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Episode #228 – Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Alien

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  • John Miceli writes in (regarding Episode #226 – Rainbow – Live in Passaic, NJ 1979)
    • Hey Nate this is John Tony Danza Miceli. My friend and I went to that show. We scalped tickets for the show. 50 dollars for 2. Met Ritchie for the first time and got his autograph. During the encore Ritchie threw his Strat at us but we couldn’t hold on. To bad any great show and memories. Keep Rocking Guys.

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Lead up to the Album:

  • The album was put together on a limited budget of $13,000.
  • Satriani used two Kramer Pacer guitars and a modified Stratocaster where he changed the pickups to get different sounds.
  • Guitar effects used were the Roland JC-120, a Marshall ‘68 half-stack and a Rockman.
  • With the limited budget Satriani had to use whatever times and rooms were available.  With the limited time he added the effects to tape while he recorded.
  • The album features a lot of drum machine, much like his debut, to save money.
  • Jeff Campitelli overdubbed hi-hats, toms, cymbals, and snare.
  • Recorded and mixed at Alpha And Omega Recording and Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California.

Core Band:

  • Drum Programming, Performer [Sound Design], Percussion – Bongo Bob Smith
    • Percussionist.
    • Played with Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Clarence Clemmons.
  • Drums, Percussion – Jeff Campitelli
    • Worked with Satriani in Squares.
  • Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion, Drum Programming, Written-By, Arranged By – Joe Satriani
  • Percussion, Engineer – John Cuniberti
    • http://johncuniberti.com/
    • Worked with Dead Kennedys, Tracy Chapman, Kevin Gilbert, PJ Harvey, Aaron Neville and the Grateful Dead.
  • Programmed By [Pre-Production], Sound Designer – Jeff Kreeger
    • Only a couple of other entries on Discogs.

Technical:

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Art Direction – David Bett
    • Currently works creative at Columbia Records. Formerly at Relativity, Lous, and Sony.
    • Worked with 24/7 Spyz (Gumbo Milennium), Steve Vai (Passion and Warfare), Additional albums with Joe Satriani, Peter Frampton, Easy E, Wu Tang Clan, Aerosmith (Honkin’ on Bobo), Vinnie Moore.
  • Cover [Cover Concept] – Jim Kozlowski
  • Originally Joe was going to title the album ”Lord of Karma” but changed it at the suggestion of a British journalist who said that it would give listeners the wrong idea about the album.  Joe did his first interview about the album in the summer before it was released.  The journalist said, “I don’t understand why guitarists always go into some Indian spiritual thing.” Joe called the label and asked to change the title to “Surfing with the Alien” because everyone will know he has a sense of humor and doesn’t take himself too seriously.
  • Satriani had a stipulation in his contract that his albums cannot have any negative or violent imagery.
  • The album cover features the Silver Surfer with the hand of Galactus on the back cover. The artwork was licensed from the publisher and was taken from Silver Surfer #1. Artwork was drawn by John Byrne. Byrne did not receive a royalty for the use on the album cover.
  • Satriani said he came up with the name and was unfamiliar with the comic book character.  His production manager, Jim Kozlowski, was a big comic book fan and had used the name “Silver Surfer” when he was a radio DJ. He suggested the album art.
  • Marvel Comics later repaid Satriani by naming a planet “Satriani” in his honor.
  • The licensing for the cover was limited and had to be renewed. In 2018 Marvel and Satriani could not come to an agreement so the cover art had to be redone. All digital retailers and deluxe editions feature the new artwork.
  • The license was around $5,000 for 20 years.  Silver Surfer was not doing well and this album helped boost it.  Every year they kept “tightening the screws” on how much they charged to renew the artwork and eventually Joe had to just stop using the artwork.

