Hello Joe

I have all your discography and i have to say that your music always make me company during my life! Every new album feels strange at the begining, but then always taste good, very good!! I like all of them!!

But there is one special for me, because it was my first and I think that revels a different side from your music. So, here is the question... do you have plans to do something more like the "Joe Satriani" album?

Dear Satch,

I was absolutely blown away by Surfing With the Alien in 1990. From a small town, I was working in the big city of Ottawa for the summer and my friend came to visit. He had bought the tape by accident (looking for a Santana tape). His first words to me after not seeing me for more than a year was "Dave, you gotta listen to this". We cruised around Ottawa and listened to the entire album non-stop before we said another word. I'll never forget that experience. The next day I bought all 4 of your albums.

A week later I was walking with a friend who lived in Ottawa and told him I would give my left nut to see you play. He responded by telling me you were coming to Ottawa and 2 weeks later I saw you play at the Ottawa Congress Centre. I was about 15 feet away from you, and again, I was absolutely blown away. The whole series of events was like some sort of magic.

Though I had a large music collection, I listened to nothing but your first 4 albums the rest of that year (not at all an exaggeration) and I've been a fan ever since.

At the show I was beside a local newspaper photographer who took a few pictures and left during Flying in a Blue Dream. I was able to get a copy of the picture that appeared in the paper the next day.

I introduced your music to my son, and when he was 12 years old we saw you with Eric Johsnon & Steve Vai in Minneapolis. He's a huge fan as well. I made him his own copy of the photograph and told him we would try to get an autograph, but it was unlikely. In his 12 year old mind that meant it was a certainty, so I regretted doing that.

He's 27 years old now, and I thought I'ld finally make it up to him by flying to see you in Poland including the meet & greet. We were going to see Iron Maiden as well. Unfortunately events conspired against me. However, it turned out Iron Maiden is touring the US this year and we planned a road trip. Unbelievably, I discovered you would be in Grand Prairie at the perfect time. We'll see you there for the meet & greet, and we'll be bringing our pictures for an autograph.

Your passion and dedication to your music has been an inspiration to me most of my life. Your music has been a real part of my life and my memories for more than 33 years.

We can't wait to meet you and see you play again. If you are taking requests, I'ld love to hear Crushing Day included in the set list.

The HAPPIEST of Happy Birthdays to the bestest ever, Michelle!!

Thank you T-Bones! It's been a good day. I do believe it's time to have a beverage and kick back a bit!

Now we're cookin' with gas! lol!

Here's the NEW Hammy Apollo

It's a little bit nicer now - don't ya think PIp?

I'm just a little bit sick about the idea that I won't get to see Living Colour open for Joe here in Ottawa! They are very near the top of my (very short) bucket list of bands that I need to see. I really wish that somehow this could change. Oh well, you can't have everything I suppose.

Quick question guys. Hello everyone, by the way...

I know this question has been asked a million times, but does anyone know what kind of amp Joe used to record Not Of This Earth? Not the whole album per se, but the song in particular.

I'm in the market for a new amp and would like to experiment with that tone. Second to none Joe!!!

Been using solid state all my years of playing and I think it's time to step it up.

Good to see that it is more lively around here since I last checked. Things should pick up around here since Joe is touring the U.S.A.

Happy Belated Michelle. Not to sound like a stalker or anything but you and I have chatted about this or that on occasion, though you probably don't remember(and I don't expect you to). Felicidades all the same.

Thanks Pip!

anibur, you did miss it, but since you're such a doll I'll forgive you! lol! Thanks :-)

Phy, I would have LOVED to see Living Colour too! That would have been a killer opening for Joe! We get Steve Morse instead.

achoo, yes I remember. lol! Safe to say you don't seem like a stalker. This is an open forum, so we all add our 2 cents whenever the mood hits us. Thanks for the bday wishes. Much appreciated! As for Joe's amp on NOTE, can't really help you there.

Joseph, what amp did you use for Not Of This earth?

lol! worth a try, right?

Hey Joe! I'm listening to Jason Becker's Collection Album right now; and if i understand correctly, you helped creating that record.

It's was released in 2008, 5 years ago; so you may have been already been asked this before. Can you recall what it was like play on an album for Jason becker? Do you remember the process, the atmosphere? Which song did you play on? I have a feeling you did River of Longing on that album. :)

Well would you look at that!! Christmas in August with a double from Joe & JR! *angels sing* LOL!!

Thanks Joe!

JR, we have to wait till the 28th to see Joe. Let me know how brilliant he is and be sure to give him a hug for me. lol! Hope all is well with the fam & job. Lotsa changes here. Time does that. All is good though! Can't wait to see Joe with this band. Gonna miss that dimple faced drummer, but change is good, eh? Thanks for the birthday shout. Next year is the biggin, so I'm enjoying the hell out of "40something" for now! lol!

