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BIGGEST KENEALLY SALE EVAH!

Greetings, buddies! We hope you are doing very well!

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ONE-THIRD OFF EVERYTHING AT THE KENEALLY STORE IN MARCH!

(L to R: Jesse Keneally, MK, Chelsea Jones - photo by Sarah Crochet)
(L to R: Jesse Keneally, MK, Chelsea Jones – photo by Sarah Crochet)

No matter what year it is, March is always the third month. That’s kind of amazing and to celebrate it, everything at the Keneally Store is one-third off for the entire month of March. This is the biggest discount ever and we hope you take advantage of this to finally grab that one album (or three) you still haven’t gotten, buy a T-shirt for your considerate neighbor who smiles at you all the time, or fill your phone up with album downloads. Have at it!

Use the promo code “THIRD OFF” at checkout, or click this link to claim your discount. Your March One-Third Off sale prices will show up in your shopping cart at checkout.


JOE SATRIANI ‘BEYOND THE SUPERNOVA’ FILM DEBUTING ON AXS.TV on TUESDAY, MARCH 6

Beyond The Supernova

Joe‘s son ZZ Satriani filmed us throughout our Asia and European Shockwave Supernova tours, and created a rather beautiful film about Joe’s creative journey, featuring a lot of onstage, backstage and other-stage footage. It’s a hugely entertaining look at the touring life and beyond – ZZ is an insanely creative dude. I think you’ll like this a lot. It’s premiering on AXS.TV at 10pm (9pm Central time) on Tuesday, March 6. More details, including trailers, at Joe’s page.


WESFEST 13 at S.I.R. HOLLYWOOD on THURSDAY, MARCH 8

Wesfest 13
It will be a pleasure to once again honor the memory of our friend Wes Wehmiller with a special live performance, benefitting the Wes Wehmiller Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music. This year the headliners are Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun (of Living Colour) with their project Head>>Fake. I’ll be performing with the WesFest All-Stars featuring Bryan Beller, Joe Travers, Rick Musallam, Griff Peters, Mike Olekshy and Colin Keenan, and we’ve got a nice set planned including a couple of my tunes and the world premiere of a song from Bryan’s upcoming solo album. Please help us pay tribute to Wes and enjoy a night of great music – and if you can’t make it, a donation to the scholarship is always an option. All the details are here.


G3 TOUR CONTINUES IN EUROPE MARCH 16 through APRIL 30

G3 TOUR CONTINUES IN EUROPE MARCH 16 through APRIL 30

We just got off the road from seven weeks in the US. This was the first Satriani touring with the new band of Joe, me, Bryan Beller and Joe Travers, and as much as I’ve enjoyed all the Satriani touring over the past eight years, I’ve never loved a Satch tour as much as this one. Obviously, Beller, Travers and I have forged a serious connection over the decades, and the chemistry of Satriani playing with us really has some incredible fire to it.

The US tour featured John Petrucci and Phil Collen of Def Leppard and those dudes are seriously on point as well. Phil is a wonderful guy and fantastic player and he’s got to go do some Def Leppard dates with Journey now, so for the European dates the G3 combo will be Satriani, Petrucci and Uli Jon Roth, which will definitely be killer and another great adventure. We start in Moscow on March 16 and end in Birmingham on April 30 – check out all the dates here and I hope to see you out there!


Thank you for continued interest and support and much love to you!

High five!

Mike debuts Dancing Demos download!

Dancing Demos download

Greetings from scenic Rapperswil, Switzerland! Heading onstage with Satriani in a little bit. This has been a wonderful tour so far, I hope some of you in Europe have been able to see a show or plan to see one in the coming month.

This is a quick note to let you know we’ve made a new downloadable album available – Dancing Demos. This is a nine-song, 37-minute collection of the demos I recorded in 2000 to distribute to the members of Beer For Dolphins, prior to beginning the rehearsals for the album Dancing.

I did these demos, with Scott Chatfield engineering, at Chatfield Manor. These are extremely stripped down, but they aren’t just one-man, live on-the-spot renditions – some songs have both guitar and keyboard parts on them, and there are some vocal harmonies present as well. Some of the tracks feature some spoken instructions as to what I’m thinking about different parts of the songs (eg. the “Stravinsky” section of “Lhai Sal”) and some additional music, chordal approaches and melodic ideas that didn’t make it into the final versions.

Scott found these essentially lost recordings a few months ago, and I had exactly zero recollection of having made them! I find them to be rewarding listening, and they actually reminded me of some of my original and subsequently abandoned musical ideas that I’d like to re-institute the next time I approach these pieces for performance.

