Ok, heres the question. If Joe decided to end his career tomorrow! And he has only time to play "one" last song WITHOUT ANY END/INTRO/MIDDLE JAM, no improvisation and it MUST be "album version", MUST BE A JOE SATRIANI SONG!. What song would you want him to play and why!?

I could not simply pick one song its impossible!!!!!
(this isn't what "joe" would pick) this is what you want him to pick!

I would think it was safe to say Joe would pick Rubina... but anyway :P Back to my question !

Dude your Question has depressed me with the thought of Joe no longer playing.

I would say Always with me,Always with you

+1. Always with me is the PERFECT song! even ZZ's song's kinda good too...but short!

Freebird, with an extended 40-year-long jam session at the end.

Oh, and to not tempt fate (I used to have to talk to people about the possibilities of dying prematurely) it's perhaps better to say "what if Joe decided to end his career yesterday and you could pick one track etc..."

Lol that was my line of thinkin too ;) :D


for old times sake surfing with the alien would be nice

ad maybe saying goodbye would be apt??


AWMAWY would be great

damn,as you can see i cant pick :P :P

Has to be a satch song.

I would pick a song he's never done like. Perhaps "Attack" but even more extreme the the album version.

Tough question! I think I would want to go with an upbeat tune, maybe "If I Could Fly" from ITLIS.

bollocks.

first it's a hypothetical question and second you never said that in the opening post.

Fine i have edited the question now gimi your answer ;)

Still doesn't say it has to be a Joe track.

So I stay with Freebird, because the jam is part of the song, always has been, always will be. And it's not at the end, so it can be extended and stay within your "rules".

Happy ... fussy git ;) lol

or even Voodoo Child. he said in one of his interviews that that and Machine gun were prolly his fave Hendrix tracks.

OK, in that case I pick CRATS. With an extended solo section in the middle :P

Why all the restrictions on this question? Would be more interesting to see responses to just, "What one song would you want Satriani to play" or something like that.

Anyway, keeping within your parameters, The Forgotten, Pt 2. But I'd REALLY want him to jam on it - I HATE the John Lennon "play it exactly as it is on the album" approach to playing live. What's the point?

Because Phry and motorcycle are not picking satch songs and Phry u dont win this time i said "must be album version.. no improvisation" :) what the hell is CRATS?

Will you all stop with the stupid realism answers.... its hypothetic just answer it the way you know its meant to be!!! Im interested in to knowing what song you would and why either because the song has some good relation to describe joe's career etc

I think he means 'Clouds race across the sky' from the Engines of creation album ^_^

lol you made him completely change his opening post.

cool #9 would have to be it for me, although its not my favourite (dont have one anyway) it captures so much of joes talent.

i know, really poorly thought out question, IMHO

Difficult but the one that is floating my boat just now bigtime is STARRY NIGHT. But hell what a depressing question and oh double hell just played Starry Night and I am even more depressed now.

it will never happen that way...it could only be death or serious injury and the last song wouldnt have been a pick..just a song...i dont see a difference in answeres if you just asked what is your favorite original studio song by joe....much less morbid! and should be the same answer

Not really... "what is your favorite original studio track" doesnt represent what people want to hear as his last song!

Some people may want to see him play a song they've not seem him play before etc...

Face it, eventually he will only have 1 show left before he retires which is ages away obviously but its IN OUR LIFE TIME! wouldnt you want to wish for a song on it that you never heard before live..... regardless of it being your favourite or not.

Phry - CRATS is actually a good choice though :) Nice song.

sorry..i guess i just dont get it :wacko: i would like to hear my favorite song as his last...to me its the same thing

but Until We Say Goodbye Would be the most appropriate and the one i would want to hear

I wouldnt how ever id prefer sumin i aint heard before live if it was surfing with the alien id be annoyed, heard it too many times!!

Echo from time machine. I love that version, and since you say it has to be an album version, i think that counts.

If it doesn't, then Rubina. First song I ever heard from him, and I think it sums him up pretty good.