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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey pigs, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, I got for you.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Very cool Joe. You're on with quinnin canter.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He taught Kirk Hammett how to play guitar for crying
out loud.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How are you doing, Joe?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm very good today.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
How about you, good man?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's good to talk to you again. Congratulations, you got
your new single out, I Want to Play My Guitar,
You've got your tour, your satch By tour kicking off?
Did I read this right? Did your son direct the
video for I Want to Play My Guitar?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we had these two crazy days in La a
number of weeks ago. The first day he directed the
video for Encore Thank You good Night with Sammy Hagar,
and the next day exact same room with a whole
bunch of different bands but the same film crew, he
directed I Want to Play My Guitar for us. So, yeah,
(00:53):
we we had two amazing days together. It was really
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And is your son's name Zizi?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes, it's short for Zachariah Zanes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, I wasn't sure if you named him after the
band after Top, So you brought up that Sammy single
man does that? Was that a blast to lay Down.
You guys sounded fantastic on that that song.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Uh, I have to tell you that started in the
funniest way. And well you probably you've spoken to Sami before.
He is one of the funniest people ever. But when
he gets serious with rock music, he really lays it down.
And so he sent me a funny video one after
and it's him playing this this riff and he tells
me the whole thing about having a dream with Eddie
(01:39):
in it and how he wants to build a song
around this thing. And so I sent him back a
video in jest really where I was doing this two
handed tapping thing and no, I just said, oh, we
could put this in the front of it, you know,
and uh, you know, it was important to me, but
I thought he's never going to go for it because
it's too much like Eddie. But his reaction was the opposite,
(02:02):
and it surprised me because he said, no, that's it,
don't change it. Note you keep it exactly like that,
and then we'll put that in the front of the
song and then we'll maybe you'll come up with an ending.
And that's how it started. It's like two friends.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a compliment, Joe, Joe. It's a compliment when we say, man,
it sounds like Eddie on that song right to you.
It's a compliment.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's the idea I was thinking as I got deeper
into Sam's story, which which is really important. You know,
when you're collaborating with another writers, you got to understand
their inspiration, like where did it come from? Right feeling
behind it? And I thought if I thought that I
was having a dream and Eddie was going to be
(02:45):
visiting me, you know, from the heaven, I'd have to
imagine like a heavenly sounding Eddie van Halen part. So
that's that guided me to come up with that particular
sound and approach, you know, using a technique that he
was famous for or and but doing something slightly different
reflecting his classical music upbringing, because that's you know, he
(03:07):
and his brother were taught classical piano as young kids,
and so I've kind of put that into the music
rather than you know, something like the music behind something
like eruption. With that technique, I went just a little
bit more classic classical harmony, and it seems to it
(03:27):
seems to like have this complimentary effect on the gutsy
rock and roll approach to the body of the song,
which sam had so yeah, so I'm flattered. If someone
says it sounds like Eddy, I'm like, thank you. That's
the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That's a man who respects his craft right there, the detail,
the learning about the collaboration, the person. Since we're talking
about yeah, we talked about Eddie, we're talking about Sammy.
But thoughts on David Lee Ross's recent return to the stage.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, you know, I'm happy because he well, I go
back you know to just maybe six months after Ed
passed and I got a call from from Alex and
Dave about doing, you know, some sort of tribute concerts.
And it was difficult, you know, to realize that there
was so much turmoil in their world as far as
(04:21):
you know, professionally and and personally, and they're dealing with
just an enormous amount of grief at the same time.
And I thought, wow, this is if this ever happens,
if Dave ever comes out on stage or Alex again,
that'll be amazing for the fans. But it just seems
so impossible. And eventually it did fall apart, and then
(04:41):
that's when Sam called out of the blue and asked
me to get together with a you know, and create
the best of all worlds band again, that was a
bit of a shock, but at the same time, I
realized this is an important step for the guys that
were that knew Eddie and played with him to finally,
you know, pay tribute proper tribute to his legacy. So,
(05:05):
you know, when Dave finally came out, I remember we
were all backstage and we were talking about it, and
everyone was feeling the exact same thing. Was like, it's
great that he's finally out there doing it, because that's
the fans want to see it, and Dave was part
of that amazing legacy of that band, so he should
be out there doing it, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So it's the alien, everybody the alien. Joe Satriani here
on the phone, Joe, tell me, because I have this
feeling in my head. I feel like you and Steve
Vive sat in a room together with your guitars and
had a full conversation without opening your mouths, just playing.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know it. You know. I met him when he
was twelve and he was a beginner guitar player, and
I started teaching him and I'd just been playing maybe
a year or more ahead of him, So it wasn't
like I was this genius or something on the guitar.
