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Such hostility.

hii...... joe i'm Fauzan come from Indonesia.......... i'm happy to play your song......... & i'm a basist......... would u like give me your some tab from your songs?...........

god bles u....

from yours fans

Flagg Have you seen the mvoie UHF?

Mish You changed your name? Hmmm, weird name, what's up?

Jared Presley for G3

Frenchy Du Rock - Your Penguin link doesn't work...can you try to post it again?

Can you explain to me why you think Terminator 3 shows how desperate California is for money? I think I know where you're going, but it doesn't make sense.

You don't have WinZip? Download it!

You should buy ZZ Top's greatest hits album that came out a few years ago...great stuff!

I can get through a few of the easier Stu Hamm songs, but I don't have a way to record them. Oh well.

When Joe's music is played as background music on the radio, it's no different from a radio station playing it as a "song". The station pays royalties to Sony.

If you want to join in and share your opinions on a regular basis, you're more than welcome to. I'll be the first person here to ask you about Joe's music. If you're only going to come on here once a month to criticize people, though, do us all a favor and just stay away.

I don't agree with Clarky's views on religion, but I'm glad that he can speak his mind here. I agree with Greg M, and I'm glad that he can speak his mind here too. No one here is shoving beliefs down anyone else's throat.

And now for a few random things...

- How did I discover Satch? I bought the original G3 album because I liked Eric Johnson.

- Even though I'm very disappointed with the G3 2003 artwork, I'm still glad that the CD and DVD are going to be released only about three months after the tour ended. I just thought I'd point that out.

- I went to Wal-Mart today...I think it was the first time I've been there since I stopped working there back in August. There was this one guy who worked on the truck crew back then who I absolutely could not stand to be around. I never heard him say anything nice to anyone. He would always have something negative to say about me and my work.

Today I saw him walk into the store when I was in the checkout line. He was pushing carts...hehe. That really made me smile...this guy now has one of the lowest jobs in the store.

woohoo!! knighthood... it's about time! lol... I guess that would make you King, eh Graham?

I'm just curious. I've noticed that Joe and others of you fans really like listening to the Deftones. I have listened to their music and I haven't really found much that I like. Could someone explain what's so great about them? Obviously, there is something there which I'm not hearing.

okie dokie...I'm satisfied with the new pickups...have adjusted the heights and everything seems fine...set em about 1/4 inch from the string to the pole...seems the best tone quality there..

I discovered Joe thru a friend...lady made me a cassette tape of some of Joe's music and I was blown away...at that time tho , I don't think he had but 3 cd's on the market...

Stu Clone

JS_JS hey im guessing you were saying my name was like yours. cool...

n e ways, Joe posted. Sweet!

Another interview snippet while we await the Webmasters decision!!! Interview with Joe Satriani March 25, 1998.

Joe Satriani, without a doubt the premier instrumental rock guitarist of the past decade in terms of popularity and critical success is still surprised by that success and the success of instrumental rock by artists such as himself and fellow G3 mate Steve Vai in general. “I still think it’s pretty freaky that Steve and I wound up achieving what we set out to achieve when we were just young kids and that we’ve been signed to the same label for the same ten years and now we’re signed to the same new label. And the fact that and we even get to go out on tour together, you know it’s something we would never have dreamed of.” This frank humbleness and sincere gratitude for his well deserved success appear to embody the personality of the man, who I had the great fortune of meeting prior to the Toronto performance of the warm-up tour to the next generation of the G3 experience (starting mid May in Europe with Michael Schenker and Uli Jon Roth and with a North American version to follow).

Crystal Planet has a rawer, more aggressive edge to it reminding many listeners of Surfing With The Alien, was this a concious effort?

“There were a couple of things that lead me in that direction. One was the idea of calling the record Crystal Planet was using it like a metaphor to allow me to bring everything in that I’ve ever done to the record whereas the red record, Joe Satriani was more like an exclusive record. I purposely avoided using a lot of techniques and compositional and recording styles to create a mood very much like the Extremist where we had this sort of classic hard rock vision and so we downplayed certain aspects of the sound, we made the guitars thin and more bright and the drums really big and this all had a very live in the studio feel. With Surfing, that was a whole different vibe as well. This time I wanted the record to be able to accept anything from any of these records plus to accept some new things I wanted to try out, songs like ‘Raspberry Jam’, ‘Crystal Planet’, the song ‘ Time’ a lot of songs on the record that have different things that I’ve never done before. And I purposely tried to avoid including any kind of composition that was about anything really depressing, like ‘Down, Down, Down’ or ‘Hill of the Skulls’ on Surfing. I just thought I’ve done that, lets move on and create an album with a different feeling.”

Has the amount of on stage jamming and improvisation you’ve done in the last few years with people like Jon Lord of Deep Purple and the various G3 ensembles affected your songwriting and approach to this record?

“We wanted to try and keep things as live as possible. On the G3 tour we had worked with the Canadian producer Mike Fraser and he captured us in our first month of being a trio, myself, Stu Hamm on bass and Jeff Campitelli on drums. And I wanted to get an album to reflect what was happening within the band and not just me, as well as focusing on the compositions I felt I wanted to write. So the effect of the tour and playing with these musicians every night, they kind of challenge you and that brings your excitement and interest level up. We recorded and worked on the album in a schedule where we on tour, then we wrote the record, then we were on tour, then we recorded the record, went back on tour, mixed the record, went on tour and mastered and put the finishing touches on the record, so a lot of that had a lot of effect and influence on how we reacted to our own performances, the environment of being in the studio and we tried to keep it live and that contributed to the energy level on the record. We’re currently hitting the stage with it and playing about 90% of the new album.”

stu clone Sir Mick? You mean that mick87 is actually Mick Jagger? Wow, we have not one but two rock legends on the board! rofl.

one last christian thing Most wars are not caused by religion. There is just about always an ulterior motive. I've never met a lutherian who accepted that Hitler was a good lutherian, for example. Its like when Jesus was around and the Pharisees tried to kill him because "he was breaking their religion". He wasn't because he was their religion, but they didn't like him because they were greedy and wanted to keep their jobs.