It is Stu not boo-- 90Minutes would have been nice. The Tabernacle show was just over an hour. Joe took the stage at about 10:40 and the crew started taking apart Jeff's kit at about 11:45-- with the purple stage lighting STILL ON. The crew was all over the stage before the house lights even came up. That's why it seemed like they must have hit curfew. I guess I'm just holding out for the 2 set "evening with Joe" shows that never seem to happen in Atlanta - and Joe, please consider that for the entire next tour.

TurtleBoy - Hi. Welcome to the site... Your description of Joe's scream is pretty accurate. He does pinch harmonics over where the 24th fret would be on the B and E strings with his right hand, while holding the whammy bar with his left. The guitar screams when he releases whammy pressure.

Good day to you all....

Deadpool: He man, you know what i'm talking about with that trem... I kno9w what u mean. If u have it tight and u move it outa the way it eventually comes loose. I have it set so that when it's tight it sits below the strings but above the volume knob. Then with a quick flick of the wrist I can knock it so it spins round and hangs loose vertically. I can usually pick it up from there to give the odd waggle. For more complex tricks gargling, scoops, screams etc. All it needs is another quick flick to bring it back round to sit where i want it.

Lambic: See if u can find a pic of it on the net somewhere. the bar doesn't push in/pull out. It screws into a socket which is in turn through the body of the trem unit. This is quite hard to explain. It is infact the part that the bar screws into that loosens. So I'm thinking a wee bit of locktite on those threads would go down a treat :-)

Morley Bad Horsie Does anyone on here own one of these fine pedals. I was messing with mine last night and managed to trace the potentiometer that determines the switch of time. For those that don't know the badhorsie switches off when u remove ur foot from the pedal. If u want to try it have a go, cos u can't really go far Wrong. The pot is located on the bottom left of the unit (battery at the top) Play around with it but I think clockwise lengthens the time, anti-clockwise shortens it. I love it now, mine switches off as soon as my foot leaves the pedal :-)

Check this out, one of the coolest videos I have ever seen, theres various sites aorund the net with it heres one of them It's a montage of the 2001 WRC played along to Linkin Park "In The End" Kick Ass.....

Tune for my day: Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark

Ok so that wee link thing didn't work.... here's the link http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~mka/wrc video.wmv

I hope you gave Winston an earful JOE!! Perhap's that is why your throat is sore...Or is it from consoling the fan's whom were not allowed in?? Maybe a little of both?? You da' man JOE!! Godspeed on the tour dude, you shouldn't have to be thinking about stuff like that while the show is going on....That must have been a hard one to go through, and I hope this sends a message out to the other venues who prey on their consumer's like vulchers!! May the Lord's of Kharma bring Pearly back, and keep changin' lives dude!!!

y'know, the harmonic is further behind (closer to the bridge) where the 24th fret would be. i don't think there really is any hard and fast rule he follows about it - i've seen him pick the harmonic in various places depending on what pitch he wants to scream around...

Joe, it's your response to the Stunt winston pulled that will never be forgotten. I strongly feel that any other artist would have just sent an apology...but you did it verbally in person, with autographs and picks. That is just amazing...

I concur there Matt...I concur!! JOE IS AMAZING!! Hope all is going full speed with you Matt, haven't been by the site in awhile since I struggle through this 56k madness :-(....One of these day's ADSL will come to our area....

BTW, Rich, JS1: Thank's for the Gilbert link again, I am slowly but surely checking it out!!...As I will do your site....BTW, what is the addy again for your site again?? I will add it to favs and check it out in bits and pieces :-)

As one Artanis once said, "I concur" (amongst other short phrases such as "consider it done" "for Aiur" etc)

Lock up your daughters Toronto... here I come!

I'm about to POP.. found out on Sunday that I will be going to see Joe at the Molson Amphitheatre, my new biz partner (whom I saw G3 with five (?!) years ago in Montreal) says to me "Hey, it's been FIVE years since we saw G3.. we ARE going to Toronto!" How could I argue with that huh?

