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Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 1:13 pm
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 1:14 pm
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[CENTER]What Is The Best Joe Satriani Album Of All Time?
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 1:15 pm
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Review coming soon...
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 2:02 pm
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[CENTER]Joe Satriani (Not Of This Earth) 1986 - Original LP
Cover Version
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Joe Satriani (Not Of This Earth) 1986 - Alternate CD Cover
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Not Of This Earth, the debut of Joe Satriani. I, like pretty
much everyone else on the planet, was introduced to Joe with
Surfing With The Alien. So it was after that masterpiece that I
started to do reseach on him and came across NOTE. Upon my first
time playing through the album, it was in stark contrast to what
I had soaked up on Alien. NOTE is a very eclectic record full of
experimentation. And even though it was nothing like his follow
up, it was worlds apart from every other dime-a-dozen shredder
that had a record deal out at the time. What set Joe and this
record in particular apart from his contemporaries is that he
was doing something completely original. While everyone else was
doing their best neoclassical spin on Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe was
pushing himself and the instrument further, especially in the
way he recorded and played whatever he had on hand to suit his
needs.
I picked this album apart like you couldn't believe. This was
right around the time that I started playing guitar myself and
wanted to learn as much as possible. Not to demean the songs,
but they were very straight forward when it came to rhythm for
bass and drums, that I literally went song by song and recreated
all the parts using my drum machine, bass and 4 track recorder
so that I would have my "backing band" to start learning the
guitar parts.
That's why Not Of This Earth is special to me, in spite of it
not being a perfect record, which it is not. But it holds up
pretty well after all these years.
Fave Songs: Not Of This Earth, Rubina and Hordes of Locusts
Sidebar: The original Space/Planet cover is now fetching on some
sites upwards of $200 for the Vinyl in mint condition. If you
guys come across it, I suggest you pick it up if you can get it
for cheap. It's out of print and probably one of the LP's I will
never sell. At least for the time being anyways.
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 2:16 pm
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[CENTER]Joe Satriani (Surfing with the Alien) 1987
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Back/Front Cover - Left To Right
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Surfing With The Alien, the one that started it all for
me....and the rest of the world. Yes, it was his second album.
But no one even knew about Not Of This Earth, myself included.
It's funny how I discovered Joe for the first time. I was
driving late one night (around 11pm), when Steve Vai, who was in
town that night had an interview on KGB 101.5 radio.
During the interview, the question of how he started playing
guitar obviously came up. That's when Steve named dropped Joe
and was raving about this guy. He was laying it on so thick that
I was beginning to think he was making a joke out of it. So he
goes on to tell the host and radio listeners about Joe's new
album, Surfing With The Alien, and to go check it out.
I immediately did a U-Turn and headed straight to Tower Records.
I had time left as Tower stayed open till midnight. I went down
and picked it up and nothing has ever been the same again when
it comes to 6 String Gods. I remember playing it non stop till
at least 3am that night.
How does it hold up today? It's even better now.
Fave Songs: Surfing With The Alien, Ice 9, Crushing Day, Satch
Boogie, Always With Me, Always With You and Echo.
My first introduction to the man that I also would worship one
day....John Byrne, the Comic book God himself who did the
artwork of Silver Surfer. So, Album cover ftw!!!! This album
gets 10 Stars which means you should own it.
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 8, 2011, 2:53 pm
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[CENTER]Joe Satriani (Dreaming #11) 1988
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I got a soft spot for this one in particular for one reason and
one reason only. I'm on it!!! No lie!! Dreaming #11 is an EP of
4 songs. 3 live tracks were recorded at the historic California
Theater in Downtown San Diego during the Surfing With The Alien
Tour. The 4th song was a brand new song called The Crush of
Love.
Ok, enough with the praising. I give Dreaming #11 the rating it
gets for the simple fact that it's incomplete. Not only that,
the entire concert exist. How do I know? The night of the show,
KGB 101.5 broadcast the entire show live, which I had the good
sense to have a friend of mine tape direct off the radio while I
went to the show. And let me tell you...the sh*t that's on that
audio tape is f*cking insane. The best, and I mean absolute best
parts never made it onto the album. I really don't understand
why they didn't just release the entire show as is instead of
making it an EP. I understand that the record company wanted to
throw something out into the market to capitalize on Joe's now
legendary status as Guitar God. But if they can make an EP, why
not a full LP?
As for the new song, The Crush Of Love, it wasn't even "new" at
the time. It had appeared in the pages of Guitar World Magazine
earlier that year as a free flexi-disc, which I still have to
this day.
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Joe Satriani (Dreaming #11) 1988 - KGB 101.5 Radio Broadcast
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Fave songs: The sh*t you don't hear. Seriously, this version
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
DIR By: ChipRawks
Date: September 9, 2011, 5:31 am
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[CENTER]Joe Satriani (Flying in a Blue Dream) 1989
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For years, since the day it came out, I have been touting Flying
In A Blue Dream as the best Joe Satriani album there is. But
while in the midst of my marathon, I may have to rethink that
notion, not because it's flawed, but in that having just
finished listening to Surfing With The Alien, I'm finding it
extremely difficult in choosing what is "the best" in his entire
catalog. I'm gonna have to hold off till the end of the marathon
before making my selection. Hell, I still have The Extremist to
listen to and that's right up there with the best of 'em.
I can say this though, this album still has the greatest
instrumental guitar song of all time: Flying In A Blue Dream. No
brainer there. And for those that say that Joe can't sing, all
you need to do is listen to I Believe and not think that is a
beautiful song. Sure he's not the greatest singer there is. But
he pulls it off well enough to not embarrass himself. Ride
probably has the best groove on the entire album.
As for the entire album, it clocks in over an hour, almost
double the size of his last studio album. And it couldn't be
further in style and execution. The dude even made playing the
harmonica and the banjo cool. This is no Surfing Part II, which
says a lot more about him as an artist and songwriter and not
feeling the need to throw out the same thing for a quick buck.
Fave Songs: Flying In A Blue Dream, The Mystical Potato Head
Groove Thing, I Believe, Big Bad Moon, The Phone Call, Back To
Shalla-Bal, Ride and The Forgotten (Part Two).
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Re: Joe Satriani - Discography
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Date: September 9, 2011, 9:15 am
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[CENTER]Joe Satriani (The Extremist) 1992
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The Extremist. The core of the group here is Joe, Matt
Bissonette (David Lee Roth) on Bass and Gregg Bissonette (David
Lee Roth) on Drums.
This use to be one of my all time favorite Satch albums. But
over the years it has lost some of it's appeal. It may have to
do with the fact that they overplayed the best song on the
album. That song of course being Summer Song. I mean, f*ck, it
was everywhere, attached to everything. As for the rest of the
album, there are still some fantastic songs that I find myself
listening to over and over. But as a whole I think it just
hasn't aged as well as Surfing With The Alien. Whereas that one
is timeless, this one does sound a bit dated in some spots. And
where Flying In A Blue Dream took his playing farther than it
had been, this one lacks those instant classics he is known for.
Fave Songs: Friends, War, Cryin', Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness,
Summer Song and Motorcycle Driver.
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The Extremist Music Videos
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