Light Years Away by joesatriani
First of all thank you to Mark McGuigan for spotting that Joe Satriani is not only using the excellent SoundCloud service but has posted a track from the forthcoming album “Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards” which you can check out above. As you can hear as I predicted the live recording sound of Chickenfoot has definitely rubbed off on Joe and you can hear a much more raw guitar tone more akin to The Extremist era Satch.

“It's almost the history of rock guitar riffs. The main guitar line was a hard one for me to figure out. It sounds kind of simple and funny, but it perplexed me.
Light Years Away was something of a puzzle that I needed to solve. But once the band and I played it together, we looked at one another and went, '˜Wow! That really swings.' It does have a touch of fusion, but it's got the rock, too.”

I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album!