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Album Tracks:

  1. Surfing with the Alien
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing_with_the_Alien_(instrumental)
    • The solos were recorded with a Eventide H949 which was malfunctioning. As it was the end of the studio time they went with the recording giving it its distinct sound.
    • Satriani said this song was written because he was a huge fan of science fiction. He said in sci-fi aliens are always attacking or trying to kill us but wouldn’t it be cool if they wanted to do something fun like go surfing..
  2. Ice 9
    • Written referencing the substance from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 book “Cat’s Cradle.”
  3. Crushing Day
    • Joe said this was the only solo he worked out in advance. All others were improvised.
    • Satriani said he regretted this and felt like he had to play this solo as is when ion stage.
  4. Always with Me, Always with You
  5. Satch Boogie
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satch_Boogie
    • This was the only track that used live drums played by Campitelli. It was originally recorded using a drum machine.
    • The song fades out quickly at the end as the drum machine was being picked up by the amplifier.
    • This song was regularly played by Deep Purple in 1993-94 when Joe toured with them.
    • AllMusic calls this a “ZZ Top homage.”
  6. Hill of the Skull
  7. Circles
  8. Lords of Karma
  9. Midnight
    • A Casio CZ-101 was used to do the flute and orchestrations.
    • Joe uses two-handed tapping on this song.
  10. Echo

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Reception and Charts:

  • The album peaked at #10 in Australia, #53 in Canada, #16 in New Zealand, and #29 in the US Billboard 200.
  • The album was certified gold in Australia (35,000 copies), silver in the UK (60,000 copies) and platinum in the US (1,000,000 copies).
  • From: satriani.com
    • On August 7th, 2007, Epic/Legacy Recordings celebrated the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking album with the release of a new expanded edition of Surfing with the Alien. This meticulously restored two-disc set includes the newly remastered album and a previously never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988. It also features new liner notes written by Joe and special deluxe packaging featuring photos, notes and other memorabilia from Joe’s personal archive.
    • On Nov 29th, 2019, Sony/Legacy released a Deluxe version in conjunction with Record Store Day, with new artwork and a bonus disc, Stripped — the Backing Tracks, featuring the songs with all guitar solos removed. This version received a wider digital release on Jan 14, 2020.

Reviews:

  • Kerrang!
  • AllMuisc:
    • Surfing with the Alien belongs to its era like Are You Experienced? belongs to its own — perhaps it doesn’t transcend its time the way the Jimi Hendrix Experience‘s 1967 debut does, but Joe Satriani’s 1987 breakthrough can be seen as the gold standard for guitar playing of the mid- to late ’80s, an album that captures everything that was good about the glory days of shred. Certainly, Satriani was unique among his peers in that his playing was so fluid that his technical skills never seemed like showboating — something that was somewhat true of his 1986 debut, Not of This Earth, but on Surfing with the Alien he married this dexterity to a true sense of melodic songcraft, a gift that helped him be that rare thing: a guitar virtuoso who ordinary listeners enjoyed. Nowhere is this more true than on “Always with Me, Always with You,” a genuine ballad — not beefed up with muscular power chords but rather sighing gently with its melody — but this knack was also evident on the ZZ Top homage “Satch Boogie” and the title track itself, both of which turned into rock radio hits. This melodic facility, plus his fondness for a good old-fashioned three-chord rock, separated Satriani from his shredding peers in 1987, many of whom were quite literally his students. But he was no throwback: he equaled his former students Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett in sweep picking and fretboard acrobatics and he had a sparkling, spacy quality to some of his songs — particularly the closing stretch of the Middle Eastern-flavored “Lords of Karma,” the twinkling “Midnight,” and “Echo” — that was thoroughly modern for 1987. The production of Surfing with the Alien is also thoroughly of its year — stiff drumbeats, sparkling productions — so much so that it can seem a bit like a relic from another era, but it’s fine that it doesn’t transcend its time: it captures the best of its era and is still impressive in that regard.
  • I actually found a review. It’s from a Norwegian magazine called Street Fighter (issue from April/May 1988), which, by the way, was the precursor to Scream Magazine that still exists today, and where I have found a couple of reviews before. Just some useful information first: Street Fighter had a scoring system going from 0 – 100 points, 100 being (obviously) the best score. Surfing With The Alien got 65 points, which means that it was perceived as a really good album. I have included a photo of the review itself and the cover of the magazine. 
  • Here’s a translation of the review: 
  • This is an excellent album for guitar freaks. Joe Satriani is one of the greatest guitar players today, and he really proves his chops on his new solo-album. This is, like his previous album “Not Of This Earth”, a 100 % instrumental album. What is negative about that, is that it’s too boring with only instrumental songs through the whole album. I would have been much more satisfied if he had joined up with a good singer. But – of course – the guitar playing matters a lot on this album. The guitar playing alone is worth 90 points, but I don’t want to give such a high score for a purely instrumental album. But what could have been if a great vocalist could have sung most of the songs? Well, we must take this album as the study in great guitar work that it is. Joe Satriani has his distinctive style, and when a song starts, you can hear that it’s him immediately. Guitar freaks must buy this album. 

