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. Retrieved May 28, 2014. is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and guitar teacher. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, including

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, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt,

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, and Alex Skolnick; he then went on to have a successful solo music career. He is a 15-time

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nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the bestselling

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guitarist of all time. In 1988, Satriani was recruited by

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as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani briefly toured with

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, joining shortly after another departure of

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from the band in November 1993. He has worked with a range of guitarists during the G3 tour, which he founded in 1995. Satriani has been the guitarist for the supergroup

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since joining the band in 2008.

Early life

Satriani was born in

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of Italian descent. His paternal grandparents were from

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and

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, while his maternal grandparents were from

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. He was raised

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. He was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of

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. Satriani heard the news during football practice, where he then announced to his coach that he was quitting to become a guitarist. Satriani graduated from

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. In 1974, he studied music with

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guitarist

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and with reclusive jazz pianist

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. The technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satriani's playing. He began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at the time being fellow

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native

(both also went to Carle Place). While he was teaching Vai, he was attending

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for studies in music. In 1978, Satriani moved to

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, to pursue a music career. Soon after, he resumed teaching. His students included

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from

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, Larry LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt (ex-

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), Phil Kettner of Lȧȧz Rockit,

Geoff Tyson Geoff Tyson (also referred to as Jeff Tyson) played guitar for T-Ride, whose debut album shared the same title. He was a student of Joe Satriani, and one of two students Satriani has said 'Graduated' from his lessons (the other being Steve Vai). S ...

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, and David Turin.

Music career

1980s–2000

Satriani started playing in a San Francisco-based band called Squares, which he formed with his brother-in-law Neil Sheehan in the late 1970s. He was later invited to join

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, who were on the downside of their career, but whose generosity helped Satriani pay off the overwhelming credit card debt from recording his first album, '' Not of This Earth'', released in 1986. The same year, he also sang backing vocals on the self-titled ''Crowded House'' album. In 1987, Satriani's second album, ''

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'', produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. The track "Crushing Day" was featured on the soundtrack of a low-budget film titled '' It Takes Two''. ''Surfing with the Alien'' is his most acclaimed work, according to aggregator

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. In 1988, Satriani helped produce the EP ''

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'' for the

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band Possessed. That same year, he also released an EP titled ''Dreaming #11'', which featured the song "The Crush of Love". In 1989, Satriani released the album ''

Flying in a Blue Dream ''Flying in a Blue Dream'' is the third studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on October 30, 1989 through Relativity Records. It is one of Satriani's most popular albums and his second highest-charting release to date, reaching No. 23 o ...

''. It was said to be inspired by the death of his father, who died in 1989 during the recording of the album. "One Big Rush" featured on the soundtrack to the

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movie '' Say Anything...''. "The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Molson Dry commercial in Canada in 1993. "Can't Slow Down" featured in a car chase sequence in the

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-starring show ''

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''. "The Bells of Lal (Part One)" was featured in an eerie scene in the 1996

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movie ''

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'', while Karl is sharpening a lawnmower blade to kill the menacing Doyle Hargraves, played by

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. In 1992, Satriani released ''

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'', his most commercially successful album to date. The album was certified Gold in the United States and peaked at number 22 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Radio stations across the US picked up "Summer Song", which got a major boost when

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used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players. "Cryin'", "

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", and the title track were regional hits on radio. In late 1993, Satriani joined

as a temporary replacement for departed guitarist

during the band's Japanese tour. The concerts were a success, and Satriani was asked to join the band permanently, but he declined, having just signed a multialbum solo deal with Sony, and

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took the guitarist slot in Deep Purple. In 1996, Satriani founded G3, a concert tour intended to include a rotating trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson. The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, with Satriani the only permanent member. Other guitarists who have performed in G3 include

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, Uli Jon Roth,

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, and

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. In 1998, Satriani recorded and released ''

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'', followed by '' Engines of Creation'', one of his more experimental works featuring the

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genre. Two shows at the

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in San Francisco were recorded in December 2000 and released as ''

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'', a two-disc live album and DVD.

