2014 is a good year one for fans of Joe Satriani. The box set The Complete Studio Recordings will be released on April 22 on Sony/Legacy. All fourteen albums plus a rarities disc - Additional Creations and Bonus Tracks:
- Not of This Earth (1986)
- Surfing with the Alien (1987)
- Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
- The Extremist (1992)
- Time Machine (1993)
- Joe Satriani (1995)
- Crystal Planet (1998)
- Engines of Creation (2000)
- Strange Beautiful Music (2002)
- Is There Love In Space (2004)
- Super Colossal (2006)
- Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008)
- Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (2010)
- Unstoppable Momentum (2013)
- Additional Creations and Bonus Tracks (2014)
His long awaited book Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir ( BenBella Books) will be in the shops in April. Co-written with Jake Brown it's a look behind the scenes. Among the interviewees are his Chickenfoot band mates Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith and guitarists Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, and Larry LaLonde.
Satriani will be on tour in Europe in June.