{"id":294,"date":"2006-10-29T22:51:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-10-29T22:51:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:51:30","slug":"joe-satriani-surfing-with-the-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/joe-satriani-surfing-with-the-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Satriani &#8211; Surfing With the Alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/satrianijoesurfing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-929\" title=\"Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/satrianijoesurfing.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien\" width=\"500\" height=\"1250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Joe Satriani<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Surfing With the Alien<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1987<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1987 &#8211; Bought when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This record is awesome! Sure, it&#8217;s mostly for guitar geeks or wannabes, the songs are sorta stiff, and much of the drums are programmed. But who cares!? That stuff is not what Joe Satriani and <em>Surfing With the Alien<\/em> are all about. Besides, his playing is so exciting and the solos so completely excellent that <em>they<\/em> are the hooks, and what make the tunes memorable. I can&#8217;t pretend to play this stuff on guitar but I tell you I can hum along with every note, and of course air guitar the entire record. It sticks with you.<\/p>\n<p>Be-cause<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s just<br \/>\nthat good.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus on this post is that I remembered to take a pic of the liner with Joe rocking in the Reebok hightops. Bonus number two is that I found my ticket stub from seeing him live in 1988. Mary and I went to see him with my friends Bennie Ingram and Jeff Slay. Of course Joe tore the Boathouse roof off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satriani.com\/\">Check out Joe&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Joe Satriani Title: Surfing With the Alien Year: 1987 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1987 &#8211; Bought when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA Keeper: Yes This record is awesome! Sure, it&#8217;s mostly for guitar geeks or wannabes, the songs are sorta stiff, and much of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,454],"tags":[511,720,724,769,46,1033],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-s","tag-511","tag-guitar-hero","tag-hard-rock","tag-joe-satriani","tag-music","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}