The cocksure lead singer, as Joe Satriani reminds us, is a relatively new invention.
“It’s just the medium today,” sighs the guitar ace. “I mean, for thousands of years, it was more instrumental. We have this great history of 400 years of classical, but once people started to see music coming at them on the television, suddenly it changed what they needed to get out of it. Now, I don’t care if it’s Taylor Swift, or Kanye West, or whatever… it’s just them, looking at the camera, almost 99 per cent of the time.”
