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  • men, i saw this solo in Buenos Aires, april 2003... my fav song since the first time i heard any joe recording, and i went crazy when he started to play crushing day live...

  • Given his stance i would have called this Masterpiece "Crouching day" :D

  • 2:43 and 3:30 are lame! I think it's just an audio difficulty! He never plays like that!

  • @Awesum100

    So you're saying he's playing too fast for the camera to record him?

    Interesting concept.

  • @UncleZipper No, I think the camera is so old that can't catch a clear live sound that's why some fast scales sound like outta tune! It might be I dunno though!

  • guys , the crushing day has the most difficult solo satriani ever play in his career.

    no one can play it so good like the album , not even himself. I think it is a master piece of the guitar history, you got to repeat this thing all day maybe for months to play it like the album,if you are already playing so good as satriani I mean...

  • HOLY ANUS, I LOVE THIS!

  • not from your best appearance Joe , I guess you have to practice more like we do!!! :)

  • @makistza

    I don't play guitar but why do you did you say that he need to practice? His perform isn't good enough? Did he miss something? Please explain cuz I want to understand your point.

  • @makistza Its just a bad quality video

  • Hey the ending kind of sounds like that newer song "Ghost".

  • le maitre ^^ incontournable

  • 2:05 his head looks mishapen lol

  • It does sound awesome on the soundtrack, but is sounds a bit off here, you know?

  • cause he fucked up-and the sound sucks.

  • i don't care what anyone says, Satriani is the best guitarist around today

  • @TheJoshprice1990 i agreee bro,i seen them all,and only one that rocks live really.and that makes musicccc not just shred shred shreddddd

  • I have played and played so much that my fingers bleed and I still cant get my music to sound this good...

  • keep practicing!

  • its not his only composed solo

  • to me all his music becomes 'composed' at the right time he plays it twice the same

  • "Joe never plays Crushing Day live because it's "cursed". He says that every time he plays it live" Something wrong with this sentence?

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  • Two words: Satriani's pants

  • Wow satriani missing some notes. Never thought I'd see that one day. Oh well... doesn't take anything from him anyways. :D

  • @AntoineGaudet he he u funny

  • I am ain't i?

  • yeppppp

  • Cooool :)

  • cooolll bananassssssss :) lol

  • close your mouth @ all :D

  • the cadenza is simple but sound very spirit raising.this guy play guitar with his soul. too bad not many people like him exist in this world.btw, how can we contact satch?

  • he always tries to do the song right couse

    when you play live you are standing up, and when he was writing and practicing this song he was siting, and it's a lot easier to play while you sit:)

  • at 1:38 he makes it sound greek with the terces

  • I like this footage, crushing day is one of my favorite satch songs, thanks for posting this!

  • this song is from the album Surfing with the alien if i'm not mistaken

  • what album is this song from?

    guess i'll look for it on iTunes or something? anyone have other tips?

  • its on the album called "Surfing with the Alien" i have it!!! and listen to "Ice 9"

  • ice 9!! i love that song!

  • @razor1107  the song is called crushing day

  • yeah i can read but my my comment was @123schnitz

  • wiki

  • It's from the Satch classic "Surfing With The Alien" album.

  • surfing with the alien

  • satch is one of my favorite guitrarist and this is one f my favorite songs

  • Nada en contra de joe satriani...

    inche video gacho... mal grabado y se escucha del nabo.

  • well joe satriani said that , he plays this song in studio , and he doesnt have , a tablature for it, it most him improvising,, and then he notice that this is a great song, and people love it and want to see him play live,, like a lot of song he wont play live,,he is the bes

  • dude, Joe has a really bad farmers tan.

    look at how tan his forearm is, then look at how fucking pale his bicep region is.

  • q locoo !! =)

  • near 2:09 he made a mistake in the solo(i think)...it made him grin...that doesn't take anything from him anyway...he still makes wonderful music.

  • It is great and that Error is so hard to notice. He finds it difficult to play standing up. He normally has to hold it like a Flying V with a high strap at the solo. There is a much better version though. The Hyde street version. Look for the 8 minute one.

