In The Studio Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of JOE SATRIANI's Surfing With The Alien

December 10, 2012, 11 years ago

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Redbeard's In The Studio celebrates the 25th anniversary of JOE SATRIANI's Surfing With The Alien album with a 2-part special including interviews with Joe, background history, and music.

"From 1984 until 1990 it was a dismal time for ROLLING STONES fans with the band on indefinite hiatus, but one great thing emerged from Mick Jagger‘s haunting of New York City’s rock clubs looking for suitable replacements. Jagger launched the careers of Vernon Reid and LIVING COLOUR, and separately, an unknown six stringer - Long Islander-by-way-of-San Francisco fret phenom named Joe Satriani. The mult-million copy sale of Satriani’s 1987 second all-guitar album Surfing With The Alien effectively closed an era in contemporary music where the rock “guitar god” had become self-consciously cliched, supplanted for the first time in rock music history by the versatile electronic keyboard. Joe Satriani’s Surfing With the Alien didn’t merely open the door for the re-emergence of rock guitar, it kicked it in."

Listen to Part 1 at this location. Part 2 can be heard here.

Satriani recently announced a 2013 Australian Masterclass Tour

Organizers remark: "Learn the tips and tricks that have made Joe Satriani a bona fide guitar hero. Tickets selling FAST!"

2013 Australian Masterclass Tour at Thump Music

April

8 - Brisbane, Australia - Thump Music
10 - Sydney, Australia - Thump Music
13 - Melbourne, Australia - Thump Music
15 - Adelaide, Australia - Thump Music
17 - Perth, Australia - Thump Music

For more details visit Thumpmusic.com.au.


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