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04 Juni 2009

Marty Friedman - Future Addict album

Future Addict album (2008)

Future Addict album is a collection of reworked, reconstructed and completely remade versions of songs spanning Marty's entire career, from his first band Deuce to his current J-pop themed metal, including a few songs from his Megadeth years. In addition, there are also 3 new songs on the record: "Barbie", "Tears Of An Angel" and the first single "Simple Mystery". [wikipedia.org]

Track List (click on song tittle for listening): 01.Barbie
02.Simple Mystery
03.Tornado of Souls
04.Burn the Ground
05.Where My Fortune Lies
06.Breadline
07.The Pit And The Pendulum
08.The Killing Road
09.Static Rain
10.Secret of the Stars
11.Massive
12.Tears Of An Angel

Marty Friedman - Exhibit A Live in Europe

Exhibit A Live in Europe (2007)

After Marty Friedman’s successful ‘European Loudspeaker 2007’ tour, Mascot Records releases a live CD recorded on several locations during this tour. In spite of the nice cover (a nicely folded digipack), I wonder whether there will be many people who will enjoy this album. Of course it is difficult to ‘feel’ the contact between band and audience on an almost completely instrumental CD. Normally, it is the lead singer’s task to accomplish that and since there is no such person in Marty Friedman’s band, I guess we’ll have to do without it. What annoys me more is the fact that there are hardly any chats between the songs and that there is hardly any audience audible.
In conclusion the only thing left on this first ever live solo CD of Megadeth’s former axeman is a sort of compilation album, more than half filled with songs from Marty’s last two records (Music For Speeding’ and ‘Loudspeaker’). The sound is quite good although a bit dull every now and then. Friedman’s partners in crime are drummer Jeremy Colson (Steve Vai), Chris Catero on bass and guitarist Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower and Spastic Ink), who gets a lot of room for expression next to the Master himself. From ‘Dragon’s Kiss’, Marty’s best ever solo effort, we only get short fragments of the songs ‘Tears’ and ‘Anvils’, his last two albums are represented with a total of nine songs. Last song on the album is the Elvis classic ‘Hound Dog’ featuring Friedman himself on vocals. [lordsofmetal.nl]

Track List (click on song tittle for listening):
01 Theme from Namida(Tears)
02 Elixir
03 Anvils (Celluloid Revenge Ending)
04 Gimme a Dose
05 Street Demon
06 It's the Unreal Thing
07 Fuel Injection Stingray
08 Stigmata Addiction
09 Tibet
10 Angel
11 Paradise Express
12 Ripped
13 Cheer Girl Rampage
14 Thunder March
15 Ballad of the Barbie Bandits
16 Hound Dog

22 Mei 2009

Steve_Vai_Album_2001_&_2002

2001 Alive in an Ultra World
Disk 1
01. Giant Balls Of Gold
02. Burning Rain
03. The Black Forest
04. Alive In An Ultra World
05. Devil's Food
06. Blood And Glory
07. Whispering A Prayer
08. Iberian Jewel

Disk 2
01.The Power Of Bombos
02.Incantation
03.Light Of The Moon
04.Babushka
05.Being With You (In Paris)
06.Principessa
07.Brandos Costumes

2002 The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1
01. Celluloid Heroes
02. Love Blood
03. Fried Chicken
04. Butler's Bag
05. Head-Cuttin' Duel
06. Eugene's Trick Bag
07. Amazing Grace
08. Louisiana Swamp Skank
09. Air Guitar Hell
10. The Reaper
11. Introducing the Wylde Stallions
12. Girls Mature Faster Than Guys
13. The Battle
14. Meet the Reaper
15. Final Guitar Solo
16. The Reaper Rap
17. Drive the Hell Out Of Here
18. Get the Hell Out Of Here
19. Welcome Pre-Frosh
20. The Dark Hallway
21. The Dead Band Ends
22. The Cause Heads
23. Find the Meat
24. The Ax Will Fall
25. Now We Run (cue)
26. Hey Jack
27. What!
28. Still Running
29. Dead Heads
30. Blow Me Where The Pampers Is
31. Pins and Needles
32. Plug My Ass In
33. Loose Keg Sightings
34. Don't Sweat It
35. How Hidge
36. Beer Beer
37. We're Not Gonna Protest
38. Initiation
39. See Ya Next Year
40. Now We Run

