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  • Jake E. Lee is, and always will be, the best post-Hendrix rock guitarist

    period

    Music will have to change before someone tears it up with their intensity and imagination in the genre of rock n' roll.

    You can keep your mind-numbing guitar-mathematicians.

  • @Ariel62073 I don't totally disagree with your statement but Randy Rhoads didn't really have enough time to develop into the player he would have been. Jake is amazing though.

  • @divinegrinder That's the truth.

  • nobody gets it right all the time.

  • Jake is a great guitarist period. I love this version of the song.

  • Not Satch-You just can't touch that record-Nobody can-even the talented Mr. Lee (Not even Joe himself has duplicated that record-though he came close with a few of the immediately following CD's). That record had Joe's best playing and more than that-THE Sound. Everybody wanted that sound. From the crunch rythm gtr to the ripping solos-It was a breath of fresh air for us 70's guys who wanted heavy but listable tunes (yes, there was Ozzy) but who else? VH? Not a Sammy guy-Sorry.

  • Jake E. Genius!

  • Don't normally make negative comments, but that was horrid.

    Sorry.

  • listening to this piece of crap makes it more obvious how amazing Satch is. lmao

  • i like the orgina more...

  • Jake is the perfect blend of tone and 'alien' style. Great outside take of the classic Satch track. Come back Jake!

  • 33 people are super depressed and at the end of their sad little rope..

  • I wish Jake would come back and do another instrumental album. I would love to hear him do a shred type album. Actually, at this point, for him to come back and do anything period would be nice.

  • at 4:01 you hear the alien switching of the jet engine of it's surfboard and landing. jake e. lee makes it sound like an alien surfing, it just perfect

  • Jake E Lee...Yeah buddy

  • @schcully Amen to that!!! he was the reason i picked up the guitar in the first place. Amazing player!!!

  • MUY MALA VERSION!!!!!!!!!

    

  • @MrFlavai lo está haciendo a su estilo, si querés que lo haga igual escucha directamente el original y listo ¬¬

  • @rallyivan1234 ok loco todo bien,mas alla del original esta version para mi es mala!!! no me gusta para nada!!! simplemente es lo que me parece!

  • @MrFlavai ok volvemos a lo mismo, que no te guste es una cosa ahora que sea mala....

  • @rallyivan1234 ok loco tenes razon,nadie tiene la verdad solo Dios!!!!! pero te cuento que hace 27 años que toco la viola y escuche tanta musica que creo saber diferenciar la buena de la mala,pero siempre respetando la opinion de los demas! un abrazo!

  • @MrFlavai Está bien, todo bien loco no era mi intención ofenderte así que respetaré la opinión de un profesional, saludos vieja ;)

  • @rallyivan1234 no me ofendiste para nada loco solo son opiniones,la musica fue creada para unir no para dividir!!!!!!! un abrazo!!!

  • I have nothing to say about the quality of Jake's playing, whether or not I like his interpretation of what is now a classic for the electric guitar or anything other than two things......

    It must be very flattering to Joe Satriani to have a recognized and accomplished guitarist want to cover your material......and.......

    Whoever mixed and produced this recording should stick to running karaoke night.....drums sound like an afterthought, rhythm guitar is unclear and the general balance sucks.

  • Hey, I like this :D

    I heard it first time day before yesterday, and when I tuned my guitar ½ step down today and played Surfing With the Alien, I remembered this track and got it stuck on my mind :O

  • As much respect as i have for jake.....i couldn't even finish listening to it.

  • I'd rather hear Jake E. Lee play guitar than Satch any day of the week...tons more blues and aggression.

  • Jake riffs are much more aggressive than Joe, I love them!

  • @rallyivan1234 Jake is a fighter pilot. That's for sure. But he doesn't shoot destruction. He make his guitar sing and scream in such a way as it gives me uncontrollable erection.

  • Jake looks like Yngwie!

  • why would you want to do a cover of a guy who can blow you away when your already a legend?

  • Like #100 !! 

  • Sounds to me like they used those backing tracks that are so common these days and someone forget to check if Jake was in tune with tracks? It's an ok version. Zakk plays the "Bark At The Moon" solo really well but Jake wrote it!

  • WOW

  • Jake E Lee Holy Sh*T he's awesome flat out and still fresh!!

  • I agree......huge fan of Jake.....but this was just nonsense.

  • pretty sick cover in my opinion. everybody's got a comment about him fucking it up but hey, its a tribute to satch man, he's obviously not going for an identical cover. and as for the out of tune thing, i like the guy who commented on alan holdsworth or john coltrane, good suggestion! i guess it's in the eye of the beholder, if you dont like it ive got great news for yeah, youtube has plenty of other videos for you to go watch! heh.

