Hi there! I bought the 2-cd G3 Live - Rockin' In The Free World, i've put it in the cd player and clicked on the link to see behind the scenes footage... but the link doesn't exist. If anyone can explain this....

littlewing1908 - Hey there Im from near you as well!! Defiantely be attending the Bournemouth gig! I was willing to travel for as many miles as it would take to see Satch but he has made it so easy for me!

962 - I hope you will be attending that gig!! we will have to catch up then! I know its a long way away but its pretty exciting!

Take it easy people!

Yoda - Funk off - cool as fuck.. yeah it's a little loose but it's loose in a nice way.. IMHO when funk is too tight it can sound frigid. kinda like MezzoForte and those types.. essentially lift music.. and there's funk like Pick Up The Pieces by The Avaerage White Band.. which is loose but tight enough.. and grooves like stink.. so the guys that dissed your timing on this one... screw 'em.. they missed the vibe completely.. this tells me that they miss all the music 'cos they'll never be looking in the right place... nice one..

Into the Fire - lol... billiy fat bollox on rhythm guitar... lol.. seriously though.. nice big fat tone.. good tight riffing.. nice overall idea.. interesting key changes towards the end.. plenty of changes too so there's nice variety.. some very nice ideas within the solos to.. I see you started picking a little more these days... which is a good thing.. you lead tone is a touch 'dry' for my taste.. a lil' reverb [even a short one] would've been sweet.. but then.. it's not as if the lead guitar don't sit nice in the track... I like this track a lot.. you're gonna do good messing with us lot I can tell...

Missing You - nice vibe... one or two of the licks at the start don't sound like you really got hold of them.. nice ideas though.. at the end of the day.. technique gets better.. but if you are devoid of ideas you're screwed.. and you have a pile of ideas... great vibe change.. very Floydish... ow did you hold back like that.. shit I'd be gone by now... lol.. in the zone...ah.. there's the zone.. nice.. the solo grows well... I think one of the things helping o screw some of your licks [given your playing style] is a lack of 'sensitivity' effects wise.. like how distortion makes the neck feel 'sensitivy'... ever tried adding a compressor before the distortion pedal so you get a nice fat smooth signal into the dirt-box.. aah.. nice switch bringing the vibe down... now this would be a nice mooment to play more 'compositionally' and less like you're having a 'minor-pent-noodle'... the closing Vai-ish progression is nice... you could have reduced the previous section and grown this part out alittle more... again.. your lead tone.. for a track like this.. big fat reverb and deley is almost mandatory.. it fills the space when you're not playing.. in fact, you can 'play' the reverb and delay if you're smart with your licks.. I'll show you how to do this at my place..

when you come to mine bring these backing tracks with you if you want / can on CD.. we can mess with some ideas...

Death cube, Delfino Pie, Sammy Andrews and Museman thanks a lot for your kind words, glad you enjoyed the tracks..

Museman you got it spot on, after listening back to AWMAWY i noticed the tapping section sped up and finished an eight note early.. im gunna work on that and post up a new cover soon..

by tomorrow ill have a cover of surfing with the alien here .. although i did cheat a bit.. i cant play the fast part half way through the song cleanly enough, so i tapped it instead of picking, i dont think the difference is that bad!

Also if anyone has a backing track for Starry night, ceremony, or Love thing could they email me (Guitarcake@yahoo.co.uk) so i cant do some more recordings..

Cheers

Darren

Yoda - oops forgot to mention -due to my ramblings - yup.. Sat 6th.. I have a few interesting experiments lined up for us too.. for me this is research for the material for the 2nd album.. if you're up to it - which I strongly suspect you are - I intend to write for two guitars slightly differently.. but based around our abilities.. along the lines of principle and 1st violin and the way that they interact in an orchestral sense... which - should we crack it live - piss off plenty a shredder...

interesting times are a foot..

completed the mix to the Raft.. played it in the car... guess what... it sounds like shit.. lol.. the EQ is all up the shit [but the balance between the instruments is nice].. for a 1st pass though it's pretty good..

my mobe just rang... there was no one on the other end..

it was obviously for me

oh, I allready know, you don't need to tell me.

