Joe Satriani is Back!
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Legendary shredder Joe Satriani was the first ever guest on Wong Notes, so it makes sense that he’s the first returning sit-in with Cory Wong. Satch is busy as ever, juggling enough projects to make a normal guitarist’s head spin. But Satriani’s not a normal guitarist.
He teases a new song with Sammy Hagar, plus delves into the intricacies of Eddie Van Halen’s playing and why he can’t quite replicate it—every guitarist has their strengths and deficiencies, claims Satch. And believe it or not, Satriani didn’t figure standing in front of huge crowds to be one of his strengths when he was younger. Fate figured otherwise.
Satriani goes deep on one of his favorite tools, the Sustainiac pickup, and talks about how it’s defined his playing—just like his trademark sunglasses, even in dark rooms. (“Stupid idea, right?” he jokes.)And young guitarists, listen up: Satriani has some wise words on the importance of rigorous practice while you’re budding on the instrument. The big takeaway? Learn. The. Notes.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger
Presented by DistroKid
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm very excited today because we have the first ever repeat guest happening. Joe Satriani. Satriani was actually my first interview I ever did for this podcast. I was scheduled to do it in person. and then that whole thing happened where we all had to |
| 0:22.4 | stay home and whatnot. And then, uh, you know, then Zoom happened. By the way, how did Skype mess |
| 0:29.2 | that up? Skype had like a 15 year head start. Anyway, I don't know why. Yeah, whatever. Zoom came |
| 0:36.1 | along, did a Zoom interview. Now we're doing them on this app called Riverside. You don't need to know any of this stuff, but it's fine because I'm inclined to tell you, I guess, today. Anyways, I'm excited to have Satch back on the show. Satch is busy. Cat is all over the place, man. Playing with Sammy Hagar, doing the Satjavey stuff, doing some of his own shows. |
| 0:57.0 | He's just got so much going on. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm absolutely stoked to hear how he plays in these different bands. |
| 1:03.5 | Because Joe is one of my favorite guitar players for the reason that he just plays the gig. |
| 1:10.6 | And what I mean by that is he doesn't just show up and be like, oh yeah, I got to do this. |
| 1:14.9 | He shows up he plays what's appropriate and he absolutely murders. |
| 1:18.7 | He commits murder every gig. |
| 1:21.7 | Don't take that the wrong way. |
| 1:23.2 | You know what I'm saying musically, all right? |
| 1:25.7 | I don't know what's gotten into me today. |
| 1:44.9 | But I'm excited. I got Satch back on the show. It's a great conversation. You know what else I'm excited about? The Fearless Flyers, we got a new record coming out. We just put out a vinyl pre-order. First couple singles, pretty excited about that. Go check it out. If you're not familiar with the field with flyers, |
| 1:50.7 | it's myself on guitar, Mark Vittary on baritone guitar, Joe Dart on bass, Nate Smith on drums. |
| 1:57.8 | It's, it's fun, man. I'm not going to lie. Just four of us in the room, cutting everything live, |
| 2:01.9 | no headphones, no click, just hanging out, playing music. |
| 2:09.5 | People in a room, man, we're actually doing it on camera. It's fun. It's, uh, hey, you know, |
| 2:13.9 | it's just having the time of my life doing it. So it's a great record. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 2:19.3 | Please go check it out and pre-order the vinyl. Save it, do all the know on spotify and i'm wherever you're listening to me you know do the thing anyway thanks for hanging |
| 2:24.4 | enjoy the interview without further ado joe satriani hey you guys know about distro kid yet |
| 2:33.8 | if you are an artist, somebody who's trying to |
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