Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American virtuoso instrumental rock guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award
nominee. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor,
and some of his former students have achieved fame such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick. Satriani has been a driving force in music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the G3 tour, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.
In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for Jagger's first solo tour. In 1994, Satriani was the lead guitarist for Deep Purple. Satriani worked with a range of guitarists, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Larry LaLonde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May, Patrick Rondat, Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Adrian Legg, and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concerts. He is currently the lead guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot. Since 1988, Satriani has been using his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is sold in music stores worldwide.
Biography
Early life
Descended from Italian immigrants, Satriani was born in Westbury, New York.[citation needed] He was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of Jimi Hendrix.He has been said to have heard the news during a football training
session, where he confronted his coach and announced that he was
quitting to become a guitarist. In 1974, Satriani studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer and with reclusive jazz pianist Lennie Tristano.
The technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satriani's
playing. Satriani began teaching guitar, with his most notable student
at the time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai. While he was teaching Vai, he was attending Five Towns College for studies in music.
In 1978, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California to pursue a music career. Soon after arriving in California, he resumed teaching. His students included Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, David Bryson of Counting Crows, Kevin Cadogan from Third Eye Blind, Larry LaLonde of Primus / Possessed, Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt (ex-Exodus), Phil Kettner of Lääz Rockit, Geoff Tyson of T-Ride, Charlie Hunter and David Turin.
Music career
Satriani started playing in a San Francisco-based band called the Squares,where he continued to network and make musical connections (Squares sound man John Cuniberti co-produced his second album). He was invited to join the Greg Kihn Band,
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. When his friend and former student Steve Vai gained fame playing with David Lee Roth in 1986, Vai raved about Satriani in several interviews with guitar magazines, including Guitar World magazine.
In 1987, 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. In 1988 Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed. In 1989, Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream.
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" was featured on the
soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything....
"The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Labatt Blue commercial in
Canada in 1993. "Can't Slow Down" featured in a car-chase sequence in
the Don Johnson starring show Nash Bridges.
Joe Satriani also sang backing vocals on the self-titled Crowded
House album. Satriani was a friend of Michel Froom. Neil Finn of Crowded
House confirms this in an interview with FlixelPix photographer David
Cleland.
In 1992, Satriani released The Extremist,
his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to
date. Radio stations across the country picked up "Summer Song," which
got a major boost when Sony used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players. "Cryin'," "Friends," and the title track were regional hits on radio. In late 1993, Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for departed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore
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 multi-album solo deal with Sony, and Steve Morse took the guitarist slot in Deep Purple.
In 1996, Satriani founded the G3, a concert tour intended to feature a trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, 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 among others: Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Fripp, Andy Timmons, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Adrian Legg, Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse and Steve Lukather. In 1998 Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet, which went back to a sound reminiscent of his late '80s work. Planet was followed up with Engines of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the electronica genre. A pair of shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco were recorded in December 2000 and released as Live in San Francisco, a two-disc live album and DVD.
2000s and future
Satriani regularly recorded and released evolving music, including Strange Beautiful Music in 2002 and Is There Love in Space? in 2004. In May 2005, Satriani toured India for the first time, playing concerts in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. In 2006, Satriani recorded and released Super Colossal and Satriani Live!, another two-disc live album and DVD recorded May 3, 2006 at the Grove in Anaheim, CA. In 2006, Satriani signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock,
a non-profit organization that provides free musical instruments and
instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the
U.S.A. Satriani has personally delivered instruments to children in the
program through a charity raffle 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 Surfing with the Alien to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release. This was a two-disc set that includes a remastered album and a DVD of a never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988. Satriani's next album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, was released on April 1, 2008. Satriani released a live DVD recording of a concert in Paris titled Live In Paris: I Just Wanna Rock and a companion 2 CD set on February 2, 2010.
In March 2010 Satriani participated with other guitarists in the
Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour, performing music written and inspired
by Jimi Hendrix.
On 29 May 2008 it was revealed that Satriani was involved in a new hard rock band called Chickenfoot with former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. The band features Hagar on vocals, Satriani on guitar, Anthony on bass and Smith on drums. Their debut album was released on 5 June 2009. The first single and video released was the track "Oh Yeah," which was played on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on 5 June 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 that "it was great fun" and it gives him a
"kick in the music bone" to be playing with such great talent. He said
it felt quite natural to step back and play more rhythm guitar than solo
guitar. Chickenfoot's second album was titled III, and was
released on 27 September 2011. Its first single was the track 'Bigfoot'.
