Satriani cracks Eddie Van Halen’s tone! NEW 3rd Power Signature “Dragon” Amp | 2024! 🎸

The Shred Legend Joe Satriani sitting down with us on lir latest episode of “Talking Shred” and sharing his journey with us on how he achieved the Late, Great Edward Van Halen’s iconic tone for Sammy Hagar’s upcoming “Best of Both Worlds” Tour! 🎸🔥
Joe gives us the inside scoop on his NEW upcoming signature amp with 3rd Power amplification called the “Dragon” 🤯🙌
📲 Make sure to watch the full sit down interview in our KZbin Channel and make sure to show your support of the platform and subscribe to the channel while you are there! 🎸🎸
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[@dannyzuehlsdorf3697]

Hard to believe that Joe Satriani in 67 years old! Still a MONSTER guitar player and Hall of Famer

[@ScottD44]

Right Brother 🎸🎸🎸 It's Really Unbelievable, He's Still The King🎸🎸

[@michaellewchuk8272]

Saw him a few weeks ago and he's still full of life and energy.

[@dannyzuehlsdorf3697]

@@michaellewchuk8272 hoping to catch Joe on this EVH tribute thing he's doing with Sammy!

[@IA-uk4hk]

The interviewer listened quietly and let his guest talk freely. Many interviewers interrupt and love to talk, but this is the right way. We need more like this guy.

[@jamesragsdale8202]

Rick Beato is also very good at that master interviewing and let the guess breathe and talk.

[@JoeR203]

Not everyone is Eddie Trunk.

[@MastersofShred]

Thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate that! 🙏🙌🎸

[@michaellewchuk8272]

I give some grace to the interviewers because most are as excited as us fans. But it definitely is more enjoyable when the artist can explain fully their thought.

[@MrBrianDuga]

Bless him for showing such reverence and respect in curating Eddie's legacy. He knows he's treading on sacred ground is one of the best for paying tribute and carrying that torch for all the fans.

[@JohnnyBeane]

Satch is such a cool dude!

[@ginoames]

I saw Joe last week in Jacksonville. He had two of the 3rd Power amps on stage.

[@user-st5lw5lj4r]

I just saw the Satriani Via show in DC .... I have seen Eddie (X4) , Randy (x2), Lynch, Malmsteen, Nuno, Zach, JE Lee,,, pretty much everybody. I have to say after watching Joe I play live , I can now say I have seen the best Live Guitarist there is..... no words

[@rilianriggs4620]

Jake is my favorite by far

[@AnthonyZaragoza-nh6gc]

I've seen him twice. Joe's tops and always has been

[@keithjohnson8333]

ifits not Dimebag, its shit!

[@JohnnyBeane]

Really looking forward to hearing his tone on the upcoming Sammy Hagar tour!

[@kojam1]

That show will be here this month in Toronto! CANNOT WAIT! Better double check the date. Wouldn't want to miss this. Been waiting for what feels like forever!

[@Craig5150EVH]

Satch....just a master at his craft.

[@freegee3503]

-Satriani cracks Eddie Van Halen's tone- Guitar players: I will be the judge of that.

[@TheRockinDonkey]

Also guitar players; *spend months in their mom's basement perfecting Eddie's solos but never develop their own material*

[@damone70]

​@@TheRockinDonkeyAhahaha... so true 👍

[@bluesoddity2094]

​@@TheRockinDonkey Everyone perfecting Hot For Teacher intro and solo for dick tock and Instagram but can't jam a riff in a group setting..... yeah agreed

[@heyjarrod]

@@TheRockinDonkey Man, that joke is so old I fell of my dinasaur from laughing so hard!!! I don't know any advanced or pro level guitar player that hasn't developed his or her own material and style, while chasing other's tones. Look how many professional guitar players are out there that developed their styles and tone from Ed. And what's wrong with a guitar player getting a decent tone at home, just for fun. I guarantee, any kid sitting at home chasing the Brown Sound is much more talented than you. Not all tone chasers can be like Ed and Joe Satriani.

