Don Felder AND Joe Satriani Kick Off International Guitar Month

GUITAR! We love Guitar. April is "International Guitar Month" and a fantastic excuse to highlight some of my favorite players on Carr Stereo. 

This week I hang with two legends.  Don and Joe- Felder and Satriani. 

Don Felder discusses his latest collection "The Vault- 50 Years Of Music' , his touring mantra , his inspirations, and how his legacy combines with a new energy. 

THEN we jump in with Joe Satriani. Joe talks G3 and the live collection, Steve Vai, how his son ZZ is carrying on the mission and more. 

Love both of these guys so much. Killer musicians, fantastic people. Enjoy! 

TC Out! Tune in next week! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:34

So let's begin as the Car Stereo Podcast. Welcome to Don Felder. So I am with Fingers Felder, one of my favorite people in American Treasure and an Icon. There's not enough to say about Don Felder. It's so good to see your face.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

It's wonderful to be back talking to you. I can't wait to see you. I hope you can come to the show so I can give you a big hug and thank you for doing this for me.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

I always tell people too, if they have not seen a Don Felder show, I don't know why you have not. I mean, uh because the show is incredible. You are so respectful of the legacy of the hits that you know people want to hear, but you still make it exciting and weave in some of the great things that you've worked on, the solo stuff, heavy metal is there, and your guitar solos. And the thing I always love about you is you just always make it a show. You you always look like a rock star. You come out, you give that great performance, you know, you're the awesome front of house guy, and uh it just always works so well. And I think you've been a fine-oiled machine over the years, and you're doing it now better than ever.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

Oh, I have to tell you, this band that I have with me now is the best band I have ever played with.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Really?

