Boo who, Joe is playing tonight in Vegas and I cant see him! That's 3 concerts that I had to miss out on! But the next one will be an awesome experience.

Come on everybody, push for Secret Prayer!!!

Clarky - Thanks for that. I think I know why melodic minor is different descending. In terms of the "rules of harmony" as regards counterpoint (especially with choral music), seveths are only allowed to move by a semtione at a time, making them major when ascending and minor when descending. In a perfect cadence, the third of the V is the seventh degree of the scale and the sventh of the V is the fourth degree of the scale. To form the I chord the fourth had to fall to the third forcing the seventh to rise to the tonic. People always broke thes rules though... I believe his was in fact where the term "perfect cadence" (V - I) came from - old gregorian music used to only consist of octaves, fourths, and fifths because the church saw thirds as conveying too much emotion within the harmony, thus detracting from the words of the hymn. There was no such thing as "secular" in those day. I think that's why everybody hated Monteverdi...

BIGTOE - NO I didn't hear anything? What part of the show? My buddy from guitar center actually left after Vai [his wife had to work early] so he gave us his tickets, which were row 8 seat 3! So we were down the front for half the show. Also we never got there till like 6.50pm!! My wife takes forever to get ready, man I was PISSED. Never got backstage passes either :( my friend gave them to someone else this year, damnit!

But the show was brilliant!!! You didn't like Vai? He is my all time fave.

Fusion - It only downloaded a small part of the tune... hehe, sounds like your having a personality change....SANTANA!!! A little Oye Coma Va?

I'm pushing for "Back To Shalla Bal" for G3, even though I'm sure it won't make a difference. The song just plain RULES!

aliensynergy - I'm still looking forward to the show...don't take my comment the wrong way. It's just that from what I've read so far, Joe's set is about 85% what he played at the last G3 and the jam is 2/3 what was played at the last G3. It's still good, but it would be awesome if it was different...that's all.

Ovation, shame on you! ha! That Xylophone was funny as hell man. I sent it to a friend. lol! The Napster stuff was good too - oh wait...Napster bad! lol!

hey joe, hey guys

MAT WISE-good call man! Eddie van halen would be excellent for G3. oh well, maybe next year.

im kinda suprised that joe is using peavey xxx amps instead of his marshalls. has he got any new js guitars? Why dont we ever see him using his graphic art guitars anymore, ones like electric rainbow, blue donnie and rainforest?

URGENT STUFF

I GOT A PIECE OF COURSE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR MY MUSIC GCSE, ITS GOTTA BE IN ON MONDAY AND I NEED SATRIANI BACKING TRACKS. ONES LIKE THE FORGOTTEN PART 2, THE MIGHTY TURTLE HEAD, A TRAIN OF ANGELS AND LUMINOUS FLESH GIANTS. WHERE CAN I FIND THEM. TOTO/STEVE LUKATER/ERIC JOHNSON BACKING TRACKS WOULD DO................PLEASE HELP.

MIKE................SON OF SMITHERS

Ovation1 - Yeah man, I hear that. Almost all of the leads are improvised in the studio. Except Snubbelstovel. That's 100% composed.

Pete Mulas - I listened to Game Over. I had it on for quite some time, just never opened it. It is amazing how fluid your leads have become. You sound like a bloody professional. Only different is, you don't get payed. Or do you now?

I absolutely love Rough Rhythm solos. Most of the solos in Rough Rhytthm solos are keepers. Game Over really bassy?

6 days left till the portland show! i cant wait! so how is everyone doing today? good i hope, well talk to you all later!

smithers - People have stolen many of Joe's cooler guitars (Rainforest, etc.) over the years.

TRUTINA, OVATION1, and MICK87 - thanks a lot my friends. I´m much better, more 2 days and my hand is ok :-). Don`t worry, I don`t force my hand, thanks.

Next week, It`s possible to buy the Portuguese Bodyboarding Magazine here in Portugal. And you are asking now: " And what`s the problem??" No problem, The magazine has the interview that i gave last month about me and T2J cd :-)). I received to layer from the magazine yesterday and it is fabulous. More one or two days and you can hear a new tune (MOVIE GROOVIE) from my EP. The sound is great, keep in touch :-). Regards my friends!!