[@Scott__C]

@@TheRockinDonkey And some folks spend their lives trying to be EVH. The fact is the "information" he's given us over the years is known to be at best suspect and at worst blatantly false to throw people off the trail.

[@TheRealHucasys]

The Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love tone is the most epic to me.

[@michaellewchuk8272]

Same. I hear that and the hair on my neck stands up.

[@jackvai2681]

SATCH IS STILL THE BEST ELECTRIC GUITAR COMPOSER OUT THERE. HE DOESN'T NEED TO COPY ANYONE...HE HAS HIS OWN UNIQUE VOICE.

[@stacey_1111rh]

Thank you. Exactly.

[@andyhayes7828]

​@@stacey_1111rhTrue

[@rickythomas5401]

Well he does need to copy someone this time because he’s going out on tour playing Eddie Van Halen songs and guitar parts.Thats what he is getting paid to do.

[@n0nyabznss]

If you're doing an EVH tribute show, you need to make sure you play like Ed.

[@jackvai2681]

@@n0nyabznss NOT REALLY...EDDIE NEVER PLAYED THE SAME SOLO AND OR FILLS TWICE...IT'S ART...

[@masterquan4891]

I was at a couple of those concerts back in the transition period with 86-89, It was a different sound, as a guitar hero that he is I get where he is coming from it is hard to emulate another person and Eddie was one of those legends. If any person could come close with the skills needed I would say Satriani has it. He has his own style and it as good as he is it will still be difficult to be spot on. Eddie is gone, but I still would like to go see him with Sammy. It would be a wild ride. Rock on Brother. I have played guitar for over 20 years and I still have difficulty with Eddie I can't really ever get it right when I think I do, I find out he did it differently than I was practicing it, hence having ones own style is hard to change or for someone else to do it exactly.

[@musicalSFCat]

Never imagine Dylana Scott from Vain, developing the 3rd Power Signature “Dragon” amp with Joe Satriani. Small musical world.

[@kcaruso2588]

There is symmetry 2 this. Joe taught Kirk Hammet in the Bay Area. Vain is a Bay Area Band. Kirk produced early Vain demo. It’s like a music Reese’s.

[@sundance222]

If you want REAL Van Halen sound, run down and get a reissue Marshall 1959 model JMP Super Lead and turn it full up.

[@jeffreyherkner1077]

One morning the popular classic rock station in Connecticut was giving way tickets to van halens last tour with roth at mohegan sun the catch was you had to play live on a radio for the tickets and the special guest in the studio decided who won the tickets. we had something like 60 seconds to play something people would recognize, now this is the first time I had ever played a guitar for that many people in my life my nerves were going crazy, so I picked something I knew and was easy for me, I played the chorus to hot for teacher and the other guy played, Eruption. He won the tickets. Anyway, after playing I got asked by the DJ who I play with and I told him a guy named John Scott from new haven, well john got ahold of me a few weeks later and said, "Thank you , Thank you so much!" He decided to take me to see van halens last tour at madison square garden a week later, I got to see eddie play all the old stuff and even wolfgang play bass. Our seats weren't amazing but we had binoculars and a clear view of the stage. They were to old to be doing the stuff like you see in the old videos of eddie jumping off the amplifier and roth running around, but as far as the music it sounded freaking awesome. I was born on augest 4th 1986 in Milford Connecticut, my cousin got to see Van Halen at the new haven colosseum shortly after I was born you can actually see video of that show online.

[@SLiMCHiCKeN5150]

I've got my tickets for Toronto July 31. Live Without A Net could be the best live video of VH outside of the Oakland three 🤟

[@danielabilez3619]

Good luck. And to a great tour.

[@TheMeJustMe75]

In my last band I played through a Peavy 5150 head. I never could dial in a sound I was completely happy with. I should have invested in an overdrive pedal but it didn't occur to me at the time.

[@donaldyoung9838]

Hey Joe I think you will be amazing just be yourself an you already got the fingers for the vh music an tone I promise you eddie will be smiling down on you

[@aapddd]

Satch is such an amazing player in his own right. I don’t care if he nails EvH or not. If aliens would challenge us to a guitar battle, I think Earth needs to send Satriani to kick their ass.

