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Hey Joe and everyone at Satch-land just wanted to let you guys know that Iam performing at the Tribeca Film Festival of Sat May 8th with my schools Guitar Club we are going to Play Message in A bottle with me on vocals (no guitar) Fire by Jimi Hendrix with me On Vocals and guitar. and Layla By Eric Clapton with me on guitar with no vocals. if this is tapped on TV i will be sure to give you guys a shout out (only if you want ) :)

Peace Love and Good Hapiness Stuff.

novjul: No feathers ruffled here. Yeah, Harlan does have a rep, doesn't he? ;-) You should see him speak if you ever get a chance, it's well worth it. Same goes for Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradubury as well.

Not much posting tonight..

*Scratches Head.

Well I have nothing to say.. i think i will just take up post space.

Stace - life chaging event???? it's not too personal a question

it's something I've not thought about really..

I guess that's because I did not have a 'near death experience'
folks that have serious accidents etc are aware at the time of the seriousness of the situation.. I never was aware.. ignorance is bliss.. lol..
three days after the opperation I was talking to a nurse when she was doing her routine stuff on me [blood pressure, blood oxygen count, change my drips etc] and we got chatting...
I was curious and said something like "the guy to my left has a collapsed arterty in his neck.. he's deep in the shit.. the guy to my right has a serious problem with the veins in his legs and is also deep in the shit.. in fact everyone in this ward is deep in the shit.. like with stuff that can kill them.." she said "yes, this ward is for people needing and recovering from major surgery.. and everyone in here is in a fair bit of trouble.. sort of one notch below intensive care.."
I asked "so what am I doing in here then?"
she said "you was the sickest guy in here.. but you're ok now.. everything is healing very well.."
she told me that what happened to me was almost fatal

so I didn't know how much trouble I was in until after the event... kind of like someone telling you that three days ago someone took a shot at you and missed..
so no 'near death experience' for me..

I laid there on my own thinking about it.. and I was feeling sort of weird for a while.. like "shit.. that could have been 'it'.. finito.." but then I thought.. "shit.. it wasn't 'it'.. I'm still in.. going nowhere.. don't dwell on it.. crack on and chill out"

so I was ok.. on the Thursday I was sitting in the chair by my bed and I did get a little upset for a short while.. but I don't know what about or why.. maybe the pain killers were messing with my head a bit..
when I got home I got a little upset again.. sort of "shit.. I'm at home.." - sort of a cross between relief and fear of what could have been... but it was only a momentary thing.. just a few minutes..

there was a time when I did get pretty scared.. that was then the pain was at its peak and I was waiting for the Dr to arrive.. it hurt so much it was difficult to breath.. I figured that with each gasp I was only taking in 70 to 80% of what I needed.. I thought I was going to suffocate.. the Dr quickly figure out what was wrong and injected morphine to sort out the pain.. that took away the pain and panic and I breathed easier.. but I was now something like 80 to 90% which left me with a very low oxygen level in the blood.. when the ambulance arrived they put an oxygen mask on me to make up for what I was losing.. I needed an oxygen mask on for four days....

yes - the experience did seriously freak me out..

no - it wasn't deeply life changing..

but I did re-evaluate a few things.. I am forever the optimist..

life is to be enjoyed to the full.. I thought that before the event and so nothing has changed..

I was a mong before and I'm a mong now... lmao...

vfr - "DragonChild lmao, I agree ;-) I was going to say that Clarky will know what it is but as you can see he has already proved that." - what have I already proved????

ha.. and I can't find the CD anywhere.. time to call in a search party.. I'm getting all anxious.. lmao..

"that dude has always being sick and I doubt if a quick bout of appendicitis is going to make any difference at all" - very true.. I'd get escorted out of a nut house by security for distressing the in-mates.. lol...

