one last thing before I go to bed. Bought a PS2 and Gran Turismo 4 from Domayne's 2 days ago and got 2 free tickets to see the V8 Supercars at Eastern Creek Raceway (Sydney) in May.

Thank you all for the welcome backs and the hellos. This is a great place. Later friends, and GOD Bless

Guitarmiester

I just witnessed him in Nashville. He played an encore of "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Momma" with Eric Sardinas and Johnny Hiland. Best show I've ever seen!

metallica.com have some problems too. The official message board was hacked a few days ago and I guess the webmaster over there got a shock when he found his forum down.

"Fuck you all - Fuck Metallica" was the message from "the white fox" stated on the hacked forum up at metallica.com. "There is no way of stopping me, you will never stop me. I could take this site down 10 times a day if I wished.... You will never stop piracy, you are wasting your time and money trying"

what an ass hole..

VFRrocker - LOL...you're welcome. ;-)

Hmmm...? Are you confusing me with someone else here, maybe...?

I'd still love to do it though...it could be a lot of fun. Keep me in the loop...

Ah...that's probably why the venue was changed. The promoter probably either gets a percentage of the alcohol sales, or thinks people won't come to the show if they can't drink.

Jazzzzzzy- I just checked out your questions for Joe! LMAO!!! I like the nickname for Yngwie! I have an Yngwie joke. It was from a guitar mag. back in 92. Remember its ONLY a joke. (for Yngwie fans) A kid dies and goes to Heaven. He is standing by the Gates and St. Peter greets him. "Welcome my child. You are in Heaven. I see you wanted to play the guitar on Earth. Well, in Heaven you can do anything without effort that you wanted to do on Earth." The kid said" I want to play the guitar like my fav. guitar player, Yngwie." So St. Peter told the kid to go into room # 32. When the kid opened the door, the room was filled with guitars and amps. From the other side of the wall he could hear someone playing Yngwie songs. His heart skipped a beat and now was saddened to realize Yngwie had died the same day as he did. So he went to St. Peter with tears in his eyes. St.Peter said "What is wrong my child, are you not happy with Heaven?" The kid said "I am saddened to see that Yngwie died on the same day as I. Now people on Earth are not going to be able to hear new music from him. St. Peter smiled and whispered in the kids ear "Dry your eyes, thats God, he thinks he is Yngwie!!"

mjs99 ... and every other Aussie around: I'm enjoying a glass of Rosemount at the moment (good redwine, my first ever purchase of an Ausralian wine). I raise my glass for you guys (and galls)... and Joe ... have a great time!!!

The real winter came a bit late here in Finland this year. Temperature has been around -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheits) at nights for the past weeks (-30 C = -22 F at worst). The sun is warming already at day time, so the kids have saved from frostbites.

I bought new loudspeakers for my PC today. It was a good bargain (thinks me): 50 euros (= 67 USD = 85 AUD = 35 GBP) for "Logitech X-230" (two satellite-speakers, each 6 watts RMS + a 20 watts RMS subwoofer, total peak power 64 watts). Listened to Joe's "Engines of Creations" and concidering the room my PC is located, they speak enough for that price.

Feels so f***ing great to listen to some good music after another exhausting week at work...

...Been wondering my life lately; no time for physical exercise... increased smoking...and drinking. What the hell am I doing? ++++ Oh, well...I'm still smiling...and have still had time for some good music... live, too; Judas Priest was good ... still so tight!!!

Right now I'm listening to Black Label Society's new album "Mafia" (like I told before, I'm going to see Zakk and his band live in June).

SOTD: BLS: "You Must Be Blind"

Joe!.. Saw you last night in Auckland and dude YOU ARE AWESOME LIVE!!...Cant wait til the next gig here ;-)

Keep up the good work mate!

Someone asked (mjs99) how the Auckland show went. Was there last night and it rocked. Huge set - about 3 hours! - and lots of classic stuff from surfin', Flyin' and Crystal Planet and “Hordes of Locusts”. The start of the second set was strange with a mix of Strange Beautiful Music songs with Matt on a stand up electric bass before launching back into some more classics like Flying in a Blue Dream etc.

The crowd went totally off the whole night and Satch and Co came back for an unbelievably encore rendition of Surfin' With The Alien. The only let downs for me - and this is minor nit picking - was no Rubina as a show closer which I absolutely love and the sound balance wasn't quite right. The latter problem may be due to being seated up stairs as we were getting bombarded by Bass making it hard to hear the melody and some of the more intricate stuff.

However you can't take anything away from the man. The night was amazing. An awesome mix of nostalgia and new stuff finished with a huge chunk of genius. Satch was full of energy throughout the whole set and just seemed to be feeling every note along the way.

Wow, it's been a while since I posted last! I've been crazy busy at work. Anyway, the interview contest caught my attention. Now all I can think of is what questions I'd get to ask Joe if I won.

I also remembered that back in my college days I interviewed Ron Thal for my instrumental guitar radio show, but never got to air the recording, 'cause I got slammed with my senior class project. A few days ago I found the tape, and transcribed the whole thing, and put it on my Web site:

My Ron Thal interview

The interview is from 1997, before Thal got into the really funky fretless guitar work, so there's no questions about that. And now, listening to the interview again, I can think of tons more questions to ask him.

I remember doing this interview well - Thal seems like a very cool guy, and I remember feeling like would probably let me ask questions all day, even though he's obviously an extremely busy person.

Anyway, there's definitely a few nuggets of information I haven't read anywhere else (though I haven't looked in a while). I'd love to hear what you think.

Lots of familiar faces, uh, nick names, still around. I'll have to do some catching up...

SteveeT- Awesome, That sound's Great! I look forward to that! Hope Your having A graet day! :-) Talkt to You soon!.... ........................ZENFISH- I am Sorry, You raised some Worthy Point's. I may be to much of an' omptimistic, to be of any use.

I certantly dont ever want want to riase any false hope. And if thhat what it appears I am ding, It id good to that some One point's that out to Me. Thank You.

All of My Life, I was told, I probably would fail, at everything. And, I didn't want to anyone to be hurt that way,

If I belived them, And didn't listen to the "few" folk' That "cheered" me on,.

I never would have Acheived what i didi in Motorsport's, Or Music, Or Anything.

But I will never Say anything of hope like that again.

Brcause, I most certantly dont want to give false hope to anyone, Just Encoragement.

But, If I am doing that ina Bad way. I will keep My mouth shut! Again, Thank's for the Advise. I hope All is great with you to also! And Your having a great day!. Talk to you later!.............. ..................BIG BAD MOON.....js22.................Esterela............. MICHELLE....................962.......................BAUDHUH................ ......Suzie.......................CHEESE101....................ANGIE READ.. .................Spizazz......................TUNE.................VFRocker..ALAEANDRE.......DCK....... ...........A BIG heLLLO to YOU All! I am so very tired,

Just had to stop, and say A hello, and hopre all are doing really good, and having a

Nive Weekend!

God Bless,

Have A Nice day!

Stevie C. :-) ZZzzzzzzzztopless Just have to say, LOVE YouALL

Since a few T2Jers have asked me about it, I thought I would post a quick message to say that I have submitted my entry for the 2005 Webcast interview contest.

The page is organized alphabetically by username, so I'm about the 10th entry on the page.

silent_shady...hhhmmm..I wondered, but haven't said a word...lol

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Steven Wilde...what kinda of tune would you like...soft, or hard?

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back from my uncles....now im really bored...but im probly gonna go hang out with my brother or friend or something soon...play bass..i dont no ill find something..lol....hope everyone is having a great saturday and talk to u all soon...