2000–present

G3 - Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & John Petrucci

Satriani released '' Strange Beautiful Music'' in 2002 and ''

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, and

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. In 2006, he recorded and released '' Super Colossal'' and '' Satriani Live!'', another two-disc live album and DVD recorded May 3, 2006, at the Grove in

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. In 2006, Satriani signed on as an official supporter of

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, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the US. The artist has personally delivered instruments to children in the program through a charity

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for the organization, and like Steve Vai, sits on its board of directors as an honorary member. On August 7, 2007, Epic/Legacy Recordings re-released ''

'' to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication. This was a two-disc set that includes a remastered album and a DVD of a never-before-seen live show filmed at the

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in 1988. Satriani's next album, '' Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock'', was released on April 1, 2008. On May 29, 2008, Satriani revealed that he was joining

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supergroup

, composed of former

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members

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and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. They released their debut, self-titled album on June 5, 2009. A second album, titled ''Chickenfoot III'', followed on September 27, 2011. On December 4, 2008, he filed a

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suit against

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in the

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. Satriani's suit claims that the Coldplay song "

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" includes "substantial original portions" of the Satriani song "If I Could Fly" from his 2004 album, ''

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s for Song of the Year. Coldplay denied the allegation. An unspecified settlement was reached between the parties. 20080612 Joe Satriani with Stuart Hamm in the Rijnhal Arnhem

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The artist released a live DVD recording of a concert in Paris titled '' Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock'' and a companion two-CD set on February 2, 2010. In March 2010, he participated with other guitarists in the Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour, performing music written and inspired by

. In May 2010, Satriani announced he was about to enter the studio to record a new album, and dates were released for an autumn tour. He also said that demos had been recorded for a second Chickenfoot record. Satriani released his 13th studio album, '' Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards'', on October 5, 2010. He issued the DVD/Blu-ray of his three-dimensional concert film '' Satchurated: Live in Montreal'' on April 24, 2012, after its limited showing in theaters. The film was shot in December 2010 in

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and was directed by award-winning filmmakers François and Pierre Lamoureux. ''Satchurated 3D'' is the first Blu-ray concert film available with

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7.1. On May 7, 2013, Satriani released his 14th studio album, titled ''

Unstoppable Momentum ''Unstoppable Momentum'' is the fourteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on May 7, 2013 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 42 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200Joe Satriani: The Complete Studio Recordings'', which contains remastered editions of every studio album from ''Not of This Earth'' to ''Unstoppable Momentum'' was released on April 22, 2014. A book titled ''Strange Beautiful Music: A Memoir'' was also published, to coincide with the release of the box set. In August 2014, Satriani participated in the G4 Experience—a weeklong guitar camp—with fellow guitarists

and

, and keyboardist

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. In February 2015, the first dates were announced for the Shockwave World Tour, in support of Satriani's 15th studio album, slated for release in July. ''

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'' was released on July 24, 2015. The album was conceived after Satriani found himself playing guitar with his teeth a lot during the ''Unstoppable Momentum'' tour, and had a daydream about an alter ego, "Shockwave Supernova", making him do it. On September 16, 2017, Satriani teased his upcoming 16th studio album, ''

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'', through social media. The album was released on January 12, 2018. He collaborated with former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and

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drummer

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, two

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members. On April 5, 2019, the guitarist released an eponymous retrospective collection of songs he had recorded in the 1970s with his band Squares. The following April, he published his seventeenth solo album, ''

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''. On January 19, 2022, Satriani released "Sahara" as the first single from his eighteenth album, ''The Elephants of Mars''. The record was released on April 8, 2022, by

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, making it Satriani's first since his 1995 self-titled album to be released by a label other than

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or its parent company,

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. In late 2022, Satriani announced a continuation of his G3 touring project, under the title ''G4 Experience V6.0'', which is set to take place on January 3–7, 2023. The event will be led by Satriani, together with

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—among his final performances before retirement,

, and

, and will include workshops and jam sessions by Alex Skolnick,

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Eric Gales Eric Gales (born October 29, 1974), also known as Raw Dawg, is an American blues rock guitarist, originally hailed as a child prodigy. , Gales has recorded nineteen albums for major record labels and has done session and tribute work. He has a ...

