Foreword
Chapter 1: The Hendrix Experience
Chapter 2: High School Confidential
Chapter 3: Learning Curves
Chapter 4: Satch Goes West
Chapter 5: Twists of Fate-The Joe Satriani EP, 1983-1984
Chapter 6: Not of This Earth-1985-1986
Chapter 7: Relativity
Chapter 8: Surfing with the Alien-1987
Chapter 9: Launching the Silver Surfer
Chapter 10: Flying in a Blue Dream-1989
Chapter 11: The Bearsville Experiment
Chapter 12: The Extremist-1992
Chapter 13: Eponymous-1995
Chapter 14: G3/Crystal Planet-1997
Chapter 15: Engines of Creation-2000
Chapter 16: Strange Beautiful Music-2002
Chapter 17: Is There Love in Space?-2004
Chapter 18: Super Colossal-2006
Chapter 19: Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock-2008
Chapter 20: Chickenfoot I-2009
Chapter 21: Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards-2010
Chapter 22: Chickenfoot III-2011/2012
Chapter 23: Unstoppable Momentum-2013
Chapter 24: Shockwave Supernova-2016
Conclusion: 2017 and Beyond
The Gear: Album by Album
Acknowledgments
Index
For three decades, Joe Satriani, the biggest-selling instrumental rock guitarist in the Soundscan era, has traveled the world, playing to sold-out crowds both as a headliner and as founder of the all-star "G3" guitar extravaganza. His studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Of his 14 solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. In 1988, Mick Jagger invited Joe to perform as lead guitarist on his first solo tour, and in 1994, Joe toured with Deep Purple as their lead guitarist. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar and former bassist Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, saw their debut album certified gold.
Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown has written 43 published books since 2001, featuring many authorized collaborations with some of rock's biggest artists, including 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Heart (with Ann and Nancy Wilson), country music legends Merle Haggard and Freddy Powers, heavy metal pioneers Motorhead (with Lemmy Kilmister), late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur (with the estate), celebrated rock drummer Kenny Aronoff, legendary R&B producer Teddy Riley, country rap star Big Smo, late funk pioneer Rick James, the superstar country music anthology Nashville Songwriter, all-star rock drummers anthology Beyond the Beats, all-star rap producers Hip Hop Hits anthology, and the all-star rock producers anthology Behind the Boards, among many others. Brown is a regular contributor to Tape Op magazine (including the 2016 AES cover story with Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan), has appeared as the featured biographer of record on Fuse TV's Live Through This series and Bloomberg TV's Game Changers series, and received national press in Rolling Stone magazine, CBS News, USA Today, MTV.com, Hollywood Reporter, Parade magazine, Billboard, and others. In 2012, Brown won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award in the category of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
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