CD 1 
01.I Just Wanna Rock 
02.Overdriver 
03.Satch Boogie 
04.Ice 9 
05.Diddle-Y-A-Doo-Dat 
06.Flying in a Blue Dream 
07.Ghosts 
08.Revelation 
09.Super Colossal 
10.One Big Rush 
11.Musterion 
12.Out of the Sunrise 

CD 2 
01.Time Machine 
02.Cool #9 
03.Andalusia 
04.Bass Solo 
05.CryinÆ 
06.The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing 
07.Always with Me, Always with You 
08.Surfing with the Alien 
09.Crowd Chant 
10.Summer Song

Jose Baraquio - Drums
Jeff Campitelli - Drums 
Rob Dawson - Bongos, Guitar
Stuart Hamm  - Bass, Soloist, Writer
Galen Henson - Guitar (Rhythm), Tour Manager
Mike Manning - Guitar
Joe Satriani - Guitar, Primary Artist, Producer 

This live CD/DVD, Joe Satriani’s fourth live album and third within a decade, documents a May 2008 performance in Paris given not long after the release of his 2008 album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock. Expectedly, Satriani dips fairly heavily into that new record -- the title song, which opens the album, is from Professor Satch -- but what’s played isn’t as important as how it’s played, as it always is with Satriani. This isn’t a departure, it’s a crowd-pleaser, not in terms of songs -- although almost all of Satriani’s anthems are aired -- but in terms of sound, with the general style being familiar and the details different, with Satriani continuing to find fluid, inventive ways around the fretboard. Such details are the province of the diehard, but then again, those considering purchasing Satch’s second double-disc live set aren’t dabblers; they’re in it for the nuanced phrasing Satriani manages regardless of the speed or volume of his playing, and Live in Paris offers as many marvelous moments as his other live sets. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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Disc 1:

01. Flying In A Blue Dream
02. The Extremist
03. Redshift Riders
04. Cool #9
05. A Coll New Way
06. Satch Boogie
07. Super Colossal
08. Just Like Lightnin'
09. Ice 9
10. One Robot's Dream

Disc 2:

01. Ten Words
02. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
03. The Meaning Of Love
04. Made Of Tears
05. Circles
06. Always With Me, Always With You
07. Surfing With The Alien
08. Crowd Chant
09. Summer Song

Bass – Dave LaRue
Drums – Jeff Campitelli
Guitar – Galen Henson
Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Producer, Written-By – Joe Satriani

Drawn from a concert recorded May 3, 2006, at the Grove in Anaheim, CA, Joe Satriani's Satriani Live! comes as both a double-CD and a simultaneously (and separately) released DVD. The audio version presents more than two hours of typical Satriani guitar work. He was promoting his latest album, Super Colossal, but that didn't prevent him from casting back across his career for selections from such previous sets as Joe Satriani (1995), The Extremist (1992), Flying in a Blue Dream (1989), and particularly Surfing with the Alien (1987), making this a de facto best-of. The crowd was wildly enthusiastic, and Satriani wasted little time doing anything other than playing, pausing only occasionally to talk about his guitar and his guitar picks. The first disc maintains a steady pace, but the guitarist varied the mood in the second half of the show, turning to what pass for ballads in his repertoire ("The Meaning of Love," "Made of Tears," "Circles," "Always with Me, Always with You") before revving up for a powerful finish. Casual fans can pick this up as a good sampler of the entire Satriani catalog, while more intense fans will enjoy noting differences between the live versions and the studio recordings with which they're already familiar. ---William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Review

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1) 	Friends 	
2) 	The Extremist 	
3) 	War 	
4) 	Cryin' 	
5) 	Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness 	
6) 	Summer Song 	
7) 	Tears In The Rain 	
8) 	Why 	
9) 	Motorcycle Driver 	
10) New Blues

Joe Satriani - Arranger, Banjo, Bass, Composer, Dobro, Guitar, Harmonica, Illustrations, 
Keyboards, Mandolin, Mixing, Producer, Synthesizer, Vocals
Phillip Ashley - 	Accordion, Keyboards, Squeezebox, Strings, Synthesizer Strings, Trumpet
Gregg Bissonette - Drums
Matt Bissonette - Bass, Brass
Bongo Bob - Drums (Electric), Percussion
Jeff Campitelli - Cymbals
Paulinho Da Costa – Percussion
Nicky Hopkins - Piano
Andy Johns - Organ, Producer
Simon Phillips - Drums, Fife Drum, Tambourine
Brett Tuggle - Organ
Doug Wimbish - Bass, Voices

The Extremist lives up to its name, continuing Joe Satriani's tradition of exploring new musical and compositional ground. A vastly different array of musicians assists him in creating the songs displayed on this all-instrumental disc, and as such the songs are different from even the usual envelope-pushing Satriani fare. The chugging "Summer Song," the warm "Friends," the slamming "Motorcycle Driver," and the crunching "The Extremist" show Satriani's talents as a guitarist are undiminished, while the more traditional neo-folk approach to "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" and the bluesy "New Blues" are different from anything he has done before. So, too, is the droning rock of "War" and the plaintive, questioning funk-rock of "Why." ---Phil Carter, allmusic.com

