My name is Elizabeth and my "good-friend," TIM WEBLEY, is a huge fan! You may remember signing his Steve Vai custom at the Tower Records here in Hoffman Estates... ...I even found him an autographed pic of you for him for christmas... ...I have bought tickets for us to see you OCT 22, at the House of Blues in Chicago...

Our relationship is a little undetermined at this time, and I was hoping if you could say a word or two about how "Once you find love, you shouldn't let it go " or something to that effect with his name -- it would show him how much I care and what I'm willing to go through for him -- which is needless to say, BEGGING you for a little help.

I'm sorry this message will be written everyday 'til the 22, since I'm not sure when or if you will even see this. Sorry for the annoyance.

Doin' a speech tomorrow on the influence of Satch Vai, and Malmsteen on my playing. Should turn out cool. Malmsteen for the speed, Satch for the feeling and Vai for opening my ears a bit more. Only has to be 5 Min long. Should be a cake. I can talk about those three for hours.

The band has an audition in Feb for a summer festival. Should be cool 3000-4000 people normally. Lots of practice till then. 40 songs and adding. Off to write my speech.

am i glad to be back or what,,,,,,,,,,first things first.............. why is staryqte still posting that dumb question?is he/she nuts......thought by the time i get back he/she would have disappeared,let alone just the message...but hey,guess i was proven wrong...........

steven,,,,yu surprised me bro'....no mail...are yu ok?????please mail back.....

austin.....everyone is talking about the live in budokan stuff......hey bro i aint got no credit card....so is there any other way i can get my hands on that cd .......i guess this is the main disadvantage of being an indian music fan with little cash and no credit card.......lol........anyway please keep me posted on any new releases....please listen to ''pain of salvation''....i am sure yu would like or maybe love it...it is cool.also i dont know if yu r into female vocalist but have yu heard ''lacuna coil''....it is an italian band.......i have all the three albums presented by my nephew who is in dubai(UAE)....middle east asia.....................try it out,u may like it........also sorry to know that u have not been able to trace out the song ''EVE'' by dt....bad luck bro.......it is really one of the best piece of instrumental ballads i have ever come across..keep it coming bro,,u rock,,

artanis,,,,,,the rain gods are australian,,,,,,,,,,,,india could have won the test on sunday itself but let it get away by letting gillespie(dizzy) and martyn(marlo) get going with the frustrating partnership..........but hey,,,2 test remaining...india to win 2-1.....always the optimistic indian,,,,,,,,,,,lol..

michelle,,,,,,,hi,,,,happy to know that yur kid reciprocated my gesture.............how r u?

did my great friend zenny(zenfish) visit the place while i was absent?????????

alexandre..............i guess yu r too busy with yur new acquaintance....lol............happy for yu bro'..........keep it up.........do yu still play the guitar or are yu too busy with the new friend u have.........lol......just kidding,,,

joe........did yu miss me,,,,,,hahhahahhahahhahahhahahha......do yu even know that i exist......lol...hahahhahaahhahahhahahhahaha,,,,so how can u miss me...........?how are yu?how is zz(zachariah)???please come to india???????india where????????/??

incoming,,,,incoming,,,,,,,,,,great news steven............first of all,,,,,,,,,,,a very huge thank you...................... ,,,,,mission accomplished,,,,,,,,,,a friend has shown that two persons on two different corners of the world can become very good friends.............brother yu r the coolest..........,,,,,,,the vhs has reached me..thank yu very much............i owe yu one bro'.......peace and prayers always.

michelle - can we modify that a little to

sodomise the masses....

lmao..

and despite the crass lyrics, Marching Out is a stormin' album

lol..

nah.. lmao..

wow... fuck.. lol...

deepest thanx... more than you'd ever know...

JS_JS: Dick Cheney's daughter is gay, thats all I have to say...hahaha!

achoo: check your email. I did not recieve yours yet.

optical studio: thats one cool sounding guitar man. I had EMG's on mine but I sold it to guitar center for a schecter blackjack. But my magic potion is definitely the GT6. Cannot live without it. I have seen all your cd's on cdbaby and have listened to them all so far. Where's ATN btw?

do the stu: It may get old for you, but its still new to me! btw, I really hope Bush loses.

Cuthbert! the man with the plan! Reading your posts take so much work in a good way. I like the way you investigate it all out.

jblaze: thanks bro!

ARGHHH!!! I wanna meet Joe! I SO wanna meet Joe! But I can't! How bad can that be?!!!!!? Gosh...Joe's got alot of shows coming but I just don't see myself in any one. I SO wanna see Joe play live!!! JOE JOE JOE...I love your music man. I practice guitar everyday just to be a great player like you...I'll keep practicing and although I won't be going to any of your shows, MY SOUL WILL BE! I respect you in every way, from the depths of my tiny fingers, to the bottom of my oh-so-wanna-see-JOE-soul! YEAH! Rock on my guitar HERO!