, John 5, Mateus Asato, and

Nili Brosh Nili Brosh is an Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter. She has performed and/or recorded with Danny Elfman, Cirque du Soleil, Dethklok, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan/The Aristocrats, Stu Hamm, Drago ...

Chickenfoot

In May 2008, Satriani joined hard rock supergroup

, composed of former

members

and Michael Anthony, and

drummer,

. The band features Hagar on vocals, Satriani on guitar, Anthony on bass, and Smith on drums. Their eponymous debut album was released on June 5, 2009. The first single and video released was the track "Oh Yeah", which was played on ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' on June 5, 2009. Satriani received a co-writing credit on all the songs on the band's debut album. ''Broken Records'' magazine asked Satriani about his new band, and he enthusiastically mentioned, "it was great fun" and it gives him a "kick in the music bone" to play with such great talent. He said it felt natural to step back and play more rhythm than solo guitar. Chickenfoot's second album, ''

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'', was released on September 27, 2011. The album's first single was the track "Bigfoot".

Other work

Satriani is credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on

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's 1991 album, '' Hey Stoopid'', Spinal Tap's 1992 album, '' Break Like the Wind'',

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's 1988 album, ''

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'', and band members

Stu Hamm Stuart Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well as for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings. Career Born in New Orleans, Hamm spent his chil ...

and

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's solo records. He was credited with singing background vocals on the 1986 debut album by

Crowded House Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1985. Its founding members were New Zealander Neil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Australians Paul Hester (drums) and Nick Seymour (bass). Late ...

. In 2003, he played lead guitar on

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's release '' Birdland''. In 2006, he made appearances on tracks for Deep Purple vocalist

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's solo CD/DVD dual disc, ''

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''. On

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's 2007 album, ''

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'', Satriani contributed spoken lyrics to the song "

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". He also contributed a guitar solo to

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' 2004 solo release, ''

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''. He composed much of the soundtrack for the racing video game '' NASCAR 06: Total Team Control'', while his song "Crowd Chant" was featured in ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2009, he played two characters in season three of

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's ''

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''. Satriani has starred in several movies, including the 2006 Christopher Guest film '' For Your Consideration'', as the guitarist in the band that played for the late-night show. He appeared as himself in the film ''

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'', playing "

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". The ''

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'' episode "Why Can't We Be Friends" featured the song "Always with Me, Always with You". The song was also sampled in the

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single "

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". Satriani joined Chickenfoot in voicing themselves in the ''

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'' episode "IAMAPOD".

Style and influence

Satriani is considered a highly technical guitarist, and has been referred to as a top guitar

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. He has mastered many playing techniques on electric guitar, including legato, two-handed

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and

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tapping,

volume swell A volume swell is a musical crescendo commonly associated with the electric guitar. It is achieved by cutting the initial attack of the note, either with the volume potentiometer on the guitar or with a volume pedal. Principle Roughly speaking ...

harmonics A harmonic is a wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the '' fundamental frequency'', the frequency of the original periodic signal, such as a sinusoidal wave. The original signal is also called the ''1st harmonic'', ...

, and extreme whammy bar effects. During

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passages, Satriani favors a legato technique (achieved primarily through

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s and

pull-off A pull-off is a stringed instrument playing and articulation technique performed by plucking or "pulling" the finger that is grasping the sounding part of a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument. This intermediate- ...

s) that yields smooth and flowing runs. He is also adept at other speed-related techniques such as rapid

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and sweep picking. Satriani was influenced by

and by English rock guitarists such as

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Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is often regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s list o ...

Jimmy Page James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is prolific in creating guitar riffs. His style involves various alternative ...

, and

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. He was also influenced by jazz fusion guitarist

Allan Holdsworth Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist and composer. Holdsworth was known for his esoteric and idiosyncratic usage of advanced music theory concepts, especially with resp ...