21 Mei 2009

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Steve Vai

G3 (Joe Satriani-Steve Vai-Yngwie Malmsteen)

07 Februari 2009

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Vai's Career

1990s and 2000s

Vai continues to tour regularly, both with his own group and with his one-time teacher and fellow guitar instrumentalist friend Joe Satriani on the G3 series of tours. Former David Lee Roth and Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan also joined him for a world tour. In 1990, Vai released his critically acclaimed solo album Passion and Warfare. The song "For the Love of God" was voted #29 in a readers' poll of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time for the magazine Guitar World.
In 1994 Vai began writing and recording with Ozzy Osbourne. Only one track from these sessions—"My Little Man"—was released on the Ozzmosis album. Despite Vai penning the track he does not appear on the album. His guitar parts were replaced by Zakk Wylde. Vai's band members throughout the 1990s included drummer Mike Mangini, guitarist Mike Keneally and bassist Philip Bynoe. In 1994 Vai received a Grammy Award for his performance on the Frank Zappa song Sofa from the album Zappa's Universe.
In July 2002, Steve Vai performed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, in the world premiere of composer Ichiro Nodaira's Fire Strings, a concerto for electric guitar and 100-piece orchestra.
In 2004, a number of his compositions for orchestra, as well as orchestra arrangements of previously recorded pieces, were performed in The Netherlands by the Metropole Orchestra in a concert series entitled The Aching Hunger. In 2003, drummer Jeremy Colson joined Vai's group replacing previous drummer Virgil Donati. Vai's latest album, Sound Theories, was released in 2007. Steve Vai released a DVD of his performance at The Astoria in London in December 2001, featuring the lineup of bassist Billy Sheehan, guitarist/pianist Tony MacAlpine, guitarist Dave Weiner and drummer Virgil Donati.
In February 2005, Vai premiered a dual-guitar (electric and classical) piece that he wrote called The Blossom Suite with classical guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris. In 2006, Vai played as a "special guest" guitarist alongside additional guest Zappa band members, drummer Terry Bozzio, guitarist-singer Ray White and saxophonist-singer Napoleon Murphy Brock in the Zappa Plays Zappa tour led by Frank's son Dweezil Zappa in Europe and the U.S. in the Spring as well as a short U.S. tour in October.
On September 21 2006, Vai made a special appearance at the Video Games Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California. He played two songs with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. One song being the Halo Theme, the second was for the world premier trailer for Halo 3. Steve Vai made an appearance at the London Guitar Show 2007 on the 28th April 2007 at the ExCeL Center by doing a masterclass. In late April 2007, Vai confirmed the release of his next record, called Sound Theories, on June 26. The release is a 2-CD set consisting mostly of previously released material that Vai rearranged and played in front of a full orchestra. Vai says that the project was a great joy because he considers himself to be a composer more than a guitarist, and he is happy to see music he has composed played by an orchestra that can play it well. A DVD will eventually accompany the record but will be released in August. He makes a guest appearance on the most recent Dream Theater album, Systematic Chaos, on the song "Repentance". However, this appearance is vocal rather than instrumental, as Vai is one of many musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings committed in their pasts. [Wikipedia.org]

Vai's Album (Click on song for check sound)

1999 The Ultra Zone

01. The blood & tears
02. The ultra zone
03. 0000
04. Frank
05. Jibboom
06. Voodoo acid
07. Windows to the soul
08. The silent within
09. I'll be around
10. Lucky charms

2000 The 7th Song (2000)

01 - For The Love Of God
02 - Touching Tongues
03 - Windows To The Soul
04 - Burnin' Down The Mountain
05 - Tender Surrender
06 - Hand On Heart
07 - Melissa's Garden
08 - Call It Sleep
09 - Christmas Time Is Here
10 - The Wall Of Light
11 - Boston Rain Melody

2003 The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology

Disc one
01. Liberty
02. Die to Live
03. The Attitude Song
04. Salamanders in the Sun
05. The Animal
06. The Riddle
07. For the Love of God
08. Bangkok
09. Fire Garden Suite
10. Ya-Yo Gakk
11. Blue Powder
12. Bad Horsie
13. Tender Surrender
14. All About Eve
15. Dyin' Day
16. The Blood & Tears
17. The Silent Within