....Ooops.... ;-)

Hey all, I heard from Mikey. He's doing well and enjoying more time with his family. Although things are well, Okinawa is under a typhoon, so keep them in your prayers please.

Jazzy, very cool of you to pass on your passes. It's a gentlemanly thing to do. I hope whoever gets them is blown away by the beauty of all things Joe.

Austin, it was SNL! Of course! lol! Your link doesn't work, but that's o.k., I get the joke now. Thanks.

Steven, I use folgers singles, so my coffee pot never backs up ;-) lol! Hope the mess wasn't to bad. I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I doooo love my cup o' joe in the morning. lol!

Jblaze, maybe I should start singing "Here Comes The Sun". It's raining today which is a bummer. I'm hoping it blows over by drive time to go to the Godsmack/Metallica show tonight. We have to leave here about 4:00, which is going to put us right in the hell of rush hour traffic *groan*. My daughter was so excited to be going to the show with her bf and his family, but she just got a wicked cold and feels like crap. Poor kid. I really hope she feels better as the day goes on. Glad Mari made your day. lol! We didn't have much time to hang out, but we did get to chat at intermission and after the show. Give your mum a hug and tell her HELLO from T2J :)

bahduh, I'm good. How are you?

Hi michelle!! :-) We are definately on the same wave length girl!! ;-)

Right now the eye has passed over us and here come the trailing winds, lol!!.... It's all good though, cause the satellite pic looks like the storm is breaking up a little, but it will cruise through Mainland Japan tomm.... Our reinforced concrete houses do fine in these storms, but it does get un nerving hearing the howl all the time, lol....

I skimmed through the 1,000 post's lol, and Alexandre was right, he knew I would post soon!! ;-) I was so happy to hear that michelle, Cyber Alien, Mari and Matt King got to hang out at JOE' show, and what a great gift for JOE michelle!! SATCHUR8!!.... It doesnt get any better than that!! :-)

On that note, I read a nice story from Dr. VAI's diary about doing the latest G3 Tour:

I didn't think it was possible but even Joe and I bonded deeper too. Our musical communication reached new heights. At times it was like the ESP jams. Moments reminded me of when I was a 14-year-old kid and we would sit in his backyard, back to back for hours at a time and just play. All we had was our ears and fingers. We would listen to each other and although my playing abilities were far inferior to his, we communicated on intimate musical levels totally freely. In those hours I learned the meaning of selfless and pure musical communication and have never felt it at that kind of a level since then, until this tour. There is just something that comes over me when I'm in the vicinity of Joe and we both have guitars on. I feel musically alive like no other time.

Some of you (like me) may have read that before, but I love to read it every time....

And I love what he has to say about composing:

Composing and orchestrating is actually my favorite thing to do. Having command over all those musicians at the scratch of a pencil is an extraordinarily exhilarating feeling. It's dope baby!

BTW, I heard it was Clarky's birthday recently.... Happy belated bro, I'm sure monged is an understatement, lol!!.... Glad to hear your tracking on the project is going well.... My gift will be coming soon for ya, and I'll email ya when I get a chance to get to the Post Office....

Take care guys and gals, and keep the SATCH Realm nice and warm for me!! ;-) Oh, and Hello JOE!! :-)

LOL michelle!!.... You gotta flick your arm up in the air like your grabbing the string and turning on the light!!.... It looks kinda goofy, but it does work.... And if your in pajamas, it can get quite interesting, lol ;-)

The gust's were forcasting at over 100 before the storm arrived, but I'm glad it's having trouble, lol!!.... Thanks for the message, and talk to ya later :-)

The SATCH Realm ROCKS!!

Zinc Master - ha ha great jokes, specially "sex in the dark" lol

IbanezGuitarist - I will send you positive and healing energy as well!

Hey Michelle, thanks for the show stories, we can apply to Joe that Kafka's saying "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old", both guitar playing and look! and spirit!

About this tour: incredibly delicious setlist! LORDS OF KARMA!, IF I COULD FLY!, THE TRAVELER!... oh lots of european fans are so jealous (good jealousy :-)), me the first he he I wish "I could fly"...

Welcome a taste of RORY!! I loved Rory Gallagher!! Never got enough credit for being on the leading edge of pinched harmonics and squeals. What is your fave Rory album? I like a lot of em but still have a special attachment to "Calling Card" and the tune "moonchild", amongst the most rocking stuff Rory ever released!!

Mikey, I do that dance at the end of every night at work. You mean I'm actually doing the "power stay on" dance when I'm trying to get the power to go off!!! lmao! Yes, it would be interesting in pajamas. I'll give it a try, hold on....*dance dance dance* ..... is the power still on??

Lights still on as we speak michelle, thanks for all the help!! ;-)

btw, your in pajamas!?!? :-0 ;-)