Equipment

Satriani endorses

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's JS Series guitars and th
Marshall JVM410HJS
guitar amplifier. Both lines were designed specifically for him as signature products. The Ibanez JS1 (the original JS model) was based on, and replaced, the Ibanez 540 Radius model that Satriani first endorsed. Many of his guitars are made by the company, including the JS1000 and JS1200. These guitars typically feature the DiMarzio PAF Pro (which he used up until 1993 in both the neck and bridge positions), the DiMarzio Fred (which he used in the bridge position from 1993 to 2005), and the Mo' Joe and the Paf Joe (which he has used in the bridge and neck positions from 2005 to the present). He has more recently introduced th
Satch Track
single-coil pickup that he used in his Humbucker/Single coil-equipped signature Ibanez guitars. He has since replaced the Satch Track with th
Sustainiac
The JS line of guitars is Satriani's signature line, with the JS1000, JS1200, JS2400, JSBDG, and JS20th using Ibanez's original Edge double-locking tremolo bridge. The JS100 and JS120s both use Ibanez's Edge 3 tremolo bridge. The JS1600 is a fixed-bridge guitar with no tremolo system. The guitar he was most associated with during the 1990s was a chrome-finished guitar nicknamed "Chrome Boy". This instrument can be seen on the ''

'' DVD. However, the guitar used for most of the concert was in fact a lookalike nicknamed "Pearly", which featured

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Pearly Gates pickups. Satriani uses a number of other JS models, such as the JS double neck model, JS700 (primary axe on his self-titled CD, seen on the 1995 ''Joe Satriani'' tour, which features a fixed bridge,

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pickups, and a matching mahogany body and neck), JS6/JS6000 (natural body), JS1 (the original JS model), JS2000 (fixed-bridge model), a variety of JS100s, JS1000s and JS1200s with custom paint work, and a large number of prototype JSs. All double-locking bridges have been the original Edge tremolo, not the newer models, which point to a more custom guitar than the off-the-shelf models. Satriani played a red 7-string JS model, seen in the ''G3 Live in Tokyo'' DVD from 2005. He also has a prototype 24-fret version of the JS, now called the JS–2400, which he has used with Chickenfoot. He has also used other prototypes featuring a Sustainiac or a JS model with three single coil-sized humbucker pickups. Satriani's guitars are usually equipped with his signature DiMarzio humbucker pickups, Mo' Joe and PAF Joe, and his 24-fret JS model features a signature single-coil-sized humbucker called the Satch Track in the neck position. Some of his guitars are still equipped with the pickup models he favored in the past, the DiMarzio FRED and PAF Pro pickups. Satriani has used a wide variety of guitar amps, with

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being his main amplifier (notably the limited-edition blue-colored 6100 LM model) up until 2001, and his Peavey signature series amps, the Peavey JSX, up until his time with Chickenfoot. JS Guitars 2013

The JSX began life as a prototype Peavey XXX and developed into the Joe Satriani signature Peavey model. However, Satriani still used distortion pedals with the clean channel rather than the built-in overdrive channels. He has used other amplifiers over the years in the studio, such as the Peavey 5150 (used to record the song "

"), Cornford, and the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (used to record the song "

"), among others. He later switched to the Marshall JVM series, having used a modified JVM 410H in his ''Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards'' tour in 2010 and with Chickenfoot in 2010 and 2011. These modified JVM Marshall amps were prototypes for a signature amp that Marshall scheduled for release in 2011. They replaced the

reverb Reverberation (also known as reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound, after a sound is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is abs ...

with

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s that eliminate lag when switching channels. The clean channel was replaced by the clean channel of a 6100 LM model, which Satriani likes as an option to use distortion pedals with. The orange

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and the modern red overdrive channel have been better matched with each other as Satriani claims to prefer the organic overdrive of the JVM over pedals. The red overdrive channel was modified for a beefy rock rather than a

