Why does everyone keep judging Robert Fripp before they've even heard him? I guess cuz it's someone that a lot of people haven't heard of, they just asume he's gonna be sh*t. Well....give him a break.....I swear he is gonna be f*ck*n awesome to watch, and Joe and Steve will be feeling privileged to be playing with him.

Which is good, cuz if we had it totally our own way, we would never see/hear anybody new. Chances are we'd just get petrucci or malmsteen again and again and again and againa and......

But there's no harm in saying things like Nuno Bettencourt For G3! or Eric Johnson For G3 again!

who stole our weather?!?!?!?!

Austin: I think I have talked Miranda into voting on this round if that's cool. She doesn't know all the songs so I'll be letting her listen to all of them so she can make a fair decision. I won't coach her too bad lol.

Zenfish: How could we not? There are so many great artists I think we'd have to like at least some of the same ones lol. I don't mean to pry, but tell us a little about yourself. You never really say much about you, as far as what you like to do, or what kind of work you do and the like.

Mr Nick: It was either the commies or the dragons. I say we blow them both up just incase lol

Hello Clarky:

In my early years of playing (1981-86 or so) I hooked up with this guy who smoked on everything he played. He taught me a lot of songs and exercises and such. We both started using rubber band exercises and the hand gripers to increase hand strength. We went at it like training our hands for body building. I did not concentrate on the right hand as I did the left. We use to test the strength in our hands with a device that recorded how many pounds of pressure you could squeeze, I have know ideal what the pressure my left hand could squeeze now, but at one time it was over a 150 pounds of sustained pressure. I also practiced (exercises) at that time on an old acoustic with high string action. This guitar required a lot of pressure to sound the notes. I have small hands so I concentrated a lot on exercises that stretched. I can do 5 frets at the nut fairly comfortably. All these exercises and conditioning over the years has caused my left hand to be very noticeably larger than my right hand. My fingers are a half knuckle longer on my left hand. My left hand is longer and more massive than the right. When I show this to people they ask if I was born that way, it’s kind of funny at times. Anyway, the guitars I play now have lower and better actions, that are a lot easier to play. I think the strength in my left hand causes the over pressures (normally). I believe I am doing this without thinking about it. I am paying more attention to it as of late. I am fairly comfortable with my speed. It hasn’t stopped me from playing tunes I want to learn. Hey I will let you know how a lighter touch does for me. Thanks for your interest here, it is greatly appreciated………Clint

Yog: I can't speak for Joe, but going to Israel is one of my dreams. Hopefully I will be able to come there in a couple of years. Peace to you all...........................Clint

Hey Joe! I dont know if you're ever gonna read this...but I'm trying anyways...Last year in May you were supposed tp tpur Asia and a part of the thour consisted of a performance in India. We were all anxiously waiting for you.

But then, due to SARS, the tour was cancelled. After that, there has been no indication of you coming this side again. We guys in India are totally starved of good music because hardly any artists visit this part of the world. We expected a lot out of your show, but unfortunately it wasn't to be.

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WHYETH DID NO BODY TELL ME?! I walked upto the bank at 8:30 in the morning only to find that my card wasn't working, and that they had robbed about £10 off me...bastards...

Hey Joe! The new record is AMAZING! I've been listening to your music since I was 6 and until now I was never disappointed by your albums. I'm also a guitarist (not that good though). Anyway, I just wanted to make you my compliments for the record!

OCPS470, Hey how are you:

We never meant for the exercises to give us more pressure on the fret board. We simply wanted to have a stronger hand because our bends and vibratos sucked, and to increase hand strength for endurance. Which I believed helped us, because my bends improved very soon after. My comment to Clarky, the exercise I e-mailed him is a pretty long exercise, and that I could get about ½ way through or so before I started to cramp up. He mentioned hand pressure, and I commented that I tend to use more pressure than necessary to play. And this is I believe from the strength training over the years on the left hand, and not really through just pushing to hard. I do not have any trouble with the pressure sounding out of tune, or any other noises from the techniques you mentioned. I have been paying more attention to the pressure I am putting on the neck, but I can’t tell if it’s making a difference yet, but it is something I really hadn’t thought of until Clarky mentioned it. Time will tell. Hey I will e-mail you the exercise so you can see what I am talking about, just keep in mind that it is just an exercise in key, and not necessarily a study of the scale patterns themselves. Peace…………………Clint

Hehehe...I should beg and plead more often. It always makes people vote. ;-)

trutina - Hey, that's cool... Miranda is more than welcome to vote, as long as I don't see any funny stuff on your behalf (such as Midnight coming back from the dead to destroy Satch Boogie). LOL...

The round should be open through Mondayish (?).