“I probably spent $10,000 trying to get it to work”: Joe Satriani recalls his biggest musical mistake
As far as guitar virtuosos go, Joe Satriani is right at the top of the tree. But even a player of his stature isn’t immune to making ill-advised songwriting decisions from time to time.
In a newly resurfaced 2010 interview with Classic Rock [via MusicRadar], Satch recalled trying to make a song work during the recording of 1989’s Flying in a Blue Dream, before realising the task was impossible.
“There was a song I wrote for the Flying In A Blue Dream record,” he said. “I spent hours in the studio, went through three bass players, pummelled it to death! I just couldn’t make this song work until finally I realised it was the worst piece of crap ever.
Satch even revealed he spent “probably $10,000” trying to get the song to work: “That’s a lot of money,” he said.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Satriani remembered the worst review he’d ever had, and it was for his landmark 1987 album, Surfing with the Alien, of all things.
“Every morning I’d go for a cappuccino at this little café, and I read a review of my album in a magazine,” he said.
“This guy did not like me, did not like my guitar playing, and did not like the music. He said it was the worst record he’d ever heard, and finished by saying that if you’re one of those people that likes to fill up the back of a pickup truck with a case of cheap beer, drive into a parking lot alone, turn up the music and get drunk, then this is the record for you. When I read that I peered over the top of the magazine to see if anyone knew that I was the culprit!”
Back in May, Joe Satriani recalled tapping into YouTube and the online guitar community when it came to learning Eddie Van Halen’s parts for Sammy Hagar’s Best Of All Worlds project.
“After I learned the song, I’d go and I’d spend an hour or two on YouTube just watching how other people address this immense problem of trying to emulate Ed’s playing,” he explained. “You can’t capture the magic, but you can get pretty close to the fingering, and some players are better than others.”
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