"Rock Legends, Vai & Satriani, Teaming Up for New Band & Tunes!"

# Steve Vai and Joe Satriani Unite for SatchVai Band Tour 2025

Steve Vai and Joe Satriani have announced they have formed a band together for the first time in their 50-year musical careers – and they’ll be hitting the road together under the SatchVai Band moniker next summer.

## Two Guitar Greats Find New Groove

Though the careers of the two electric guitar greats have been closely intertwined right from the outset – Satriani once tutored Vai, of course – the pair have never actually formed an official band with one another.

## A New Level of Collaboration

Now, the master and the apprentice have taken their collaborative partnership to the next level by creating the (functionally named) SatchVai Band – the first official group the two virtuosos have formed together.

*Joe Satriani & Steve Vai Announce the SATCHVAI BAND “Surfing With The Hydra” 2025 Tour – YouTube*

## Epic Road Trip

To mark the occasion, the SatchVai Band have announced the “Surfing with the Hydra Tour,” which will take place across a series of EU countries in June and July next year. The second collaboration is set to be released just before the European tour, adding even more anticipation for this epic run.

## The Vibe of Tomorrow

When the pair spoke to *Guitar World* following the announcement of their joint Satch/Vai tour, Satriani revealed, “We have three pieces that are 90 percent finished. We’ve both got ridiculous schedules, so we’re not even thinking about how impossible it is to get it done. But we’ll figure it out.”

## Guitar Greats Unite

“The SatchVai Band Tour is happening! I’m so looking forward to sharing the stage with Steve again,” Satriani says of the new dates. “Every time we play together, it takes me back to when we were teenagers, eating and breathing music every second of the day, pushing, challenging, and helping each other to be the best we could be. I guess we’ve never stopped.”

*JOE SATRIANI & STEVE VAI ‘ The Sea Of Emotion, Pt.1’ – Official Video – YouTube*

## Celebrating the Electric Guitar

“Touring with Joe is always a pleasure and an honor,” Vai adds. “He is my favorite guitarist to jam with, and now we have another opportunity to take it to the stage. I feel as though we are both at the top of our game, and the show will be a powerful celebration of the coolest instrument in the world, the electric guitar!”

## The Beat Goes On

Both players have had rather crammed diaries over the past 12 months: After completing the G3 shows, Satch joined up with Sammy Hagar for *The Best of All Worlds* tour, while Vai linked up with Adrian for *Beat*, for which he’s been playing classic King Crimson material. This next tour will kick off in York, UK, on June 13, and is currently scheduled to finish in Sofia, Bulgaria, on July 22. More dates are set to be announced.

[Source link](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/concerts-gigs-tours/satchvai-band-tour-2025)