  • This is utter crap! The guy is playing out of key all over the place and the stuff he is playing is just mindless jerking off!

    I love Jake but this must have been while he was in his heroin induced coma peiod. Horrible.

  • @MrSmackstreet Its not mindless. Its music expressed in a different key in the minors.

  • love satchs stuff,..love Jake.E.Lees stuff too but IMO i too think Jakes take on surfing was mental,..almost sounded like he was taking the piss...only my opinion so dont want anyone spittin teeth at me lolol

  • Personally, I love everything Jake has ever done. Cover of not. After all this song comes from an album in celebration of those guitarists.

  • i think satch should have him jam with him live

  • it sounds way better than Satch's version!

  • The amazing thing about this guitare solo is, that it really sounds as if somebody is surfing wildly through the sky. In this case an alien. etc: the end 3:59 you hear the alien landing. at 3:55 you hear the "turbines" of the board losing boost already. at 1:07 you hear the alien speed up, jeting wildly through the sky, sounds like chase or something. you hear the alien doing crazy moves. at 1:19 it reached it's to speed doing up and down moves like waves. at 1:30 you hear alien sounds. etc.....

  • Jake E. Lee is amazing , a guitar god but to record a cover of this song is BS , no one could possibly add something interesting or new ...Only Satch himself !!!

  • I dont know why people are saying this is so terrible. Jake has been around alot longer than Satch. And played on some of the most timeless, and amazing metal records of all time. There both incredible musicians. And if you listen to this version again you'll realize that its pretty fuckin sweet

  • I like Jake but i think that this version of Surfing with the alien is seriously unnecessary...

  • Sorry, Jake's awesome but this is a total wank fest. I'd rather just listen to the rhythm guitar track. lol

  • Hey cazulu3 sorry but when have you ever seen zakk Wilde use a whammy bar? Alot of guitarists that are great use a whammy bar, but Jake lee makes it sound as if he's using one. Amazing guitarist!

  • Sounds like Satch...

  • This is so terrible I had to stop it after 2 minutes

  • jake e lee and chris poland. Two of metals best guitarists. this is superb.

  • choppy

  • the best cover.. no one can deny it.....

  • what a pathetic mix...... guitar sounds like its being played alongside CD player

  • crei q era joe satriani :)

  • that last Randy TOGGLE SWITCH EFFECT WAS CATCHY, SOME OTHER PARTS TOO. He is a great guitar player obviously.

  • The Cool Think About Jake Is That He Doesn't Use A Whammy bar On Any Of The Albums!!! He Doesn't Need A Sissy Bar!!!

  • @DylanBStringer91 . So Hendrix, Dimebag, Zakk Wylde, Satriani and the countless other musicians that use a Whammy bar are sissies?. Ya dickhead.

  • @cazulu3 Jake Don't Need One!!! That's What He Said!!! He's More Worried About His Playing Than Whammying!!!

  • Wow. I didn't know to Jake E. Lee overplay to that level. No doubt - he's a talented professional musician, but this borders on instrument and effects abuse. He probably thought the same thing while recording it. For a tribute album, you're definitely looking to be the standout player, so It's becomes the guitar equivalent of a homerun derby. Certainly not the best example of the kind of artist he's capable of being.

  • apparently he hadent played for months ,maybe years before he did this even having to lend a guitar and amp of varney to practice and record .they guy had sold his gear to get shit faced .hart braking .

  • if this isn't fake, it should be.

    jake e lee doing joe satriani?!

    shouldn't it be the other way around?

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  • Actually it is Jake - the riffs, attack and phrasing are exactly the same as the tribute CD. The problem is that in this upload, for some reason, Jake's guitar track is tweaked up way to high, so it does sound like a bedroom version. Also, don't forget, those tribute albums are recorded on a micro-budget with very little production value. But you ar eright that Jake is an awesome guitarist. The best ....

  • @barefootinthewoods, many thanks for the information. Even though the sound quality is bad I actually do like this version.

  • @barefootinthewoods

    Actually the upload sounds exactly the same as the mp3. You're correct in saying the micro budget doesn't pay for expert engineers time.

  • @Hertsman50 look it up you dumb shit

  • @HOPPERFZR , hey fag boy you've done all the donkey work for me....lol!!!!! Now be a good bitch and do a bit more research for me. I need to know what album this track is from?

  • look it up you stupid cunt ,i bet your whole family still doesn't add up to a full set of teeth you inbred sheep fucking fool

  • @HOPPERFZR, oh you're such a bitch. I bet that's what your boyfriend tells you when he is dicking your ass...lol!!!

  • Lords of Karma A Tribute to Vai and Satriani

  • Is this really Jake? If so, WHY on earth would he do this? Nobody plays this like Satch, and nobody should try. Some things just shouldn't be redone, especially this song. It was perfect in its original form.