On its first week of release, it reached a chart position of #9.
In April, Satriani and Chickenfoot voiced themselves in an episode of the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
In May 2010, Satriani announced he was about to enter the studio to
record a solo album, and dates were released for an autumn tour. He also
said that demos had been recorded for a second Chickenfoot album. In
May 2010, Satriani joined Sound Strike, a movement led by Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha protesting Arizona SB1070. As a result, Satriani refuses to perform live in Arizona. Satriani released his 13th studio album Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, on October 5, 2010.
On December 4, 2008 Satriani filed a copyright infringement suit against Coldplay in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Satriani's suit claims that the Coldplay song "Viva la Vida" includes "substantial original portions" of the Satriani song "If I Could Fly" from his 2004 album, Is There Love in Space?. The Coldplay song in question received two Grammy Awards for "Song of the Year." Coldplay denied the allegation. An unspecified settlement was reached between the parties.
Satriani released the DVD/Blu-ray of his 3D concert film Satchurated: Live in Montreal on April 24th 2012 after its limited showing in theaters. The film was shot in December 2010 in Montreal and was directed by award-winning filmmakers François and Pierre Lamoureux. Satchurated is the first Blu-ray concert film available in 3D with Dolby TrueHD 7.1.
Other work
Satriani is credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on shock-rocker Alice Cooper's 1991 album Hey Stoopid, Spinal Tap's 1992 album Break Like the Wind, Blue Öyster Cult's 1988 album Imaginos, band members Stu Hamm and Gregg Bissonette's solo albums. He was credited with singing background vocals on the 1986 debut album by Crowded House. In 2003, he played lead guitar on The Yardbirds's release Birdland. In 2006, he made appearances on tracks for Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's solo CD/DVD dual disc Gillan's Inn.
On Dream Theater's 2007 album Systematic Chaos, Satriani contributed spoken lyrics to the song "Repentance." Satriani contributed a guitar solo to Jordan Rudess' 2004 solo release Rhythm of Time. He composed much of the soundtrack for the racing video game NASCAR 06: Total Team Control and contributed to Sega Rally Championship. He has in feature films, including 2006 Christopher Guest film For Your Consideration as the guitarist in the band that played for the late-night show. Other films include Moneyball in which he appears as himself playing Star Spangled Banner.
Style and influence
Satriani is considered to be a technically proficient guitarist. and has been referred to as a guitar virtuoso. Satriani has mastered all performance techniques on electric guitar, including legato, two-handed tapping and arpeggio tapping, volume swells, harmonics and extreme whammy bar
effects. During fast passages, Satriani favors a legato technique
(achieved primarily through hammer-ons and pull-offs) that yields smooth
and flowing runs. He is also adept at other speed-related techniques
such as rapid alternate picking and sweep picking. Satriani was influenced by blues-rock guitar icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck, as well as jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Satriani created his own recognizable style and is an influential guitarist. Satriani has received 15 Grammy nominations and has sold over 10 million albums worldwide.
Equipment
Satriani has endorsed Ibanez's JS Series guitars, and Peavey's JSX amplifier.
Both lines were designed specifically as signature products for
Satriani. 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 Ibanez, 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 uses in the bridge and neck positions,
respectively, from 2005 to present day).
The JS line of guitars is his 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 90s was a chrome-finished
guitar nicknamed "Chrome Boy." This instrument can be seen on the Live in San Francisco DVD. However, the guitar used for most of the concert was in fact a lookalike nicknamed "Pearly," which featured Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickups.
Satriani uses a number of other JS models such as the JS double neck
model, JS700 (primary axe on the self-titled CD and seen on the 1995
tour "Joe Satriani," which features a fixed bridge, P-90
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 amount 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. Joe 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. As of late he has used other prototypes featuring
a Sustainer 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, although his 24-fret JS model
features a Pro Track single coil-sized, humbucker pickup 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, using Marshall
for his main amplifier (notably the limited edition blue coloured 6100
LM model) up until 2001, and his Peavey signature series amps, the
Peavey JSX, thereafter.
The JSX began life as a prototype Peavey XXX and developed into the
Joe Satriani signature Peavey model. However he still used distortion
pedals with the clean channel rather than the built in od channels.
