Description
Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American rock guitarist, composer, 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-1980s. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over ten million albums, making him the bestselling instrumental rock guitarist of all time.
Satriani started playing in a San Francisco-based band called Squares, which he formed with his brother-in-law Neil Sheehan in the late 1970s.[17] He was later 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, Not of This Earth, released in 1986.[18] The same year, he also sang backing vocals on the self-titled Crowded House album.[19]
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. Surfing With The Alien continues to be his most iconic and popular album, a true classic.
That same year, he also released an EP titled Dreaming #11, which featured the song “The Crush of Love”. 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” featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything…. “The Forgotten Part II” was featured on a Molson Dry commercial in Canada in 1993. “Can’t Slow Down” featured in a car chase sequence in the Don Johnson-starring show Nash Bridges.
In 1992, Satriani released The Extremist, his most commercially successful album to date. The album was certified Gold in the United States and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard 200.
Radio stations across the US 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 G3, a concert tour intended to include a rotating trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, Steve 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 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, followed by Engines of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the electronica genre. Two 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. Joe Satriani continues to be extremely successful and release new albums every couple of years as well as new Ibanez signature guitars.
here is my first collection of my Amplitube 5 tones for Joe Satriani
here is what is in this pack! 6 presets! With lots of research online and a lot of listening and tweaking along the way!
Always With Me Always With You
Surfing With The Alien
Satch Boogie
Ice 9
Summer Song
Cryin
a demo of one of these tones on Youtube here!
You will need Amplitube 5 to receive and import the tones we provide. All the tones are full range with amp and speaker emulation, and may contain amps and effects you may need to purchase from the Custom Shop (you can try gear from there too)
Supplied via instant download link upon purchase so you can drop into your Amplitube 5 rig and enjoy!
DISCLAIMER, i don’t own any of the music i mimic here, just a cover version by me showing the style of tone and how it sounds compared to the originals. Music from Joe Satriani is available to buy and stream from all the best retailers and music services. The track and album names and images are the property of the band, these are just my tones made to play along.