SPEAKER_03 1:44

The best the individual musicianship in this band is phenomenal, and the vocals are spectacular. But I have guys like my bass player has played with gosh, uh, Gwen Stefani, Shania Twain. He was with uh Shania for six years, just this whole last year and a half touring on the road. He works with Kelly Clarkson. These these guys aren't your like everyday just sort of you know pickup musicians. They're the creme de la creme. This drummer is a guy named Seth Roche. He's played with Rascal Flats, he toured with Cheryl Crow, who used to open for us in the Eagles years ago. Uh, he was in a band called Little Big Town and played with such a good band, yeah. He was uh a drummer for a guy named Brad Paisley, maybe a guitar player you've heard of, you know. And he worked for six years on the road as an attorney drummer for Keith Urban. And he now works with Carrie Underwood when she's doing American Idol, he comes to work with me. And then when she's done with American Idol, he'll go back and work with. I've got a great guitar player, a young guy, he's been with me over 10 years now, playing with me. He's played with Kid Rock, he plays with Kenny Chesney, and he plays with Tanya Tucker. These these guys take these songs like you were talking about that are 40, some of them 50 years old, and the level of performance is spectacular. People go, oh, you know, it's gonna be the same old song. It's the same old songs, but with a new, strong, vibrant energy to them. The vocals are spectacular. These guys are the best musicians, and I think I owe it to the people in the audience to put together the absolute best band that I can, to present the best show. I take care of myself physically, I get enough sleep, I eat well, I exercise, I sing every day, I play guitar every day. So when I walk out on stage, I want to present the absolute best I can do.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Of course, you cannot stand next to Fingersfelder unless you are of an echelon of, you know, like an amazing musician. I mean, come on, that's not the easiest thing to do. So these guys have to be incredible. Well, let's talk about speaking of incredible. You've got this super cool collection out. It's called The Vault 50 Years of Music. What I love about this when I first started listening, it's a very summertime kind of feel for the music. And that's what your music and Eagle's music has always reminded me of. Not necessarily because I listened to it in the summertime, but it brings you back to a place in your mind. You know, when you're a kid and you feel like summers as a kid. So I'm not really sure when I was listening to Hotel California or Victim of Love, but I know that that vibe reminds me of summer. And I get that essence with this great collection. Re-released demos, unreleased tracks, stuff that you kind of found. Talk to me about the vault.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Okay. Well, I lived out in Malibu for 29 years and went through five major fires. I had friends of mine whose house is burned down. One guy his house burned down. He had an incredible collection of great old Les Pauls and antique Martin guitars. Gone. Uh, another friend of mine had a studio burned to the ground. So finally, after the fifth fire, I went, I like it out here, but I think it's time for me to move out before I become one of the victims of a fire. So I pack up everything. I take my studio, my recording gear, my console, tape machines, everything in that studio. I had Malibu for so many years, and I just put it in storage in the year 2000 when I moved out of Malibu. After 20 something years, I I I moved into LA. I bought a house that I'm in right now that I bought from Seal, the singer. He had built a studio room, but when he moved out, he took all of his recording gear. So I said, Well, I've got my recording gear. So I I better go over to the locker and take a look at this stuff. This is about four or five years ago. And so I'll go open up this locker, and there's my old antique console and my old 24-track tape machine, stuff that I that people really don't use anymore. It's pretty much all digital Pro Tools and that sort of stuff. But I turn around and I see this box on the floor, and it's just full of cassettes, ADATs, CDs, and it's all the rough mixes that I had done over the years. I'd just thrown them in this box and put them in storage. So I said, I should bring that box back to my new digital studio. And before these things just dissolve like they do when they get old, let's transfer them over to Protools at 96K, really high resolution. So we're sitting in there transferring these things because you usually get maybe two or three plays before the oxide just corrodes off the bat. So we captured everything on the first play, and I thought, I remember that slide idea. That was a great idea. And I put a little check by it, right? And I had recorded just a demo of me playing electric piano on this progression. It was a really beautiful progression. I said, star that. So I went through and started about six or eight song ideas. When I first joined the band, Bernie Ledton told me, if you want to write songs for the Eagles, don't write lyrics and don't write melodies. Make music beds in a mu in a song structure, like an introduction, verse one, verse two, chorus, verse three, chorus, solo, chorus, chorus, chorus, right? And so just make music beds like that, and then give them the music beds, and if they hear something they like, they'll write the lyrics for it. So I wound up producing probably a hundred song ideas. And that's when I even we only got through a small part of these cassettes before we stopped and said, let's just take these songs that we've got now, these song ideas that are incomplete, and I'll just rebuild them from the ground up. I'll just have new players come in and take those ideas, then I'll finish writing the lyrics uh and I'll sing it. So we'd finish these rough ideas. Starting back in the very first song on the album is a song called Move On. And it was a demo. The first thing I did when I joined the Eagles was I made that slide demo for them in 1974. And so there's music in here that I've written through the decades, through 84 and 94, and during Hell Freezes Over, I was writing songs in hopes that we would make another album. And so finally we got down. I said, Well, I have to put some stuff on there that's new that I've just written. So I wrote two new songs. One of them is written about my girlfriend called I Like the Things You Do. And I have to when I get an idea for a song, I have to record it somewhere. Because two days later I'll go, What was that idea? What was that progression? How did that go? You know, so I'm on a treadmill with my girlfriend who's on the treadmill next to me. We're working out, and I've got uh ears in. And so I start running in time, and in that meter, in that time, I start having this lyric idea, and I pick up my phone while I'm running on the treadmill and I'm singing, I really like all the things that you do. And I look over at the guy next to me and he's looking at me going, What the heck are you doing? But I just happen to catch that little phrase at that tempo, and so that later I could come back to the studio and take that idea and and start building it from uh drum machine all the way up, and then finally having great players come in to work on it with me. If you if you look at the credits on this record, it's people that I have known for decades. There's guys from Toto, like David Page and Luke, uh Luke at the C and Luke at there, and there's drummers on there that just like Jim Keltner plays on this one song called Let Me Down Easy. It's just a beautiful big ballad. He's the perfect pocket for that song. It's almost like trying to cast a television show, a sitcom. Well, you know how this character is supposed to be, but who would really be the best at acting that character? So when you sit and listen to these songs, uh I finally had a track with a drum machine uh done uh for uh uh I like the things you do. So I called uh Jaden, my girlfriend, and played it for her. And I said, Who should we get to play drums on this? She said, Todd Suckerman. I love Todd. And when we did tours and shows of Todd in the past, she would go backstage and behind Todd, he has a hole right behind his drummer, right behind his drum kit, that his drum tech sits there and watches in case he drops a stick or breaks ahead or something happens, he can run around and go take care of it, right? So Jaden used to sit back there and watch Todd play because he's such a just a really active, powerful drummer. She said, Let's get Todd on that. So I sent him the track. He has a studio set up with his drums ready to record. He records it, sends it back literally within an hour, and it's just fantastic. So we did most of the drums at here live at my studio or another couple of studios nearby, but just Nathan East comes in. I've known Nathan's matter of fact, I stole him from Kenny Loggins in the 70s.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

