OCPS: Dude, I actually did manage to download the track! thanks a lot man, really means a lot. The tone of the guitar is superb and I will be putting up my schecter and by boss br 532 on ebay to make around 900 dollars. The fender strat maple neck is long gone :(

...but britney spears is good looking. Liza Minelli is old and rotty.

Estrella: You have been zenified too! yes, the veggie meal is very good and very healthy. I am a steak and BBQ man when it comes down to basics, but sometimes veggie meals are awesome. take care!

Suzie: Right in middle of mainstream and non mainstream is exactly where I think Joe should be seen. Why do you think he sits on both sides of the fence?

Agape: yes, people who dont enjoy JS suck.

Silent Shady: I didnt know you had AIDS!

And we got only Valentines day message today from T2J'rs?

Happy Violentines Day!

Hi kids! I'm 1184 posts behind, so I won't be catching up. I'll start fresh from here. I took my pop home from the hospital today. He's better, but has a few weeks of recovery ahead of him. He's still walking like an 80 year old. Poor dude. Hope everybody had a good week.

SupaaDave, how about some Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, Revolution is my Name, and Walk. Korn - A.D.I.D.A.S., Freak on a Leash. Anything Godsmack. Something off the new Megadeth cd. Something from Drowning Pool. Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out. Vai - I'm The Hell Outta Here, Bad Horsie, Jiboom. Anthrax - Safe Home. That's about all I can think of. Maybe you can use one or two of them?

ON NEWS STANDS NOW - GUITAR LEGENDS - THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE - DIMEBAG LIVES!

Quote of the day - "...but britney spears is good looking. Liza Minelli is old and rotty. "

Civgeek, Happy Birthday!

Jazzy, Slan, Suzie, Steven, Stevee, Mick, Mikey, mikesb, Mari, Marty, Mark x 2, Miguel, Tracie, Alexandre, Clarky, Powerslave, Benny, and everyone else - Hellooo!

Welcome newbies!

silent shady: AIDS and Hep B :)

Lets see....Civgeek, congratulations on the new guitar, it's beautiful, and Happy Birthday!! Your wife is a jewel!!

Happy Valentines Day to all T2J'ers and their loved ones...

Bahduh, thanks for the nice congratulations to Chris with his grades, and btw, I've just passed on your message to Austin via e-mail.....now to wait and see if he answers you!

Hi Steven, you sweetie you! Got your e-mail, will answer it in the next day or two....hope you've had a "Hunny" of a day with a sweet Valentine!

Jazzzzy, love or lust......it's all good!!! Happy V day to you!

Michelle, Mari, Suzie, Estrela, hope all you lovely ladies had loving Valentines to make your day special!!

SaxPlayer, you're welcome!! And Stevee T how is YOUR evening going?

Michelle: youre doing your duty real well by taking care of your Dad. I am sure he really appreciates what you have done for him. Hope you and yur Dad feel better after all this.

As for Pantera, have you heard Reinventing the Steel? Damn, thats one hell of an album! I was blasting Yesterday dont mean shit and Death Rattle real loud and bugging my new roommate. The guy swears so much that when he talks in his sleep, he swear like a machine. No kidding. He swears so much I look like an angel in front of him. But its cool.

I wanted to purchase the Guitar world special for Dimebag, but it costs 6.00 dollars! I need to pick up the guitar world thingy with Vai, Laiho and zakk. looks kewl, but guitar world has started to suck major exercise balls because half of the fin magazing is ads, ads and more ads. I wish they could start an online edition that would cost half as much as their newsstand prices. But, Playboy is only 11.00 dollars for a whole year. I am pretty impressed.

Master Yoda:

You are quite correct when you say I did not mean to patronize. I apologize for that. Please forgive any such quasi insults from my hand.

I have struggled with writing accordingly and with appropriate tone from time to time. Seems like I loose my mind sometimes.

I envy your strength of rebelion and eagerness to persevere regardless of any obstacle which may stand in your way in your endeaver to succeed.

If I may simply offer this bit of advice if you have not done so please seek a well recognized management.

Keep rockin'

Civgeek:

The [/link] you placed in the response post was not working. I am interested in the information but I do not wish to be bothersome either. Please at your conveinience.

Thanks for your time and effort in this matter.

JOE

Can't wait for yah to come to Brisbane man. It will be great even if you hit a wrong note. lol Live in SF I picked up on only 1 mistake!! that is so good. Have you ever wondered how many notes on the guitar your actually playing during a whole show? You are the greatest, Ill be there watching right up the front it will be awesome!! Great night I hope maybe ill win a aftershow pass to seyah that would be the coolest bro. Of the subject your new JSX is nearly twice the price over in Australia! Maybe you need to speak to peavey for me lol. Anyway looking forward to it

I wonder if any one here was as neurotic as I when I first began guitar?

