It’s been six years since Steve Vai released new music, but on Tuesday night the prog-rock guitar god brought a fresh set of songs, Inviolate, to Clearwater’s Bilheimer Capitol Theatre where Larry Mitchell opened the show.

Steve Vai Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Larry Mitchell Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal
Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...