HELLO JOE! Iīm a 23 year old spanish guy from Madrid. I went to G3 here in Madrid and It was the happiest day in my life. I stood really close to the stage and It was awesome!! I enjoyed a lot "singing" ICE 9 and COOL #9 as well as ALWAYS WITH ME, ALWAYS WITH YOU, which is my second favourite song, after LORDS OF KARMA. I want to thank you for making my life much better everyday, your music definitely makes me travel across galaxies. Thank you very very much indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BBKane - Fripp is a monster of a player when he wants to play fast... in terms of actual diffculty, rather than audible sounds per second...

Hey Joe

Just A quick hi, Just wondering if you reconised me at the front of the apollo manchester I had my normal hair colour back ( brown ) and i was whereing my shade's ever now and then, hope you noticed me... Im working hard on my own stuff at the moment, I just need to start getting it out there,

what do you think of Dave Weiner's album?...

Cheers...

Hi guys,

All you Rush fans in the UK, they are having a Rush convention in Birmingham as well as the gigs, well worth checking out if you can me thinks.

Happy belated bday joe! You really need to come to Richmond, VA or somewhere around that, but I hope your having fun in Europe, and drop a line next time your on!

hi, i'm from chile (southamerica), i'm a fun of your music, man you play great, but my razon to write to you is not just congratulation you for the free that the guitar make my feel, i have a girlfriends, she is the greater fan of your music, she have all of your cds, and she play guitar every day try to play like you. we don't have money, i work hard teaching in the university like helper of the students in order to make money and buy for my princess a cd of your music, but i ask you if exists a chance that you can autograph the cd, i can send you the cd, and you send my back or you write me how i can do this for made this the more easy way for you. i know that you are a very busy man, but you can make a fun of you realy happy. i love her and will do everythings that you say me to do for give her the most amazing gift. sorry man for ask this, if you can't do this i will understand. for read this and the time that lost i give you all the thanks. PD: my english is very bad, sorry if you don't understand this message, but the idea is understending. PD2: my name is Felipe Urzua, and my girlfrends is Ingrid Fortuņo.

Well, I will use my penis as a slide from now on because tapping has started to hurt.

dck: I use the easy frets sometimes to make the fretboard slippery. Whipped cream and honey have worked previously.

Cuthbert: I agree you know a lot about the confederacy, but go to a black person and tell him the confederate flag only represents southern pride (which I think is a pretty damn stupid thing and everyone who is 'proud' of the south needs their ass whipped) and does not have to do much with slavery. If you can convince them, you have the right to fly the confederate flag and not call yourself (or anyone in this case) racist. ToneCapone is a racist hick. screw him.

Flagg; good point.

Clarky: the ladies play the piano with their butts most of the time while the men are jazzing it up for them. Its a jazz band.

Michelle: You are right, dave mustaine got fucked over by Dan Huff who had screwed megadeth over. bullshit. And no, you were not smokey in your earlier post!

dck: I agree that megadeth have gone down heavily after cryptic writings. Megadeth is partially to blame for hiring Dan as a producer, i mean, he's fucking country. Dan is so used to studio musicians that he probably didnt give a shit. Actually Marty Friedman had recorded some solos on Risk that were taken away by Dan without asking Mustaine or Marty. That was the point where the band started breaking apart.

Austin ~ rzzldzzl was not "upset" at the prices, he sounded quite happy (from what I could tell from his post) to get the $100 seats ~ what he wanted was a heads-up about the premium packages ~ he must have missed the newsletter where they were announced [[..Edit: rzzldzzl did receive the newsletter, he just wanted the announcement earlier..]] ~ I've seen plenty of upset here on T2J regarding the premium packages, and this was definitely not upset! he was merely sharing the saga of his fan fervor to sit as close as possible ~ I concur with the desire to get close to the stage ~ it does make a difference

You can try all you want to get good seats from a Ticketmaster or other ticket broker pre-sale and all I can say is, Best O Luck Buddy butdontholdyerbreath, and if you manage to see any of the first 3 rows for sale online, let alone anything in the first 15 rows you must be using a different internet than I am

my POINT is that by purchasing a premium ticket package you are supporting Joe in a bigger way than by purchasing either a ticketmaster over-priced seat in the 30th row because that's the best you can do over the internet, or even worse by handing over a three-figure amount to a scalper ~ bollocks to that, I say!

Like you, I've met Joe twice and would not necessarily purchase a backstage pass (like you I wonder what would be the point of that) but I might just pay for first- three- rows- seating if I could afford it ~ the family have not met Joe, so the backstage passes would work just fine for them, but the bucks aren't there ~ I'm happy for those who can afford it

//end rant

...peace2everyone...

cuthbert: I do not mean to attack you in any way. The average black person, also mentioned by flag, will look at the confederate flagg as nothing but a racist sign. I have several black friends who seriously hate visiting the south and seeing confederate flags flying aroung. How is one going to explain to them that this flag is all abou southern pride and not racism? You can tell a million black folks its historical meaning and lets see if they give a shit. Also, the confederate flag has been adopted by several dumb racists for a reason.

What exactly is southern pride??? Proud to be from the south? My penis is located down south too, should I hoist a confederate flag on it?

I'm catching up on Robert Fripp's diary entries now... I missed a few of them at the end of June, though, and I can't find them on his site. Does anyone know if he keeps an archive somewhere? I can't find one.

No he isn't.

Didn't you just apologize to everyone a few days ago? Why are you still sayng stuff like this? Can't you go more than a few days without insulting people?

"my POINT is that by purchasing a premium ticket package you are supporting Joe in a bigger way than by purchasing either a ticketmaster over-priced seat in the 30th row because that's the best you can do over the internet"

If my 30th row seat is overpriced, than surely Joe's third row package seat is also overpriced (much more so). I still prefer to pay the lower price.

I've said this before, but I think it would be much better to raise the price of every ticket by a few dollars instead of doing this. Instead of having 7,900 tickets for $60 and 100 tickets for $250, have 8,000 tickets for $65 and meet people out by your bus like you've done in the past.

Oh well...sorry for dragging this out.

do the stu: you got a problem again? what do you want?

I hope you have more time to do something else other than quote and post everyone else's messages and add in your useless remarks. I am not talking to you here, so buzz off. This is harsh but youve got to eat it.

PS: You dont own this site. Quit acting like youre the boss here. Seriously, let me say whatever I feel is appropriate.

Jazzy x - what do you want?"

I want to know why you apologize to the entire site for your behavior, yet less than a week later you are back to doing the same things you were doing before your apology. I asked three perfectly valid questions. I'm still waiting for three answers.

"I hope you have more time to do something else other than quote and post everyone else's messages"

I quote previous posts so people know what I am talking about.

"and add in your useless remarks."

If that's your opinion, fine. Judging by the number of people here who talk to me on a regular basis, though, I would have to say most T2Jers do not think my remarks are useless.

"I am not talking to you here"

You called someone a racist for no real reason, and I responded. There's nothing wrong with what I did. I also asked you three questions about your behavior. Those questions have to do with you, not the people you were talking to.

"You dont own this site."

When have I said I did own the site?

"Quit acting like youre the boss here."

I'm not the only one here who has had a problem with your recent comments.

"let me say whatever I feel is appropriate."

Do you feel it is appropriate to go back on your apologies?

Hey Joe and everyone here,