Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco (2 CDs) [2001]

Posted By : CerealRipper | Date : 15 Apr 2009 17:31:17 | Comments : 4 |

I was somewhat apprehensive of buying this double CD set, being a huge Satch fan but was never quite satisfied with how his live recordings (3 tracks from Dreaming #11 and disc 2 of the Time Machine double CD set) turned out. However, this new recording haven't left my CD player since I bought it last week, it was such a joy to listen to, and you can tell the band likewise was on fire and having a blast playing the music. Joe was cutting loose and took some liberty re-inventing his material without making the songs unrecognizable, while the rest of the band followed closely even though Joe's playing can be really unpredictable sometimes, a testament to the talent of the musicians involved.
This was recorded during Satriani's "Engines of Creation" tour, which I had the pleasure of attending one of the shows. The songs presented were a balanced mix of exciting, recently recorded songs and the always crowd-pleasing "greatest hits" from his earlier albums. Quality of recording is great, unlike a great number of live recordings released by rock musicians. Personally, I am very pleased with the set list, which happens to be influenced by fans who vists Joe's website, who were given the opportunity to design their own set lists. Except for 1 song that I didn't really care for (hint: it had less notes per second than other songs, but that's not really the reason I disliked the song), the remaining 24 tracks simply made life more enjoyable while listening to them.

This double CD set belongs in any Joe Satriani fan's collection, especially if you did not like his previous live recordings too much, because this one is different in the sense that the playing was more organic and less of a literal recital of the recorded versions. While you are at it, get the DVD as well. I didn't realize there was a DVD version until I heard Joe mention about it between songs. It will be amazing to see the fireworks his lightning fingers are capable of setting off on the fretboard, even though at the end of the day it's the music counts, and Joe delivers on that front ten-fold as well. Sure, he could play less notes and "go for the feeling", but why does he need to slow down when the feeling is already there in the music?

ALBUM
RELEASE DATE: June 19, 2001
LABEL: Sony/Epic
UPC: 5099750331422
CATALOG: 2-503314
ARTIST: Joe Satriani, Jeff Campitelli, Stuart Hamm,
COMPOSER: Joe Satriani
GENRE: Instrumental rock
# Discs: 2
# Tracks: 25
TOTAL RUNTIME: 1:09:17 hr

EXTRACTION
QUALITY: Lossless (FLAC - Highest Compression)
ENGINE: X Lossless Decoder / FLAC 1.2.1
MODE: FLAC Image + CUE + LOG
CUE SHEET CHARACTER ENCODING: Unicode (UTF-8)
SAMPLE: 44.1 KHz/16 Bit
TAGGING: Basic tags (8KB Padding) + Embedded Cover + Embedded CUE
SCANS: 300dpi Full Album + Booklet (English)
FLAC IMAGE SIZE: 967.6 MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 1.04 GBs

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XLD LOG (CD2)

TRACKS:
"Time" – 8:10
"Devil's Slide" – 4:44
"The Crush of Love" (Satriani, John Cuniberti) – 5:04
"Satch Boogie" – 5:28
"Borg Sex" – 5:28
"Flying in a Blue Dream" – 6:41
"Ice 9" – 4:54
"Cool #9" – 6:16
"Circles" – 4:20
"Until We Say Goodbye" – 5:36
"Ceremony" – 5:57
"The Extremist" – 3:39
"Summer Song" – 8:45
"House Full of Bullets" – 6:55
"One Big Rush" – 4:06
"Raspberry Jam Delta-V" – 6:53
"Crystal Planet" – 6:02
"Love Thing" – 3:48
"Bass Solo" (Stuart Hamm) – 6:28
"The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing" – 6:24
"Always with Me, Always with You" – 3:50
"Big Bad Moon" – 6:32
"Friends" – 4:07
"Surfing with the Alien" – 9:17
"Rubina" – 8:08

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Posted By: chemix Date: 15 Apr 2009 20:16:32

Thank you!!!

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