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Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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Mike Keneally, Marco Minnemann and friend at Slab City, CA on May 27, 2010.
Mike's Satriani Tour, Vai Piano Shows
& Evidence of Humanity CD/DVD!
Careful with that! It's inky!
It's Wednesday afternoon and I'm back. Back in the land of devising new Vai piano arrangements, inch by inch. It's not easy living in this land, but what I'm hearing is crazy. This week is devoted to "Under It All." Intense. I'll be playing three new piano arrangements, and four older ones, at the Steve Vai festival in Groningen in October. It'll be the first time I've ever done live performances of these arrangements. I'll be in fighting trim as a keyboardist, because in order to do those two performances for the Vai festival, I have to take a break for three days from the Joe Satriani European tour that I'll be playing keyboards on.
The Satriani tour. In response to a lot of questions: yeb, I'll be touring with the Satriani band late this year and early next. I'm extremely excited to tour with this group, as I had such an amazingly good time making Joe's new album (the mixes for it are just finished, and the release date is scheduled for just before the tour starts in October).
The two shows I won't be able to play with Joe, because of the Vai solo piano gigs, are the ones in Glasgow and Birmingham - sorry not to be able to make those, but Jem Godfrey will be subbing for me at those gigs and he is superb.
You will find the relevant data, as it currently exists, regarding the Satriani tour and the Vai festival performances, elsewhere in this cunningly designed newsletter!
Mike Keneally/Marco Minnemann
Evidence of Humanity CD/DVD
Pre-sale coming soon to MooseMart.com!
And! We are nearing completion of the video-editing phase on the DVD which will accompany the new CD Evidence of Humanity, by me and Marco Minnemann. This album is my entry in the Marco Minnemann Normalizer 2 series, in which a variety of artists create an album's worth of music to accompany the same 51-minute improvised drum solo. Already released have been albums by John Czajkowski, Trey Gunn, Kerry Chicoine, Alex Machacek and Marco's own take on it. All completely different albums, which all use the same drum track in wildly divergent ways. Now, a bit later than I'd expected to finish it, here comes my version...
...and since it took a while for me to finish, and it's been two years already since the music on Disc 1 (the CD) was recorded, we decided a more current collaboration would round out the package nicely. We videotaped a 54-minute live duo improv that Marco and I did a few weeks ago (and also videotaped a bass overdub I did a few days later), and this additional album-length musical performance appears on Disc 2 (the DVD), Elements Of A Manatee. The DVD also features interview footage with Marco and me talking about the making of Evidence of Humanity, about the entire Normalizer 2 concept, and an oodle of additional topics, conducted in the car on the way to the album cover photo shoot at the Salton Sea.
Mike
Keneally Concert Calendar
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Mike Keneally Band
with special guest
The Bryan Beller Band
THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME BAND
Mike Keneally - guitar/keys/vocals
Bryan Beller - bass
Rick Musallam - guitar/backing vocals
Griff Peters - guitar
Joe Travers - drums
The Baked Potato
3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West
Studio City, CA 91604
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Shows: 9:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Info: 818-980-1615
Mike on keyboards with Joe Satriani in Europe*
* Mike won't be performing at these two Satriani shows; he'll be in Holland with Steve Vai (see below)
thats it, im sure when i hit post it will be formated all arseways, hopefully its ok
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Fri Jul 30 '10 4:47:22 pm
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Guitarzan5150
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Hey Joe!
Quick question for you. Could you share what made the big difference for you in transitioning from a guitar player to pro guitarist? Maybe events, people, revelations, etc.? Thank you, sir!
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Fri Jul 30 '10 8:01:23 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Unbelievable! Al, that's the longest post I've ever seen from you! If Steve Vai or Joe Satriani takes your audition and hires you.......I don't want to miss those concerts and albums.....Just dreamin' here in my cave of an office.
Joe--The best teachers are precious and deserve to be remembered forever. Sorry to hear about the loss and yet so appropriate to hear it directly from you.
