In The Room With Joe Satriani and Steve Vai 

Rick is the Alan Lomax of our generation

Absolutely

No doubt! 💯

Pardon my French, but HELL YES!

Agreed ❤️‍🔥

Exactly

Which is exactly what I did and I'm glad. Now I'm about to enjoy the entire video.

And this is one of those "sometimes"

With Rick - always.

Yes!! ✅✅✅✅

I actually welled up a bit at that moment

I’ve always appreciated that about Steve. He’s always very gracious and complimentary of other musicians and anyone in the industry.

I was thinking the same thing. See their facial expressions while the other is talking too, Joe especially, they stare off not quite aloof but relaxed, clearly fully listening and engaged.

@@GreggGilestrump is evidence of that

​@@peterdefrankrijkerAt least he can speak coherently...and doesn't sniff kids.

Come on guys. Cant we just escape this political stuff for just a little while and just appreciate this interview for what it is?🙏🏻

@@glennman0922 Sorry, that was me. I go to a bad place when I get too involved in politics. “Somebody” really rubs me the wrong way. All I can say, is that politicians everywhere should take example of the way these people discuss things: with respect and dignity. I mean, these are two of the absolute top guitarists alive in the world today, and look how humble they are.

Drunk you say

Who says men can't multi task

Grand Emporium! 🤜💥🤛

If real story extremely cool If fake story you wrote it really well and was entertaining Definitely sounds like Joe!!!

Great story

This channel really is an education in music history- way better than the classes I had in school.

you do realize music started long before christ, right?

well said

@@Seyediov whats your question has to do with the original comment ?

I'm sure one day this will help build a contemporary music history course. When I took music history in 2009 there were so many holes in it... I don't think you can skip over players like Vai & Satch when it comes to contemporary music history. Not to mention all of the other guitarists that have been on Rick's channel! My two favorite guitarists and I'm still learning new things about them 25 years later! That is something special!

For rock definitely!

No doubt about it.

Agreed, I could listen to Crystal Planet over and over.

If I had to pick just one, that would be it for me, too.

Crystal Planet is definitely up there with Surfing with the Alien. I think a lot of people like Surfing more because he was still shredding at that time where Crystal Planet was the official move to his more structured sound.

I can put it at top 3, but The Extremist is definitely his best album.

Crystal Planet is my favorite of his too. It’s not his showiest album but just such incredible compositions.

Awesome

Is she still alive today?

was she bald ?

@@felipesaenz3245 lol

@@Th4n0s369 No Joe has a few tracks named after her...

He's doing his part to save the guitar from midi

@@Kevinschart😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅nmkn😮

Agreed!

Lately? Have you seen his interviews over the past few years? If not, go watch them!

@@jeremiahmacclure When I wrote "lately" , it was a figure of speech. I follow Rick' s RU-vid channel 3. 5 million subscribers before today. I know....he is great 👍 Cheers mate.

Rick has ALWAYS been the man! Which planet do you reside on sir.

Same. Beautiful stuff.

me too. Still got tears rolling.

Having access to high quality works like this makes the money I pay for RU-vid Premium worth it all by itself. We are very fortunate to have Rick.

Considering the metric tons of ads that YT throws in our paths….that shouldn’t charge anything. In fact YT should pay us for the phone batteries they waste with their ambulance chasers and air fresheners….

Thank you for you service! God bless America

I was at the first G3. They filmed it as well. Minneapolis, MN. Anyway, I was able to go backstage and meet Steve Vai and Stu Hamm. I was waiting for Satch and Johnson to come out so I could get their autograph and say "Hello." It was getting late and my friend was outside in the cold waiting because he didn't have a backstage pass. So I decided to leave because I thought Satch wasn't coming. As I am leaving out the back door, Satch and his manager come down the stairs and where on their way out the door. I quickly handed him my CD booklet and his manager said "Ok. We can do one." so then Satch signed my Time Machine CD book. I didn't get to talk to him but at least got his autograph as he was leaving. I was able to talk to Vai and he was super nice. I asked him about Bad Horsie. He plays the beginning in Crossroads and I asked if he had the song fully written at that time or wrote the intro for the movie and finished the song later. He said he had the whole song.

@@MikeBoardley thats pretty cool!

Lived in the same towns as both of them at different places and phases in life... kinda took for granted having these guitar gods around. Just regular guys

oh cmon, the color of your skin is irrelevant in our music family

Unfortunately no one except combat veterans will ever be able to grasp the importance of video interviews. Stupid liberal Xbox players will never get it…

Not to mention cologne concepts -- the SMELL of his studio!!

We grew up in a really great time for guitar heroes.

Frusciante might make a good 4th

Inspiring, indeed. And what is it with Italians and guitar?

The Triumverate if you will.

Who cares that they’re Italian?…they all look like guitar players to me…smh

@@MarioJMunoz-cw8bf Of course, the comment was in jest. But there is a good reason why so many Italians-Americans took up the guitar through the 20th century-(and the history of jazz guitar especially attests to this)--they we immigrants who could not afford pianos. The affection for guitars (as opposed to the more traditional Italian affection for mandolins) persisted and has become somewhat of a cultural inheritance. Granted all of this has diffused through the mist of time and hence my tongue-in-cheeck remark.

Agreed. And two of the nicest guitar heroes.

Damn didn't know that I would have never guessed

Correct.

No you are not the only one that thought of that and still thinks that, Frank Marino, Vito bratta, these two Cats, and just to keep the conversation going...name 4 more

Not only guitarists, specially in the rock/jazz fusion area. Gambale, Di Meola, Palladino, Colaiuta, Porcaro bros, Patitucci, Bozzio, Cuccurullo... and surely more

@@scottydog62 warren de martini, al de meola (not sure if he is italian though), petrucci, i see you have vito there he was amazing

Richie Sambora, John Frusciante, Tom Morello, the DeLeo brothers

Ralph Macchio…

Don’t forget Shawn Lane, Govan, or Petrucci…because they are just as good…or better?

@@realscience948 or Holdsworth

Wes Montgomery???

@@realscience948 Not better, no lol.

​@@sleepteam Have you heard any of them play?

Compared to Rick, we all suck 😂

Which year was this?

I've played the Orange Peel (Asheville NC is my hometown) I saw King Crimson there.

2005, I believe… I looked it up last night and saw that the previous night was ‘Monsters of Japan’… I used to be friends with some of them which explains why I left my cc… They were a quirky, punkisk version of KISS with tones of the WWF. It wasn’t my cup of tea but it led me to Steve Vai the next day… things I miss about Asheville, the 30 ways to change your day options available.

@@charleschezhyan2498 2005

@@dirtydeadasheville which member are you? I’ve hung out with John before. His father was Don right?

Well said, Amen to that.

Steve's set was probably the loudest concert I've ever seen. 😂