Disc two

01. Feathers
02. Frank
03. Boston Rain Melody
04. Kittens Got Claws
05. Lighter Shade of Green
06. Giant Balls of Gold
07. Whispering a Prayer
08. Jibboom
09. Windows to the Soul
10. Brandos Costumes
11. The Reaper
12. Christmas Time Is Here
13. Essence
14. Rescue Me or Bury Me
15. Burnin' Down the Mountain

2005 Real Illusions: Reflections

01 - Building The Church
02 - Dying For Your Love
03 - Glorious
04 - K'm-Pee-Du-Wee
05 - Firewall
06 - Freak Show Excess
07 - Lotus Feet
08 - Yai Yai
09 - Midway Creatures
10 - I'm Your Secrets
11 - Under It All

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Steve Vai Career

1970s and 1980s

In 1974, Vai took guitar lessons from guitarist Joe Satriani, and played in numerous local bands such as a band named "The Steve Vais". He has acknowledged the influence of many guitarists including Jeff Beck and fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Vai then attended the Berklee College of Music.
Vai mailed Frank Zappa a transcription of Zappa's "The Black Page", an instrumental song written for drums, along with a tape with some of Vai's guitar playing. Zappa was so impressed with the abilities of the young musician that he hired him in 1979 to do work transcribing several of his guitar solos, including many of those appearing on the Joe's Garage album and the Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar series. These transcriptions were published in 1982 in The Frank Zappa Guitar Book.
Subsequent to being hired as a transcriber, Vai did overdubs on many of the guitar parts for Zappa's album You Are What You Is. Thereafter he became a full-fledged band member, going on his first tour with Zappa in the Autumn of 1980. One of those early shows with Vai on guitar, recorded in Buffalo was released in 2007. While touring with Zappa's band, Vai would sometimes ask audience members to bring musical scores and see if he could sight-read them on the spot. Zappa referred to Vai as his "little Italian virtuoso" and was listed in liner notes as performing "stunt guitar" or "impossible guitar parts". He would later be a featured artist on the 1993 recording, Zappa's Universe. In 2006 he returned to playing Zappa music as a special guest on Dweezil Zappa's 'Zappa Plays Zappa' tour.
After leaving Zappa in 1982 he moved to California where he recorded his first album Flex-Able and performed in a couple of bands. In 1985 he replaced Yngwie Malmsteen as lead guitarist in Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz with whom he recorded the album Disturbing the Peace. Later in 1985 he joined former Van Halen front man David Lee Roth's group to record the albums Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper. This significantly increased Vai's visibility to general rock audiences, since Roth was in a highly public battle with the Van Halen members and Vai was favorably compared by many commentators to Eddie Van Halen.
In 1986 Vai also surprised everyone by playing with ex-Sex Pistols John Lydon's Public Image Ltd on their album Album (also known as Compact Disc or Cassette). Then, in 1989, Vai joined Whitesnake, replacing Vivian Campbell. But, when Adrian Vandenberg injured his wrist shortly before recording was due to begin for the album Slip of the Tongue, Vai played all the guitar parts on the album. Vai also played on the Alice Cooper album Hey Stoopid along with Joe Satriani on the song Feed my Frankenstein.

Vai's Album (Click on Song for check sound)

1995 Alien Love Secrets

01. Bad Horsie
02. Juice
03. Die To Live
04. The Boy From Seattle
05. Ya-yo Gakk
06. Kill The Guy With The Ball
07. Tender Surrender

1996 Fire Garden

01. There's a Fire In The House
02. The Crying Machine
03. Dyin' day
04. Whookam
05. Blowfish
06. The Mysterious Murder of Christian Tiera's Lover
07. Hand On Heart
08. Bangkok
09. Fire Garden Suite
10. Deepness
11. Little Alligator
12. All About Eve
13. Aching Hunger
14. Brother
15. Damn you
16. When I was a Little Boy
17. Genocide
18. Warm Regards

1998 Flex-Able Leftovers

01. #!@$ Yourself
02. So Happy
03. Bledsoe Bluvd
04. Natural Born Boy
05. Details at 10
06. Messacre
07. Burning Down The Mountain
08. Little Piece Of Seaweed
09. San Sebastian
10. The Beast Of Love
11. You Didn't Break It
12. The X-equalibrium Dance
13. Chronic Insomnia

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(STEVE VAI)

Steven "Steve" Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is an American instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980. The guitarist began a solo career starting in 1984 and has released 13 solo albums as of 2008. Apart from his work with Frank Zappa, Vai has also recorded and toured with numerous musical artists including Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1996. In 1999 Vai started his own record label Favored Nations with the intent to showcase, as Vai describes: "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."

