Originally Posted by: AkiraDudes!!

Listen to Joe Satriani's self titled album, THEN try telling us Satch is all shred and has little grounding in the blues genre.

My personal favorite "blues" song by Satriani is "down, down, down". But Satch himself has said that he "sucks at the blues"... I've heard some jams that didn't back that statement up though. I think it all comes from a technical aspect of it... and the way his chops are. His chops are so good and so fast and technical that he could play a blues lick and making it sound like a metal lick... just because he can play it fast and technically sound with his own little flair... same goes for Vai. Listen to the version of Red House on that G3 tour cd or DVD its a great rendition... and I do believe that Eric Johnson was the glue that held it all together... The G3 with Vai, Satch, and Malmsteen however.... butchered Voodoo Chile... Mostly because Malmsteen does the same runs over and over (don't get mad... he's fast... real fast... but real boring too). As for my preference... I prefer Stevie Ray to Joe Satriani any day of the week.... I also prefer a soloist like Slash to say........ Petrucci... I find beauty in simplicity I guess... Its just as hard to be a great blues player as it is to be a great metal/virtuoso player... and it takes a lot more character to play the blues...