Official Website: Satriani.com
Place / Date of Birth: July 15, 1956 at Westburry, New York, USA
Group Band Current: Joe Satriani
Group Band Previous: The Squares
Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore
Guitar: Ibanez JS Series
Expertise: Tapping, Alternate Picking, etc.
Joe Satriani, first learning the guitar at the age of 14 years. At the age of 15 years, Joe has been teaching guitar (3 years) to some of his students who include Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Larry Lalonde (Primus). Can imagine how diligent and Joe quickly deepen his guitar playing.
While teaching in Second Hand Guitar, Berklee, Joe released the first album in 1986 entitled Not Of This Earth. The next year, Surfing With The Alien was released and get the gold and platinum sales. In 1989 Surfing in a Blue Dream was released and reached 750,000 pieces for sale and into the Grammy Awards nominations. The Extremist was released in 1992 which is also nominated for Grammy Awards, and reached number 24 on the Billboard chart.
The following year, Time Machine (Double CD) was released. In 1995 Joe Satriani album entitled My World was released and the song was nominated Grammy Awards. In 1998 Joe released his album titled Crystal is the eighth planet.
In 2000 he released the album Engines Of Creation. On this album he experimented with using the rhythm-rhythm recordings made on the computer. In 2001 Joe released his live album Live in San Francisco.
In addition to releasing his solo album, Joe Satriani is also the originator of the holding of G3. With Steve Vai, Joe had several times held a G3 concert with other guitar gods like Eric Johnson (1996), Adrian Leggs, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Robert Fripp (1997), Michael Schenker and Uli John Roth with Brian May as a Guest Star for the show in London and Patrick Rondat in France (1998) and John Petrucci (2001).
Joe Satriani is also participating in the project his Merry Axemas Steve Vai and play one song Silent Night in the re-arranger and also fill the position of the guitar for Deep Purple in the 1990s .... liberty and justice for all!
