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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai synchronize solos onstage together.
50 years ago, a teenage Joe Satriani and Steve Vai recorded a jam together – and you can hear it on their new joint album

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Sea of Emotion is Satriani and Vai’s long-awaited debut album together, and although they recorded it remotely, there were a couple of notable exceptions

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(L-R) Joe Satriani and Steve Vai of SatchVai Band perform at Meridian Hall on May 13, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai on what happened when Billy Gibbons and Brian May played through their rigs

By Janelle Borg Published

Does the rig shape the guitarist, or does the guitarist shape the rig? Satriani and Vai give their two cents on the matter

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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, both mid-solo, both playing their signature Ibanez guitars.
Steve Vai and Joe Satriani relied on guitar plugins for their new collaborative album

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Sea of Emotion is unmistakably the work of Messrs Satch and Vai. But this time out the amps took a backseat

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Left–Guitarist Joe Satriani performs on stage at the World Music Theater in Tinley Park, Illinois, September 3, 1998; Mick Jagger performs at Oakland Coliseum on October 28, 1994 in Oakland California
How Mick Jagger very nearly ended up on a Joe Satriani record – before Satch deleted his performance

By Janelle Borg Published

From the Archive Jagger was supposed to play harmonica on Satriani's sixth studio album, but his takes ended up being replaced

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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai perform at Fox Theater on April 04, 2026 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images)
Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s first joint studio album is finally coming out

By Phil Weller Published

The Sea of Emotion will arrive before the year is out

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Ibanez September 2026
Ibanez drops new Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Nita Strauss signatures – and an Iceman like no other

By Phil Weller Published

Some metal-coded P Series models have also caught the eye in the surprise September collection

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Joe Satriani plays his Paisley Pattern JS signature Ibanez; Kirk Hammett [right] plays his ESP Mummy.
“They were the weirdest things. He was asking me, ‘What do you think I should play over this stuff?’” When Joe Satriani got an exclusive preview of new Metallica material during lessons with his student Kirk Hammett

By Jonathan Horsley Published

From the Archive When Joe Satriani got an exclusive preview of new Metallica material during lessons with his student Kirk Hammett

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Bastian Martinez, aka Baxty, pictured with his Kiesel 7-string
Satriani is guesting on his album, Tosin Abasi and John Petrucci are fans – is Baxty the future of shred?

By Amit Sharma Published

Joe Satriani is guesting on his album. Tosin Abasi and John Petrucci are fans. Meet the Chilean YouTube virtuoso who is fast becoming the king of alternate picking

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Joe Satriani performs on stage at Harrah's Resort Southern California on May 10, 2024 in Valley Center, California.
How a glam-metal guitarist built Joe Satriani an amp that captured Eddie Van Halen’s tone

By Amit Sharma Published

3rd Power’s Dylana Nova Scott leaned on an impressive production background to design boutique amps for some of the biggest names in the biz

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The guitar solo Joe Satriani wished he never wrote

By Phil Weller Published

Tuning issues and a desperate need to blow off musical steam from limiting session work made it a lesson learned for the esteemed shredder

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