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sound. The effect loop has been simplified to be serial only. Satriani has used many amps in the studio when recording, including the Peavey Classic. He used Marshall heads and cabinets, including live, prior to his Peavey endorsement. Recently, he used the JSX head through a Palmer Speaker Simulator. He has released a Class-A 5-watt tube amp called the "Mini Colossal". In 2009, Satriani split from Peavey and returned to using Marshall amps. Live, he has been using a Marshall JVM410JS since 2009. Vox Satchurator rear view 01

His

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include the Vox

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, Dunlop Cry Baby wah, RMC Wizard wah,

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, BK Butler Tube Driver, BOSS DS-1, BOSS CH-1, BOSS CE-2, BOSS DD-2 and a standard BOSS DD-3 (used together to emulate reverb effects), BOSS BF-3, BOSS OC-2, Barber Burn Drive Unit, Fulltone Deja Vibe, Fulltone Ultimate Octave, and Electro-Harmonix POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator), the latter being featured prominently on the title cut to his 2006 '' Super Colossal''. He has collaborated with Vox on a range of signature-effect stompboxes. These include the "Satchurator" and "Ice 9" distortions, the "Time Machine" delay, and the "Big Bad Wah". Satriani's 2000 guitar rig has been documented in detail.

Musical themes

Satriani's work frequently makes references to various

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stories and ideas. "

", "Back to Shalla-Bal", and "The Power Cosmic 2000" refer to the comic book character

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, while "Ice 9" refers to the secret government ice weapon in

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's ''

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''. "Borg Sex" is a reference to ''

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'', which features a

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race known as the

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. His albums and songs often have otherworldly titles, such as '' Not of this Earth'', ''

'', ''

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sounds from the ''

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'' from ''

''. But as Satriani explained in a

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, legal issues regarding the samples could not be resolved, and he was unable to get permission to use them. He then removed the sounds from the song and called it "Crowd Chant". Its ending theme was inspired by composer

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's " Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50". The song is used as goal celebration music for a number of

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and

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teams, including the

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(NHL),

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(NHL), and

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(MLS). The song is also used in the

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hockey video game ''NHL 2k10''. "Redshift Riders", another song from '' Super Colossal'', is "...based on the idea that in the future, when people can travel throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of the cosmological

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effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get across heuniverse a lot faster than normal", according to Satriani. On the album '' Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock'', the song "I Just Wanna Rock" is about a giant robot on the run who happens to stumble upon a rock concert.

Awards and nominations

California Music Awards

Originated by the now-defunct magazine '' BAM'' in 1977 as the Bay Area Music Awards, the "Bammies" were expanded and renamed in 1998 to honor music across California. , - , 1991 , , Joe Satriani , , Outstanding Guitarist , ,

Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards

, - , 2015 , , Joe Satriani , , The Maestro , ,

Grammy Awards

Satriani has the fourth-most

nominations (15, after

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, and

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) of any artist without winning. See further artists.

Discography

* '' Not of This Earth'' (1986) * ''

'' (1987) * ''

'' (1989) * ''

'' (1992) * '' Time Machine'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1995) * ''

'' (1998) * '' Engines of Creation'' (2000) * '' Strange Beautiful Music'' (2002) * ''

Is There Love in Space? ''Is There Love in Space?'' is the tenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on April 13, 2004, through Epic Records. The album reached No. 80 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200Super Colossal'' (2006) * '' Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock'' (2008) * '' Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards'' (2010) * ''

Unstoppable Momentum ''Unstoppable Momentum'' is the fourteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on May 7, 2013 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 42 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 Shockwave Supernova ''Shockwave Supernova'' is the fifteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on July 24, 2015 through Sony Music Entertainment. It features bassist Bryan Beller and drummer Marco Minnemann of The Aristocrats, as well as progressive r ...

'' (2015) * ''

'' (2018) * ''

'' (2020) * ''The Elephants of Mars'' (2022)

References

External links

* *
Joe Satriani Universe community

* ttps://archive.today/20070926234352/http://www.guitarjamdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=355&Itemid=46 Audio Interview with Joe Satriani on Guitar Jam Daily, June 2007
Part 2 of Audio Interview with Joe Satriani on Guitar Jam Daily, July 2007

* ttp://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=92948 Interview with Joe Satrianiby

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