{"id":803886,"date":"2020-02-06T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948669"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:14:22","slug":"joe-satriani-releases-van-halen-inspired-single-nineteen-eighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/joe-satriani-releases-van-halen-inspired-single-nineteen-eighty\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Satriani Releases Van Halen-Inspired Single \u2018Nineteen Eighty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/10182635cW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, guitar virtuoso <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joe-satriani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-satriani\" data-tag=\"joe-satriani\">Joe Satriani<\/a> announced his 18th studio album, <em>Shapeshifting<\/em>. It was the latest announcement in a big year that includes the guitarist\u2019s induction into the Metal Hall of Fame and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satriani.com\/road\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">world tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Satriani announced more details on the album, his latest in a prolific run that includes 2018\u2019s <em>What Happens Next, <\/em>a soul album that included collaborations with drummer Chad Smith and Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes. <em>Shapeshifting<\/em> will come out on April 10th, and was co-produced by Satriani and Jim Scott (Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and mastered by John Cuniberti. Satriani\u2019s band includes veteran drummer Kenny Aronoff, bassist Chris Chaney (Jane\u2019s Addiction) and keyboardist Eric Caudieux.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shapeshifting<\/em> appears to be a more adventurous than his stripped-down previous release. The first single, \u201cNineteen Eighty\u201d channels Satriani\u2019s earliest days in music, when he was playing with his first group, the power-pop trio the Squares, in Berkeley, California, a time when they \u201cdialed back the guitar solos and histrionics to try to create a cooler new wave vibe,\u201d Satriani said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The single is full of finger-tapping, but also melody; Satriani used an Eddie Van Halen signature phaser pedal as a tribute to his guitar hero: \u201cI\u2019ve always been a huge fan of Eddie Van Halen,\u201d Satriani says. \u201cIn my mind, he just crystallized that era. The late Seventies and early Eighties, he kind of saved rock guitar. So that\u2019s what I would have been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXWTPgCrbvg?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>Shapeshifting<\/em> Tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Shapeshifting<br \/>2. Big Distortion<br \/>3. All For Love<br \/>4. Ali Farka, Dick Dale, an Alien and Me<br \/>5. Teardrops<br \/>6. Perfect Dust<br \/>7. Nineteen Eighty<br \/>8. All My Friends Are Here<br \/>9. Spirits, Ghosts and Outlaws<br \/>10. Falling Stars<br \/>11. Waiting<br \/>12. Here the Blue River<br \/>13. Yesterday\u2019s Yesterday<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/joe-satriani-van-halen-nineteen-eighty-shapeshifting-948669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani announced his 18th studio album, Shapeshifting. It was the latest announcement in a big year that includes the guitarist\u2019s induction into the Metal Hall of Fame and a world tour. Thursday, Satriani announced more details on the album, his latest in a prolific run that includes 2018\u2019s What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 13:04:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}