Well, technically it was shipped today, but never the less!

Edited Tue Apr 1 '08 1:30 pm

Tarek HM

Great work, as always, Joe. I'm already looking forward to the next release!

Rock's Newest Professor To Launch G3 Tour With Smartest Lineup Yet

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Fresh off the release of his latest album, Professor Satchifunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, instrumental guitarist Joe Satriani has announced plans for his next G3 tour.

Joining Professor Satriani on guitar for the almost annual guitar mini-festival will be longtime G3 participant Steve Vai, who was awarded an honorary doctorate of music by Berklee College of Music in 2000, and former Queen guitarist Brian May, who last year completed his Ph.D. thesis at Imperial College London.

"I've made a lot of stupid decisions over the course of my career," said Satriani, who has played guitar for Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger on his 1998 solo tour and filled in for Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore for a series of shows in 1993. "I figured it was about time for me to do something smart. I don't have the academic credentials that the other guitarists on this tour have, but with the name of my new record I think I'll fit in fine."

This latest incarnation of the G3 tour, scheduled for summer 2008, is not the first time Satriani, Vai and May have crossed paths. The three guitarists appeared on different tracks on The Yardbirds' 2003 album Birdland, released on Vai's Favored Nations record label. The guitarists look forward to performing together this time.

"I've always been a fan of Joe Satriani's music," May said. "Beginning with his earliest records, Not Of This Earth and Surfing With The Alien, and continuing to his newer discs such as Is There Love In Space?, astronomy and science fiction has always been a part of his music. And that's not too far off from my line of study."

May's 2007 Ph.D. thesis is titled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.

The guitarists have been on stage together once before, at a 1992 concert in Sevilla, Spain, so the trademark G3 jam won't be new to them. But to keep things interesting, Satriani will include a fourth band on the G3 tour as an opening act at select shows. In sticking with the tour's theme, Satriani has chosen the band Einstein, a side project of former collaborator Jonathan Mover. The tour traditionally doesn't feature an opening act, but one has been included occasionally, going back to the first G3 tour when Kenny Wayne Shepherd opened up for Satriani, Vai, and Eric Johnson.

The tour will include dates in 35 cities across North America in August and September. More information will be posted at satriani.com and g3tour.com as it becomes available.

2008-04-01

With the good comes the bad, and at the album's most embarrassing moment, "I Just Wanna Rock" advertises cornball clichés with a proudly clanked cowbell, a talkbox Frampton-izing, and a boisterous crowd chant-along. This is a new low for Joe -- practically an open letter admitting that he's OK with the idea of becoming passé. At a time when his former pupil Steve Vai is experimenting with radical orchestral arrangements, it would be nice to see the professor branch even further away from his trademark style, ditch the '80s production, and try something more unconventional, but for the most part he's doing what he does best here, and fans will be content with that

If you do your'e review of new CD on daily basis please post link to full review at the end.

Thank you Joe.

what's up with that extra track called Ghost on Itunes?

Finished the whole album Joe...it's wonderful....time for a hot bath and then the dvd...hope you had fun at Guitar Center tonight....and 2mo you'll be doing double duty, wow! GC in NY, and get finished in time to hit Rockline by 11ish your time in NY....hope you can get enough sleeps Joe =/