SteveeT- so you spoke to Joe's Mum as well? That is cool! :)

njbeast- You met Joe 3 times and Steve twice? Very lucky indeed! So how did you get to meet Joe- seeing as it tends to be harder to do in the UK! Nice going though!

EthnH- No more Hendrix covers? Why not?

MasterYoda- what did you say to Steve Vai when you met him? I always have this fear that if I ever met Joe I'd have a great question in my head to ask, but when I got the chance what would actually get spoken by me would be "blblbllblblbllblblblblb" or some equal nonsense LOL!!!

Mari- Bet you'll be getting to some of the Joe gigs!

Zinc- £3.70 for a dvd, particularly for the Seville 92 concert is a GREAT deal. England rips you off left right and centre for the price of pretty much everything. It's got to be one of the most expensive places to live- especially the South-East- you have to pay a small fortune to live in a shed!!!

Cheese- I am very much looking forward to getting that dvd! So many fantastic guitarists! How are you these days by the way?

Austin, yeah I had the rare pleasure of seeing Jennifer Batten perform in a clinic/demo session at a guitar show in London 3 or 4 years ago. She was really awesome to watch.....she's so different and brings such a different "guitar playing experience" to the live stage.

Also, as I said before, I've got KOC, Burning Organ, Flying Dog, Spaceship One, and Racer X: technical difficulties.....which other albums does Paul do classical pieces/arrangements on?

I hope that when more tour dates are added, they are added to the end of the tour schedule and not the beginning. I'll be in New York from 3/28-4/2 for the Dream Theater gig on 4/1.

In the past Joe has usually played Los Angeles right before Denver. I hope there are a few more stops in between this time (or, at least, I hope there is a Ventura/Anaheim/San Diego/other Southern California show that I can make it to). ::crosses fingers::

Joe or Jon - I know you don't know specific dates if they aren't already posted on the site, but do you have a general sense of when the Southern California gigs will be (at the start of the tour or at the end)...?

Rob: Well...im not doing so good..iv been really weak today and i have a messed up rib from Snowboarding the other day.

Keniko: Snowboarding...it was all fun till i crashed for the first time in a long time. lol.

SteeveT: Thanks :)

962 Hey...I like Paul Gilbert a lot, also! I've actually been listening to Racer X a lot lately. I'm not a fan of Paul's solo stuff at all, but Racer X is awesome. Paul is one of the fastest, most accurate, and cleanest guitarist I've ever heard. I can't get over how he plays so cleanly at such fast speeds, it's amazing. His classical arrangements are so good, I wanted to figure out B.R.O. this week, but I've been very busy this week, hopefully I'll get to it next week, and yes, both guitar parts. Have you heard Y.R.O.? (Yngwie Rip Off) When he sweeps those arpeggios, they are 10 times cleaner than Yngwie, and even sound faster since they are so cleanly executed. I'll be in NY in two weeks, hopefully I'll finally be able to find the Snowball of Doom DVD, I haven't had any luck finding that anywhere, yet...other than online.

-You know what sucks a lot? Book reports...you know what sucks even more? You finish the book report and all the crap the teacher wants you to do for the book report, it's all typed up and checked over, looks and sounds good...put the disk in to save it...computer freezes! Yea! That's always fun! That just happened to me today! I finally got around to reading the book today, took me about an hour to read it (I speed read, somehow...), wrote the report, put the disk in to save it onto, and the computer froze up! Ahh...did I mention it's due tomorrow (friday)? I did not want to rewrite up a whole nother report...started it again, but just don't want to rewrite another one, what a huge let down, still working on it now, I could have used this time for some guitar playing!!! Well...I gotta try and finish this book report, I got a lot to do other than that, and I need to squeeze some guitar time in there somehow!

The Holy Land

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the Wife passed away.

The undertaker told the Husband "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150."

The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"

Ford Thinks of Everything

Taking a wee break from the golf circuit, Tiger Woods drove his new Ford Excursion into an Irish gas station.

An attendant greeted him in typical Irish manner, unaware who the golf pro was. "Top of the morning' to ya!" the Irishman smiled, doffing his cap.

As Tiger got out of the mammoth vehicle, two tees fell out of his pocket.

"So what are those, lad?" asked the attendant.

They're called tees," replied Tiger.

"And what would ya be usin' em for, now?" inquired the Irishman.

IRISH GAS STATION "Well, they are for resting my balls on when I drive,"

said Tiger.

"AW! Jaysus, Mary an' Joseph," exclaimed the Irish attendant.