But as the course goes with beginners, you know, you
become an intermediate really fast. The transition from beginning to
(06:08):
eat intermediate, if you're a talented guitar players, is like
a lightning bolt. And so Steve caught up to me
technically very quickly, and so we wound up doing a
lot of that, not talking, just playing sometimes sitting in
my backyard back to back and just improvising for you know,
thirty minutes y really wonderful conversations to have. It's very
(06:33):
difficult to find someone to play with where there's no
judgment and you can do whatever you want, you can
make mistakes and just try anything, and then you share
everything for somebody. So yeah, we've had a unique relationship
as a student and teacher, and just as guitar playing buddies.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's Joe Satrani here and picks one of six the
satch Vibe and touring. Looks like you're going to have
a hell of a summer with this upcoming tour. Who's
handling vocals on the tours. Is Glenn going with you guys?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know, Glenn is gonna, I think wind up at
one gig with us. He's gonna be at Hellfest in France.
But we have Marco Mendoza on bass guitar, who's also
just really a remarkable rock singer. I don't know if
you're familiar with Mark, but he's had a fantastic line
(07:29):
of heavy rock gigs going back a couple of decades,
and he's been playing with a very good friend of mine,
Neil Sean from Journey.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Is this Mark Mark? Is this guy the guy from
Twisted Sister?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's played with White Snak
and just like all these heavy rock bands, and so
he's been singing and playing bass at the same time.
And uh, and you know, I was looking for somebody
who can handle some vocals, you know. And it's never
that much for requirement, but we generally will do maybe
(08:03):
one or two covers for an encore for fun, especially
if we've got local guitars that we want to bring
on stage guess guitars. But he's a he's a real
lead vocalist and in the in the sort of the
same realm as Glenn Hughes. Although Glenn is you know,
the legendary Glenn here, nobody quite like him.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Any watching any good sci fi lately? Anything you want
to shout out?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know, I have been looking for a good sci fi.
I know it's like the hardest thing to find, brother,
you know, I think, uh, somewhere along the line, you know,
like Netflix at Amazon they just decided not to do
any sci fi for a while, and then we want killers.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah we're all serial killer out exactly. But we wish
you a ton of luck with your European summer tour.
Can grade dulations. I want I want to play my
guitar sing uh the single that's out right now, and uh.
Best of luck to the sash vibebandas you guys travel.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Thanks Joe, thank you so much. Guys, take care,
Hey pigs, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, I got for you.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Very cool Joe. You're on with quinnin canter.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He taught Kirk Hammett how to play guitar for crying
out loud.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How are you doing, Joe?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm very good today.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
How about you, good man?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's good to talk to you again. Congratulations, you got
your new single out, I Want to Play My Guitar,
You've got your tour, your satch By tour kicking off?
Did I read this right? Did your son direct the
video for I Want to Play My Guitar?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we had these two crazy days in La a
number of weeks ago. The first day he directed the
video for Encore Thank You good Night with Sammy Hagar,
and the next day exact same room with a whole
bunch of different bands but the same film crew, he
directed I Want to Play My Guitar for us. So, yeah,
(00:53):
we we had two amazing days together. It was really
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And is your son's name Zizi?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes, it's short for Zachariah Zanes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, I wasn't sure if you named him after the
band after Top, So you brought up that Sammy single
man does that? Was that a blast to lay Down.
You guys sounded fantastic on that that song.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Uh, I have to tell you that started in the
funniest way. And well you probably you've spoken to Sami before.
He is one of the funniest people ever. But when
he gets serious with rock music, he really lays it down.
And so he sent me a funny video one after
and it's him playing this this riff and he tells
me the whole thing about having a dream with Eddie
(01:39):
in it and how he wants to build a song
around this thing. And so I sent him back a
video in jest really where I was doing this two
handed tapping thing and no, I just said, oh, we
could put this in the front of it, you know,
and uh, you know, it was important to me, but
I thought he's never going to go for it because
it's too much like Eddie. But his reaction was the opposite,
(02:02):
and it surprised me because he said, no, that's it,
don't change it. Note you keep it exactly like that,
and then we'll put that in the front of the
song and then we'll maybe you'll come up with an ending.
And that's how it started. It's like two friends.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a compliment, Joe, Joe. It's a compliment when we say, man,
it sounds like Eddie on that song right to you.
