Finished up reading this book,
'Strange Beautiful Music'
which covers Joe Satriani's entire career up to the last release + it includes the Chickenfoot albums.
Essentially an in-depth look at what makes Joe tick, album by album. Great studio stories, inspirations, sound engineering and playing techniques and a touch of personal stuff.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in understanding the concept approaches to each album. If you're a guitar player, there's just enough technical stuff
to wet your whistle without going overboard for the average Joe. Ha ha ! Stuff like what guitars he was using, pedals & effects and how things were tracked - but without
straying too far out into the weeds. It goes back to all the way to his beginnings before he was a solo artist too. Also, he's worked with a bunch of talented session artists, producers & engineers who you'll probably recognize by name in relation to other bands. Some of them anyway.
There's a ton of entries from those other "points of view" sprinkled throughout the book, in direct flow
of Joe's writing - which made it that much more interesting.
I've often wondered why certain albums sounded a certain way and this book answered a lot of those questions for me.
Good stuff; definitely easy but enjoyable reading.
'Strange Beautiful Music'
which covers Joe Satriani's entire career up to the last release + it includes the Chickenfoot albums.
Essentially an in-depth look at what makes Joe tick, album by album. Great studio stories, inspirations, sound engineering and playing techniques and a touch of personal stuff.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in understanding the concept approaches to each album. If you're a guitar player, there's just enough technical stuff
to wet your whistle without going overboard for the average Joe. Ha ha ! Stuff like what guitars he was using, pedals & effects and how things were tracked - but without
straying too far out into the weeds. It goes back to all the way to his beginnings before he was a solo artist too. Also, he's worked with a bunch of talented session artists, producers & engineers who you'll probably recognize by name in relation to other bands. Some of them anyway.
There's a ton of entries from those other "points of view" sprinkled throughout the book, in direct flow
of Joe's writing - which made it that much more interesting.
I've often wondered why certain albums sounded a certain way and this book answered a lot of those questions for me.
Good stuff; definitely easy but enjoyable reading.