Dr. Mindcrime..no but I was watching that bid...held myself back from that one (looks like Mr. Maryland done some people wrong here)....mine was in Texas...it is so freakin' good...ooooooooo!

I've been adjusting the Floyd down as low as I can....it's taken all day of playin' and resetting, but holy smokes...the fckr is the balls....I see a very long and meaningfull relationship flourishing....

Joe Satriani...thanks again for dreamin this (JS10th) up. I emailed Steve Blucher to congratulate him on the pick-ups, and he gave me his typical Staten Island humor in return...what a cut up he is!

ANGELINA - Now i saw the nickname about your messsage for me. Thanks a lot for aprecciate my music. Thanks Sugarbaby :-)

OCPS470 - Thanks for the e-mail Chris. Very good, very very good, i like it a lot :-). Good taste in a differente way :-). Thanks :-). About my arm, i`m a liitle better but sometimes, what a evil antz. But soon (i hope) i`m ok. Thanks for asking bro :-) !!!

STEEVE T - Congrats about the new guitar, i love that guitar too :-). That`s a very special gift :-)). One day will do that ;-). Thanks friend!!!

MICHELLE - Hope you had recieved the e-mail baby. I don`t forget about you. Friends will be friends :-). Kisses!!!

The workshop of Mauro was amazing. What very nice drummer.

Steve.... I havn't been playing around much since I got back from DC, but I'm starting to get into the groove around here (again). I'm auditioning with a band in Farmingdale tomorrow and probly playing at this jam in Freeport in the next few weeks.

I'll definitely let you guys know if I get any responce from Joe or his moms... damn straight I'm gonna be sitting on that bench with the same drum at the same time every Tuesday!

Levorian...Freeport Jam? Let me know, I'll come over and see you....where in Freeport...Water Lilies...on the Pier?

Good Luck with contact from Satch + his Mom!

Hiya everyone....

Well, we're here in beautiful wine country...had a FABULOUS day, it's absolutely gorgeous here. Went to the Kabel winery, they have been making champagne since the 1800's and it's so much fun to do the tour and the tastings...yummmmmmmm, the tastings....... :) Bought some fabulous stuff to take home...

........I wonder if our tastings had anything to do with getting lost a lot today?? ;) But we were lost in such gorgeous areas, we DINT CARE!!!! LOL!!! And managed to find our way to the winery for tomorrow's concert, so it's all good...the roads here are really wind-ee......

Stevee T, a kiss and hug fer you from Chris and I backatcha...it would be fab to see and talk to Joe again, but beyond that, we are JUMPIN UP AND DOWN over seeing him in concert again tomorrow!!! And from what I've read, yer jumpin up and down there yerself over your chromie!! It's a match made in heaven....congrats sweetie!!

Hiya chelle, mari, al, shady, cube, dakook (don't leave), angelina, scott, svk, jj and scads of other peoples...sorry if I missed anyone...cracked open a very delicious bottle of champagne...and some brandy...so if I'm a tetch fuzzy, please forgive me... LOL!!!

Congrats to Joe for winning World's Greatest Guitarist this month...but hey, we all ALREADY knew he was, right? Of course right!!

Love ya Joe!! See ya tomorrow for the show.....some good food....some great wine....beautiful scenery....soooooooooo lookin forward to it!!

I don’t really know how to start this. This is the umpteenth time I’ve sat down to write this and I’m just as clueless as ever on how to say this. I am writing this to apologize to everyone here. I have failed all of you miserably. I haven’t had internet access for over a year so that is the reason I haven’t said this much sooner. Over the past year and a half I have been in a very grim financial state. Being unable to work for such a long period of time finally drained me of every thing I had. I don’t want to bore any of you with details but one of the highlights was a near foreclosure on my house (I secured another mortgage thanks to my Dad and delivered a certified check to the foreclosure attorneys less than twenty hours before my home was to be auctioned off.) I had to sell my other property, all of my race stuff, bikes, trailer, gear and tools. Sold most of my guitar stuff (still can’t afford strings, still playing on the ones I put on a year ago), and of course eliminated all the extras like cable, telephone, cell phone and internet as well as occasionally doing without utilities for a week or so at a time. It hurts and embarrasses me to say this, but here goes: I used the money that I was supposed to produce the T2J CD with to buy food and keep the heat on last winter. Please don’t think I’m using my situation as an excuse, because in my opinion, what I’ve done is inexcusable. My problems don’t excuse my actions and I only mention them to offer an explanation, not to seek pity. I can’t tell you how sorry I am that I allowed this to happen. I don’t blame any or all of you if you are angry or upset with me, I would be too and believe me, I’m very angry with myself. I should have turned over control of the project long before things went this far and this is my greatest regret. I’m sorry for letting all of you guys down and I don’t even feel I’m worthy of forgiveness so I won’t ask for it. At this point I don’t know how I can go about paying this debt back, but somehow I will, little by little, I just need to figure out how. I miss you guys terribly and think of you daily. I’ve even written two songs about you guys but of course I have no way of getting them online and probably won’t for quite some time. I’m writing this at home on Word and will burn it to a disc and send it from my brother’s house next time I visit him. I hope to occasionally be able to use his computer so if anyone wants to contact me, email me at trutina2000@yahoo.com and I’ll eventually get back to you, but it might take several weeks or possibly even longer. My brother doesn’t live that close to me and with gas prices what they are I can’t visit near as often as I like. There’s so much more I want to say but I’ve taken up enough space, probably a bunch of newbies here that have no idea who I am anyway. Again, I’m sorry for failing you guys, failing Joe and failing myself. Words can’t describe how shallow and empty I’ve felt. Take care everyone, I hope all is well with all of you.

