Hey Suzie - Just printed off your picture of Joe Thanks...paper...pencil and away we go!!!

http://www.satriani.com/2004/discography/Super_Colossal/

;-)

Great tones:

Satriani-Engines of Creation Chris Poland(Ohm)-Self Titled Amino Acid Flashback Steve Morse-in general Bumblefoot-Normal, 911 Adam Jones-Lateralus A perfect Circle-1st two albums Van Halen-5150 Holdsworth-Tony Williams Lifetime-Believe it

howdy everyone! - for those of you not keeping up on the leaking info out there, yes indeed, the new album is titled "Super Collosal" and is due to hit the streets on March 14th! the home page has gotten a small face lift today and there's a discography page with track listings and credits, along with links to pre-order your copy today. we've got a lot in the works coming up-- video podcasts, audio streams, not to mention that the NAMM webcast is gonna drop reaaaaal soon!

also, i finally got some photos from the studio session which i've uploaded into the photos section. check 'em out :}

i've been discussing this issue of leaked news with joe and mick and they are committed to getting the info out on satriani.com first, but there just always seems to be something that goes awry and gets slipped out w/out our knowledge. welcome to the music business! that said, we are going to make an effort to wrangle things better in the future so that it really will hit satriani.com first!

njbeast - if you still haven't received your prize, please let me know. sony was responsible for sending them out and they apparently were waiting on more posters to come in and held up everything for that. but the cd/dvd should have gone out weeks ago and the poster shortly thereafter. worst case, i have some spares here that i can send out if it's just not happening on their end!

Not that any1 really gives a sh*t but i'm leaving this site now . Ive got sum prity heavy stuff going on at the moment and comin on here makes it worse 4 all u other guys and gals . Anywayz the time has come 2 say a fond farewell , I will drop in now and then but not like i have been recently .

Satriella ,

I'll speak agen soon , u hav bin a gud m8 !

Webmaster

nice home page!

yay praise the webmaster cool new look thanks!!!!

It's so good to see a theme for a strange world, called super colossal, shoot just like lightning or redshift riders in a cool new way, across one robot's dream & movin on to a love eternal made of tears while a crowd chant's love eternal in ten words to JOE SATRIANI!

Joe thanks soooooooooooo much for the album I love it already!!!!!!!!!

PEACEANDGUITARS - Noooooooo where you going?? Come back....we love you to bits in here...Oh I wish I could help you....you shouldn't be going through whatever it is on your own....talk to someone...believe me....find someone and talk...it helps so much....if you isolate yourself you will just make it worse....are you hearing me peaceandguitars!! for heavens sake don't let life get you down that much it's not worth it....your just allowing whoever is causing you to feel like this to hurt you even more....come on...you can't leave now....come on your one of the few that talk to me in here...come on now!!!!!!

JOE

"My ultimate goal is to continue playing forever," Satriani says. "I hope to never be tired of it and to always be searching to express the life I lead by taking those experiences and turning them into music. Hopefully, the guitar will be my ongoing instrument of expression."

Our ultimate goal is to listen to you forever joe and believe me we will never get tired of listening to you...thank you so much for your expressions through your guitar!

Al, shhhhhh! No leaking information!!

The Who

E Street Band guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt

Joe...looks awsome man i cant wait for the new album

Fan Memo to Music Industry: Lower Prices

NEW YORK (AP) - Music executives love to blame illegal downloading for their industry's woes. But, based on the results of a new nationwide poll, they might want to look in the mirror.

Eighty percent of the respondents consider it stealing to download music for free without the copyright holder's permission, and 92 percent say they've never done it, according to a poll by The Associated Press and Rolling Stone magazine.

Meanwhile, three-quarters of music fans say compact discs are too expensive, and 58 percent say music in general is getting worse.

"Less talented people are able to get a song out there and make a quick million and you never hear from them again," said Kate Simkins, 30, of Cape Cod, Mass.

Ipsos' telephone poll of 1,000 adults, including 963 music listeners, from all states except Alaska and Hawaii was conducted Jan. 23-25 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The music industry has spent several years in turmoil, as downloading and the popularity of iPods upend its traditional business model. A total of 618.9 million CD albums were sold during 2005, sharply down from the 762.8 million sold in 2001, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

At the same time, 352.7 million tracks were sold digitally in 2005, a category that wasn't even measured five years ago. Digital sales of music and ring tones offer new revenue opportunities, but often at the expense of more lucrative CD sales.

Although buying music digitally hasn't exactly become widespread — only 15 percent of poll respondents said they have done it — there appears to be a growing acceptance of this type of transaction. The poll found that 71 percent of music fans believe that a 99-cent download of a song is a fair price or outright bargain.