Steve Vai Discograpy Album (Click on Song for Check Sound)

1984 Flex-Able

01 Little Green Men
02 Viv Woman
03 Lovers Are Crazy
04 Salamanders in the Sun
05 The Boy-Girl Song
06 The Attitude Song
07 Call It Sleep
08 Junkie
09 Bill's Private Parts
10 Next Stop Earth
11 There's Something Dead in Here
12 So Happy
13 Bledsoe Bluvd
14 Burnin' Down the Mountain
15 Chronic Insomnia

1990 Passion and Warfare

01 Liberty
02 Erotic Nightmares
03 The Animal
04 Answers
05 The Riddle
06 Ballerina 12_24
07 For The Love Of God
08 The Audience Is Listening
09 I Would Love To
10 Blue Powder
11 Greasy kid's stuff
12 Alien water kiss
13 Sisters
14 Love secrets

1993 Sex & Religion

01 An Earth's Dweller's Return
02 Here & Now
03 In My Dreams With You
04 Still My Bleeding Heart
05 Sex & Religion
06 Dirty Black Hole
07 Touching Tongues
08 State of Grace
09 Survive
10 Pig
11 The Road To Mt.Calvary
12 Deep Down Into The Pain
13 Rescue Me or Bury Me

11 Januari 2009

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JOE SATRIANI ... The Album Continue (Click on Song for Check Sound)

2004 G3 - Rockin' In The Free World

PART I
01. The Extremist
02. Crystal Planet
03. Always With Me, Always With You
04. Midnight
05. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
06. You Here (Steve Vai)
07. The Reaper (Steve Vai)
08. Whispering (Steve Vai)
09. Blitzkrieg (Yngwie Malmsteen)
10. Tricoy Suite Opus 3 - Movement One (Yngwie Malmsteen)
11. Red House Blues (Yngwie Malmsteen)
12. Fugue (Yngwie Malmsteen)
13. Finale (Yngwie Malmsteen)

PART II
01. Voodoo Child
02. Little Wing
03. Rockin' In The Free World

2004 Is There Love In Space?

01. GNAAHH
02. Up In Flames
03. Hands In The Air
04. Lifestyle
05. Is There Love In Space
06. If I Could Fly
07. The Souls Of Distortion
08. Just Look Up
09. I Like The Rain
10. Searching
11. Bamboo
12. Tumble
13. Dog With Crown & Earring

2006 Super Colossal

01. Super Colossal
02. Just Like Lightnin'
03. It's So Good
04. Redshift Riders
05. Ten Words
06. A Cool New Way
07. One Robot's Dream
08. The Meaning of Love
09. Made of Tears
10. Theme for a Strange World
11. Movin' On
12. A Love Eternal
13. Crowd Chant

2006 Satriani LIVE!

PART I
1. Flying In A Blue Dream
2. The Extremist
3. Redshift Riders
4. Cool #9
5. A Cool New Way
6. Satch Boogie
7. Super Colossal
8. Just Like Lightnin'
9. Ice 9
10. One Robot's Dream

PART II
1. Ten Words
2. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
3. The Meaning of Love
4. Made of Tears
5. Circles
6. Always With Me, Always With You
7. Surfing With The Alien
8. Crowd Chant
9. Summer Song

2008 Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock

01. Musterion
02. Overdriver
03. I Just Wanna Rock
04. Professor Satchafunkilus
05. Revelation
06. Come On Baby
07. Out Of The Sunrise
08. Diddle-y-a-Doo-Dat
09 Asik Veysel
10. Andalusia

