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.

Another Goody For The Oldtimers

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now..

Flunking gym was not an option...even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting?

I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

Road Test: A Year Without TV

One couple decides to go through their first year of marriage sans television.

Part One of Two

When my husband (then fiancι) suggested we start our married lives together TV-free, I thought he was joking. We hadn't moved in together yet, but weekends with this Big Ten grad, sports lover, and Fantasy Football devotee almost always involved at least a glimpse of some game on TV. Had he gone crazy -- or was this truly a brilliant idea?

Assured by his promises of more quality time as a married couple -- and the chance to stop zoning out in front of the tube together -- I agreed. So after our wedding bells rang, my newly betrothed and I moved into a condo together. Our TV had a new home, too: a locked storage unit in the basement. Here's how we endured:

The Plan:

Television wasn't completely off-limits -- we just wouldn't have it in our home. If my husband wanted to watch Sunday-night football, he had to make plans to watch it at a friend's house or at a bar, or drive 45 minutes to watch with his dad. Likewise, if I wanted to unwind with the latest Boston Legal episode, I had to go to a girlfriend's place. But at home, it was time to talk, read, and enjoy the first year of marriage.

The Beginning:

At first, we both felt the TV withdrawal. My morning routine felt empty without Katie and Matt at the Today show. Gone were the days when my husband could de-stress after work with a good Seinfeld rerun. Life seemed less complicated when I could lose myself in a funny Friends repeat, or when the TV could simply provide background noise for our tired nights. Was marriage really this quiet?

We both felt a little left out when it came to conversations with friends. My husband was no longer well-equipped to play Monday-morning quarterback with the guys at work. And when a friend mentioned Laguna Beach, I was reminded of a fun weekend there, not an MTV reality show. Was this really a good idea?

Then my husband hit rock bottom. After 88 years, our hometown Chicago White Sox had made it to the World Series. My husband was fine following his routine of watching the previous games with friends. But imagine my surprise when I walked into our cable-free condo to find him staring at our television -- game in play. It was fuzzy, but viewable with the aid of an antenna-like concoction he'd created. I had to laugh -- it was quite a relapse.

Road Test: A Year Without TV

Part Two

The Adjusting:

Once the World Series ended (and the White Sox won!) and we returned to our no-TV routine, we actually liked not having a television. I replaced the Today show with National Public Radio. Dinnertime became just us -- communicating about our days, our goals, our lives. Days of the week were no longer defined by shows on TV -- as in, "I have to be home by nine because it's Apprentice night" -- but were now based on what we would do together that evening.

We started new projects, like painting rooms in our condo. I made countless messes in our kitchen trying out new recipes for dinner. We stopped taking shifts to walk Buddy, our golden retriever, and began taking him for long evening walks together. My husband started playing chess on the Internet, and read more books in a few months than he'd read the entire previous year. We were enjoying our new life so much that we didn't know when we had ever found time to watch so much TV.

The Verdict:

What does our TV future have in store? Ask my husband, and he'll likely say a wide-screen, flat-panel LCD with a built-in DVD player and virtual surround sound. Someday maybe. But the current plan is to make it a full year before pulling our old 32-incher out of storage.

And for now, as peculiar as it may seem, this TV-free experience is giving us a priceless gift: the ability to kick off our marriage with a solid foundation of communication. Having no TV has challenged us to stop watching other people live their lives and to start living our own. I recommend turning off the tube to all couples. I guarantee you: It's reality TV at its finest.

Good "Super Coloassal" Morning to Ya ! ! ! .......

Jon...... I love the face lift on the home page. It's always good to see the home page change cause that means a new CD is on the way. Whoa ! ! ! I love it. I'm excited about the NAMM web cast and the other surprises in store for us. About the leaking.....you may want to talk with Sony. Cheese 101 gave us a link to their page that showed Joe's Art Work and song titles. It's funny you're mentioning this cause I was thinkin' the same thing. Joe should have first rights to release HIS info. As always you do a great job with the site. Thanks for everything. I hope the little tike is doing good as is the rest of your family. Take care. Peace.

SteveeT. I'm with you bro....STOKED ! ! ! ! To put it mildly.

I had to laugh this morning I was trying to remember how to spell Colossal. In my mind I went.....Let see....C O L O....backward ass.....L Yea!! that's it......lol.....

The mind is a terrible thing to waste......Isn't it?...lol....

Joe.....Thanks for everything you do. Your music is the best and moves millions. Take care....say Hey ! ! ! to your family ,band and crew from us.......

Have A Great Day Everyone ! ! !