Currently touring the album ‘Inviolate,’ Steve Vai delivered a set of primarily instrumental material for two and a half hours to a mesmerized audience this past Tuesday night at Danforth Music Hall.

Before playing “Bad Horsie,” Vai projected the beginning of his clip from the Crossroads movie, where his memorable appearance as Jack Butler duelling against Ralph Macchio was replicated live on stage in synch with the footage before he broke it off into “Bad Horsie.” While Crossroads remains an obscure ’80s film, the Steve Vai showmanship in the film has appealed to a generation of guitar buffs for decades, and it truly warmed my heart to see a snippet of it performed live.

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