OTHERS SONG

Unreleased Satch
01. Power Cosmic
02. Follow
03. Guitarist Special
04. Talk To Me
05. Ellipsis
06. Never And After
07. Mission Imposible
08. Sempire D'amor
09. Silent Night, Holy Night
10. Formula 1
11. Foxy Lady
12. Satchy Guitar Solo
13. Little Wing

:: End Album ::

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Technique and influence

Satriani is widely recognized as a technically advanced rock guitarist, and has been described as a virtuoso. He has mastered many performance techniques on the instrument, including Legato, two-handed tapping and arpeggio tapping, sweep-picking, volume swells, harmonics, and extreme whammy bar effects. One of his trademark compositional traits is the use of Pitch Axis Theory, which he applies with a variety of modes. During fast passages, Joe favors a technique known as legato (achieved primarily through hammer-ons and pull-offs) which yields smooth and flowing runs. He is also adept at other speed-related techniques such as speed picking (a rapid form of alternate picking) and sweep picking, but does not often use them.

Satriani has received 14 Grammy nominations and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. Many of his fans and friends call him "Satch," short for "Satriani". Other guitarists sometimes refer to him as "Saint Joe"; there are numerous t-shirts to this effect.

An influential guitarist himself, Satriani has many influences, including jazz guitarists Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, and Charlie Christian, and rock guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Blackmore.

THE ALBUM CONTINUE ... (Click on song for Check Sound)

1995 Joe Satriani

01 - Cool 9
02 - If
03 - Down, Down, Down
04 - Luminous Flesh Giants
05 - SMF
06 - Look My Way
07 - Home
08 - Moroccan Sunset
09 - Killer Bee Bop
10 - Slow Down Blues
11 - My World
12 - Sittin' Round

1997 G3 Live

01. Cool Number 9 (Joe Satriani)
02. Flying In A Blue Dream (Joe Satriani)
03. Summer Song (Joe Satriani)
04. Zap (Eric Johnson)
05. Manhattan (Eric Johnson)
06. Camel's Night Club (Eric Johnson)
07. Answers (Steve Vai)
08. For The Love Of God (Steve Vai)
09. The Attitude Song (Steve Vai)
10. Going Down (Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai)
11. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai)
12. Red House (Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai)

1998 Crystal Planet

01. Up in The Sky
02. House Full of Bullets
03. Crystal Planet
04. Love Thing
05. Trundrumbalind
06. Lights of Heaven
07. Raspberry Jam Delta-V
08. Ceremony
09. With Jupiter in Mind
10. Secret Prayer
11. A Train of Angels
12. A Piece of Liquid
13. Psycho Monkey
14. Time
15. Z.Z.'s Song

2000 Engines Of Creation

01. Devil's Slide
02. Flavor Crystal 7
03. Borg Sex
04. Until We Say Goodbye
05. Attack
06. Champagne
07. Clouds Race Across The Sky
08. The Power Cosmic 2000-Part I
09. The Power Cosmic 2000-Part II
10. Slow and Easy
11. Engines of Creation

2002 Strange Beautiful Music

01. Oriental Melody
02. Belly Dancer
03. Starry Night
04. Chords of Life
05. Mind Storm
06. Sleep Walk
07. New Last Jam
08. Mountain Song
09. What Breaks A Heart
10. Seven String
11. Hill Groove
12. The Journey
13. The Traveler
14. You Saved My Life

2003 The Electric Joe Satriani - An Anthology

PART I
01. Surfing With The Alien
02. Satch Boogie
03. Always With Me, Always With You
04. Crushing Day
05. Flying In A Blue Dream
06. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
07. I Believe
08. Big Bad Moon
09. Friends
10. The Extremist
11. Summer Song
12. Why
13. Time Machine
14. Cool #9
15. Down, Down, Down
PART II
01. The Crush of Love
02. Ceremony
03. Crystal Planet
04. Raspberry Jam Delta-V
05. Love Thing
06. Borg Sex
07. Until We Say Goodbye
08. Devil's Slide
09. Clouds Race Across The Sky
10. Starry Night
11. Mind Storm
12. Slick
13. The Eight Steps
14. Not Of This Earth
15. Rubina

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Joseph "Satch" Satriani, Born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York US is an American guitarist and former instructor. He is heavily influence by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Since 1988, Satriani has used his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is widely sold in store. He also has a signature amplifier, the Peavey JSX.In 1988, Satriani was recruited by the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for Jagger's first solo tour. Later, in 1994, Satriani was also the lead guitarist for Deep Purple. Satriani has also worked with a wide range of guitarists from many styles, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Jhonson, Larry LaLonde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May, Patrick Rondat, Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concert.