He's amazing. Oh, the greatest.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

And then Clapton stole him from me. I went to many a Clapton show to see Nathan East.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

I would be like, where's Nathan East? You know, he's got to be on this tour. He's an amazing, amazing bass player. I mean, just incredible. Yeah, I looked, I mean, Greg Filingains. I mean, you've got all of these incredible people here. Amazing. Brian Tinchy is Brian. Now the Tish is on because Brian's a Jersey guy. Morris New Jersey. We love Brian, and Brian appears on this record too. There's just so much on this record. It is absolutely a brilliant piece of music. And then you reworked the 81 classic heavy metal. This has this heavy metal to me, it just seems to have, and I'm trying to think of like the best way to say it, but I'm just gonna say it in my Jersey phrase. It just has some, it just has some bigger balls. It's just a baldier version.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

It's got some real jersey. Right? It's got like some real kick to it. Well, here's what happened. Uh, I had been listening to the original version of heavy metal for decades. And every time I heard it against today's technology, it just sounded dated. You know, the analog tapes and the analog mixing and all of that. It just didn't sound up to par sonically. So I thought, well, I'm just gonna go in and redo it. I got Chad Cromwell, who's probably one of the greatest session drummers around, played with Neil Young and everybody. He came in to my studio, and literally within 30 minutes, we had done three perfect tapes. The guy came in and was just 30 minutes. It was like it was a three-hour session, and it took longer to get the studio up and running than it did for him to actually play it, right? So, anyway, uh, as we went through it, we tried to do it with the highest level of quality we could and still hold a lot of the old parts. I mean, we didn't like rewrite it heavy metal uh 2025, it's just a re-recording of the song that everybody's heard for a long time. And it sounds it sounds modern.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

I love it. Thanks, Don Felder. He is such a good hang. I can't wait to have him back on the show. Another great hang is Joe Satriani. I've been chatting with Joe for easily 30 years, and this time we call attention to the G3 Reunion Live collection that also features Steve Vai and Eric Johnson dialing it all the way back. Joe's long relationship with Steve Vai and why we love guitar so much. The Car Stereo Podcast welcomes the master, Joe Satriani, who checked in from his secret room.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

And I I apologize. I'm in this small echoey room because there's construction going on in my house and I'm trying to.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

You don't need to apologize. We love you. You don't need to apologize. Now, so much is going on always with you. Um, the G3 reunion live is out. How exciting is this? And I remember my first G3 show. It was the first year I was there in '96. I believe it was Beacon. It was probably Beacon Theater, I think.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

And I was lucky enough, I was like a spoiled little girl. Someone had me side stage. I was side stage with a date, I remember, who's long gone. But I just remember being so mesmerized. You know, we were playing Eric Johnson and Steve Vai and you, and it was just such an amazing experience. So before we get into this whole experience for your fans, could you ever have conceived, because you were the crafter of that whole, that whole idea, that 30 years later you'd still be doing it. 14 years of different tours later, it would still be happening.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

I tell you, it was crazy when we did it the first year because Steve and I have known each other since we were kids. And so that was a, you know.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

Oh, yeah. I met Steve when he was 12 years old, came to my house for guitar lessons. He was a beginner. And I had just been playing about a year, maybe a year and a half, but I'd been doing uh shows like at the high school gym and people's backyard parties, things like that. So my name was getting around town. So this is Car Place, Westbury, Long Island. And uh so he came, he comes to the door. It turns out I'm teaching one of his classmates, and we start this relationship. I knew in a couple of weeks he was going to be a superstar, just a fantastic set of hands, fantastic musical mind. He had the passion that's never let up, you know. And so we grew up together, you know. We we spent hours like sitting in my backyard, literally back to back, not talking, just playing and just pushing each other to try to.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

