Guitarmiester: Fall in love, get some ass, start a fight, watch a movie, smoke a blunt. These get the emotions flowing, then take it to your guitar and let 'er rip.

Zinc Master, hehe, sorry didn't mean to rain on your parade man! Those e-mail scams crack me up....the first time I got one I actually went to the trouble of mailing back, with a message that simply read "fuck off", but then the next day I got 6 more of the same mail from different addresses so I realised it's all randomly generated. Internet fraud is lame....what a waste of time.

everybody check out http://www.sorryeverybody.com

I usually find this helps when I get in a creative slump, which happens a lot, believe me! I got it recently, so I spent a few weeks listening to Nuno Bettencourt almost exclusively....his style is really different to that of Joe, so when I started playing Joe, Eric Johnson and Andy Timmons again, I was hearing loads of cool ideas in my head.

I usually find the problem arising when I'm getting used to the sound of everything i'm playing.....this is what I think of as an autopilot phase, where you're just playing, without particularly thinking about what you're playing. Changing your influences for a while should help you to think with more focus about what you're playing!

sorry for not answering you guys...

been busy as hell prepping for a work trip to Dublin next week....

I'll reply to you all either Friday or over the weekend...

the thing I don't get is -

I do all this coming to work an' shit.....

and then the fuckers start wanting me to actually do stuff....

like.. what the fuck is all that about??????

962

Clarky: I just picked up Unleashed in the East. I am pretty damn speechless. This album kicks major ass. I will do exactly as you said, sir Clark. Learn songs, write songs. You have a very interesting list of licks you learnt. I am curious, were bands like Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin considered the Marilyn Manson and Eminems of the 70's? lol!

8:::::::> in (oYo) = >:D lmao!!!

962: Glad you pointed out the www.sorryeverybody.com I think republicans need to be doing that! lol

So you guys think Yasser Arafat went to heaven or hell? I think God and Satan are playing ping pong with his soul.

And here is a funny thing by George Carlin. Makes a lot of sense. Its on abortion. Funny stuff.

*taken from "George Carlin: Back In Town"*

Let me ask you something... Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place, huh? Boy these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn, they would do anything for the unborn, but once yer born... yer on yer own.

Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don't wanna know about you. They don't wanna hear from you, no nothing! No neo-natal care, no daycare, no HeadStart, no school lunch, no foodstamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.

Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been lookin' for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise 'em to be dead soldiers. "Pro-life."

These people aren't "pro-life," they're killing doctors, what kinda "pro-life" is that? What, they will do anything to save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor, they just might have to kill it?

They're not "pro-life," you know what they are? They're "anti-woman." Simple as it gets: "anti-woman." They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state. "Pro-life."

You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses do ya? No. You don't see 'em adopting a whole lot of crack babies do ya? No, that might be something CHRIST would do.

FIRE!!" Come on you moral crusaders, let's see a little smoke... To match that fire in ya belly.

Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? What, are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in "goodness"? Name 6 ways we're better than chickens...

See, nobody can do it! You know why? Cuz chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hangin' around in drug gangs, do ya? No, you don't see a chicken strappin' some guy to a chair & hookin' up his nuts to a car battery, do ya? When's the last chicken ya heard about, came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen? Huh?! Doesn't happen. Cuz chickens are decent people.

But let's get back to this abortion shit. Now, "is a fetus a human being?" This seems to be the central question. Well, if a fetus is a human being, how come the census doesn't count them? If a fetus is a human being, how come when there's a miscarriage they don't have a funeral? If a fetus is a human being, how come people say "We have 2 children and one on the way" insteady of saying "We have 3 children"? People say life begins at conception; I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process. Continuous, just keeps rolling along. Rolling, and rolling, and rolling along. And you know something, you can go back further than that- what about the carbon atoms? HUH? Human life could not exist without carbon. So is it just possible that maybe we shouldn't be burning all this coal?

Just looking for a little consistency in the anti-abortion arguments. See, the really hardcore people will tell ya "life begins at fertilization." Fertilization; when the sperm fertilizes the egg. Which is usually a few moments after the man says "Gee honey, I was gonna pull out, but the phone rang and it startled me." Fertilization. But even after the egg is fertilized, it's still 6 or 7 days before it reaches the uterus and pregnancy begins, and not every egg makes it that far. 80% of a woman's fertilized eggs are rinsed and flushed out of her body once a month during those delightful few days she has. They wind up on sanitary napkins, and yet they are fertilized eggs. So basically what these anti-abortion people are tellin' us is that any woman who's had more than one period is a serial killer! Consistency.

