I am a
huge fan of Satriani and have been listening to him for years. I played "Love Thing" for my wife at our wedding reception and I still have my Ibanez JS100, even though I haven't played guitar in years.
Back in highschool, I jammed with a lot of different bands. Of course the term "band" should be applied very loosely, since we were just kids who could barely play and for the most part, just pounded on the instruments until our parents threatened us with bodily harm.
Back then, in the heyday of heavy metal, louder was better. And the second thing you learned after playing your first power cord was to grimace and scowl and strut around in your most convincing James Hetfield.
Satch was a revelation for me, since for the first time I heard someone playing guitar for some other reason than to act all pissed off. Here was a guy that could play guitar and wrote songs that conveyed a whole range of emotion and texture far, far beyond what I had heard before.
His music really opened me up to --forgive the sheer cheesyness-- a new world of music expression and help made me realize what depth, meaning and sheer artistry could be accomplished with the instrument.
He is one of the very few artists I will still run out and buy the CD, rather than downloading the 128k or 256k version from msn or buy.com; just because I want to
have the whole thing, not just the compressed version.
Speaking of CDs, in case some of you did not know, Joe is releasing his 10th full length studio album,
Super Colossal on March 14th.
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Yep. I liked him too. I have coupld of his CDs, but I haven't listen to them in a while. Around the same time, there was a guitarist by the name of Eric Johnson(James probably know who that is). He did a song called "Cliffs of Dover", which if you like Satriani, you might enjoy.
) so the electromagnetic interference (I know - yeah right!) between them all is 'just so'. But he believes it makes a difference and I don't doubt he can hear it. The whole of Eric Johnson's releases are fantastic. He's very meticulous, a quality someone like Famine should like!
