But Macchio has had a long film career, one in which he also did some sweeping up in a guitar battle for his soul in the 1986 movie Crossroads ... at the time, Steve Vai. Up to that point ...

but the actor's guitar pieces on screen were all performed by Ry Cooder. Vai said: "I believe the music in Crossroads and the whole idea of the duel was energetic and well laid out, and kids ...

Beware young Eugene Martone (aka Ralph Macchio) -- the devil wants your soul and he's sending his guitar-slinging henchman Jack Butler (aka real-life guitar great Steve Vai) to collect in a guitar ...

At age 14, Steve Vai began guitar lessons ... Vai appears in the 1986 film ‘Crossroads,' with his character Jack Butler challenging Ralph Macchio to a guitar duel. But really he was fighting ...

In Steve Vai’s hands ... Speaking of props, my understanding is the red Jackson guitar you play onscreen in the movie “Crossroads” was a prop and not played in your recording for the ...

Guitar prodigies Joe Satriani and Steve Vai’s Satch Vai ... remember his performance in the 1986 film “Crossroads,” where Vai has a “guitar duel” against Ralph Macchio’s character.

There are guitar gods, and then there’s Steve Vai ... guitar player in the infamous guitar duel with Ralph Macchio’s character in 1986’s Crossroads, and helped David Lee Roth establish ...

While Mancuso is certainly not the first to cover the track that Vai wrote for Ralph Macchio’s Eugene Butler to perform in the 1986 Walter Hill movie Crossroads ... track into a work of solo acoustic ...