michelle
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I got my STRANGE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC book in the mail today! Fantastic pictures, especially the early 70's pics (jr)! The "Bamboo" pic is EPIC! The pic for "All Alone" has always been one of my favorite pics.Then there's Joe and Jeff tits out onstage. LOL!
Great words of praise by some of the greats. Joe's acknowledgements in the back of the book are very sweet. I haven't read the forward yet. I want to save that until I start reading the book.
This is gonna be a great read! Hope y'all got a copy!
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Mon Apr 28 '14 4:58:29 pm
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JR
JR Riccio
Goodyear, AZ
Earth
Plays: Guitar (54 years)
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I think no matter what aspects of Joe's catalog the listener holds close to their heart&mind as a musical experiences, this book is a must-have to see behind some of the creative forces of the music and every effort to capture it in the studios, live and 'at home'. Each album is unique in it's own way and these pages guide you on those journeys from the "EP" to" Unstoppable", including Chicken Foot as well.
Though I have much reading left to do, parts of what I was able to move through were riveting in so many ways. Creative determination is all I could think of reading most of this so far, along with clearly focused artistic drive to capture exactly what Joe is hearing - before we do! Every musician, guitarist or player of any other instrument will love this content. The creative process, it's inspirations, the technical processes and 'challenges' are all there. More than few surprises as well on how all this 'Strange Beautiful Music' came to be. A personal favorite is, .. Yes, Shel, a photo of Joe talking details in the studio with a personal hero - Mick Jagger! Whoa. I have to add that I was compelled to spin some of the catalog just to reflect on what I was reading - and then hearing. Joe is very revealing in this book; Some might say from the heart, to which I agree, but I will add "from the gut" too. Bravo Joe and Jake.
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John Wooley
Middleburg, Florida
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I never thought I'd say this but, I'm gonna give the box a pass..having listened to Joe's awesome tunes every day since my "Surfing" cassette, and gotten every release,bonus track, best buy copy of "Black Swans" etc. the only song missing was "Ghosts"..but it's on the serious mindtrip "Paris" disc..all the stuff still sounds great to me..I just crank it and go!
and one more thing, if UM just came out why remaster it already? there is no question the man makes the best albums when he's doing it..so what? maybe I'm just crazy lol..I love Joe truly and would have so bought the silver head thing! THAT is cool..! but I am so freakin' poor anymore..there are so many other things syphoning your cash away! it's just not funny..Joe you will always be the man to me!
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Wed Apr 30 '14 5:58:15 am
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green_eyes1025
Debi Hach
Saint Louis, MO
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Just wanted to say that I have been a fan of yours since a friend of mine (also wonderful guitarist) introduced me to your music back in 1992. I was able to see you in concert, I believe at POPS, in Sauget, Il. Hoping you will make it back to the Saint Louis, MO or surrounding area for a tour. There are a lot of people out my way that love you and your music!
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Wed Apr 30 '14 10:22:36 am
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Guitarvibes
Frits The T2J heretic.
The Netherlands
Plays: Guitar (1007 years)
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Joe!!!!!!!!!!! Yeahhhh box set is here!
My 1st inclination was to play them in release sequence (the way they're boxed) but i couldn't resist going for my fav albums first, since my CD player can 'only' contain six cd's. The only box i had was FZ's Shut up n play yer guitar with three cd's so this really feels like opening a treasury. When I started CD 1 my ears popped right away like you ve been at high altitude for weeks. Isn t that weird? Or is it the other way around and do the remasters take me to ........
update: By now I've A/B-ed Crystal Planet and what he says in interviews is true, there's is more room / air in the remaster. You can hear individual instruments better. The original CD sounds more powerful because everyting, including bass, is loud and clearly compressed. The thought that came to mind was it sounds more "jazz" meaning hearing individual parts and how it's all puzzeld together. So it's good Joe's finally moved up to McLaughlin recording standards. Don't hide anything in noise.
What I also -think- I hear (have to be careful not to imagine hearing things) is more nuances in Joe's sound / tone, leads sound more different between songs. Still listening to Crystal Planet since it's my long time nr1.
Switching to headphones now. Ready for take-off.....
