As previously reported, guitar legend Joe Satriani has announced dates on Surfing With The Alien 20th Anniversary tour where he will be performing his legendary album from 1988 in it's entirety. Dates include:

August

15 - Gramercy Theater - New York, NY
16 - House Of Blues - Chicago, IL
17 - Roxy Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
18 - EXCLUSIVE in-studio show where Surfing With The Alien was recorded in San Francisco, CA (either Alpha And Omega Studios or Hyde Steet Studios)

The following ticket information update has been issued via Satriani's official website:

"We're rolling back the price -- these tickets are only $35 and we've also pulled every string we could find to reduce those pesky service fees as well. For ticket purchase information, links and passwords, visit www.satriani.com/road .

We will randomly select TEN winners who will each receive two tickets for them and a friend for this exclusive private engagement.You'll be able to enter the drawing starting on Jul 21st and winners will be drawn the following week on July 28th.

NOTE: Winners are responsible for their own travel to San Francisco!"

As previously reported, the 20th Anniversary reissue of Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien is due out stores August 7th - an EPK is available at this location.

Surfing With The Alien was the album that ignited Joe Satriani’s career as a solo performer. The acclaimed guitarist’s second full-length release, Surfing with the Alien was originally issued in October 1987 on Relativity Records. It became a left-field bestseller that reached No. 29 on the Billboard Top 200 and was certified Platinum for US sales of over one million copies. It was the first rock guitar instrumental album to reach Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart. It includes the charting hits “Satch Boogie” and “Surfing With The Alien”, plus the Grammy-nominated “Always With Me, Always With You”.

Surfing... launched Satriani on an ever-evolving creative path: eighteen further audio and video releases (nine of them certified gold and/or platinum) totaling over 10 million albums sold worldwide, fourteen Grammy Award nominations, and multiple world tours both as a headliner and as founder of the all-star “G3” guitar extravaganza.

On August 7th, 2007, Epic/Legacy Recordings will celebrate the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking album with the release of a new expanded edition of Surfing with the Alien. This meticulously restored two-disc set includes the newly remastered album and a previously never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988. It will also feature new liner notes written by Joe and special deluxe packaging featuring photos, notes and other memorabilia from Joe’s personal archive.

Tracklisting:

CD - Disc 1 (remastered): 'Surfing With The Alien', 'Ice 9', 'Crushing Day', 'Always With Me, Always With You', 'Satch Boogie', 'Hill Of The Skull', 'Circles', 'Lords Of Karma', 'Midnight', 'Echo'.

DVD - Disc 2: Live at Montreux (previously unreleased): 'Ice 9', 'Memories', 'Midnight', 'Rubina', 'Circles', 'Lords Of Karma', 'S.T.U.', 'Echo', 'Hordes Of Locusts', 'Always With Me, Always With You', 'Satch Boogie'.