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A short Joe's biography
Born July 15, 1956, Joe Satriani grew up in Long Island. Shortly after Joe's 14th birthday, on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died -- so Joe quit his high school football team and picked up a guitar. By 1971, Joe had begun teaching guitar. One of his first students showed up on his doorstep with a guitar in one hand and a packet of strings in the other, saying he wanted to learn how to play. The student? Steve Vai. After briefly living in Japan, Joe settled in San Francisco, CA. In 1978, he began teaching at Second Hand Guitars in Berkeley. Over the next ten years, his students would include David Bryson (Counting Crows), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Alex Skolnick. In 1979, Joe formed the pop band "The Squares" in San Francisco. Jeff Campitelli played drums and Andy Milton was on bass guitar. This small, "power trio" form of band is what Joe has stuck with throughout his career. During a three week Christmas 1983 break from the band, Joe launched a publishing company called "Strange Beautiful Music," recorded a five-song EP of songs he heard inside his head at Likewise Studios, and named a record label after his wife, Rubina. Containing guitars exclusively, "Joe Satriani," was released in 1984 despite his band's conviction that Joe had lost his mind and that the recording would go nowhere. Joe now uses "lost his mind" as praise for other musicians. Financing his next recording on a credit card with a $5,000 line, Joe completed the tracks for "Not of This Earth" in 1985, and in November 1986, fifteen months after it was recorded, the album was released by Relativity Records. By December of 1986, Joe had signed with Relativity Records and was already putting together demos for songs that would ultimately appear on his next release. Shortly after it's October 1987 release, "Surfing With The Alien" goes gold and then platinum. In February of 1988, Relativity re-released "Not Of This Earth." During 1988's "Surfing" tour, Joe twice went on the road with Mick Jagger, and three live tracks are recorded for the "Dreaming #11" EP, which was released in November of 1988. "Dreaming" went gold and earned Joe his second Grammy nomination. Joe's third Grammy nomination was for the gold "Flying In a Blue Dream" album. "Flying" was released in October of 1989 and featured Joe's vocals on 6 of the 18 tracks. Check out "I Believe" -- written by Joe, this song demonstrates that Joe not only knows how to play, he can sing as well. :) Joe's next album, "The Extremist" was released in July of 1992 and immediately went gold. It debuted at #24 on Billboard, and Joe received another Grammy nomination. Sony used the hit track "Summer Song" for a commercial celebrating the 10th anniversary of the compact disc. October of 1993 brought the release of Joe's first double album, "Time Machine." Containing studio out takes and foreign releases spanning Joe's career, tracks from the original EP ("Joe Satriani") as well as three new cuts on the first disc, the second disc featured 14 live tracks. In March of 1994, Joe's "Time Machine" tour came to Columbus, Ohio and we got to go see the master in person. If you've never been to a Satch show, you have no idea what you're missing -- it's an incredible way to spend an evening. In May 1994, Joe went on tour with Deep Purple, to replace Ritchie Blackmore and in October of that year "Time Machine" was certified gold. Joe's sixth album, self-titled "Joe Satriani" was released October 11, 1995."(You're) My World was Joe's Third Grammy nomination. In 1996 Joe, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson decided to go for a tour called G3. The tour would have each one's songs and at the end a guitar trio. The tour went so sucessfoul that they decided to recorded it."G 3" was recorded alive by Satriani and more two guitar Gods: Eric Johnson and Steve Vai, who had lessons with Satriani. Recorded live at The Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio; The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan; Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois; and The Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota between October 30 and November 2, 1996. G3 LIVE IN CONCERT matches six-time Grammy Award nominee Joe Satriani with three-time Grammy nominee Steve Vai, and Grammy winner Eric Johnson. The CD documents the group's 1996 North American tour, and features three tracks apiece by each of the guitarists as well as three no-holds-barred jams featuring all three axe-men. At the end of 1997, Joe recorded 2 CD's. One with Pat Martino (jazz guitarist) as a special guest and the other, "Merry Axemas: A Guitar Cristhmas" a CD with various guitarists playing cristhmas songs.