[@michaellewchuk8272]

I think I have the start of the script for Independence Day 3...

[@happygolucky6331]

Satches hands are huge,makes me wanna surf.....the way he explains music,theory and all the guitar stuff with humility hes very Rik Emmett like.Great humble people an teachers.

[@theprisonier]

So cool 3rd power is one of the best amp maker. She made a wonderful work. So happy to ear this amp

[@richards6065]

Nice. I would like to purchase the amp for sure

[@cobravinci]

Cant' wait for a 3rd amplification Dragon demo!

[@JBurtonTenor]

3rd Power amps!! YESSS. Amazing choice to make it! They’re SO good. She’s a genius. And a great player.

[@gregmize01]

it's a dude

[@musemuser777]

Can't wait to see and hear him with this amp...🤘 🔥🎸🔥

[@gregjohnson247]

Joe is such a wonderful person and extremely great talent second to none including my other favorite guitar player EVH who is also second to none! Have tix for Red Rocks in August. Should be quite an evening.

[@MastersofShred]

We couldn’t agree with you more! Wow!! That show is going to be INCREDIBLE! Red Rocks is such an amazing venue 🙌🎸🔥

[@benjaminfinley9314]

86 LWAN is by far my favorite Ed tone with Sammy tone!

[@sundance222]

Be leary. Edward used Plexi type Marshalls, even if they were new. A non master volume Super Lead is what he used. Any pedal or any amp with preamp gain will never reproduce his tone. The amp was loaded down to line level signal and ran through effects and all came into a mixer then out to power amps. Not preamp gain, but output tube gain is the secret.

[@bassangler73]

Van Hagar guy here too man!!! I'm 51 and started playing when I was 13 and EVH'S Peavey 5150 was the best amp he had imo...The low end smacks you in chest!! Miss those days of getting my face ripped off by Eddie's volume!!

[@meiowalot7570]

Joe is such a fantastic player and communicator as well. What a class act.

[@mariocastellaneta1228]

Joe is the best 👌

[@orion681]

Saw Satch and Vai two days ago. Joe had the 3rd power amp on stage...he sounded amazing. His tone was perfect. And I can say after seeing them both that Satch sounded better than Vai.

[@ccerwin]

❤️

[@R2R3Lockingnut]

Nice ✊🏼

[@nicktunk6773]

Love it.can't wait to get one very soon.

[@sundance222]

Why? Some of us learned the hard way.... To get Edward tone, from back then, you need a reissue or replica of a Marshall JMP Super Lead non master volume. Don't get snatched by satch.

[@spicoli3206]

Can't wait to see the Best of both worlds tour. Satriani is going nail it for sure. Great interview, he's nervous, an I totally get it. If anyone can get close to Eddie's play an sound is Wolfgang and Joe. Can't wait to see it! ❤

[@riffmondo9733]

3rd Power make incredible amps.

[@MastersofShred]

💯 % 🙌🎸🔥

[@tnourse]

Joe is amazing. Such a talent

[@stevetech5150]

i dont envy you joe. the wattage eddie could control was unique. not many guitarists can or could control that amount of power and most guitarists know this. unleashing huge amounts of amp gain under a guitarists control is the same as making a jackson pollock masterpiece, and eddie was a master of it. no one else on earth has or can duplicate it, period.

[@Joe-mz6dc]

Gotta love Joe Satriani.

[@johndemeri950]

you need to fire whoever cleaned the tv screens behind them hahahahahaha

[@DOOMBRINGER-vf9ex]

Hahahaahaa

[@musiccreatorstudio988]

Step 1 . get a EVH Wolfgang guitar and a Kramer 5150 EVH,, Edward made it easy to get his gear sound replicated , was one thing he worked on

[@robmcewen4621]

The stock Headfirst Alta 100 would have been already very close to what Satriani was seeking, if not already there? I wish he had explored that option first. It would have been interesting to get his opinion on that. But from my I've heard in sound clips, it's already there even without any pedals to assist.

