mikesb - I remember when I first heard Malmsteen.. ealy 80's.. I was really beginning the crack Van Halen and Randy Rhodes' styles.. I thought I was making great progress.. well pleased with myself as what I'd achieved up to that point was, I felt, pretty significant.... a buddy comes 'round to my place with Marching Out on vinyl.. I slings it on the deck... and I saw the 'finish line' [that I thought I was rapidly approach] just piss-off into the distance.... well over the horizon... and that feeling was both soul destroying and inspiring...

kinda like someone dropping a bar of gold at you feet saying "it's yours mate.. pick it up"... delighted you bend down to pick it up.. as you do.. you suddenly find a geezer built like a donkey jumps you a does you up hula... bitter-sweet... lol..

so in the face of such considerable shite.. what do you do... just give in... or do you dig in and find a way....

me?... I dig in....

for my own ability.. I have a great deal thanx to dish out to a fair few players... Malmsteen is without any question one of them... and close to the top of the list too...

I am just sooooo jealous that I didn't see that gig...
that's a definate "wish you were here" post card.. lol..
the Marquee.. I used to go there very regularly.. saw loads of bands there.. some just dissappeared... some made it big.. [such as Maiden].. played there myself a few times too... I used to love that place...

they are of course all wrong.. lmao..

The Raft.. I was in the lab last night messing with automation on the AW16 via cubase... I tried the version where each one of the 16 midi channels coresponds to a track on the AW.. I got it to work too... at first I was well pleased but after a while I noticed things jumping around a bit... sudden volume and panning changes that were not programmed in... I did a little more messing... I figured that somehow, my pc spits out spurious shite from time to time... way too unreliable..

there is another method where you use one midi channel but loads of controllers each doing a different thing.. it's much more unfriendly to program the changes into Cubase.. looks like lots of grief... I'll try it either tonight or tomorrow night to see if it works...

and given that it is such a pain in the rear to set up I bet it'll work a treat.. lol

and change the lyrics to "I'm a little shit pot".. it's more fitting in a 21st century kindy garden.. lmao..

Joke Of The Day:

What's green and smells like paint?

GREEN PAINT!!! :-)

Glad to see that Satch fans are into Megadeth. Megadeth has been on of my fave bands of all time. Dave Mustaine has been trying hard to have the band reunited and record a new album. Everyone refused to be a part of it. But why is Marty Friedman on Favoured Nations and not capitol??? And why did Marty start using Ibanez from Jackson? I use Ibanez. So I am happy about that.

Cube-Naw, there are 2 knobs on the back, one for send, and one for return.Ive tried messing with them a little, but I can't get my delay to have the volume Id like.I wanna be able to use it for either slap back echo(like...I dunno, Cathedral or Big Sur Moon) and Depth for my lead tone just by adjusting the delay time and delay volume on the pedal itself.

Jizz Man-Don't ya think it's kinda weak to change your SN, and then end each wisdom-filled post with a claim to your former moniker?

Clarky - Awesome. Any ideas when we can jam then?

Hi all.
Sorry that i couldn't reply sooner to any thing and wasn't here - To tell the truth, Israel had an Earthquake today. 5 Richter scale. Man... am I scared.... Brr.... But i'm alright and no one got killed and no harm to property :)
Also - Israeli scientists and geologists say that they will be able to predict Earthquakes from now on - 30 minutes warning! It's got to do with water pressure at drilling points... I've seen on TV a few years ago the same thing @ a park @ USA where a woman had a gyser which could predict the happenings of Earthquakes at the region. It's true. And I hope our scientists can do that. However - Our build is crap!!!! If we had 7 or 6 we would surly lose 10,000 + ppl and lots of buildings will crash down :(
So I consider it LUCK! Wish me that i won't get these no more!!! Oh well, i have to live with it i guess - no point of fighting with nature I guess...
Anyway - Thx to Delfino who regged @ my board, i still welcome you all to: http://Music4You.Majiks.ca

Btw, i hope you'll be happy to hear that I now can fully return to listen to Joe - a few days ago i was sick and until yesterday i couldn't enjoy Joe or Vai or music @ all cuz it gave me an earache and a headache. Now i'm ok with music, though still got the flu, but i can again enjoy Joe's music.
Oh, and "All About Eve" by Vai - Does it stimulate any special feeling(s) in anyone? also warm regards by Vai, these got Mega soul. I can't help noticing Satch - Friends, Always With Me, Always With You & flying in a blue dream - All those are very special IMHO. Yeah, Time Machine is also :)

Would anyone here be interested in doing a Joe Satriani song tournament with other T2Jers? College basketball's March Madness is coming up, so I thought we could do our own tournament here. My school's basketball teams suck, so I need to do something else for fun this March. ;-)

I'll go through all the trouble of organizing everything, if enough people here would want to participate. I guess it would be similar to Ethn's song votes that we've had here in the past. I can throw everything up on a webpage and just have people email their choices to me. I'll keep track of the votes on my own and post the totals here.

Joe has about 120 songs, which would make about 60 pairs. I guess I'd break it up into five groups of twelve song pairs to start, with each "group" being open for about a week. After the first few groups, the number of surviving songs will be smaller and everything will be easier to deal with.

Would anyone here like to participate in this? I think it would be a lot of fun. Let me know. :-)

Good Day Your Royal Highness

Got Dogged Yesterday Right Here

Get Dumb Yet Righteous HA!

Golden Dookie Yodel Right Here

Whatever could those letters mean?

Clarky, I'm hiding my hoop! lmao!!

Ethn, all that and a bag of chips :) rotf!!!

I forgot how much I enjoy Criptic Writings! The opening drum riff in Trust - shit man yeah!