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Episode #227 – Black Night – Deep Purple Tribute According to New York

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Alternate cover.

Album Tracks:

  1. Black Night
  2. Strange Kind of Woman
  3. Fireball
  4. Smoke on the Water
  5. Child In Time
  6. Woman From Tokyo
  7. Space Truckin’
  8. Stormbringer
  9. Speed King
  10. Burn
    • Drums – Van Romaine
      1. https://www.vanromaine.com/
      2. Drummer in the Steve Morse band, worked with Dio, Spencer Davis Group, Steve Vai, Kansas, the Dixie Dregs, and Blood, Sweat & Tears.. Played drums along with Deep Purple on the 1999 Concerto.
    • Guitar [Rhythm & Lead] – Simon Gregory
      1. Only a few credits on Discogs.
    • Other [Guitar (lead)] – Lars Y. Loudamp
      1. Alter ego of a certain Scandinavian neoclassical guitarist.
    • Vocals – Cory Glover*
  11. Deep Purple NY

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Episode #226 – Rainbow – Live in Passaic, NJ (1979)

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  1. Eyes Of The World
  2. Love’s No Friend
  3. Vielleicht das nachste Mal (*Maybe Next Time)
  4. All Night Long
  5. Lost in Hollywood
  6. Guitar Solo
  7. Keyboard Solo
  8. Drum Solo
  9. Lazy
  10. Man On The Silver Mountain
  11. Blues
  12. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll
  13. Kill the King

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Episode #225 – The Artwoods – Art Gallery

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Lead up to the Album:

  • At college in 1962 Jon Lord formed a band called The Don Wilson Quartet. They played mostly covers all over including clubs, pubs, and weddings.
  • After College Jon got a job but wanted to keep the musical end of things.
  • The name of the group changed to Redd Bludd’s Bluesicians.  The musicians were Don Wilson on vocals and bass, Derek Griffiths on guitar, Jon Lord on piano, and Reg Dunnage on drums.
  • At this same time Art Wood was working with his own group called The Art Wood Combo.  The band eventually boke up.  Wilson knew the group and suggested they form a new group using Wilson’s quartet.  This would have been in early 1964.
  • They continued on as the Art Wood Combo for a time before changing the name to The Artwoods.
  • Don Wilson bought a Lowry organ for Jon. The band advertised as “a great organ-ised” combo.
  • Early on Don Wilson crashed the group’s van and broke both his legs.  He was replaced on bass by Malcolm Pool from the group The Roadrunners.
  • Shortly after they were offered a recording deal for a single.
  • Reg worked at Heathrow and didn’t want to quit his day job so they looked for a new drummer and found Keef Hartley.  He was reportedly found in the park clutching his drums. They auditioned him at The Tiles Club and he got the job.
  • In October of 1964 they recorded their first single “Sweet Mary.” It was moderately advertised and didn’t sell particularly well.
  • The band did a residence at the 100 Club in Oxford Street and Kooks Kleek in West Hampstead.
  • It was just before this that Jon Lord was rumored to have done the piano track for The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” though there is a lot of evidence that this is not correct.
  • During this time Jon Lord sat in with Bo Diddley at the 100 Club.  Bo Diddley was interesting in recording with the band and was very complimentary of them.  The artist Little Walter said of the group “I thought white boys couldn’t play the blues, but they were playing the hell out of the music.”
  • The group’s second single, “Oh My Love” did about as well as their first.
  • In early 1965 they toured with P.J. Proby on two tours.
  • When Mike Vernon at Decca heard their early studio recordings he proposed taht they use Decca’s studio and record with them.
  • They recorded another single “I Take What I Want” which came out in May of 1966 and it made it into the Top 30.
  • They toured Poland and Paris and Jon used his earnings to purchase his Hammond on hire purchase. He ended up cutting the organ into two pieces to make it e3asier to get in and out of the clubs they were playing.
  • Jon paid £60 to have the organ cut in half. The manufacturers actually offered this as a service to make the instrument easier to transport. Jon said, “They cut it across just under the keyboard so that the generators are in one half and the amp and speakers are in the other. They modify it so that when you clip the two halves together the whole thing automatically connects. It means that it can be carried quite easily by two people, each one carrying a 1 ½-hundredweight section. It’s easier to pack in a can, too, and there is far less problem carrying it up and down stairs.” They even made padded carrying cases for the sections.
  • During this time Jon lord became more analytical of his own playing. Of this ye said, “I realised I was just playing Jimmy smith cliches most of the time like a thousand others. It occurred to me that I could use some of my classical knowledge. I tired to fit Bach fugues into what we were playing, not note for note, but just getting the feel of it. I think we were one of the first groups to use little chunks of classical music as an introduction for songs. We used Tchaikovsky as an intro to Sam Cooke’s Shake.”

