MikeSB I had the pleasure of seing UJR perform 'Winter' and some of Metamorphosis last November. I've been a huge fan for a long time, 'Earthquake' era, icing on the cake for that gig ? Seeing him jam some Hendrix stuff with Frank Marino - also on the bill that night was Glenn Hughes, Jack Bruce. Uli was playing with Clive Bunker (ex- Tull) and Don Airey. Great night for the old bastards like me - lol

Tastey Congrats to your sister but yeah, I'd say a check up from the neck up was required -lol

Clarky Congrats on the proud Dad moments - indelibly etched in your memory.

Neil, Alex... I can relate to your problems,

About 12 years ago Not with a radiator, but with a blown tire at 3:00am with a bunch of drunkin fools...

Please understand that I had just been dumped by this girl that I was seeing, She decided to go back to her ex and all... fine and dandy...

Me and my buddies decided to leave after 2nd last call at this awswome night club with tons of fish in the sea... and we started to make our way to my parents Passenger Van, when these 2 grubby guys came up to us with about 100 bucks on them saying they needed a ride desperately to get home... fine and dandy... I wasn't worried about being mugged or anything, not with the guys I was hangin out with then... so they promissed us the 100 bucks and a full tank of fuel for our troubles... and so the journey began... we had started to make our way to dropping them off in the next town and suddenly as I was merging onto the highway I blew a tire on black ice and proceded to fish tail and swerve into the embankment just off of the ramp... I smashed into a street sign and finally came to a fluffy stop in a snow bank down below... Well the 1st thing we had to figure out was how we were going to get out of 4 feet of snow with a blown tire... since there was only 5 of us... we sat for about 5 mins getting our barings.... And then suddenly to our amazement 15 guys all drunk as a skunk in the middle of the coldest day of the year, (about minus 40 degrees Celcius) showed up and offered to give us a push out of the rough stuff, we said yeah sure that'd be great...

So they started pushing us to the next ramp over since we were closer to the other one at this stage, so we were pushing pretty good with the help of me behind the wheel since (I was the only sober one there), and the crazy buggers nearly pushed me right in front of oncoming traffic... I immediately slammed on my breaks and one of the nice drunk guys slipped and burnt his head on the tail pipe that was pretty darn hot at this stage, he rolls his head in the snow and soothed it as best he could so he was sidelined now, but that was ok, pleanty of other guys to help out... hehe

Anyways, we finally got it out of that great big ditch without causing anymore incidents and proceded to wave someone down with a Cell phone to call a tow.. and then an arguement came about on how to change a flat tire, the question was if it was easier to loosen the lug nuts before you jacked the vehicle up, I agreed that it was easier to loosen it before you jacked it but the 2 clowns that we picked up disagreed, so that went on for about 15 minutes with no progress at all and then finally a tow truck showed up... me and my buddies called the guy over and talked to the guy about how to go about it, he said like what we said, loosen 1st then Jack it up after, well he gave us a hand with that, got the Donut out, put that on and then the guys that we picked up were nice enough to pay for that when the tow truck dude said he'd do it for nothing since it was so cold out and could tell we really needed to get home... but the drunks decided to pay him anyway, well then we finally got these guys home and low and behold this guy drove a fuel transport and was nice enough to fill us up for nothing..

This was cool... Before I was pretty much empty, I just got dumped and then a bunch of drunk dudes came along to help us out of a big jam... A very memorable story I'll tell ya... Let's just say my Bar days were over right then and there... But it was very entertaining to say the least... I gues you had to be there...lol

Hi everyone

If anyyone could answer this question i would appreciate your help

watching joe live with his chrome boys i have noticed a transparent plastic "scratch plate". Does anyone know what it is and where you can get them from. also is it easily removable. does i do danage to the guitar?

thanks in advance for your help

regards

Long-Lost Greetings, SatchFriends~!

