Michelle, sorry to hear about your scanner. I am ( sorry !!) to say that ours is now up & running. I downloaded a newer version of it from the Agfa site before installing XP. It would not work at first, but now it does. I think it had something to do with pulling out the desk , & disturbing the plugs/wires/connections !! My son is well pleased as he uses it all th time. Need to look around XP now, when I find the time !!

SOTD

TASTEY: No, I missed it!! I love all the Hair bands, well alot of them. Yeah, all about having a good time, playin shredding guitar, lookin' cool lol...

mick87 - roland make guitar synth pickups that work as midi controllers - and my favourite dt album... well it's not really fair for me to say since i don't actually own any pre FII albums (i own them all since)- but virtually all rudess onwards stuff, i like more than virtually all pre rudess stuff- with obvious exceptions like a change or seasons and a mind by itself... (that's what it's called right?). I think my faves probably 6doit simply cause it's got a lots of different sounding songs, and some of my favourite (2,5,6,7,8 from 6doit + disappear).

neil - i love heavy music too... but it's gotta be heavy in comparison to something else... and since silent man was about the only song that wasn't heavy... it was a touch monotonous to me. but heavy songs do rock...cool meeting your band and your brother too, btw.

do the stu- well i appreciate the effort... i guess since an inch is longer than a centimetre, a mile is longer than a kilometre, a tonne is heavier than a kilogram and an imperial tonne is heavier than a metric ton, you must still be on the imperial system... we have decimal time over here, you see ;)

And I think i've heard a rumour that "aaaah... fresh page" might be a song on the new album...

kevt03- yeah i agree with what you've said there... i'm not sure about the frank zappa thing there- there are some lines that are clearly influnced by zappa, but they're nearly all unisons with jordan, and i reckon he's more likely to come up with that kinda thing... but the rhythm playing is indeed awesome... and petrucci's chords are often quite stretchy...

i think clarky's put it very well how i feel about his playing...

I've had a near-death-experience today. Twice, actually. I've heard Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb' in pop/techno-version on the radio two days in a row now. Sounded like Bee-Gees, complete with falsetto singing and blip-blop sounds. Absolutely horrible. I mean, you have to draw the line somewhere!

I'm starting a list right now (my first ever).

WHAT IS THE WORST PERFORMED COVER EVER?
My candidates are:
1. The one above mentioned.
2. 'Purple Haze' in some weird, disgusting reggae version I heard a while ago.

So...what other songs will be on the new album?

-"...more on this later!"
-"Ahhh...fresh page!"

Will "I just got back from snowboarding." finally make its much-anticipated appearance? ;-)

And now for something completely different, the worst cover I've heard recently is The Ataris' cover of Don Henley's Boys Of Summer. Bleh!

s1220 - I don't know if the new G3 DVD is region-specific.

Clarky: That would be great if you could get the AW working with Cubase, and it may be as simple as a cable hooked into the wrong line or input/output, lol, and having Yammie for support only makes things easier, hopefully it's something simple.... btw, I think your right on my nephew, I need to hook up with him and watch how he goes about it.... He's got a crude studio that he rent's out and I need to watch him recording and post production lol, of course with some Orion to boot....
Interesting story there on the Hanging Salad, lol, I'm glad you hung on to the salad, hehe.... The salad of biblical proportions, OMG look out, lmao, now your talkin'!!!! I would like to see this made into a movie, lol!!....
On JP.... I feel similar to the way you do on his playing.... There are moments of brilliance in there, but his solo's start off right and seem to go in another direction from where I was going, lol.... He'll go into a gut wrenching, heart tugging solo and loose you half way through wondering why the hell did he do that!!.... Mixed feelings....

SupaaDave: Good luck on the move bro for you and Lela.... Hope it goes smoothly....

amddata: Thank's for that link bro!! :-)

Fretslayer: Happy 200!!....

Do The Stu: lol man, those ....more on this later.... drives me banoonies when he writes that cause he never follows up!! ;-)

Hello Friends!!!!!!

OVATION1 - Yesterday i taked a few photos in SUPERTUBOS (PENICHE). Good waves but not vey high. 20 guys on the water under a wild wind, my hands were trembled when i taked the photos. Now try to think what that guys were feeling on the water, wow :-))) !!! About the drinks, we are linving in a Global World, i think that we drink the same things :-). I love Mineral water, the best drink :-)). But Portugal has great wines ;-). A good wine with a good fish, what a great dinner eheheh!!! About Girls :-))), the young women in Portugal are very pretty day by day, but the old women, i don`t think so :-)))))))) ehehehe. About my Region i think that i have found a good website: http://www.rt-oeste.pt ( It has the English option). And how is going the life in Okinawa ;-)? Regards dear friend and have a nice day.

MICK87 - Great Guitar and it is not very expensive, very well my friend :-)!! Wow, holidays :-))!!! I need that as well ;-)). Happy 500!!!

MISCHIEVOUS - I didn`t see anything on attachment, try again. Thanks alot for the song of the day :-)), you are very kind!!!

Stu Clone: ROTFLMAO man, lol, that would be classic if he posted about all his half post's, hehe ;-)

alexandrecaetano: hehe, I can only imagine what those guy's felt like on the water, lol!! :-0.... Mineral water is great as well as wine :-) and I hear what your saying about the young vs. the old women, hehe, same here my friend, haha!! Thank's for that link of Portugal, I will check it out!!.... The last few day's here have been cooooold *-).... Have a great week!! :-)

G3 for PORTUGAL and SLOVENIA!!

....And I would like to thank amddata again for posting the link of JOE at NAMM!!.... Everyone check it out!!.... Joe cruises into The Crush Of Love, talk's a little, then say's: "I'm switching through this cd and skipping, like, I dont want to play this one" and then he cruises into Satch Boogie.... hehe, then he goes into Midnight, yes, I said Midnight, and does a little jam at the end....

Dammit have to type it all again. Whatever I had before I forget. Doesn't matter anyway.

Jelly Man / Austin: my best score for intermediate level minesweeper is 24 seconds. Anything above a minute is a crap game for me. Expert level I can't recall my best time, but at one stage it was 130 something seconds. I'll check it out later. It's not as easy because sometimes you have to guess more than once, and you can't guess correctly every time. Intermediate and easy levels are merely a race against the clock. You can usually solve them without having to take a risk. I usually die because I click the box next to the one I meant to click on. BANG!

I still have a month of holiday left I think. Either that or only 4 weeks.

R6R: they're brilliant. I remember hearing the last one before. Probably heard them all before, but that one sticks out in my mind.

Oh. I'm meeting some guys for a band practice for a thing next week I found out about yesterday. Supposed to be there at 1, so I've got 25 minutes to walk home, drive into town to get my stuff and back out to where we're meeting. Haven't read the last 3 pages yet.