“Every time we play together it takes me back to when we were teenagers… pushing, challenging and helping each other to be the best we could be”: For the first time ever, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are working on new music together
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have announced they are heading out together on a string of co-headline tour dates in Spring 2024, on the (functionally titled) Satch-Vai Tour.
However, it’s a small line lower down in the press release for the dates that has us very intrigued: “In additional exciting news, for the first time they will collaborate on new music with plans to release just before the tour launches in March.”
Vai and Satriani obviously go way back, having both attended the same high school in Long Island, and the latter famously tutored Vai in the mid-’70s.
They have undertaken numerous tours together under the G3 umbrella, parts of which have been recorded, but the March 2024 release would appear to mark their first studio-based collaboration.
No further details are provided in the press release, but the tour kicks off on March 22 in Orlando, FL, so we’d imagine we’ll get to hear the music by then at the latest.
It's also a pretty extensive list of shows – coming pretty quickly off the back of next year’s G3 Reunion tour with Eric Johnson – with “more dates TBA”, suggesting it's not a half-hearted project.
“Every time we play together it takes me back to when we were teenagers,” says Satriani.
“Eating and breathing music every second of the day, pushing, challenging and helping each other to be the best we could be. I guess we’ve never stopped!”
“Touring with Joe is always a pleasure and an honor,” adds Vai. “He is my favorite guitarist to jam with, and now we have another opportunity to take it to the stage. I feel as though we are both at the top of our game and that the show will be a powerful celebration of the coolest instrument in the world, the electric guitar!”
Suffice to say, we’re excited to hear the results of their efforts, both on and offstage, particularly as the two players are enjoying a renaissance at the moment, both among traditional fanbases and a new technically-savvy generation of guitarists – the latter point being most evident in Steve Vai’s groundbreaking guest spot with Polyphia on last year’s Ego Death.
Check out the full tour dates below and keep an eye out for the pre-sale ticket release on Monday November 13, with the general sale tickets going out on Friday November 17.
For more information, head to Joe Satriani or Steve Vai's websites.
Satch-Vai 2024 tour dates
March 22 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live-Orlando
March 23 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheater
March 25 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
March 26 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
March 27 Atlanta, GA Atlanta Symphony Hall
March 29 North Charleston, SC North Charleston Performing Arts Center
March 30 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center
April 2 Charlotte, NC Belk Theater
April 3 Richmond, VA Dominion Energy Center
April 5 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre Boston
April 6 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
April 7 Waterbury, CT Waterbury Palace Theater
April 8 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Center for the Arts
April 10 Collingswood, NJ Scottish Rite Auditorium
April 11 Washington, DC Warner Theatre DC
April 13 Northfield, OH MGM Northfield Park
April 14 Rochester, NY Kodak Center Theater
April 16 Detroit, MI Fisher Theatre
April 18 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
April 19 Cincinnati, OH Andrew J. Brady Icon Music Center
April 20 Fort Wayne, IN Embassy Theatre
April 21 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
April 23 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
April 24 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre
April 25 Des Moines, IA Des Moines Civic Center
April 28 La Vista, NE The Astro
May 1 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
May 3 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater
May 5 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall
May 7 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre
May 8 Salt Lake City, UT Delta Hall at Eccles Theater
