FOR ADUN - could be, dont know man....joe likes us all equally...

GUYS - i swear, maybe it's not "why" im thinking of, but im pretty sure it is....listen to the lead when it starts, its slower but it sounds pretty much the same thing to me....maybe im tripping....but no one can deny the Dr. Feelgood intro, come on now...

PHRYGIAN - ya waste of $$$....i paid $19.99....ho hum....

clarky **lol**lol**

dragonchild shall we form a scandinavian alliance to persuade joe to get back here and play some gigs for us??

welcome home joe... glad to hear the tour in asia was a success...

Hey Joe

now that you're back again in the land of t2j, i can finally ask my question again....

after your concert at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam i left a cd from a great friend of mine at your effects-pedalboard....did you receive this cd ??? i didn't see Mike Manning throw it away...i watched him taking away your stuff, i kept an eye on him, but i think/hope that he took the cd, and that it somehow came to you....i know you get tons of demo-stuff from all kinds of people, so i can understand if you don't want to publicly anounce that you got it, but i would really appreciate it if you can let me know by whatever method that you got it, or that you didn't get it....i did it for a friend of mine who lives on the other side of the planet, in a place where you didn't tour this year, so this was my attempt to help my friend, and try to get his music in your hands....would mean a lot to me....he really deserves some appreciation....

Thnx in advance...

Joe- welcome back....

jsclone1..yeah monty python is great..."git" is a kind of swear word and an insult..

r6rocker,,tommy cooper..just like that...hehe..

to everyone who hasn't got Steve Vai - Alive in an Ultra World.....get it..it is a great album,..a mixture of passion and warfar and the ultra zone...

Mr Nick

well, if you want....it was me.....uhm, i don't know which ones i have, i think i have the regulars, hehehe...i do have love thing....could be that you don't have that one....but hey...just email me....and i'll see how i can get them to ya....

greetz

JOE: Glad you had a wonderful trip here in Asia, and that your back home to get some well deserved rest, so you can tear it up again on the Tour!!....Didn't get to see you this time, but I hope to see you again in a couple of years!! BTW, is "SLICK" going to be refined??....Hope we find it and others like it on a cd single or something......Godspeed dude!!

lol, r6rocker, the count has strrrruck again... ;-) LMAO

Clarky: lol on Big Bird!....I think if I actually had a chance to play him on a Sesame Street episode, the show would be canx'd right at the first skit.....I'd be partying with Oscar playing guitar while he was trying to be Lars Ulrich on the trash cans!! LMAO!!....BTW, on a serious note, have you thought of Steves "Favored Nations" label?? Bug him like he did Frank Zappa, (get his phone# etc.) and if he had just a second to listen, I'm sure he'd give you a chance....

Phrygian Dominant: LMAO @ guitarzareus!! Had to read it closely though... \\\\ ;=0

Dave Mc: Yup, that would be AliveIAUW....Don't plan on getting it right away....Start off with P&W or Alien Love Secrets....When you get used to that go for AIAUW....If not only for the love of EVO!! ;-)....I love EVO!!

locust7: AWESOME!!!! Youre one lucky dude....Talked to THA MAN of THA BASS!!

On the subject of Columbus....(It's been said millions of times before, but I'll say it again).....The man who discovered a continent that was already discovered/inhabited by Indians! And we can go on from there how they (the first settlers) went downhill by walking all over them....Ahhh, that is another story ;-)

YA YO: I think it sounds similar cause the cadence of the song is typical of a German march....Similarities are just that.. Remember "Satch Tapes"....He said there is no competition betw. him and JOE, and he just remembers what JOE did for him....There is also plenty of success to go around ;-)

Peace all, Mike

Now, for some tear it up Blues funk..Mr. Gilbert: Red Rooster! Then Mr. SATCH can take over on COOL No. 9!! YEAH!!

Hi Joe! I'm not so "up to date", but what happend to Stu Hamm :/ ?. I noticed that he wasn't on the latest cd.

hey all,

lpdawe hej og velkom til T2J... what albums did you get??

Hey Joe...

Welcome home!