All Satriani releases:
Not Of This Earth
Not Of This Earth, recorded in early 1985, reflects a collection of instrumental guitar ideas Satriani had been working on at the time. Not Of This Earth took 107 hours to record and mix, and each composition developed into a unique statement of texture, emotion and style. Listening to Not Of This Earth on CD can be an amazing audio experience, so turn it up! .
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Rubina .
Dreaming #11
Dreaming #11, an EP-length CD, gives a taste of Satriani musicmanship with one studio track and three songs recorded live at the California Theater, San Diego, on June 11, 1988. Dreaming #11 best track is the live version of "Ice Nine". .
Sound Samples
Surfing With The Alien
Surfing With The Alien, Satriani's breakthrough 1987 masterpiece, established him as the premier instrumental guitarist in rock. Surfing With The Alien has ten great songs, including the title track, "Satch Boogie", "Crushing Day", and the beautiful "Always With Me, Always With You. .
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Always With Me, Always With You
Flying In a Blue Dream Flying In A
Blue Dream, another of Satriani's outstanding instrumental guitar CD's, also contains Satriani on vocals on a few cuts. Flying In A Blue Dream highlights include "Big Bad Moon", "Back To Shalla-Bel" and "One BigRush". .
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Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
Feeling .
The Extremist
The Extremist, finds Satriani changing co-producers and musicians from his first four records, and with some execellent results, on this all-instrumental release. Satriani gives outstanding performances in "Summer Song", "Cryin'" and the title track. .
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Why .
Time Machine
Time Machine is a double CD set, one disc of new studio material and a disc of killer live versions of some of Satriani's best songs. To hear pieces like "Flying In A Blue Dream" performed live can be riveting entertainment, but it also confirms that these ripping ideas aren't just pasted together--or at least that they're not impossible to execute as one continuous stream of playing.
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is a 'rootsier' Satriani record, as most of the cuts are of the 'live-in-the-studio' variety, and demonstrate a blues sensibility. Joe Satriani contains excellent guitar work on cuts such as "Cool #9" and "Slow Down Blues". .
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The Beautiful Guitar
The Beautiful Guitar is a European greatest hits compilation of some of Satriani's most beautiful guitar moments. The Beautiful Guitar features "Thinking Of You", "Rubina" and "Midnight".
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G 3 Live In Concert
"G 3" was recorded alive by Satriani and more two guitar Gods: Eric Johnson and Steve Vai, who had lessons with Satriani. Recorded live at The Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio; The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan; Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois; and The Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota between October 30 and November 2, 1996. G3 LIVE IN CONCERT matches six-time Grammy Award nominee Joe Satriani with three-time Grammy nominee Steve Vai, and Grammy winner Eric Johnson. The CD documents the group's 1996 North American tour, and features three tracks apiece by each of the guitarists as well as three no-holds-barred jams featuring all three axe-men. G3 LIVE IN CONCERT is sure to please all lovers of guitar wizardry. This high-energy CD showcases the eclectic compositional skills of the three men, with tracks featuring everything from pumped-up fusion grooves to funk-infused rhythms and jazz-flavored numbers. Each tune, though, is really a vehicle for the soaring guitar pyrotechnics for which Vai, Satriani and Johnson are famous. .
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MERRY AXEMAS :A GUITAR CRISTHMAS
Features Joe Satriani
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1-Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Kenny Wayne Shepherd 3:58
3- Amazing Grace - Jeff Beck 3:14
4-Jingle Bells - Brian Setzer Orchestra 2:17
6-Joy To The World - Steve Morse 4:31
8-Blue Christmas - Joe Perry 3:55
9-The Little Drummer Boy - Alex Lifeson 3:25
10-Cantique De Noel (O' Holy Night) - Richie Sambora 2:32
11-Happy Xmas (War is Over) - Hotei 4:48
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Tracks: (real audio)
2.House Full Of Bullets (5:33)
3.Crystal Planet (4:34)
4.Love Thing (3:50)
5.Trundrumbalind (5:13)
6.Lights Of Heaven (4:23)
7.Raspberry Jam Delta-V (5:21)
10.Secret Prayer (4:27)
11.A Train Of Angels (3:42)
14.Time (5:05)
15.Z.Z.'s Song (3:00) .
