Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7247 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-11
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 150 minutes

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Multi Angles of 3 Songs
Backstage
Discography
Digitally Mastered
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
PCM Stereo
Interactive Menus
Instant Chapter Access To Songs

Disc One:
Time, Devil's Slide, The Crush Of Love, Satch Boogie, Borg Sex, Flying In A Blue Dream, Ice 9, Cool #9, Circles, Until We Say Goodbye, Ceremony, The Extremist, Summer Song

Disc Two:
House Full Of Bullets, One Big Rush, Raspberry Jam Delta-v, Crystal Planet, Love Thing, Bass Solo, The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing, Always With Me, Always With You, Big Bad Moon, Friends, Surfing With The Alien, Rubina

Synopsis
Heavy metal guitar guru Joe Satriani is responsible for, among others, the six-string talents of Steve Vai and Metallica's Kirk Hammett. One of the masters of instrumental guitar music, Satriani is filmed here at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore in December of 2000. Playing guitar and harmonica, the star awes his audience with his audacious, vibrant, and incredibly virtuoustic mastery of the guitar. 25 tracks are included.

Customer Reviews

It doesn't get much better than this! Essential.
Recorded live at the Fillmore in San Francisco in December 2000, this is a double DVD with 25 songs in total, and is, frankly, awesome. The quality of the video, the audio, graphics, & song selection are near perfect, and unlike a lot of music DVDs/videos, the camera actually focuses on the guitar playing, so you can really apreciate what he's doing, showing off his amazing techniques. In fact, it's almost like being at one of Joe's concerts. Bass players can delight in the prescence of Stu Hamm, who gets a solo spot on disc 2. Perhaps even more noteworthy though, is that you get the whole of Joe's as yet unreleased (planned for June) new album! It doesn't get much better than this! Essential.

Extra features:
3 multi angled tracks - Time/Devil Slide/Crush of love
"Backstage" piece, where Joe talks about Jimi & his setup.

Stand out tracks: Satch Boogie, Circles, One Big Rush, The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing, Surfing with the Alien.

Satch brings the house down - in style!
This is a fantastic DVD. I was at the Irish leg of his 'Engines of Creation' tour and the set list (and the memories!) are the same. From the opening bars of 'Time' through to 'Rubina', it's an inspiring musical journey and a pleasure to watch this virtuoso again. He plays his best set list (as at the date of the gig) and produces one of the best live performances I've seen from anyone. I read in the review below about the 'booing'. Well, in actual fact the crowd weren't booing but 'Stuing' Stu Hamm the bassist, as Joe says - "They Stu him, cause they love him'. There are very few true artists in the music industry anymore, buy this and be captivated by an emotional experience.

An awesome live performance
I'd been in to Satch since the age of about 16/17, and I've been listening to him on and off for the past 7 years. He is without doubt one of the greatest guitarists ever to walk the planet, and in my opinion is the best all-rounder out of the modern-day extroverts such as Vai, Malmsteen, Petrucci, etc. Apparently he taught Steve Vai how to play! Vai may be the best technician ever, but some of his stuff is, quite simply, too much! John Petrucci is awesome also - but there's something about Satriani that makes him my favourite. He's certainly the most tasteful.

This live DVD made me realise how much I missed listening to Joe (which I hadn't for a while), the stuff from Crystal Planet album is really good: 'Raspberry Jam' is an outstanding track, as is the ballad 'Love Thing', and the emotive 'Until we say goodbye' is brilliant. All the hard rock ones are also great, but I think Satch saves the best until last - 'Rubina', the final track on disc 2, is probably my favourite. Played with such feeling and emotion, this is a truly great song and one of his best without a doubt. The backing band are very good, but this is really about Joe Satriani showing off his best songs, and how awesome they sound live. His technique is fantastic, as is his tone, and the sound quality of the DVD really helps here.

Go and buy this if you play guitar and wish to see what i'm ranting about. If you're a Satch fan this is as good as it gets. I've been inspired to learn his songs again. Simply awesome.