Now get busy signing those copies of "S.B.M." so Jon can send out the CDs & tourshirts to the lucky Set-list winners. *nudge, nudge, wink, wink* ;^)

L8r... John aka =o|-[

njbeast - I'm pretty sure the version of The Crush Of Love that plays over the DVD menus is the LISF version.

Now that I have your attention................. I believe that every single one of us can make a difference in this world. I believe these differences can be big and small and can be made as often as one attempts to do so. Im not sure how many of you will understand this but please let me try to expand upon this.

Being a baby of the sixties and raised in the deep south, I have very emotional and first hand experiences with the civil rights movements. Segregation was "a part of life" and very prevalent at this time and place. Although our family was very decent to mankind and fair with compensation, it was a "norm" to think that the color of one's skin made them in a different class of people.

From the beginning of my life, I never understood this and spoke out against it even as a toddler. It hurt me to think that groups of people could impose upon us their tainted views of a harsh society and that people went along with it to "fit in". I would not let them teach me to hate. That was very brave for a little girl.

For a white person to think the way I did in the deep south was certainly not the norm. People made prejudice jokes all of the time without thinking once that it wasn't right..... especially when almost everyone made the jokes or thought it was funny. I refused to be taught that this slight to humanity was OK because everyone that I came in contact with thought it was OK. The "n" word still turns my guts inside out!!!!

I was most certainly "in the dog house" when I spoke out many times against vigilante prejudices. Words cannot even convey the "norms" at this time and how even "upstanding" and popular individuals participated in the prejudices. As time went on and changes were made by very brave people to make a difference in an oppressed society, segregation began to be abolished by laws.

Times began to lighten up about the violence towards colored people but the jokes continued. People didn't see a problem with laughing and joking about it. after all, it was just a joke right?

I didn't find them funny. It seemed the entire planet did. It hurt me to allow it. I also found that some people laughed and participated in these jokes not necessarily because they thought it was funny, but because it was what the majority was doing and no one wanted to be an outcast. As unpopular as it was for the time, I still took a hard position that I would not participate in any sort of prejudice activity..... including something as small as "joking". Many times I was an outcast which put me in the "dog house" for speaking against the majority..... many were friends and respected people.

My senior year in high school on my way to school one beautiful sunny morning (in the MID EIGHTIES!!!!!) a smart young innocent black man was hung in the downtown square for all of us to see during our morning commute for no other reason but hate. I shutter at this thought which brings tears to my eyes now when I think back at the horror. This was just a few blocks from my high school.

Stricken with disgust with humanity and deeply saddened, I made a VOW to myself at that moment that I would forever "speak my peace" (my sanctity) against society wrong doings and inappropriate joking and that I would continue to put myself in the dog house to speak out so that hopefully, once in a while, I would make a difference to humanity.

A few of you may be making a connection to the correlation. Still others are thinking.... "so what does this have to do with Fruit loop joking on the talk to Joe page"?

The jokes themselves are insignificant. The act of the joking allows for a tainted concept of another deep issue for me.... Infidelity and the collapse of family. It just so happened that the fruit loop joke (which was actually pretty tame compared to many other "sexual" jokes on this site made repeatedly by a few that are considered the majority) was a catalyst for me to speak out.

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I find the divorce statistics alarming in this society. As small as it may seem to some, I feel that participating in inappropriate jokes (of any kind) that are destructive to mankind as a united people is detrimental to humanity. It just so happened that the fruitloops joke got to me as I put myself in the position of the hearts of the person(s) being wronged..... those people committed to family.

Most definitely an apology is in order and I am sorry for attacking you Michelle. I am not sorry for speaking out against the jokes but I could have done it in a more gentle fashion. I will not try to justify my inappropriate behavior in attacking you but I will justify my position against any sort of joking that goes against my being. I would hope you would do the same.

Those who know me know that I am a very humorous person and love to laugh and fit in with the group. But when a nerve is struck in me, I speak out. I would want everyone to be bold enough to stand up for what they believe in. I honestly believe that we can all make a difference in this world.

Thank you to those that took the time to reach out to me in support. I appreciate your e mails.

guitarzbabe: i'm sorry but you can't tell someone is an idiot and afterwards explain the story of your life to justify yourself.