Do you use a light touch on the fretboard, or do you maintain calluses?

Al DeMeola's fingertips are as supple as a babies ass (trust me - we had beers in Vegas - another story for perhaps another time). Three of his strings are nylon, but still....

Thanks

Clarky, Clarky, callin Clarky!! DISASTER. Just clicked on my favourites, Joe Satriani Home, well here I am that's fine, Ah click on Clarky site for music while I read the post.

"Computer says No!!!!!" Computer says "This site is illegal"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, IT'S A FAVOURITE SITE" says I "Favourite, as in, I love it and use it loads, what are you doin to me, you stupid hunk of metal, I, your leader chose this site personally, what do you mean it's illegal?"

"Computer says No!!!!!" Computer says "This site is illegal"

"Gnaaaaagh" say I, OK I think, I'll find it again on T2J, yeah right only been a squillion posts since then.

Please help and post it again? Pleeeeeeeaaaase. Or someone tell me another way round this?

COMPUTERS EH!!!!!!!

I feel like everything is moving in slow motion. Is it just me?

CLARKY- Hope you enjoy tomorrow eve. Sounds good! "Head of Owen" LOL

MARI- Thanks for chat yesterday eve- managed to type on my computer at 12.30 a.m. all the things that are pissing me off about my job, even if I can't do anything about them.... mantra for the rest of this term: "I will let everything go over my head... I will ignore senior management..." LOL!!!

CIVGEEK - Happy 900th :) and many more hereafter! Just don't mention the war...

MICHELLE- hope you are feeling better soon! :)

Joe, tell how you use your DS-1 Boss!!!

Dr. mind crime...... It's you. Can I have some.....LOL.....

Suzo..... Thanks for the wish and the comments on the site. I can not take credit for my site. My son Sean designed this for me. Sean has his own Co. designing web sites. Check out the fan art section here at satriani.com. In the middle of the page is Sean's mural of SWTA. Sean did this for our 25th wedding anniversary last year. That's the back wall of our studio. We love it. You can't help but think of Joe when your in the studio. I hope some day Joe will sign the mural. I tried on the last tour. Jon Luini emailed us and said he fowarded the pic to Joe and Mick and they'll contact us if Joe has the time. Unfortunately they never contacted us. We all understood. When you're on tour every minute has a schedule to it. Hopefully someday tho. What an honor that would be.

How about it Joe.......Please ! ! ! Please ! ! ! !

Mr. Satriani I need your help!

Do you take any joint supplements like glucosamine? Does your fretting fingers ever get sore? My pinky on my fretting hand hurts after I play.. Its starting to scare me as I am only 21.

Care to share your ideas? Anyone?

Don Q - That's it: Sur la mare de la tranquilité...

I spoke to a French pal at work and he put me straight...
I get the masculine and feminine words mixed up...

thanx bro..

to find your center of gravity....
your influences are diverse and sometime ambiguous..
which makes for an interesting cocktail...

shame how pro sports can dilute that sometimes...

hahaaa... and my center of gravity is 1664... lmao...

my website is legal... because permission to download the music is granted by the artist.... and here is the address....

http://www.soundclick.com/clarky

I'm really glad you're enjoying my music...

I've known him a long time.... he's an awesome guy...
a blast out on the town, and a super smart engineer.. I don't see him much... but I'll be in Dallas soon... so I'll be sure to hook up and sink a beer or ten with him... lol..

not long now...

I know what you mean abut the raking though... I got that a few times... being a keeper I had players coming in studs first on a "one on one" and when going for high crosses / corners....

and the ball hitting you in the thigh in the cold.... yup.. stings like fuck.. lmao...

the thing that got me pissed of though - especially in the cold - was stamping.. you're all moving around waiting for a corner to be struck.. and some dirty bastard stamps on your foot.....
but then... when it's time to go up for the high ball, I always made sure to make quite a bit more contact with him than was really needed... especially with elbows and knees to ribs and chin ....
and if I got two hands on the ball... shouted "keepers!!".. and made it look like a good take so I come away with the ball... then the ref most often sees it as a legitimate challenge... even if he's pretty hurt..

hahaa... we can all play silly fuckers... lmao..

playing on your track was a bit of an eye opener for me...
because it dumped me in uncharted terratory...
yes I've messed with jazz in practice.. but never in anger..

but then.. I guess my jazz is not really that jazzy in a classic sense... I had a blast working it out though... like solving a nice puzzle...

well spotted too... lol... DC's angular, angst ridden dissonance angle does rub off on me here and there...
it's like a cheaky schoolboy wanting to go against the grain and wanting to stick two fingers up at fashion and convention... lmao...
and from time to time I quite like that approach...

