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 late 1980s. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums,making him the bestselling instrumental rock guitarist of all time.
Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup,founded by Mike Portnoy,then Dream Theater's drummer,in 1997. The band initially released two albums,between 1998 and 1999. An extension of their second regular album,with the absence of John Petrucci was released in 2007 under the name "Liquid Trio Experiment".
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big,and was also a member of Racer X,with whom he released several albums. In 1996,Gilbert launched a solo career,for which he has released numerous solo albums,and featured in numerous collaborations and guest appearances on other musicians' albums.
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.
John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist,best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He produced or co-produced all of Dream Theater's albums from Metropolis Pt. 2:Scenes from a Memory (1999) to A View from the Top of the World (2021),and has been the sole producer of the band's albums released since A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011). Petrucci has also released two solo albums:Suspended Animation (2005) and Terminal Velocity (2020).
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.
G3:Live in Concert is a live album and DVD by the G3 project,led by Joe Satriani. It was released in 1997 by Epic Records. This lineup of G3 includes Joe Satriani,Eric Johnson and Steve Vai. In 2005,a DVD of this concert was also released.
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.
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.
Gregg Bissonette is an American jazz and rock drummer and vocalist. He is the brother of bassist Matt Bissonette,with whom he frequently collaborates. He has played on albums by dozens of recording artists,including David Lee Roth's first three solo albums.
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,USA,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.
Dave LaRue is an American bassist who performed with the Dixie Dregs from 1988 to 2017 and with guitarist Steve Morse's Band since 1989. He also has worked with Dream Theater's John Petrucci,Mike Portnoy,Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess. He plays Music Man bass guitars,among them the "Sterling" and "StingRay 5 five-string" but has mainly switched to their "Bongo" line including four- and five-string fretted and fretless models. From March 2006 to September 2006,he toured with Joe Satriani on the Super Colossal tour. Most recently,LaRue became a member of the supergroup Flying Colors alongside long-time bandmate Steve Morse.
Matt Bissonette is an American bass player and vocalist. According to Guitar 9,an online musicianship magazine,he has played bass and other stringed instruments on at least 22 albums,with music styles ranging from jazz,jazz fusion,progressive metal and instrumental rock. Bissonette has played bass with performers such as David Lee Roth (1987–1992),Jeff Lynne and ELO (2001),Ringo Starr (2003–2005),and currently,Elton John (2012–present). He is the brother of drummer Gregg Bissonette.
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 2012-2018. The Aristocrats have released four studio albums,along with two live releases documenting the band's world tours in support of their debut album The Aristocrats and sophomore album Culture Clash. Their most recent 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 March and May 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.
Collection is an album by Jason Becker released by Shrapnel Records on November 4,2008. The album includes three new songs in addition to some older recordings. It includes many musicians and features guitarists such as Marty Friedman,Greg Howe,Joe Satriani,Michael Lee Firkins,Steve Vai,and Steve Hunter.
Terminal Velocity is the second studio album by Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci,released digitally on August 28,2020 and on October 30,2020 for the physical version. This is his first solo album since 2005's Suspended Animation. During the recording sessions,Petrucci was reunited with his former Dream Theater bandmate Mike Portnoy,making it their first collaboration since the latter left the band in 2010. Bassist Dave LaRue,who performed on Suspended Animation,returns for this album.
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