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Strange Beautiful Music

A Musical Memoir

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Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genre of instrumental guitar rock. Joe's six-string secrets have astounded listeners around the world for nearly 30 years.

In Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir, Satriani and coauthor, music biographer Jake Brown, take fans on their first authorized tour of the story behind his climb to stardom and the creative odyssey involved in writing and recording a storied catalog of classics, including "Surfing with the Alien", "Summer Song", "Satch Boogie", "Always With Me, Always With You", "The Extremist", "Flying in a Blue Dream", "Crowd Chant", and more.

Featuring exclusive, firsthand interviews with Satriani, Strange Beautiful Music offers a unique look inside the studio with Joe, giving fans a chance to get up close and personal like never before. With insider details about his collaboration with multi-platinum supergroup Chickenfoot, exclusive interviews with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, commentary from fellow guitar legends such as Steve Vai, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Primus' Larry LaLonde, and legendary music producers, including Glynn Johns and the late Andy Johns, this memoir offers a rare inside look for die-hard Satriani fans, guitar enthusiasts, and anyone who loves to rock.

Strange Beautiful Music features music performed by the author. Included throughout the audiobook are samples of some of Satriani's most memorable songs.

©2014 Joe Satriani and Jake Brown (P)2014 Tantor Entertainment & Celebrities Music Memoir Celebrity Guitar Musician

Critic reviews

"Joe has refined his own style of playing to a point where he's forever up there in the stratosphere of excellence that is reached by very few musicians." (Brian May)
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Loved the insight in to joes musical journey , easily recommend to any guitar player out there

Excellent book

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I've been a Joe Satriani fan for over 20 years. This book is very much a historical review of Joe's albums including insights on the compositions, production techniques and artists involved in each album up to Unstoppable Momentum (this audio book does not include anything on Shockwave Supernova unlike recent print editions of the book).

This is not by any means an autobiography so don't expect any insight into Joe's personal life (unlike the highly entertaining Steve Lukather's The Gospel According to Luke).

I found the narration disappointing, I would have far preferred to listen to Joe Satriani narrate this himself. The narrator doesn't really make any effort to distinguish when the book is being delivered from Satriani's point of view or from one of the many other individuals have contributed to this book. While the name of the person being quoted is given at the start of their excerpt there is nothing to indicate when the excerpt ends and returns to Satriani's point of view and due to the narrators delivery of the text this can occasionally be confusing.

A Musical Memoir

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