The industry would be wise to embrace downloading, said Greg Hoerger, 42, of Minneapolis, who suggested that customers could receive five or six free downloads from an artist when they buy a CD.

For fans like Hoerger and Simkins, buying a CD for about $20 is no bargain. They'd rather download one or two favorite songs to their iPods. The digital music revolution also has other benefits, Simkins said: with the iPod, she no longer has to have cassettes or CDs cluttering her car.

The last CD she bought, a few months ago, was by the Killers. "It was on sale," she said.

Many fans also say they just don't like what they're hearing. It may not be surprising to hear older fans say music just isn't what it used to be when they were growing up. But the poll also found that 49 percent of music fans ages 18-to-34 — the target audience for the music business — say music is getting worse.

"Even if our parents didn't like how loud rock 'n' roll was, or that it was revolutionary, at least they could listen to some of it," said Christina Tjoelker, 49, from Snohomish, Wash. "It wasn't gross. It wasn't disgusting. It wasn't about beating up women or shooting the police."

The last CD she bought was Neil Diamond's new one, "because Oprah was raving about it," she said.

Overall, music fans were split on why music sales have been declining for the past five years: 33 percent said it was because of illegal downloads, 29 percent said it was because of competition from other forms of entertainment, 21 percent blamed it on the quality of music getting worse and 13 percent said it was because CDs are too expensive.

FM radio is still the main way most fans find out about new music, according to the poll. Television shows are a distant second.

Rock 'n' roll is the most popular style of music, cited by 26 percent of the fans. It runs neck-and-neck with country among fans ages 35 or over.

Punxsutawney Groundhog Sees His Shadow

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, but it was hard to find a complainer in the crowd on Gobbler's Knob, where the morning temperature was well above freezing and Thursday's high was expected to hit 48 degrees.

There were a few boos at the groundhog's prediction of six more weeks of winter, but most of the hundreds of revelers instead turned the event into an impromptu Pittsburgh Steelers rally.

Fans in football jerseys sang "Here we go Steelers," and members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle — the top-hat- and tuxedo-wearing businessmen responsible for carrying on the groundhog tradition each year — threw black and gold Steelers "Terrible Towels" as they waited to rouse Phil from his burrow.

The furry forecaster may be popular, but the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

"It's been really wonderful. This is just a ball. I'm having so much fun," said Nancy Durr, who came from Paxton, Neb., to the small western Pennsylvania town about 65 miles north of Pittsburgh to celebrate her 50th birthday.

She had been outside awaiting Phil's arrival since about 2:15 a.m., a rub-on Punxsutawney Phil tattoo on each cheek.

Others latched on to the Phil frenzy for a publicity boost — for just about anything, from global warming to the lottery.

The National Environmental Trust said it's groundhog-suit-wearing human "will ignore his shadow and will instead rely on global warming evidence to forecast an early spring."

The American Physiological Society was offering experts to discuss "What Punxsutawney Phil can teach us about surviving massive blood loss, preventing muscle atrophy, and more."

The Pennsylvania Lottery even has Gus, "the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania," who implores lottery players to "keep on scratchin'."

None of those things are really what Groundhog Day is about, said Mike Johnston, a member of the Groundhog Club's Inner Circle. Punxsutawney Phil is nonpolitical and can't speak anyway, Johnston said.

Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney for a little midwinter revelry, celebrating what had essentially been a German superstition.

The Germans believed that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.

According to the Groundhog Club, Phil has now seen his shadow 96 times, hasn't seen it 14 times and there are no records for nine years.

Life After Death

A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other of the after life. Their biggest fear was that there was no after life.

After a long life, the husband was the first to go, and true to his word he made contact,

"Phyllis,Phyllis"

"Is that you, Fred?"

"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."

"What's it like?"

Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast, off to the golf course, I have sex. I bathe in the sun, and then I have sex twice. I have lunch, another romp around the golf course, then sex pretty much all afternoon. After supper, golf course again. Then have sex until late at night. The next day it starts again."

"Oh, Fred you surely must be in heaven."

"Not exactly, I'm a rabbit on a golf course in Arizona."

duh (turn it down then)

Man Sues Apple Over Potential Hearing Loss

SAN FRANCISCO - A Louisiana man claims in a lawsuit that Apple's iPod music player can cause hearing loss in people who use it.

Apple has sold more than 42 million of the devices since they went on sale in 2001, including 14 million in the fourth quarter last year. The devices can produce sounds of more than 115 decibels, a volume that can damage the hearing of a person exposed to the sound for more than 28 seconds per day, according to the complaint.

The iPod players are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss," according to the complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., on behalf of John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana.

