Prior to joining Metallica in 1983, Hammett played in Bay Area legends Exodus and was one of the band's founding members, starting up the group back in '79. After two years, he started taking lessons ...

Last year, Joe Satriani assembled the original G3 trio and hit the road with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson for what turned out to be one of 2024’s most notable guitar tours. The tour saw the three ...

Joe Satriani still remembers the first time he laid eyes on Steve Vai. It was 1972 in Carle Place, Long Island, and at the time, Satriani, then just a teenager, was already known around the ...

Joe Satriani is the epitome of the modern guitar hero. Raised on Long Island but on the West Coast since the late ‘70s, he quit football to play guitar, spending time as both student and teacher -- ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and Newsweek Radio's Jesse Edwards. You can listen to the full, unedited conversation here: Jesse: ...

A blast of guitar power chord and a room-shaking drum beat assured those at the Fisher Theatre on Tuesday night, April 16, that they were not there for…oh, “Mama Mia.” Instead the usual home of ...

When guitarist Joe Satriani called his band together to begin recording his latest album, he knew what he wanted the other musicians to do. "I told them, 'What I'm going to ask you to create on this ...

While rock guitar hero worship may have begun its ascendancy with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and exploded beneath the fingers of Eddie Van Halen, it was arguably Joe Satriani’s 1987 release ...

Guitar wiz Joe Satriani says he initially thought he’d become a drummer. But when he discovered the late, great Jimi Hendrix, he decided he’d rather play guitar. “After three years [of drum lessons], ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of his solo debut album, 1986’s aptly titled “Not of This Earth,” enduring rock guitar hero Joe Satriani launches a 45-city North American concert trek tonight that ...