Just found out Velvet Revolver is playing at a place by me December 31...They are playing most of the night and having a New Years party, how awesome would that be to go to!?! Tickets are only...cough$100cough... Still, I'm thinking about going to that, how crazy would that be! I was going to see them last year at the same place, but the tickets sold out in under 20 minutes.

BIue Moon I've been wanting to change the pickups in my RG. I'm still not sure if I want to keep it as a H/S/H config., or maybe I'd turn it into just Humbuckers... maybe put a fake single coil in the middle position if I didn't feel like changing the pickguard. But, I do have a Boss AC-2 and the AC-2 only sounds good with the middle single coil pickup, doesn't sound that great with humbuckers. The RG I have is the Ibanez RG350DX (all white, looks like a Jem, and has the newer upgrades, but still want to change the pups.) I would have gotten a more expensive RG, but I did buy another guitar a few months before that, planning on getting another amp very soon, and there's always pedals!

AN ABSOLUTELY TRUE CHRISTMAS STORY...

Scrooge was sitting in his office the week before Christmas. He was counting his money, making sure he had made enough profit for the year.

Suddenly, he became aware of an irritating noise. He could not concentrate on anything else. He realized the sound was coming from under his desk.

Looking under the desk, he was surprised to see Jiminy Cricket, playing a tune. He crouched down, and said "Jiminy, What are you doing?"

"I'm singing you a Christmas carol," Jiminy replied, "but I've forgotten the words, so I'm just humming it instead."

"That's not all," said Scrooge. "You're only playing the first bar, over and over again."

mthead101 ,

I am already 420 years old , ive got a metal hip i'm on a zimmer frame i wear a monacle ! the syrum is good and effective but still the ravages of age have taken an extreme effect on me .............. I think we should keep the syrum 2 ourselves !

hey Joe hows recording? Or how is Vancuvor? Cant wait to get the new album! Lots of love. Have a great day.

How is every one today?

Have a great day/night!

MARI- glad to hear you're getting rid of your dial-up, it is like watching paint dry compared to broadband! I cannot believe the difference... Hope you are well, speak to you soon! Have I missed your birthday btw? If so really sorry and if not ignore this message LOL :)

ZENFISH- What I mean is that in England when the press do talk about guitarists usually it's all Clapton or Hendrix that get mentioned first. Not that EVH is totally overlooked, but... it's hard to explain. Not sure if I said, but I got that DVD Live without a Net and loved it! You have probably said this before, but are you more a fan of the DLR era or Sammy Hagar? (Bit like the Bon Scott vs Brian Johnson AC~DC difference- prefer Bon Scott's voice myself... and the music)Thankyou again for your advice on CDs, will hopefully get them bought for me for Christmas :)

Delfino Pie...thanks...I've always loved a Tele...so sharp & cutting

Butterscotch Blonde Blues in B flat minor a new tune written with me Fender Telecaster...

Purple Sky Green Dawn another Chromeboy JS2 PRM Creation...hope you like it!

Mowlie 2000 congrats on the Musical Director...hope it pays well for you....

Blue Moon...nice RG...lefty eh!

guitarmeister...Orange Sky was the Trinidadian warm up group for Yngwie...they played about 30-40 minutes

Rob310...thank you very much...

TheBob...I play the drums using a Triton keyboard...not the same as a real kit, but sonically much easier to control...and I'm really impressed with the sample sounds the Triton offers...now I just need a Roland V set..then I can go to town...thanks for listening

MR4Y...welcome to the site!! Lotsa great people here!

Hi everyone!

Well, it seems that I'm almost 100% OK now, just one more onion soup ;-)...thanks for the well-wishes 962, Satriella, bahduh, Stevee T, Keniko :-)

And I'm almost updated in Satch and Satchland matters too, still many posts to go...how many things! Some points...

Nice to hear there's a new project by Talk2Joe musicians rising...

Regarding the G3 "Live in Tokyo" CD and other Sony releases with copy protection...it's a ridiculous thing that it's only unfortunate for consumers and fans :-( For the moment, I'm resigned to listen to the CD only in my CD player...I'm waiting for the release of the CD without XCP software. Both CD and DVD are divine.

marimariSRV: "Maybe we could exchange Photos/ Bootleg Joe DVD's?? If possible......I have a friend that can put VHS Tapes on DVD no problem if you want that done. I have Joe's KFOG Private concert from EOC Tour on DVD...Very Nice show......So Nice to be home."

Hi Mari, yeah, It would be cool to do some video and DVD swaps and I would love to have some prints of your work, like Simon (962) said once, I can pay them too! :-) I'll send you more details by e-mail one of these days...