I've been absent nursing a stoooooopid cold virus, and some depression and other emotional traumas from work blehhhhhh :P

Zenfish ~ thanks for your words of encouragement *smiles* ~ I will have some stuffs to say to you re ITLIS vs SBM Just You Wait <grin>

Marimari ~ I just read your post yesterday, and I wrote a response but was too exhausted to post, so I’ll dig it up and send it tonight ~ ~ ~ (*friendly waves*)

When the news of Reagan’s death broke yesterday, I found myself in a time warp, seeing all that news footage from the eighties ~ a turbulent decade in my life, one I would not choose to “delete” even if it were possible, but would never choose to live over again ~

Austin’s favorite quote reminded me how powerless it felt to know our two countries had nuclear warheads pointed at each other ~ I still can’t quite decide if I think what he said was funny or not-so-funny ~ oh sure, we all know he was joking, and it would be unsportsmanlike to point out his “humorous” jab showed his unvarnished contempt for “The Evil Empire” and a cold indifference to the horrors of nuclear confrontation ~ “haha”

During the Clinton impeachment feeding frenzy I often tried to imagine how I would feel if this were happening to someone like Reagan or Bush the first, in a (mostly unsuccessful) attempt to keep myself from purely partisan prejudices

I’m sure the news would have saddened me a lot more if Reagan hadn’t suffered from Altzheimers, aka The Long Good-bye ~ the man we “knew” as president was lost to us many, many years ago ~ what we lost yesterday was the physical shell ~ may he Rest In Peace

So I’m back to work, and maybe back to posting, who knows?

...PeaceToAll…

[[,,,,,,,Hi, Joe,,,,,,,]]

Plum Loco So that proves not all drunk people are completely useless...they can push cars, burn their heads, pay for a ride and give out free fuel...excellent lol

Just got into school and I am still reelling from the aural beating my ears took on Sat. Freakin' so called singers) so I have decided to placate myself w/ a few selections that are a bit more pleasing. One of which is belowwaiting to be identified. Good luck !

She's got an alligator bag/

Top hat to match/

Dressed in black on black/

She's got a Philipino girlie/

She claims is her friend/

I tell you boys, you just gotta laugh/

Now I used to call her Cindy/

She changed her name to "Sin"/

I guess that's the name of her game/

I really used to love her/

Then, the kitty she discovered/

It's got to be a sexual thing/

All around the world/

Girls will be girls

218 posts behind...

My sister placed 2nd in the "35 and Over" catagory, and 3rd in the "Overall" in womens light weight. The ONLY reason she took 3rd was because the woman who won 1st was from the National circuit. This woman is working her way back down the bodybuilding ladder and wants to just do the "Fitness" competition, but, she figured since she was there, she might as well enter the Overall for muscle too. It was a guaranteed win for her, but she actually placed 2nd in the Fitness comp. because she was to muscular! My sis did very well and the judges were impressed and told her she should be ready for Nationals next year. Not bad for a 43 year old mother of 3, grandmother of 2 :) Markus Ruhl was the guest poser. I swear to you, his thigh was a foot thick!! ack! These people look fantastic in their element onstage, but seeing them in a crowd in street clothes is a little weird.

Alexandre, thanks for the Metallica review and a rundown of the whole show. Sounds like you had a fantastic time!

JBlaze, glad you made it home safe :)

S4TCH BOOGIE, Joe's site dangerous?? Hell, that's as fall down funny as Mark Anthony and J. Lo getting married on Saturday. LMAO!! sheesh!

Bil, I'll have to use that excuse about aliens one of these days, although I'd use a vacuum cleaner to beat them. That way I could still play my ukulele on weekends :)

Eva "trutina I used that Alien-excuse with one of my neighbors couple of years ago. She still hasn't forgiven me. And I think we should go for arsenic Big Macs. If we gave them arsenic lollipops it would become the latest fashion with the trendy people, know what I mean? Everybody would want one, to prove that they could take it. Now, with arsenic Big Macs, everyone would just blame the cholesterol and we'd be off the hook. Easy. " LMAO!!!! You're toooo funny girl!! And yes - we are SPECIAL! lol! Thanks :)

Stace, congrats to your sister! My 3 sisters did the same thing with the delay for #3 child. They had two kids close together, waited a while...got divorced... remarried...and had child number three. It's funny because I'm the youngest, and all my sisters had 2 kids before I ever had my first. When I got pregnant with my first, my oldest sis was pregnant 3 months later. My second oldest sis 6 months later, and my third sis a few months after that!! In my family we have the older kids, and the younger ones, and now they're having kids.

