I read the 1st article, it was pretty lengthy, but interesting, but... by the time I got done reading all of that, I was less interested in reading Vai's story...
I felt lucky to see Vai back, around '88, w/ DLR Band at the LA Forum. After that, I got the Flexible & Flexible Leftovers, but, then I didn't really get along w/ a lot of what he did after that. I should go revisit it.