STEVE VAI and JOE SATRIANI JAM | CHICAGO NAMM 1987 

This was actually the first time Joe, Stu, & Jonathan played together . It was for an Ibanez showcase at a NAMM show. Vai was there to debut his Jem 777 guitar. The trio ended up taking it on tour and the rest is history.

Joe-Vai! Hands down, the greatest guitar duo if the 20th/21st century! Two virtuoso guitar-bros making the best sense of modern day guitar music.

When I saw Vai plugging into that tiny Marshall I remembered Stuart Hamm in the 90's telling us the story about how nobody wanted to lend their amp to Vai at music school when they were young because Vai had the bad reputation of blowing every speakers up so loud he would always play 🤣🤣🤣

Vai is pure fire in here :O Please upload more of these!! I would love to see Vinnie Moore too!!

This might have been the namm show where the jem was first revealed to the world. It looks like joe is playing his first js1 guitar. The one he named black dog, which he ended up drawing all over. This jam is a gem in of itself

Never heard and seen this before. It is a piece of rock history. Thank you for sharing!🔥🙏

I was there! Thank you for sharing this!!

I love the intro where the wireless starts picking up radio… 😂

It is so awesome that Vai learned the basics from Joe and they've been close friends since their early teens.

Very echo-e these guys have matured as musicians immeasurably since this was recorded! Badass video!

WOW‼️‼️😮 😮……….this jam mean a lot. I bet that many people at that time didn’t put so much attention to this jam. This is an example of how many guitars 🎸 players were roaming around the world at that time ( 1987) from old bands to new bands. From blues- jazz to Metal, Heavy Metal-Trash Metal- Dark Metal the 80’s was the best decade. After all this years (45) listening rock music is difficult for me to say or analyze who was better than the others because the chase was on. All of them were/ are competing to be the best and I have to say thank you to all. Some of them died/ Ill in their careers, some of them didn’t were so lucky with the Media, some of them didn’t catch the attention of the audience. In one way or in another they put flavors in the life of many fans around the world through the years. All of them performed and still rocking. This is epic Thank you so much for sharing this with me

Profesor and student...Amazing

Back in the day so to speak. You just don't see this kind of talent these days, this kind of vibe, unless I'm missing someone? This is really nice to hear. It's cool because the bassist is jamming to the drummer, and Steve and Joe are playing off each other.

so this was the 1st-ever gig of the Satch-Stu-Mover lineup, six days after Joe meeting Jonathan Mover for the first time and giving him a (pre-release) tape of Surfing With The Alien for Jonathan to learn the drum parts

This is bloody amazing!! Thanks for sharing

This is such a bit of magic , just wish I could have seen this years ago . Thanks for sharing !!

thanks for this upload my friend!!! this is a inedit footage for me and I love Vai and Satch! magic era!! hugs, you´re great!

This jam is kinda the precurser of the riddle of passion and warfare too bad they never recorded a album together

I remember when pictures from this jam were published in one of the guitar magazines back in 87... I was 17, and took a printing class in high school. I can't remember how it was done (pre Photoshop) but I got one of the pics of Steve hovering over Joe, both guys jamming, and I was able to make all the outlined details of the guys (and their guitars) white, and I printed it on a black t-shirt with the caption "It must be something in the water". It was my favorite shirt, and I often stared at that photo wondering what that show sounded like... at 54, it's a bit obnoxious to the ear - Two guys throwing the kitchen sink at each other, in unison... but my 17 year old self probably would have loved it... LOL. Thanks for finally giving sound to the images I fawned over for 36 years.

Great video of course. It would be great to listen Joe's full set and all the other videos you mentioned you have, so please upload them when you find time :)

I was 6 yrs old when this was happening.. im 41 now 😮 that's how much experience they have .

Unreal footage mate...Thank you for uploading...

Wow, so cool this upload. With YT there is a whole new world we didnt had in the past.

This is gold.

Killed the combo by looking at it...🤣. I think it just shat itself. Great Video. Thank you.

