Delfino be careful what you ask for! Imagine if someone wanted, say for the sake of argument, a dating site with Flash-enabled ActionScript, a backend database, user uploads, daily automated backups, and seamless connection to an SMS server somewhere.... not worth a ton! More like a few grand....

hahaha... RIGHT ON!!!

Just bought a new amp... The Fender Blues Junior 1X12 All Tube Amp / 2 EL84s and 3 12AX7s...

Great Bluesy Tone, and Great Natural Overdrive, And The Footswitchable Fat Switch is an amazing added touch... in my band I was Crunching out chords with the Master Volume set to 3 and the Preamp Volume Cranked to 12 with my Boss DS-1 set to 10-5-12 then I hit the Fat Switch and Boom... The Jump in Volume and Gain I couldn't believe, Great Lead Tone... it absolutely Screamed... I was floored... For some reason, years ago I got bored of having a tube amp (don't know why, it was a Marshall JCM 800 50watt Combo 212) so then I bought my Line 6 Spider 212 and felt that that was better because I could get my Marshall sound in it plus Mesa Boogie, Fender, etc etc... not very touch sensitive mind you...

But as my sound developed playing with a Live act and the fact that I was luggin gear all the time a smaller lighter amp with a bit of umph was needed and also The Tubes were calling to me again... I wanted something slightly brighter sounding... not so muffled... The Blues Junior can get muffelled as well, but you can make it pierce your ears too as I quickly realized, Granted the Blues Junior is not a High Gain amp, but I didn't really need it because of my pedal setup... for some real high distortion I might pick up a Super Distortion or a Metal Zone one of these days along with a Boss DD-3 or DD-6 which ever I guess, probably the DD-3 seeing as the Boss DD-6 is about $290.00 Canadian Dollars including Taxes and the DD-3 is nearly half that price....

I recomend this amp to anyone that wants to experiment with Tubes for the 1st time or even a second time around or 3rd or whatever, cause it's a fairly cheap amp, American you can pick it up for just under $400.00... due to freight and duty charges for Canadians it quickly gets up there in price, as I paid 669.00 Canadian Dollars... I quickly realized, with the right combination of pedals this amp rocks and makes your guitar sing the blues as well...

Hope all is well with everyone,

How's it going Joe? keep in touch Bud...

Peace

Mr. Steven Wilde

I understand that certain people and certain situations will get you down, and that all this time you have worked so hard to make ignorant people see and understand beautiful, meaningful music, but unfortunately, the world has been blinded by commercialism bubble gum crap, and only a few of us know what it means to understand true music, to be able to see past the corporate crap that traps more and more people in it's so-called musical web everyday.

If you look around America, you would notice that there aren't any true heros to look up too. You only see wanna be heros such as: sports stars who cry all the time about money, actors who think they rule the world and are supposed to treat the common folk like turds, and bubble gum crappy musicians or rap artist who present the same ol' crap everyday, and teach the younger generation on how the big dollars means everything, and to obtain the big dollar no matter what the cost.

Our Govt. and billion dollar corporations have done this to society to keep us from letting others see the light, that way they always control us. No real heros anymore, if anyone even looks like a threat, he or she is erased. Sports stars, actors, and crappy musicians are not a threat because they buy into this system, and help keep us acting like morons and robots.

Maybe I am going into this a little too deap, but I am trying to let you know that you must be your own person, and you must believe in your own heros and your own music. I came from Long Beach CA, I know about the ghetto, I graduated from Poly High School, which is a great school but is a ghetto school. I played my own music and believed in my own music no matter what others said about it. Stop being a follower and start being your person and maybe a even leader.

I apologize for any harm that has come your way. I do not know you, and I am new to this site, but I know the disappointment you have gone through, and I say stand up for your music, and make Joe Satriani your hero, because he is true to himself and his music, just like other underdog musical bands that do the same as Joe, They play with their heart. Peace my friend Jaszzmme

michelle big bunny, .05? Wow, isn't that, like one drink and your over the limit? I guess it is safer that way. I mean, after all, when was the last time a couch potato hurt anyone? lol!

i'm the most dangerous potatoe around! 'i have the death sentence on 12 systems!' muha ha ha ;)

bahduh - thanx for the photos, that's one gorgeous son you got there :) i sent some photos back of 3 of my pets because i don't have any humans of my own :)

HELL YEAH!!

hi all...just settling in. this town is soooo boring from what i've seen so far (24 hours 42 minutes as of now). place sleeps soo early.

1st day of college today...NOT impressed. but i've heard it's a good place. basically we had nothing to do, no class, & got dead bored. waiting for the week end to get back home.

mari i'm doing my masters in psychology back here in india

Random Thoughts

-- These are my summer clothes. Summer paid for, summer not.

-- Summarize: To recapitulate the salient facts of summer

-- Did you hear about the book "Sitting Outside in Ireland," by Paddy O'Furniture?

-- Sign at a nudist camp: Sorry - Clothed for Winter.

Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman?

civgeek...good luck on the new guitarist...