The noodle, you guys were just noodling.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yes, we did, we noodled, you know.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Just the noodle.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

So we've always we've always been connected. So, like I said, that first G3 tour was a was crazy just that it happened. And then, of course, uh to still be here. I mean, we're so grateful that we we're still alive, we're still healthy, we still love playing guitar, the fingers are working, uh, and we still act like kids when we get together. We just better than ever.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

It's you guys look the same. When I look at the videos that you guys have out now of the three of you, and then I look back then, it's really not that much different for me. You know, and on stage, there's such that connection. There's such that amazing, amazing vibe. I think it's even better.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Yeah, I think so too, because the, you know, with the sort of experience that we've had playing around the world and with so many other people, uh, I think everybody comes with a more uh sense of uh sureness about themselves. And so a lot of the anxiety that was surrounding the original G3 has dissipated because now it's an accepted format.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

So that's a greater appreciation for everything that you realized you loved and got into things for as you age, as you get older, you have this appreciation for that just grows. You can really see that and you can feel it. So you're putting this whole thing together. So there's so many elements to this because there's the sets between all three of you. Yeah. Uh you, Steven, Eric, and then there's the encore jams, and there's all kinds of great companion pieces that go along with it. So let's talk about the G3 reunion live. I'm gonna let you explain it because it's not a live collection, it's an experience for your fans.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Yes, it is, yeah. And it's it started in the most unlikely way. My son comes to me about two plus years ago, and he says, I have an idea. I want to make a documentary about the beginning of G3 and me turning four and getting on the road for the first time. So the backstory is when he uh turned four years old, my wife and I decided he's gonna come with us everywhere from now on. That week was the beginning of G3. Traveling around the world was the G3 tour.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

And that's your son Zizi, by the way, who I was gonna actually ask you about towards the end. He's a filmmaker, so it's not necessarily like he's just, you know, for those that may not know, he's got a great resume and a phenomenal, you know, pedigree with you. So he's not only part of your life journey, but he's part of this part of your professional journey.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yes, yeah. We work a lot together and uh he's made a lot of videos for me. Uh he did the the film Beyond the Supernova with me. And um, this it's interesting how the film grew because it started out as this simple idea, and then you know, it started to grow. He wound up interviewing around the world about 50 different guitar players, uh, all about what the guitar meant to them. And then he was the one who said, You, Steve, and Eric should get together and do one more show. And then as we're talking about it, he said, You should do a tour. So I thought, well, I there's no time for that now because everyone books a year and a half in advance. But I called Eric and Steve, and there was this window of opportunity a few weeks, about six months down the road, where they might be able to pull it off. And so we made it happen. Uh, Wayne Forte, our agent at Entourage Town, was able to put together just enough shows so that we would uh we would be able to create that magic uh and be in a location in several different venues where Z Z could film it as well. So he came out with his crew and he joined us. Total bonus for it was that he decided we need to play together finally, because you know, I played with high school. I played uh we did like national anthem at his sports games, or you know, I even played with him at his kindergarten class. So we played, we played a lot together, but never in a professional setting. And he's a really good guitarist. So uh I said, Well, let's pick a song. And he said, Well, I want to do summer songs. So we wound up doing that at the last song of our set. CZ came out, never done it before. Uh amazing uh experience just to see him pull it all together uh for the audience in Los Angeles and just like wing it. It was really remarkable. Part of the documentary uh where you know his life with G3 and with me come full circle.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

That is that is so cool. Like you're the crafter of the sound, and he's the crafter now of the visual. And that's that's amazing. Who goes through everything and puts everything together for this collection? Who's the crafter of the G3 reunion live? Is that you? That's gotta be you.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

It takes a team, you know. Was everybody? Okay. Oh, it takes a team because everybody, in a sense, you look at it this way: Steve, Eric, and myself, we take, you know, our responsibility as band leaders to make sure that that part of it uh is done well and we deliver it to, in this case, Mike Fraser, engineer producer, who's in charge of recording everything. Um, and then we also have to uh we have to have a package we need an art director, and that's Todd Galapo at Meat and Potatoes, who's done so much fantastic work for me.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