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1. "Musterion" – 4:37 
2. "Overdriver" – 5:06 
3. "I Just Wanna Rock" – 3:27 
4. "Professor Satchafunkilus" – 4:47 
5. "Revelation" – 5:57 
6. "Come On Baby" – 5:49 
7. "Out of the Sunrise" – 5:43 
8. "Diddle-Y-A-Doo-Dat" – 4:16 
9. "Asik Vaysel" – 7:42 
10. "Andalusia" – 6:51

Bass – Joe Satriani, Matt Bissonette
Drums – Jeff Campitelli
Guitar – Joe Satriani
Keyboards – Joe Satriani
Percussion – Jeff Campitelli
Saxophone – ZZ Satriani 

While a lot of guitar heroes sling their axes for the sole purpose of proving that they are the fastest shredder in the showroom, picking their Mixolydian scales to the nth degree, on the ridiculously named Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock Satriani shines in his ability to hold back and write tasteful verse/chorus songs with memorable hooks. Like the majority of his songs in his ever growing catalog, most of these are technically impressive numbers that never go overboard with the showboating and rely on a sense of feeling rather than virtuoso technique. When you're considered a guitar god, restraint is a virtue. Of course he can zip along on the fretboard with the best of the best, but the trait that has always separated Satriani from the other guitarists gracing the cover of Guitar World for more than 20 years is his ability to blend technique with guitar lines that are melodic enough for a vocalist to sing. Thankfully, he never takes the microphone on this recording, but on the first half of the gentle and bluesy "Come on Baby," it's easy to imagine substituting his custom Ibanez with a human voice that coos the words "Come on baby, come on babe" on the choruses. Similarly, the "Diddle-Y-A-Doo-Dat" sounds like the title might suggest, starting out with some Yes-style prog licks and flipping into a John Scofield-flavored jazz-funk jam with bends and pull-offs that are best described as "diddleys" and "doo-dats." Neither cut quite astounds, but both demonstrate his versatility on the instrument and his ability to adapt to the climates of various genres. Likewise, the flamenco-flavored "Andalusia" starts off as a warm "Spanish Fly" acoustic number, exploding into a furious distorted solo backed by longtime drummer Jeff Campitelli and former David Lee Roth bassist Matt Bissonette. Along with his backing band, Satch's son ZZ Satriani gets a taste of his pop's spotlight, just like Wolfgang and Dweezil, and provides a few sax flutters on the semi-funky "Professor Satchafunklius." With the exception of these tracks, the remainder of the album is purely rockin', and doesn't vary much from his prior 12 releases. The anthemic "Overdriver" could be an outtake from Flying in a Blue Dream and will surely find a place in his G3 set list, "Musterion" sounds like a Not of this Earth moment, and the two-handed handiwork and blistering riffage on "Asik Vaysel" will definitely have air guitarists salivating. With the good comes the bad, and at the album's most embarrassing moment, "I Just Wanna Rock" advertises cornball clichés with a proudly clanked cowbell, a talkbox Frampton-izing, and a boisterous crowd chant-along. This is a new low for Joe -- practically an open letter admitting that he's OK with the idea of becoming passé. At a time when his former pupil Steve Vai is experimenting with radical orchestral arrangements, it would be nice to see the professor branch even further away from his trademark style, ditch the '80s production, and try something more unconventional, but for the most part he's doing what he does best here, and fans will be content with that. ---Jason Lymangrover, AllMusic Review

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1 	Super Colossal 	4:14
2 	Just Like Lightnin' 	4:01
3 	It's So Good 	4:14
4 	Redshift Riders 	4:50
5 	Ten Words 	3:28
6 	A Cool New Way 	6:13
7 	One Robot's Dream 	6:16
8 	The Meaning Of Love 	4:34
9 	Made Of Tears 	5:32
10 	Theme For A Strange World 	4:39
11 	Movin' On 	4:05
12 	A Love Eternal 	3:33
13 	Crowd Chant	3:14

Drums – Simon Phillips (tracks: 6 to 9)
Drums, Percussion – Jeff Campitelli (tracks: 1 to 5, 10 to 13)
Electronics [Sound Design] – Eric Caudieux
Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Producer, Recorded By, Songwriter – Joe Satriani

