A Bedroom Lesson on SatchVai’s First Album
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's first album revisits their teenage bond, from a "Sea of Emotion" memory to a bedroom tape where Vai built a track from a shared riff.
Tracklist
- The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 1 — Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
- The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 3 / Reflections On A Year And A Half — Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
Transcript
The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 1 — Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
Before Joe Satriani sent Steve Vai music for their first album together, he thought back to a place he’d once shown him. Satriani remembers a spot on their school grounds that he and his friends called the Sea of Emotion. They’d stay there late, talking about their feelings; later, he introduced Vai to it. Satriani says that memory became his starting point: he wrote the first two parts of the title suite and sent them to Vai. Vai came back with a third. Hear The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 1 by Joe Satriani & Steve Vai.
The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 3 / Reflections On A Year And A Half — Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
The final track on Joe Satriani and Steve Vai’s first album together begins with a tape of them playing as teenagers in Satriani’s bedroom. Vai had been playing guitar for about a year and a half when, he remembers, Satriani suggested recording their lesson. Years later, Satriani mailed Vai the reel, and Vai transferred it. When Satriani sent him parts one and two of The Sea of Emotion, Vai says he chose a snippet of that tape to begin part three and built on the riff they’d played. Neither of them can tell who played which part on the tape. Hear The Sea Of Emotion, Pt. 3 / Reflections On A Year And A Half by Joe Satriani & Steve Vai.