Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Compact disc accompanied by separate DVD. CD: Surfing with the alien — Ice 9 — Crushing day — Always with me, always with you — Satch boogie — Hill of the skull — Circles — Lords of karma — Midnight — Echo. DVD: Ice 9 — Memories — Midnight — Rubina — Circles — Lords of karma — Bass solo — Echo — Hordes of locusts — Always with me, always with you — Satch boogie. Bonus features: Nigel Tufnel interview — Satch boogie video — Always with me, always with you video. DVD recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 15, 1988. All songs written and arranged by Joe Satriani except "Bass Solo," performed by Stuart Hamm.
According to Mr. Satriani's notes: "It was Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle that inspired ['Ice 9']. In it, 'ice-nine' is a chemical that turns the world into a ball of ice, unintentionally. Cold, distorted detachment and icy clean guitars with pleading blues riffs riding on top of a big, huge groove. …"
Desirée Bassett told Kathleen Cei this album changed her life ("Music Notes," New Haven Advocate, 4/24/08, p. 39).