Joseph Satriani 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.
Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes instrumental performance and features very little or no singing. Examples of instrumental music in rock can be found in practically every subgenre of the style. Instrumental rock was most popular from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s,with artists such as Bill Doggett Combo,The Fireballs,The Shadows,The Ventures,Johnny and the Hurricanes and The Spotnicks. Surf music had many instrumental songs. Many instrumental hits had roots from the R&B genre. The Allman Brothers Band feature several instrumentals. Jeff Beck also recorded two instrumental albums in the 1970s. Progressive rock and art rock performers of the late 1960s and early 1970s did many virtuosic instrumental performances.
Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist,songwriter,and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee,Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa,and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released eight solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz,David Lee Roth,and Whitesnake,as well as recording with artists such as Public Image Ltd,Mary J. Blige,Spinal Tap,Alice Cooper,Motörhead,and Polyphia. Additionally,Vai has toured with live-only acts G3,Zappa Plays Zappa,and the Experience Hendrix Tour,as well as headlining international tours.
Adrian Legg is an English guitar player who has been called "impossible to categorize". He plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic,and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the "best acoustic fingerstyle" player four years in a row (1993–1996).
Michael Joseph Keneally is an American session guitarist,keyboardist,vocalist and composer.
Sex &Religion is the third studio album by American guitarist Steve Vai,released under the band name "Vai" on July 23,1993,through Relativity Records. It is known as the first major appearance of Devin Townsend,who performed vocals for the album and went on to fame with Devin Townsend Project and Strapping Young Lad. Townsend also co-wrote the tracks "Pig" and "Just Cartilage",the latter of which was only released as a bonus track in Japan. Vai also co-wrote "In My Dreams with You" with Desmond Child and Roger Greenawalt.
Is There Love in Space? is the tenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani,released on April 13,2004,through Epic Records. The album reached No. 80 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for two weeks,as well as reaching the top 100 in three other countries.
G3 is a concert tour organized by guitarist Joe Satriani featuring him alongside two other guitarists. Since its inception in 1995,G3 has toured most years and has featured many guitarists,including Steve Vai,Eric Johnson,Kenny Wayne Shepherd,Yngwie Malmsteen,John Petrucci,Robert Fripp,Paul Gilbert,Steve Morse,Steve Lukather,Uli Jon Roth,Michael Schenker,Adrian Legg,Phil Collen and many other special guests,including Tony MacAlpine,Johnny Hiland,Keith More,Chris Duarte,Andy Timmons,Neal Schon,Gary Hoey,Brian May,Billy Gibbons,Johnny A,George Lynch,Patrick Rondat,Guthrie Govan,Alejandro Silva,and Eric Sardinas.
Joe Satriani is the sixth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani,released in October 1995 through Relativity Records. This was his last album for Relativity,as he would switch record labels to Epic for his next eleven albums. Joe Satriani reached No. 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for seven weeks,as well as reaching the top 100 in four other countries. "(You're) My World" was released as a single,reaching No. 30 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and receiving a nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 1997 Grammy Awards,Satriani's seventh such nomination.
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,Vol. 6 is the last of six double-disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on disc one has a sexual theme. Zappa used the monologue in "Is That Guy Kidding or What?" to ridicule Peter Frampton's album I'm in You with its double entendre title and pop pretensions. Disc two includes performances from Zappa's shows between 1976 and 1981 at the Palladium in New York City,as well as material like "The Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Strictly Genteel" that he frequently used as closing songs at concerts. It was released on October 23,1992,under the label Rykodisc.
Strange Beautiful Music is the ninth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani,released on June 25,2002,through Epic Records;a Super Audio CD edition was released on September 10. The album reached No. 140 on the United States Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for a week,as well as reaching the top 100 in four other countries.
G3:Live in Tokyo is a live album and DVD recorded at the Tokyo International Forum during the 2005 G3 tour,featuring Joe Satriani,Steve Vai,and John Petrucci.
G3:Rockin' in the Free World is a double live album by the G3 project that was recorded at The Uptown Theater in Kansas City,Missouri,United States,on October 21,2003. The album featured the touring lineup of the project leader Joe Satriani,frequent member Steve Vai and guest guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. A DVD of the same tour,but with a different track list,was released as G3:Live in Denver.
Live in San Francisco is a 2001 live album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. Also available on DVD,including non-performance bonus footage.
Music for Pets is an album by the band Z,led by Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa,released in 1996.
Bryan Beller is an American bass guitarist known for his work with Joe Satriani,The Aristocrats,Dethklok,Mike Keneally,Steve Vai,James LaBrie of Dream Theater and Dweezil Zappa,as well as his four solo album releases,View (2003),Thanks In Advance (2008),Wednesday Night Live (2011),and the progressive double concept album Scenes From The Flood (2019). He has been Joe Satriani's touring bassist since 2013,encompassing the Unstoppable Momentum tour (2013–14), the Shockwave (2015–16) world tour,and the G3/What Happens Next tour (2018),in addition to featuring on the Shockwave Supernova record. Beller is also the bassist of the rock/fusion super-trio The Aristocrats,and he managed the band from 2012 to 2018. The Aristocrats have released six studio albums,along with four live releases documenting the band's world tours in support of their debut album The Aristocrats and sophomore album Culture Clash. Their studio album You Know What... was the focus of their world tour that began in the summer of 2019 and extended through to 2020.
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" is a song written by Frank Zappa and originally recorded by The Mothers of Invention in February 1969 at Criteria Studios (Miami),with overdubs recorded sometime between August and September 1969 at TTG Studios and Whitney Studios. This version was included on their 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh, an LP that included various recordings by the band from 1967 to 1969. A second version was released as a single on the Bizarre and Reprise labels as "My Guitar." Despite the more conventional naming,"My Guitar" did not chart.
Satchurated:Live in Montreal is a live album and concert film by American guitarist Joe Satriani. The film was released in both 2D and 3D formats to theatres worldwide during March 2012,before the DVD/Blu-ray,as well as an audio version on CD,was released in April 2012. It is the first 3D concert film to be mixed in Dolby 7.1 surround sound. It was recorded at the Metropolis Theatre in Montreal,Quebec,Canada on December 12,2010 during Satriani's Wormhole Tour and the film was directed by award-winning film-makers Pierre and François Lamoureux.
The Aristocrats are a rock group formed in 2011. The instrumental power trio consists of Guthrie Govan,Bryan Beller,and Marco Minnemann. The group name is inspired by the Aristocrats joke and consequently the song titles on their eponymous debut album are rife with salacious double-entendres.
Steve Vai is an American guitarist,songwriter and producer. He started his career in 1980 playing with Frank Zappa and has since recorded and toured with Alcatrazz,Whitesnake,David Lee Roth,and Public Image Ltd. Since 1983 Vai also released his own studio albums. His discography consists of eight studio albums,two EPs,two special albums,eight live albums,twelve soundtracks,twenty compilation albums and seven videos. Vai has been awarded three Grammy Awards and forty other awards. Vai has also appeared as a guest musician on forty-four albums,as diverse as Motörhead,M83,and most recently for the second time with Jacob Collier.