  • Joe *never* needs to rest his leg on a monitor to facilitate playing on any of his songs. Just goes to show how hard the solo on this one is to play.

    One of my all-time favorite Satch tunes, and the one which got me into him. My friend first introduced Surfing to me as "jazz-metal instrumental" lol

    Yes, the sweep/arpeggios didn't come out right, but hey, so what, it was still fun to listen!

  • Joe Satriani - CrushingDay @ Hyde Street Studio...

    54,818 views

    I am not affiliated with the info I have posted at all but I think its the absolute best playing Joe has done for this song. Not to mention the vid capture is nice.

  • I just checked that version and it rocks, thanks for the hint :)

  • Yes I saw it and it was an incredible take on the song. One of the best solos he has played. Astounding!

  • one of the best guitar players ever, the solo proves that in my opinion, nice.

    Thanks for posting this lemoners, also a nice description ;)

  • yeah, this solo is ridiculously difficult. by far one of his most difficult and the sweep sections and the pull off section after the picked part are right up there with mystical potato head. thanks for posting.

  • nice electric pants!

  • i'm lovin em too

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  • One of his best songs! He's the master!

  • seen him live last year :D he is epic

  • he is great

    band the rest of the band is so cold

  • from one of the videos in youtube, satch did mention that he can play this song much better while in a sitting position..

  • 2:50 a error maybe or more....sorry satch..

  • Ok, let's see you do it then.

  • 'an error'???

    Mate, he wrote the f'ing song - how is there an error? The genious pretty much improvises all his work, so just enjoy the masterpiece, ok.

  • do you have ears? uses them !

  • hey oversound you are "over sound" lolz

  • You are all privileged to have Joe in our time. After he is gone, he will still be seen as a revolutionary just as Jimi Hendrix is now. Hail the KING............

  • I absolutely agree with you

  • Satch is awesome...love the flashy pants..^_^

  • On surfing with the alien,this song is like a giant surging tidal wave--speeding up and getting humungous as it develops..Its such a powerhouse effort from Satch--I love it..

  • that is the best satriani album my favourite tune is ice 9

  • no one cares

  • Right on...you need to have flashy pants to play like that...LOL

  • Absolutely bizarre guitar playing...a demi-god of the stage

  • Almost as bizzare as his trousers, eh? =P

  • not even close as bizarre as his pants

  • everybody is talking about the solo,but where the fuck is stuart hamm????..and who is that dude on the bass?

  • he's Matt Bissonette, the brother of Gregg Bissonette, who is one of the most hired drummers on earth.Some of us greats aren't that well known.

  • Satch is the greatest guitar player in the world! This is the hardest song i´ve ever tried to play!! GO JOE, GO JOE!!!

  • it isn´t that hard..

    haha im kidding, i got trouble in the sweep part too, I´m hoping to play through almost perfectly in a month..

  • His hardest solo. Without doubt. A beast.

  • depends which bits coz i can play the first break and it sounds hard but isn't - i will post a vid lol but the sweep section is a bitch - i have set a challenge to play all thru this song by next xmas =/

  • superhero style type music

  • DAMMIT!!! when i was staring at the solo without blinking for 5 minutes and with my mouth wide open, i fuckin drooled on my keyboard!!!!

  • Thats probably one of the hardest or hardest song that satriani played it and wrote it cause he sits at other concerts when he plays the solo that starts at 2:00. :D SATRIANI ROCKS!!!!!!

  • crushing day & lords of karma r my favorites!!

  • el mejor guitarrista de todos!!!!!!!!!!

  • The man has lost nothing. No speed, no feel...nothing!

  • Joder esta cancione sta de pelos me hace recordar Nintendomania pues la ponian al final decada programa Gus y Pepé Ruelan!!.

  • ja ja ja ja es cierto!! no me acordaba de eso, ponian esa y summer song!

  • this fucking rocks!

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  • 'Oftenly' ?

  • more often

  • satch improvises his solo's live?

    badass

  • you know how rare it is to get to see him perform this live woah lol nice wish i saw this

  • it's not his only composed solo b ut one of 2 or 3 if i remember right.

  • God of the electric guitar XD ... GO SATCH!

