Empower the Riff – Joe Satriani on Workshop Live

This is like 15 minutes long, so if you really want Joe without the bullshit you could buffer it and skip through to Joe with thre ssound effects.

Joe Satriani – Starry Night

This is longer than the version on the 2002 Strange , Beautiful Music album; the improv starts about 3.00 minutes in where the album version stops – very nice too.

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Satriani sarcastically backs Coldplay as ‘Viva la Vida’ wins best song at Grammy’s

 
See Rolling Stone story here

Unpicking the Coldplay-Satriani dispute

Andrew Watson from Creative Guitar Studio analyses the two songs.

Joe Satriani – Why?

Turn up both speakers very loud and blast the neighbours with that solo!!!

Joe Satriani – Lights of Heavan

This is one of the best tracks from one of his best albums – Crystal Planet – but not included in the Electric Joe Satriani anthology, and I think not much played in public. Nor is the equally good Secret Prayer. I guess some songs are more difficult to reproduce live if they’re very multi-tracked [...]

EMI get Coldplay/Satriani video banned

EMI, the record label for Coldplay, have leaned on YouTube to ban the video that compares Coldplay’s ‘Viva la Vida’ and Joe  Satriani’s  ’If I Could Fly’.
Scroll down below to the appropriate post and you’ll see that the video is longer available because of a copyright complaint by EMI.
Satriani is sueing Coldplay for alleged plagiarism, [...]

Joe Satriani speaks about Coldplay lawsuit

A MusicRadar exclusive interview
Joe Bosso, Sun 7 Dec 2008, 9:58 pm UTC

Joe Satriani spoke exclusively to MusicRadar about suing Coldplay 
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As previously reported on MusicRadar, Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay, claiming the UK band’s Grammy-nominated song Viva La Vida uses one of his melodies.
In court papers filed on 4 December 2008, Satriani’s legal team [...]

Joe Satriani – Revelation (Live in Paris)

Rock sensation as Joe Satriani sues Coldplay for plagiarism

A few months back we posted a YouTube video that compares Satriani’s “If I could Fly” with Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida”. Now Joe is all over the mainstream media in the UK (don’t know about US) because he’s decided to go to court over the issue. This would be a sensational trial, my guess is [...]