"let's get the lil' miss fashion 'n' convention, bend her over the bath, and do her up the hoop.... and where's me jerry can..."

lmao...

babies would be made that night... lmao.....

erm... maybe not actually... everyone would be too lashed... lmao..

Hey gang... just picked up an awsome pedal... ISP Technologies Decimator Noise Reduction Pedal...

Anybody with a Boss single effect pedal board would love this pedal cause it would fit right in with the rest of your Boss pedals... I had my Boss Ds-1 cranked to full distortion with the gain cranked full as well, with the tone a couple of notches lower than half, and anything lower than -20 decibels doesn't even register, meaning that if I don't touch the strings, it doesn't even make a peep... and if you're curious what guitar I was using, it was my "Black Beauty" Fender American Strat. The only thing I might not like about it is that with delay it can cut off the repeats a little too soon, But I imagine with the right amount of fine tuning between distortion, delay and how much threshold you use on "The Decimator" you can get the right combination...

You might even like this pedal as well Joe, I'm sure you've got your noise gate situation in check but for the money and the quality of noise reduction it's worth every penny, and best of all Joe "It's Chrome" :)

ISP Technologies Decimator

Peace...

Hi to Joe and the crew -

I just read that the new G3 Live in Tokyo CD will install the dreaded Sony rootkit in your computer (see link below). I thought you'd want to know this rumour is going around and let us know if it's true. Not sure how relaible this info is. If false let's squash it right away.

http://www.idiotabroad.com/2005/11/cds-affected-by-the-sony-bmg-spyware/

Here's a shorter version: http://tinyurl.com/76mj3

See the update a page or so down.

I'm a huge fan, I reeeealy hope it isn't true. Will watch this space for a response...

This explains a lot...... It's a Full Frosty Moon or a Full Beaver Moon Tonight. The 1st frost occurs this month and Native Americans would set Beaver traps this month before winter arrived.

No wonder things are so damn crazy and people are being buggers.

Mari

heyya Joe how was your day? long day of recording? lots of love. Have a great night.

How was every ones day?

Well Joe, Hows it going? So tell me what combo will you come up with next and what did your parents think about you wanting to do this as a job? also when do you think you will be coming back to HOB in Orlando, Fl.? Last one,lol, Do you ever just sit down and jam with any of your fans? Your music is out of this world and on Q to bad we could not talk one on one. take care, my love to the band

Ken, Suzie, Davey, thanks for the well wishes.

DR Mindcrime, make sure yer hands are warm before you play. Do some finger stretches before also. If that doesn't work, cut it off :)

Canada Eh, you have to send pictures to the webmaster, and he'll post them.

HI JOE ~ LOVE YA!!

hi...

Who the #### does sharon osbourne thinks she is calling Mother Teresa names.....earlier it was madonna,she said that madonna dresses like and old hooker ...now its mother teresa......she called mother teresa a sick old c###....heights........at least these two individuals are(were) something who have achieved so much in their lives,,what the #### has she achieved........except that she is an osbourne........she sucks big time.........

marimari..hi....

lucysorets...hey whats taking yu so long to post...are yu not home yet.....yu were supposed to return last friday..mail soon...cheers and god bless..

hi tracie....long time no mail from yu...

suzie2000...hello teacher,,,how is school and family???

zenny...hi,,,whats up??????has the riots ended yet...

zinc master,,,,cheers,,,,as for me i am ahuge WWE fan...i also prefer calling it the WWf....sounds more Raw than Smackdown..lol....who is yur fav,,,MIne is Austin,,,,and of coz......Goldberg when he was there....The Rock was cool and humorous....

btw,,,,can anyone mail me the new postal address of steven wilde and the postal address of austin ( do the stu).........so simply mail me please....i have lost austins address and i dont have stevens' new address... please help me out on this....yu guys know my email add