Steve Vai has discussed his time playing in Frank Zappa‘s band, during which he says he experienced “a complete breakdown.”Vai joined Zappa’s touring band between 1980 and 1983, and is also credited on seven of his albums.Appearing on the Cassius Morris Show, Vai said: “Things came to a head for me when I was touring with Frank Zappa and I was in Montreal in 1980, and I just had a complete, sort of, breakdown, anxiety attack, that lasted a year and a half.”“It was panic, it was all fear, there’s a fear that was in the background that just overcame me.
And I didn’t know what it was. I wasn’t doing drugs, nothing. I harboured a fear of going insane when I was younger.”Later in the interview Vai discussed his difficulties reconciling his fame.
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