There's just one Joe Satriani! Amazing and superb notes. Whenever I hear this piece, it takes me to other world. My emotions are touched in unspeakable words. I love it.
Its a star that fused itself into iron. It was hot & full of life. But it had to end.
It exploded into a wonderful & spectacular super nova.
But is this really the end?
In time the remnants will be gathered up.
To make something new.
Something that was never before, nor can ever be again.
This something is a new life.
“This is really where he's saying goodbye. When I came up with it, I was envisioning something much more melodramatic. To get myself to not play certain things but to play certain other things, I envisioned myself telling everybody, ‘I'm out of here. This is my last statement. You can all go to Hell.’ Then I thought, Oh, you shouldn’t be negative. It should be a celebration.’ But each time I would work on the song I would jump into whatever mood would come to my mind. If it was anger or spite or feeling revelatory, or if it was pure joy or something, I would just run with it."“The song announces itself with how it's going to be ending, but then it quickly changes key and goes minor when the orchestra comes in with those arpeggios, because Shockwave's got some shit to say, right? Those blues verses are all about venting, of finally getting it off his chest, all that was troubling him in his life."“A very weird guitar comes in, so that’s rebirth. Then the piece rides out on this beautiful solo. You know me—I'm not afraid of a major scale. As I’ve said before, no scale is more important than the other. In this particular case, the major scale is really working better.” Joe Satriani
Just imagine yourself on a spaceship heading for a maiden voyage into the cosmos. Once you’re there, It can be your one-way ticket into the infinite stars, or, a round-trip towards the heavens and back to Earth. And all you can feel inside on your travel is to play this song, watching the distant planets and comets as you pass them by….