Biography
Joe Satriani is the most commercially successful solo guitarist in the world: on his account 6 gold and platinum disks, including the reward for the debut album of his Chickenfoot group, as well as more than 10 million copies sold.
After Brian McNight, Snupe Doga and Morten Lidberg is considered the most nominated musician for the Grammy Award - the name of Joe Satriani was voiced from the stage 15 times, but the guitarist never got into the number of winners.
Childhood and youth
Joseph Satriani was born on July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York, in the family of Italian emigrants: his grandfather and grandmother from Piacenses and Bobby, respectively. In addition to him, four children were brought up in the family.
The first steps to the musical success of the boy took another 9 years and began with the drums. True, instead of the "barrel" and the krash, which are available in any impact installation, Joe has a can from under coffee and a training rubber panel (PAD). For success, the father gave young to the element: Tom Toma, High Hat, Raid. By 11 years old, the boy received his first Ludwig setup.
Fasciating the work of Jimmy Hendrix, the greatest guitarist of all time according to the magazine "Time", Cream and Led Zeppelin magazine, Joseph stopped exercising on the drums, thinking about the guitar. In 1970, a coup in the biography was a coup - Hendrix died on September 18, and Satriani made the final musical choice in favor of the guitar. The first tool in the hands of the future virtuoso was Hagstrom III.
Progress was surprisingly rapid pace. Optional classes at school contributed to this, where he studied the Ase theory of music and a music literacy, additional exercises at home on books and harmonious models, joint classes with jazz guitarist Billie Bauer and Pianist Lenny Tristano. Soon Joe achieved such results that he began to give lessons himself. One of the first students in 1974 was Steve Wai - in the future, a unique solo guitarist and a colleague Satriani on the project "G3".
Satriani's father was a musician, and when the boy said he wants to throw a school to become a professional artist, his decision was supported. In 1978, at 22, the young man went to Berkeley, California. Here the list of students has expanded. Guitar Lessons Joe took guitarist Metallica Group Kirk Hammet, David Bryson from Counting Crows, Solo Guitarist and Participant of Third Eye Blind Kevin Kadogan, Larry Larond from Primus and many others.
As one day, Joe Satriani noted in an interview, to take his students "Life forced": "I worked and a gardener, and a bricklayer ... Even the seller in a shoe store. However, I always wanted to engage in music. In high school classes, I have already played quite well, students began to come to me. But the teaching of the guitar for me was nothing more than bypasic earnings. The main thing for me is a game in the group. "Music
Joe's youth met Jeff Khampitelle, one of the best modern drummers according to the magazine "Rolling Stone". They founded The Squares group. Later, the musician took part in the recording of several albums Satriani.
Non-long time guitarist played the Greg Kihn Band. Proceeds from speeches in this team helped Joseph repay the loans that he took for the release of a debut solo album.
The plate was published in 1986 and received the name "Not of this Earth". Critics accepted the first experience of Satriani favorably: Phil Carter from "All Music" gave an album 4 out of 5 stars and described it as "a collection of excellent compositions that have a unique style, music is not from this world." He also noted that there is no weak song in the album.
A year later, the second plate "Surfing with the Alien" was released. Now this album is considered the most successful in the discography of Joe Satriani, thanks to him, he learned the whole world about the guitarist. On modest means ($ 13 thousand), the virtuoso managed to write down the collection, which in 1989 became gold, and in 1992 - Platinum, was partitioned by a million circulation. Two tracks were hits and got into the Chart Billboard's Mainstream Rock - "Satch Boogie" (№22) and "Surfing With The Alien" (№37). Another composition, Always with Me, Always WITH YOU, was nominated for the Grammy Prize.
The success of the plate attracted the attention of Mick Jagger, the vocalist of The Rolling Stones group. He invited Joe to accompany him in a tour in support of the PRIMITIVE COOL solo album in 1988. Together, the musicians gave concerts in Australia and Japan.
At the peak of popularity in 1989, Satriani released Flying In A Blue Dream dedicated to the father's memory. The album has reached 23 places in the British Chart Billboard 200 and lasted 39 weeks; A year later, became gold.
In 1991, the guitarist was again nominated for Grammy. The song "One Big Rush" became a soundtrack for the film "Say something" (1989) with John Cusacack in the lead role, and the track "The Bells of Lal One)" - musical accompaniment of the painting of Billy Bob Tornton "External blade" (1996).
Due to cooperation with Ibanez, Joe Satriani was briefly distracted by writing music. He created the Ibanez JS Signature guitar's own rule. For the cover of the album "What Happens Next" (2018), a musician starred with one of the tool configurations.
In 1992, the long-awaited plate "The Extremist", which is currently the most commercially successful. SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY used in advertising the first Discman portable player.