  • @governorgilf Exactly! Dude you are so right.If this isjake it still sounds crappy and isnt much of a tribute to anybody. Its horrible and sounds like shit.

  • If you read the description of the song, it is a version of Surfing With the Alien that was recorded by Jake E. Lee for a tribute album for Satriani and Vai.

  • this is joe satriani!!!!

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  • its in jake's discography

  • not jake

  • Jake E Lee never ever played this song in his life! hahahaha.

  • This sounds like some moron just playing along to the cd in his/her bedroom. SUCKS!!!!

  • @EddySwass

    I wish I was the moron with such skill XDD

  • @kevinxdunk Just keep trying,you just might some day.

  • ???Jake E. Lee??? I have serious reservatons on that. Othwise I think it is a good and fun interpretation of a great song. good job. (Whoever! wink, wink)

  • It's a cover by an amazing guitarist.... if he played it exactly the same as joe satriani would you honestly listen to his version or just go to the original? hes putting his own style into it. guitar is about expression and hes playing the song the way he would if he wrote it.

  • @VanZeppelin82rr thats so true, blues guys do it all the time, why not apply that mentality to all music

  • the guy plays a little outside and people call it out of tune

    do yourselves a favor and never buy a Holdsworth or Coltrane album

  • @joeylodes Fucking thank you.

  • @joeylodes lmao!

  • Man, this is AWFUL!

  • possibly the worst I've ever heard Jake. So strange as he is such an excellent player, but not on this track. For gods sake he's not even in tune half the time

  • all the little bits inbetween the melody is what to 2 listen 4 its awsome open ur ears u retards

  • Big Fing deal! I think its KILLER Go Jake ;)

  • LMAO, i love jake, he's a bad motherfucker but damn i hope that was a one take improv.....

  • i have been listening to Jake e lee since he was with Ozzy if people listen to this properly he has made this his own,still sensational guitarist

  • It's not a case of whether we could play as well as Jake. Personally I think Jake is a phenominal player...but CERTAINLY NOT ON THIS RECORDING. This is absolutely terrible. We applaude and heap praise on musicians for their great work......we are allowed to point out when they fall far short of our expectations also. This sounds like Jake rolled out of bed, opened the email attachment with the track, threw down this crap in one pass and sent it back before he had his first cup of coffee.

  • Some of you need to realize that you could never play like Jake E. Lee. I think this is great minus the solo. Which is pretty bad... Everything else pretty great :).

  • I don't usually like to leave negative comments....I just find something better to watch/listen to........but this is just freakin' horrible.

    Was this another one of those Shrapnel label things, where Varney tries to get the last available dollars out of what was a great era of guitar music in the eighties.

    Re record a bunch of well loved trax and then get a different star performer to play lead or sing on each one, assemble it thru email and put it out in a weeks time.

    This is a travesty !

  • terrible as shit. I wouldnt even have let them put it out.

  • Amazing lead guitarist.

    Jake e Lee.

  • Man.... if THIS is Jake E. Lee homeboy had a few cocktails before he hit 'record' b/c ths is complete shit.

  • Hahaha

    there is no way that this Jake E. Lee,,,,Just take a listen to Bark at the Moon from Ozzy and you'll hear what he's really about.

    Or even some of his enchanting BadLands material with the Late Ray Gilian, Jake by far has more talent then this closet cream puff and who should step up and claim this Crap? Be honest......

  • Ummm no, this is Jake.

  • hhmm i like this verson, obviusly he play so dirty cause his style is from the streets, like slash, but is like more dirty and powerfull version, the other is so clean , but this is more agressive.

  • This song played by Joe Satriani is awesome!

    This version is horrible!

    Great Silver Surfer pics though !

  • This is possibly the worst guitarwork I've ever heard in a serious(?) production. I used to be a big Jake fan, but this was just pathetic.

  • Is that really Jake E Lee on the track? Why does his tone suck so bad in this song? Sounds like it was recorded in someone's bedroom with shitty equipment.

  • Yup this is Jake E Lee.

  • ouch. he's basically just out of tune real bad. and yes, the backing track is weak. jake is an awesome shredder. this doesn't do him justice. wow. real badly out of tune. like a 1/4 pitch off. painful.

  • If jake wasn't named as the guitarist playing, nobody would care...

  • I think at 0:35 he looks like Jason Becker the fuckin most awe inspiring guitarist in the world.

  • Totally awesome!!! Jake is the shit!!!!

  • to be fair though...this is kinda crap considering how many people you hear covering this song, dont be offended, im not knocking him, but seriously...be real about it, this is like a guy playing half assed to a backing track, its all over the place

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  • You fukn rock man!!!!

