Melody vs. Jam - In my opinion, if you're trying to make sales you have to lean more towards melody.... Though, doin a solid jam live is pretty hard to beat... Still, it is possible to make a cd with some good jams, look at Clapton's old band Blind Faith. I haven't heard all of the tracks but a ton of it is just jammin... Either way, if it's got some good licks, I can usually get into it...

Crystal Planet - All mostly the key of E minor. First starts off with a B phrygian patterned run (4 up, 4 down, 6 up, repeat on next string). Then I go into an Em7th string skipping arpeggio. Then some do some tapping but changed to Dorian as i'm using C# instead of C. Then I end off with an Em7th two octave sweep ascending and descending all the way. I'm actually not happy with the video. My hand started to give out in the latter takes. I had to accept what I already had.

T2J CD one day to the deadline then! from the look of the website its all comin along well!im not sure if there have been any extensions to the deadline?

Nick - Oh my God, I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a coffee-making metronome!!!!!!!! I was feeling particularly inspired one morning just after breakfast, so I fetched my roll of gaffa tape and my metronome and brought it into the kitchen (you can see what's coming can't you? lol) and I stuck the clicking machine to the water boiling machine. Behold! A coffee making metronome!!!!!!!! I was gonna take a photo but I didn't have any film in my camera and it would have taken a while for me to get round to having it developed anyway. Maybe another day...

Clarky - Yeah, man. Real lager. Regardiong Foster's - it makes me laugh every time. I work in my local Wetherspoon's and you get all these townie animals coming in who think they're hard and get shit faced on the stuff. It's like water that's been stood next to lager for a bit too long. And the best bit is, on the barrels it says "Brewed in the U.K.". Think Australian drink Australian my ass... Regarding your as kicking courtesy of Mr. Nick, I'd pay good money for a show like that. You're tiny. He'll kick yo ass, punk!!! lol... Fancy an arm wrestle at our next jam? lol lol

JSC1 - Do you like Raspberry Jam Delta-V? There's not exactly a melody in that one that I can hear, but I think it's a wicked tune. Might be the groove though - if the melody's not there a decent groove can carry something a long way, I guess...

just wondering if anyone actually wants to see this band in action, if so post this message your selfs so that there is a greater possibility that joe might see it cos this line up is the best ever!

Guitar - Satch (obviously!) Bass - Les Claypool (Primus, sausage, and many, many others!) Drums - Micheal Schak (not sure about spellign, but he's damn good!)

So if joe could, i dunno, make a few calls this band could be out making records, doing gigs and being damn amazing!

Yoda - Where u playing??? Im only in kent so, assuming im not gigging myself, I'll try and come.

It's snowing again! Yesterday it was to warm for a jacket. Go figger. lol!

master yoda Show us a picture sometime. Methinks that to invent that, you must have had a wee bit too much of the old fosers water thenight before.

Artanis I Do you drink Castlemaine in Australia, or is that just as much of a joke as Fosters?

guitarcake By the time you've got bored of your car, you won't have any money left to spend on guitars!

crushing day do you have any of Petrucci outside of dream theater, like with G3 or anything? Or of DT doing Petrucci songs? (ie ones he wrote not DT ones he wrote the words for)

It's Eric Clapton's birthday today. Happy birthday Eric.

GREG M unfortuently not dude!from the stuff ive heard of him playin wid g3 its preaty hot shit!lol he shud bring out a solo album!

Hello everybody, i was yesterday in a guitar shop here in my city, and i played in a beatiful guitar: IBANEZ JS 1000 BLUE :))). Amazing tone, so sweet, a great experience ;).

Good weekend to everybody.

Hey Joe

What's going down with Ned Evet at the moment?, is he still on tour with you or has he got an album out?. I have just worte a song and I am recording it in every now and then, it has taken about 7 or 8 days now. When you go into the studio to record it is it hard to get it right with in the time you have?.

Cheers

Master Yoda - It's a progressive melody as opposed to just an improv'd jam. You can whistle it the whole way through.

OCP - We'll have to see if I can write anything nice and melodic like you. Come to think of it, you do play clean. Very clean. Your recordings are immaculate.

greg - glad you like the theory posse stuff. The best way to learn that stuff is slowly. Don't try to take it all in at a single sitting... If you have questions just shout in T2J or in COE.

http://members.aol.com/noisynoisy/paulclark.html

that's an old pic of me and my Strat on tour in 1994.. first gig of the tour.. The Astoria London - the same hallowed ground as shredded on by Satch and Vai - what an honour for me it was... I was more nervous about that than the gig itself.. lol

The UV7 is made to a higher spec than the RG7xxx - better pickups, more elaborate finishing, it's wired differently, but I think the woods are the same.

My custom 7 has an ebony fingerboard [UV7 = rosewood], mine also has flourecent dissappearing pyramid inlays [on ebony it looks awesome]. I don't have the 'pearly' binding [not my thing really]. My 7 is wired a little differently too - it has 'booster' circuitry that make it a little hotter if needed...

It's not here yet but I'm expecting news that it'll be shipped very soon now..

where's your gig?