Anyone here reading or read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke? If so, opinions?

OCPS470, thanks for checkin out my stuff man, and I'm glad you liked The Eye Of Ra. re your question; no that's my Cravin legacy, tho I have to say it's not really the amp that is responsible for the tone - it's mostly the pickups (same as joe's), the Bad Horsie Wah and the Boss MD-2. For the other tracks, I used the Marshall Bluesbreaker instead of the Boss - I think the marshall is a slightly fatter sound with smoother bass, but that is also why it's a bit muddy on those tracks.

I have to use the pedals for tone at the moment - I can't have the amp loud (ie. on the dirty channel) cause i'm using the voiced line out on the back of the head, and it's going straight into my soundcard! I will, at some point, get a small (8 track, 4 output) mixer, and then just use a pair of mic's for recording, but until then, I gotta do it all at low volume! Bearing that in mind, i'm actually fairly happy with the tone!

Zen, I agree with 962 re Andy T. I was fortunate enough to see him play three sets with his "Pawn Kings" band and Andy is a very diverse player who yes, can do the SRV thing but he can also do the Gary Moore emotional thing and the Santana thing and so on. He also has a very full bag of tricks and sounds. A very "modern" player to say the least. He even cranked out some Wes Montgomery style jazz chordings when I saw him. All with the same Ibanez and a small Laney amp (plus plenty of pedals I am sure)....

opticalstudio: Hi there! All is going well for me. How are you? Yeah, I'm actually thinking of going to racing school. I just want to ask around if it's really worth it, because it doesn't come cheap at all!! I have to start saving for it if I'm doing a course.

Some obscure things still outstanding on the mikesb "ToDo" list:

1) A day of snowboarding with Joe followed by an apres-ski jam.

2) Sneak into Pere Lachaise cemetary after closing and smoke some pot with the "others" assembled around Jim Morrison's resting place.

3) Visit Tasmania

4) Visit Phil Lynott's final resting place and later hoist a pint to his memory at his statue in Dublin

962: you ought to look into getting a THD Hotplate. It will let you run the amp at "11" but allows you to damp down the volume (that's how I was able to get the SRV type tones on the SRH tune I did, because I had the clean channel of a LOUD 40watt fender cranked all the way on everything haah!)...it has a line out, so potentially you could run out of the amp into the THD then into the soundcard with no problems. They run around $300 but are great products!

Chron, thanks for the info on the transportation in San Fran! I'm sure we'll find a way to make it to the concert just fine, and afterwards, who cares? We'll probably float back to the hotel anyway!!

Do The Stu: yeah, that sounds very logical and right....I guess we can just hope and dream for the second night of concerts in San Fran!!

Hello friends, what a crazy days :-)) !!! Lots of work and many ideas running trough my head :-)). Gonçalo Pereira is back from China. He is very happy :-).

MICHELLE - Hello sweetheart, happy 2000 for you baby. How is your knee? Hope very well. I`m right now with pains on my neck and shoulder :-/. I did Bodyboarding last week and i did an injury. It sucks :-/. Kisses for you honey :-)). Korn dvd is nice but i need solos, too heavy to me lolol :-) !!!

MARIMARISRV- Hello Sea Eyes :-)). Glad that you liked Gonçalo Pereira cd :-)). If you go to NAMM in January probably you will have a suprise, a real good one :-))) !!!! Kisses for you Mari. You rock baby :-) !!!!

BAHDUH - Hello Indian friend. When i`m not here i`m working or recording ;-). THanks for asking :-)). How is the baby? Regards for you!!!

VFRROCKER - Welcome back :-)). Thanks for your words my friends. Glad to see you again :-)). Gonçalo rocks indeed :-)) !! Warm Regards for you :-)). Btw how are you?

962 - i will listening your new music soon amigo, no problem ;-).

DO THE STU - where is the Namm, the place? Hello friend :-).

JAZZZY - Hello friend :-), can you send a copy of Mustaine autograph? It would be awesome :-). Thank you bro :-) !!!

OPTICALSTUDIO - Thank you very muck for your words friend. I wish you a great work in the future and keep up the guitar ;-)) !!!!

ZENFISH Hello friend !!!

OCPS470 and DCK - Good work for both playing together :-)). OCPS470 - i agree with you about the bad conversations over here. Thanks to remember the new members :-).

MASTER YODA - Happy 1000 !!!

NARFACE - Welcome back :-) !!!

SUZIE 2000 - Siperman2 is amazing indeed :-)). Harry Potter rocks :-)) !!!

PETE MULAS - Nice to see you. Sorry about that guy, what a silly guy. Regards for you bro :-)) !!!

QUITO - Nice to see you - welcome back Brasilian friend :-)) !!!

MIKEY FROM VAI.COM - Thanks for the info :-).

JUJU - hello great friend, did you try call me? Sorry, i missed you :-/. All the best JUlie and have good week :-)) !!!

TO ALL : photos from my workshop, hope you liked :-))

http://www.alexandrecaetano.com/pt/index.php?id=33,42,0,0,1,0

mikesb - You're probably talking about this Joni Mitchell DVD, right? I bought it last year because someone here recommended it...maybe it was you. ;-)

It's a very cool DVD...I need to watch it again sometime soon...

Quiero ver al peloncito ojitos bonitos con su guitarrita cromadaaaaaaaaaaaaa

WHYYYYYY??? WHYYYYYYY?? WHY G3 WON'T COME TO MONTERREY, MEXICOOOOO

Please anyone who will go to the show at mexico city TONIGHT please, send me an e-mail, today.

 A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets.

As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.

 A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family.

She asked a stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"