Hey Joe, been a long time fan of yours. Way back in '86 win "Not Of This Earth" was released. I ran to Best Buy yesterday and they were out of your new CD. I've got most of your albums but never had the opportunity to see you live. Well that time has come. I got tix for your Houston performance on August 18. I'm so glad you are doing it at the Verizon Theater. I saw YES there a few years back. Less than 3000 seats... not a bad one there. Really pumped too that you are touring with Dream Theater and a local band... King's X. I friend of mine knows Ty Tabor. We almost got him to one of our Boy Scout meetings... now we really would have had folks talking!!

I've got a 19 year old son that has been playing guitar for a few years. It's so exciting to see him not only enjoy the new bands but also embrace some of the seasoned groups and performers. He is a big Metallica nut... plays almost everything they do... but he's gotten into my favorites such as ZZ Top, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Def Leppard, Dream Theater, and YOU of course. He's very excited about seeing you LIVE too. He's had a run of bad luck lately buying tickets for OZZY and CREED and both got cancelled due to injuries of the front men.

JS Clone 1: Oh wait I think I know what you mean since the k just means 1000 anyway, but it's easier to say 20hz to 20khz. Saves space on the zeros. Sorry for the confusion.

Invigor: Got it.

The Local Person: Thanks. I just realized that after thinking about it a bit.

I'm a recording major in college and I'm used to seeing it as 20khz.

Richard... I shook hands with ya man... your hands are just as big as mine... and I know mine are pretty big... not long but thick & wide... anyways... it doesn't matter...

Plum Loco - My fingers aren't stubby or anything but it's just funny how exaggeraed they are in that picture. The video kind of sets it straight. Must have been a "mutant" frame that was used for the screen shot.

The Scales and Soloing lesson with Joe at www.guutar.com is absolutely inspiring and ethereal. How Joe knows himself and explains everything he does so well...

death cube k - I wonder if there are any "Y2K" problems on the site here... Will I go back to 0 posts after 99? ;-)

Vetteguy43 - Most music stores offer lessons...so I'd ask around at a few near you. You should expect to pay around $30 per hour...that's what I paid for bass lessons a year or two ago.

Storm55 - Joe will absolutely blow you away. You'll have an awesome time at the show.

Hustafaben - Usually the age stuff is up to the promoter. So that's be Clear Channel in this case... There's not much you can do about it...it does kinda stink.

JS Clone 1 - So Joe has lessons at www.guutar.com? ;-) When did that start? LOL...

Austin - Those lessons have been there for a while if you didn't know already. Scales and Soloing, and Chords and Arpeggios I believe.

Hey Joe, i would like to congratulate you on your latest album. Which i think is one of the greatest album yet and i can wait till you start turing here in the U.S.A. Strange Beautiful Music is a great album because you show all your great techniques, like always.I love what you did to the 1959 hit "sleep walk" by Jhonny and Santos that ne f the tunes i like to hear over an over. Your biggest Fan

Robert Hernandez Jr.

Mabuhay ka Joe Satch hope you could have a concert here in the Philippines especially in Cebu City if that would be possible, I enjoy listening to your music, i play guitar too and hope we could jam together alrytes !!!!!!

Kerwin James Z. Trocino Cebu City, Philippines

RE Frequency range debate: Paul Huxley aka The Local Person is correct except one thing, megahertz is MHz not mHz. mHz stands for millihertz, and so 5mHz would be 5 signals per 1000 seconds. (One every 200 seconds! Significant difference!)

Just so no-one took his advice as absolute gospel and bet their life away on that.

EOC I definitely agree should not be a one-off however PLEASE people stop referring to it as "techno" it is in no way a techno album. Only a couple of songs are techno oriented. Devil's Slide, parts of Borg Sex, Attack, Power Cosmic 2000 Part 2. All the rest you could say has an electronic feel about it, however IT IS NOT "TECHNO" per se.

I like many different kinds of music, so frankly Joe can do what he pleases and there's a huge chance that I'll like it anyway whether it's Joeish or not.

later BEN

PS Still waiting for SBM...

AUSTIN i guess we will find out later today if it rolls over or not. congrats on 100 post!!!!:)

Here's part 12...

The Journey - This one, along with Mountain Song, are my least favorite songs on the album. It's not that they're bad...it's just that everything else is so much better, in my opinion. Maybe this one will grow on me after a few more listens. I guess I do like some parts of the middle section, from 1:43-3:32. But after hearing the whole song, it's just not a favorite for me.

Any comments?

Dear Joe, I don't know if you will read this e-mail, but I am a really trusty and positive (north-italian) woman, hence, I hope that my "shout" will reach you someway.

I had the great fortune to find, thank music, my "fit" (most commonly defined as my "twin soul"). He, Antonio, is a 30 years old Sicilian guitarist, with really rare hands and soul. He began to play seriously at the age of 17 as a self taught student, he also took some jazz and classical lessons. He played in many bands, playing almost all styles, from reggae to rock, from jazz to funk & fusion (this one his real passion), etc., together with many bands all over Italy and abroad; he also joined an adventure with a trio band in London, where he had the chance to play in the most important places all over the City. Actually he's playing as lead guitarist in the best (as people and critics say) Italian Iron Maiden tribute band: the "Children of the damned": they played at the "Palavobis" in Milan as headliners for the "Gods of Tribute", together with Paul Di'anno (the first Iron Maiden singer) last june, 23.

His passions are the great jazz&fusion guitarists and obviously you. This is the only one music he would really like to play. Every day, Antonio play 3-4 hours of your music ... it's food for his soul and his spirit!

At present, he lives in Ferrara, northern Italy, but we decided together to quit the job, and go back to his, or better, our beloved and wonderful Sicily, to join something in the tourism Industry(where we'll be honored to invite you).

I think I am a really lucky woman, just because I found an authentic, sensible and sincere person as Antonio is, that wants to spend his whole life together with me. I love Antonio with all of my force, I'm feeling him inside every little cell of my body, he's my "male" side inside me, as I hope I am his "female" side. I only have a tiny sad note inside my heart that surrounds me: when I watch him playing his guitar, when he gives his guitar a soul, a personality, an identity; when he makes it talk, as he only knows how, and when his eyes shine of happiness and ecstasy, every note he plays. His soul perfectly corresponds to music, and it's almost a touchable sensation. This monologue with his instrument gives me both enormous joy and incredible bitterness at the same time. How is it possible that in this by now rotten music world, a musician as my sweetheart is can't find any space for him?!?!? How is it possible that people prefers to listen to some stupid, cold, artificial and vapid business products?!? This is a scream, a desperate sing, because, as I know that somebody in this world exists that could animate a piece of wood and iron (and many others like him), and at the same time I believe that music industry is almost exclusivelly in the hands of unable and charlatan people, this hurts me a lot.

My wish is to help at least him to make his dream come true: to become a professional guitarist. I wish him to make his talent a real job.

I write you just because you could help both Antonio and me to make our dream come true. He doesn't care about becoming a star, it could be "enough" just to live only with music, collaborating with some serious artists.

I finally beg your pardon for my saucy and presumptuous letter, but love forces me to do these and other things.

A big hug,

Luisa

luscorpion@yahoo.it