The book is incredible that goes along with this. It's like almost 70 pages, and it's such an amazing companion piece. Isn't it part of the it's it's stunning and it's part of this whole experience? Like I couldn't imagine giving more to the fans because there's the different color vinyls for each one of you, and there's a whole digital thing, and I'm trying to think of like all the different components. It's like a must-have for people who love guitar and people who are just starting to play guitar, and you get lost in it. It reminds me of when I was a kid buying records and things, and you just kind of get lost in looking at everything that goes along with the experience of loving that music.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Yeah, I'm I'm glad you said that because you know that what I noticed early on in my career is you have to invite talent, really superior talent, into your projects if you want to elevate your own art. And that was that was part of the why I started G3. I said, I know, like everyone says, don't stand next to that guy, he might play better than you. And I thought, no, I want to stand next to that guy, he might make me play better. That was the way I looked at it. So when we go to do a project like this, you you call the great Mike Fraser, you call Todd Galapo, and you say, Can you do it? And the book, Jen Rosenstein, heard. Her talents with the camera, they're unmatched. She, I mean, it's an art form in itself to be able to be to hang with us, to be the fly on the wall, and to capture the right moments, the emotional moments, the technical moments, uh, and to give the fans the feel of what really happened uh at that show, you know, the the culmination of the G3 reunion. So yeah, it's um and then of course ear music, you know, they bankroll the whole thing, which is very important. Of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

You always you always need a backer, you always need a backer, and the fun moments. Because, you know, whenever I watch you, whether you're out doing G3 or you're in chicken foot or you're whatever you're doing, you're always having you're doing your solo stuff. You're always having a good time. You never get the Atrianis just not living every note show. That just does not exist. You know, you're that's why you're the Satch. I mean, but you can see that, and you can see it in the video pieces too that you guys release. I mean, and the bands are just smoking, and everybody just gets their just gets their epic moment. And did you think all of these tours later, because you look at how many tours, I think it was like 14 or something over the years with all these amazing guitar players, uh Kenny Wayne and Oli John Roth and Ingve, and like just over the years, it's been just a magnificent uh experience for the fans.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

It is, it's really great. Uh the you know, and if I'm just thinking selfishly about it, I've been able to stand next to those players and players like uh Robert Fripp and John Patrice.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

And um you learn so much about music and about yourself and about guitar playing, and uh by by taking the chance and and and uh you know taking the challenge that yeah, I'm gonna stand next to this person and I hope it goes well.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

And they're standing next to you, of course. So that's happening for them as well. Well, let's talk about the guitar. Yeah, because amazing things are happening with the guitar. So since COVID, I remember I just kept reading these interesting statistics about guitar sales going up, up. Other sales for everything else was going down with technology, but there was like this crazy increase from 2018, I think, to now, people going out and buying guitars. Now, everybody had extra time during COVID, so people thought, well, I'm gonna get a guitar and I'm gonna do the noodling and fathers and sons and mothers and daughters, and what is it about the guitar that whether we suck at playing or whether we're a decent player, we have a love affair with I have guitars in my house. I don't play. I've tried, I suck. I just it'll never happen. I've accepted that. But I want them here. What is it about the guitar that we love so much?

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Well, I'm still fascinated by the fact that you you touch it, it vibrates in your in your hand, and you can feel it in your fingertips. And you when you're holding on to the guitar, whether it's an acoustic or an electric, it vibrates against your body. Uh this vibration is a a connection to the music, I think, uh, that's really personal. Um, you know, uh when you think about it, a a piano, uh, it just kind of sits in one place. You you don't hug it, you don't embrace it, you just put your fingers on it, you know, but you don't touch the strings. But uh stringed instruments are unique because it only makes a sound if you touch it. You really do stimulate this thing, and in turn, it stimulates you. And I think that's what's so fascinating. It it helps you to express yourself in a way that other instruments maybe don't in the same way, in the same physical way. And you know, it's intellectual, it's visceral, it's spiritual, it's emotional. I think it's got uh all the components to stimulate us that way. So it can be very personal or it can it can help you be an extrovert if that's what you want.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

And so many women now are being embraced for playing the guitar.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Which I think is awesome. Whether it's Lizzie Hale, who's a Gibson ambassador, or Orianthe, or Nita Strauss, or Samantha Fish, who's so great in the blues realm, you know, back in the day, look, I've had Lita on many times, and she's told me back in the day, so many guys told her, take your guitar and get out of here. We don't want you here. You know, the way I think she said it was Eddie Van Halen who said, No, you can play, so keep playing. Women were not always wanted in that realm, and now we're being accepted, and I think it's brilliant. So are you excited about the amount of females that are not only picking up the guitar but also getting these accolades for being really solid players?