  • but it sounds half assed and you know it... least as a guitarist I can definitely tell

  • I like the tone better than Satriani's original anyways,maybe someone used the scratch take here LOL, raised the wrong fader LOL .Great Images though .

  • I don't think Jake took this recording seriuosly LOL

    He is great we all know that .

  • i like jake lee but he definitely was under the influence recording this

  • I love joe satriani and Jake E. Lee. One thing you have to remember is that jake doesn't use the tremolo bar on his guitars, so it's going to be different.

  • yeah but sounds dirty mabe he was drunk

  • Anything is possible I suppose, he just always seemed like a perfectionist. I never thought we would here anything this sloppy from Jake. I'm sure he did the best with what he could at the time, who knows what the recording situation was...?

  • maybe, but his cover is terrible for a "tribute album"

  • was he drunk when he recorded this or what?

  • Sounds like a POD

  • I like this version. I agree with personal feeling over someones interpretation of perfection. Who's idea of perfection should guide us anyway? Individual interpretation is best... it adds distinctive flavor.

  • this suck

  • Jake E Lee was one of ozzy's best guitarists next to Randy Rhoads. Jake is from West Virginia

  • I know lol :3

  • man you guys are not wise enough to understand and feel jake's expression here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Man Satrianis version sucks compared to this, this sounds like pure rock man

  • Don't sound good joe sound way better! jake licks don't go with this style specail when he did the guitar solo coming in sound bad!

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  • Mud

  • Jake's got the greatest vibrato of all time.

  • I like it!!! Very angry and agressive! I can imagine, how Jake sticks his tongue out at Satriani, Vai and other shred guitarists! Just like this - ;-p

  • yeah , this is much better !

  • fucking amazing, you know why, jake makes it really sound like as if you were surfing with an alien, satrinani just blurred some tricks and blues runs, but jake really expresses the situation where you are surfing with the alien, even the ending where the alien is landing with his surf board

  • Damn, you're fucking high.

  • you know what, Jake is not afraid to play dirty on his guitar because he has got balls. I used to be keen on perfectional shredding in my own playing but realized that it's sounds dead without individuality. It's great to play some notes out of the harmony and now when to dotit

  • Sorry. But this version blows. Jake or not. Sloppy. Poor phrasing. Too bad dimebag is gone. Now he could've made a kickass remake of this.

  • @versierterXXL

    So very true, listening to clinical and correct i often very boring cause you know whats coming next. Guitarplaying is about expression and what your not playing(pausing and phrasing etc) is as important as what you do play.

  • you are so right!!!!

  • jake kicks ass

  • nice version :D

  • It's not horrible, but it's not great.

  • Awesome. Jake kick serious ass

  • It's Jake E Lee and his version is better than the Satriani's Version ! Great Job Jake,You Rock :)

  • true that! it's more 80s!

  • If everyone's looking to hear the exact song then go buy joe's surfin with the alien album and quit whining and bitchin about someone else's version of the song. I'm sure jake's intention wasn't to play to exact song note for note off joe's album for you. In my opinion (and that's all this is) jake wanted to play some riffs and lead to a song and have fun with it so accept it and move on. Great job jake! P.S. I'm also a satriani fan and in my world there's room for both.

  • i actually like this fuckn version its raw as shit \m/

  • you guys sure its really jake e lee!??

  • remember! this is jakes version of the song, its very different from the original but i fucking love it! its well heavy! its sorta like zakk wylde playing surfing with the alien!

  • at least he tried, its not jakes place to be playing these type of songs, its like billy g playing in ozzy

  • That comparison makes no sense because Jake DID play in Ozzy.

  • someone obviously didnt fully read the comment ¬.¬

  • Uh Ok that was fuckin terrible,and I am a huge Jake fan.Earplugs please

  • um someone said...... sick solo - your right, i heard it and threw up

  • jake e lee is an ausome player but this reeks bad. the beggining stunk and the end and everything in between, what the heck was the garbage that was suppose to be the main lead , dang dude get off the juice...please

  • i rely dont see wot everyones problem is with this, its not that bad.

  • Satch should butcher one of Jake's solos, then put it on an album also called Karma.

  • What the fuck.

    This is so shit. Jake doesn't even sound in tune. What the hell was he on??

  • I love JEL but this is monumentally bad.

    Makes Janick Gers sound good - and he's the worst ever!!!!!!!!!!

  • ma quanto sei grosso jake??? bravissimo,ti rifaccio joe si ma con il mio stile!fantastico!

  • Doesnt sound anything like the original but I like it, because Jke rules, and I realy dont car about Joe.

  • Satch forgive him

  • 1:07-1:15 would be the test to see how good he truly is. But he doesn't even come to close to it.