Hi Joe fans!
I would like to post up some ideas. If you like them, please loudly support them to try to get Joe interested!
1)
Joe’s contribution to music lies not only in his guitar
playing but in the players he’s produced. It would be great to
see a concert celebrating this. What about getting all his
now-famous students together in to a concert or tribute tour of concerts? Rather like G3, each artist could perform some of their own work, Joe could do his stuff and maybe they could all jam at the end? Or something along these lines.
It would be a brilliant show as you have such an array of
musical styles – Charlie Hunter with his jazz, Alex Skolnick
doing jazz-rock, Steve Vai with technical guitar rock etc.
David Bryson and Kirk Hammett would work out extremely well – their respective groups, ‘Counting Crows’ and
‘Metallica’ are huge acts and would really help to promote
him and sell the show (hopefully they could play with their
groups, but if not could still appear on their own). As there
would be many acts each one would maybe play only a few songs or alternatively if you wanted longer sets from each it could be made to last more over an afternoon and evening.
Next year Joe celebrates his 50th birthday. Perhaps it would be ideal and relevant to stage this around that time?
An idea for a name for the whole thing could be ‘The
Satchfest’ (as in the tribute to Ozzy Osbourne being ‘The
Ozzfest’).
A DVD of the shows would be very important and in great demand I think.
p.s. please come to England as this is where I live!
2)
Another thought I had would be for Joe to release a timeline of
concert footage throughout his career, from the early days until now. It could include different gigs, with as many different songs as possible, a certain amount off each album perhaps. It would be great to also include pieces that haven’t currently been released on DVD eg. ‘Not of this Earth’, ‘The
Snake’, ‘War’, ‘New Blues’ etc as well as standards.
This could be done with maybe 3 or 4 DVDs in one package.
With his music, it is so important to see the material being
performed rather than just listening to it. It is so impressive
to watch him play, to see how he ‘crafts’ his songs through
the guitar, and adds a whole new dimension to the ‘Satriani
experience’. I’m sure fans would be really interested in a
visual documentary/anthology-style thing such as this,
especially the early gigs aspect as we don’t have anything
from that era.
Maybe Joe could give audio commentary over the various stages and albums of his career being covered.
Also, I’m sure we would be intrigued to hear the songs from
Joe’s days with ‘The Squares’. Maybe these could
be released as well as part of a retrospective of his career?
Perhaps it would be appropriate to issue all of this to coincide
with ‘The Satchfest’ and his 50th birthday?
3)
And finally, in terms of new musical direction, I would love to
see Joe perform his music with a classical orchestra – like
Metallica with the brilliant ‘S and M’ (from which a DVD
could be done!). Maybe also an acoustic album, a jazz album or a collaboration with a singer (like Vai’s ‘Sex and
Religion’) would be interesting ideas?
Cheers everyone.