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

  1. Can You Hear Me
    • Written-By – Allen Toussaint
    • Originally recorded by Lee Dorsey and released in 1965.
  2. Down In The Valley
    • Written-By – Burns*, Burke*
    • Written by Bert Burns and Solomon Burke
  3. Things Get Better
    • Written-By – Floyd*, Cropper*, Jackson*
    • Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper, and Wayne Jackson
    • First recorded by Eddie Floyd in 1966.
  4. Walk On The Wild Side
    • Arranged By – Nelson*
    • Written-By – Bernstein*, David*
    • Written by Elmer Bernstein and MAck David
    • Jon Lord: “This turned me on to the organ. I first heard it when I was a drama student and I didn’t even know what the instrument was making the sound.”
    • He also said: “It was Keef who wanted to do it; funnily enough it was one of our most popular numbers.”
    • Originally for the soundtrack of the movie of the same name.
  5. I Keep Forgettin’
  6. Keep Lookin’
    • Written-By – Burke*, Burke*, Burke*
    • Originally written by Solomon Burke and released in 1966

Side Two:

  1. One More Heartache
  2. Work, Work, Work
    • Written-By – N. Neville*
    • Written by Naolmi Neville (pseudonym for Allen Toussaint) using his mother’s modern name.
  3. Be My Lady
    • Written-By – Jackson*, Jones*, Dunn*, Cropper*
    • The song Be My Lady was written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn and Al Jackson Jr. and was first released by Booker T. & The MG’s in 1965.
  4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
    • Written-By – Rudy Clarke*
    • First recorded by James Ray in 1961.
  5. Stop And Think It Over
    • Written-By – Nat Jones
    • First released by James Crawford in 1965
  6. Don’t Cry No More
    • Written-By – D. Malone*
    • Released by Roy Head in 1966.

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

  • The Artwoods were a popular live act on par with bands like The Animals.  Their record sales, however, were never strong.
  • In early 1967 Hans Bregel and a Germany Symphony Orchestra from Frankfurt approached them about the idea of writing a special piece of music together.  This didn’t happen and the band wouldn’t last through 1967.
  • The R ‘n’ B scene was starting to fade at this time giving rise to many more rock acts. Keef Hartley left the band and of it he says, “It was a nightmare, I was always unhappy and got the sack in April. I was given two weeks notice.” He was replaced by drummer Colin Martin.  The group set out to tour Denmark only to get there and find out it had been canceled.  The promoter got them some gigs at the last minute and the following year the new group Roundabout would connect with him to do the same.
  • At the end the Artwoods recorded their last single “What Shall I Do” and even started writing their own material.
  • A promoter named Jack Baverstock was looking for a band where he could capitalize on the gangster craze that had sparked up around the movie Bonnie & Clyde. The Artwoods accepted this and changed their name to The St. Valentines Day Massacre.  They recorded a cover of “Brother Can You Spare A Dime” which was their only release they’d have before disbanding.
  • On the single they were dressed up like gangsters and holding tommy guns in pin-striped suits.  They had to wear these costumes on stage.  Of this Lord said, “I felt bloody ridiculous, wawe all did.
  • After this they disbanded and Jon returned to session work and a few other projects but there will be more on that in future episodes.

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