Cant wait until the Colassal tour!

Zinc Master

Stevee T,

I listened to Harvest Ice, great song!

What program do you use to write out all the drum parts and bass parts? Im looking for a program that is easy to use and will work well with my Drumkit From Hell Superior Samples.

Thanks.

mikesb...best wishes for tomorrow's procedure...

DrMindcrime...thank you....Triton for the drums...an actual Bass Guitar for the bass...Tascam 2488 to record...

Delfino Pie...nice track...it let me space out on stuff....which to me is a sign of success!

Stevee T:Hard t let go of the L.Pauls, i understand that bro.its not so much exchanging the old for new, just more the need t move on, caught in the crossfire & now she points you into another path.Change is good, others will always play how they play till they croak.Good on y Stevee, power t y & yer dreams bud

Suzie-2000: What is the dvd version of the Seville Concert like? Has it got the full set on it? The video that was on the BBC at the time cut a few tracks off (I'm especially looking for the live version of Get The Funk Out that was edited out).

962 - Hey, Simon! I don't have any Paul Gilbert stuff apart from the Guitar Wars dvd but that was awesome! I really like his sense of humour and his website is pretty funny too! He would be a great choice for the G3 tours.

My old guitar tutor took some of his students to a Paul Gilbert clinic a few years ago and he invited people to get up and jam. One of his students there got up and apparently held his nerve and actually gave a great account of himself on the night. I think it would all go by in a blur for me!

One question about your tip for my sound problem - when you said to put the Wolfgang after the wah and tuner, you do realise that the Wolfgang is my guitar? If so, how does this work???!

I've left my guitar in for a set up so they are going to check the wiring in case it's anything to do with that. If not I'll try the one pedal at a time test. It could be a problem with the clean channel on the amp. Do the overdrive/clean channels have seperate speakers? It sounded fine on the overdrive channels but I didn't try it for too long on the clean.

Ailing Les Paul Misses Grammys, Tribute Concert

February 09, 2006, 9:25 AM ET

Electric guitar innovator Les Paul won two Grammy Awards last night (Feb. 8) for an all-star album marking his 90th birthday, but he was unable to pick them up in person because he is hospitalized in New Jersey with pneumonia.

Paul, whose name has adorned a brand of guitars used by rock stars since the 1950s, won his trophies in the pop instrumental performance category for the track "Caravan," and in the rock instrumental performance category for the track "69 Freedom Special," credited to Les Paul and Friends.

The tracks come from the Capitol album "Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played," his first release since 1978's "Chester & Lester" with late Nashville icon Chet Atkins. That album marked the only other time he won a Grammy. The new CD features such guitarists as Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons and Keith Richards accompanying Paul on classic rock and R&B songs.

Paul has been hospitalized near his New Jersey home since Friday, a spokeswoman for his label said. In a radio interview on Monday, he sounded chipper and vowed he would get better.

Ill health forced him to pull out of an all-star tribute concert in Los Angeles on Tuesday, featuring the likes of former Guns 'N Roses guitarist Slash, Aerosmith's Joe Perry, and bluesmen Buddy Guy and Hubert Sumlin, nut he appeared via satellite feed.

At 90, Paul is not the oldest winner in the Grammys' 48-year history. That honor goes to Elizabeth Cotten, who was 94 when she won the award for ethnic or traditional folk recording in 1985, according to a Grammys spokesperson.

Paul has been a dominant force in the music business since World War II. He and wife Mary Ford enjoyed a string of hits in the 1940s and '50s with such million-sellers as "Mockin' Bird Hill" and "How High the Moon."

A passionate tinkerer, he created one of the first solid-body electric guitars in 1941, and went on to pioneer multi-track recording. He played a key role in the birth of rock 'n' roll in the early 1950s when he teamed up with Gibson Guitar Corp. to help design a sleek model that bears his name. An instant success, its basic structure has barely changed over the decades.

Despite arthritis and hearing problems, Paul remains an indefatigable musician. He holds court every week at Iridium, a New York jazz club, often trading licks with youngsters who want to prove their mettle.

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Stevee T & Suzie, here's a picture of Joe's mum from July 14, 2001 at the Beacon in NY. My husband and I talked to her a bit. She was very sweet and funny, and very proud of Joe and the band.

http://www.satriani.com/2000/road/2001-07-14/MrsSatriani&Joe.jpg

Joe Satriani.....Buffalo, NY Date....ALRIGHT!!!!

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