Phy3, beautiful baby!! Congrats!

Waves to Slan, Mari, Mick, little bird, Clarky, Mikesb, Austin, DCK, Delfino, Paul, and everyone else!

Civgeek, It's the same old, same old situation. It's the same old, same old song and dance! IT'S THE CRUE!! :) Good song!

Hey Joe make a new Poster Collection. Ther is a Good place between Hendrix and Van Halen at my Wall. :P

PS: I have all posters of you but i need a new one.

civgeek

michelle: congrats to your sis. thats awesome. wait till you here this one! im a bag of nerves. this weird lady came by to look at a car my other half has for sale, so she decides to buy it, she claims she's psychic, says he's going to have a baby and its going to be a girl. he never told me she said that, so i meet her and she tells me this, and that its with me, i said are you sure, me and him? he was like no, you and some other guy. he was pissed. anyways...i'll b e visiting the doctor for some serious BC.

Strange Beautiful Ponderings on the theme of Love in Space

[[..though I refer to Joe in the third person, Joe, this post is also for YOU: my hero..]]

Zenfish wrote: “I know that some of us, like ovation1, fayne, clarky, and others love Joe for his rock'n'roll riffs.”

I will say this about that: Joe is a genius creator of songs ~ the song can never be limited to the “riffs” but includes the ~MeLoDy~ and in this regard Joe is a True Master and Creative Genuis, the way he blends the rocknroll riff with Melodies that break your heart, make your spirit soar to the skies and Other Planets, and get your blood pumping so hard your foot can’t stay off the gas, you can’t stay in your seat you gotta get up and dance and ‘fore you know it, that 90mph joy is bursting out all over the place and the smiles won’t stop.

The riff is nothing without the melody, and the melody is nothing without the rhythm, both of which are settings that showcase the guitar solo, but the solo would be nowhere without the song to reference ~ it’s all of a piece, so please no one misunderstand that I’m hooked on riffs alone.

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As for whether ITLIS is a step forward from SBM or not I think it is impossible to make any judgement APART from our tastes.

It never ceases to amaze me the various reactions fans and others have to Joe’s different songs. For example, I was ALL EXICTED this latest cd had two vocals, yet one of my Joe-friends at my work didn’t like those songs AT ALL ~ so go figure! (sheesh!)

Have you ever had the experience of disagreeing with someone about any song and think, man, are you listening to the same song I’m listening to? Well, yes, of course it’s the same SONG , but we’re all listening with different EARS.

This much should be obvious, like Duh, everyone brings a unique set of expectations, preferences, musical training, past experiences with music, ie, a unique set of ears to their experience of Joe’s music, and this includes the normalization of the rabid-JoeFan-curve…

I never wrote-up my reactions to SBM, though I had plenty to say ~ I do think ITLIS is a better cd than SBM ~ even though I could find nothing “wrong” with SBM, it seemed somehow … um, maybe “tame” for lack of a better word, and I thought so even at the time of the release of SBM, but I couldn’t put my finger on why, and I still can’t.

I find SBM tame by comparison to ITLIS ~ but then again, it could be I was experiencing a valley in my fan-feelings and thus brought my own apathy to SBM ~ I can’t know for sure, but I suspect something similar is happening with those who aren’t as enamored of ITLIS, in terms of what the listener is bringing to the experience.

Can the listener’s own feelings totally explain whether one cd is or is not better? Certainly not, but this is where each listener’s unique set of preferences comes into play also. I don’t think I’ll ever like SBM better than ITLIS, even though I find it hard to explain why. It comes down to a matter of personal taste, something you can’t control or quantify, so better to stop trying, just accept it.

