well, i'm back. too hard to resist.....

Yes, downloading unreleased music is a crime. But if they loosened up a little, maybe people wont feel as good about themselves for downloading music. If it was legal to download music from monsters such as Kazaa and Napster, then pretty much everyone would be clouding up the servers, which means really really slow downloading, maybe a week for a song. Just my opinion. Its so hard to judge whether downloading music is a crime or not, because every case differs and varies so much. I guess we never will be able to come up with an answer for this. Lars Ulrich said that if it came down to going from house to house and deleting people's Metallica MP3's, they would do it. Needless to say, this will never happen. We probably wont see Lars coming down to our homes to delete Metallica Mp3's just like we wont ever see another killer Metallica song.

Hi Joe! Yeroma is here!
You know, your new site is pretty cool! Greetings to WebMaster! It looks like the real Satch-site! Thanks guys!

I saw a preview for Liv Tyler's new movie earlier tonight. Man, she's hot! ;-) It's too bad Ben Affleck is in the movie too...I can't stand him.

Dizzy - It's hard to tell exactly what Joe is doing in that photo. My first guess is that he's tapping out Midnight. He could also be playing harmonics, though, in which case the photo could possibly be from a number of songs...

I still look back at that and laugh... It was such a cool thing to do; it had to be someone in the band (or someone close to them) who decided to do it. I know Sony / Columbia would never think of something like that on their own. ;-)

Anyway, I'd love to see pictures of your guitar...whenever you're finished with it.

Why do you feel it's hard to judge whether or not downloading music is a crime? It seems simple to me. Unless the band says it's okay, it's ALWAYS a crime.

Yeah, each case is different...but in each case, someone is always obtaining (stealing) music that he / she didn't purchase.

Filesharing has just about killed popular music sales. Most people who buy (and, now, download) that kind of music, though, don't like music for music. They like certain songs because of the hype / image (pop radio, MTV, etc.) surrounding them. To these people, and MP3 is just as good as the real thing. It doesn't matter that MP3s are low-quality versions of songs, because, to these people, their love for the song was never about the song or the music. Does that make sense?

We had a great discussion about filesharing here on T2J late last year. Most of us here use MP3s as a way to sample new bands on our own, or to introduce new bands to friends... We buy albums whenever we find something we like, so the music industry doesn't suffer from our actions.

It's too bad that the majority of people don't do what we do...

Good day folk~

I am from South Africa and am leaving my country for the first time ever to see Joe live at the G3 in Europe. I am going to be based just outside London and was wondering if anyone could tell me where would be the best place to see the concert? I obviously dont know any of the venues and was hoping that someone might offer some advice.

Ps. Thanks Joe for endless inspiration!

Hey Joe...where u wanna go with that gun in ur hand... er...i mean guitar.....ha..ha..ha... man i really like what u did on the last album its weird sounding, that makes me amaze, ur guitar sound its truly different, its like its gonna explode.i cant wait for the next album...

Click here and click on the respective links to see the results of the first round of the JS Song Tournament. I'll post the first section of round two either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.

Click here and send me an email if you would like to be added to my collection of Music That Doesn't Suck. I've been meaning to throw this together for a while now... I want it to turn into a page of links to everyone's music...the days of having to remember multiple IUMA, SoundClick, and / or other web addresses will soon be over! :-)

EDIT - 1929! Happy (?) Great Depression!

962 - Hey there! yer he is in Parkstone, he is quite old but seems dedicated to actually teaching, he has taught a number of successful guitarists including someone from a band that actually hit the big time, can't remember their name though! And also Jon from Guitar Mania! So he must be good!

Guitarnut777 - I must agree with you on your comments, if it wasn't for kazaa I wouldn't know Joe, now I have bought Cd's, DVD's and last but not least concert tickets (did i mention I was going to G3?!?! Woohoo! lol) so it is a very usefuly tool if used fairly! I don't like to think that Joe is getting ripped off so don't agree fully with Kazaa but i bet it has gained him a fair few die hard fans such as you and myself!

Can today get any better??

Not only have my G3 tickets for Birmingham arrived, but I've just had my local guitar shop on the phone to confirm my order for a new Ibanez JS1200 CA!! Should be with me early May and will be one of the first in the country!! Hoorah!!