I'm glad that the Rick Astley plague was finally stamped out before any permantent damage to mankind was inflicted.. lmao..

luckily for me I am all these things.. especially with the virgin and bar parts.. lmao...

think on this - a beautiful and valuable guitar in the hands of a novice is exactly that.. a beautiful guitar in the hands of a novice.. a good player can make a lesser instrument sing.. know and believe in yourself..

you appear to have a nice solid foundation and a great attitude / approach upon which to build.. stay dedicated and open to ideas.. but most of all enjoy it and stay in love the the instrument.. and you'll have something special that'll stay with you for life..

it appears to me that you're on the right path...

so the Yamaha AW16G won.. and that's what I have now.. I've had it almost a year and I think it is a superb machine.. mine was around £800 [I guess that's a little over $1,000]

think on this... the 8 track version was around £550 / £600 and was less rich in features.. so the 16 track ws a no-brainer.. not much more money but so much more capability.. if you buy something that you'll grow out of you may regret not saving that little extra for somethnig more powerful..

and remember - the more tracks you have, the less bouncing is needed so the more control you have during mix-down..

save a little longer and get the best unit you can afford

Brother Al.....ZZ is 11 or 12, not sure exactly which...

DelfinoPie.....to buy a piece of shit guitar and then hot rod it to the max....hmmmmm...seems to me you'd end up with about the same amount of money that it would take to buy a good guitar...

mikesb - Paraphanalia are an out and out jazz band with hints of blues and funk.. big horn section.. not a million miles from the Mezzo Forte sound.. for me this is nice at first but gets a little sickly after a while and I end up needing riff replacement therapy.. there's no substitute for blood and snot in the mosh pit.. lmao..

I haven't listened to Brand X or Colluseum for yonks.. ha more CD's to blow the dust off.. lol..

you're right about Brit Muso's and prog.. the 70's especially were dominated by Brit players.. there appeared to be a sense of adventure and exploration in the UK at the time that was truely increadible..

silmarien. my favorite song is one big rush to. awsome

Hey Joe (Get It)

one big rush is one of my favs to, i had to learn it the second i heard it!

freakiest video in the world!

ARIAMAC- you lost ur copy of SPINAL TAp.... oh the shame of it all.. oh well, but hey who's there, I am at skool right noe, so I am not supposed to be doing this, supposed to be doing a Pd/h assignment... stuff that, rather talk to you guys, so hey, talk later guys, ciao ciao!

and cool guitars ZENFISH!!

BIGGUNS, hey mate, cool you listen to real music now, can you play much of his stuff?

well im trying to build up a few members for my bands message boards and who else than all you nice people! heh the sites a bit old (+old pics) and ill be making a few updates soon since im finished school in 3 weeks and then the band will be back on the road! after these tests and finished school, You dont have to but If you'd like its

Red Hot Roses Site - jus click the forum link :)

JS Song Tournament

Click here if you still haven't voted in Round 5.

yea he's a good musician and good at what he does... + he's makin his livin from it!!

+ i voted a while ago but never left my name.. heh sry But my email was dirvin_around_in_my.............. etc... ( i hate givin my email out!) but the name was "al ?" but there ya go

Wow! Dream Theater is going on tour with (opening for) Yes this summer!

Details are still sketchy at this point, but it looks like they'll be touring in August and September...a few weeks behind the Joe Satriani and Deep Purple tour.

More information is available at http://www.yesworld.com/ and http://www.dreamtheater.net/.

Thanks Graham!

962, go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110322/ and check it out. It's a great movie!

Alexandre, try to keep your sore leg propped up as much as possible. It will help take down the swelling a bit.

Powerslave, glad your EKG went well :)

Clarky, wild story about your ordeal. Thanks for sharing it. I truely hope you're feeling better with each passing day. Cheers mate!

Ahhh dammit! Will you people STOP saying Rick Astley!!! That friggin' song "Never gonna give you up" has been going on in my head since I read the first post this afternoon!! Gaaahhhhh, I hate that!!! lol!! With his voice I see the face of that red headed kid from American Idol. I'm in pop hell!!