A year later, the musicians from the Rock Group Deep Purple invited Satriani to the place of the past Richard Blackmore - one of the founders and the author of the songs. Joe successfully performed in Japan, and he was offered to join the team forever, but the guitarist made a choice in favor of solo creativity. At the same time, he released the album "Time Machine", and in 1995 - "Joe Satriani". Both collections were nominated for Grammy, but did not bring victory.
In 1996, the project "G3" was founded, the permanent participant of which was only Satriani.
"Somehow I complained to my manager, they say, I feel isolated from the rest of the world: myself in the studio, myself at concerts ... My tour and tour of other guitarists like Steve Waa never crossed. We are deprived of the opportunity to communicate and share information. Guitarists, you know, love to hang out with each other, take up and all that is so different. So the idea was born ... a guitar festival or something. True, there was one limit - no more than three performers can take part in the Festival. Of all these ideas, "G3" appeared, "the guitarist once appeared in an interview.
At various times, Steve Wai, John Petrucci, Ingvi Malmstine, Kenny Wayne, Robert Fipp, Steve Mors and many others played with Him in G3.
In 1998, Satriani released the Album "Crystal Planet", which included such hits like "Love Thing", "Ceremony" and "Up in the Sky", and two years later came out a unique electronic plate "Engines of Creation", which It lasted in the 90th place in Billboard 200 three weeks.
The albums continued to go out with the difference in 2 years: "Strange Beautiful Music" (2002), "Is there Love in Space?" (2004), "Super Colossal" (2006), "Professor Satchafunkilus and The Musterion of Rock" (2008), "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards" (2010).
In the breaks between music Satriani engaged in charitable activities. So, in 2006, he became the official sponsor of the company "Little Kids Rock", which supplied free of charge to US state schools musical instruments.
In 2008, the guitarist gathered the Chickenfoot group. The company made up former members of the hard rock band Van Halen Sammy Khagar and Michael Anthony, as well as a drummer from Red Hot Chilli Peppers Ched Smith.
A year later, the eponymous debut album was released. One of the songs, "Oh Yeah!", Reached 21 places in the Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, it was shot on it. In 2011, the second album "Chickenfoot III" came out.
Simultaneously with the creation of a group in the work of Satriani, another loud event was happening - he sued Coldplay, because their song "Viva La Vida", which received two GRAMMY Awards, included fragments of the IF I Could Fly guitar track track from the album " There Love in Space? ".
COLDPLAY representatives denied this statement. As a result, the parties signed an agreement, the details of which are unknown.
On April 24, 2012, the musician entered the large screen in 3D format - the film "SatchURATED: LIVE IN MONTREAL" shown in the figures, recorded during the performance in Montreal in December 2010. For its creation, directed by Francois and Pierre Lamura were awarded awards in the field of concert cinema.
In 2013, the guitarist released the album "UnstopPable Momentum", which is located on the 42th place in the British Charta Billboard 200 for three weeks. In addition, the disk hit the hundreds of the best compositions in 9 countries of the world. Two years later, the anniversary, 15th solo plate Joe Satriani - SHOCKWAVE Supernova was published.
Personal life
About the personal life of the virtuoso is known a little. He has a wife Rubin. It is known that the spouse also plays the guitar. On the official page of Joe Satriani in Instagram of family photos, do not find: there are only photos and video from his speeches.
Family couple has a sulfur son. Once in an interview with Joe, he said that the boy was transferred to the musical talent: he plays a guitar, mandoline, banjo and composes songs. Father dreams of moving with her son on stage in the framework of the G3 project.
Joe Satriani now
In 2018, the guitarist released the album "What Happens Next" album. Drummer RED Hot Chilli Peppers Chad Smith and Bassist from Deep Purple Glenn Hughes took part in the record. The disk, unlike the previous two, sounded in a new way: Satriani abandoned electronic sound, preferred clean sound.In addition, Joe continues to give concerts as a member of the project "G3".
News and prerequisites for the fact that the guitar maestro plans to complete the musical career, no. As one day, Satriani noted in an interview, "I have a shaft in my mind. It is a pity that there is not enough time to make it akin to ".
Discography
- 1986 - "NOT OF THIS EARTH"
- 1987 - "Surfing With The Alien"
- 1992 - "The Extremist"
- 1993 - "Time Machine"
- 1995 - Joe Satriani
- 1998 - Crystal Planet
- 2002 - "Strange Beautiful Music"
- 2004 - "Is There Love In Space?"
- 2006 - SUPER COLOSSAL
- 2013 - "Unstoppable Momentum"
- 2015 - SHOCKWAVE Supernova
- 2018 - "What Happens Next"