[@e.r.559am7]

Joe comes across great. Respect.

[@ExileonBrockSt]

🇨🇦👽🎸👍🏼

[@Animagiko]

You know you are a beast when a company builds a custom amp just so you can play a tribute.

[@blacktoothgrin4348]

Top class, legend.

[@nigeldaddyo]

This is huge for 3rd Power but I don’t see how they’re going to be able to keep up with demand.

[@sundance222]

Easy, buy a replica of a Marshall JMP Super Lead non master volume. 3rd Power are just trying to make money. If it has preamp gain, you will never achieve the VH tone from back then.

[@rlm4471]

3rd Power stuff is pretty expensive. That will limit demand.

[@UR2Compliant]

Most gracious guy...

[@Shooter_FPV]

Great interview... but I would have liked to HEAR IT.... 🤷‍♂

[@erictripton]

All one needs is a JMP Plexi era design. Then load box to feed effects back in a line mixer out to power amp. NO PEDALS

[@kamalsh6123]

One of the greatest guitar players of his time humbly accepting that it is tough to get the correct tone of another iconic guitar player.

[@Prossdog]

As phenomenal as Joe is as a player, I love that he made a point to make sure he never ripped off Eddie

[@MastersofShred]

💯! 🙌 I love the fact that Joe is still Joe when he plays and that’s what I want to hear! I love his pinch of “Satch Flavoring” on Eddie’s classic solo’s. There is and will only ever be one Eddie Van Halen and I know how to search his vids 😜👍 Joe is going down to make Eddie proud on this upcoming tour 😊🎸

[@midiman5045]

SATCH is a great Guitarist. But lets think about Eddie he totally changed not just the playing style but the guitar and the amp. He was Hendrix and amadeus on steroids.

[@2216sammy]

Correct

[@sundance222]

Right, but more importantly you do not need this so called new amp. A Marshall JMP Super Lead 50 or 100 watt non master volume or replica will get you the sound. Joe is just grifting

[@Runark79]

​@@sundance222no

[@dreweybaker9259]

Tell them to stop using the mop water to clean the tvs lol

[@e.l.norton]

You don't need a custom amp to get the tone. All you need is a Marshall Plexi Variac'd into the rig Joe mentions, or the 5150. No modeller will reproduce it exactly. A number of people have done it. No need to reinvent the wheel.

[@mightymouse742]

"No need to reinvent the wheel." If you want to sell a new Eddie amp and rake in some money you want to pretend you're reinventing the wheel.

[@e.l.norton]

@@mightymouse742 Plenty of other people have done that already. Nobody is looking for an "Eddie amp" from Satch.

[@sundance222]

Hallelujah. Someone else hear knows the truth. I personally use a pair of Germino Lead 55's which are replicas of that circuit... Pheww thought I was alone here.

[@RHExperience103065]

Joe is great guitarist ,cracking eds tone will see I doubt it .

[@sundance222]

I doubt it to since, Edward and the handful of techs have told us the secret. A 1968 Marshall JMP Super Lead circuit. A real player trying to capture the real Edward sound knows this.

[@internetmoney221]

Dylana's Brown Eye

[@aapddd]

Whoops 😂😂 this made my day 😂

[@internetmoney221]

@@aapddd she has a lovely brown eye

[@garycastronova7939]

I would like to just chill with rhia dude and smoke a bowl of Cali's finest. I know it would be deep conversations.

[@petervandebor1828]

Maby King Edward did know wat he did

[@shinobitatsujin1136]

ITs cool. and the stuff they did on the stern show was cool.. But i really really really hope Joe puts a good amount of effort into 'EDDIES SOUND" more than eddies playing. He can play it all. but that Eddie 5150 sound is what makes Eddie so recognizable.

[@Nightjar726]

Could have just gone to Freidman who actually worked on Eddie’s rigs.

