that was the first concert i ever saw. my parents took me as a graduation present. I really enjoyed it and the coolest was that my parents enjoyed it too. My mom is your biggest fan now. Your a great guitar player, and your band is awsome too!. Great show!

Your fan,

Eric Garica Kittylover182@hotmail.com

I have been to many concerts in the past 14 Years but nothing compared to the "G3 Tour!" John Petrucci played a great set with songs he wrote especially for this tour. His perfomance was outstanding for a newcomer to the solo scene!

Steve Vai followed John Petrucci's set with flashy showmanship and guitar shredding. It felt great to see and hear him live! Another bright spot was to see him reunited with bass player Billy Sheehan. From their opening with the old Roth classic "Shyboy" to their final song of the set their stage presence was amazing! Vai even walked 7 rows into the middle of the crowd during one of his songs. His unique style was impressive especially when he played harmonics on his guitar using his tongue, and also when he fretted a note and swung his guitar around his back a couple of times! He was treated royally by fans and at times gave expresions of surprised by fans who gave him a standing ovation after each song!

Joe Satriani hit the stage next and God it was AWESOME! It was loud as hell when he was introduced to Santa Fe, New Mexico! He had the crowd in the palm of his hands from the beginning to the end of his set! Each and every song was greeted and ended with a standing ovation! It was the first time that Joe Satriani ever Played in Santa Fe, New Mexico and he left a hell of an impression on hard rock guitar music lovers! Fans on the right front side of the stage held up a huge banner reading "SATRIANI IS GOD!" That exactly desribes the way Joe Satriani who was dressed in all black played. His stage presence was out of this world like a supreme being an "ALIEN" if you will! He didn't have to ask for respect, he was bestowed with it!

The main course of the night was when all three guitarist as well as Billy Sheehan and Stu Hamm had a group jam of cover songs to end the show! I've never died and gone to heaven (or hell for that matter, thank God) but after that night if this is what heaven is like, I plan to be there.

Overall it was a FUCKING AMAZING show, it blew away anything I've ever seen in 15,ooo plus colesium, and here we were in a mini amphitheatre! The show was held on the 4TH OF JULY! Believe me when I say there was no need to buy fireworks, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, & John Petrucci provided the fireworks and it sure was EXPLOSIVE!!!!!!!!

This show gets a definite 10 for being one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Petrucci opened it up with a bang, cruising right out of Jimi's national anthem on the radio, playing new material he'd written specially for the g3 tour. Unlike most of the fans there, I think I was one of the few who had actually heard of John Petrucci and Dream Theater before. Petrucci played some excellent riffs, mostly with a celtic or middle eastern sound, and one which sounded pretty reminiscent of Jeff Beck. Petrucci Jammed through his songs with his old Dream Theater band mate Mike Portnoy, who was, according to Petrucci "completely color cooardinated" in reference to Portnoy's matching shorts, hat - shirt and shoes. I was really impressed with Mike Portnoy's drum playing, and it was too bad that they didn't have him drumming for the final jam. You can tell all his rhythms are really complicated, and his fluid motion makes it all look really easy. After a brief intermission Steve Vai ran on stage playing allong with two big sirens set on top of his ampliphiers. He had on this crazy sleevless trench (sp?) coat with the bottom frayed all the way up to his waist. The crowd all went really crazy and you could tell he was kind of taken aback by it all. After the first song or so, he took off his coat, and went through a series of costume changes before he settled on a white shirt with a weird flufy hat. This kind of pissed me off, because it was obviously all for show. But still I have to say that Vai definitely puts on the best show of the three. He got the crowd pumped up with some natural harmonics fingered with his toung, a talent unto itself, and an improvised shredding duel with his bassist, who would echo everything steve gave him perfectly. The drummer had a good solo as well; he played a few bars of his own while spinning sticks in both hands and then through them both to the crowd. All in all I have to say that Steve was probably my favorite performer that night, both in terms of the songs he played and his showmanship. The performance was completely flawless and his songs kind of formed one with a cool motif that he returned to occasionally in his soloing. After Vai came Satriani. He played all of his classic songs and got the audience to go allong with his act of sticking his arm up in the air after struming his long climatic final notes. The only complaint I have about his set is that it wasn't long enough, but when he called Vai and Petrucci back onstage no one really cared anymore. They jammed on ZZtop's "La Grange" and Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - most likely the two greatest jam songs ever written. Then they closed it all with the classic g3 cover song "Going Down" by Don Nix.

The Bottem Line is that this show kicked ass; I would recomend g3 to anyone who playes guitar or is into this kind of music.

What can I say? Incredible outdoor venue, phenominal musicians, perfect weather, and a full moon.

The only slightly critical things I have to say are; 1) I wish Stu Ham and Billy Sheehan had taken solos. Ain't nuttin' like seeing Stu pound out 'Linus and Lucy', or Billy's reverse-eponymic 'NV43345' =)

2) Really hard to listen to all 5 guitars shredding the last 5 minutes of virtually every one of the trio's songs! Very cool the first time around, but a bit over the top after that!

HOWEVER!!! The show is 1000% worthwhile, and I was one of the two winners of the aftershow passes. Now, tell me... what better way to spend the 4th of July?

Much thanks to Chris Varrin and the Satriani.com websters!

--Lokki--