g'day guys,

wow 20 pages to catchup on , my internet was disconected for a couple of days, that sux

anyway mums doing okish, finally gettng some resprite happening had my first band practice yesturday , first time in four years me being in a band, other than church band...

loooks like one of my songs might be getting on the talk 2 joe cd thad be cool so i gotta take the song of the site now for a while

i wonder if joe ever listens to the talk2joe cds?

hope every ones ok , like i said had no interentet for 2 days, i was going thru withdrawl problems, i love my interntet

joe , love the anthology cd , best yet, ps one thing, when playing down ,on the first cd it goes back to track one? mind u i keep the origingal at home and a cdr in car incase car gets broken into

i love my car stereo, 100 front speekers 180 6x9 , need an amp and sub if i can ever aford it.

chat to u all later ,im stuffed gonna watch the box for a while

Hi everyone...what's up? Sorry for being so quiet for the past week or so, but I've been trying to enjoy my spring break. ;-)

So...what have I been up to? I decided to hang around school for another semester. I was originally planning on graduating in December, but now I'll wait and graduate in May 2006.

Part of the reason I decided to stay was because I wanted to apply to be editor in chief of the newspaper next year. I had an interview for that on Friday, but I didn't get the job. Oh well...I can still apply for another position (one that would still be a promotion), and if I don't get that I can just stay where I am now.

Anyway, that's enough about me. I thought I'd take a moment to talk about a few CDs that I bought today:

Neal Schon: I On U - This album came out last month, but I didn't get around to buying it until today... Does anyone else here have it? If I had to describe it briefly, I would call it "EOC-lite"...it sounds very similar to EOC (as well as the softer parts of Stu Hamm's Outbound), but that's not a fair description because this album is so much more than that. It's very laid back and just cool all around. I love the strings (I guess they're synth strings, actually) on Taken There. It'd be cool to hear more of that type of music from Neal.

Dave Weiner: Shove The Sun Aside - Wow. Everyone needs to buy this album. I can hear Steve Vai's influence here, but Dave's own style is still there. My favorite track is Ghost Of Denmark Street. Also...Dave's Party Piece (from Steve's Live At The Astoria) is included on this album as a bonus track. If you're even just a casual fan of Dave's music (based on what you've heard from his work with Steve), you'll love this album.

Ozzy Osbourne: Prince Of Darkness - This is a great box set for both old and new fans. I consider myself a big Ozzy fan (I have all of his studio albums and some of the soundtracks that his music appears on, etc.), but 30 of the 52 songs on this set are new to me (they're either completely new songs, or live or demo versions of classic songs). I bought this set for $29.99 at Best Buy...it's a steal at that price, so go buy it before the end of the week (they'll raise the price on Tuesday when the next new releases come out) if you can. This set also includes the "new" versions of the songs from Ozzy's first two albums (when Ozzy remastered them a few years ago, he had new musicians rerecord the bass and drum tracks due to contract disputes with the original musicians). I'm having an extremely hard time listening to these songs because of this, but hey...I can just stick to the original albums. The rest of this box set (including crazy stuff like a cover of Born To Be Wild with Miss Piggy, and the song Stayin' Alive with solos by guitarists such as Dweezil Zappa, Zakk Wylde, and Nuno Bettencourt) is more than worth the price tag. Buy it.

Does anyone have any thoughts on these albums?

newsflash,,,,,newsflash.....

any one know if joe's satch tapes are on dvd in australia ?

flashlight.....are yu talking about dt-live in budokan....or the one they are planning to release in june.....btw,,are yu a fan of dream theater?

in case yu did not know,,,stu or do the stu(austin) is the numero uno here..he is the boss...his knowledge is next to none...perhaps next only to god,,,serious,,,he is a genius when it comes to music and he is always helpful....any querries,,just ask him and the answer is yurs... right austin!!!

got to go.......

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL.

Hi Joe, I am a new member and this is my first letter to you. I think you are a genius, man! I just love the way you make love to your guitar! Its simply great that you are coming to india and particularly yo Calcutta....I am from Calcutta and I WILL BE THERE at Salt Lake stadium no matter what. A big Hi to all the other fans!!!! Ciao, Spy

Joe, You probably don't read these but here goes. You have over the years truly inspired me and motivated my guitar playing like no oter. I could probably sing your songs lik for lik on most all your albums. I have my own instrumental guitar album out "outer courts" and gig around with it. I hope to see you when you come to Spokane.

Chamallow __ You are still working bro. I know you work. Thanx.

OCPS470, thanks for bringing that up dude, I've been forgetting to ask - When do I have to send you the .wav file by? I'm guessing I've got a month or two since DCK said August is targeted for release?

Did you hear my MP3 submission? If not, DCK has got it kickin around somewhere! hehe. Hey thanks a lot for your kind remarks.....I probably should have called the track "underdog" or "beginners luck" for it to go on a disc next to all you guys!! haha.

I know exactly what you mean about forcing in a bit of this and a bit of that! hehe, I was really rinsing the proverbial bag-of-tricks, but had to draw a line! I really wanted some trem flicks and satch-squeels in there, but cause I was recording straight from my POD2, it just wasn't happening. I get very mixed results with the POD - it's tonally just about scraping par, but it's response to harmonics and all the ingredients required for good trem abuse is pitiful.

bahduh > thax for your mail man ... heard that you are tied up in work ... catch you later .. happy easter for you and your family.

Hey there,,

Do The Stu Hey man, knowing that you're the boss, hehehe.. ask something,,,.. why Joe cut off his hair?? Happy 2600th...

off to schoo..then an early baseball game so ill be home tonight...and tomorrows off so..1 more day...lol...talk to u all later and hope u all have a great day...peace

good morning everyone

Hei, will someone kindly congratulates me for my 86th messages?? 914 more to go to 1000 messages

Thanks Ataris 1 - Surprised you remember me, I haven't been here in so long. Shows were awesome. Were you at the Forum ones? Did you see that d!ckhead at the end of the Saturday night one? Man that shits me... We were so close to dispelling the reputation of aussie guys being drunken louts... SO CLOSE!!!

Steven Wilde...snow in April...bah humbug....ready for the sun, sand & the surf! lol

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cheese-a-reno-101....Happay Thursday!

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