Clarky...it's frustrating...you want it perfect, but it drives you insane....hmmmm...can you afford to take a breather to come up for air? Will you regret not following yer instinct's? Very Very tough...hmmm....erm...

This message is to dck, or anyone else who can help me. I have a peavey amp that has the two fx loop jacks. I have a digitech whammy, a boss ds-1 and a l6 pod xt live pedal board, and a dunlop wah. Which pedals would you reccommend going into the loop and which into the input jack for the guitar? I only have 4 cables or maybe 5, so how many more would i use or need, i have never used my fx loop part of the amp Any help would very much appreciated.

Hello Satchland.........I hope there is peace and goodwill throughout the land of Satch....;)

Just popping in briefly tonight...... I owe a few replies to posts, Sorry.I'll get back to you later... In light of the recent tragic events I feel I need to acknowledge and address the unbelievable situation in the Southern Gulf states hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. She showed NO MERCY!! As Stevee T said....."All you Southerner's......hope God is with you tonight...." I couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts and prayer's are with all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Too much Loss and Devastation to be fathomed just yet....it's just unbelievable! I'm in shock. They say it's the worst Natural Disaster to hit the United States........I think it is. They don't consider what happened to American Indian's as "natural disaster" although there was a much greater loss of life and even worse a complete erasure of a culture and race that co-existed with the Earth and Mother Nature for Centuries. I guess that's a Man-Made Disaster....Sorry that's one of my Life's regret......being a white woman. I regret many things my forefathers did to people of ALL COLORS....Red, Black, Yellow and Green.......;-0 I know those Aliens were abused.....they became Michael Jackson. hehe! sorry...... Anyway ...... If you find it in your HEART to HELP the PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN GULF STATES ....PLEASE DONATE TO THE RED CROSS......I WILL BE. I'm not asking you to help if you are unable...........please HELP if YOU CAN..........That's all that we can do being so far away from the situation. I thank you. God Bless the US!! New Orleans! (US rhymes). hee-hee!

FABLawyerSBM: Ronnie, I got an email from Steven today that he got Roy's CD!! Thank You again! Hey, sorry to hear about your crush with a hott singer that has looped guitar tracks......how coiuld you Ronnie?! .....hee-hee! I'll get an email to you this weekend about my tour.......

bahduh: Mark, I'll post more about Steven this weekend....I promise. I hope you are doing well my friend.

Zinc: Thanks for so many good ones!! The Wal Mart applicant was just ROTFLMAO!! Too funny dude......Thanks so much for sharing!! ;)))

Shel, Clarky, Cheese, Alex, Suzie, Mikey, 962, Al, Tool, DCK and to all my friends...hi!! be back another day.......

civgeek...thank you very much.

brotheral:......i stil luvs u sweetie.....sorry i was in a rotten mood.

STEVEE T..... civgeek gave me a heads up on your quest. I do own a JS4. but not selling. I will take it to my grave or give it back to Joe, (he told me not to get rid of it, he only has a couple left). finding info on this guitar is painful! Been searching for years. Bought mine off the Ibanez rep who was walking into the music store with it. He said it was a "one of a kind" Had to sell my 69 Firebird, but it was a good trade. The paint job is not the same as any other I've seen in photos.?????? Civgeek came over the other day to jam and he plugged it in and the jack went south. Now I have to figure out how to fix that without killing the value. He had to settle for the PRS......He's been here for a week!

good morning everyone at satchland...greetings.

marimari...thank you a zillion times..i owe you...god bless...

suzie2000......thanks for asking...i am fine and so is the little one...he is growing fast and becoming very mischievious....but he is very sweet and lovable.....god bless and take care....

steven.....hi.......hope yur doing well...hang in there.......

lucysorets..austin...artanis..zenny...alexandre...tracie...hi guys....

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Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?

PHILADELPHIA Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans late on Tuesday. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the Crescent City some 10 feet below sea level, the rising tide may not stop until it's level with the massive lake.

New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.

Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.

Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at The Times-Picayune web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it coming....Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.

Also that June, with the 2004 hurricane season starting, the Corps' project manager Al Naomi went before a local agency, the East Jefferson Levee Authority, and essentially begged for $2 million for urgent work that Washington was now unable to pay for. From the June 18, 2004 Times-Picayune:

"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them."

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Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?

The panel authorized that money, and on July 1, 2004, it had to pony up another $250,000 when it learned that stretches of the levee in Metairie had sunk by four feet. The agency had to pay for the work with higher property taxes. The levee board noted in October 2004 that the feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history. Because of the proposed cuts, the Corps office there imposed a hiring freeze. Officials said that money targeted for the SELA project -- $10.4 million, down from $36.5 million -- was not enough to start any new jobs.

There was, at the same time, a growing recognition that more research was needed to see what New Orleans must do to protect itself from a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. But once again, the money was not there. As the Times-Picayune reported last Sept. 22:

That second study would take about four years to complete and would cost about $4 million, said Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi. About $300,000 in federal money was proposed for the 2005 fiscal-year budget, and the state had agreed to match that amount. But the cost of the Iraq war forced the Bush administration to order the New Orleans district office not to begin any new studies, and the 2005 budget no longer includes the needed money, he said.

The Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for 2006. But now it's too late.

One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday.

The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed, "The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House....In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need."

2297electricrainbow....she's a beauty alright...thanks for the info...I'm hoping to aquire one some day...enjoy

civgeek...thank you....

Man, all this news coverage on Katrina is gut wrenching. I can't even imagine what it must be like for the people stuck in the middle of it all, or their families and friends wondering if they're still alive. May God give them strength.

Gas prices went up .12 cents yesterday. Today, our gas company UGI has raised their prices 11%, which will add about $23.00 to our monthly bill. Everything is going UP.

Man, I'm so sad. I need to go back to bed.

*breaking news - the evacuation of the Superdome has been put on hold. Shots were fired at an Army helicopter, and the rescuers are in fear of their lives. People are getting very angry and desperate, and with the lack of basic necessities, tempers are flaring. People were told to make their way to the Superdome because busses were taking them to Texas. Now, everything has come to a stand still.

dck and al, thanks fer yer advice to Chris.. I know he appreciates it..he's on his way home today and I'm sure will try to be up late tonight fiddling around with his gear, trying to make it all mesh...I feel a late night coming on...sigh.......

bluebuffalo, Happy Birthday and GOOD LUCK on the job front!! Hope you DO get a great birthday surprise!! And welcome back!!

Civi, awww, ya know ya luv me. Really, u dooo.

Svk.... I am older than dirt. Why should that surprise you? LOL! Yer evilness is coming along nicely......

Bahduh, hiya back!! Glad you can pop in now and again to give us updates....I bet Jordan is growing so fast you can hardly believe it! He just looks like the sweetest, happiest baby!!

Keniko, yer too funny!! Guitarmiester..... Welcome to the site. Say hi to mama cheese for me. If you're posting here she obviously raised you wright..... lol...... It's actually my son who taught me about Joe and showed me this site...he just dint know what kind of a monster he was creating! LOL! Cuz I became instantly and forever hooked on Joe!! And "drag" him to as many Joe shows as possible, poor child..NOT!! He's happy that I like the same music as him... so HI back to ya!! Love the top 10 btw....

Zinc... snicker, snort.......keepin me in the chuckles....

SteveeT...sigh...purty, purty guitars....and yes, I'd have to agree wit ya, Oregon is indeed a beautiful state!

God bless all affected by Katrina

and God bless all the Satchfans...love ya Joe.....