Clarky: Hi I just read one of your old posts about music to screw too very funny!!

ANYONE: I've had Flying in a blue dream tab book on order form Amazon.co.uk since November, anyone no where else to get it?

hard rock - 34
heavy metal - 28
prog rock - 21
instrumental - 36

wow... I'm pretty popular at the moments.... like two days in a row.. this is really nice... maybe I should start driving to work in a limo 'cos I'm in danger of getting famous... lmao..

on the theory stuff... go to Matt Kings website.. I stuck all the theory posse stuff in there.. suspension and modualtion are described in detail in there.. if the concepts blow you away a little you may want go from the start.. all the theory posse things are numbered so that you can go through it in sequence litterally from "what is a scale?" up to some reasonably advanced ideas.. if you don't get your head around that stuff.. then it's unlikely that you'll get your head around German 6th chords...

eta - Well, there's less strings for a start! lol... I don't really know what to say about how it compares, but it does mean that I had high finger dexterity before I started on guitar. You have to press harderon violin because there are no frets and the 'action' is really quite high, especially from third position and higher. So I had strong fingers that were kind of used to working independently, they just weren't used to wide stretches and two extra strings...

tastey - it's such a shame you can't check out my tunes... my pile of shit pc can't burn CD's... if it could I'd download it all, burn it as an audio cd and stick it in the post...

great shame...

I was about to go into the lab last night.. I got a call.. a birthday piss-up in town.. wife says "don't be a boring bastard.. go out and get monged with your mates.."

shit.. I don't have to be told twice.. and shit.. did I get wankered or what..

and this morning I mostly feel like crap.. lmao..

as for reading the dots... lol.. I was sight reading some Bach the other day... fuck me I am more than a bit rusty.. I was totally crap... yes it started to improve as time went on.. but jeez.. it was really poor.. again it's a - use it or lose it - thing.. I've not had to sight read 'in anger' for many many years..

sitting on a park bench.. hearing a symphony in the style of Hatebreed, scoring it and slinging it into the computer the next day is one thing... sitting there with a score and playing what you see is quite another... and I am badly out of practice.. and I have no intention in putting it right unless I absolutely need to.. too much valuable time involved...

Clarky - Well, it seems more like a case of learning things in a different way than re-learning things. I learned to read through my violin studies, so I kind of learned it the 'classical way'. It seems like there's a lot of things in contemporary reading, such as jazz charts, that are either different or even just totally ignored. It can get confusing at times. An exmaple is repeat makrings: I keep getting told to put these massive 'tail' things on them so you can see them easier, but until I came here I'd never ever seen that done before (except in piano/score). Also, if I intended the very first four bars of music to be repeated I'd just put a repeat sign at the end of the fourth bar - Pete Callard told me I should put another one at the beginning, right after the time signature, kind of like brackets. I guess I'll have to do all this stuff in order to et the highest marks possible, but it gets a little annoying. But in all my time here, I have never once seen any dynamic markings on any set of dots. You'd lose a lot of marks for that in a classical context. Tut tut... lol

962 - original maybe, i might get marks for that, and/or the title, but it is my most hated composition to date. I really hate not having the control about how things turn out. it's fine when you're collaborating, cause you can say if there's something you really think would work better a different way. But when it's all your material that has been mathematically screwed up- it is more than a touch frustrating for me.

zenfish - i would *always* tell people to get "in the court..." first... i think it's thoroughly accessible to most backgrounds, and from there you can get onto other ones, like red. when i play people eyes wide open, they just get scared...

clarky - who could forget aug. and neapoliton 6ths? they rock hard...

I - bVI (fr 6) - bII (first inversion) - V

nice little progression i wrote a while ago.

thanks for all that congrats at my chart performance guys...

I will go to the lab and do some mixing..

Clarky - Yeah, I guess. I'm kind of against dynamic markings anyway and I always have been; the dynamics should change automatically if the player is expressing themselves properly, rather than every single note being at the same level. They do use Coda, DS/DC al fine, etc. etc.

Jelly - Yeah, good point. It's articulation that affects the dynamic of a player anyway...

JS_JS the point was that all the people who argue in the 'net are wasting time and energy!

Michelle did you see the "Effects of Drinking"?=-)