Anybody see the movie Sound City? It was on Palladia tonight. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it! That's rock & roll at it's finest!

1) Hello, dear Joe Satriani. Mostly I write really huge letters, but this time I guess I have to be brief... I am just somebody longhaired person from the Earth who want to share an extremely important information with you, and, I hope, you will like it and will keep spreading all over the world. There is book "Summerhill - A Radical Approach To Child Rearing" written by A. S. Neil in 1960 and already translated at least to 16 languages, but it is not so well-known as I wish it to be.

Here are english and italian texts (actually I already found 8 texts, not just 2): http://rghost.net/48233842 http://rghost.net/48233961

This profound, warm, in very simple way written book, will shake your outlook on education and on life in general. Believe it or not. There is no any thoughtless word put in this truly titanic book. Here are some quotes, but I guess I could quote it endlessly:

"Summerhill began as an experimental school. It is no longer such; it is now a demonstration school; for it demonstrates that freedom works. When my first wife and I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child--instead of making the child fit the school."

"Logically, Summerhill is a place in which people who have the innate ability and wish to be scholars will be scholars; while those who are only fit to sweep the streets will sweep the streets. But we have not produced a street cleaner so far. Nor do I write this snobbishly, for I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar."

"I find that the parent who worries most about Billy’s learning to read and write is one who feels a failure in life because of lack of educational attainment. It is the self-disapproving parent who believes in strict discipline. The jovial man-about-town with a stock of obscene stories will sternly reprove his son for talking about excrement. The untruthful mother will spank her child for lying. I have seen a man, with pipe in mouth, whipping his son for smoking. I have heard a man say as he hit his son of twelve, “I’ll teach you to swear, you little bastard.” When I remonstrated, he said glibly, “It’s different when I curse. He’s just a kid.” "

"The children have classes usually according to their age, but sometimes according to their interests. We have no new methods of teaching, because we do not consider that teaching in itself matters very much. Whether a school has or has not a special method for teaching long division is of no significance, for long division is of no importance except to those who want to learn it. And the child who wants to learn long division will learn it no matter how it is taught. Children who come to Summerhill as kindergartens attend lessons from the beginning of their stay; but pupils from other schools vow that they will never attend any beastly lessons again at any time. They play and cycle and get in people’s way, but they fight shy of lessons. This sometimes goes on for months. The recovery time is proportionate to the hatred their last school gave them. Our record case was a girl from a convent. She loafed for three years. The average period of recovery from lesson aversion is three months."

"The school evades the basic issue: All the Greek and math and history in the world will not help to make the home more loving, the child free from inhibitions, the parent free of neurosis."

2) "Most of the schoolwork that adolescents do is simply a waste of time, of energy, of patience. It robs youth of its right to play and play and play; it puts old heads on young shoulders.When I lecture to students at teacher training colleges and universities, I am often shocked at the ungrownupness of these lads and lasses stuffed with useless knowledge. They know a lot; they shine in dialectics; they can quote the classics but in their outlook on life many of them are infants. For they have been taught to know, but have not been allowed to feel. These students are friendly, pleasant eager, but something is lacking-- the emotional factor, the power to subordinate thinking to feeling. I talk to these of a world they have missed and go on missing. Their textbooks do not deal with human character, or with love, or with freedom, or with self-determination. And so the system goes on, aiming only at standards of book learning -goes on separating the head from the heart."

"The molded, conditioned, disciplined, repressed child--the unfree child, whose name is Legion, lives in every corner of the world. He lives in our town just across the street. He sits at a dull desk in a dull school and later, he sits at a duller desk in an office or on a factory bench. He is docile, prone to obey authority, fearful of criticism, and almost fanatical in his desire to be normal, conventional, and correct. He accepts what he has been taught almost without question; and he hands down all his complexes and fears and frustrations to his children. Psychologists have contended that most of the psychic damage to a child is done in the first five years of life. It is possibly nearer the truth to say that in the first five months, or in the first five weeks or perhaps, even in the first five minutes, damage can be done to a child that will last a lifetime. Unfreedom begins with birth. Nay, it begins long before birth. If a repressed woman with a rigid body bears a child, who can say what effect the maternal rigidity has on the newborn baby! It may be no exaggeration to say that all children in our civilization are born in a life-disapproving atmosphere. The time table feeding advocates are basically anti-pleasure. They want the child to be disciplined in feeding because non-timetable feeding suggestsorgastic pleasure at the breast. The nutriment argument is usually a rationalization; the deep motive is to mold the child into a disciplined creature who will put duty before pleasure."