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Biography

Joe Satriani is the world’s most commercially successful solo guitar performer, with six gold and platinum discs to his credit (including one more gold award for the debut album by his band Chickenfoot), and sales in excess of 10 million copies. His 16th studio album, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (Jan 12, 2018), picked up rave reviews as yet another creative breakthrough - this for a guitarist who has routinely topped guitar magazine polls since the release of his first full-length album, NOT OF THIS EARTH, in 1986.

Since September 18, 1970 (the day his idol Jimi Hendrix passed away), Satriani has dedicated himself to the artistry of the instrument. While still a teenager in his hometown of Westbury, New York, he taught guitar to another budding six-string hopeful, Steve Vai. A few years later, Satriani moved to San Francisco and played guitar in a popular new wave band, The Squares, and briefly joined The Greg Kihn Band before the release of NOT OF THIS EARTH.

As a live performer, Satriani has toured the world with each new release (his last concert tour for 2013’s “Unstoppable Momentum” saw the guitarist touch down in 32 countries). In 1993, he joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for Ritchie Blackmore during a Japanese tour. In 1996, Satriani founded the multi-guitarist traveling experience called G3, which has seen him share stages with Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robert Fripp, among others. And starting in 2009, Satriani traversed the globe again as a member of Chickenfoot. The all-star band (which also includes singer Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith) has issued two albums, their debut and 2011’s follow-up, CHICKENFOOT III.

Satriani’s solo discography includes a host of classics, including 1989’s FLYING IN A BLUE DREAM,  THE EXTREMIST from 1992, IS THERE LOVE IN SPACE? (2004) and 2010’s BLACK SWANS AND WORMHOLE WIZARDS. His 15 Grammy nominations have been for songs such as ‘Always With Me, Always With You’, ‘The Crush Of Love’ and ‘Summer Song’, as well as full albums like SURFING WITH THE ALIENS, THE EXTREMIST and SUPER COLOSSAL.

Satriani has appeared in motion pictures such as Christopher Guest’s 2006 release, For Your Consideration, and the 2011 Brad Pitt starrer, Moneyball. Through the years, he has designed and endorsed guitars, amplifiers and effects pedals for Ibanez, Marshall and Vox. His JS Series of guitars through Ibanez has been one of the company’s most popular and consistent sellers.

For two decades, the guitar virtuoso has travelled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star G3 guitar extravaganza. SATRIANI’s studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date and of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar, former bassist Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith saw their debut album certified gold and their second studio album debuted at #9.

Since its debut in 1996, SATRIANI’s G3 tour has featured the world’s greatest guitarists (everyone from Steve Vai and Eric Johnson to Steve Lukather and Robert Fripp and John Petrucci and Uli Jon Roth) and has become a consistent concert hall sell-out attraction in the U.S., South America, Europe, Australia and Japan. “I think part of its charm and its mojo is in the chemistry of having three top guitarists share what they do on stage,” says Satriani. “It’s fun, it’s unpredictable, it’s wild - it’s everything you could want in a show.”

Since the 2017 release of his WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? album, SATRIANI, toured his G3 Guitar Extravaganza worldwide to critical acclaim, and then embarked on the Experience Hendrix US tour. He recently released SQUARES, a collection of previously unreleased material by his first, pre-fame band, Squares and announced the re-release of his classic 1987 album, SURFING WITH THE ALIEN which will arrive with new artwork and a bonus disc, “Stripped - the Backing Tracks,” featuring the songs with all guitar solos removed.

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