I just saw TOOL & Tomahawk on Saturday night here in Ottawa, so I thought my fun was done, not so! I must be the only guy who likes Tomahawk, everyone else was booing and heckling, but for me it was pure bliss.

Looking forward to seeing Dream Theater live for the first time too. This is going to be one helluva show.

See all you Torontonians on Saturday! Joe IS playing Mind Storm on this tour, right? *droool*

For Adun: LMAO dude!! Your jokes always give me a good laugh, lol!! BTW, just keep singing "Your voice (pun to JBJ) is like bad medicine....Bad medicine is not what I need....Ooo Wo Shake it up...Bad medicine..." That seem's to work for me!! On the other hand, "FIABD" comes on in my head at a moments notice!! Whenever I seem to stray into those 80's hair band blues a quick little shake of the head, and then there it is....That Arpeggiated intro to "FIABD".....LOL Joe takes care of it all...

I was just thinking....JOE should have a nickname beside his name like we do here.....Any suggestions anyone???? I was thinking LEGATO LEGEND!!

ovation1 - how about Satchboy?..like one guy called out at the birmingham gig in july...and your in japan??,,how about putting up 8 steps for us?

WELEASE WICH AND BWIAN AND WOBERT!!!

AND BIGUS DICKUS!..LOL....Life of Brian always cracks me up...

hey all... that is some really shitty trickery the Tabernacle pulled!!! how do they think they can get away with it!?!?

FYI... the name TABER-nacle fits perfecly... in danish language TABER means "LOSERS"... its true, checkit out! (well, its close enough)

my favourite song to play: satch boogie or circles or summer song or one big rush or motorcycle driver (OH YEAH) or slow down blues or ceremony or... i think you all get the idea.

WELEASE BWIAN !!!

I still can't find out anything about Steve Vai's Fire Strings performance. I am now fearing the worst - Steve "Even My Demos are Perfect" Vai probably messed up one note, and is too embarrassed to talk about it, release it on DVD, CD, etc.

Mr. Nick: LMAO at Satchboy also....Yeah, I'm here in Japan, but even I don't own the Japanese version of SBM, lol!! I bought the U.S. version over the net, and don't feel a need to buy another one for just one song....yet....But Mr. Prog X has it though, and I'm sure he has a faster connection speed than I do....Maybe he can hook us up ;-)....

For Adun: lol, JBJ's voice was in my head when I read your post!!!!! BTW, Mr. Neil Peart is/was one of the best drummers out there...I'm sure you know that :-)

gruskada: Me neither!! Only a one page article in "Young Guitar" Magazine and that was all I heard!! They haven't said SHIT about the VAI performance!! Although I never heard anything about Yngwie's performances either!! I'm sure Steve has got something planned up his sleeve for this one.... He's alway's has got something planned!!

Peace all, /\/\ike

Joe Hi my name is Jose Santiago and first of all I would like to thank you for your time to sign my cd cover, my ticket and specially to accept my gift Plena In Jupiter, a proyect that we been developed for the last 2 years with my partner Miguel "Tito" Rodriguez. I just put only a sample of 3 songs from the entire album and I hope you like our proyect as we enjoy so far doing it. If it's possible I would like to hear any feedback or comments about how we doing so far or any input you can apport is more than welcome. We been admire your music for several years and you became a great inspiration to us. Please if you read this reply to us at joses@bellsouth.net or to tirale@hotmail.com Joe thanks for all your time and I hope to hear from you soon.

Jose santiago.

P.S.

man phat - that bad horsie pedal sounds like a...BAD HORSIE!!!

njbeast - if you want to check out Dream Theater then get "Images And Words", IMO their best album in terms of sheer jaw-dropping moments.

Re: Fire Strings performance - here is a first person report from a jemsite member. :)