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The tale of two Davids
Steve Vai shares with Music Radar a couple of stage mishap stories from his stints with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake.
Vai recalls a similar incident on stage with Whitesnake and the band’s singer David Coverdale.
“It wasn’t too different,” Vai says. “Fast forward a couple of years and I was playing Jones Beach Theater with Whitesnake, playing that big heart guitar in the rain.
“I usually do pretty good footwork. I never go down. You get this foot radar, knowing where the pedals are, so you can act like a rock star.
“I was backing up and knew the monitor was behind me, so I was moving to step over it, but I had these spurs on my boots.
“The spurs caught the monitor and again I was up in the air, staring at my feet and landing on my back, completely out.
“And this time I had this giant triple-necked heart-shaped guitar on top of me!
“I opened my eyes and this time it’s David Coverdale standing over me saying, ‘Steven, darling, are you okay? Are you alright?’
Here Steve Vai talks in 2024 to the Backstage Pass Rock-News podcast about his time in Whitesnake:
Thanks to Music Radar for the mild amusement.
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