Yeah, Twig, you're right !! it's this week-end !!

Joyeux Anniversaire Eric ! ça fait longtemps qu'on ne t'as pas vu ici... Je te souhaite le meilleur pour l'avenir.

En espérant te revoir un de ces 4 ... pour te donner un autre cd (le concert de juillet 2000 ...)

Christopher (New York/Paris/Tokyo) --- yes, I moved again ;-)

-Happy birthday again-

AUSTIN naaa i tried a while back....

a sad day for rock and roll and bass players everywhere. rest in peace, john entwistle, you contributed more than many even aspire to.

Here's the next part of my "review"...just a few comments on Belly Dancer. I only had two or three people reply to me last time... Is this a good idea or does it suck? ;-)

Belly Dancer - This is a great song...definately one of my favorites on the album. I love the "free for all" ending...it's really different and sounds so spontaneous. It would be cool to see Satch do things like this more often in his music. I love the "Satch Boogie" tapping with the backwards drums as well. My favorite part is the jam at the end, from 2:59-4:42. I especially love what the bass and rhythm guitars are doing.

Come on everyone, what are your favorite things about this song?

Joe

Thanks yet again for a new album

OK Austin, OK, I'll write bits about the first three songs while I listen to them right now....

Oriental Melody-

Great starting riff- it's really catchy the underlying theme to this song. Drums come in- with arkward 4/4 a la Time. Echoey guitar part- not my favourite, but is quite moody. The moody theme keeps going with some exotic scale. Then Joe plays some groovy chorus like hooks, which I love, before returning to the original theme with synth strings adding to the tune. Then Joe starts to solo- usual deal- slow changes of key, some pretty cool riffs come up with. Then back to the echoey guitar bit, followed by the chorusy hook bit. That has to be my favourite bit of the tune. More stringey tuneness, before the drums come out, and the tune ends neatly.

Belly Dancer-

Cool classic satch riff, sounds like some earlier stuff in composition with a guitar riff or two, a tune over the top and some fairly standard drums.

Very cool pre-chorusy bit, particularly when the harmony guitar bit comes in. Makes me very dizzy. The chorus tune- sounds quite Vai-ish in my opinion, particularly with the tapping coming in kinda reminiscent of Steve Vai's Fever Dream.

Then back to the main tune again, followed by an outro riff which the band basically jam to.

Starry Night- The delicate accompaniment of chords with a fairly delicate tune is throughout this one, similarly to "you Saved My Life". There is a chord change that suggests to me Joe might have been listening to Oasis at the time... I dunno but something about that chord makes me think of Oasis. if i listened properly I'm sure i would recognise it as an Augmented chord. I dunno.

The outro has a very cool guitar chord sequence which reminds me of john Petrucci on the softer bits of "Biaxident and Hourglass" from LTE.

Invigor - yes, i noticed that a whole bunch of new members were posting on the site when joe released his new material. funny how that works, huh? i find it quite entertaining at least -- the fact that not just satch's hard core fans are digging it (like the did from the beginning), but joe is constantly getting new fans. i think it's pretty cool.

Austin - Hill Groove - the song starts out with a melody that is very matter-of-fact; happy. it's somewhat steve-vai-ish. the mixolydian and diminished notes give it a very on-the-edge, groovy jazz-fusion feel that gets your feet tapping. then, the key subtelely (is that a word?) changes to an endorphin-pumping bluesy chorus. joe doubles his playing here, and it helps to boost the positive atmosphere of the song. the solo plunges into screamingly fast legato, yet it is elegant and precise (joe always is...).

Mountain Song - the song starts out with a solid, pulsing, arpeggiated minor chord that resonates tightly with the melody. joe switches dramatically between major and minor licks, creating an awe-inspiring sensation (behold the mountain!). then the solo kicks in -- joe attacks violently with nasty key changes and harmonic minor galore. the pulsing bass and drums establish the grandeur of the mountain, the soloing inspires aggressive adventure. then, joe slips emotionally back into the melody...

drafter37 - I found a link for one of those CD resurfacing things... Go to http://store.yahoo.com/herrington-catalog/a231.html and you can see it. It works for everything...I have a friend that uses this to fix his Playstation 2 games.

Local Dude - So man, when can we jam? Are you free over the summer?

Ya Yo - They should make a new Harry Potter movie with Malmsteen as the bad guy, and call it "Harry Potter and the Fretwanker's Ego"!!!!!

Plum Loco - A house, huh? So when's the house warming party?

Anybody know if Robert Fripp is touring with Joe so he can play Sleep Walk live? I don't really like that track (sounds like something from the "Grease" soundtrack...) but it sure would be cool to see Fripp and Satch on the same stage...

L8r, Neil.

Hi Joe, .... What about one little PHONE CALL to all Bulgarian fans. We are waitin' ...... Sofia .....7/1/2002 ...... The place is well known ......

Sad day for WHO fans...just before they started a tour of US too. RIP John Entwistle. I saw the WHO live back in ...?????They were one of my favourite bands way back. My Generation...(what a giveaway!)

Clarky: you will really have to listen more carefully!!!(See what I mean about the psychological effect of this new layout!!!)

Austin: the reason few people reply to you is because your nick's too long....;) Here's what I think of Mindstorm(preliminary thoughts...) sorry we're not keeping to your schedule of one song per day in strict order...! ..and this will not be a technical review... Mindstorm sounds to me like those two borgs having another conversation! Anyone else think that?

master yoda of neilage! - well, some of the summer i'm free, term ends on the 19th July (day after satriani) The week after that is a good time though- problem is my amp's just gone faulty- i got a bad high/low power switch :( Let me know..