Hey, if they really wanna get serious, what about all the sperm that are wasted when the state executes a condemned man and one of these pro-life guys who's watchin' comes in his pants, huh? Here's a guy standin' over there with his jockey shorts full of little Vinnies and Debbies, and nobody's sayin' a word to the guy. Not every ejaculation deserves a name!

Now, speaking of consistency: Catholics, which I was until I reached the age of reason... Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they're against homosexuals. WELL WHO HAS LESS ABORTIONS THAN HOMOSEXUALS?!?!?! Leave these fuckin' people alone fer chrissakes! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed NEVER to have an abortion! And the Catholics and Christians are just tossin' 'em aside! You'd think they'd make natural allies.

Go look for consistency in religion. And speakin' of my friends the Catholics; when Cardinal John O'Connor (RIP) of New York and some of these other Cardinals and Bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they've raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I'll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion. I'm sure it'll be interesting and enlightening. But, in the meantime, what they OUGHTA be doin' is tellin' these priests who took a vow of chastity to KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF THE ALTAR BOYS!! Keep your hands to yourself, father! When Jesus said "Suffer the little children, come unto me," THAT'S NOT WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!!!

So you know what I tell these anti-abortion people? I say "Hey, if you think a fetus is more important than a woman, try getting a fetus to wash the shitstains outta your underwear. For no pay, and no pension." I tell 'em "Think of an abortion as 'term limits.'" That's all it is: biological term limits.

I think it would be great if Satch could write something on the message board at least once each month. He hasn't written in since August....... Anyone else share my sentiment?

Yes, we all do. But hey, arent we good enough for you baby?

Here is a little surprise for all you T2J cd folks.

achoo, I know he has been busy lately. I just attended his concert 10/29/04 in New Orleans. I would just like to get to know him a little better.

SHOW ME THE MONEY !!

Blockbuster Offers $700M for Rival Chain

By DAVID KOENIG, AP Business Writer

Madam Reed: Satch Man is from another planet. How can it be the same!!! We all want Joe to give us more blue, but you see, if he comes here more often he will become more like us. Evil, dirty, naughty and probably will start playing in some loser ass emo band like thursday or thrice. So it's better that we protect what is good. Dubya is more that welcome here though.

Just kidding! ;)

AngieReed,

I'd luv to see Joe post on a more regular basis, but alas, Aladdin is elusive!

Clarkynstein,

Alright, I'll wait till the week's end for you're response...not to get personal, but whadda ya do at your day gig?

Nick - I'm hoping to get the royalties owed to me for broadcasting my music...

also, I hope we can agree on something where I get what is owed to me and the continue to play my music...

hopefully working to everyone's best interests..

in some ways I find him a bit of a "could have done better" player....
in the early days with UFO he was more than promising..
he was simply stunning...
when he formed MSG he never seemed to hit the same level..
yes tracks like "Into The Arena" are superb.. but in general there was always something missing...
also, I think that EVH really killed his career...
just as Schenker and his peers were taking center stage as the new top dogs in metal guitar... EVH, Rhodes [and the serious shredders] showed up, rewrote the rules...
this totally over shadowed Schenker.....

at a time when he should have evolved his style and stepped up a few gears... he simply faded away...
something I find personally tragic given his immense talent...

me?.. I still love his UFO playing style to this day...
I find it every bit as breathtaking as the day I first heard him..

lmao... it's easy to start talking guitars and end up getting smutty.. lmao... I think it's a knack of mine... lmao...
I think it's because all my guitars a beautiful ladies and I love them all... lol..

the latest on Shredz:
Requiem - done
The Chosen One - Done
Artaud: On The Fringe of Insanity - Done
Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit - Done
The Raft of the Medusa - Done [but needs re-mixing and a few tweeks]
The Beheading of John the Baptist - backing track done and I'm about to record the lead guitars..
The Rape of the Sabine Women - not started

so I'm getting there.... wooohooo.... lol...

the pics.. cool... I'll be looking forward to them.... very cool...

my first port of call will be Vai's label... fingers crossed...

are you the same Steve T that mailed me about DSF?????

me go far???..... I really hope so.... I really do..
but I think it's highly unlikely..

