Hey Joe, man - great SF DVD - just bought it - Superb. Quick question - what's happened to Stu? Safe Surfin' & much respect.

Clarky - You realise you're gonna have to post a pic somewhere, don't you... Or at least mail me one.

I'm going up to jam with Paul Huxley (The Local Person) tomorrow. It's a relatively long drive, so I hope he's not better than me... lol

Clarky- that guitar sounds sweet, like neil morgan said, show us a pic.- Neil, I've been practising extra hard this week... ;) but I'm sure we'll have a great time (even if you do smoke me off the guitar- I can always resort to my Euphonium :p

Also Clarky- I've had troubles with IUMA for some time. It doesn't seem to have liked my Getright for ages, so I started bypassing it for the use of IUMA but it's not working at all now.. at least I got my Shanghai Interlude v2 first ;)

hi joe i am one of your bigest fans and also probably one of your youngest fans because im only thirteen. i try very hard to play your songs and i have attended 2 of your concerts in dublin. i have every album except 2 and i am obsessed with minstorm on your new album. my dad is also a big fan of yours and we thank you for such great music.

my real names michael lilley and my dads name is jim. if you could e-mail me a picture of yorself in concert id be most greatful. thank you. my e-mail is: GAMER_ML@hotmail.com

Major Tom, I just made a contribution to your cause....I "stemmed" for Joe...lol! Its nice to see that he is number 3 on the list. Anyways, who the heck is Jan Akkerman? Some Norweigan shredder? He's got to be a decent guitarist if he is #1.

Joe, I was wondering.....on your song "Day at the Beach" (new rays of an ancient sun), is your guitar tuned differently or are you using a capo?

NonSmoker is still NonSmoking......

nonsmoker- keep going mate- day at the beach is uncapoed as far as i am aware, all tapping.

Joe:

When are you coming to Colombia???

Archangel777: Something that helped me, (still does from time to time) was a book called "Zen Guitar", by Philip Toshio Sudo. You have to learn how to rid your critical self from the creative process. It's not as trivial as some might believe. It's that voice that tells you to change something you've just created to make it "better". I love Michael Hedges' qoute regarding composition:

" You can't MAKE your music good. You can't try to BE good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak THROUGH you."

He was a genious and I miss him terribly. Those of you who have not had the privilege should get a listen to his material. It changed my life....... Joe can vouche for this as he worked with him on the Pat Martino record, "All Sides Now".

It's fine to be critical after the fact... I've redone things many times until I've gotten the execution as close as possible to what I heard in my head. But, it doesn't belong in the "room" of creation, catch my drift? I've been playing for 22 years and it really wasn't until recent times that I realized this and my world is much different now.

NonSmoker Jan Akkerman is a local guitarist from holland. He is in fact one of the best guitarists on this side of the ocean. He had some international succes with a band called Focus (That was in the early seventies). During that period of time he took over the #1 position of Eric Clapton! Who was on that position for about seven years before Jan akkerman took over. Though in the early day Jan played blues based Rock and also some symphonic rock, these days he is a all-round Jazz guitarist. Played also in the night of the guitar with Robbie krieger and others.

Major Tom

Just wanted to post this again to let anyone in north or central florida know that i have my tickets in hand from ticketmaster for the Aug 20th show here in jacksonville,fla at the florida theatre that i will not be able to make. its 10th Row seats 2 tickets. email me if interested at all!!!

Hello, Satriani I'm your fan from Brazil. I like your Work I have all Cd's I want buy a guitar and play your songs Forever your FAN.

Hello, Satriani I'm your fan from Brazil. I like your Work I have all Cd's I want buy a guitar and play your songs Forever your FAN.

Dave, your doin' it, bro!! Keep it going, your doing great!! As I sit here at my computer, all I can smell is that stank from my neighbor who smokes on her back porch. That crap comes in every open window (or AC vent in this case) and stinks up my house. She refuses to believe I can smell it in my house (she's 8' away from my back door!) She don't smoke in her house or car because she don't want to ruin anything with that brown film & stench cigarette smoke leaves behind, but she don't care about her lungs, teeth, or her body. She even sits on her porch in a winter coat, a hat, gloves, & a blanket in the wintertime to smoke. She has NO idea how insane she is. Save the non-living things (house & car) & slowly kill the body. Whatever? *end of rant*

It';s just a poll! And a little-known one at that! We all know Joe's the "best", so what's the point?

Having said that - what makes a guitarist "better"? They're all different. I think it's a bad idea to even compare.