the local person..the reason why its over quoted is that its the famous sketches..and if you say anything else python...people wont recognise it..like..the "bing tiddle tiddle bong" song..lol...or "just one wafer thin mint"..lol..

smithers - Heres what i have figured out of time machine... the intro is a big whopping D chord (dont forget to drop the D) with various sounds. The little scale type thing is just the Amaj Scale starting on the F# of the E string, while pedal-toning your low D. Next part is something like

B--|:--14-14-12--14-:|3x-----9--9--9--9-10-9-7----------

Again, Joe goes back to the A maj scale for the Melody

D-4--4--6--7--6~~--6--6--7--9--11~~--9--7--6~~

D--4--4--6--7--9~~--9--9--11--12--14~~

I should Add that the "key" of this probably isnt Amaj.. its D major with a sharped 4.. whatever mode F to F on the white keys is :) locrian perhaps? I dont feel like looking it up

Email me if you want the rest of what i know.. i dont wanna waste a lot of space tabbing it out.

McDave - That's crazy weather. It's in the 50s and 60s here in CA. I think it's cold, but then again I haven't been around snow for a few years...hehe.

Smithers ....Carol & Joan are Joe's two elder sisters.

Mr Nick.. Thanks

Modes are where my music studies are taking me next. I understand how they are formed, but i dont 'know' them by their altered scale degrees, i'm trying to associate them with a certain sound (phrygian - latin, aeolian - well, natural minor, dorian - minor, but more harmonically interesting) But the modes everyone seems to talk about seem to escape my grips at the moment. Just gotta hit the woodshed is all

On that note.. does anyone know what scale Joe uses for the "solo" of time machine sounds somewhere around F#minor or Amajor, but the licks from earlier in the song dont work... :/

anibur..hmm..dangerous times when you go into triple figures...trust me..when going from double to triple its very tricky and treacherous...lol and when you do reach it, celebrate it with a few of these :

Paul and Mr. Nick: Exploding Penguins on the Telly, Confuse a Cat, Albatross!, Upper Class Twit of the Year, Pet Conversions and no list would be complete without Nudge, Nudge and the Kilimanjaro Expedition.

And now for something completely different: A man with a tape recorder up his nose.

And now Happy Birthday to Yayogakk

PhryDom- :) Cool! Didn't know that my questions could inspire someone! I'll see if I can come up with more! I love feedbacks too! They can sound really great! Flying in a Blue Dream has one of my favourite intros, if not my favourite! They look like whales crying! Great! Of course my feedbacks don't sond like Joe's... At least for now... But I surely have a great time playing with them! :)

A stupid but curious thing: If you point a TV remote or any other remote between the neck pickup and the beginning of the neck and press any button, it makes a really stupid sound... but it's curious... Not sure it's harmless, but still curious...

Anyone else uses guitar pro? I mean, I see a lot of people asking for tabs and stuff, I have 36 guitar pro tabs of Joe Satriani, and they have 119 satriani tabs at mysongbook.com. With the demo you can use downloaded files but I think you have some limits for composing and, the worst thing, you can't print... But it's definately (did I spell that correctly?) worth downloading! I have the full version, and I use it a lot! You can even write with standard notation and it converts it to tab format! And you can convert midi into tab, tab into midi, tab any instrument you want. Really cool! Check it out here!