It's a compliment.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's the idea I was thinking as I got deeper
into Sam's story, which which is really important. You know,
when you're collaborating with another writers, you got to understand
their inspiration, like where did it come from? Right feeling
behind it? And I thought if I thought that I
was having a dream and Eddie was going to be
(02:45):
visiting me, you know, from the heaven, I'd have to
imagine like a heavenly sounding Eddie van Halen part. So
that's that guided me to come up with that particular
sound and approach, you know, using a technique that he
was famous for or and but doing something slightly different
reflecting his classical music upbringing, because that's you know, he
(03:07):
and his brother were taught classical piano as young kids,
and so I've kind of put that into the music
rather than you know, something like the music behind something
like eruption. With that technique, I went just a little
bit more classic classical harmony, and it seems to it
(03:27):
seems to like have this complimentary effect on the gutsy
rock and roll approach to the body of the song,
which sam had so yeah, so I'm flattered. If someone
says it sounds like Eddy, I'm like, thank you. That's
the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That's a man who respects his craft right there, the detail,
the learning about the collaboration, the person. Since we're talking
about yeah, we talked about Eddie, we're talking about Sammy.
But thoughts on David Lee Ross's recent return to the stage.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, you know, I'm happy because he well, I go
back you know to just maybe six months after Ed
passed and I got a call from from Alex and
Dave about doing, you know, some sort of tribute concerts.
And it was difficult, you know, to realize that there
was so much turmoil in their world as far as
(04:21):
you know, professionally and and personally, and they're dealing with
just an enormous amount of grief at the same time.
And I thought, wow, this is if this ever happens,
if Dave ever comes out on stage or Alex again,
that'll be amazing for the fans. But it just seems
so impossible. And eventually it did fall apart, and then
(04:41):
that's when Sam called out of the blue and asked
me to get together with a you know, and create
the best of all worlds band again, that was a
bit of a shock, but at the same time, I
realized this is an important step for the guys that
were that knew Eddie and played with him to finally,
you know, pay tribute proper tribute to his legacy. So,
(05:05):
you know, when Dave finally came out, I remember we
were all backstage and we were talking about it, and
everyone was feeling the exact same thing. Was like, it's
great that he's finally out there doing it, because that's
the fans want to see it, and Dave was part
of that amazing legacy of that band, so he should
be out there doing it, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So it's the alien, everybody the alien. Joe Satriani here
on the phone, Joe, tell me, because I have this
feeling in my head. I feel like you and Steve
Vive sat in a room together with your guitars and
had a full conversation without opening your mouths, just playing.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know it. You know. I met him when he
was twelve and he was a beginner guitar player, and
I started teaching him and I'd just been playing maybe
a year or more ahead of him, So it wasn't
like I was this genius or something on the guitar.
But as the course goes with beginners, you know, you
become an intermediate really fast. The transition from beginning to
(06:08):
eat intermediate, if you're a talented guitar players, is like
a lightning bolt. And so Steve caught up to me
technically very quickly, and so we wound up doing a
lot of that, not talking, just playing sometimes sitting in
my backyard back to back and just improvising for you know,
thirty minutes y really wonderful conversations to have. It's very
(06:33):
difficult to find someone to play with where there's no
judgment and you can do whatever you want, you can
make mistakes and just try anything, and then you share
everything for somebody. So yeah, we've had a unique relationship
as a student and teacher, and just as guitar playing buddies.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's Joe Satrani here and picks one of six the
satch Vibe and touring. Looks like you're going to have
a hell of a summer with this upcoming tour. Who's
handling vocals on the tours. Is Glenn going with you guys?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know, Glenn is gonna, I think wind up at
one gig with us. He's gonna be at Hellfest in France.
But we have Marco Mendoza on bass guitar, who's also
just really a remarkable rock singer. I don't know if
you're familiar with Mark, but he's had a fantastic line
(07:29):
of heavy rock gigs going back a couple of decades,
and he's been playing with a very good friend of mine,
Neil Sean from Journey.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Is this Mark Mark? Is this guy the guy from
Twisted Sister?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's played with White Snak
and just like all these heavy rock bands, and so
he's been singing and playing bass at the same time.
And uh, and you know, I was looking for somebody
who can handle some vocals, you know. And it's never
that much for requirement, but we generally will do maybe
(08:03):
one or two covers for an encore for fun, especially
if we've got local guitars that we want to bring
on stage guess guitars. But he's a he's a real
lead vocalist and in the in the sort of the
same realm as Glenn Hughes. Although Glenn is you know,
the legendary Glenn here, nobody quite like him.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Any watching any good sci fi lately? Anything you want
to shout out?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know, I have been looking for a good sci fi.
I know it's like the hardest thing to find, brother,
you know, I think, uh, somewhere along the line, you know,
like Netflix at Amazon they just decided not to do
any sci fi for a while, and then we want killers.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah we're all serial killer out exactly. But we wish
you a ton of luck with your European summer tour.
Can grade dulations. I want I want to play my
guitar sing uh the single that's out right now, and uh.
Best of luck to the sash vibebandas you guys travel.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Thanks Joe, thank you so much. Guys, take care,
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