Customer Reviews

G3 Live in Concert

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This is a tour-de-force of guitar legends on stage. Satch, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson plugging their axes into Marshall and Fender amps to dazzle and wow for more than an hour of music. The album doesn't do the show any justice only playing three songs from each set, and not including any of the opening act, Adrian Legg - a great guitarist in his own right. As a live show, the energy is high and the boys are on playing some of their greatest tunes. The chosen songs could have been better, but I remember some songs missing from the set list when I saw them live.

Satch's set begins with "Cool No.9" from his self-titled release. A little more bluesy and spacey than his previous stuff, but it still rocks. Full of lightning fast licks, overpowering crunch, and dive-bombs it rocks out. He follows with big hits "Flying In a Blue Dream" and "Summer Song". Both were good, but I remember a great version of "Big Bad Moon" at the show that I would have like to seen here. Satch's student, Vai shows why he was the student and Satch is the master. Although his set is good and a little more raw, he does not match to the talent of his former teacher. Overall, it is Eric Johnson who steals the show, but not quite the album. Johnson is a tone freak and had the best tone of the night. His playing is jaw-dropping fast and unbelievably smooth. Unfortunately, his song choices weren't the greatest here. "Zap" is powerful, fast, and catch. The man's tone goes from low growl to crystal solos with elegant ease. He backs of with "Manhattan" playing cleaner and jazzy. Again his fret work is amazing.

The highlight of the album comes at the end when the three guitar-gods join together for an amazing jam session. Licks abound as each takes their turn with a solo in their unique style. They cover three great hits, and although none of them have a great voice, they do a good job with "Going Down," Frank Zappa's "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" and Hendrix's "Red House" which is a fitting close to the album.

Any fan of guitar music or fan of these musicians would find this album a great addition to their collection. High energy, raw and amazing fingering. These guys are the monsters of guitar-rock.

I'm generally a big Satch fan, but I reckon he could've chosen some better cuts than those here. As for Steve Vai I liked what he did with Dave lee Roth and Passion & Warfare but much of his other material goes for experimentalism at the expense of tunes, which is what we have here. Of the 3, Eric Johnson's set is the best with 'Zap' the best track, bar the jam stuff. It's far more beefed up than the studio version. The other 2 numbers are also excellent and again work better here than his studio efforts, which sound much weaker in comparison. The jam stuff is top notch especially the cover of Hendrix's 'Red House'. Even if you're not a fan of each individual player I recommend the jam tracks to any enthusiast of good fun rock music.

A G3 concert seems more like a couple of guys showing off in the weightroom then musicians creating music. Satriani, Vai and Johnson try their hardest to get laid, they rip roar and try desperately to speed pick their way into the pants of every girl in the room. In other words, this is heartless guitar heroics without an ounce of musicianship. I'm still not sure how three "guitar heroes" could completely miss the vibe of Hendrix's "Red House"

If you play guitar, you must own this cd. Plain and simple. These three musicians have taken the instrument and produced amazing new sounds that could never have been imagined.

The Pros: Every song is enjoyable. Each artist's set is unique and offers a good sample of what to expect from each in other recordings. I fell in love with Satriani's style because of this cd's performance of "Cool No. 9" and with Vai's style because of the solo after "Answers."

The Cons: I would not want this cd to be any different, but I suppose it could use a better booklet?

This cd is worth so much more than you will ever pay for it.

A great live performance by 3 of the top guitar players around.

Alright i can go on for days about steve vai's ability, and you know what there is nothing like seeing steve vai preform. I've been to G3 it was one hell of a show live, the next best thing to seeing it live, is buying this CD. I only wish they released a cd from the G3 with petrucci

Like Guitar? Where have you been? These are the worlds greatest electric guitar players. If you like the electric guitar no doubt you already know about this CD and I am writing this for nothing.

THREE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYERS IN THE WORLD PLAYIN LIVE!!!! I Study all of their stlyes and these three happen to be my top three favorite composer muscians off all time. IF you like guitar WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!!! FOOL

The G3 tour was one of the best show I have ever seen, and this cd does an ok job of capturing that magic. I was a little disappointed with the song selection for Eric Johnson based mainly on the fact that "The Cliffs of Dover" was not included on this disc (which I feel is one of the greatest songs of all time, and certainly Eric Johnson's best). When all three get together to jam at the end can send chills down your spine, much like it did live in concert. The rendition of "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" blew me away, and the cover of Hendrix's "Red House" is nothing short of brilliant. I just wish they would have made this at least a double cd so Satriani, Vai, and Johnson could each have had more than 3 songs on it. Overall, it's not a bad album. Buy it used, don't pay full price. Best $5 I ever spent.

Who could have guessed that 3 of the greatest instrumental guitarist in the world would team up and perform a concert together(and in this case, record the concert and put out a cd of it). But it happened, and thankfully so.

G3 Live in Concert is; like it says on the sticker on the album, the ultimate live concert album. It starts off with the 3 guitarists: Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vai, all performing songs from their own reputuar: Joe plays, 'Cool No.9', 'Flying In A Blue Dream', and 'Summer Song'. Eric plays: 'Zap', 'Manhattan', and 'Camels Night Out'. And Steve plays: 'Answers', 'For The Love Of God', and 'The Attitude Song'.

Then in the grand finale, all thre of the guitar giants come together and perform another set of 3 songs: 'Going Down', 'My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama'(originally by Frank Zappa), and a long drawn out(but still listenable) version of Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House'(the highlight of the CD).

With over 75 minutes of music, it might seem a bit long; but remember, it is a 'LIVE' album, and this particular live is one of the best.