Joe Satriani talks releasing his new LP, 'Shapeshifting,' in the COVID-19 era, and why he'll never livestream a performance from home
from his home in San Francisco. “Because it was obvious. Some folks, maybe they were just frightened and didn’t want to see the reality that’s upon us right now.”, on April 10th, featuring the lead single “Nineteen Eighty,” which explores his earliest days in music and the inspiration of Van Halen.
So all artists — whether they’re a theater company or they’re a singer-songwriter showing up to play in a small club — they face the same problem. There’s a protocol for backing out of a show or tour. And so anyway, that’s on the sidelines. That’s what people saw. They saw confusion, statements about postponement, hardly the word cancellation.
In and around Milan and Como. They’ve been in lockdown way before us. So we were in communication with them every week. So I raised the flag really early with all of my partners internationally to say this is what’s coming. Believe me, it’s coming.We’ve been instructed to let people know which shows were postponed and rebooked for 12 months from now. And we’re waiting for confirmation on everything else. Me and all my friends all had tours spread out over the next six months.
And then Kenny was just exploding on the drums every night. We had toured together many years ago, when he filled in for Chad Smith in Chickenfoot, so we had played together before. But I found that what he was doing every night really showed me that he would be the right person to grasp this concept that I had for the album.
At the same time, Van Halen comes out, when I was feeling like people would try to get guitar players to be more mellow. And he just came out and said, “No, I’m gonna have a good time with this guitar.” And I just thought he was amazing, always smiling. It wasn’t “doom and gloom” shred guitars. In fact, the whole shredding thing didn’t start for another five years. It was still pretty swinging back then.
But here we are, and everyone is forced to do press from home and without the aid of makeup artists and great photographers and without their support team. And I thought, “Well, yeah, but that doesn’t mean that you just show up in your pajamas in front of a poorly-lit room.” It kind of goes against our job in a way.
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