Hi joe hi evrybody Ive just finishing jamming with joe i put my stereo at max and my head at max and i play like a mad im in a house with a lot of wood the floor is in wood the sound is magic ive just finding a good sound with my boss gt6 cool im learning from ure record joe especially the live really in fact i learning every day im not a bad player but i should play in a band maybe next year i must find good musician . Cool the post cast really funny I ve tryed the satchurador its a good pedal like it gonna buy it i had the number 29 of the pedal in my hand and its cool good work joe the wah gonna be perfect i presume i also try a js1200 really cool guitar is the next one that i gonna buy with a jsx head . U kwow that my friend Patrick Rondat use ure amp for his next album u let them in france during ure last tour the clear channel is rectify true ? So let u joe good luck to ure tour and i wait from the dvd!!!

Hey Joe and all, looks like it's been real active here recently, I came on to find 18 pages of comments...haven't had much time recently...lol

But I had a question for Joe or anyone who might be able to answer it for me.

On the song "Lifestyle" how do you obtain that really cool effect with that the lead guitar is doing in the beginning and throughout the song. It is done with Tremolo Bar, Whammy Pedal, Wah Wah Pedal (don't think so), or just a vibrato effect?

I am just very curious about this it's just got such a great sound and adds such a cool effect and I'd like to try and play it, but I don't have have a Tremolo Bar on my guitar, so that sucks....but I might just go out and get a whammy pedal if that would help. Can anyone help me?

Attack is my Kittens song for sure.

Anyway Im now officially a self employed photographer.

so anyone wants to pay me loads of dosh to take photos of something?:-)

1>8 JOE SATRIANI

no one compares in my humble opinion-no one has been as consistantly good over 20 odd years of belting out good tune after good tune.

heck not just guitarists, bands and artists to.

i like paul gilbert/ vai /joe perry/ slash/ jeff beck a whole heap but JOE's the man.

I need a hat-where does JOe get his hats from? im a bit bored of baseball caps.

iin the welsh mountains in snowdonia i bought this sort of australian bushhat type hat thing. thought i looked like the bee's knees and every one on that trip said it looked good and then i saw the photos of me and i looked a right tit!

whats more i walked up a mountain and down it, i bet everyone thought 'who the heck does he think he is 'Baden Powell'

not quite as embarrassing as what my fiance of ten years plus found, a present i bought her in our early years- a jigsaw of myself!

I mean why? whats wrong with me!-where did the thought 'cor she will like that' come from?

work is boring and the money is shit-i hate the 9-5 grind-anyone agree. i get to try and motivate underpaid young people whod rather be having sex than doing work (and i cant blame them) every day.And whats more i have to smile and enjoy it cuz as soon as the deputy manager says its shit they will all just use it as an excuse to do even less work(which i think is just about possible)

sigh...

JS1200.........Hey, What Up? How are you doing? Well everything is going great....no complaints and no one listens anyway....lol.....Chicago is going into a Heatwave....gonna be in the mid to upper 90's for the next couple of days. TOOOOO!!!!!!!! HOOOOOT !!!!!!

Chicago EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have A Great Evening Everyone !!!!!!!!!

Argh...my Jonny Lang concert was cancelled tonight. Apparently he has laryngitis. So I drove from Long Beach to Anaheim to eat an overpriced hamburger at the House Of Blues. Oh well. ;-)

He was my introduction to instrumental guitar rock. I heard Cliffs Of Dover on KLOS a lot in the mid 1990s, and then they played Pavillion quite a bit when Venus Isle came out.

A short while later I'm looking through a magazine from Columbia House or BMG and I come across a CD called "G3: Live In Concert." My initial thought was "I'll buy this because it has Eric Johnson on it, but I've never heard of these other two guys."

And now here I am. :-)

Also, as much as I love Led Zeppelin, there's no reason they should have four albums on a top 20 list. All that does is show the listmaker didn't look at a wide enough variety of music.

Are you sure about that? I've never tried to get a guitar signed so I don't know, but as far as I know Ibanez lets Joe play whatever he wants in concert and on records. It sounds like his contract is pretty open. Has something changed recently?

And if anyone's wondering, this remaster sounds excellent and I highly recommend it. It's very well done. I haven't listened to October or War yet but based on this and the Joshua Tree from last year, I'm sure they'll be just as good.

Do the Stu: Right at the beginning after the drum intro the heavy up-down sound that the notes have. It sounds like a mild vibratro pedal effect but it's so synchronized with one up-down per note. Almost like a half bend but way to fast for a bend, trust me I tried.

It starts at clock point 00:02 and ends at clock point 00:32 when he first starts singing and repeats throughout the song. Really awesome effect whatever it is and I just wanna know how to emulate it.

And I don't know, I've seen people on youtube just playing it without any effect (as well as myself) and it totally sounds different so there's gotta be something going on...

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Ken : Noticed that you were talking about Electric Ladyland. I think i won't learn to you that Jimi was the big crossroad of american blues & british boom. But do you know that Jimi was fascinated by Haendel? So fascinated that he lived in a flat in the London street Haendel, & had built his studio in this street?

Electric Ladyland is totally under the Haendel's influence. & that's a very good thing. Haendel has given to Jimi an other dimension.

A dimension that no bluesman had gotten before, & that no bluesman has gotten since.

Jimi is the greatest Bluesman of the 20th century. & this has something to see with Haendel.

WhammyFreak - Ah, OK... I'd say he's just using the whammy bar there. If Joe is reading this it'd be cool if he could chime in, as I might be way off...but here's my reasoning:

I think it's safe to rule out his whammy pedal because he seems to use that on songs with large jumps or octaves (Cool #9, Raspberry Jam Delta-V, Bamboo). The stuff in Lifestyle isn't that "out there". Plus, the Lifestyle part is pretty fast and I've never seen him use any pedal at that tempo...but I have seen/heard him use the whammy bar at that speed in other songs.

The first part in Lifestyle sounds so clean that I can see how someone would think it could be anything, but if you listen to the same part later on in the song (like around the 2:00 mark) I think it's a bit obvious. Around 2:20 it gets a bit sloppier (in a good way...more "human") and I hear some imperfections that wouldn't be there if it were a pedal. And when it comes back at around 3:30, it sounds "bouncier" than what a pedal would give.

And lastly, I remember Joe talking about the song and saying it was one that sat around for a long time before it was released. He'd try it in the studio every now and then over the years but it never came together until ITLIS? So I'm thinking it's from the NOTE era (or maybe even The Squares), but I'll be conservative and say it's a vocal leftover from FIABD. That's still six years before Joe first used the whammy pedal on a record (his self-tilted album).

What a great thing the whammy bar is.

If I ever open a pub or local watering hole, I am going to call it the Whammy Bar.