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Joe Satriani’s G3 tour with Phil Collen & John Petrucci starts today in Seattle! The guys were featured in an awesome USA Today story here.

Satriani played in an early 1980s band called the Squares that sounded a bit like Green Day or Blink 182 but a decade before those bands became popular.

“We were kind of like Van Halen meets the Everly Brothers, which is probably why we weren’t that successful,” Satriani said.

Satriani said he lucked out when he began his solo career in that no one remembered he was “Joe from the Squares” by the time he released Surfing With the Alien in 1987.

The native New Yorker also spent a large part of the 1980s as a guitar teacher to supplement his then-meager musical earnings in his adopted home of San Francisco. While many of his pupils, including Steve Vai, formerly of David Lee Roth’s band and Whitesnake, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, have gone on to play in front of arena-filled crowds, Satriani settles for more modest venues, usually with 5,000 or fewer seats.

“If you’re just playing instrumental, it cuts off a big chunk of your audience,” Collen said. “But the key to it, is it’s about the songs. I’ve played in front of four people. With Def Leppard, we played in Rio in the mid-90s, and no one showed up. This is Def Leppard, and we had like 100 people there. And we went on like we were playing in a packed, Wembley Stadium. There’s no shame in playing if you’re doing your own thing.”

Satriani has created a niche audience for himself, and it’s one Z.Z. Satriani documented on film after, at first, professionally separating himself from his father.

“I really wanted to do my own thing instead of being in the shadow,” said Z.Z. Satriani, who is an avid skateboarder and filmmaker. “So I was doing my own thing for a while, and he approached me with this idea. I didn’t feel like I needed to make my own name anymore. I was like, ‘Yes, let’s work together.’”

Follow Phil on Instagram here for more updates from the road!

Seattle, WA. Pikes St. About to kick off the G3 tour tomorrow.

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Vivian is pleased to introduce the new Vivian Campbell Signature Les Paul Custom! Vivian revealed his new guitar this year at CES 2018, alongside Lzzy Hale & Jason Hook. Keep a lookout for the release in late January!

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Delta Deep are getting ready to follow up its self-titled debut with East Coast Live, a chronicle of their 2016 tour — and fans can get an exclusive early peek at the CD/DVD package right here.

As guitarist Phil Collen explains in a press release, the album was recorded during one stop on the band’s itinerary — one that happened to land on Daryl Hall’s property. The result was a set that captured a moment now preserved for audiovisual posterity.

“We recorded every night of our 2016 tours, east and west coast, expecting to pull out the best performances from different cities. But we managed to capture one of those special, magical nights where all the stars fall into place in Pawling, N.Y., at Daryl’s House. This whole album was recorded that night. It was so relaxed but we were so on fire at the same,” says Collen. “The intention was never to have a DVD addition to the cd but seeing the performances live and the fact that Daryl’s House also video records its shows was an added bonus for us.”

Available everywhere 1/26

Click HERE to preorder

Rick Allen’s “Legends” painting of Steve Clark is on display this weekend New Jersey & Pennsylvania. Info here.

“The Legends piece is a way for me to celebrate my Love for Steve… working on the piece was a spiritual journey that uncovered my gratitude for having known him”

27 years ago today we lost our beloved Steve Clark. RIP.

Share your memories of him with us on Facebook here.

This weeks program features songs from GRETA VAN FLEET, SEX PISTOLS, STEVIE WONDER, U2, amongst others, as well as some stories from Joe!

Radio show time is Saturdays at 6pm (GMT) / 1pm (EST) and repeated on Tuesday nights @ 9pm (GMT) / 4pm (EST).

For those in the U.K. tune into Joe’s weekly radio show on PlanetRock.com.

For those listening outside the U.K. listen live from this site HERE.  Please not this Surf.com internet site may not work in some countries.  As a quick fix, please download a VPN application and set it to the UK territory.  Then download the Planet Rock app and boom, it works!

Joe Elliott recently chatted with Nikki Sixx about the new Down N Outz album! Check it out: https://bit.ly/2BBrGHj

Order “The Further Live Adventures Of…” HERE

This weeks program features songs from THIN LIZZY, DAVE GILMOUR, FOCUS, ACE FREHLEY, amongst others, as well as some stories from Joe!

Radio show time is Saturdays at 6pm (GMT) / 1pm (EST) and repeated on Tuesday nights @ 9pm (GMT) / 4pm (EST).

For those in the U.K. tune into Joe’s weekly radio show on PlanetRock.com.

For those listening outside the U.K. listen live from this site HERE.  Please not this Surf.com internet site may not work in some countries.  As a quick fix, please download a VPN application and set it to the UK territory.  Then download the Planet Rock app and boom, it works!