JOE SATRIANI, ERIC JOHNSON, STEVE VAI - G3 LIVE IN CONCERT

A live album of the illustrious G3 on progarchives ! Who would have thought that. Out of these three guys only Steve Vai is on our site in category Prog related. For Joe Satriani there have been many pleads to get him included but up till now it has not yet been rewarded with entry and frankly I'm ok with that despite Joe's obvious high qualities. But I wouldn't be surprised if he is being added some day anyway.

Despite the fact I'm a huge guitar fan I'm not really a die-hard fan of G3 and actually I don't know why. Maybe it's a bit too much showing off what they do, a bit too much in the vein of Yngwie Malmsteen in the sense of: look how good we are on guitar, we're going to get you into raptures ! I am someone who likes a bit of modesty on stage (like TFK, Jadis and Enchant for instance) and eventhough I have no doubt these are on itself sympethatic guys I'm not exactly into their presentation on stage. Anyway, does that mean I dislike this live treat ? Not at all, I think this is a very good display of their guitar skills and enjoy playing the CD a lot.

But that doesn't go for every track on the album. I will do a quick rating by track to show how I feel about them: 1. Cool no.9: 3,75 * (pretty progressive for Joe's standard) 2. Flying in a blue dream: 4 *. 3. Summer song: 3,75 * ( in fact all 3 tracks show Joe's at his best more or less) 4. Zap: 4 * 5. Manhattan 4,25 * (great bluesy track, I really love this one) 6. Camel's night out: 3,75 * (Johnson taking it somewhat easier than Satriani in his contribution) 7. Answers: 3,25 * (one of the lesser tracks) 8. For the love of God 4 * (if it wasn't for the last 2 minutes I would have given it 5) 9. The attitude song: 3,25 * (Vai's famous middle track is by far the best of his contribution). 10. Going down: 3,5 * (this is what I was talking about: Joe is introducing this song with: Oh man you can't believe what's coming now !! I'd say: let the audience be the judge of that) 11. My guitar wants to kill your mama 3 * (what on earth is this for a title ??? (Zappa I read), not even a great song) 12. Red House: 4,75 * (best for last: this fantasic blues song was originally by Hendrix and is the absolute highlight of the album).

So that means a total average of 3,8 resulting in 4 stars