Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien

Legacy Records is proud to present the 20th Anniversary reissue of Joe Satriani's Surfing with the Alien in stores August 7th. In support of the release of Surfing with the Alien I have CDs available for review and giveaway, audio streams, as well as other assets (press release, album art, and photos) below.

Surfing with the Alien was the album that ignited Joe Satriani's career as a solo performer. The acclaimed guitarist's second full-length release, Surfing with the Alien was originally issued in October 1987 on Relativity Records. It became a left-field bestseller that reached No. 29 on the Billboard Top 200 and was certified Platinum for US sales of over one million copies.

It was the first rock guitar instrumental album to reach Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart. It includes the charting hits "Satch Boogie" and "Surfing With The Alien", plus the Grammy-nominated "Always With Me, Always With You".

Surfing... launched Satriani on an ever-evolving creative path: eighteen further audio and video releases (nine of them certified gold and/or platinum) totaling over 10 million albums sold worldwide, fourteen Grammy Award nominations, and multiple world tours both as a headliner and as founder of the all-star "G3" guitar extravaganza.

On August 7th, 2007, Epic/Legacy Recordings will celebrate the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking album with the release of a new expanded edition of Surfing with the Alien. This meticulously restored two-disc set includes the newly remastered album and a previously never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988.

It will also feature new liner notes written by Joe and special deluxe packaging featuring photos, notes and other memorabilia from Joe's personal archive.

Comments

[Aftertime]

sweet as~can't wait for it!
also hope for a new G3 dvd too

[ToesKa]

i think im gonna buy this edition

[espliam]

its an honour to know how to play surfing with the alien on the guitar

[hepzibahbaptist]

allright! I'm definitely going to get this one. I can't believe he hasn't gotten any grammys.

Checked/Deleted.

[Cloud147]

I must get it

[Lin]

no way, i only bought the original a few months ago

[Draken]

That's pretty cool, i only have his anthology so i might get this to expand my collection.

[KissingShadows]

I love this CD!

[Bored to Tears]

Everyone loves Satriani.

[Shreddin 4 Life]

I've already heard about this...awesome as it is...
oh ya, 05/10/2007that's when I first heard about this ^

[Banana King]

Sweeeeet

[MetalorDIE]

This guy is the man! Amazing guitar player! He taught Steve Vai and Kirk Hammet

Checked

[RCalisto]

that guy right there influended me to play the guitar..
i've watched a couple of vids on youtube of some lessons and ive learned in those 30 mins more than ive learned in the past 6 months.. hes a beast..

[Zao_89]

And just a few months after Rise of The Silver Surfer.....

[_RATM_]

yeah i was thinking abotu that too zao,,,2 chrome domes getting attention

[wasp2020]

Definitely getting this, but wasn't there already an article on this on UG?

[JeffWiredBeck24]

Anybody know if there are plans for a G3'07 DVD? Satch, Gilbert, & Petrucci? That was amazing show, it would be a shame for them not to document it.

Checking with the alien

[caughtinamosh]

isn't it kinda funny that the anniversary of surfing with the alien is announced around the time that a movie featuring the silver surfer is coming out?

[Cheesepuff]

They better have Surfing w/ the Alien on the new Fantastic 4 movie...

[Vinura]

awesome

[Guitar_Poet]

Cheesepuff wrote:

They better have Surfing w/ the Alien on the new Fantastic 4 movie...

lol... that would be so kickass. ill admit, when i first saw the commercials for the Fantastic 4 SS movie the first thing that came to mind was satch, lol.

great guitar player... already have the original, but i might buy this, just because he rocks.

[Emenius Sleepus]

sounds great. Definitely looking into it

[SurfinWithSatch]

I have the original already, and I've got it signed by Satch, but I think I'll buy this one aswell, mainly for the extended version(s) and live show.

[salsa811]

awesome!!! satriani is guitar GOD!!!!

[Absent Mind]

Joe is one of the best guitarists ever!!!

Not so much in technique (in which he is awesome any way) but the way he writes his songs and music, and inspires and teaches others to be awesome as well.

Woulda been cool if they released it on the same date though.

[Ganib4]

Satch actually has a silver surfer on the back of his flame js guitar. Obviously Joe is much faster than the silver surfer though.

[Lewiji]

Guitar_Poet wrote:
lol... that would be so kickass. ill admit, when i first saw the commercials for the Fantastic 4 SS movie the first thing that came to mind was satch, lol.

Hah, me too. When the trailer came on in the cinema my gf asked what the silver surfer was and I said "umm, he's on one of satriani's guitars...I mean, he's a comic book thing"

[dudewithapen]

That anthology is crap. His best songs aren't even on there. I have all his albums and as old and cheap as they are that's the way to go.

Checks

[SickMetal]

That's the only album I have from him, I only bought it about a year ago so I don't feel like buying a new one or anything lol.

[GEARS_OF_DETH]

do you know what would make that ****ing new fantasic 4 movie better ...if joe satriani was the damn alien the boxoffice wopuld be filled saying that fantastic 4 is the greatest mvie on earth...and if they had surfing w/the alin on the movie or some kind of reference like seeing joe satiranis guitar in the background or his surfing with the alien CD or something to apriciate satch

[pissonemo]

"never before seen live show"

oxymoron much?

[meta1militia]

pissonemo wrote:

"never before seen live show"

oxymoron much?

are you canadian??

anyway, DAMN i just bought another surfing with the alien cd just a few months ago.

[clap-eric]

hey satriani
surfing with the alien wow new one
sounds g8 yar
legato king

[clap-eric]

hey satriani
surfing with the alien wow new one
sounds g8 yar
legato king

[Limaj_daas]

Hmm... Satriani is an amazing musician and a guitar player... btw, is there ANY news about a new G3 Dvd?