Jazzy - yup I'm an old fucker... lol.... but me going to gigs and being an active music fan started around 78 [when I was 12 / 13 years old]...
so by that time, Zep were already old and dying if not dead already along with Purple, Yes, Genesis and the other great bands of the 70's.. but that didn't stop me getting into them.....
as a young teenager Priest were at the helm of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal... leading the way along with bands like Maiden, Motorhead, Angel Witch, Titan, Praying Mantis, Saxon, Samson, Girlschool, Def Leppard, Girl etc....
and yes... this stuff was considered to be real hardcore metal... in yer face.. unholy.. anti-social.. and just about all other dispicable attributes that fit me well... lmao....

in my opinion... still to this day and even comparing them with modern bands... Priest of the late 70's were out on their own as the most superior song-smiths ... and that by far too ..

as you learn to play the albums Unleashed and Killing Machine you'll get an insight into the song construction.. the themes used for riffs and solos....
this stuff is simply brilliantly put together...
the solo ideas are are pure genius... especially given that there is not a single "shred" in sight...
but don't be fooled... try to play them and you'll soon realise that many of those solos contain licks that are far trickier than a legato "neck wank" at twice the note rate...
and the secret behind the solos is that they are very lyrical and beautifully thought out....

Tipton was years and years ahead of his time...
then EHV showed up and the enphisis shifted from smart song-writing to pure technique
a funny after thought - even though the song writing on HV1 is fantastic, the shredding is so powerful that it completely over shadows the other fine aspects of that album...
an unfortunate side effect was to send everyone on a technique trip at the expense of the songwriting skills...

"nice shred... shame about the song.."... lmao...

back to Priest: check out the solo during Tyrant... to this day it knocks me out.... takes my breath away....

Unleashed and Killing Machine are in my opinion milestones and contain some of the finest moments in metal ever recorded...

If my own songwriting style is considered to be even half as good... I'd die a very happy man...

Yasser going to heaven or hell??????? naaahhhh...

Angie - it would be nice if Satch popped in here more than twice a year..... lol...

either way... yer still luvs 'im don't yer....
jus' like the rest of us... lol..

Clarkenstein... lmao....

one of the German guys at work calls me Kleinstein... as in "little Einstein".... lol.. he thinks I'm some kind of mad scientist... lmao..
he obviously don't know me well enough and has often been blinded by bullshit... mine that is... lmao...

zinc master - eschewing obfuscation- there was a composition contest at my uni the other night and a piece called that won :)

Noppa - Can you be more specific with your question? What do you mean by "bad news"? Negative news, factually incorrect news, or something else?

I think I have an answer for you, though. In the US, media organizations (newspapers, television networks, etc.) are privately owned businesses (unlike the BBC in the UK, for example). While media organizations have an obligation to report the news, they're also obligated to report stuff that their audience wants to hear. If they don't pay attention to their audience, no one will buy their paper or watch their program, they won't make money from ads, and they will go out of business.

As sad as it is, violence, celebrity problems (Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, etc.), and so on are what people want to see. Media organizations who don't report stuff like this lose their audience.

Does that answer your question, or did I misunderstand what you were asking?

- Try to write something with pencil and paper, away from your guitar.
- Turn on the radio, tune to a station that you don't normally listen to, and try to play along.
- Buy a few new CDs from a genre of music you don't normally listen to. Get a few jazz or progressive rock albums and give them a few spins.

Does he do anything other than the main theme? I've heard that...it's pretty cool. I've played the game for a few minutes, but I didn't really hear much of the music.

"anybody got any tips for teaching absolute beginners?"

Explain tones and semitones (whole steps and half steps). Explain guitar string intervals (fifth fret on E = open A, fifth fret on A = open D, etc.). Have the student play each fret all the way up and down a string, naming each note before playing it (E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, etc.). Your student should get to the point where you can point to a random fret and your student can name the note. Teach a few scales after that, and then you can move into an easy song...

It's funny because of the problems with the logic contained in the argument. It does not make sense, and is by no means representative of the entire issue.

Clarky, DSF...wasn't me, but I have a Swiss friend who knows German very well...in the future, if ya need any translations...I could get them for you if you need them.

They'll sell your music to buyers from Movie soundtracks, commercials, Record companies...etc. I spend more money on Tequila, than their deal...royalties!!!!!!

How long have you been working on your album? Where can we hear any of the finished tracks?

Peace Out for now!