Satriani has used other amplifiers over the years in the studio, such as
the Peavey 5150 (used to record the song 'Crystal Planet'), Cornford, and the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (used to record the song 'Flying in a Blue Dream'),
amongst others. He has recently 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
which was scheduled for release in 2011. The reverb has been replaced by
noise gates which cancel any lag when switching channels. The clean
channel has been replaced by the clean channel of a 6100 LM model which
he likes as an option to use distortion pedals with. The orange od
channel and the modern red od channel have been better matched with each
other as he still claims to prefer the organic od channels of the JVM
amp rather than pedals. The red od channel has been modified to be based
more on beefy rock than a nu-metal sound. The fx-loop has been
simplified to be serial only.
His effects pedals include the Vox wah, Dunlop Cry Baby wah, RMC Wizard Wah, DigiTech Whammy,
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.
Satriani has partnered with Planet Waves to create a signature line of
guitar picks and guitar straps featuring his sketch art.
Although Satriani endorses the JSX, he 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 Satriani used the JSX head through a Palmer Speaker Simulator.
He has released a Class-A 5-watt tube amp called the "Mini Colossal."
Satriani has been using a Marshall JVM410 head in live gigs since 2009. He is currently working with Vox
on his own line of signature effects pedals designed to deliver
Satriani's trademark tone plus a wide range of new sounds for guitarists
of all playing styles and ability levels. The first being a signature
distortion pedal titled the "Satchurator," and the "Time Machine," which
will be a delay pedal, with more to follow, including a wah pedal
called the "Big Bad Wah." On March 3, 2010 a new pedal was announced on Satriani's website regarding the new Vox overdrive pedal called "Ice 9."
Guitar Rig & Signal Flow
Recurring themes
Satriani's work frequently makes references to various science fiction stories and ideas. "Surfing with the Alien," "Back to Shalla-Bal," and "The Power Cosmic 2000" refer to the comic book character Silver Surfer, while "Ice 9" refers to the secret government ice weapon in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. "Borg Sex" is a reference to Star Trek, which features a homogeneous cybernetic race known as the Borg. His albums and songs often have other-worldly titles, such as Not of this Earth, Crystal Planet, Is There Love in Space?, and Engines of Creation.
On the album Super Colossal, the song titled "Crowd Chant" was originally called "Party on the Enterprise." "Party on the Enterprise" featured sampled sounds from the Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek TV show. But as Satriani explained in a podcast, legal issues regarding the samples could not be resolved and he was unable to get permission to use them.
Satriani then removed the sounds from the song and called it "Crowd
Chant." The song is used as goal celebration music for a number of
National Hockey League teams and MLS teams including the Minnesota Wild
and New England Revolution. The song is also used in the EA Sports hockey video game NHL 10.
"Redshift Riders," another song on the Super Colossal
album, is "based on the idea that in the future, when people can travel
throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of the
cosmological redshift
effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get
across [the] universe a lot faster than normal," Satriani said in a podcast about the song. 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
Nominations
Satriani has the second most Grammy Award nominations (15, after Brian McKnight), of any artist without winning. See further artists.
Year | Album | Category |
---|---|---|
1989 | "Always With Me, Always With You" | Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
Surfing with the Alien | Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |
1990 | "The Crush of Love" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1991 | Flying in a Blue Dream | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1993 | The Extremist | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1994 | "Speed of Light | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1995 | "All Alone" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1997 | "(You're) My World" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1998 | "Summer Song" (Live) | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
1999 | "A Train of Angels" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
2001 | "Until We Say Goodbye" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
2002 | "Always With Me, Always With You" (Live) | Best Rock Instrumental Performance from Live in San Francisco |
2003 | "Starry Night" | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
2006 | Super Colossal | Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
2008 | "Always With Me, Always With You" (Live) | Best Rock Instrumental Performance from Satriani Live! |
Discography
Main article: Joe Satriani discography
- Not of This Earth (1986)
- Surfing with the Alien (1987)
- Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
- The Extremist (1992)
- Time Machine (1993)
- Joe Satriani (1995)
- Crystal Planet (1998)
- Engines of Creation (2000)
- Strange Beautiful Music (2002)
- Is There Love in Space? (2004)
- Super Colossal (2006)
- Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008)
- Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (2010)
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