Sorry for the delay in my reply Mari, but some days after seeing Vai in Madrid and Barcelona I caught an awkward and nagging cold too...the day after Vai played in Barcelona there was a huge deluge there!

I loved your Thanksgiving message to Joe, it's so true... and I can say from the bottom of my heart too that Joe, his music and personality brought to me an inspiration that improved my life...hehe I don't like to say this very much because sometimes sounds typical, doesn't it? ;-) but it's the truth and my truth too. Joe is very special...and I even know people who doesn't like his music very much but say "that man must be an angel"...just seeing the look in his eyes.

I hope you are better from that crappy virus...healthy vibes to your way :-)

And happy 666 posts! ;-)

Satriella, glad to see the Platypus mystery is solved hehe but continuing the Platypus thingy...there's a song called "Platypus" too, by a group Mr. Bungle (that project of Mike Patton from Faith No More) that it's very Vai-Zappa too LOL

Stevee T, my pleasure :-) it was nice to see "Harvest Ice" included in the CD, this song is delightful...

bahduh, hi, I'll reply your e-mails as soon as possible, have a nice day :-)

alexandrecaetano, hi Alexandre! Any chance of getting that music magazine with your Steve Vai interview? I would love to have it, stay warm :-)

962, hi Simon! It's so nice to see you always here :-)

About Steve Vai's EVO Premium Experience in Madrid...for you and for everyone interested...

It was an inspiring lesson. We were 17 in the group, 15 guys and 2 girls. When we were taken our seats...I ended up beside Steve by pure chance! I placed myself beside the video camera and then Mikey (the EVO Experience host and Steve's assistant, webmaster, camera man...) changed the place of the video camera and put Steve's seat there hehehe I was between delighted and nervous! But the nicest thing of being beside Steve for me was to have a full view of my fellow EVO participants, to see their happy faces, and how some asked questions and some others were simply delighted of being part of the group hearing and enjoying the moment...it was cool.

And Steve...what a well-mannered man he is! He answered thoroughly all our questions, we discussed things like his times in Whitesnake, his interest in non-conventional art, the world of music, composition...he seemed relaxed and he revealed that this chat was his favorite part of each concert apart from going shopping with his wife Pia. I noticed more than ever the hard/fast/good worker he is during the day (a worker "bee" ;-) and the monster player and showman he is on stage at night ;-)

The show was incredible, the audience was on fire, I loved specially the performance of "Freak Show Excess".

And two days after I went to the gig in Barcelona. The funniest moment was when he jumped into the crowd and...played "For The Love of God" lain face up holded down by the audience's hands! It was mind-blowing and freaky hahaha

You can see a picture of "the moment" here, it's not very good but it's the only one I've seen around...http://www.metalsymphony.com/images/conciertos/vai/vai6.jpg

Picture by David A. from Metal Symphony.

I hadn't heard before about Vai doing this before although he repeated the thing in Zagreb, Croatia, he wanted this moment to be recorded for an upcoming DVD...yeah, there will be a DVD of the Real Illusions Tour!

You can check my review of Madrid's and Barcelona's show at the "concert reviews" section at vai.com's message board if you like...It's a long one...with pictures (including a "mug shot" of myself hehe) and written both in English and Spanish.
That was keeping me a bit busy too before catching the crappy cold ;-)

And yeah, I'll be seeing Andy Timmons this Thursday at Ritmo y Compás in Madrid...I can't wait! I can't wait! And of course if I have a chance...I'll ask him about G3!!! ;-)

Other thing...talking about my little trip to Barcelona...for everyone but specially for Simon (962), OME and bahduh, who were interested about it...I visited that new futuristic tower in Barcelona I mentioned here...it's amazing.

The ideologist and architect of the tower is Jean Nouvel, famous French architect. The tower is inspired in mountains from Barcelona (Montserrat), a geyser and the Mediterranean sea. Here's a picture I took: Agbar Tower, you can see that it hasn't only two colors as it seemed in the other picture I posted Previous Agbar Tower picture. It really has 40 colors and the blue stands out for the sea and sky...It took 6 years and a half to build the "thing".

Lucy!!! Wow! Wow! Wow! Holy geez man, you had a VERY cool time!! I didn't get to read your entire post (bad headache now), but the pics are fantastic ~ especially the one of you and Steve sitting in the same frame. WOOO! It shows how tall he is too. lol! I'm so happy for you! Absolutely fantastic!!! Congrats! Glad you're feeling better too :)

http://www.vai.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14805&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Al baby - check out those pics!! lol! He's licking Evo!

Jeremy and Steve - great photo!! I got goosebumps seeing them all, and I wasn't even there! lol!

Hey Satchland.....

So now that the contest is over, what was the answer to the contest question?