GG2
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Fri Jul 30 '10 10:31:53 pm
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MAQK ANTHONY
mark chetcuti st.clair, new south wales australia Plays: Guitar (37 years)
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hey joe,
hows your day and when can we expect a new album
from you. will you be caming back to sydney australia,
keep on rockin'
Maqk Anthony
p.s. can i open the show for you, be your support act
thanks
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Sat Jul 31 '10 2:02:16 am
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tikimon
tampa, florida usa Plays: Guitar (56 years)
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"a credit card helped" ahahahahahah good 1. guess if ya didn't see the vid it makes no sense. poop gotta work today. not to bad tho, taking the js and mini collosal to help while away the time.
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Sat Jul 31 '10 7:58:19 am
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tikimon
tampa, florida usa Plays: Guitar (56 years)
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not a dive job scubz. this is my real make money job. i wish i was diving, it is a beautiful weekend here. i 'll be in west palm beach next weekend for a martial arts thingie and i am hoping to sneak out and get a couple of night dives in saturday and a couple of afternoon dives in sunday. won't be working these just having fun.
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Sat Jul 31 '10 12:38:11 pm
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III Costa Mesa, CA United States Plays: Bass (25 years)
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Here's a cool interview with Joe Bonamassa about Black Country Communion. There is a Chickenfoot mention, but it isn't anything special.
If Amazon is right, the BCC album will be out in late September.
http://www.rockrealms.com/interrogation/blackcountrycommunion.php
Oh, and Zinc Master, thanks for the Rush pics/review you posted earlier.
Listening to: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (current song: Shesmovedon)
...Austin...
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Sat Jul 31 '10 12:58:54 pm
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wolf2
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....Hey conservation authority was here again!.This Time to make sure I have prescription CODEINE man .Yeah your not allowed to be on crown land unless you have taken prescription codeine man and have ample supply at your bed area !.You see your not suppose to know where to go unless your stoned sort of thats one factor the other reaseon why you have to be high when your ride is because animals say a snake a bear a wolf a moose rams yeah if they bit you the codeine keeps the teeth away from the arteries the arteries go in the other direction.Some people try rideing 4 wheelers hey the goverments got this racket for a 4 wheeler you need alittle plate to ride on crown land.They sell it to you No problem at the ministry of transportation then MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES HAS THEIR ANGLE the codeine amn .Now you have to fill out the codeine appliction at the doctors office you have to own a buissness -that would require you to need codeine you have to prove the resaon why you need the codeine involve with your buissness .It,s quite complicated but one tylenol 2 will get you higher then you ever been if you been off them for 2 3 months take a couple a day for a few days then do one1 youlle be flying .Your trying to tell me babe i just been their the old husky and i been at the marina buying fuel my chainsaw been going non stop man! fuel money I have alarge high capacity husky tank fr it have to paint again and put it on or do the marina gig once you do codeine man nothing not even heroin will get you higher prescription codeing e man the drug stor etheir my druglord later wolf2.
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Sat Jul 31 '10 2:48:21 pm
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michelle
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2003 interview
Kim: Who would you say is your biggest musical influence that is not a guitarist?
Joe Well, probably my high school music theory teacher. He was the one that was able to reach me as a teenager and show me that there were mysteries out there that could be explained about music. That every musician that walked the planet before me started out equally ignorant and was taught by somebody, or a few people, about what all the musicians before them had done. I learned not only music history, but music theory and was enlightened by biographies of great musicians from the classical world, the pop world and the jazz world. All those things put together really help you sort things out. When you're a young kid and you've got music in your head, you really want to try to get it out, but you don't know how it fits together. So he was a big influence on me that way. He sort of helped me figure out what it was to be a musician. How you're supposed to go about your life. It can be very difficult. The way that all of the humans have progressed in civilization is to label things. You know, not only objects but feelings, inclinations, ideas. In the case of music, they call it music theory and make it sound more important than it really is. Basically, when you get a sound in your head, and you want to remember it, you've got to call it something. If you get a sound in your head, and you want someone else in the room to understand what it is, you've got to call it something. Whatever you call it, if that other person is familiar with that lexicon or that language, then they'll know what that sound in your head is. Imagine before there was measurement and somebody had to describe length to somebody. In music it's the same way. I can look at a musician and say "I need a minor 6th there and I need it in a triplet eighth note" and that's the language that we use and then I can communicate the sound in my head to that musician so they understand it. There's just this huge vocabulary that you have to learn in order to interpret what's going on inside of you and can understand and translate all the music coming at you from other musicians. A lot of starting out as a musician is learning that language. You learn a lot about the music that's in your head when you get that language together. It's a great experience.
