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Welcome to the Lisa Arrigan on Demand podcast. You know, it's not every

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day that two guitar gods call into the show together, but that is exactly

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what happened when Joe Satriani and Steve V called me. They're going to be

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coming to the Warner Theater April eleventh the satch Vy tour, and they've been

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recording new music together, including a great new song that's out March twenty ninth

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called Sea of a Motion Part one. Now, Joe and Steve go way

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back growing up together on Long Island. Joe was actually Steve's guitar teacher.

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In addition to the new music they've been doing together and the upcoming tour,

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we also talk about Joe going out on the road this summer with Sammy Hagar.

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Now, Sammy is doing a whole lot of van Halen music on his

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tour with Michael Anthony original bassis for Van Halen and Jason bonhamon drums. Joe

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Satriani will be playing all the Eddie van Halen parts. We'll talk about his

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approach to that. Plus Steve I first became a fan of his back in

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the eighties when he was with David Lee Roth always remember that iconic Yankee Rose

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video. I asked him about those days and G three. I asked Joe

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Satriani about his G three tours? Will there be another one? Find out?

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Here's my conversation with Joe Satriani and Steve Vi. Hi, Hey,

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good morning. I am so grateful to have a couple of guitar gods joining

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me, Joe Satriani and Steve VI. I was just listening to your new

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song. I absolutely love it, The Sea of Emotion Part one Rockin' It's

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powerful. Tell us a little bit about the genesis of the new song.

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I can kick it off by letting you know that. When Steve and I

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finally realized that we really wanted to do an album together, I reflected on

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the theme of the record. Besides the obvious. I thought, what am

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I going to use is my springboard, my sort of spiritual springboard for writing.

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And I went back to place an actual play in car place, Long

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Island where Steve and I grew up, and there was this place called the

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Sea of Emotion. We dubbed it the Sea of Emotion. It was really

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just a field that was part of the public school complex where we both went

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to school and it was a place where late at night we would hang out

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and you know, express our deepest thoughts for the motions together, and it

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just became a cool hangout place. There were all the rock and rollers back

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then, and I thought, I'm going to start writing about that. So

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I started writing these two songs, which is why the first one you hear

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is Cold Part one, and I thought, it's going to be about that,

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and it's going to be a celebration of the kind of things that we

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loved back then as young want to be rock stars. And I'm so happy

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that when I sent it off to Steve, he was like, yeah, I got some ideas to add to this right away, and so that's how

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the whole thing got started. Yeah, it was magnificent to hear those tracks

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and to feel that finally, you know, there's a nice opportunity here to

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you know, do something together and contribute, and there's actually a part three.

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Kind of remarkable because after I received the two tracks from Joe and started

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working on them, I remembered that when we were kids, I was taking

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lessons from Joe and at one of our lessons he had a sound on sound

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real to real recorder and we started to just record something. And I had

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been playing at that time for a year and a half, so Joke was

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showing me this rip. We recorded this thing, and he called it Reflections

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on a year and a half because that's how long I was playing. And

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I got these tapes from Joe probably about ten years after we had recorded them

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or so, and I transferred it to digital and just held onto it all

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through these years and took a little slippet of it, and that's how the

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third movement is kicked off. So there is real history in there. I

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mean, there's the part of the recording is over fifty years old. Wow.

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Well, Steve, you were taught guitar by Joe and Joe you have

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a long list of famous guitars that you have taught. Steve. What's he

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like as a teacher? I mean, is he a hard ass? Is

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he difficult? Does he demand a lot? Oh, he's got a big

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ruler and when you do a mistake, he kicks the well. Joe's fantastic,

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constantly sharing, very strict. You know, you got to know your

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stuff, no kidding around. You got to know your lesson so much fun

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because you know when you're a teenager especially. I was a teenager in the

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seventies and totally enamored with all that really great classic rock music. And I'd

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go to my lesson and I say, you know, how do you play

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this? You know, and he would just be able to show me every

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led Zeppelin song. Anything I asked, he was able to play it.