Musicians: Joe Satriani - Guitars Jeff Campitelli - Drums Stu Hamm - Bass .
. Guilherme Camargos interviews Joe Satriani
Guilherme Camargos: Which serves as a better medium -- the studio or live performance -- in capturing the essence of your music or the message you'd like to convey with it? Joe: Gee, that's a deep question really. I'd say 99% of the time, the album captures the composition the best, and the performance will capture some sort of expression that perhaps is more relevant to the moment. For example, a song like "Cryin'" from The Extremist came from one completely specific emotion of mine, but the audience interpreted it in a very different way and, as years went on, the audience really used that song as more of a romantic kind of a piece that used to really work in the context of the show. When it was written, of course, it was a song about loss. It was about dealing with death and creating hope. It changes, you know? (Laughs.)Once the audience gets a hold of it , it becomes theirs. GC: How is the decision made to choose different travelling musicians versus the studio musicians you used on your album? Joe: It depends on what you're trying to do. A perfect example is this tour where I put together a studio band after many months working in the studio with many different musicians; I get one unusual band together, and that band, although it nails the current group of compositions and the current attitudes, has no connection to my earlier work and, in a way, is not really well suited to play the earlier music. So I get faced with a problem: who do I get that can swing with the new direction but also swing with the old direction? That's been a situation that I face more increasingly as the albums mount. In this particular case, I think it really worked out to get back with Stu Hamm (bass) and Jonathan Mover (drums) because they've actually never worked on a full album with me and their approach has always been to try to change things to their own liking to a certain degree. GC: What was the idea behind the latest self titled release, the inspiration for the new sound? Joe: We purposefully went for a very organic untweeked-out sound so, when you turn it up loud, it sounds like your standing in front of a band -- very dangerous thing to do because no one makes albums like that anymore. That's part of the beauty of it, and you get a certain amount of production value from that that is really priceless, that will become more attractive over time, because as the trends and the trendiness of current mixing begins to fade and look silly, my most recent record will remain the same. It has nothing on it that's trendy; it has an absence of trendiness all over it. It will sort of rise up as an organic piece of truth. GC: What direction are youheaded in for your future recordings? Joe: I've had this feeling that I want to go in a more electronic direction. Now that I've made a sort of underproduced album, I'd like to try to make perhaps some kind of an overproduced album. But that's just typical of me. I mean, once I clean up the room I wanna leave it and go to another room, you know? (Laughing.) Or if I mess up a room I want to go find another one to mess up. That's just my nature. GC: For my last question, an image related question -- the haircut? Joe: The hair I cut because I was tired of my hair. GC: I'm sure it'll be easier sleeping in the summer. Joe: (Laughing) It's actually funny. You know, I've had my hair really short before but never this short. When you give yourself a buzz cut like this it's actually a bit funny to put your head down on the pillow because your hair is kind of stubby. .
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. iGuilherme Camargos also has Joe's Picks
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i Tabs
-"Summer
Song"
-"Surfing
With The Alien"
-"Always With Me, Always
With You"
-"Tears In The Rain"
-"Midnight"
-"The Extremist"
-"Satch Boogie"
-"Flying
In a Blue Dream"
-"Friends"
-"Cryin' "
-"Baroque"
-"Why"
-"Home"
-"Killer
Bee Bop"
-"(You're)
My World"
-"Crush of
Love"
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-"Motorcycle
Driver"
-"Always
With Me AlwaysWith You"
-"Flying in a Blue
Dream"
-"Cool
#9"
-"Circles"
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