Prior to joining Metallica in 1983, Hammett played in Bay Area legends Exodus and was one of the band's founding members, starting up the group back in '79. After two years, he started taking lessons ...

Here's this "goofy" Ace Frehley fan with big hands and he keeps coming back for more... Satch says it wasn't long before he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Joe Satriani still remembers the first time he laid eyes on Steve Vai. It was 1972 in Carle Place, ...

Joe Satriani is the epitome of the modern guitar hero. Raised on Long Island but on the West Coast since the late ‘70s, he quit football to play guitar, spending time as both student and teacher -- ...

Last year marked the half-century mark from the moment a young Steve Vai started taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani. For the first time, the Long Island natives are teaming up for a co-headlining ...

In 1987, when indie label Relativity Records released rock virtuoso Joe Satriani's second full-length album, Surfing With the Alien, electric-guitar-instrumental history was made. "I was completely ...

A blast of guitar power chord and a room-shaking drum beat assured those at the Fisher Theatre on Tuesday night, April 16, that they were not there for…oh, “Mama Mia.” Instead the usual home of ...

Remember the band Squares from the ’80s? No? Well, don’t feel too bad – neither does anyone else. The group never released an album. “We were the hardest-working, least successful band of the early ...

When Joe Satriani recorded his self-titled debut EP, he had two aspirations. One was to make the “weirdest record ever.” The other was “to do things on my guitar that nobody else has done before.” ...