DCK: Okay man...the truth moniter I heard sounds prety similar to me to the makie moniters which I hear every time I go to do sessions, but moniters can be tricky, so I can understand if you dig other ones. Also, maybe they sound better in my room, since I needed a smaller moniter since they are kind of stuck in a corner. It's funny, the Alesis ones are usually the ones everyone pans...hmm. Beats the hell out of me.

Mari- Looking forward to meeting you too!

OCPS - Thanks for the tip, dude. I'll bear that in mind.

962 - Yeah, for a hundred quid it was a steal. Why the hell not?

ONE week from today...... happy dance, ohhhhh happy dance continues..... LOL!!

HEY JOE!! Coooool cover picture and article on you in the November 05 Guitar & Bass mag...I just got my issue today!! :) Some really great info on gear, a pretty detailed review of the JSX amp head.....FAB pics of Joe and nice interview to top things off!! It's a keeper, LOL!! Love it!!

(Sung to the Oscar Meyer Weiner song....) "Oh, I wish I had an Ibanez Chromie, that is what I'd surely like to seee-eee-eee. Cuz if I had an Ibanez Chromieeeeee, everyone would be in luv with meeeeeeeeee....."

Zen - I've had no mail yet....

I'll keep an eye out for it...

unfortuantely Yoda is right.. lol...
I'm the great big fucker with the ponytail and a Stella... lmao...

Hello everybody. How was you day? Mine was boring. Couldnt play guitar. Stayed home. SSDD.

everybody!!!! if you order the G3 DVD from sony (the link from the home page) you will get a G3 poster with your purchase! better hurry before they dissappear!!!

Spaz, ya broke the page man! Ya wanna edit down yer post a bit there buddy? ~ thanks man!~~

*hand raised* ~~~ I'm a Pantera fan :-)

Blue moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Blue moon,
You knew just what I was there for.
You heard me saying a pray for
Someone I really could care for.

Blue moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

962... yea if i had a js10th or a prm i would play it to death. have you seen the js90ham or a js2kcp?

TODAY I GET TIME TO TALK ONE MORE ABOUT JOE SATRIANI.

So, let's go for my total recall about Joe.

Part I:

JOE & HENDRIX

There's a real filiation. We can obviously hear how Joe expands a part of the Hendrix's wah-legato attack and brings it on a new firepower. On songs like "Who Knows", "Machine guns", "Hear my train is coming", "Country blues" of Jimi, the filiation sounds absolutely clear, physically & psychically clear.

On the over hand, there's a very big difference Between Hendrix and Joe : Jimi works a lot of in the feeling of improvisation, all the time in a firsthand no man's land where he becomes THE BIG SOUND & creates something like the Bluesfusion. Joe works more in the meaning of composition, all the time in a paramount perfection's exigency, where he becomes a guy like the Chopin of Rockfusion..

My personal view is that on the emotive point, i can't put Joe in the Hendrix side of thing. Hendrix is crazy, fragile, eatS everything in very few time. Joe is very zen, calm, take his time. Nearest of Beck than Hendrix in all his path.

Rob310, I haven't seen the JS2K or JS90HAM in person, only in photos on the net. The 90HAM is kind of an odd one to me......it's such a dark shade it's almost black, and there's nothing really about it that makes it stand out. I really hope they do something wild for the 100th anniversary in 2008!

And for powered monitors I still reckon Alesis Monitor One MkII's are the best option......they are certainly what I'll be getting, some time next year when I've paid for the other stuff I've yet to pay for! haha.

Vai today!!!!! Guess I'll be seeing some of you in a few hours then...

962 - Just figure that one out by ear, dude; it's well easy!!! Or do you mean the utterly pointless widdly bit right at the end?

Part II:

JOE & PROGRESSIV STUFF.

Joe gets the blues. We all know that. His biggest admitted influences on guitar come from Blues: Hooker, Hendrix, Gibbons. & the less admitted also: Beck, Gilmour, Page, Van Halen.

Historic point : The progressive rock stuff has nothing to see with the blues riff. It has broken the usual rules of the riff and the song : this stuff goes farther than the arrangement couplet/refrain. The progressive stuff has found his regularity in the progressiv irregularity of a concept. A non-standard harmonic/dissonant structures & alternate tunings could be a definition of Progressive stuff.

In fact, the first principle of Progressive stuff is the VARIATION of a theme. That is the opposite of almost all the Blues, of which the first principle is the REPETITION of a riff. That is the essential distinction.

Of course, nowadays, things have evolved a lot, and we can hear progressive variations in repetition (Satch : Searching : the solo is progressive on only one riff). & also the opposite (Dream Theater : A Change of seasons : all the stuff is progressive, but the poetic idea is the repetition of changing).

eh joe you got to come to qatar this year !!

THERE WILL BE A DUNESTOCK !!!!!!

THATS GONNA BE GREAT !!! jamming in the dersert !!!

Hi Joe, I'm a huge fan and I got a big thrill when I met you at Allans in Melbourne when you toured here in March. Can't wait for the new G3 DVD. Will you ever bring G3 down under? Are there any immediate or semi-immediate plans to?? All the best,

And I think to myself......

Brother Al needs therapy! LOL

Scuse the double post

Blue Moon

Sorry for using your old nickname but I couldn't really say that a blue moon needed therapy!!

Steve.

Part III:

SPEED: SATCH & VAN HALEN

A)

Is Joe Satriani influenced by EVH?

"EVH is a savior of guitar"

"I've got a Peavey 5150 since it is" Joe Satriani.

Is it clear?

B)

The Joe's speed attack is almost always synthetic. & That's very near of VH.

Any doubt? For an evidence, check the solos of the song "I'm the One" on the Van Halen album.

A speed attack almost always synthetic: what does that mean? That means that the important point isn't the execution of emotion & expression in the speed notes after notes, even if Joe can have an analytic attack; the important point is the fact that the general form of the speed is the emotion & expression. The effect is like a wave. Joe is almost always surfing on the speed as if it's a united wave. Joe plays melodicaly the speed.

That's very different of a Malmsteen shredding, which is more analytic. The emotion is like touching each point of the execution. Yngwie plays quick the melody.

The speed with Joe is an essential condition of the hardrock & also a synthetic embellishment for his lyric expression in all the styles. & that comes from Van Halen. But Joe combines the VH shredding with the Hendrix Legato. Joe Satriani is probably the first guitar player who has definitly understood that the Hendrix legato + Van Halen Shredding = a new vision of guitar rock.