Please be honest when answering the following question:

In my first three months of guitar learning and on occasion afterward I would intentionally burn my finger tips by way of a candle flame. It may sound gruesome in text but I never allowed my skin to actually burn I would simply test my level of pain until I could not accept it any longer. The idea was to tuff-up the tips quicker and would allow me to practice longer on the next attempt at playing. In most cases it was directly after several hours of practice when the tips were already inflamed.

I do not condone this practice and only offer it in question not as a suggested routine. If you should partake however, please be extremely careful. A mistake could cause a temporary loss of ablilty to play until you heal. I have never asked a doctor who may actually know whether the practice actually did the function I was thinking it did. Regardless of any danger this may have placed me in, I did feel as though it did help me gain callouses that were tuffer and less prone to pain while practicing harder and longer.

Mikesb:

Al Yankovic is a clever dude. I wonder if he did al of that by hand or if he had some kind of book or resource to help him.

I forget the grammatical definition of this kind of twist on words i.e synonym, antonym (spelling sucks). A nym in reverse?

BConner:

The links I have tried on all of your posts either do not work for me or the music is extremely distorted and over amplified such that my player even on its lowest setting plays a barely legible bank of noise.

If you could provide another file I would be happy to try again.

agape:

JS1200 is a fixed bridge if memory serves. JS 1000 has a whammy. Is there a JS2000 still being offered I believe it has a whammy. Stay away from the JS100.

Please do not expect more than 80 % of your true expectations. Though the Ibanez website boasts an exact replica of Joe's setup, it is not.

I have extreme standards of what quality is however so you can add a 5% to 10% to the figure I gave above.

hi everyone....guess the fucking grammy hitch is over......

steven......thanks for the mail......yu have one too.....hey did yu say yur family watched the grammys...hey bro,influence and guide them to watch the american video music awards instead...it is more respectable and honorable than the grammys......at least it honours real musicians for a change from the other awards......lol.....steven,,,take care and god bless.....reagards to yur folks.

michelle.....thanks for the mail....regards to yur pops....and take it easy on yurself....need a driver ...yu can always hire me..i can always make do with a few extra cash,,specially if it is in dollars...lol.......bye.

jazzy............hi.....du yu like the grammys...guess yu do.....lol...........saw yu post about yu trying to date someone...hmmm,,,sounds interesting...all the best and take care.....btw,,,are yu sure that zenny is a ganja man...it is readily available here and i can sell it to him...lol.

zenny....what is it with yu and chainsaw...are yu the crook behind the chainsaw massacre.....hello frenchie,,,,,,,i am talking to yu......so yu are experiencing snowfall....enjoy the weather...bye man...cheeers.

artanis.......mate whats up with yu......stll hopping with da kangaroo or the wallabies?

cheese...it is nothing really....proud of chris yu should be....and also thank yu for redirecting my message to austin...it means a lot to me..take care and god bless yu and yur family.

estrela....happy yu..i am so glad that we agree on certain things like the fucking grammys......i think it is a huge pain in the ass to genuine musicians....fuck commercial music....being brazilian,,,du yu like sepultura...max cavellara?cheers to the satch fan from the land of PELE.

suzie2000....sorry to disagree on that brian wilson issue...i really dont give a shit as to who he is but i think vai is more creditable than him and add to it.cuthberts message,,,it enhances my point....sorry to disagree.

cuthbert...glad that yu think that wilsons fart are better than his music or so,,so,,,,,vai is morecrediatble than him...right o......thanks for siding with me....btw,,,grammys can kma.

Zenfish:

Thank you for giving not an answer :)

I was not aware that ZZTOP had covered the Rollings Stones Brown Sugar. I shall look for it, ZZ is one of my influences as was the Stones.

Shindlieria Pramaetaurus - YES

Starship Trooper - YES

Trilogy - Yngwie Malmstein

Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing - Joe Satriani

Summer Song - Joe Satriani

Muslim Frosty - Conan O'Brien Postage Stamp

Theme from Odd Couple - ? - Good for technical difficulties time

Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar

Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton

YYZ - Rush

Red Barchetta - Rush

We Do What Were Told - Peter Gabriel

Squealer - AC/DC

Thats the way - Led Zeppelin - III

Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica

Wont Get Fooled Again - The WHO

Venus and Mars - Rock Show - Paul McCartney and the Wings

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