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Joe Satriani
American
Musician
Born:
Jul 15
,
1956
Guitar
Me
Music
Sometimes
Think
You
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It's important for me not to peak before I hit the stage. In other words, I save all of my creative and physical energy for when I walk on stage. If I can get 45 minutes of just easy going, playing rhythm, songs, stuff like that, then that's what I do to make sure that I'm all stretched out and ready.
Joe Satriani
Me
Creative
Words
Walk
Important
Before
Stage
Energy
Stretched
Other
Out
Easy
Physical
Minutes
Songs
Stuff
Like
Make
Sure
Ready
Hit
Get
Going
Just
In Other Words
Rhythm
Then
Peak
Playing
Save
'Flying In A Blue Dream' was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up my acoustic guitar, tuned it strangely, and instantly wrote the tune. It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. Usually, when things come easy, it means it's good.
Joe Satriani
Funny
Good
You
Struggle
Song
Guitar
Better
Took
Flying
Dream
Easy
Minute
Write
Picked
Instantly
Come
Piece
Wrote
Another
How
Up
Blue
Quite
Automatic
Break
Tune
Tuned
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Working
Means
Strangely
Things
When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.
Joe Satriani
Life
Situation
Think
Cruel
Knew
Weird
Come
Sort
Ready
Very
Any
Going
Public
Fantastic
Public Life
I started many years ago using the Boss DS-1 and then graduated to the Satchurator and putting that right into that clean channel, and that sounds great. I've done many tours with that setup. Then we took the next two channels that were part of the JVM sound in channel 1 and made them a little more subtle.
Joe Satriani
Great
Made
Channel
Took
Channels
Setup
Boss
More
Clean
Part
Putting
Tours
Sound
Sounds
Were
Years
Years Ago
Done
Graduated
Subtle
Little
Them
Then
Next
Many
Using
Right
Started
Two
What I noticed, in the short time I've been in Chickenfoot, we wound up doing a tour and a live DVD with basically that scoop sound. I was using OD2 for that entire tour. When we went out on this new tour and made the new record, I used the amp in an entirely different way. It was already modified.
Joe Satriani
Time
Made
Live
Way
Out
Wound
Record
Entire
Entirely
Tour
New
Sound
Doing
Scoop
Been
Up
Short
Different
Short Time
Modified
Noticed
Used
Using
Different Way
Amp
Basically
I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my playing is Tony Iommi and Billy Gibbons. I'm just a sum total of all of the guitar players that I think were really cool.
Joe Satriani
Time
Beatles
Guitar
Listening
Think
Sum
Sum Total
Jimmy
Kid
Clapton
Guitar Players
Total
Part
Beck
Were
Eric
Eric Clapton
Up
Same
Stones
Just
Same Time
Wanted
Grew
Really
Page
Cool
Large
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Billy
Large Part
Players
Playing
Tony
I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning to pop up. So I was ordering parts and screwing them together and contacting local luthiers to finish and do frets and things, and I had put together two guitars, a red one and a black one.
Joe Satriani
Together
Guitar
Black
Beginning
Local
Guitars
Finish
Had
Put
Red
Ties
Parts
Were
Fret
Lot
Up
Owner
Store
Ordering
Screwing
Japanese
Them
Worked
Pop
Manufacturers
Vintage
Things
Two
Every year that I go out on tour, I think about all the craziest ideas that would be great to go out with, and I think, 'I should see if Jeff Beck wants to join my band for a month or something.'
Joe Satriani
Great
Year
Band
Every
Think
Month
Out
Would
Would-Be
See
About
Something
Join
Tour
Ideas
Beck
Go
Wants
Craziest
Should
Jeff
Jeff Beck
I just want to play like Jimi Hendrix. I love other forms of music and wish I could play classical piano, or saxophone like John Coltrane, but that will never happen. Because my nature is to play electric guitar really well and to emulate my heroes from the late 1960s.
Joe Satriani
Love
Music
Nature
Guitar
Heroes
Will
Wish
Other
Late
Jimi Hendrix
Saxophone
John
John Coltrane
Classical
Could
Piano
Never
Coltrane
Like
Well
Because
Emulate
Just
Want
Happen
Forms
Really
Electric
Electric Guitar
Hendrix
Play
We don't test out the songs live, and we don't play them for weeks on end in the studio. We have, like, one day to get two songs down. So what happens is, everybody's attention and energy gets ratcheted up. But it's good because it helps us focus.
Joe Satriani
Good
Day
Focus
Energy
Down
Live
Everybody
One Day
Out
Weeks
Songs
Studio
Attention
Like
Because
Test
End
Up
Get
Gets
Happens
Them
Us
Helps
Play
Two
I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix.
