Steve Vai

"I don't use Tortex, because well - it's not that I'm an animal activist - I don't even like the idea of using tortoise shell. So these [Ibanez picks] are like a special kind of plastic that just grips my fingers very nicely. And I have other picks but I just don't use them because they're too smooth. It's a good size. It's a little bit bigger," says Steve Vai about the Ibanez 1000SVBR Steve Vai Signature Guitar Pick.

"I use these Ibanez picks. It's funny because you can give me anything and I can make it work, but if I got the wrong pick I just can't play. I had to go through a lot of different ones. First of all, I don't use Tortex, because well - it's not that I'm an animal activist - I don't even like the idea of using tortoise shell. So these [Ibanez picks] are like a special kind of plastic that just grips my fingers very nicely. And I have other picks but I just don't use them because they're too smooth. It's a good size. It's a little bit bigger. And they're also heavy picks. If you ever have a pick that gets chewed down you scrape it against the rug on both sides - new pick," says Steve Vai about the Ibanez 1000SVWHR Steve Vai Signature Guitar Pick.

"If I got the wrong pick I just can't play. And I had to go through a lot of different ones... So these [Ibanez picks] are like a special kind of plastic that just grips my fingers very nicely," says Steve Vai about the Ibanez 1000SVMP Steve Vai Signature Guitar Pick.

"These [Ibanez picks] are like a special kind of plastic that just grips my fingers very nicely. And I have other picks but I just don't use them becase they're too smooth. It's a good size. It's a little bit bigger. And they're also heavy picks. If you ever have a pick that gets chewed down you scrape it against the rug on both sides - new pick," says Steve Vai about the Ibanez 1000SVGR Steve Vai Signature Guitar Pick.

Steve Vai can be seen in this photo with his own DiMarzio ClipLock Quick Release Guitar Strap (Blue Universe Color in this particular case).

Wrote the foreword, as featured on the front cover.

Steve Vai is seen using the Get'm Get'm Dark Leopard Signature Guitar Strap 2 in. in a YouTube short by Positive Grid, titled "Steve Vai’s 'Little Pretty' GUITAR."