Went to see Joe for the 9th time I think, with 2 of my friends who also play guitar. They had heard me brag about what it's like to visit a Satch-gig and wanted to see for themselves... were they in for it, hahaha. Joe totally blew them away with the songs they already knew, but even more with the new ones!!! Great dubbleneck, kick-ass 7-string and man what a great show: the audience sang happy birthday in the 'accoustic tapparamafrenzy- set', great to hear some song he doesnt usualy play live. The best concert I saw Joe was in the Ahoy Rotterdam with the Joe Satriani- album with Jonathan (Mover) and Steward (Hamm) for 3 hours and 15 minutes!!!!!!! But this one came close to it, the sound was great. See you all at the next Satch-gig!?

Stan the Guitarman

Wow man super show great sound great performance keep up the good work and come back soon

greets Metallicat

Joe,

Thanks for being magnificent. You are getting better and better each time I see you on stage. Last time was in bospop 2000 and that one was a bit short so I was very happy that you played 2,5 hours of that great music this time. Hope to see soon.

Dennis Muijs

Joe,

This was your best show in Holland ever !!!!!! I saw 5 of your gigs in Holland but this one was extremely great.

When will you come again ??

Arie (the proud owner of ChromeBoy no: 395)

Joe was comming to Holland again, and off course we'd be there. It was, for me, the best gig ever. The sounds was right, The band was really in Jamming mood, and Joe him self had ( for what i think) a blast of a time, he was having really fun performing. Jamming and so on.

One hell of a night, thanx for it. Bye

Peter...

What a incredible show!! Joe, nobody is better than you!! Thank you for a wonderfull show. I was standing al at the front, right in front of you. I think the sound was great in the heineken music hall. I hope to see you soon.

Greetings from george.

I've seen quite a few shows of Joe over the years (8) and this was one of my favorites. Why? 1. He played a lot of his latest album and he played songs I've never heard live before (crushing day and headless). 2. He brought a rythm guitarist you could actually hear during the songs ;) Giving a nice overall sound.

Thanx Joe!

I really really enjoyed the show yesterday. I've been a Joe Satriani fan since eighties and I have seen him live 6 or 7 times by now. I liked the selection of songs, there were different from his previous tour. Most songs were from his earlier albums. The Joe Satriani blues album, Crystal planet and EOC were almost left out entirely. This is not a good thing because they are so many great tracks on these records. But hey, he can't play everything in one night! There were some nice surprises in the show to change the mood. After about an hour of fast and furious playing he sat down and played some cool relaxing tunes like "the headless horseman", "midnight" and "starry night". There were also some surprises in equipment: a 7 string guitar and a double neck guitar, one neck with a very weird tuning. The rest of the band was fine too. I enjoyed the bass/drum solo very much. Matt Bissonette was not trying to imitate the famous Stuart Hamn solo, he was just playing is own, more sensitive stuff But as with every Satriani concert, I had the feeling that the concert was a one man show with a background band supporting him. Joe's playing is just too dominant, too overwhelming, ok, he's just too good!

Some less good points: the overall volume level was too high in my opinion, especially for the lower notes. I am a frequent visiter of concerts of all kinds of music, so I know a live band can sound better. But the HMH is one of the best concert halls around, so this compensated largely the high volume. If the concert took place in Ahoy (Rotterdam) at this volume level it would have been a mess. Some of the fine nuances of Joe's compositions didn't always make it that well live. The Satch boogie, surfing with the alien and stuff like that are the best songs to perform live at this volume level. Maybe Joe should play in theaters next time at low volume levels, could be very interesting! A very disappointing thing: the T-shirts were far too expensive (Ok, I didn't stop me from buying) and I missed a bonus disc with The Eight Steps and Slick. I wonder if he has plans for that?

Amazing show! Best concert I've seen in years. Just over 2 1/2 hours non-stop and it really rocked! Great set-list (see below) with a good mixture of new songs, all-time favorites and other songs. I really loved New Last Jam, which Joe played on a new Ibanez JS double-neck guitar! Joe also played his new 7-string guitar which also looked very cool. Matt was playing very good a he's a very cool guy by the way, Jeff was really cooking and also Galen was enjoying himself. WOW that was good! O yeah, just one thing though, why on earth were the T-shirts so damn expensive??? This year price was € 30,- (about $ 30,- right now) while last year it wasn't even € 20,-.

Complete set-list: Flying In A Blue Dream, Crushing Day, Devil's Slide, Cool #9, Belly Dancer, Ice 9, Mind Storm, Seven String, The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing, The Extremist, The Crush Of Love / Memories, New Last Jam, Summer Song, The Headless Horseman, Midnight, Starry Night, I Believe, Oriental Melody, Mountain Song, Why, Bass / Drum Solo, Always With Me Always With You, Raspberry Jam Delta-V, Surfing With The Alien, Satch Boogie, Friends

In one word this was awesome... I was left pretty much in a daze the rest of the night... this was the first time I went to a Satch concert and it was more then I expected. The sound was great, the atmosphere was great, the show was spectacular!!!

I got to go backstage after the show to do some pictures (also for this site I guess) And that was pretty impressive too... I meet a lot of artists and Joe to me is a real down to earth straight up guy who works his ass of bringing us a fantastic experience...

Big Thanks,

Vito

This was my first satch gig, but it was way cool!!!!! I've seen you'd got yourself some nice new players, joe :) (great solo Matt & Jeff!) cant wait for the next time...

ps: thanks for playing some of the older stuff, like crushing day & i believe ps2: the new stuff is also great, some more of it next time!

20.00, Amsterdam, nice weather, JOE SATRIANI

The show started off a bit slow, Matt and second guitarist (..) not moving around much, making it not really exciting at first. Joe was doing all his tricks (maybe he wanted to have some of that stuff out of the way).

The show got lost better when joe started his tapping pieces. There where more lights and the guys on stage really seemed to have fun. Great bass and drum solo's made things better.

The rest was really good: energy, great songs etc. Had a great time (thnx joe!)

It was a shame joe didn't move around the entire stage: his cable was too short to reach the right side of the stage (for the viewer) so the people there didn't really get "closeups" of joe's playing. Joe buy a longer cable!!!!!!

All in all: slow start but otherwise really entertaining.

oh yeah, I agree: great pants.

It was still early yesterday when I arrived at Heineken Music Hall. Several hours waiting in the blistering sun paid off when I, together with two other fans was able to first meet Jeff campitelli (you're the best) and finally Joe himself (god exists !) Two and a half hours later we were left dazzled behind, after a stunning concert with several beautiful older songs and incredible new material. The fact that my friend got robbed during the concert and I got robbed by a an armed junky at Amsterdam Central couldn't even spoil an unforgettable evening.

Hope you enjoyed my chocolates ? Greetz and lots of success for the rest of the tour

Great show, great music and, hehe, great pants :-)

Altough the music was a bit to loud during the show I enjoyed watching and listening to Joe and the band. C u next time in Holland Joe.