[@sundance222]

Yeah no doubt!!!!! I own a couple Germino Lead 55's and NAIL the old Edward tone. Friedman has his new PLEX amp which is a replica of that Marshall circuit. Joe just grifting. This is no science project. Joe still wants preamp gain and to use his silly distortion pedals..when all he needs is a Plexi type amp

[@uncleremus64]

Sound in the video needs to improve. Sorry!

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

Gotta watch PHIL X CRUSHES VH I'M THE ONE SOLO it is mind blowing. Eruption is good, but this is what made Eddie and changed guitar playing. I started playing hair guitar in 1985 when I was 15. That solo is unreal and Phil is pretty f badass.

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

After that, you gotta watch NO ONE SWINGS LIKE THE KING, and Phil will tell you why he says NO ONE properly replicates that intro. They lack the feel to get it just right. I've been playing for 35 years plus, and I cannot get it. Until I saw that vid, i never really deep dived it. It truly is untouchable. Eddie is a quirky player, and that quirk is what makes it the unsolvable Rubiks Cube. You xan get verg close. Phil does, but if you play and have a world class ear, then you can hear very subtle diffences, but they matter. Watch those vids.

[@keithjohnson8333]

"i am best friends with Jon Hurley", rarehair19

[@wilfredfreytes9384]

Yeah right...

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

What's this Van Hagar band you speak of? Never heard of it...

[@scottseymour886]

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[@jimmiphaze5785]

That's what Joe does he uses his hands to get Satriani

[@mr.timebombman2230]

Most of Ed's tone was in his hands

[@julianbenedict9720]

Why in the world was Dave Friedman not tasked with making this rig for Satriani????

[@iwilrage]

Joe is the greatest pick up guitarist in history.....he can play in any band

[@MarkSmith-vy3tq]

As MUCH as I love Eddie Van Halen [it took me a while, but I copy the SHIT out of him) I never got into copying his sound--yes to a degree, but never overall.

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

Phil X should have been the one to play on the VH tribute. He's a near master of Eddie's material. Joe is such a distinct player that it won't sound right.

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

He definitely has the capability. But he's Joe Satrian. Steve Vai couldn't do it either. Paying tribute but being Joe Satriani is not ok. When you go out and play VH songs, you really should sound similar to Eddie.

[@gypsycat619]

ET Loves a Beanie Cap!😳

[@daverandolph1245]

Who cleaned those TV's? 😂

[@Nothing-zw3yd]

What is up with the purposely horrible shaky camera work when it's just on Satch? I still can't believe people think that's some kind of good idea.

[@sundance222]

Uhm I was 13 when I bought the Guitar Player Magazine April, 1980 Van Halen cover issue. The info was there. A 1968 Marshall JMP Super Lead S.S. rectifier circuit. I bought a Germino Lead 55 [a replica of the #1987 model 50 watt version] and have not looked back. Come on, Joe. Put preamp gain, and your distortion pedals away, if you want anything close to vintage Edward sound.

[@rumpoleonthehilloldchap6528]

friedman make a evh clone amp. dave was inside ed's amp.

[@roscoepcoltrane23]

The updated Suhr SL68 and SL67 have those mods I believe.

[@sundance222]

LOL, I don't need mods or extras...I use Germino Lead 55's. With a load box, effects and an 8 ch. stereo mixer into a few cabinets, I NAIL old Edward. I use a variac to hold a steady 120v. Subjectively, I hear not that much difference when backing down to 85-90v. I happily match the PT center tap of the amp--120vac

[@sundance222]

@@roscoepcoltrane23 The main thing is, it's the late 60's JMP Super Lead non master volume circuit.

[@EastBayMB]

You can use the same amp, guitar and effects, nobody is going to sound EXACTLY like Edward. It was in his fingers.

[@bobc.5698]

So basically, Eddie was slaving his amp.....into 2 more amps. That's how he can get lush harmonics and notes that last longer.

[@jamesragsdale8202]

Complete Van Hagar-only guy. I think we found WALDO!!! 😂😂😂

[@heyjarrod]

No example of this tone!?