  • that's like a MegaMan X Songtrack ^^ Very Nice! Joe is amazing!

  • I always thought this song would have been perfect with the TOP GUN soundtrack :)

  • o solo é muito foda , mais a qualidade do video ta uma merda

  • I'm reading now in Total Guitar Magazine that he actually curses that he wrote this song because it is uncomfortable for him to play when he stands up because he wrote it sitting down.

  • lol if thats true thats so funny

  • all guitarplayers wrote everything sitting down :S, but this solo is really hard and joe actually now plays it live in a chair =) , but he did a pretty good job here

  • He actually says he never writes songs sitting down because then he isn't able to play them when standing up most the time.

  • Yeah I have that DVD too.

  • Yeah that's what happened with "Crushing Day" or so he says.

  • nice song

  • viva nintendo

  • Satriani said in an interview with TG that he had to explain to the audience at one gig recently that he could only play this song properly if he was sitting down!

    Even the greatest have their shortcomings :D

  • wow, sorry for the lame reponse, you guys already prolly gathered what i just told you from the vid details and/or other posts.

  • Maybe when Joe wrote this song he was faster and more focused on speed (it were the 80's, everyone -like Yngwie, Vai, etc - wanted to play as fast as they could). Today he's almost 52, for me it's normal he has lost some of his speed at his fingers with the age, and somehow, in this video he plays this song great. No matter if he can't play as fast as 21 years ago when he recorded this song, nobody can play it as him. It's just my poor opinion anyway. Hail Satch!!!!!!!!

  • Everything you wrote is true about the styles and all that but the reason is quite simple actually. It's cause he wrte it sitting down and it's far easier to play guitar sitting than standig/performing, that's why he rarely plays it. I also hear that this song doesnt have much room for improv/error (which is true) so satch doesn't like to play it live. I, personally, think satch is the best hes even been riht now, listen to his new CD.

  • I can't say I liked his new CD very much. I love how experimental it was, but it just doesn't have that Satch touch, if you ask me.

  • i see what you're saying, the last two songs in the album have some classic satch riffs and jammin. Engines of Creation was very experimental also and it doesn't feel anything like Satch. It's almost like he has two styles. He has...dare i say, a tom morrello flare in his creative style. Not that he sounds like Morrello, but becuase he does stuff never done before.

  • It was nowhere near as colossal as super colossal but I like a lot of the refrains on it and the last 2 songsa re awewsome

  • Satriani wrote this song while he sat on a chair with the guitar above his chest. And 9 months later, when they were touring, he realized he couldn't play this song. :)

  • this is better watch?v=IP8Y8yiOoaM

  • Is that a good thing? Because if you're saying it has no feeling, you're WRONG, WRONG WRONG WRONG.

  • I don´t like the bass player and the rythm guitar player...

  • His tour mgr. and friend, Galen, is the rhythm guitarist. How cool is that?

    You like any of the songs on The Extremist album? Strange Beautiful Music? Is There Love In Space? Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock? That's the same bass player, Matt Bissonette, on all of those. Cool no to like him, but realize that he's been Joe's bass player for some time, now.

  • satriani is prolly best guitarist out there

  • satriani es insuperable, vai malsteen quieren imitarlo pero nunca podran llegar a su nivel

  • Im learning this song, the solo is all over the place(incredible technique), joe is a true guitar icon!

  • Aguante Satriani locoooo

    el mejor guitarrista de su estilo de la HISTORIAAAAAA

    un maestro de la violaa gonza

  • estoy de acuerdo!

  • "Never write a song sitting down, because you might not be able to play it standing up." - Joe Satriani

  • Yeah, I have that DVD too. lol

  • 2:43, Can tell he struggles with those monster arpeggios, does a good job on the solo tho, he normally has to sit down to play that bit lolol

  • joe rocks best guitar player ever

  • just a genius can make a solo like this one!! out of this world!

  • this is the freakest song eva, i wish i had ne skill at all so i could get 1 note down. JOE IS AWESOME!!!!

  • This is a killer to learn, my hands feel like they're about drop after just playing the start of the solo lol, damm Satriani for making it so hard and yet so awesome.

  • Stu tours solo now. He was in the B3 tour.

