Mr Nick

great idea - I should add them to my list of people to forward the list to.

Hello friends :-) !!! I`m alive :-)) lol !!!! No tomatoes on my workshop :-)) !!!! The audience was amazing !!! A few friends of mine came out to see me from other citys :-)) !!! My webmaster taked a few photos. Soon you can see it :-) !!! A professor of Jazz gave me the congratulations, nice songs, cool first workshop :-)) !!! In the begining i was a little nervous but after that, lets go :-) !!! I played well but in a few times i did a few mistakes :-), it happened ;-) . In the general, i`m very happy and my audience too, that`s enough for me now :-) !!! I`M very gratefull :-)) !!!

AUSTIN - THe waves of life will be on my record with new clothes. Rustcycle.com did a remix for me :-). Very good work. The new Version has piano aswell :-)). You will see that. Thanks for your support my friend !!!!

OPTICALSTUDIO - Thank you friend. Portugal is waiting for you :-)) !!!

MATT KING - Beautiful song friend :-) !!!

MICHELLE - Thank you baby, how are you and your knee? Hope well :-). Kisses !!!!

ACHOO - Thank you. I must pay attention for new Megadeth`s record ;-). Mustaine rocks. He has a house in Portugal, Cascais. The same city where Gonçalo Pereira lives :-). Regards!!

JAZZZY - Thank you very much for your very kind words :-). Glad to know that bro ;-) !!!!

BAHDUH - Congrats about Babyboy :-)) !!! You msut be very proud, all the best for all of you dear friend :-)). I`m well thanks my friend :-)). I`m very happy for you :-) !!!!

DRAGONCHILD -Nice to see you :-) !!!! How are you?

ZINK MASTER - Happy B-birthday :-) !!! How old are you friend? Have a great new year :-) !!!

OVATION1 - are you ok? Hope so Mikeyson!!!!

JOE - how is going the USA tour? Hope very well. Great setlist :-)) !!! Warm regards and good luck!!!!!

PLUM LOCO - Hey friend, where are you?

Nice to see you all, have a good week and take care !!!!

Susie2000 and michelle:

Thanks for the posts. We are doing well, just had an iep meeting with the school to check in on my son's progress. He had been failing in school until we got the diagnosis and put him on an iep, now he has an educational assistant part of the day, but even then, last year was still rough for him.

This year however, being so inspired by Joe, he found out about Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA and is so fired up about going there and making music his life. It helped that he heard that Joe occassionally drops by the Institute!! Along with other artists. He is now getting better grades than ever before, plus we have him on the right track with medications, counseling and some behavior modification for both of us! I have had to learn when to push and when to back off, and how to deflect the explosions. Plus he is pretty inflexible, so that makes life even more interesting.

michelle, I can really feel for your friend. I too am a single parent and we have struggled for many, many years to figure out what was going on with my son. I hope she doesn't give up, even though she may feel like it sometimes, because the answers are out there if they can just find the right person to help them. My son ended up being arrested and put in the juvenile detention center for a couple weeks, and though it was the worst time of our lives, it also brought very good things, a diagnosis that made sense and new knowledge about my son. I hope your friend doesn't end up going there in order to get answers, but good can come from bad!

And music has been a life saver for him, guitar transports him away like nothing else can. We have Joe's music on in the house all the time now, and about the only time we have the t.v. on is to watch one of his DVD's!!! :) Satch makes us both very, very happy and lifts our spirits every single day.

Zinc Master: cool test, but I'm afraid to ask how many have given the right answer!!! I didn't have a clue, but I have had very mean thoughts many times!! Glad to know I probably won't become a serial killer any time soon! :)

Bahduh, many congratulations on your baby boy! I'm sure he's very precious!

alexandrecaetano

cheese101

You would be very afraid to know all of the responses I have received. We have a lot of very interesting people here at T2J, but that is what makes live fun - variety, the spice of life. Some are psychos, some are crazy, some are nuts (or like to touch them), and some are insane. Those are the 4 categories of answers so far.

Spizazz

I got the hint and checked out your pictures - great pics. You were definately on the right (meaning left) side of the stage.

I was in the front row, just one person to the left of his mic on Saturday night.

Yeah... Zinc Master!

That's where I was... best place in the house! As you know Joe likes the right side of the stage or audience's left... so I got there early to be right there. I could see everything! His fingers were a blazzin! Joe is the coolest! Thanks for checking out my web site for pics from the show! Rock on!

Hey Joe you're my hero!!!, I just wanted to tell you how much I like your music, I just can't wait for the G3, I also wanted to ask if there's gonna be some kind of autograph signing or something like that before the show.

keep on rockin' in the free world!!!

jpvel

From the Yeah Right Column

Just like Sammy Sosa

Busted for a "Saturday Night Live" lip-synch gone awry, her manager-father said Monday his 19-year-old daughter used the extra help because acid reflux disease had made her voice hoarse.

"Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television," Joe Simpson told Ryan Seacrest on Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM. "No one wants to hear that."

He insisted it would be Ashlee's live voice alone during her appearance on NBC's "Radio Music Awards" Monday night.

And he said she's never used the extra help onstage before.

"The whole situation was a bummer," Ashlee Simpson said in an interview on MTV's "Total Request Live."

And sure - Sammy Sosa only used the corked bat once, and only for batting practice.

Dear Joe,

Hi. I've got a question for you.

I absolutely LOVE the way you play, and it is my ambition to play the way you do that helps me strive to achieve as much as I can as a guitarist.

I was wondering what recommendations for scales, etc. you had that would be of the most benefit to myself.

HORRAY

Chicago Bears Will Not Sign Tim Couch

LAKE FOREST, Ill. - The Chicago Bears (news) will not sign Tim Couch, instead deciding to stick with the three quarterbacks on their roster.

NewsMan

You are correct - my spelling error.

Thanks for the correction.

Maybe I should hire you as my proof reader.