Hi, this is Joe Satriani coming to you live from somewhere, and you're listening to The Vinyl Guide with your host, Nate Goyer.

Well, hey, everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for fans and collectors of vinyl records,

and this for our first show of 2018, we're bringing to you a discussion with guitar virtuoso

Joe Satriani, where we talk records, guitar, his discipline for his craft, and his new

LP, What Happens Next? Available this week on vinyl, check out Satriani.com for details. And this week's episode is sponsored

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So what happens next?

Let's start off the year 2018, right, with a conversation with Joe Satriani.

Do you listen to and collect vinyl records?

Well, you're in luck.

Welcome to the vinyl guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself.

Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer.

Ah, well, hello, everyone. I hope you're doing great. Waking up from a holiday slumber, I see.

Look, I am in the same boat. What a great holiday. Great break. I feel all relaxed and chilly

chilled. I hope you all had one like mine. Lots of family time, lots of hanging out with friends, lots of spinning records. I did that quite a lot, actually, getting into some of the deeper reaches of my collection, giving love to the records that often don't get a lot of play. I've been posting a lot of those

records on Instagram. If you want to see my collection, what I've been up to, follow me on

Instagram.com slash Vinyl Guide. And if you post your records on Instagram as well, feel

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