Jazzzy, Would you explain why you have this under your name?(Listen to 100.3 Minnesota's only smooth jazz station).

42 Years of Guitar playing?

2297 Where you at!!

Off to school.

Jazzy - interesting that you listen to stuff but it don't influence you...
my take is that in some small way, it may well infuence you when it comes to note selection, the vibes of the track etc..
I personally don't play along with Pink Floyd.. as a player it just don't rock my boat...
however, I really enjoy listening to them....
although I don't play along to their music, they have definately influenced me in some way...
my best guess is that their song writing approaches, moodiness and soulfull elements have penetrated my sense of creativity...
so their influence although indirect is still in some way present

all that being the case, I personally don't believe that there is any such thing as "100% original"...
it's all a matter of the combinations of your influences under the guidence of your imagination...
a powerful imagination coupled with very diverse influences will definately create some very unique stuff...

Pitch Axis, or Parallel Modulation [which is the correct term] is where you change the key centre over a common bass note... it creates lots of great tonal colouration and can be a very expressive tool when it comes to creating and resolving tension simply by note selection alone....
I do it all they tme in all my music.. it's a large part of my creative style... and yes.. Our Blood [the t2j track] is riddled with it...

me? insanely fast?... lol... I've never really thought of myself as being that fast... fast enough to cover most of my needs... but not crazy fast like the Petrucci types....
in truth, I never really practiced it... not in the "sitting with a metro playing scales" manner....
I learned the scales to provide me with a means to visualise the neck.. so that I 'know' where everything is...
but mostly I studied real licks.... broke them down.. learned them real slow.. and gradually sped them up until I could play along with the track..... eventually, and without me really noticing... the speed came.... followed by accuracy [although I am in truth a bit of a scruffy player.. especially when compared to the Petrucci types..]

technique aside though... I always aim at being an exciting and passionate player... so for me... speed is an effect... like a delay or a phaser... I just turn it on and off / mess with 'note densities' to create an effect...

Zen - I agree completely...

there is a huge difference between being influenced by someone and ripping them off...

Clarky: Good advice there. About the influence, I probably am influenced by a bunch of guitarists, just not aware probably. Most of the stuff I came up with though, I dont find it correlating with any of the guitarists I listen to in particular. But all together, maybe I built something from various guitarists. I fully agree about Pink Floyd's ability to hit moods really well. I think David Gilmour plays the right notes at the right places. It not excess or little. I am impressed that I did pick up on the pitch axis because knowledge of theory is pretty bad. I play smooth jazz for 80% of the time, because its got a lot of feel to it. But my goal is to become a damn good metal guitarist (Megadeth, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera...). You see the contrast here. So sometimes I feel like I do not know where to start while practicing. I am not very tolerant with books, but I do not mind reading tabs. I have this book called Metal Lead Guitar vol. 2 by Troy Stetina. Do you think it is any good? Maybe you should write a book sometime :)

SteeveT: I have been playing guitar for 34 years. I started playing air guitar in 1982. Then I switched to a toy guitar (with buttons only) in 1986. I started playing an acoustic in 1992 and then switched to an electric in 1994. But you can still count on me sucking :) About the mp3.com files, I did have some files up but then they restructred the entire website so they took my stuff down. I am planning to get my stuff up there again but I am also looking at soundclick or other websites. If you have contact with Ollyno1uk, he has some of my files. You could ask him.

edit: btw, I am 22. I used to play guitar in hell before 1982.

Cuthbert: 59% americans are dumb...lol I belong to the 41%...lmao

Hey!!!!!

What do u think is Satch's best album- I mean I know theyre ALL AMAZING, but whats the best? I reckon its either Flying In Blue Dream or Crystal Planet or The Extremist. Just wonderin-c ya!!

i vowted for tad nugant dawn in texaas.

Hello Satchland!

Been quite busy, working 6 days a week regularly; we are going to make an organizational change on turn of the year and I have to clarify and organize all the administrative change-overs and all that shit...
...okay, bullshit -> to the point:

Oh man, I have found more excellent 'new' rock-albums this year than in the past 5 years...must be the boost I got from here while waiting G3 on this spring talkin' about good music with all you great guys...and girls!

Here are my latest finds: Vince Neil: "Carved In Stone" (-95) -> fucking delicious! ...pretty varying, still in line... I didn't value much mr. Neil as a singer before this, but now I do = excellent over all!

