A couple of weeks ago, legendary guitarist Steve Vai was forced to reschedule his 2022 tour due to a “new injury,” with no further elaboration. But now Vai has explained what happened, and while we hope the guy gets better soon and we know shoulder surgery is complicated, this sounds, well, really fucking silly.
“I have a pizza oven…”
Oh shit! The “new injury” was a brutal third-degree cheese burn? No wonder he had to postpone the tour! Those pizza ovens get hot as balls, and —
“…and I was putting a pizza in the oven and the dough sticks on a little plate, and I had to jerk it really hard to pull it and I tore another [tendon].”
Oh. He, uh…jerked his hand back too fast after putting pizza in the oven. Thus postponing a massive tour.
You’d think that maybe, post-shoulder surgery, Vai would’ve been a little more careful — but then again, we all know what a deep-seated lust for pizza does to a man. We guess?
Anyway, if you want to catch Vai on tour and maybe toss some pizza onstage as a gag, here are the new dates:
Sep. 28 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia
Sep. 30 – Riverside, CA @ Fox Performing Arts Center
Oct. 01 – Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
Oct. 02 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre
Oct. 04 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Rockwell at The Complex
Oct. 05 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
Oct. 07 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre
Oct. 08 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
Oct. 09 – San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec Theatre
Oct. 11 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
Oct. 12 – Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
Oct. 14 – Birmingham, AL @ Lyric Theatre
Oct. 15 – Macon, GA @ Hargray Capitol Theatre
Oct. 16 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
Oct. 18 – Clearwater, FL @ Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
Oct. 19 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ The Parker
Oct. 20 – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live
Oct. 21 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL @ Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
Oct. 22 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall
Oct. 23 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
Oct. 25 – Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
Oct. 26 – Harrisburg, PA @ [to be determined]
Oct. 27 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre
Oct. 28 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
Oct. 29 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre
Oct. 30 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
Nov. 01 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
Nov. 02 – Providence, RI @ The Strand
Nov. 03 – Boston, MA @ The Wilbur
Nov. 04 – Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center
Nov. 05 – Albany, NY @ The Egg
Nov. 07 – Greensburg, PA @ Palace Theatre
Nov. 08 – Warren, OH @ Packard Music Hall
Nov. 10 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre
Nov. 11 – Morgantown, WV @ Metropolitan Theatre
Nov. 12 – Nashville, TN @ CMA Theatre
Nov. 13 – Louisville, KY @ Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
Nov. 14 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Nov. 16 – Chicago, IL @ Copernicus Center
Nov. 18 – St. Paul, MN @ Fitzgerald Theater
Nov. 19 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
Nov. 20 – Kansas City, MO @ The Uptown Theater
Nov. 21 – Sioux Falls, SD @ The District
Nov. 22 – Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place
Nov. 23 – Fargo, ND @ Fargo Theatre
Nov. 25 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
Nov. 26 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
Nov. 27 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
Nov. 28 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Nov. 30 – Turlock, CA @ Turlock Community Theatre
Dec. 02 – Napa, CA @ Uptown Theatre Napa
Dec. 03 – Los Angeles, CA @ Theatre at Ace Hotel
[Via Ultimate Classic Rock]