Wow, did not know that by 1987 there was already a proto version of"The Riddle". Probably this is the only live performance of it featuring Stuart Hamm on Bass, who played at the final recording as well

Paul!!! Set this video loose on the public! It’s set to unlisted at the moment and is too good not to share 🙌🏼

Thanks for the old clip of this awesome jam fest , when the teachers jams with his student, Love Joe & Steve playing together have a nice collection of them playing together over the many years on my channel , great sound by two guitar masters, and Stu and his bass playing is amazing the 3 together are mezmerising , Thanks for this video

Budweiser sponsoring this performance 😂 “This Bud’s for you!”

고마워요 귀한 영상 ❤

When the audio quality was way better than the video quality. Priorities lol

Ladies and gentlemen Joe Vai and Steve Satriani:P Seriously what a gem, they're both experimenting. They have a very different sound, though they're already masters. Thank you for posting!

Thank's so much! I hope that you have time to upload the others videos

Sound comes first and picture second = VHS

Great stuff!! thanks. Happy to see the other videos from 1987 (great youtube chain BTW; congrats!)

They skill actually never increase. Just creativity and the fans

This is when the EVH era ended. I remember it very vividly.

Please post Vinnie Moore ‘s and Satriani full concert. Thanks for sharing.

Esto es una joya!!!

Sounds like "The Riddle", "Lords of Karma"... and more

Vai had a Spinal Tap Air force base moment going for a minute.

Pure Gold!!😊

Thank you so much for this share. Incredible ! Steve was playing on a small Marshall combo amp !

The Bass player looks like he ran straight from office to make it in time for the gig.

Masteeeer Steve and Satriani💪💪👌👌👌

I was there!!! Wow first time see this year's later!

I was there and who impressed me the most was Vito Bratta. George Lynch, also.

proto- the riddle!!!!!

Amazing..amazing ..amazing🤪🤪🤪🤪🙉🙉🙉🙉🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Bless Joe with his hair

Factor Bass🤩

GUUUU. AAAAAA. OOOOOOO. WE. SALUTE. SALUDOS. DE. GREGO. desde. TENERIFE. (. CANARY. ISLAND. ).

Vai is amazing, nobody has his stage presence.

I didnt think the Floral Jem was even out in 87 but this does look like the one off for Steve with the pyramid inlays vs the normal tree of life on production models. The Jem he was showing off at the shows debut for the Jem series was pink.

G2 from back then :P

The time that Steve was a 24 youngster and Joe had a hair piece...... magic! 🪨

Something tells me those guys got a future... Wonder whatever happened to those two 🤔

Damn, Vai was really feeling himself. lol

Can you post the Vinnie Moore please? Also Racer X if you have that too. Thank you for the upload, this is great.

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This was neat seeing young Joe and Steve, they were already at their peak here and they weren't much older than 35 I think?

Thank you for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8

Damn! I was barely 3 years old at that time! I must build a time machine and go ba

Steve Vai: I’m the best John Petrucci: yes

I like to play the guitar.

14:09 is this the Boogey Body Strat black guitar that Joe mentions assemblying from parts that he still keeps to this day and is even used on album recordings? that's a fairly nice clean tone right there

But the sound quality is decent...not bad all..thanks for the upload

Real harmonis mr joe n stev👍

Is this Stu Hamm on the Bass?

I just noticed, Joe is playing a RG model?

Does anyone think that sounds beautiful?

Think Malmsteen is in the building, I can hear the hiss from his hair.

was this recorded first before joe played at the limelight club in new york 1987? because he jammed with Stu playing the same bass line

seems like Joe shredded more back then

Kakophonia , can't hear any music ,only noise 🤷

Make it stop

Stu ham

What’s the name of the second song?

Vai with a Jem77fp prototype?

G4 jam

Steve is obviously an attention hog. Joe and Stu were both nice enough to pull it altogether with very cool rhythm and backing.

Gucan flat play but this is noise .

Slash was still the best guitarist

Slayer in that years sounds much more interesting. This is something boring

Noise.

All I hear is indistinguishable noise.

Terrible Sound ,endless noodling, Feedback , controlled or accidental,,constant hum from Lack of earthed Marshall Amps 🤪and they have the best Sound Crew working for them ? Shredding at all costs IS No music ..high gain..more gain ,more delay, more compression..Jeff Beck and His Team would kill all of them for breakfast 🤨

2 Wannabees;-)

Compared with music, this was rubbish! Unless the audience was on something, in which case they might have loved it! 😱

Jesus. I love both these guys but that was awful music. Come back Nirvana!

that baas guys gotta go lol