Ouch....sorry to hear about your bout with pneumonia, Joe. I was in the hospital for over a week with in when I was about 7 years old....very scary time when you're that age.

Happy birthday Alex!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!! Hopefully you'll get to spend the day with your wife and beautiful little girl. I bet she's gotten so big since I saw the picture of her at the Beacon in '01. She was only 11 weeks old then. Enjoy the day off, but send Joe some soup...and more cow bell for the fevah!

Fretslayer: Well, MegaBoyd was there on the 26th but not the 27th, which was too bad. He was standing to the left in about row 2 that night, closer to where Mike Manning hangs out, and I think Do The Stu was right by him as well that night. We were just to the right of center stage, front row. For the 27th, Do The Stu was right in front of Joe's pedal board (lucky him!!) along with a couple of his family members, then my son and I were right next to them, all against the stage. I had a tall young man standing right next to me (he caught a pick early on and was thrilled!), and next to him was the guy that was constantly yelling, dancing and waving his arms at Joe..he was really into it! So I bet you might have been the guy next to him! Great show, wasn't it? Sorry we didn't get a chance to say "hey"!!

Michelle: Yeah, it would be nice for people with no manners or class to just stay home and leave the rest of us to enjoy ourselves....That'll never happen!

And though he won't admit it, I think my son was GLAD to throw that guys' backpack away....I guess a lot of his stuff spilled out all over the floor when it hit, which made the guy pretty mad and he was gettin in my sons' face, so he gave the guy a shove...pretty scary actually, cuz I didn't know what the guy might do in return. Luckily Austin and a couple other people around us kept him from doing anything else and he left. Poor Joe, he probably saw what happened because he immediately moved right in front of us, playing all the while.

Security was nowhere to be seen, at least not up front by the stage. Before the show started we actually had some breathing room around each person where we could move comfortably a bit...but when Joe came out it seemed like everyone pressed forward and then you couldn't move at all, had to fight to keep your space. Luckily, being up against the stage, we couldn't be pushed out of our spots very easily, but it sure made for an interesting couple of evenings! And by golly, Chris and I stood outside in the rain and the cold from 3:45 on the second night to be able to be up front (by the time the concert was over we figure we were standing about 8 hours at that point!) and we weren't very willing to give up our spots!

But ya know, not really complaining cuz we got to see JOE 2 nights in a row!! Yeah!

Get well soon Joe

Happy Birthday to an awesome drummer! Jeff C. you have a great freakin birthday, man! Be crazy!

Joe, hope you feel better quickly. I'm looking forward to the Phoenix reschedule date. By the way, it took me an hour to figure out you are using the boss gigadelay "twist" effect on "Searching". That's such a cool sound..I like it. Now I have to go buy the pedal, dammit!

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery Joe!

JOE: I had pneumonia when I was an infant...it took 3 inches off of my final height. You can't afford to be even shorter than Steve haha! Rest up and take it easy!

Joe I hope you get well sooner as posible, and i will elevate a pray for your quick recovery.

Hey all.. Merry Christmas..

Joe, I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well (and at Christmas too!) Get well soon, dude. You're in our thoughts.

Hope everyone has a good new year. Keep love in your hearts always..

G'day Joe,

Got a question fellah, in that MTV bluegrass unplugged you played in with Stevie Ray Vaughan, your first song was called "The feeling" and you played it on the Banjo/Guitar, is there any chance you would be able to tell me what model/make Banjo that was?

And maybe if it is not too much hassle, where I can find that tabs for that song.

Hi Joe and Merry Christmas! I knew today that you are hill and i want you to get better very soon. I'm from Portugal and i expect to ear you soon too. I also would like to wish you a very good year 2005 to you , Robina and ZZ. In hope you recover soon e continuous with your fantastic life and familie a very good year.

best regards joao bicudo

"The Vibe" has been a little stressing as of late, actually for some time... I scan through messages nearly everyday on this site, and at some point, unless it's Green or Blue I read every word... other than that, I skim through it without giving it a 2nd thought... I honestly think that sometimes when nothing is immediatly exciting on T2J to some people, they tend to take their frustrations on other individuals... and then we get into a verbal dispute... Enough about all that... maybe what this site needs are more trivias or voting polls... things of that nature...

Hi Joe Hope you get better soon !!! I also need to wish an happy New year to you and your family

Hi everyone,

Just like to wish joe a speedy recovery and hope he is up and about in no time.

Wishing eveyone a happy New year (only 24 Hrs left 2004 here in NZ)