When three virtuoso’s get together in a concert its a melee of high pitched whammy screams. High paced tapping tearing the the fretboard and the diaphrams of the loud-speakers. The three maesteros hack at the audiences musical palate; with notes of deep passion and emotion. Highlighted with outbursts of ardor for the guitar, fingers traversing the six string in a blur they unleash empathy for their electric-guitars.
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani has sold more than seven million albums and earned six Grammy Award nominations. Before his solo career took off in the mid-’80s, Satriani was a Bay Area guitar teacher whose students included Larry LaLonde of Primus, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, and Steve Vai!
In the 39th annual Grammy Awards, a track from Joe Satriani entitled ’’(You’re) My World’’ was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
In G3- Live In Concert, Joe performs ’’Cool #9’’, ’’Flying In A Blue Dream, ’’ and ’’Summer Song’’.
Cool #9 from his debutant album ’’Joe Satriani’’ was sold from the trunk of his car, when Joe was trying to make his notch as a solo-guitarist.
Flying In A Blue Dream from his widely acclaimed album of the same name has struck a chord with audiences worldwide.
Summer Song another popular number from the album ’’The Extremist’’ is a favorite number of the local band based from Chennai ’’ Moksha’’.
Steve Vai
Steve Vai made his Epic label debut on September 17, 1996 with Fire Garden, a new solo album produced, arranged and engineered by Steve himself. Featuring 18 new tracks including the four-part ’’Fire Garden Suite’’, the album is the latest of six successful solo recordings for the man Frank Zappa once dubbed ’’my little Italian virtuoso.’’ Vai has been touring non-stop since the release of Fire Garden, completing over 185 shows on an extensive world tour that has reached five continents.
Since his remarkable professional career began with Zappa in 1980, through his work with David Lee Roth, Whitesnake and others (not to mention his memorable performance as the Devil’s guitar player in the Walter Hill movie Crossroads), Steve Vai’s worldwide sales as a solo recording artist total more than 2.7 million- and over 10.8 million if one includes his work with other artists. In addition to a multitude of worldwide guitar honors, Vai has earned three Grammy nominations, including his 1993 win for Best Rock Instrumental Performance on the critically acclaimed album Zappa’s Universe. Whether as guitar player, producer, film composer or orchestrator, Steve Vai continues to be an exciting and visionary musician.
In G3- Live In Concert, Steve takes front-and-center on his original compositions ’’Answers, ’’ ’’For The Love of God’’ and ’’The Attitude Song.’’
My personal favorite ’’ For The Love Of God ’’ is from his album ’’Passion And Warfare’’, which I consider the best effort he has come up with so far.
Don’t miss the number ’’The Audience Is Listening’’ in case you plan to buy ’’ Passion And Warfare ’’
You can download the Quicktime video of
’’For The Love Of God ’’ from this link:
https://vai.com/sightssounds/video/ftlog.mov
’’The Audience Is Listening’’ from this link:
https://vai.com/sightssounds/video/audience.mov
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson was voted ’’Best Overall Guitarist’’ for four years running in Guitar Player, in addition to being voted into their ’’Gallery of the Greats.’’ Musician elected Eric as one of the ’’100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century’’ in its February 1993 issue. Guitar named Johnson ’’Instrumental Guitarist of the Year’’ in their 1991 Reader’s Choice Awards, and in 1993 included him in their list of the ten most important guitarists of the past ten years.
In G3- Live In Concert Eric Johnson performs ’’Zap, ’’ ’’Manhattan, ’’ and ’’Camel’s Night Out.’’
Eric, Joe and Steve join together for an incendiary jam on three all-time axe-man favorites: the Freddie King/Jeff Beck classic ’’Going Down, ’’ Frank Zappa’s immortal ’’My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, ’’ and a nine-minutes-plus blues workout on ’’Red House’’ by Jimi Hendrix.
G3 which stands for ’’Three guitarists’’ namely in this concert :
JOE SATRIANI
Cool #9 (6:47)
Flying In A Blue Dream (5:59)
Summer Song (6:28)
ERIC JOHNSON
Zap (6:07)
Manhattan (5:16)
Camel’s Night Out (5:57)
STEVE VAI
Answers (6:58)
For The Love Of God (7:47)
The Attitude Song (5:14)
JOE SATRIANI, ERIC JOHNSON, STEVE VAI
Going Down (5:47)
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (5:21)
Red House (9:12)
(All statistical data was collected from the press release from this link:
https://g3tour.com/2000/discography/discography/g3_press.html)