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I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

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Steve Vai
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Actor
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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
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