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Yeah, they should. I mean, you have to remember I was teaching guitar when I was a teenager, and half of my students were young girls I went to school with.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Were they really? I didn't realize that.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

I mean, you've taught some of the brightest rock stars, you know, that have that have come out and that are the most well-respected players, but I didn't realize you had that many, you had that many gals playing with and when I was teaching at the little guitar store in Berkeley, California, when when Kirk Hammett and Alex Golnik were taking lessons and there were a lot of female guitar players, uh, I always thought they had the good sense not to get into the music industry.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

We were smarter, yeah. Right, right, right. The sucky thing is there's just only so many places, you know, but that's changing. It is definitely changing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

It's great. I mean, if you you happen to listen to, let's say, Alyssa Day, I mean, she she can tread any guy out there. So there's no difference in aptitude and availability of you know, technical prowess. It really is just about whether they want to do it or not and whether they like the music of the opportunity is so important. I mean, I don't think it's any different for any other art form or business form. If there's not, if society, either local or on a bigger scale, nationally, if society doesn't provide an opportunity for someone to grow into that niche, that business, that art form, then it sits dormant. And I think uh with the digital age, um, music production has become democratized. So everybody can pretty much make a decent musical product at home with their laptop or their iPad or something like that. And this has been a good thing for people who maybe because of their sex or their appearance have been cut out of the music scene, you know, because they don't fit. They don't have a TV look or they don't have the right sound for a particular radio station. That's all broken down. The artists and the fans connect to each other without the need for the music industry uh infrastructure. This has been great for music. And if you go to Instagram, you just see the most amazing guitar players from age, you know, eight to eighteen. They're just playing better than guitar players have ever played before in the history of the world. So this is a great thing.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

And I think they feel that sense of being a little bit more relaxed.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

And knowing that that pressure isn't on, like the pressure that you had coming out with solo records in the 80s as a as an amazing guitar player who's just out in front going, okay, it's just me, here I am. Let's go. Let's take to you know, you were an inventor of that. Oh, and by the way, too, you and Steve have the Satch Vi band.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

I want to make sure that we talked a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Yeah, we are recording every single day.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

You're recording every single day with this great band. Kenny's in it, and Marco Mendoza, who's such a fun guy.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Yeah. So uh Steve and I have been doing most of it remotely. We were we had great plans. Once we he finished beat, I finished uh working with Sam. We said we're gonna get together in LA, and then LA caught fire. So we went back to working remotely. We've uh this album is crazy sounding, just guitar playing all over the place. And um, Steve and I have never written music together, so this is really fresh and different for us. It's very exciting. Um, and we've got a bunch of different players on it from both of our bands, as well as other musicians in LA that we always love playing with.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

So um what a great time for you. This is like a really, a really awesome time for you. You got a lot of great things going on, and creatively you're just on fire. So much going on for our friend Satch. And you know what? You're such a deserving guy of all of this because not only are you one of the most insanely talented people on the planet, but you're also one of the nicest guys in music. So it's always so nice to be able to catch up with you.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me on the show again.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

And I want to let everybody know, you gotta get the G3 Reunion Live. It's an incredible collection, it's a must-have. It's the best gift ever to give anyone who's a music lover, especially if they're a huge fan of guitar and you just get lost in it. It's it's beautiful, it's a beautiful, beautiful collection of music.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

And history and musical history too.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

Yes, yeah, it is.

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Joe, thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks to both Joe Tatriani and Don Felder for reminding us why we love the guitar so much. April is International Guitar Month. More chats coming up throughout the month, so stay tuned. You can also check out my YouTube channel and all of the happenings at Terry Carr.com. I'm Terry Carr, thinking after Guy wants to say goodbye too, so let's go.

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