Anyone here played Sanitarium?

Sorry for double post.

*Suprised Face* Sorry Matt *embarrassed* I forgot you...anyway in my FRUIT SUIT plan, I think you were a peach or an orange. :)

I too want to know what time the msn web cast thing is in European time cos hopefully I can get in there lol.

Right I had 5 hours of exams today with a 15 minute break between the 1st and 2nd exam , and then a 30 minute break between the 2nd and 3rd...my hand is so tired from writing all day lol.

But my mom gave me news that some guy that knows one of my previous web design clients, wants a website. So that helps towards my bright pink or transparent aqua Ibanez S-Series....

for time zones ~

Chet god, Have you seen Brett Garsed live? That is as close to Holdsworth as most of us will ever get.

lol I forgot to mention when I finished the exam I was in about 15 minutes from the end (Im a fast writer), I started sketching Satch & Co on the back page of my text book...obviously dressed in FRUIT SUITS . :)

My website is nearing completion. I'm putting some of my own Satriani inspired artwork on there for people to use as desktop backgrounds if they so wish. :) Hopefully I get a good response from the t2jer's and by Joe himself.

Joeman9, that mustang sounds outrageously cool. Damn I envy you! hehehe.

also, on the typing-coordination thing, I have the same problem. When ever I write the word 'self' the l goes down before the e! I just can't coordinate myslef! hehe

I have no Toto on cd, just 2 DVD's - I have a few CD's with Luke' on, and I saw the Toto anniversary DVD, so I took a gamble and bought it. What a gamble, It's really amazing!

After that, modes of the major scale is the next important thing. I'm still working on it now.....it takes me ages to absorb modes and their correllation!

962 dang dude! you always have huge posts! by the way, does does 962 stand for or what is it a number of if anything? just wondering.

Clarky:I felt you were keeping the cogs turniing while Trutina was in bad shape,thats what i meant,but after listening t your work the same goes,great stuff Clarky,from the part i heard,i,ll be buying yours & the T2J album when it gets released,Y know when y record music on yer ownio its a long haul,thats i guess what i meant by well done,may all your efforts shine.Go on yerself

Trutina:If its any consolation,i was floored for nearly 3 years from a virus,spent 2 of them sleeping mostly & couldnt walk more than 100 yards without passing out,the cure for me was forcing myself into hard labour for 6 months"NOT RECOMMENDED"for you i know,the side effects from the prescription the doctor ordered were for 1 growing tits amoungst others,lol,i opted for the later,i had nearly finished Paganini,s Moto perpertuo when it struck,maybe Pag Bag felt i was doing a bad job,lol,but i continued t write music in bed via an old Korg X3 that i had,hope that bit of news gives y a laugh,y sure as hell need a bit,i,m sure,take care bro n get well soon

r6rocker:Y have t meet my friend Mike after yer last post,we used t call him The Bionic Man,has more pins in him than a voodoo doll,lol.I could tell y a bit about his history,but i think its better coming from the horses mouth,He,s a cool cat has a son & still races pro,has built bikes from the age of godknows,is bike mechanic extraorinar,knows his shit bout cars 2 but bikes come 1st,y never know,maybe through this site y could meet up,I,ve a feeling about this!!

Ovation:Yip dude,its strange where music brings y sometimes,as my good friend Martin Furey once said "be careful what y wish for" little did i know i would feel so ignorant, until i was there,i knew nothing of Uzbekistan,man what amazing people,didnt like the 4 hours a day sleep bit much t make the gigs happen,but there y go,thats music for y,had my first earthquake during rehearsals 2,we used t have a train running over the rehearsal rooms back home & was thinking it was that,but after a while realized it was getting more violent & suddenly clocked onto the fact i wasnt in Scotland,lol.The Japanese have this sussed by building the houses inside with bamboo,am i right?It gives the structure more elasticity,where as Uzbek houses,hmmm,like others just get flattened,anyway got t shoot,i,m knackered,see y Sat or Sun dude