UPdate2: I listen on monitors in my homestudio. The bettter your stereo (hifi) set the more difference and detail you will hear. If your speakers suck invest in a serious pair of headphones, I was out of this world playing the CD's on my Sennheisers HD280-pro. I've said it many times before and I will say it again: fuck MP3 (my portable players often have WAV and FLAC files)
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Two Shay
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Just like I said earlier…
"….but the sound seems better to me overall.
I'm sure the peeps with the really good gear and the musos can tell you better and why, but like I say, on my puny bose system it just sounds better."
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Thu May 1 '14 2:55:07 am
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Guitarvibes
Frits The T2J heretic.
The Netherlands
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Bose is not puny darling!
Let's say it's worth purchasing and owning doubles in the Satch collection.
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Thu May 1 '14 2:57:10 am
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Thanks guitarvibes it sounds fab can't wait to receive mine :)
Toosh - I was wondering what equipment we're actually meant to play it on to hear the difference.
Thanks for coming to Melbourne Joe xxx
Currently have Mr. Jones by Counting Crows paused.
Posted using Talk2Joe - one of Roo's iPhone apps
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Thu May 1 '14 4:10:08 am
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Guitarvibes
Frits The T2J heretic.
The Netherlands
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I couldn't believe my ears when I heard almost forgotten tracks 'Banana Mango II" and "Dog with crown and earring" remastered. Art with a capital A.
Surprisingly even the latest album sounds improved...
And getting inspired to change, maybe improve, my own guitartones.
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...hey ! well i1m here today yesterday the library was puttting a new controlbase in so their was no internet! Anyways hahuh! major work at my house man hey ,joe well normally I have a guy that does like my property mainteanance but this year it was too Bad like too major well are winter started in October and didnt end just till last month april!.about every 13 years my propert well not where I ride but,around my house get so bad from winetr I have to do it myself hey joe the backyard had tree branches off yukon pines man as big as some hole trees in it serious yoou couldnt even go out their. the front yard had about 8 inch deep long pine needls man and leafs from apple tree I took back into the bush 4 16 foot lumber tarps full of pine neeedles and leafs man i rake em into piles then rake them onto a trap then pull the tarp back to my property out back and dump it my brother benny was down from coe hill to give me a litttle hand with it I did most but beeny is strong too though my mom is too old man 66 or 67 now too old too help. then, I had to rebuild my toilet keep in mind im working out in my basement the hole time have alitttle workout do some work out side well its, perfect though but anyways,I had to rebuild my toilet just listen I have a semi automatic mig welder toilet well it has a 7000.00 dollar part in it from the stihl chainsaw sharop warranted fro 30 years the ball cok it,s for a swedish mig welderi got the part 20 years ago for 5600.00 cash special order from Sweden anyways last fall near winetr my toilet started going it was running useing water and im on a well with electric waterpump now theirs no shut off for the toilet you have to turn the water off for the hole house which would have meant is something went woorng with out the pump running the water would free so i used steel wool to resurface the flappper valve whic is like rubbber to get it to seeal the flush handle broke i used a piec of chain and ellectric tape and wire .Now the washroom has like green toilet bathtub and sink man real good ones crane the are ,you cant just buy greeen new toile 100.00 man but still it,s got my welder part the other part now i looked around man at flappper valves and handles,you can buy the valve seperat 5 ucks or you can buy a toilet tank rebuild kit the kit had a bettter qualit flappper valve man and i measured and bought a handle sepratly near the end of winetr at the home hardware building center hitchen and bath sale the kit 13 .57 each the handle 10 .00 so 3 days ago I over hauled it man shes beautiful their only cheap parts man univerasal parts home hardware but brand new their plastaic right and rubbber the origanial handle was brass and chrome anyways I new I had a big boul movenet comeing man from general electric serious I use a welder their the size of most houses mig welder with wedling wire on a wheel the whell of wire lookes like a water wheel it,s that big their callledpetehenia welders anyways so it was fixed for my poo today this moring and I feel better it,s een fixed for 3 days ansd that that bens back in coe hill with erich moms at my place last few days team husqvran stoppped by from seweden with some bags of money dont know 8 million or something the assitants bank manager came over and picked em up so everythings doone manjust picked up a litttle 20 pack of smokes serious rebuilt toilet man it took exctly an hourhave a smoke outside then the bnk with draw my dissabilty the foodland toilet paper may 26 haret doctor in peterbough im sure im good though ridieng my mountain bike curretly anwyas talk to you later I know your fine today later wolf2.
