The Soundtrack Of My Life Guitar superstar Joe Satriani on the special records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.
“Hendrix’s Band Of Gypsys is the Bible, the grimoire of electric guitar.”
This guitar great’s enduring career was launched by his often-copied 1987 album Surfing With The Alien, leading to a slew of hit records, Grammy nominations, stints with Mick Jagger, Deep Purple and of course his supergroup Chickenfoot. With his seventeenth album, Shapeshifting, tipping the hat to his heroes and his past, Satch tells us about the music that’s “always with him”. (Spoiler: he’s a Hendrix nut.)
