom Anderson guitars on tour:. He built this for me after my old green monster, which I used out on the road last year until it died. I was pulling on the whammy bar and ripped the bar right out of the guitar [laughs]; it was actually ripped out before the show at Madison Square Garden.

I was dying. So I started using Tom's guitar as my main guitar for the rest of the tour, and I really like it because it has a very heavy sound to it. So I took the best of the sounds from that guitar and had them incorporated into the Ibanez. Vai decided to stop using his Anderson guitar in favor of a guitar deal with a bigger company.