[@paulolsen6870]

He also went very chorused in the Hagar era. His old sound was better.

[@EndofDays-7777]

I'll bet ya Matt Picone @ Fractal does it all forces his with an axe fxIII .....

[@Minnesota.Highlander]

Proceeds to not let us here a fkn thing!?! WTF op!

[@hlyangel1]

No offense but Joe re created Ed’s tone on his first album and forward

[@tobyreinhardt9022]

Can that big dude get any better looking??? Sir, give the rest of us a chance!

[@FEED_MY_EYES_63]

EVH's tone? Did he fire everyone in his band too?

[@majikmuzik8036]

It’s a mistake. Huge Satch fan. Bad position to be in. Hallowed ground. I could see needing to play some EVH, but ‘Best of Both Worlds’ deliberate attempt to emulate? Nope. No reason for them to be doing DLR era. Plus Ed started using too much chorus 0u812 imo.

[@cornfilledscreamer614]

I think it'll be fun for Joe to do. Chorus was insanely "in" at that time period. I agree - Ed rode that horse for probably too long, but it is what it is.

[@majikmuzik8036]

@@cornfilledscreamer614 For fun? I think it would be fun for me or the thousands of other unknown disciples to pull it off. Joe Satriani is an icon in his own right, and as such, attempting filling Edwards shoes on “ Best of Both Worlds“ is not a good look. Not best, and not both worlds.

[@cornfilledscreamer614]

@@majikmuzik8036 Sure it is. It's not "hallowed ground". It's music. If some people want to pay tribute to EVH, why not?

[@stevenmurphy7334]

He needs to learn very closely to what Mr.VANHALEN'S style which is very unorthodox ever lick

[@youWoNtLikeMe04]

Has to be a wet dry wet rig... if not it will be a fail

[@sundance222]

Using anything but a Plexi style amp at the heart of it, is a bigger fail

[@youWoNtLikeMe04]

@@sundance222 plexi is from the roth era. Sounds like they are going for the Hagar era. They have been insinuating they are going for the Hagar era.

[@mikemc5221]

No guitar audio save your time.

[@knightfall9394]

I came here just to see the comments from the whiney/bitchy van halen fans

[@jehudavis5422]

Just fucking leave eddie alone already!!!!

[@2216sammy]

Joe has taken this EVH thing way way too seriously . I'm a huge EVH fan but there was never a need to try to sound like him and having amps built for the occasion , just go out and have fun . No REAL guitarists out there gave a crap about the Stern performance , the world knows how amazing you are .

[@sundance222]

He taking it so seriously, he still avoiding the truth. Edward used non master volume Plexis... without those, anything with preamp gain or pedals will never achieve Edward's sound.

[@terminaltom1662]

fuckin worthless interview he didn't say a damn thing about Eddie's sound

[@time4807]

Just like your comment.

[@noworries12]

Why doesn't he just use Eddie's amp the 5150??? I also think Satriani should stay Satriani...it feels totally wrong that he's trying to emulate Ed's playing...especially just 3+ years after his death!

[@cornfilledscreamer614]

I wondered about that. I've got a Peavey Invective that really covers the VH sounds well. The third "lead" channel gets really close to VH's first few albums (if you turn the gain way down), and the 2nd crunch channel nails his lead sounds from 90's onward - that really fat lead sound. Literally the "best of both worlds."

[@johnmarshall3903]

5150 was not ever on any of the records except for maybe a few songs on Balance. I'd hardly consider that amp as his signature sound.

[@damonstewart70]

​@johnmarshall3903 are you crazy the 5150 3. Is all over the last official vh album and it sounds phat

[@johnmarshall3903]

@@damonstewart70 Be serious. Nobody but you, or kids that know nothing about VH, care about that album. Or that chainsaw amp.

[@bobwreck3775]

Why dont he just wear a damn baseball hat instead of that stinky oversized hat?

[@F.S.111]

Did anyone else think we were actually going to hear the amp and tone here? Love Joe and his work really, but hope he’s been practicing because he totally butchered Eddie on Stern. Sounded like ass.