Joe Satriani
Music
Time
Great
School
Older
Jimi Hendrix
Kid
Pretty
About
Great Music
Only
Through
Knew
Sure
Getting
Loved
Happening
Turned
Really
Who
Even
Hendrix
Sibling
It's a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore, which is a difficult thing to have in your head - since the time when you were a kid, that guitar sound and approach is what you associate with Deep Purple.
Joe Satriani
Funny
Time
Relationship
You
Guitar
Confusion
Pain
Difficult
Funny Thing
Approach
Kid
Purple
Ritchie
Head
Since
Felt
Sound
Were
Replace
Trying
Which
Your
Deep
Deep Purple
Thing
Difficult Thing
Associate
As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.
Joe Satriani
Music
You
Sometimes
Style
Else
Otherwise
Progressive
Something
Something Else
Delicate
Rock
How
Rock Music
Go
Years
Turn
Realize
Pop
Pop Music
Unique
All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that's what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you're going out on a limb and being very personal.
Joe Satriani
Art
Good
You
Good Things
Think
Complete
Out
Embrace
Gives
Could
Idea
Disaster
Limb
Because
Surround
Very
Personal
Any
Going
Artistic
Being
Burn
Crash
Sparkle
Really
Moment
Things
I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.
Joe Satriani
Success
Me
Together
Guitar
Hero
Thought
All My Friends
Guitar Players
Would
Would-Be
More
Put
Idea
Because
Felt
Isolated
Were
Lot
Friends
Being
Them
Who
Fun
Away
Play
Players
Kept
I loved that playing the guitar wasn't easy. It was pain, but it was my pain. And then it became joy. My joy.
Joe Satriani
Joy
Guitar
Pain
Easy
Became
Loved
Then
Playing
If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.
Joe Satriani
You
Correct
Something
Wrong
Reaching
Always
Anything
Notes
Searching
Playing
I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certain kinds of jazz that I really liked and other kinds that just went right over my head.
Joe Satriani
Love
Music
You
Guitar
Jazz
Other
Else
Hated
Kinds
Classical
Classical Guitar
Classical Music
Something
Something Else
Thrown
Head
Over
Like
Liked
Because
Were
Going
Just
Being
Notes
Really
Certain
Right
I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.
Joe Satriani
Music
Guitar
Sometimes
Big
Band
Bass
Bass Player
Other
Keyboard
Guitar Player
Percussion
David
Had
Hour
Like
Drummer
Singers
Lee
Very
Five
Did
Intense
Sixties
Where
Whereas
Show
Roth
Now
Thing
Four
Present
Player
Players
Early
Two
Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it's me. I'm dying, and I've been sending out that invitation to the universe ever since I was a kid. I don't believe in little green men. That's collective neurosis of society. So I don't believe that.
Joe Satriani
Me
Alien
Collective
Men
Believe
Society
Universe
Kid
Visited
Out
Neurosis
Invitation
Since
Boy
Been
Green
Get
Sending
Anyone
Dying
Wants
Little
Ever
You couldn't make a Steve Vai. That's a one-in-a-billion type of personality that comes out together with an incredible talent facility. You grow it; you help them grow it. Hopefully, it matures, and they don't hit any roadblocks along the way.
Joe Satriani
You
Together
Personality
Incredible
Type
Way
Out
Hopefully
Facility
Roadblocks
Talent
Along
Steve
Make
Hit
Any
Them
Help
Grow
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!
Joe Satriani
Genius
Guitar
Band
Group
Keyboard
Keyboard Player
Guitar Player
Joined
Just
Realized
Mike
Player
Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.
Joe Satriani
Funny
Hope
God
You
People
Guitar
Fear
Band
Think
Enough
Our
Guitar Player
Would
See
Never
Come
Concert
Always
Go
Question
Get
Oh
Oh My God
Anytime
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Jay-Z
Show
Show People
Swift
Player
I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.
Joe Satriani
Life
Truth
Me
You
Strange
Son
Blessed
Important
Nothing
Think
Out
Some
About
Small
He
Part
Put
Important Part
How
Doing
Movie
Aside
Your
Watch
Pull
When we play an outdoor venue, you'll see whole families - boys, girls, men and women - from kids to grandparents who somehow heard the music... Think about how hard it is for artists who can never get a gig at an all-ages gig. Who goes to hear music in bars? People who can get into bars; people who drink.
Joe Satriani
Music
You
Women
People
Men
Girl
Men And Women
Think
Kids
Gig
Outdoor
See
About
Somehow
Drink
Never
Venue
Boy
How
Hear
Hear Music
Heard
Families
Get
Goes
Artists
Grandparents
Hard
Who
Whole
Bars
Play
I think you've gotta be smart enough to be competent, but you've gotta be crazy enough to go out there and just let it all happen. I mean, you can rehearse and still not be musical, be tight and not be musical; we all hated that.
Joe Satriani
Crazy
You
Smart
Think
Enough
Musical
Out
Hated
Tight
Gotta
Still
Go
Just
Happen
Mean
Rehearse
Competent
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