Joseph “Joe” Satriani (created July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist, multi instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award nominee. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar teacher, with a number of his former pupils attaining recognition, like: Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick.
In 1994, Satriani toured with Deep Purple as the lead guitarist. He’s worked using a variety of guitarists during the G3 tour, which he founded in 1995. He’s now the lead guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot. Since 1988, Satriani has been using his own touch guitars, the Ibanez JS Series, which can be bought in music stores worldwide. He’s got also collaborated with Vox to make his own wah, delay, overdrive and distortion pedals including a cooperation with Marshall Amplification for the development of his own touch collection amplifier mind, the JVM410HJS.
Satriani began playing in a San Francisco-based group called the Squares, where he continued to network and also make musical links (Squares sound man John Cuniberti co-created his second record).
Songwriter, Guitarist, Musician, Composer, Record producer, Multi-instrumentalist, Actor
Education
Five Towns College, Berklee College of Music, Always with Me, Always with You, Surfing With the Alien, Summer Song, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, Japan, ??????, Seoul, South Korea
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Rubina Satriani
Children
Zachariah Satriani
Parents
Katherine Satriani, John Satriani, Always with Me, Always with You, Surfing With the Alien, Summer Song, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, Japan, ??????, Seoul, South Korea
Nicknames
Joseph Satriani , Satch , ZZ Satriani , Satriani, ZZ
Music Groups
Chickenfoot (Since 2008), Deep Purple (1993 – 1994), Greg Kihn Band (1986 – 1987)
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Always with Me, Always with You, Surfing With the Alien, Summer Song, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, Japan, ??????, Seoul, South Korea
Movies
Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes, For Your Consideration, Hard 'N' Heavy: Vol. 2, Particle: Transformations Live, Highway Star – A Journey in Rock, Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien, Paul Gilbert: Get Out of My Yard, How to Find Gigs that Pay Big Bucks, G3: Live in Tokyo, G3: Live in Denver, Stars...
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Ibanez Signature model
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Sunglasses
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Quote
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[on giving autographs] I've signed the obvious things - body parts of every kind, just about. Women get their breast tattooed when I've signed them, bald guys have their heads tattooed with my signature. We've had a lot of leg signatures, just about every article of clothing. I think the weirdest was I signed a birth certificate for a young kid whose parents had named him 'Satriani'. He'll be wondering why he's called Satriani and not Dave or something.
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I'm always focusing on melody and unique harmonies, and I try to bring in people who will enhance the rhythmic approach.
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Radiohead - man, I like that band but they depress me sometimes.
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Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
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Allan Holdsworth is a true living legend in my book because of what he did melodically and harmonically, and just in the pantheon of rock guitarists.
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Fact
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Rehearsing for a tour to promote his 9th studio album, "Is there love in space?" [June 2004]
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Briefly replaced Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple
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Son's name is Zachariah. His nickname is ZZ.
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Resides in San Francisco
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He gave guitar teaching lessons to such future rock notables as Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Larry Lalonde of Primus, David Bryson of Counting Crows and, most specially, Steve Vai.
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Guitarist. Considered by many one of the greatest guitar player of all time.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Guitar Man
2015/I
Documentary performer: "Sleepwalk"
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2012
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Moneyball
2011
arranger: "The Star-Spangled Banner" / performer: "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Saturday Night Live
2011
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Late Show with David Letterman
2010
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Madden NFL 11
2010
Video Game performer: "Crowd Chant" / writer: "Crowd Chant"
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Guitar Hero World Tour
2008
Video Game performer: "Satch Boogie" / writer: "Satch Boogie"
Nikkei supesharu kanburia kyûden
2007
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Joe Satriani: Live at Montreux
2007
Video performer: "Ice 9", "Memories", "Midnight", "Rubina", "Circles", "Lords of Karma", "Bass Solo", "Echo", "Hordes of Locusts", "Always with Me, Always with You", "Satch Boogie" / writer: "Ice 9", "Memories", "Midnight", "Rubina", "Circles", "Lords of Karma", "Echo", "Hordes of Locusts", "Always with Me, Always with You", "Satch Boogie"
Gran Turismo 4
2004
Video Game performer: "Summer Song" / writer: "Summer Song"
Snowriders II
1997
Documentary performer: "Back to Shalla Bal" / writer: "Back to Shalla Bal"
Super Mario Bros.
1993
performer: "SPEED OF LIGHT" / writer: "SPEED OF LIGHT"
$12 Million