Biography and playing history
Satriani was inspired to play guitar at age 14 after learning of the death of Jimi Hendrix. He reportedly heard the news during a football training session, where he immediately confronted his coach and announced that he was quitting to become a guitarist.
In 1974, Satriani studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer and with reclusive jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. The technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satriani's playing. Satriani also began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at the time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai. While he was Vai's teacher, he was attending Five Town Collage for studies in music.
In 1978 Satriani moved to Berkeley, California to pursue a music career. Not long after his arrival he resumed teaching. His students included Kirk Hammett (Metallica), David Bryson (Counting Crows), Kevin Cadogan (Third Eye Blind), Larry LaLonde (Primus, Possessed), Alex Skolnick (Testament), Rick Hunolt (Exodus), Phil Kettner ( Laaz Rockit), Geoff Tyson (T-Ride), Charlie Hunter, Jude Gold, and Adam Johnson (Ylond in Blue Galaxies).
When his friend and former student Steve Vai gained fame playing with David Lee Roth in 1986, Vai raved about Satriani in several interviews with guitar magazines. In 1987, Satriani's second album "Surfing with the alien" produced popular radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. In 1988 Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes Of Horror for the death metal band Possessed.
In 1989, Satriani released the album "Flying in a Blue Dream". The album sold well. "One Big Rush" was featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything. "The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Labatt Blue commercial in Canada in 1993. "Big Bad Moon", one of Satriani's few songs to feature his vocals, was a minor hit in late 1989.
In 1992, Satriani released "The Extremist", his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to date. Radio stations across the country were quick to pick up on "Summer Song", while "Cryin'" , "Friends" and the title track were regional hits.
In late 1993, Satriani joined Deep Purple as a short-term replacement for departed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore during the band's Japanese tour. The concerts were such a success that Satriani was asked to join the band permanently, but he declined, having just signed a multi-album solo deal with Sony, so Steve Morse took the guitarist slot in Deep Purple.
In 1996, he formed G3, a concert tour featuring three instrumental rock guitarists – originally Satriani, Vai and Eric Johnson. The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, where Satriani is the only permanent member, featured with a floating second and third member, including among others Eric Jhonson, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Fripp, Andy Timmons, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Adrian Legg and Paul Gilbert.
In 1998 Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet, which went back to a sound more reminiscent of his late '80s work. Planet was followed up with Engine of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the 'Electronica' genre of music. During the subsequent tour, a pair of shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco were recorded in December 2000 and released as Live in San Francisco, a two-disc live album and DVD.
Over the next several years, Satriani regularly recorded and released new music, including Strange Beatiful Music in 2002 and Is There Love In Space? in 2004.
In 2006 Satriani recorded and released "Super Colossal" and "Satriani Live!", another two-disc live album and DVD recorded May 3, 2006 at the Grove in Anaheim, CA.
On August 7, 2007 Epic/Legacy Recordings re-released "Surfing with the Alien" to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release. This was a two-disc set that includes a remastered album and a DVD of a previously never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988.
Satriani's newest album, titled Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, was released on April 1, 2008.
It was revealed on May 29, 2008 that Satriani is involved in a new hard rock project with former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. The band, which will feature Hagar on vocals, Satriani on guitar, Anthony on bass and Smith on drums, is tentatively called "Chickenfoot" and is currently writing material and recording their debut album which is due out in 2009.
On November 22, 2008 Satriani shared the stage with amateur guitarist, Funtwo , during a performance for YouTube Live.[Wikipedia.org]

JOE SATRIANI SOLO ALBUM (Click on Song for Check Sound)

1986 Not Of This Earth :

1. Not of This Earth
2. The Snake
3. Rubina
4. Memories
5. Brother Jon
6. The Enigmatic
7. Driving At Night
8. Hordes Of Locusts
9. New Day
10.The Headless Horseman