Well, i haven't seen the first g3 show, of european 2004 g3 tour, but i've seen the three first reviews of joe satriani web... and i think all the tour, joe and steve will be on the top of the rank, and robert will be the worst, of three. i'll be in posterior shows and i wish i'll see a good concert of robert, he is not probably the best option to play near joe & steve, but that's what we have....

If joe's reads this, for a next g3 choose some other guitar palyers, some others as Kirk, pettruci, or any other one better than robert

Awesome show!

Mr. Fripp was, weird, as expected.

Vai kicked some serious butt, his band is really great, all excellent musicians, I can see why Dave Weiner is (stuck) in the Vai band, great player.

Satch was great, but it was waaay to loud, at some high notes I thought my eardrums would explode, but nonetheless it was a terrific energetic show. He was jumping all over the stage like a crazy rocker.

The Jam gave me goose bumps. To see Vai and Satch playing together is a real treat! Red played by the G3-jam was absolutely cool!!! I love that song and with two of my favorite musicians in it was realy cool. It's to bad that Fripp isn't that much of a showman, with the jam he was sitting way back at the stage, I didn't even saw him during the whole jam. The stage was pretty high and I was standing almost in front. This really disappointed me because I'm a fan of King Crimson and would have loved to see him play With Mr Vai and Satch.

THanks for such a wonderfull evening!

This was the very first time I saw Joe Satriani live. I already saw Steve Vai earlier this year in Groningen, Oosterpoort where he played with the Metropole Orchestra. And Robert Fripp was unknown to me, but now I will remember him. I will remember him but not in a postive way. He started off and played some spooky music, he only hit three or four notes during a song of ten minutes or so. Not what I expected at all! After Fripp it was Vai's turn. He did an amazing job. He played his triple neck (as on the dvd). As far as I remember he played, You're Here, Giant Balls of Gold, Anwsers, The Reaper, Juice, Whispering A Prayer, Bangkok, For the Love of God (not in this particular order),. And then it was up to Joe... I was really excited to see him for the first time. He started off with Hands in the Air from his new album of which he played 5 songs (besides Hands in the Air he did GNAAHH!, Up In Flames, Is There Love in Space? (with Robert Fripp as third guitarist), Searching and I Like The Rain. Besides the new album Satriani played some older tunes like, War, Cool#9, Always with you, Always with me, Flying In A Blue Dream. Hands in the Air is a good opener but Joe's guitar wasn't loud enough. Maybe this was because the overall sound was actually really (maybe too) loud. I wasn't really satisfied with the overall sound and he didn't play my favourite songs of his new album (If I Could Fly, Lifestyle and Just Look Up), but you can't have 'em all off course. Fortunately he played the titlesong and Flying in A Blue Dream. Don't get me wrong I really like the other songs as well but I hoped for some other tunes. The G3 or should I say G2 jam was cool. You could almost not hear anything of what Fripp played during this jamsession, you've had to listen really hard.

Conclusion: I am glad I finally saw Joe Satriani live and I am looking forward to see 'an evening with' show of Joe. Too bad the sound wasn't all that and I have to see that Robert Fripp doesn't fit the G3 at all.

For everybody who doesn't know Symphony X yet, you should definitely check them out. They also played at the Arrow Rock Festival and it was the first time I saw them and I was very impressed. The singer Russel Allen is one of the best and the music was also very, very good. That's it...Adios

Hello,

I returned from Lichtenvoorde last night. This I went to ACRF only for the G3. Pitty that Qeensryche was on the same time on stage as the G3 (and pitty Yngwie Malmsteen wasn't the third guitarplayer instead of Robert Fripp).

It started with Robert Fripp, ex-guitarist King Crimson. All the time he stayed sitting on the left side of the stage. Well King Crimson is no little name, their heavy song 21th Century Schizoid Man is covered bij Voivod, and Court Of The Crimson King by Saxon. But was he playing extremely boring cyclic music, even the people in India would get sick of it. This is totally no rockmusic and doesn't fit with the guitar-violence of Vai and Satriani. A part of the audience reacted with whistle-concerts and shouting against him. On a moment a beachball was thrown on the stage, and later something else.

After that Vai came on stage, he played lovely loud. With the well-known Tony Macalpine on keyboards and guitar and Billy Sheehan on bass-guitar. Also 'rookie' Dave Weiner played very well. During this performance a banner was thrown on the stage with the text "G3 Steve Vai Joe Satriani Tony Macalpine". Indeed this was a good suggestion, having Macalpine as the third guitarplayer instead of Fripp.

Also Satriani was going extremely well and loud, with the wellknown Jeff Campitelli on drums. Vai and Satriani are so experienced in performing expressions and emotions with their guitars, that they don't really need a vocalist with lyrics. Satriani played 5 songs from the new album.

At the end they came together with the wellknown G3-jam. Not really together. Weirdo Fripp was all the time sitting left back on the stage. He totally didn't come forward while Vai and Satriani offcourse made the show. The song Red from King Crimson was played, and final act was Rockin' In A Free World from Neil Young.

We stood about 20 yards from the stage and luckely it was high. What a great evening and my ears are still yet whistling. But mister Frip will get a very difficult tour. In Italy and Spain they have enough rotten tomatoes. If they are smart the band of Vai or Satriani should quickly learn playing a few songs of King Crimson and alter the setlist of Fripp.