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And this was like, you know, heaven in a cup for it for

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me because I could actually put my fingers on the instrument and something that sounded

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like a song came out. You know. It's great here in DC.

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We are so looking forward to the upcoming tour, the satch Vi Tour coming

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to the Warner Theater April eleventh. What can fans expect to see during that

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show, Well, it goes without saying. There's gonna be a lot of

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guitar playing. Both Steve and I are gonna do separate sets with our bands,

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and we'll probably be playing a lot of new music and then digging deep

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into our catalogs. Yeah, and then we're going to play together. The

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show will climax with us taking the stage and playing a number of songs,

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including the new single Wow. So fans are gonna get three sets. Yeah,

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yes, amazing. Well, you got to find out more about the

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tour of the satch Vi Tour coming to the Warner Theater April eleventh at Saturiani

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dot com or Vi dot com. Joe, I want to quickly ask you

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about the summer tour you're doing with Sammy Hagar. Are you and Sammy and

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Mike Anthony and Jason Bonham performing a whole lot of Van Halen music? You

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know you're going to be doing Eddie van Halen's parts. What's your approach going

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to be and do you feel any kind of you know, pressure, responsibility

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honoring somebody who's no longer with us. Yeah. Oh, it's always a

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unique pressure when you're going to tackle music of, you know, one of

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your biggest heroes. And so I was a huge fan of Eddie van Halen

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the moment first time I heard him. And although I've spent most of my

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years trying really hard not to copy him, now I'm in a position where

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I have to copy him, which is ironic, you know. So yeah,

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there are things that I'm quirks about his playing that I really have to

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get under my fingers right now, a King Hawk, you, I'm at

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my to do list up on the wall, and it's got a very long

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set list, the best of all World setlist. It's just got a massive

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amount of songs spanning Sammy's career. So I have a lot of work cut

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out for me, you know, from learning Montrose to a Van Halen Sammy

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remembering chicken Foot stuff right with my own songs. So yeah, I'm looking

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forward to it though. Awesome. Well, Steve, I'm a kid of

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the eighties. That's what was my youth, and one of the big videos

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of my youth was Yankee Rose. David Lee Roth, you there on guitar,

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What do you remember about the making of that video? And have you

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seen that video recently? Every now and then I come across those old eighties

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videos and I just think how much fun they were really because back then,

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well you can imagine, you know, David Lee Roth and the way that

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he'd liked to conduct his you know, full environment exactly. Yeah, when

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we were doing that whole eatam and smile thing. I mean back then,

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you could you know, we had the stage was like the size of a

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football field. We were in the Guinness Book of World's Record for having the

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most lighting cans and you could wear the craziest clothes and you could run around

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that stage and do crazy things. But you know, we played our asses

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off and it was just a time of It was like a perfect storm because

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being able to play at that time in the eighties, during that whole musical

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movement was a real hoot. Fans have long loved the G three tours that

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Joe You've organized, in Steve, you've been a part of them. Will

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there be another G three tour at some point? What's it been five or

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six years since there's been a G three? Yeah? Well, you know,

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after just completing this T three reunion with Steve and Eric, it got

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me excited about looking ahead. And Steve and I have got a lot of

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touring and recording ahead of us, so I haven't really thought about that,

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you know, when I mix in of the Sammy Hagar tour as well.

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But I know that I'm gonna want to do another one, and I just

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haven't figured out how, when and where right right and who? Yeah,

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I really appreciate you guys checking in this morning. Joe Satriani, Steve I

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working on a new album together and I've already heard the first song, which

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is coming out March twenty ninth, The See of Emotion Part one. Cannot

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wait to play it for you on Big one hundred and then of course the

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sat Vay Tour come into the Warner Theater April eleventh. Make sure to get

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your tickets. Head to Satriani dot com and VI dot com again. Thanks

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so much for your time, Joe and Steve, and we'll see you in

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DC very soon. Thank you,