Joe Satriani Quotes

Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in a home studio. Second record was a live record. Third record was made while I was on tour. Fourth record was made over the course of, like, two years in David Kahn's basement.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.

A lot of bands, they take a lot of planning to do a live record. They have to hire a crew, and they have to have a recording truck and all this equipment, and they record every single show.

Every time we go into the studio and use a different engineer or producer I try to look, listen and learn their approach. That has helped with the gear I look for to use live and in the studio.

A record can make an artist sound in tune or make the music sound pretty. But the real test is performing live, and I think we pass fairly well, because people keep asking to see us play.

With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.

I project stronger. If you notice the old records - they're much lighter - vocally much lighter in sound than the records that I'm doing today.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

Yeah, I could get an internet page and maybe get a thousand downloads of new songs but it's a lot of work. I'm 57 now, I really feel like I've got the T-shirt. I just like performing. It's instant. I go off, I do the show, it's over. I like that.

I didn't grow up working on 24-track - the first two Taste albums were eight-track and we always had tracks left over - we couldn't believe it, either!

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.

We started 'Heaven And Earth' in 2016. That was probably the heaviest touring year of my whole life. We probably did almost 200 shows in 2016. We went into the studio, and I honestly didn't know what the album was going to be. So I just kind of started picking songs that I liked.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.