trutina...you're back...so glad to see your name again....life can throw us some big loads of shit...I understand how bad it can get...don't be a stranger...I'm pulling for you, as I'm sure many of us are! thanks for telling it to us straight!

Well spank my ass and call me Charlie! look who it is!

Bil, You broke my heart my brother.

It's good to see you post again and explain things. My wish for you is that the truth will set you free.

Hi trutina , we all have done things we wish we could do over. I admire your honesty!

Trutina: It's too bad that you have "problems." That money "however" was never to be looked at as money that was yours to use. If you recall, guys like Phrydom (who had severe financial problems at the time of T2JCD #1) paid into the project just like everyone else....guys that couldn't afford to do so, and you stole from them. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned you're lucky that the project was disorganized enough to prevent me from pressing charges against you for fraud. I expect you to pay back what you stole in full, at the very least to the red cross, or one of the members running the T2J CD2 project that everyone agrees is trustworthy.

trutina i don't believe practically a single word of your post. and i also think it will be very much sooner than "several weeks" before you read this.

i *do* believe that you were/are broke. but i certainly do not accept your "apology" for stealing from what (we thought) were your friends, and consequently stole from a charity.

i have looked at dates and times and decided not to say this here before now, but your "miranda" (if she ever existed) received her "engagement ring" within literally FIVE DAYS of you emptying the Talk2Joe PayPal account... yes, it could be a coincidence, i guess...

you mention nothing of your "life-threatening" illness... are you suddenly cured? or did our money help you? maybe you should be saying thank you and not sorry...?

you mention nothing about the countless voicemails people left for you... which means you DID have phone service.... all you had to do in your -don't-have-a-job state was pick the thing up....

you said "with gas prices what they are I can’t visit near as often as I like" that's a shame if it is true, but surely there's a public library closer? where you can stay in touch with the people you stole from? you have a car? you don't sound too broke to me... my wife and i both work and we can't afford a car, let alone gas prices....

you also looked pretty well and not-exactly-poor in the photo that was posted some time ago, when you were in line to meet Joe to get something signed....

so you wrote your message at home, on a computer which is surely a luxury? and you burned your Word document to a blank CD in order to take to your "brother"'s so you/he could upload it? You have a computer at home. It has a CD burner. And you have blank CDs. I am so sorry, you must really be suffering.

You're a helluva lot better off than some, and you're still crying and pleading poverty?

YES i am very angry and upset, and YES i think OCPS and DCK have a VERY good point.... ban this thief

supaa the entire "show" was a charade... even to the extent that Joe thought T2J was going to be a covers project, that's why he personally approved the publishing rights from Strange Beautiful Music to us... we've not used them (yet), but we will, and we'll do it without a thieving, lying, attention & sympathy-seeking piece of crap like William McKim.....

Wow, I missed that one. Well... I only joined in what, February?

Anyhow, I just spent 4 hours scanning the posts. I need to check back more often. Last time it took 8 whole hours to read.

Would be cool to be able to subscribe to a daily e-mail of the day's post, like some sites. Oh, well. This is more personal.

E-bay is awsome..E-bay sucks too!!! I only lost $15 to some guy in Florida. He was banned by E-bay!!! :<)

Love you all,

trutina, I thought you used to go round to your neighbour's place and use their computer 'cause you never had a net connection anyway?