The most frightening thing about "Super Colossal" is that it starts off sounding horrifically similar to the chorus of Billy Squier's "The Stroke." Thankfully, this is remedied immediately, and Satch returns to familiar territory. The sound of the title track is big and booming, but the tone and delivery are instantly recognizable. Satriani doesn't pull any new tricks out of his bag, but lets his fingers do the talking throughout most of the record. And, of course, it wouldn't be a Satriani record without a few midtempo numbers thrown in for good measure, and "It's So Good" certainly delivers a swaggering punch that is reminiscent of not only Flying in a Blue Dream but moments of protégé Steve Vai's epic album Passion and Warfare. There are moments of delicate frailty and instrumentals with a romantic and optimistic feeling, tempering the high-energy blues-driven guitar shredders and leaving Super Colossal with a nice sense of balance -- except for the album's finish. "Crowd Chant" is arguably one of the weirdest moments in a career full of eccentricity, but it's painfully out of place. However, with its catchy melody and call-and-response verses, it's going to make one heck of a concert singalong. On the whole, Satriani really doesn't push boundaries or stretch his guitar vocabulary too much here, but even on his worst day his productions could best any other shredder du jour based simply on the fact that he crafts songs rather than insipid guitar-scale exercises to flaunt and flail around carelessly. ---Rob Theakston, AllMusic Review

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CD 1

John Petrucci
1.    Glasgow Kiss
2.    Damage Control

Steve Vai
3.    The Audience Is Listening
4.    Building the Church
5.    K'm-Pee-Du-Wee

CD 2

Joe Satriani
1.    Up in Flames
2.    Searching
3.    War

G3 Jam
4.    Foxey Lady
5.    La Grange
6.    Smoke on the Water

Line Up::

Joe Satriani Band
    Joe Satriani - guitar
    Galen Henson  - guitar (rhythm)
    Matt Bissonette -  bass
    Jeff Campitelli - drums

Steve Vai Band
    Steve Vai - guitar
    Dave Weiner - guitar (rhythm)
    Billy Sheehan - bass
    Tony MacAlpine - keyboards, guitar
    Jeremy Colson - drums

John Petrucci Band
    John Petrucci -  guitar
    Dave LaRue - bass
    Mike Portnoy - drums

G3 Jam
    Joe Satriani - guitar, vocals on "Foxey Lady"
    Steve Vai - guitar
    John Petrucci - guitar
    Matt Bissonette - bass , vocals on "Smoke on the Water"
    Billy Sheehan – bass, vocals on "La Grange" & "Smoke on the Water"
    Mike Portnoy - drums on "Foxey Lady"
    Jeff Campitelli – drums on "La Grange" & "Smoke on the Water"

G3 returns in fine form with "G3 Live in Tokyo". The same formula as the last two g3 DVDs is repeated. Joe Satriani teams up with Steve Vai and find a third guitarist worthy of sharing the stage with them. Each member performs his own set and then all 3 jam on stage together. It worked on the previous 2 DVDs and it works again. This time, with the addition of John Petrucci of Dream Theater/LTE, is the best time. Yes, there is only 90 minutes worth of music, but if you want the full G3 experience go see them. The 90 minutes is a great deal for under $15. Now to the show:

John Petrucci plays a couple of songs from his "Suspended Animation" disc. I saw G3 with Petrucci back in 2001 and thought that he should release the music he was playing. Now he has. Both songs showcase Petrucci's ability to combine speed, tone and phrasing in an instrumental form. Both songs have a couple of tone and time changes, and Petrucci shows why he is considered one of the best guitarists in the rock genre. (Or any genre for that matter) Fans of Dream Theater or any of John's other projects won't be dissapointed. John is joined by, DT drummer, Mike Portnoy and Dave Larue of Steve Morse and Dreg's fame. The rhythm section is solid and all over John's music. A very good set.

Steve Vai is next and continues to be the most energetic of the G3 members. Vai opens with "The Audience is Listening" from Passion & Warfare and it is a blistering version. Steve and bassist Billy Sheehan go wild during this song. They trade fours, exchange picking hands, and play some high speed unison lines. These two have been mesmerizing together since the David Lee Roth Band, and have taken their showmanship to new levels. "Building the Church" and "K'm-Pee-Du-Wee" are the other Vai tunes and Steve is his amazing self. Vai has been guilty of composing tunes that I can't identify with, but these are both great compositions and Steve's playing is true virtuosity at its best. Great set from a great showman.

Joe Satriani's set is also very good. He plays great versions of "Up In Flames" and 'Searching' but is guilty of not stretching out as far as he can. Still, both of these songs are excellent and show Satch's unparalled ability to combine catchy melodies with guitar virtuosity. 'War' is a song that Satch stretches out on and improvises a unique ending. Excellent version.

As always, the DVD ends with all 3 guitarists on stage. "Foxey Lady" is the first tune. Mike Portnoy plays drums on this tune. How can you go wrong with these 3 guys jamming to Jimi? The last two songs have Jeff Campitelli on Drums and Billy Sheehan joins Matt Bisonette on bass. The two bassists alternate taking the vocal duties and do a decent job. Both songs feature each guitarist taking a solo spot and then all 3 trading 4s at the end. More G3 madness done right. As always, if you aren't a fan of guitar, you won't be a fan of this. If you are a fan of any of these three, then you should get this. I am a fan of all 3, and find it to be the best of the 3. --- Jeff Arenson, amazon.com

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