Joe is the Jimi Hendrix of our time.He will forever be my most favorite guitarist.

This is one of my favourites by a long shot, thesolo is wo wiggly-wiggly amazing, I could watch it 1000 times.

this is the most badass song I've ever heard. only one of many examples that show why satch is at the very top level of electric guitarists in the history of mankind... and most cirtainly one of the dominant influences on me as a guitarist - even 10,000 miles across the planet...

Even his own awesomeness is too much to bear during that solo that he has to sit down to stay conscious.

I have seen Satriani, Vai n Petrucci live once and I must say it has to be one of the best things that ever happened to me, They are all experts at their game and their music is... well, what the hell. God-Like. Zeus would be dancing on his cloud!

this is possibly the coolest thing ive ever seen.. it sounds like its 50 years in the future with flying cars and robots.. yet he made it 20 years ago :/ its just crazy stuff

Even Joe's awesomeness is too much to bear that he can't even stand during his own solo.

I even had to sit down for that solo. Go Joe.

this is a real instrumental rock guitar song and was written about 30 years ago man!! thanks Mr Satch

I love that tune. Thanx for putting that up.

Awesome!... is a monster of guitar!!

Shame that he doesn't play this live very often, one of the best of Surfing With The Alien, to be sure :)

tremendo tema....grande joe...23 de julio en Chile uooow!!

Thank you very much for this video. I love it.

I'm not sure if any song has ever combined impossible, mind-blowing licks and frickin awesome rock & roll songwriting like this one does.

by far the coolest run/licks he's ever done... cheers to ya Joe! My favorite song by far.

Man, this takes me back. First song I ever heard by Satch, I was in high school in the 80's the melody is so heavy and his technique is sick. He's loving playing this. Good times.

I think Satch has a great talent for melody, more so than any other guitarist out there.

I've always loved this song but I'd never seen it played. Now that I have, it is officially the most wicked thing I've ever seen.

what a great performance

jesus he is fast! Sounded just like the album. Amazing!

I agree, amazing is not enough to qualify this

sublime...

im gonna try learning this song i think that i can do it! BEAUTIFUL SONG!

Superb!

I agree, and I think it's interesting that the improvised part sounds better than the note-for-note-and-no-space-for-emotion-solo. Satriani + improvisation = teh win.

This is an absolutely smokin hot, killer version. check out the bass ad libs!!

1:33 STARPOWER!! :) Beautiful piece

Yeahhhhh...great video Axeshredder!! wow !!

Looks like I found my theme song! =3

Ending was the best :D

thx again axe great vid

First time that i see him sit to play the solo.

somebody needs to post the studio version of this song that would be kick ass

Badass!

lovely improvised outro !

Satch nailed this one pretty fuckin' great, maybe the song isn't cursed anymore and he will perform it on his shows more often now...I sure as hell hope so, because this one has one of the best (and most complicated) solos ever made...cheers Satch, your'e a genius

That made my liver quiver. Magnificent!!!

I totally agree

it kicks ass

omg i love every guitar heroes but satch will be number 1 forever !

shiver me timbers that was so awsome! thank god for joe idk what ide do without him! i have js1200 and the 2400 HELL YEAH i would love to hear this song in eb wouldn't it be sweet???

is perfect

That outro blew me away.

i luv that fast legato lick Joe fuckin kicks ass

thats awesome. your in a dvd ;)

Those wide stretches are hard standing up.

This solo is..... GOD

Lol. You are absolutely right!

olm joe..harikasin..iyi ki varsin.

there's joe and there's rock and then comes the rest!

The solo is fucking smash!

Man Satch is like a violin, he does get better with age

Hahaha, I knew it. The moment he started playing crushing day on stage, his guitar looked much higher than usual.

It's simple. 1. He is a genious composer 2. He's got alien blood.

He regrets getting used to playing Crushing Day sitting down....Standing he still KICKS ASS

Plus when you go to a concert you really have the time to appreciate the music. As a musician there is always something special about hearing someone playing their songs live that is unmatched by anything, people screw up, but if they can pull off their stuff live it proves a lot about them. There is a difference between 'studio guitarists' and rock legends. Herman Li is one of the people who is more of a studio guy because he's too drunk to even play live.

It's a mutha man !

me too.. =)

@matrags yes dude. he and jason becker...2 most talented guitarist for melody out there :)

i would say that the tremolo squeels would be the hardest thing to do in this song

licks of doom

omg stach rocks

Written sitting down in a low chair with the guitar slung high."Nine months later,we're out on the road,and I realize,I can't play this thing with the guitar down low,looking cool.And I wasn't going to sit down on stage...We kind of shelved the song,but it turned into a fan favorite...We like playing it now...We call kind of figured out what to do with it." -Satchnotes[dot]com

You all misunderstood me. If you read well, i never said that he was playing wrong or anything alike. I have watched a lot of videos from Satriani and he never play guitar in that position when doing the solo (like Petrucci does). It just something that i noticed, but i'm not questioning his skill to play that solo.

hardest solo he plays....

Joe *could* play it standing up but it rank around a 6/10 on the awesomeness level instead of a 10/10 with the chair. And Joe doesn't do stuff he's not satisfied with. Hence why he retired the song after one or two plays, and why he never played, "Day at the Beach" live either.

i am not worthy to watch this video!! lol. Satch is the best ever

isnt this the same performance shown on the satchafunkilus dvd?

thx axe, great vid !!!! my favourite song ! I add you to myspace (my account is Brad)

what chorus he's using? TC Electronic?

but still there are ppl who improvise to make a song kinda different, or even better than the recording,

HAHAHAHAH!!

what guitar is that?

i mean satch :)

lol! how he gets in position for that hard part

Where you any good??? I've been playing for 7 years and want to cover this song but I'm a bit intimidated

When did he said that?

satch forgive em , they dont know what they say

i creamed myself watching this video

hahahahahaha!

the ratings of this video just show that 5* isnt enough. since they havent invented the 6th star yet im forced to give only 5* =\

mostly g minor

yeah man i would just rather prefer listening to the studio version mainly because those are some wicked tremolo shits, and he just dont have the same sound on thsi vid, im not saying it hasto be perfect just i dont like live shit that much. mainly cuz the videos hae shitty quality

its alright but it doesnt compare with the recording. he pulls off way better harmonics and squeels, but this is still the shit