Extreme: "waiting for the puncline" (-95) -> Nuno was on fire on this one (,too) ...this one in also varying, including e.g. a ballad, a pure ROCK-song ("No respect") and an instrumental where Nuno really unleashes himself ("Midnight express") ...and there is the title-song hidden in the 'last' song (comes after a quiet brake!!!)...

If you haven't heard those, go civilize yourself!

Edit: I still have to add "Unleash The Beast" by Saxon (-97) although I already mentioned that over a month ago ...I've listened A LOT of it and it still feels really great (adult-really) -> go get it!

Hope everybody is doing fine! ...I'm gonna go open a nice cold Finnish beer and lift my feet on the living-room table...and listen some excellent rock-music.

Cuthbert, haha, 230,000 londoners have shag-itis. Nah i've not been to London in ages, and evidently, that's no bad thing!

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WOOHOO! some time this week, i'm going into Hibernation, and when I come out, I'm going to be a different person! hehe, can't wait

Hey if you're really digging that album, I definitely recommend that you get Nuno's two Mourning Widows CD's - they're a tad expensive cause you have to get them on Japanese import, but so, so worth it. Do you have Nuno's "Schizophonic"? If not, that'd be worth checking out between Waiting For The Punchline and Mourning Widows 1!

962: Hi, Simon! I do have "Schizophonic" and I'll sure check out "Mourning Widows". Thanks for the tip!

Dr Mindcrime yeah thanks man...now i can take that info and store it away forever!! lol

As an extension of Nass' question, I think it would be interesting to see everyone answer the way I did...

What is your favorite Satch album, what do you think was the best Satch album at the time of its release, and when you look back at Satch's career from some point in the future what do you think will be considered his best album? My answers are below (in response to Nass).

Who? I certainly didn't say that...if you got that from my post, you misunderstood it completely.

If you're buying copies of all of them, go for the remastered versions if you can. I think most (all?) of them have been released that way. I have a few of them, but I have some original versions as well.

In most cases, it's better to buy a remastered album instead of the original. Remastered versions usually sound SO much better. The only time you might get screwed with a remastered version is if the record company is putting it out quickly to make money (if the artist recently passed away, for example), or if something has been drastically changed (like when Ozzy Osbourne hired session musicians to redo the bass and drum tracks on his first album or two when he remastered them again a few years ago).

That doesn't excuse his behavior here.

That was interesting...thanks for sharing it.

" there are probably a helluvalotta people in Indy that are happy he was injured last night. I think Minnesota would've opened up a pretty serious can 'o' whoop-ass Da Colts."

I don't know... I think one of the reasons the Colts ran so much early on was because they knew the Vikings wouldn't be using their normal gameplan (the Colts could afford to run more than usual because the VIkings didn't have Moss). If Moss was in for the Vikings, I don't think Manning / the Colts would've wasted any time going to the air. Manning still may have finished the game with "only" four touchdown passes, but I think the Colts would've won (even though both teams would have scored more points).

My favorite Satch album is ITLIS?.

I think his best album (at the time it was released) is probably SWTA.

I think his best album of all time (looking back at his career as a whole from some point in the future) will probably be Crystal Planet.

Do the stu: Seriously, back off. I didnt use your fucking name so shut the fuck up. You're getting on my nerves now. I never mentioned and never am going to mention a right wing twat like you. If there were any people I talked about it was no one on T2J. It was about an Otep link michelle asked me to check out. Also, the person I talked about being intolerant to the right wing party was Fat Mike from NOFX. If you are Fat Mike or the chick from Otep, you can reply. If you are not, I'd rather have my balls eaten by hannibal lector than have another conversation with you. It seems like most people here do not have a problem with me (at least not at the current moment) and I am restraining myself from talking shit because I just do not like doing it. But if you keep dragging your ass in, you can expect a post like this from me. Is that clear? I doubt it.

Oh yeah, as for namecalling...I think you are a fanboy.

That doesn't excuse his behavior here.

Are you some kind of police here? If others have a problem with me they can speak up for themselves, like they always do. You do not need to be the mouthpiece.

do the stu-

I have exactly the same thinkings on joe's albums... well almost...

cuthbert: Yes, that was me beating up a kid. But it wasnt for a political discussion. We were playing Mike Tyson vs. Muhammad Ali. I was Tyson :D....lol

Here is a link for you which requires much thinking and reflection:

Within the grip of fate

JAZZY WHAT YOU TTRIPPIN' 'BOUT? CHILL OUT B. I never seen you upset, it's kind of weird.