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G3 feat. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Robert Fripp |
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JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI AND ROBERT FRIPP JOIN FORCES JUNE 2004
The line up:
JOE SATRIANI - guitar
Jeff Campitelli - druns
Matt Bissonette - bass
Galen Henson - rhythm guitar
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STEVE VAI - guitar
Jeremy Coulson - drums
Tony MacAlpine - guitar / keyboards
Billy Sheehan - bass
Dave Weiner - rhythm guitar
Please remember that Robert Fripp will be performing solo, as ONLY Robert can!
On June 13th 2004, the legendary G3 Tour will commence its first European tour in 6 years at the ARROWROCK FESTIVAL in LICHTENVOORDE, HOLLAND bringing three of rock’s most influential guitarists together: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Robert Fripp. Since 1996, when Joe Satriani asked friend and fellow guitar hero Steve Vai to join him on the first G3 tour with Eric Johnson, there have been six (6) G3 tours, starring a line up of many of rock’s greatest guitar players, including Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Michael Schenker, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
The 1996 G3 tour paved the way for future G3 tours and spawned a live video and CD that highlighted the talents of each guitarist in a solo concert, before bringing the 3 stars together for a “Supergroup Jam.” Around the world, other greats stepped on stage and made the G3 Jams historical events: Brian May joined Joe and Steve in London in 1997, Billy Gibbons joined Joe, Steve and John Petrucci in Houston in July 2001, and Neil Schon has played a G3 Jam on every G3 tour in the US! November 2003 saw Joe, Steve and Yngwie Malmsteen play 30 sold out shows across the US and Canada. The tour was a great success and highlights are now available on the DVD G3 “Live in Denver” and the CD “G3 Rocking In The Free World”.
Joe Satriani has released 11 albums, sold over 7 million worldwide, and will debut music from the upcoming release “Is There Love in Space” on the European G3 dates. Before releasing his first album in 1987, Joe was teaching guitar in San Francisco to the likes of Kirk Hammett and Charlie Hunter. After his second album, “Surfing with the Alien” broke all records for an instrumental guitar album, Joe spent six months touring with Mick Jagger. Tours with Deep Purple in the early 90’s, along with his own world tours, have taken Joe to all four corners of the globe.
As a Grammy award winning guitar virtuoso, Steve Vai's sheer breathtaking facility on the guitar is acclaimed in the rock world. Starting with his groundbreaking 'Passion and Warfare' album and throughout the years since, Vai has consistently used music as a microscope peering into the human
spirit, with equal attention paid to both the darkest obsessions and the most exalted impulses contained there. While Vai clearly had what was needed to make indelible impressions during his stays with Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth, it's as a solo artist that he's made his most precious contributions. Each of his seven solo releases are unique, varied, compelling and 'even when the music is looking darkness square in the face' genuinely uplifting. In 1993, Steve earned a Grammy for the track 'Sofa' from Zappa's Universe Rock Group. His latest album 'Alive in An Ultra World,' recorded in over 17 countries, is a major achievement from a musical alchemist of the highest order. Steve's most recent releases include the 'Live at the Astoria' DVD and the new G3 album and DVD.
Robert Fripp has been getting out of vans and tour-buses as a professional musician for more than 40 years. Taking up the guitar at the age of eleven and overcoming obstacles such as being left-handed and by his own admission, tone-deaf, Fripp nevertheless went on to create a distinctive guitar style and approach that has seen him work with musicians as diverse as Blondie, The Orb, Talking Heads, The Damned, Robert Wyatt, Daryl Hall, The Future Sound of London, The Roches, Andy Summers, David Bowie, Brian Eno, The Stranglers, David Sylvian, Kenny Wayne Sheppard and of course, Peter Gabriel. Along with groundbreaking collaborations and decisive contributions to such classic albums as “No Pussyfooting” (with Brian Eno) and “Heroes” (David Bowie), Fripp is probably best known as the co-founder of the seminal rock group, King Crimson. Their 1969 debut, “In The Court of the Crimson King”, had a profound impact on the music scene of the day, influencing many groups and musicians including prog-rock luminaries such as Yes and Genesis. Albums such as “Larks' Tongues In Aspic” (1973), “Discipline” (1981) and “The Power To Believe” (2003) demonstrate that over its 35 year career, King Crimson has consistently produced challenging, ambitious and innovative music.
Always active, Fripp is a regular instructor as part of Guitar Craft seminar programme he founded in 1985 and which continues to hold numerous classes around the world. He has also worked extensively as a solo artist, releasing ten solo albums and touring initially with Frippertronics (developed from Brian Eno's tape delay system) and more recently Soundscapes - a process he describes as the best way he knows to make a lot of noise with one guitar.
In 2004 Fripp will be busy touring Europe as one third of G3 with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, completing an album with Brian Eno and writing new material for the latest incarnation of King Crimson with bassist, Tony Levin, guitarist / singer Adrian Belew and drummer Pat Mastelotto.
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