this is really funny!!

Hi Joe, I really enjoyed the concert last night. I was the dude that asked you for a pic when the show was over, but what I really meant was Picture. Thanks for signing my guitar, it looks awesome. I thought the set list was awesome, you mixed it up alot instead of hearing the same things over and over. (seen you 5 times, and after a while You can only here the hits so many times). Anyways I thought I would just say hey since I froze up last night and couldn't really think of anything to say besides, good, show, and can you sign my guitar. BTW, have you ever thought about doing an acoustic album? Just wondered. I would love to here a samll set of acoustic stuff, anyways

Thanks for a wonderful night :)

DCK, Chris Peters, Dave Watkinson - You have mail.

T2J CD update - I have just spoken to the review editor of Total Guitar (in the UK) and they said that they would be able to review the CD. Woohoo!!!!

The Thirsty Taliban

A fleeing Taliban, desperate for water, was plodding through the Afghanistan desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he walked toward the object, only to find a little old Jewish man sitting at a card table with neckties laid out on it.

The Arab asked, "My thirst is killing me. Do you have water?"

The Jew replied, "I have no water. Would you like to buy a tie? They are only $150. This one goes very nicely with your robes."

The Arab shouted, "Idiot! I do not need an overpriced tie. I need water!"

"OK," said the old Jew, "it does not matter that you do not want to buy a tie. I will show you that you have not offended me. If you walk over that hill to the east for about four miles, you will find a lovely restaurant. Go! Walk that way! The restaurant has all the water you need!"

The Arab staggered away toward the hill and eventually disappeared. Four hours later the Arab came crawling back to where the Jewish man was sitting at his table.

The Jew said, "I told you, about four miles over that hill. Could you not find it?"

The Plows Must Get Through!

One winter morning a couple was listening to the radio over breakfast. They hear the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street so the snowplows can get through."

Norman's wife goes out and moves her car.

A week later while they are eating breakfast and again, the radio announcer says, "We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street so the snowplows can get through."

Norman's wife goes out and moves her car again.

The next week they are again having breakfast when the radio announcer says "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park---" and right then the power goes out.

Norman's wife is very upset, and with a worried look on her face she says, "Honey, I don't know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the snowplows can get through?"

With the love and understanding in his voice that all men who are married to blondes exhibit, Norman says, "Sweetie, why don't you just go ahead and leave it in the garage just this once?"

Hey Joe, GREAT show in Columbus last night, I sat there with a stupid grin on my face the whole night as you kept playing so many of my favorites!

Apologies for the lame crowd, many of whom I would say haven't bought a new Satch album since 1992 apparently as they didn't seem to recognize a lot of the songs you played.

Yoda - based solely on your recommendation... I went and got Architype...

well.. I listened to the 1st 11 seconds and thought...

"hmmm.. this is nice.." lol..

and I've listened to nothing else since... awesome... [be]good call bro.. very good call...

some folks go on this endless voyage searching for 'that tone'....
they end up buying and selling tons of kit...
they never really settle with anything in their rig..

they are really missing the point...

yes go find a nice tone...

but the tone created by the player is the tone that counts...

then I thought about it.. WW1, WW2, Napoleonic, Greece, Rome, British Empire, Gulf, and on and on it went...
always returning to the same fundamental principle...

hello everybody. saying hello to everyone only.

i have a new job now!

cuthbert / Nam - with my comments regarding the connection of military action and economics.. I wasn't really submitting a personal opinion... it was more of an observation..
I never saught to justify military action as a means to aqcuire wealth...
I just spotted that it appears to be the most common true cause [however history presents the causes..]..

I think that the connection between warfare and acquiring wealth is very real..

it is possible to engage in warfare in the belief that you are doing the right thing... and it all goes horribly wrong....
wars are only won after they've been faught...
and fighting them can be so costly that even the victor ends up in a shit state... [just like the British Empire.. utterly exhausted as a result of WW1 and then WW2 back to back..]

The Swiss.. ok.. so they do not have major military ambitions... but then they can't really.. they are land-locked but more powerful nations so they'd need to break out in order to create an empire..
also they are not of much interest to other nations for invasion.. they do not have an abundance of natural resources to exploit, the country is small and possitioned such that there is no great strategic importance [unlike somewhere like Gibralter].. the land is largely mountainous, and in the 16th and 17th centuries the infantrymen of the Swiss Cantors were amoung the finest in Europe..
basically taking the Swiss means there is too little to gain and a pain in the ass trying to take it..
and the Swiss just don't have the resources to break out..

I BOUGHT IT
The best record, as a guitarristyou could buy
G3 LIVE IN DENVER
Dream became true. 3ElectricGuitar Heroes... TOGETHER
A lot of people from my generation, and at sure from the followin ones, get a real-good-surprise in 80s, with that great records by Satch, Vai, Malmsteen... and somebody else. But this ones were aclamed, each one on his way, as Guitar-Hero-Players in Rock-Heavy...-Guitar Music.

A lot of people we have learn a lot just with this records
If u love the Guitar, you ll like this playing: JAMMING TOGETHER !!!!!
Ive been enjoying a lot since I got this DVD, just learning, looking at great-genious playin together.... and even trying to Jam with them
Im amazed
Will write about it... I think. Yes; heres the place where people like this ones
At home evereybody call me crazy, because of looking everyday that Guitar-DVD...
BUT I LIKE IT

like the BIG BAD MOON

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THE G3 TO ARGENTINA!!!!! best wishes, and i hope i can get aftershow passes and say this personally :)

OME,

I guess it would have helped if I posted the link to my website huh:)

www. guitarnett.com

Do you have a website? whats the link?

I'm a loner Dottie...a rebel.

962 - your Roman story is about Atilla and the Hunnic tribesmen...
Rome may have brought large armies here for the initial conquest.. but I can't believe that 1/4 was used... and definately not that much to hold down the population once they'd been Romanised... Rome had much much bigger battles to fight on the Rhine against the German tribes [which they never really conquered] and in Palestine [that was a hotbed of all kinds of trouble], that is until the Huns and Goths went on the rampage...

Rome pulled out of the British Isles as a result of the

Genghis Khan.. the infamous Mongolian General / Emperor was born in 1162..
Rome was long gone...

The Mongols did decimate the Byzantine Empire - which grew out of the old Eastern Roman Empire...

The result was a power vacuum that allowed the Ottoman Turkish Empire to grow and prosper for over 800 years..

Gee3 - shit.. I was in the record store the other day and the new Malm album slipped my mind...

to be really honest, I just won't have the time to work anything out... all my spare time is in the studio working on my own stuff..