Table of Contents
Foreword 1
Chapter 1 The Hendrfx Experience 3
Chapter 2 High School Confidential 9
Chapter 3 Learning Curves 15
Chapter 4 Satch Goes West 23
Chapter 5 Twists of Fate-The Joe Satriani EP, 1983-1984 41
Chapter 6 Not of This Earth-1985-1986 57
Chapter 7 Relativity 81
Chapter 8 Surfing with the Alien-1987 91
Chapter 9 Launching the Silver Surfer 111
Chapter 10 Flying in a Blue Dream-1989 119
Chapter 11 The Bearsville Experiment 131
Chapter 12 The Extremist-1992 137
Chapter 13 Eponymous-1995 159
Chapter 14 G3/Crystal Planet-1997 169
Chapter 15 Engines of Creation-2000 181
Chapter 16 Strange Beautiful Music-2002 191
Chapter 17 Is There Love in Space?-2004 197
Chapter 18 Super Colossal-2006 205
Chapter 19 Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock-2008 213
Chapter 20 Chickenfoot I-2009 225
Chapter 21 Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards-2010 241
Chapter 22 Chickenfoot III-2011/2012 249
Chapter 23 Unstoppable Momentum-2013 263
Conclusion: 2013 and Beyond 271
The Gear: Album by Album 275
Acknowledgments 281
Index 285