Episode #144 of the Iron City Rocks Podcast is available now.

The episode features an interview with legendary guitarist JOE SATRIANI (CHICKENFOOT). Joe talks about his new movie, Satchurated, the upcoming Australia G3 tour with STEVE VAI and STEVE LUKATHER, and more.

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Satchurated, featuring Satriani in a 3D concert film, hits select North American theaters in limited release today, March 1st. He recently discussed the project with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited, and an excerpt from the interview is available below.

Jeb: You are going into movie theaters!

Joe: "That’s crazy, isn’t it? We were approached when we were halfway through our Wormhole Tour by these two guys who had worked with RUSH and some other bands. They told us that they wanted to do the first ever 3D, 7.1 Surround Sound for theatrical release. We only had about three weeks to turn this thing around.

By coincidence, in their home town, we were booked into a smaller theater, which turned out to be the perfect place to do this. We were there for one night, and one night only, and shot with both 3D and 2D cameras. I thought it was a wonderful idea and it was a great opportunity. It was a year and a half in the making to get it into theaters.

The tour was booked when they called us and we were in Florida getting ready to head up north. This was all happening during the first year of the Wormhole tour. We went to New York but that was out of the question to record it there, cost wise. We had some other dates booked in Canada but there were either union problems or space problems for each venue. When they saw that we were playing in Montreal, they knew that that theater would hold the cameras and not get in the way of the people who bought tickets to the show.

The fans in that town are very warm and they follow you through the quietest moment right through to the loudest moment. There is something about the French Canadians. They make a great audience. So, there we were one snowy night in December making a film."

Jeb: You have done many live DVD’s so you know what to expect on stage.

Joe: "No, I don’t. I have made quite a few – more than I thought I would ever make. Every one of them has got great moments, embarrassing moments or problems we have had to overcome during post production.

I broke strings and had to stop filming and then start over again on the Japanese G3 DVD. There are all sorts of things that happen that I’ve had to overcome. We had a technical problem on this one. We did the whole show and we were walking off stage and my manager was there waving his arms. He told us we had to go out and play the first song again.

It turned out that the first fifteen seconds of the show didn’t get recorded on the music drives because, for some reason, they all crashed when the show started. The first part of the DVD, where you see us coming out on stage and picking up our guitars and start playing, is actually, sound wise, a repeat of the end of the night. I don’t know how they did it but they edited it right to the original performance."

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The video below gives you an exclusive look at the song 'War' from the upcoming film. This is the first 3D theatrical concert film release with brilliant 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound and will preset the ultimate cinematic experience that you don't want to miss. For markets and theaters visit this location.

The film is directed by award-winning filmmakers François and Pierre Lamoureux and produced by Cinemusica and Fogolabs. The filmmakers have directed and/or produced concert films and music documentaries for RUSH, THE WHO, SLIPKNOT, DEEP PURPLE and others.

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