Joseph Satriani was born on July 15,1956 and is an American rock guitarist, composer, songwriter, and guitar instructor.
60 Facts About Joe Satriani
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Joe Satriani went on to have a successful solo music career, starting in the late 1980s.
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Joe Satriani is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the bestselling instrumental rock guitarist of all time.
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In 1988, Joe Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour.
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Joe Satriani briefly toured with Deep Purple, joining shortly after another departure of Ritchie Blackmore from the band in November 1993.
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Joe Satriani has worked with a range of guitarists during the G3 tour, which he founded in 1995.
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Joe Satriani has been the guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot since joining the band in 2008.
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Joe Satriani was born in Westbury, New York of Italian descent.
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Joe Satriani was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of Jimi Hendrix.
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Joe Satriani heard the news during football practice, where he then announced to his coach that he was quitting to become a guitarist.
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Joe Satriani began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at the time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai.
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In 1978, Joe Satriani moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue a music career.
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Joe Satriani's students included Kirk Hammett of Metallica, David Bryson of Counting Crows, Kevin Cadogan from Third Eye Blind, Larry LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt, Phil Kettner of Laaz Rockit, Geoff Tyson of T-Ride, Charlie Hunter, and David Turin.
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Joe 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.
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Joe Satriani 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.
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In 1988, Joe Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed.
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In 1989, Joe Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream.
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In 1992, Joe Satriani released The Extremist, his most commercially successful album to date.
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In late 1993, Joe Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for departed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore during the band's Japanese tour.
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The concerts were a success, and Joe 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.
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In 1996, Joe Satriani founded G3, a concert tour intended to include a rotating trio of guitarists.
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In 1998, Joe Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet, followed by Engines of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the electronica genre.
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In 2006, Joe Satriani signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the US.
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On May 29,2008, Joe Satriani revealed that he was joining hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
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In May 2010, Joe Satriani announced he was about to enter the studio to record a new album, and dates were released for an autumn tour.
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Joe Satriani said that demos had been recorded for a second Chickenfoot record.
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Joe Satriani released his 13th studio album, Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, on October 5,2010.
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On May 7,2013, Joe Satriani released his 14th studio album, titled Unstoppable Momentum.
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The album was conceived after Joe Satriani found himself playing guitar with his teeth a lot during the Unstoppable Momentum tour, and had a daydream about an alter ego, "Shockwave Supernova", making him do it.
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On September 16,2017, Joe Satriani teased his upcoming 16th studio album, What Happens Next, through social media.
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Joe Satriani collaborated with former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members.
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On January 19,2022, Joe Satriani released "Sahara" as the first single from his eighteenth album, The Elephants of Mars.
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In May 2008, Joe Satriani joined hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, Chad Smith.
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Joe Satriani received a co-writing credit on all the songs on the band's debut album.
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Joe Satriani said it felt natural to step back and play more rhythm than solo guitar.
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Joe Satriani is credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on Alice Cooper's 1991 album, Hey Stoopid, Spinal Tap's 1992 album, Break Like the Wind, Blue Oyster Cult's 1988 album, Imaginos, and band members Stu Hamm and Gregg Bissonette's solo records.
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Joe Satriani was credited with singing background vocals on the 1986 debut album by Crowded House.
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On Dream Theater's 2007 album, Systematic Chaos, Joe Satriani contributed spoken lyrics to the song "Repentance".
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Joe Satriani contributed a guitar solo to Jordan Rudess' 2004 solo release, Rhythm of Time.
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Joe Satriani composed much of the soundtrack for the racing video game NASCAR 06: Total Team Control, while his song "Crowd Chant" was featured in NHL 2K10 and Madden NFL 11.
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Joe Satriani has starred in several movies, including the 2006 Christopher Guest film For Your Consideration, as the guitarist in the band that played for the late-night show.
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Joe Satriani appeared as himself in the film Moneyball, playing "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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Joe Satriani joined Chickenfoot in voicing themselves in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "IAMAPOD".
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Joe Satriani is considered a highly technical guitarist, and has been referred to as a top guitar virtuoso.
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Joe Satriani has mastered many playing techniques on electric guitar, including legato, two-handed tapping and arpeggio tapping, volume swells, harmonics, and extreme whammy bar effects.
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Joe Satriani is adept at other speed-related techniques such as rapid alternate picking and sweep picking.
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Joe Satriani was influenced by jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth.
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Joe Satriani endorses Ibanez's JS Series guitars and the Marshall JVM410HJS guitar amplifier.
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Joe Satriani has since replaced the Satch Track with the Sustainiac.
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Joe Satriani played a red 7-string JS model, seen in the G3 Live in Tokyo DVD from 2005.
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Joe Satriani has used other prototypes featuring a Sustainiac or a JS model with three single coil-sized humbucker pickups.
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Joe Satriani has used a wide variety of guitar amps, with Marshall being his main amplifier up until 2001, and his Peavey signature series amps, the Peavey JSX, up until his time with Chickenfoot.
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However, Joe Satriani still used distortion pedals with the clean channel rather than the built-in overdrive channels.
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Joe Satriani later 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.
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Joe Satriani has used many amps in the studio when recording, including the Peavey Classic.
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Joe Satriani used Marshall heads and cabinets, including live, prior to his Peavey endorsement.
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Joe Satriani has released a Class-A 5-watt tube amp called the "Mini Colossal".
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Joe Satriani has collaborated with Vox on a range of signature-effect stompboxes.
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Joe Satriani then removed the sounds from the song and called it "Crowd Chant".
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Joe Satriani has the fourth-most Grammy Award nominations of any artist without winning.