By Steve Newton
I’ve interviewed Joe Satriani eight times because, hey, he’s Joe Satriani, and I freakin’ love what he does with a guitar.
Here’s 10 minutes of my first interview with Satch, which took place just nine weeks after the release of his Flying in a Blue Dream album.
He called me up from his home in Berkeley, California, and we chatted about his fondness for Ibanez guitars, his time as a guitar teacher for players like Steve Vai, his love of Jimi Hendrix, and the influence that Jeff Beck‘s Blow By Blow album had on him.
Have a listen:
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