  • whatever happened to stu?

  • the best satriani solo

  • Now that I watched this video again I think this is the exact concert I was at, I remember those sweet pants Joe's wearing!

  • I was fortunate enough to see him play this song live in Detroit when he co-headlined with Dream Theater in 2002. Amazing show, Satch is one of the best ever!

  • Damm he is so awesome..I love his style...Super...thanks

  • sound quality kinda crappy. but its alright, satch is still a legend.

  • great song, thanks for the video!

  • a czy on jeszcze żyje

  • super gościu musi sie napracowoc żeby takie coś zrobic

  • BEATIFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, one of the best song from JOE.

  • AHH, A JOE JAM!

  • The solos in this song are the hardest of satriani solos! They are so hard, even Joe himself has to put his foot on the speakers while playing it, so he can get leverage to play the extremely difficult passages (info for the non-guitarists) I dont think i have EVER seen Jos put his foot on the speaker except for this song. Ive seen him a million times live, Incredible! Ive also never seem him mess up much except for the solos on this specific song, hes virtually flawless in his performances.

  • ive got his anthology cd and there he says this is one of the more technically demanding solos he has ever written!!!

  • the hardest, i think so

    i want that on an official DVD!!!!!!!

  • joe is the most talented player l've ever heard,every song he plays , and evrytime he plays is unique,, joe is the best ,,, l love othor guitar player ,,, l have a lot of them but nothing like him,,,,,,

  • one of the best solos ever made, heads up to Satch, he's a creative mastermind

  • Yeah well people who put shit on Satch for messing up the solo, have you ever messed up a solo? I bet you have. And I bet it wasn't in front of thousands of people ;-)

    It's because Satch is nearly perfect all the time, so when he makes a mistake people pounce on him and rape him about it.

  • I agree, people shouldn't complain about something that's way over their abilities

  • I've always loved this song, and I've never been able to nail down the solo properly... sure, if you study hard enough you can play it (as I've seen a fellow guitarist do), but he was standing still and over-concentrated on his finger positions... and that's not about REAL playing and showmanship as SATCH DOES...

  • Im just sick of people who is saying that Joe messed up during the sweeping. He says himself that it is cursed and lot of people who plays the song agrees with him about that. So shut up and give him credit for making a awesome solo. And you should know that every legendary musicians makes mistakes.

  • il vero chitarrista

  • this is VERY GREAT JOB Satriani-KIng of the guitar

  • Satriani = Genius

  • When he was sweeping right around 2:45 he actually went out of key - I don't believe it. Not just modal or spicy in harmony, but just flat ugly and wrong. This song must be cursed, because I have never heard Joe mess up like that before, ever.

  • yeah the song name should be Cursed Day :P

    i tried playing this song, it really is hard and makes your fingers tired very much.

  • I agree..lol, I have a version that I recorded last night in my videos and I have no problem playing that song by myself but as soon as I hit the camera button something happens..and it's only with THIS SONG! AAAHH!

  • COOL!!! Thank you for this video!!!!

  • I thought I'd never see a live clip of this great tune

    thanks for posting it!

  • he messed up only on one part. this is hard song for play

  • questa canzone mi piace tantissimoooo peccato la qualità del video...

  • volume needs to be a bit louder but other than that its an ace satriani song

  • first time i've seen him use the petrucci-esque leg assistance, repeating pinky intensive part

  • Unequalled inovator. a guitar giant!

  • well said, mystical potato

  • Obviously not a shredder? HAHAHAHA I bet you like Herman Li don't you? rofl. Music isn't about speed its about conveying a feeling or image. Speed is a tool as are you :)

  • The Master of sounds in time.

  • Petrucci and Becker are both great guitar players, but Joe Stariani is something else. His solo's are always the perfect mix of technicality, musicality, and feeling. More shredders like Joe would make the whole genre much more enjoyable.

  • Sorry, I meant Satriani. Damn you band control of my right hand.

  • matrix who are u to say that? u must be a virtuoso , joe has a bad right hand technique? are u crazy? his picking is perfect , :S go play some guitar and post videos and do a better career than joe and then MAYBE u can show to satch the right technique :), :S