I will say this about SBM: the cd reminded me strongly of the very first thing I noticed about Joe’s music when I first heard NOTE, and that is his Attention To Detail ~ every song is very carefully crafted and produced ~ this much is unmistakable and remarkable in itself. I can HEAR it, and I can appreciate it.

I’ve come to completely trust Joe’s musical instincts ~ even when a cd strikes me as “tame” I still admire and savor every finely tuned nuance I hear within each song.

Hence, I respectfully disagree with Zenfish in terms of which cd is better, or more of a move forward ~ I vote for ITLIS, but hey, that’s just “me” [*smile*]

…peace…

BROTHER AL - Being originally from the East San Fran Bay Area, I can only respond w/ a line from Sir Mix-a-lot "L.A. face with an Oakland bootie"

2297 - I have posted a few pics of my battle worn 560. http://web.pdx.edu/~doradom/560pics.html (haven't figured out the link coding yet)

Anybody's comments welcome.

I know I should get a new one, but its just getting broken in. Kinda like that old pair of tennis shoes that never get thrown away.

S4TCH BOOGIE!!! man, I was so bummed to hear you've been forbidden to visit :(

dude, you're a friendly young man and we all want to see you say hello when you can but not get in trouble at home ~ so pay your dues and we hope to see you when you can

cheers, mate

well which side is joe on?

BRO AL - I believe Joe is an East Side boy.

a bunch of stuff, damn irish education system!

englich, irish, maths, german, music, art start on wednesday... then 5 days after they're over i got G3 woo

I have oral, written and practical and its s sucky test, thats stupid really as its soley based on one test, and memory, But what can u do..

and funy enough the oldest bridge in ireland is like a 10 min drive away from me, since we're talking about bridges, (and no u dont wana hear stupid stereotypical irish jokes, yea we all live with leprauchans ina cottage and we're always drunk) But I have to go now im off for the day!!.. and night!

L4er...

mick87: haha, scarce mode for G3, lol, I'm whicha' ;-)

slanshroom: although i was tempted t leave the guitar & do the physical love ting a min ago,lol,but otherworldly sounds call,how frustrating yet beautiful eh,such is life.... haha, I hear ya brotha, and take that break when you need it!!.... btw, I'm sure Pablo de Sarasate is happy in his grave, lol, your doing him fine justice, and dont worry about the segway from Bach.... Do what feels natural, and let it flow.... Have fun with it man, and when you feel the moment is right, BAM!!.. There it is!!.... Here's to pizza bro!! ;-)

alexandrecaetano: Thanks for the rundown on Rock In RIO my friend and I'm surprised you liked Metallica the best, lol!! ;-) So glad to hear you'll have tickets soon, and enjoy your week!! :-)

/\/\/\R|<: LMAO man!!.... An old meat tray from Canada!!.... haha, lol, that reminds me of the Dave Letterman show, hehe!! ;-)

Zenfish: I like that man.... The jazzic and the jazzmen!!.... Yes, there are two visions, but the left side Fusion is what makes the world go around, lol!!....

Do The Stu: haha, lol, I'm really going to be scarce after today, so this is my only chance to catch up!! ;-) I'm going to try to keep up, lol....

Clarky: Sounds like you had a great time man, and from 9:00am to 7:00 pm!! :-0 Talk about a serious tourney, lol, and your oldest being the talk of the tournament!!.... Top stuff indeed, and I'm happy for ya, and that is a good reason to get lashed, lol!!.... Looks like your sons take after Dad, lol, I see a bright future ahead indeed!!....

Ga60: Good to see ya Gabe, and great stuff man, thank's for the links!!....

ATN: Have'nt had a chance to get to the P.O., but will check this week.... Thanks again man!!....

michelle: Congrats to your sis!!.... That's awesome, and I'm sure your proud of her.... Give her a high five for us!! :-)

....Later peeps, I'm scarce now!!.... ;-)