The download also features an 8-page digital booklet, handsomely designed by Atticus Wolrab, featuring newly written liner notes, as well as a letter I wrote to the members of BFD at the time (which accompanied the CD of these demos which I sent to them). The letter is a good window into my mental processes at the time regarding what Dancing was supposed to become (including the listing of a running order which is quite different from what eventually happened).

All in all, a rewarding archeological dig for aficionados. And a mere seven bucks for an album length download (back when albums were forty minutes long, more or less). I hope you enjoy the holy heck out of it!

La Cathedrale de Strasbourg,

Mike


JOE SATRIANI TOUR

Satriani BandI’m back on the road with Joe Satriani, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann for a spate of gigs for a few weeks across Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand. If you weren’t able to catch us on the road last year, I hope you’ll be able to make it to a gig this time around. There will be more touring later in the year. I’m excited to get back on the mighty Satch steamroller and really looking forward to this year’s gigs:

Unstoppable Momentum World Tour 2014
(Joe Satriani, Mike Keneally, Bryan Beller, Marco Minnemann)

Jul 12 – Teatro Axerquia – Cordoba, ES
Jul 14 – Grec Theatre – Barcelona, ES
Jul 19 – Festival de Carcassone – Carcassone, FR
Jul 20 – Crazy Week!! The Nice Pop Rock Festival – Nice, FR
Jul 23 – Salle de Etoiles – Monte Carlo, MC (Joe Satriani as the guest of Marcus Miller, no Keneally, Beller or Minnemann)
Jul 24 – Theatre de Verdure – Patrimonio, FR
Jul 26 – Palais de Longchamp (OUTDOORS) – Marseille, FR
Jul 28 – Chapiteau (TENT) – Marciac, FR

Aug 11-15: THE G4 EXPERIENCE

G4 Experience

I, along with Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert and Andy Timmons, will be diving deep into all aspects of guitar playing at The G4 Experience this August at the Cambria Pines Lodge in California. I will relish the opportunity to explore all the facets of my musicianship and share it with everyone there. I suspect I’ll be learning a lot about myself in the process! The location looks to be heavenly as well – I’m looking forward to everything about this.

Sep 20 – Metropolitan Theatre – Mexico City, MX
Sep 23 – Parque Salitre Magico – Bogota, CO
Sep 25 – Movistar Arena – Santiago, CL
Sep 27 – Gran Rex Theatre – Buenos Aires, AR
Sep 28 – Gran Rex Theatre – Buenos Aires, AR
Oct 01 – Citi Bank Hall – Sao Paulo, BR
Oct 03 – Net Live Brasilia – Brasilia, BR
Oct 05 – Agora Casa de Cultura – Quito, EC
Nov 01 – ASB Theatre – Auckland, NZ
Nov 02 – The Opera House – Wellington, NZ
Nov 04 – The Tivoli – Brisbane, AU
Nov 06 – State Theatre – Sydney, AU
Nov 08 – Palais Theatre – Melbourne, AU
Nov 09 – Her Majesty’s Theatre – Adelaide, AU
Nov 11 – Astor Theatre – Perth, AU

Mike types to you from the KBL tour van…

Keneally-Bendian-Lunn rip into “Skies of LA” at Orion Sound Studios in Baltimore MD on May 22, 2014. Video by Guest Host J.D. Mack, audio by Mike Potter– thanks, you guys!

Hi, it’s Mike – having a great time with Keneally-Bendian-Lunn on the road, a rocking little trio if I do say so myself. We had a real blast last night playing the NJ Proghouse in Dunellen, NJ, maybe our best playing of the tour so far. So we are feeling good and warmed up for the last four shows of the tour.

Tonight is The Middle East in Cambridge, MA, with School For Robots and Bent Knee opening. Tomorrow night is the Bearsville Theatre in Woodstock, NY, with our good friend Jesse Gress sitting in with us for a few classic tunes by Mahavishnu, Jeff Beck and Todd Rundgren, and Paul Green’s Rock Academy kids opening. (Part of our Bearsville soundcheck will be broadcast live on WDST-FM starting around 5pm EST.) We’re winding up with gigs in Charleston, WV and Scottsville, KY (this one’s free!). A whirlwind of shows in two weeks, it’s going by like a flash but I’m having a tremendous amount of fun and the audiences have been really into it. I hope to see a bunch of you at the final four shows.

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