crushing day About the JS ep. 4 words for you - Surfing with the Alien

bahumit If you find that, you wouldn't be able to email it to me / post it on the net, would you? Please?

This guy at school's really getting on my nerves. He's played tuba for some years (not sure whether he does anymore). He's one of those people who have the absolute worst taste ever - anything shit from the Monkees onwards, and now he claims to be playing guitar. He's trying to build a wah pedal etc (hmm, tthat does sound like a good idea) and says he's building an electric, but is going to start n a nylong string, "because they're the easiest to play" I tell him that they're not, and he goes "well I've been told they are, so there." LOOK YOU STUPID PERSON, I'M PROBABLY THE MOST EXPERIENCED IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL WHEN IT COMES TO NYLON STRINGS SO WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN? Apart from less left hand finger pain, they are so the hardest guitars to play! Why do loads of people seem to think that the guitar is easier to play than other instruments, something they can take up as a not very serious project, like its inferior to other musical instruments? They are so wrong, and its ther reason why there are such a lot of shit guitarists out there (actually, thats probably the reason people have these thoughts). It is SO ANNOYING and I really don't what to have to endure either this guy playing the shite he likes or else talking about, "oh I play guitar so well now" (yeah, only if you think that guitar is only about chords, not the rest of music!) Grrrrrrrr, I am pissed off.

megaparsec?????? Now I'm really glad I dropped this year's course LOL

Here's a little story-with-a-moral email I got this evening... sorry it's kinda long..... and I copied and pasted so all spelling errors aren't mine!

The Donkey in the Well

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all of his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.

At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down into the well, and was astonished at what he saw.
As every shovel of dirt hit his back, the donkey did something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off.

The Moral:

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.

OK that's enough of that crap.....

The donkey later came back, caught the farmer out in the field and kicked the crap out of him. Then he went over to each of the farmer's neighbors and kicked the crap out of them too for helping.

SOTD: Fallen Angel by King Crimson Person of the day: Robert Fripp - that guy is so wierd. (plus he wrote the above)

HI ...

I tried the web site "joesatriani.com" ( a mistake, I know ...) and came up with this:

BillLonero.com - The Sonic Temple - just thought you guys might like to know :-) the music was the shits, too ... :-)

Joe - about your guitar. I have an old ('61) strat that is getting a little 'long on the tooth...." It needs a re-fret (upper register notes tend to die out on bending, etc.) that I was thinking about retiring to a closet and let it appreciate :-) I have looked at what YOU play (the Ibanez), simply because I like your playing (it's awesome...). Just wanted your thoughts on the guitar itself. I realize that this is a very personal choice - do you have other guitars that you regularly play, and where? Meditative, on-stage, relaxing, musing? I really like the strat - I've played it regularly, in all those roles. I think sometimes my fingers have 'grown' into it - this probably shouldn't happen to a real guitar player. I mean, I think it's a piece of equipment (or a transcendental vehicle...) that should provide a place to play what's inside ... I think I'm getting off-track ... Just some thoughts on your guitars , if it's not too persoanl a question. Like I say - I really enjoy your playing and I apologize fo the length of this post ...

Can anyone hear play serrena? im learning it .....it's extremly painful for me because i tend NOT to warm up. yeah yeah tendanitus.

Did joe ever get tendanitus? OK EVERYONE GO TO THIS SITE THIS GUY IS F**kING AWSOME! www.alestrada.com (he appeared in spotlight in 80.....8 i think) check out the video "the chease" AAHAHAH blows most out of the water.

and while your at it check out my site. and re-post it on here because im insanly stupid and can't post it as a link

http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/simon_manzer_short_clips

Stu Clone - Ya, waiting sucks... but it'll come eventually.

Trutina - White Castles by the case! haha, great stuff... I always thought fast food companies had to keep adding more and more patties to their burgers to make Yngwie happy... A Big Mac isn't necessarily Big to him ;)

Hey Joe!

And a happy 200 posts to me....

Oh ya... I just noticed that the new member of T2J, I believe 3 or 4 posts above me, is named KJM.... Reverse of MJK!

Hi Joe.....I just wanna saute you ....and you can back to Chile anytime...For Those About to Rock....I salute you...!!!...

HI EVERYONE!!

Thanks a lot for the congratulations :-)!! More two or three days and you will listening a few parts of THE FIRST INTERVIEW ON A RADIO ABOUT T2J CD!!!

TRUTINA - I talked with my webmaster and he told me that in the end of the month i will recieve the number to comfirm the paypal payment. I did the payment in the begining of the current month!! Any problem about that? I wouldn`t like to be the last guy to do the payment.

judasbiker, personally I'd rather be Deep-fried than saute'd......LMAO !!!!

OCPS470- Wow- I have posted that same comment several times over the years, That intro to circles is awsome.

Lord Of Karma6: Ok thanks for clearing that up. Yeah I like the Music Man better than his Peavy. It looks a lot cooler.

Eruption is one of the most amazing songs by Van Halen. It's not too hard either, I learned it in about 2 days. It's really sad that bands today don't make songs like that (for the excepion of Joe, Steve and Yngwie and a handful of others). All of these new bands have only rythem, not that theres anything wrong with that, but the songs are missing Melody and thats key in any song. I am mostly talking about punk rock, some metal and diffenatly all of the "The" bands out there like The Used and The White Stripes. My Guitar teacher once told me not to put down other bands, not even if they're the worst band ever, so I'll say, I like their ambition. Thats pretty stupid but it took me about 5 minutes to think of that. I mean common wheres are STEVIE RAY VAUGHANS and Eddie Van Halen's? To me Stevie is one of the BEST guitarists who ever walked this earth. He had so much passion whenever he played. And most guitarists don't have that.