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Joe Satriani
Joseph Satriani is an American rock guitarist, composer, record producer, and songwriter. Early in his career, he worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, including Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick. Satriani went on to have a successful solo music career, starting in the mid-19…
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entertainment · American guitarist (born 1956) · guitarist · banjoist · composer · pedagogue · mandolinist · rock musician · singer · also Joe Satriani, Joseph Satriani, Satriani
Born 15 July 1956 · Q194287
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2026· 13 entries
Mshale: Why Joe Satriani Turned Down Replacing Ritchie Blackmore In Deep Purple Finale Coppa Italia (6wwd5MPUKE)
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Yahoo: Iconic '80s Rocker Joe Satriani Celebrates 70th Birthday and His Legacy
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Published video “Joe Satriani - I Believe (Official HD Video)”.
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Published video “#SATCHVAI Fans Describe What It Was Like Seeing Joe And Steve In The Same Band Together 🎸🔥”.
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Published video “Joe Waves To A Young Fan”.
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Published video “#SATCHVAI Fans Talk Favorite Live Tracks From The #SurfingWithTheHydraTour 🌊🎶”.
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Published video “#SATCHVAI fans describe their experience seeing the #SurfingWithTheHydra tour live 🎤🤘”.
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Published video “Steve Vai talks to FOX59 in Indianapolic about SatchVai Band”.
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Published video “Adventures In Elevators”.
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Published video “POV: You scored the #SATCHVAI VIP Guitar Package 🤘🎸”.
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Published video “Tosin Abasi chats w/ Joe Satriani and Steve Vai about touring, fans + more”.
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Published video “On the way to tomorrow's show in Oakland....”.
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Joe Satriani reveals how Satch/Vai’s onstage chemistry works – and why sometimes some songs are best left to Steve Vai
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loudwire: Joe Satriani Celebrates New Live Album, Says He Still Gets Butterflies In His Stomach When He Writes
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Ultimate Classic Rock: How Joe Satriani Put Together the ‘G3′ Tour
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2024· 3 entries
BroadwayWorld: Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vai Release New Track From G3 Tour Album
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BroadwayWorld: Joe Satriani Sets South Florida Fine Art Appearances
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Released album “Onomatopoeia (Berkeley Broadcast 2000)”.
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2023· 1 entry
Newsweek: Joe Satriani, Godfather of Guitar Gods
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2022· 6 entries
Released album “El Dorado (Live 1988)”.
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Released album “Collection”.
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Ultimate Classic Rock: Joe Satriani Is Done Writing ‘Love Letters to the Classic Rock Era’
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By earMUSIC, making it Satriani's first since his 1995 self-titled album to be released by a label other than Epic Records or its parent company, Sony Music
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Released album “The Elephants of Mars”.
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Satriani released "Sahara" as the first single from his eighteenth album, The Elephants of Mars
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2020· 4 entries
Released album “Echoes of Tomorrow: The Full 1993 London Apollo Broadcast”.
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Released album “Shapeshifting”.
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Released album “Fillmore FM 1990: Live Radio Broadcast”.
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loudwire: Joe Satriani Releases New Song ‘Nineteen Eighty,’ Reveals ‘Shapeshifting’ Album Details
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2019· 1 entry
The guitarist released an eponymous retrospective collection of songs he had recorded in the 1970s with his band Squares
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “What Happens Next”.
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2017· 1 entry
Satriani teased his upcoming 16th studio album, What Happens Next, through social media
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2016· 1 entry
Released ep “Supernova Remix – The Free EP”.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “The Shockwave Tour”.
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Released album “Shockwave Supernova”.
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “The Complete Studio Recordings”.
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Released album “Time Machine, Vol. 2 (Live)”.
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loudwire: Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen + More to Appear on ‘That Metal Show’ Season 13 Finale
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2013· 2 entries
Satriani released his 14th studio album, titled Unstoppable Momentum
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Released album “Unstoppable Momentum”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Satchurated: Live in Montreal”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “The Essential Joe Satriani”.
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Released album “Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Joe Satriani”.
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2009· 3 entries
Satriani split from Peavey and returned to using Marshall amps
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Released album “Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock”.
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Played two characters in season three of Adult Swim's Metalocalypse
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2008· 5 entries
Filed a copyright infringement suit against Coldplay in the United States District Court for the Central District of California
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Satriani revealed that he was joining hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith
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Released album “Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock”.
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Released album “Always With Me”.
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2007· 1 entry
Epic/Legacy Recordings re-released Surfing with the Alien to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication
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2006· 5 entries
Released album “Satriani Live!”.
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Released album “Super Colossal”.
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Recorded and released Super Colossal and Satriani Live
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Made appearances on tracks for Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's solo CD/DVD dual disc, Gillan's Inn
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Satriani signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the US
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “One Big Rush: The Genius of Joe Satriani”.
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Released album “Live From Anaheim”.
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Released album “Unreleased Satch”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Is There Love in Space?”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology”.
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Played lead guitar on the Yardbirds's release Birdland
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Released album “Flying in a Purple Dream”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Strange Beautiful Music”.
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Released album “Purple Dreams in St. Gallen”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Live in San Francisco”.
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2000· 3 entries
Released ep “Additional Creations”.
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Released album “Engines of Creation”.
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Released album “Best of 2000”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Crystal Planet”.
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Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet, followed by Engines of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the electronica genre
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1996· 23 entries
“When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.”
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“I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.”
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“The Squares [his former band] never really fit in. We weren't rock enough. We weren't alternative enough. We weren't new wave enough and we weren't punk enough. Maybe we just weren't the right people for the band.”
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“I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.”
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“If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book … that's no fun at all.”
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“Discussing his intentionally-out-of-tune intro to "Back To Shalla Bal" and contrasting it to the "perfectness" of Abba's vocals.”
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“My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.”
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“Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.”
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Satriani founded G3, a concert tour intended to include a rotating trio of guitarists
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“I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.”
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“When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.”
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“Mozart was a freaky kind of shredder.”
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“I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.”
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“Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.”
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“Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?”
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“Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly”
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“When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.”
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“Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head — that is the ultimate source of frustration.”
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“I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.”
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“I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.”
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“My first [guitar] lessons lasted two weeks and it was "Jingle Bells." It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix...”
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“When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.”
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“I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches … but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing”
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Joe Satriani”.
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Released album “Christmas Benefit”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “1988‐07‐20: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Time Machine”.
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Released album “The Beautiful Guitar”.
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Released ep “The Satch EP”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “The Extremist”.
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Released album “Cotton Club”.
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Satriani released The Extremist, his most commercially successful album to date
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Always With You”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Guitar Killer”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Flying in a Blue Dream”.
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Satriani issued the album Flying in a Blue Dream
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1988· 2 entries
Released ep “Dreaming #11”.
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Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Surfing With the Alien”.
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Satriani's second album, Surfing with the Alien, produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years
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Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Not of This Earth”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released ep “Joe Satriani”.
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1978· 1 entry
Satriani moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue a music career
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1977· 1 entry
As the Bay Area Music Awards, the "Bammies" were expanded and renamed in 1998 to honor music across California
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1974· 1 entry
Studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer and with reclusive jazz pianist Lennie Tristano
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-07-15.
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