Ethn, "Michelle:That shouldnt be hard for his band....its the same song, 40 times either way. :D " - Dude, I almost spilled hot coffee on my lap laughing at that!

Templar, we moved into a very nice house in the middle of August, less than a mile from our last house. I live in Eastern Pennsylvania. I love it here. The leaves will be changing color soon and everything will have a beautiful fall hue of reds and yellows. Great state to live in :) Even though I complain when it's to hot and to cold, I love the four seasons - o.k., actually I love to of the four seasons. lol!

Quote of the day:

Hi Joe, i'm realy a die hard fan of yours... It's funny that I used to have discussions with a friend i see only 2 or 3 times a year about Steve Vai and you. I said from the beginning that you are the greatest virtuoso and that Steve can't even come close to your playing. He tells me the opposite thang... and you get the second place from him. It's always a nice friendly conversation.

What do you think about Gary Chandler from JADIS (english steve hackkett, they say alike melodic guitarplayer) i wonder if there are more like him.

I wish you the best and i am with another friend and my wife a few which like to hear you sing some songs, i mean Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler makes money with less... And your songs were like youre instrumental tracks... very different. I Believe is one of my favorite sung songs and are put between Scorpions and Marillion ballads for me.

God bles you and i hope to see (or speak/meet) ya some day/music happenings.

If you like my favorite guitarplayers top 11:

1) You, 2) Steve Rothery (Marillion) 3) Chris Oliva - R.I.P. (Savatage) 4) Gary Chandler (Jadis) 5) Alex Lifeson (not of this earth 80's 90's music from Rush) 6) Harry Sacksioni - older albums (dutch player) 7) John Norum (Europe) 8) Adrian Vandenberg (Vandenberg/Whitesnake) 9) John Petrucci (Dream Theater) 10) Tony Clarkin older albums (Magnum) 11) Edward van Halen (Van Halen)

clarky I find it funny that for all the "teenage antipop rebellion" message of punk etc etc, the pistols were a put-together band.

jelly stew What annoys me even more is people getting all excited about sume new piece of crap"wow, look at these new girls, Mis Teeq, thepre so talented" was something I remember reading in the paper. Also, the people who say "yes, some good can come out of rock music, like George Michael". Did you watch the programme on the John Lennon song "imagine"? There were the people saying "wow, this is the best pop song ever, and another guy stating the fact that it is a really simple chord progression and then some lyrics which many would view of hypocritical. He was saying that it is like a placebo, Lennon had lots of credibility as a songwriter, so people would like imagine no matter what. BTW how's life at Surrey Uni?

hey joe, hey guys

my internet isnt working propley and im unable to look at past messages, so i dont know if my previous question was answered. Is there any news on the new live steve vai dvd?

Also, i sent a question asking how to stop fuzz and buzzing noises on two ds-1 pedals. Someone sent me an email(please forgive me i cant remember your name)and said joe and steve stop the fuzz and buzzing by using the 'seeing Eye' modification on there ds-1 pedals. What on earth is the seeing eye modification?

Please help

Hey all, Noticed that someone mentioned having the Rockline show posted here in the archives? Sounds good- didn't get to hear the show (I was asleep by about 12!!). Webmaster? Over to your capable hands!! Did Joe mention T2J CD??? What news on T2J CD??? "Unleash the Fury" skyliner- yes!!! Someone HAS to do this!!! LMAO! Laters!

Kev

Tickets for 2 at a G3 show - $140.00

Bottle of water at the show - $4.00

Seeing a skyliner during Yngwie's set that reads "UNLEASH THE FURY" - priceless!!

The Bone stream was fine, except my ADSL dropped out for a few seconds - this never happens! Bizarre ... I thought they were actually going to play together on the radio .. silly me :/

DVD = YAY. G3 can't make it to AU - DVD will do! ... When's it likely to come out - anyone? TOMORROW ?? PLEASE :P

Clarky - good point on the improvising, I actually totally agree with what you said & I can't wait for the first 10 minutes of improv Steve does

Stu M - Steve's live DVD will be released Oct 21st - you can preorder it at amazon.com

Just a quickie- Any South West London based T2J-ers?? Fancy getting together for a pint/jam/chat? I'm moving to Tooting Bec area as of this Sunday (4th Oct), so if any of you guys or gals fancy a get together, drop me a line! Also, I'm trying to get back in the "scene" ,so need to make some contacts! Especially if you play bass...... (I need a bassline for one of my trax and I'd like to have a "live" bass rather than programmed for this one!!!)

Smithers: According to Amazon.com, Vai's DVD will be released October 21. They are accepting preorders.

Greg I think that Clarky said it for me man, but I do see your point of view as well.

Jelly Stew Yeah I agree with you man. Another point about the 'old' music is how it fares over time. 'Classical' music that we listen to nowdays is most likely (certainly the older stuff) what was popular at the time. I'm not a 'classical' buff but I'm sure there are obscure manuscripts kicking around that have not been played or heard, that would blow musicians away.

Dave Damn 'net nanny' won't let me in to that link :-/

About the Rockline interview-

While I have a deep respect for these gentlemans intelligence, and found many of the remarks profound and enlightening...

The quote of the night in my opinion came from Joe in response to YM's "More is more".

"And these go to eleven" pretty much summed it up, didn't it?

Love you, Joe! ;)

Stu Clone, that's right, the melodic minor sounds good in that context... if you play V5 as a dominant instead of a v5 in a minor progression, which happens in many songs; and maybe even better than an armonic minor...

But there must be something else, right? I've got a book about scales which writes down all the modes and the chords, and it says that all the modes of the melodic minor are very important...

But it could be that these modes were used in jazz, not so often in rock'n'roll or normal radio songs... The chords are quite weird, here they go (in C key) : C-maj7 D-7 Ebmaj7(#5) F7 G7 A-7b5 B-7b5

Anyway, I'll post something if I find anything else in a book. Thanks!

mowlie 2000 - Yeah, I'm sure new people sign up only to take advantage of the backstage passes, but it's only fair. My biggest problem is when passes go unused. I wish there was some way to prevent that, but I still hear about it happening at a few shows on every tour.

Well, I should get going...homework time!