Surrendipity

You missed a few of his songs with lots of feeling, these including

Revelation (2007 - Professor Satchafunkilis...)
Come On Baby (2007 - Professor Satchafunkilis...)
Out Of The Sunrise (2007 - Professor Satchafunkilis...)
Until We Say Goodbye (2000 - Engines Of Creation)
Love Thing (1999 - Crystal Planet)
All Alone (1993 - Time Machine)
Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness (1992 - The Extremist)
Midnight (Surfing With The Alien - 1987)

And these weren't released when you wrote the list
I'll Put A Stone On Your Cairn (2013 - Unstoppable Momentum)
Weight Of The World (2013 - Unstoppable Momentum)


Im also missing a few from list this as well cause its off the top of my head (but i put them in order of albums for you)

I think Im the only one who agrees with you in this thread too... to be honest its kind of depressing that so many people don't appreciate his music, or think its boring just cause its instrumental, or that this virtuosity is irrelevant cause it started in the 80's. Music is timeless, and i feel sorry for those that can't or simply wont enjoy this music.

In addition but on a tangent, music without lyrics is music. Lyrics without music is poetry. Music can survive and thrive without lyrics, but lyrics are frozen on paper without music.

Chula Vista

Huh?

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Guybrush

Wow, old thread revival.

His chops are legendary and so I don't know if anyone would call those overrated. He's clearly a virtuoso and has done a lot for guitar wankery culture since the 80s. He also has some nice songs. I've heard the hits, like Satch Boogie which is cool and I also liked the song Chula posted up here^

What I mostly associate Satriani with, though, is stuff like this :



Which, as a bit of a KC fan, is like a more wanked and douched up version of Red. I'm sure Vai and Satriani are KC fans too, but I never thought the song needed more posey guitar wank. Maybe they don't either, but it's like the whole song becomes just an excuse to wank off together.

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FRED HALE SR.

Satriani has always been my kind of guitar wankery.



He uses some really bad ass effects and is effortless with feeling.



And live his entire band is always amazing. Stu Hamm is one of the most respected bass players on the planet beside maybe John Patitucci and a few others. Also live more often then not he has Johnathon Mover on drums who is a total prodigy in the highest manner.

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Key

I love Satriani. First time I saw him was on the G3 live DVD with Petrucci and Vai. 3 fantastic guitarists.

Neapolitan

I think Satch get the credit he deserves. I've seen him play once. In fact the last concert I went to was because I won tickets for free to see Joe Satriani in concert. His rhythm guitar player and keyboardist was pretty good. tbh I'm more of a fan of his opening act he had at the time, Steve Morse. Some of the crowd said Steve Morse' set was the better of the two, despite the fact they had Steve's volume at half the level of Joe's.

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FRED HALE SR.

Morse has been overshadowed most of life starting with Miami University of Music when Pastorious was playing there. He is one hell of a guitarist, but I still prefer Satch because of his classical leanings. I've seen Satriani five times and he has never been outdone by an opening act.

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Chula Vista

Interesting. Morse is the one with the classical background though.

I got to see DiMeola/McLaughlin/DeLucia in Boston many years back and Morse was the opening act. He played a complete classical set and then joined the other 3 for an encore (also on acoustic).

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

FRED HALE SR.

Interesting. I was under the impression he was leaning more towards Classic Rock/HM, and Blues Rock. I've never heard him play anything classical honestly. I know Miami University of Music was a conservatory filled with Classical and Jazz Greats. Metheny and Pastorious being the big tickets. I just was introduced to Morse as a prog jazz/rock n roll guitarist. Surprising to hear that Dimeola was a part of that considering he has such large jazz leanings himself. Mclaughlin can generally play anything he wants and Delucia has classical in his history so not really surprised with those two.

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Adri

I really love Chickenfoot !