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Sat Jul 31 '10 2:59:30 pm
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vicentemoyaa
vicente moya andrades malaga, malaga spain
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Dear Mr Satriani,
My name is Vicente and I live in Malaga (southern Spain). My family and I are great fans of your music. Specially my two cousins, FJ and JA, who have a rock band called “Remember Rock” and always play some songs from your repertoire in each concert.They both went to see the last two concerts you offered to the Spanish public.
FJ (46, computer engeneer) has been struggling against leucemia for six years. Last summer he underwent a marrow transplant. He enjoys playing the guitar so much that when he had to stay in hospital for long periods asked to be sent his musical gear -he has tried hard not to waste a minute of joy in his life- and recorded some of your songs. Unfortunately, he is at present in very bad condition, and we think that he's going to pass away in very few days.
And this is the reason why I'm writing; I'd like to ask you to write some encouraging words to him. He doesn't know that he's dying; we haven't told him the whole truth as we want him to go peacefully. He would go crazy with appreciation if he received a short message from his idol!
I hope that your agenda will enable you to do this little favour for us.
Thanks a lot and best wishes.
His name is Francisco Jose Medina and his email fcojmedina@gmail.com
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Sat Jul 31 '10 3:28:49 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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OK Michelle since you put out the 2003 interview.....That makes sense.
JOE--You are so right on about there being a language to music, similar to a math language and various computer languages......that made no sense to me, but must make sense to Jon Luini. Anyway, I gave a listen to "You Saved My Life" yet again for the zillionth time and really felt the overlays of guitar--acoustic rhythm, and 3 electric guitar voices speaking so clearly of a life-sustaining love that is so huge it reaches beyond the moments and stays with me beyond the minutes of the song. Prior to listening to "You Saved ....", I was listening to "Standchen" by Schubert/Liszt and was thinking it was written about the time pianos were the great musical instruments many people either had or wanted in their homes. I think now the guitar is the more desirable home musical instrument because of its size and portability and it's so important in today's popular music.
Anyway, music definitely has a language that young musicians learn and I am so grateful for teachers like Bill Westcott who reached out to open minds like yours, Joe. I'm glad you were receptive.
GoldenGirl2
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Sat Jul 31 '10 8:33:51 pm
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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when i took up music in high school he used to get the teacher to sight read our half arsed scores on piano, i used to always try n write out guns n roses songs, it was a kick when we'd go up 1 by 1 to play out pieces, good ole days, those music folk teach some good shit, really get the basics in and more
and i copy n pasted thaat other message ya madman..
f'd up nnight tonight met these random chick playin foosball, the chick was nuts.. all ims aying glad i got outa that one
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Sat Jul 31 '10 9:10:55 pm
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onnonsrv
Jonathan Hazel, KY USA Plays: Guitar (25 years)
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WhammyFreak that was an awesome video you posted of joe here is one thats kindly hard to find on youtube also.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vm8AUQFPw8
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Sat Jul 31 '10 11:06:25 pm
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wolf2
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...Mannnnn! what the hell,s happening to me I feel ruined destroyed must have been rideing the husky I worked this morning .Have to shave have the husqvarna whizkers man their black! and my hairs brown! the husky whiskers are wild man ,You know razor head cartridges i have seen the husky whizkers break 3 cartidges before it cuts it I have gillette gel should soften them up enough to cut deffinetly neeed codeine now holdie fuck! later gator wolfinator.
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Sun Aug 1 '10 5:49:50 am
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travelermkd
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Hi,
Joe, I bought the Satchurator the other day, and I must say I am really impressed how it fits my sound likes, being able to get the sound I want. But can you please tell me a good setting which I would get a good bluesy sound with? :)
best wishes Joe and keep on rocking, you're the best there :)
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Sun Aug 1 '10 6:12:35 am
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WhammyFreak
Plays: Keyboards (17 years)
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onnonsrv, I have seen that clip a few times...but truly that is an awesome song...I will favorite that one for sure...
Anyone else got rare Joe vids I should be aware of?
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Sun Aug 1 '10 8:01:21 am
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