The suit, which Patterson wants certified as a class-action, seeks compensation for unspecified damages and upgrades that will make iPods safer. Patterson's suit said he bought an iPod last year, but does not specify whether he suffered hearing loss from the device.

Patterson does not know if the device has damaged his hearing, said his attorney, Steve W. Berman, of Seattle. But that's beside the point of the lawsuit, which takes issue with the potential the iPod has to cause irreparable hearing loss, Berman said.

"He's bought a product which is not safe to use as currently sold on the market," Berman said. "He's paying for a product that's defective, and the law is pretty clear that if someone sold you a defective product they have a duty to repair it."

An Apple Computer Inc. spokeswoman, Kristin Huguet, declined to comment.

Although the iPod is more popular than other types of portable music players, its ability to cause noise-induced hearing isn't any higher, experts said.

"We have numerous products in the marketplace that have the potential to damage hearing," said Deanna Meinke, an audiology professor at the University of Northern Colorado. "The risk is there but the risk lies with the user and where they set the volume."

The Cupertino-based company ships a warning with each iPod that cautions "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume."

i am not ready to pay for radio yet . . .

Howard Stern coming to Sirius Canada next week

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - In a change of heart, Sirius Canada will add Howard Stern to its 100-channel satellite radio lineup next Monday, but will take steps to ensure that the American "shock jock" does not offend local sensibilities.

"(Stern) is a powerful force in the entertainment world, and we felt it important to add him to the service," Sirius Canada president and CEO Mark Redmond said Wednesday.

Sirius Canada, co-owned by New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Toronto's Standard Radio, last month said it would not air Stern's new "Howard 100" morning radio show, which debuted January 9 on Sirius' U.S. radio service.

Sirius Canada executives at the time denied their decision not to include Stern was caused by fears he might breach Canadian industry-imposed taste standards and force a showdown for Standard Radio and the CBC with broadcast watchdog the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Stern's previous New York-based morning radio show aired on stations in Toronto and Montreal before the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council, the country's broadcast censor, ruled on behalf of the CRTC that Stern had breached voluntary industry codes of conduct with certain on-air comments.

Redmond said Sirius Canada will not censor "Howard 100," but he added that "access controls" had been put in place to ensure the show did not unduly offend Canadian listeners.

Sirius Canada receivers include parental locks that allow subscribers to block out any mature content. And new Sirius Canada subscribers will be told when they initially call to activate their services that mature content is offered as part of the Sirius Canada package and that they can restrict certain channels should they wish to do so.

Of course, Canadians can still write directly to the CRTC to complain about offending content from Howard Stern possibly heard on the Sirius Canada service.

"Sure, anyone can write in and say they heard something. So at the end of the day, we have to make sure it's people who are paying for our service who listen in," Redmond said.

I can't say I like the new album cover (it kind of looks like a rap album to me), but I'm sure I'll love the music, as long as it's not really a rap album...

Pretenders plot boxed set, brief tour

NEW YORK (Billboard) - The long-awaited career-spanning Pretenders boxed set, "Pirate Radio," will finally see the light of day March 14, a week before the band begins a brief U.S. tour in Los Angeles.

The Rhino Records package features four audio CDs as well as a DVD loaded with album tracks, rarities and 15 previously unreleased selections from the Chrissie Hynde-led group, which was inducted last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Pirate Radio" begins with a previously unreleased Regent Park demo of "Precious" from the band's classic 1980 self-titled debut. In addition to rarities like the U.K. single version of "Talk of the Town" and a demo of "Watching the Clothes," the first disc features favorites like "Stop Your Sobbing," "The Wait," "Brass in Pocket" and "Message of Love."

Disc two is highlighted by the previously unreleased tracks "Tequila," "Reconsider Me" and "Worlds Within Worlds," as well as alternate versions of "Hold a Candle to This" and "When I Change My Life." Familiar singles abound, including "Back on the Chain Gang," "My City Was Gone," "Middle of the Road" and "Don't Get Me Wrong."

The third disc of the box sports live runs through "Private Life," "Lovers of Today," "Criminal," "Revolution" and Radiohead's "Creep," as well as a demo of "Every Mother's Son" and the original version of the B-side "Angel of the Morning." A cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Bold As Love" from the tribute album "Stone Free" rounds out the track list.

The final audio disc gathers previously unheard live takes of "The Homecoming," "Up the Neck" and "Fools Must Die" alongside covers of Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday" and Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done." The tracks "Back Down" and "California" make their debuts here as well.

The visual element of "Pirate Radio" draws from 1979 through 1995, including early career performances on the BBC's "Top of the Pops," a 1984 appearance on NBC's "The New Show" and a cover of Hendrix's "Room Full of Mirrors" from the 2003 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.