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jadarite
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My G3: JOE SATRIANI, STEVE MORSE, ADRIAN BELEW
Japan
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We need to fix this shitty tour schedule. Satriani, if you are going to go on tour with a CD you pumped out last year, then you need to show us a full schedule. What is this G4 crap without Vai or Morse? I will be in the US in August to November at least. I want to see some more dates. None of this crappy G4 rubbish. Let's see a real tour schedule. Show us at least 10 tour spots.
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III
Costa Mesa, CA
United States
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I've only listened to NOTE and SWTA so far, but wow...Joe's box set sounds amazing. I don't know how John Cuniberti makes all this old music sound so huge, but it's awesome. I'm really impressed by how good NOTE sounds...it sounds like it was recorded yesterday, not 30 years ago.
My Satch discography was a mix of original pressings and various remasterings over the years, and then imports, compilations, and iTunes to get all the bonus tracks...so the only things "new" to me are the versions of Time Machine, Cool #9, Luminous Flesh Giants, and Z.Z.'s song. But it's great to have everything in one place, in a package that's all been remastered at the same time.
I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but if you're on the fence about this at all you need to go buy it...now. Amazon has it for about $85.
Have a lot of people finished reading the book, or not quite yet? I finished that before diving into the box set...Joe's always been open with the press and his fans so there aren't any earth-shattering secrets in the book, but it's still a great read.
I got into Joe during the G3/Crystal Planet era, so my favorite parts of the book are the unfamiliar things before that...especially sections on the EP and NOTE. I know I (politely) complain about certain songs being in the setlist tour after tour, but after reading Joe's comments on their recording process, I totally understand why he plays them all the time. The die-hard fan in me will always want to hear Joe's other songs until I've heard them all, but it's OK. :-)
michelle - Chad Smith and the Bombastic Meatbats were awesome. I took a few pictures, but they're still on my camera...I'll try to upload a few tomorrow morning for you. Chad really runs the show, and he's so full of energy, it's great. Guitarist Jeff Kollman's mom was there, and Chad was making a lot of VERY funny and almost offensive jokes about her all night.
I don't know if you've seen any pictures of the Baked Potato, but it's a small place with a low ceiling made of those tiles you see in offices. Chad was throwing drumsticks up there and getting them stuck like they were pencils...it was great.
They closed the show with a very cool jazzy cover of Who Are You.
...Austin...
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Alan McKenna
Dublin
Ireland
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Whats the jazz with Summer Song, Austin!? ;)
It's actually quite reasonably priced for a whole catalog of music. I shall pick it up along with the book when I return to the merry homeland
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Two Shay
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Skippy - I would guess you'd notice the difference on any good quality audio system. My multimedia system cost about £1250 about 8 years ago but it's not a patch on the sort of gear that some of the musos have.
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Sat May 3 '14 4:55:17 am
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funkybunch31
Marc Schleh
Seattle, WA
USA
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Hey Joe,
I thought you would enjoy this: 'Ice 9' has been discovered:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11864#.U2bZrOhX-uZ
cheers!
-funkybunch
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Paul Eddy
MUKWONAGO, Wisconsin
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Just needed to contact with kudos on the remastering job of the box set. I was pleasantly amazed at the clarity and separation of parts that, although present in the original, were hardly as up front. NIce use of mid separation. The first 2 discs were complete revelations. The whole set, except the last 2, which probably needed very little work, were markedly better sonically. The synths on Engines of Creation sounded as if they were live in my studio. Outstanding job Mr. Cuniberti! Really overdue, considering the amount of material amassed in your career, Joe. Even though I owned every original, your EP included, I needed to hear these for myself. It was well worth the money. I really had forgotten what an innovator you were, and the style diversity afforded you as an instrumentalist, vs. going the traditional front man vocalist route. Jeff Beck's career has spanned decades as has yours, just for this reason. Best to you. Cheers.
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