I’m sure “regular people” understand and enjoy Joe’s music, just like “regular people” have understood and enjoyed, say, Chopin’s music for years.

If you study guitar and love guitar you love Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Buckethead and a few others, these are the real guitar players making music to educated music audience opposed to people who likes Cold Play (who plagiarized Joe Satriani) , Aerosmith… good bands but they don’t have the capability of Joe Satriani, the music perception, how He manipulates the notes and scales to play with your years and give you feelings you’re looking for only playing guitar and not using a single word, unlike bands with singers.

He is unique, He is the Mozart of contemporary music, music only understood, loved and appreciated by those who can understand it, can feel it, it’s like trying to understand Russian without knowing it, it won’t work.

That is why Van Halen, Joe Perry, Slash, Billy Gibbons and many others can’t make to G3, they can’t hang with these guys technically, with ideas and ability to trade high level licks, they don’t have enough repertoire to play guitar in a trio and the way they do it.

It takes one to know one.

Cheers