Hello Joe, Have seen you three times in Portland at the Arlene Schnitzer concert hall,previously the"Paramount Theater". You rocked each time. Although on your first appearance you were obviously having some sound problems, I spent a large portion of my time as close to your sound man as possible up in the seats it appeared that you couldnt hear yourself to well through the monitors.Your signaling and a few songs and you were off. Anyhow,it appeared as if you had the science of sound down for the Schnitzer on you latest concerts,and now on your last performance in the northwest you went with the new auditorium just north of Vancouver. That show I missed. Many people are hooked on the Schnitzer when it comes to quality sound and along with that is a much more personal or "intimate" feeling of what the musician is relaying through the music. Will you play there in the future?

Good Morning Satchland :-) !!!

Hello JOE, hope you are better :-). Have a good rest and happy new year for you :-) !!!!!

CLARKY - You are right, when i`m singing a song that`s beacuse it`s a good song :-). Happy new year for you and keep up the great work ;-). Regards!!!

BAHDUH - Welcome back my great friend, nice to see you around. I must confess that i was very concerned about you and family. Nice to see you bro :-))) !!!!!! Warm Regards for you Indian bro :-) !!! HAve a great 2005 !!!!

STEVEN WILDE - you are a cool guy aswell :-)). I don`t like very much Motorcycles because when i was 14 years old i had an accident and i did two holes, one of my left foot and other on my right knee, very painfull, one week no Bodyboarding and it was Summer!!! I prefer cars :-)) !!! All the best for you friend and don`t worry about the contest. Warm Regards!!!!

VFRROCKER - Happy new year friend :-). Hope you had a good Christmas and lots of gifts :-)) !!! Regards for you and take care!!!

OVATION1 - Take care with yourself bro and good luck on this Humanitary mission, the world needs us. All the best Mikeyson and happy new year for you :-)) and for your family!!!!

MICHELLE: Check out your e-mail honey :-). Happy new year for you and family :-)) !!!!

TO ALL: ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS CONTEST .....and the winners are: JUJU (1ºprize) and MICHELLE (2º prize). Congratulations Ladies :-))) !!!

Slansh - my latest plan for each studio session is to spend a couple of hours working on the David Cross set, then a couple of hours recording...
I tried it last night and it seems to work well for me...
I now have all of the DC tracks roughly sorted - not good enough for stage yet though... and I managed to record the drums, bass, strings and harp for The Rape of the Sabine Women... still have the choirs, brass and guitars to go... but it was a great session....
once the Rape is done, your solos come next....

if I was with Satch and he cracked open a can of Bud, then I'd crack open a can of diet coke.... cos if he's not drinking then I won't either... lol...

on the IUMA tunes, the backing tracks were mostly from guitar mag CD's... however, Satan, Mutha, The Rape, Idol Threat, PRM Boxter, Balena and Talking to Stone were all backing tracks I made at home......

Satan Salad: here's how it was done.... and it's seriously crude.... because I didn't have a studio at the time... lmao
the sequenced backing track is just bass guitar and and drums..
the sequencer was an Atari ST with Cubase 3.0 the bass guitar and the drum kit metals [hats, cymbals etc] came from an ancient Roland U220, the drums [kick, snare and toms - which I sampled myself] came from an equally ancient Akia S900 sampler..
the S900 and U220 were connected to a cheep little 8 channel mixer
the mixer output recorded the bass and drums onto a mini-diskman
also input into the mixer was a 2nd mini-diskman and my Digitech 2120...
I played back the drum / bass mini-disk and played a rhythm guitar part - recording it onto the other mini-diskman..
I then swap the disks over and played a 2nd rhythm guitar part in unison with the 1st over the backing disk which now has drums / bass and one guitar...
the result was a backing track with drums / bass and 2 guitars...
Satan is in the key of Dm... so I tuned the rhythm guitars down a whole tone to get the heaviness [from the 6th string - D, G, C, F, A, D]
a few days later I was work in Cambridge so I took the 2 mini-diskman's, my little Zoom 9002 PRO, Wrath [RG470] and a Crybaby....
MD [backing track] --> Zoom --> MD [recording]
and then I cut the solo....

crude or what... lol...

SteeveT - I was listening to the Baptist yesterday.... and it's only just sinking in as to just how 'on form' I was when I recorded it....
now I'm working on the David Cross set, it just seems so dull in comparison... even the guitar playing I did on the latest DC album [which I quite liked at the time] just seems pretty uninteresting....

shit... where do I go from here?

if you want to hear a nice London accent spoken freely and containing plenty of local slang, grab the movie Snatch on DVD.... every single character reminds my of someone that is either a pal of mine or my dads... good movie too...

also.. there is a DC rehearsal on the 9th... you up for that??

Clarky - LOL Okay. Is the rehearsal on the ninth of January or the ninth of February? I have a gig on the ninth of February... If it's January, then yeah I'm up for that. Again, I'll be in Hastings that Sunday because of my teaching on the following Monday, so it'll have to be a train job. But my student loan will only be four days old so there'll be plenty of it left... LOL

Summoner,

thanks for taking a listen to my site...and letting me know!

If a tree falls in the forest....

Clarky,

Restore The Empire! Hip, Hip, Hoorah!

Regarding where do I go from here...whenever I feel I'm at a dead end....I listen very closely to my heart, and let it take me where it wants!

Peace, and a Happy New Year!

Hey Joe!!!! when do you come to Belgium, 'cause I was ill when you came to Ghent in 2000.

Summoner,

Telecaster yes!

Teletubbies.....?......I think I'm simply......daft!

www.stevetrott.com

Happy New Year Joe + All the T2j er's!

Get Well Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've just found out that Joe is sick. Please get well soon mi amigo.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! Just got home from work 3:00am, my wife is asleep (pissed) Our friends that stayed over are asleep (pissed). So Im sittin at the computer gettin pissed. (sad isn't it)

Joe, when playin in Sydney and you feel like hanging with the natives, let me know, I'll gladly take the time off work.

DELFINO- Wow! You play in drop C to! Thats seems to be pretty popualr! It sounds as if You are making some great headway! I understand You, I think! I just finished with tune 'alley of the sphere' and I had this way cool rythym, But no lead! didn't leave any room? But I think I finaly found something that fit's in the right key? we'll seeLOL Glad Your making good progress! I cant wait to hear it!.........................SteveeT- How are You doing? Hope You are having A great Day!.........................ZENFISH- I really hope thing's are very great for You this new season, And that it hold's Great, and exiting new blessing's for You! I really wish You a Great Day, and A very pleasant new year!

Happy New Years

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get well soon Joe.

Steven Wilde,

I'm fine, and your fine self?

Happy + Healthy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

Steven, thankyou for the card! That was very kind. All went well today, but 4th January is crunch day for us with the house- make or break, unfortunately, mental torture though it is! Have a good evening, whatever you doing!