962 - Oh great so you got the same car as us then...a red one...hehehe...question...you changed powerhouse.....it's got clapping at the end now...why?....just listening to your tunes now...boy I love them...hey hammered has changed too?......oh your sooo talented...oh wow big change!...GREAT

slanshroom - glad to hear your 100%...have to be balanced...where'd ya go?

Keniko - What did she cook that was so special...they say to win a man go through his stomach...hehe...I guess she won ya eh!.....It's just so sad with Mick...I mean can you imagine it with famous bands...it's great to see pictures of old lineups etc...we all have to move on sometimes...but you can't erase the past...silly!....oh well stay focused and keep your chin up...it'll work out!

ICEMAN II - Oh shame I can't see your pics...:-(.......I haven't really got a picture collection of Joe...huh...call myself a fan...hehehe

Marky boy - thanks for the reminder that there are more pics...hehe Joe's face by the side of the imposter is hillarious!

PamelaH - Congratulations on your future wedding! What a great idea for a reception...OK we all going to see Joe Satriani...fantastic!...(hehe...I know it's just you and hubby...but it would be great to have all the family and friends there too!)

js1200js1000 - Oh well that puts new meaning into..you gotta take the good with bad....Going to see Joe....very good...splitting with your girl....very bad....How are going on the computer now?...do you think you will get back together....erm going to school....sorry did I miss something....why are you going to school?

DelfinoPie - Glad you liked it :-)......I just checked out your site....soooo your a bit of a KFC freak then? (hehe me too!)....I love the little ducks they're so sweet...Oh and Fresh Prince of Bel Air....I love that...

Bahduh - good to see you here my friend...glad you are well...didn't realize you had to use a cybercafe!...No never a good idea to leave your children for long with anyone else if you can help it...that's one thing I could never bear to do...I think troy was about 14 when I first left them with someone else...not even their grandparents!...but that's just me...sometimes people have no choice...which is very sad. I am certainly blessed in that regard!

Clarky - I will definately meet up with you at some point...but I have to meet someone else beforehand and we haven't arranged where yet...let you know closer to the time...but I am definately not getting drunk...I wanna enjoy and remember every minute of this experience! but if I don't see you beforehand then I think I know where you will be at half time...so I will find you...hehe

and finally...........................

anyone think this guy could give Jeff a run for his money?

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2004/m_asian_arcade-p1.php

Oh and these Dragonforce clips are good...once you get past the halfway mark the fasts guitar-work comes in...amazing...yeah I know it's not about how fast you can go...but it is amazing nonetheless

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jf4iAlLtur8&search=dragonforce

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i8KuNj-4smY&search=dragonforce

Hugs Satriella xx

This is a cool paint job of a Lambourgini on the side of a van!

http://www.needforfun.com/pictures/fakelamborghini.html

Kayla - this one is for you!

http://www.searchpixie.com/image/Detailed/106799.html

Mikey - I think the 2120 is suffering from some sort of earthing pain internally....
I've had it apart myself and cured a handful of things that looked bad to me.... some solder joints, cleaning and tightening earthing connections etc etc....
but the machine is still freaking out...
the 2120 is a superb machine... if every single component gets changed, then I don't care... this machine pisses over the alternatives by far...
it will be fixed.... for me to match it's sound quality and flexibility, I have to spend huge amounts of money on TC Electronics, Mesa, etc etc sort of kit..
the closest thing to it out there today is the Boss GT PRO....
a good unit I'm led to believe... but I'll obviously need to find that out for myself..

my preference though is for a fully fit 2120... no question... fingers crossed

I tried to get Super C at the weekend.. sold out...
so I got some other stuff instead..
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
Dega Voodoo - Govt Mule
the latest Lamb of God album [can't recall the name of it]
the latest Children of Bodom [can't recall the name of that either.. lol..]

maybe I can hopefully get Digitech to re-evaluate their market research....

but most likely not.. lol..

jeez.. I am so predictable.....

is this your first ever Satch gig??

Hi everyone...hope you all had a great easter.

Satriella ... loved the dragonforce links ..brill stuff. Have'nt been around much lately ..very busy working, and my daughter has been very unwell, luckily she's better now. Really looking forward to Texas, this is my first time seeing Joe so i'm getting really excited now.

962....Are you sending me the album cover? i had'nt forgotten, sorry i have'nt been in touch sooner things have been manic here. I will be leaving on 25th so get it sent to me asap.

Thanks to everyone for the reviews of the concerts so far, one thing i can't understand is why Erics sound seems to be so poor on numerous occasions???

Have a great day all.....

Zinc Master.. I'm OK.. not to shabby.... still trying to figure out which end of the guitar to blow in... it's a bit different than a tuba... lol...mayonnaise...classic :) tanx Zinc !! MT

bahduh... thanx Mark for the well wishes and Amen to spreading the Good stuff !!! lol MT

Icemanll..How about Howe... Greg that is..lol... hey bud.. you into comics??? I used to collect em and had most of the first 20 ( apx. 17 out of 20) of the original (1st) Silver suffer series..even # 4 (low distributionw/Thor) in near mint condition..wish i still had em!!! lol MT

Gotta Have Joe.. congats on the linky and the new site..and def. BLOW THE LID !!!! lol MT

962.. Hey Simon any new tunes yet bud??? MT

SteveeT.. sounds like the move went smooth.. good deal.. hope all is well my friend !!! MT

Satriella.. i do believe your getting even better !!!! LOL MT

Clarky - I'm afraid you won't be able to be at the bar with me during the interval, coz I ain't gonna be at the gig anymore. My brother's Stag do is on the exact same date!!!! Gay... lol

Good choices of album, by the way - was Killadelphia the name of Lamb Of God album? Isn't that a live recording? I thought Ashes Of The Wake was their latest studio effort. Children Of Bodom are awesome though aren't they? Alexi Laiho's pretty handy on the ol' six string!!!

Hey Excel - Welcome Back!....Sorry to hear about your daughter....scary stuff when kids are really ill!...I expect you need some recovery time now! Enjoy Texas!

Clarky - Hmm yes as I suspected...although I thought...on the floor somewhere near the bar!...but close enough!! hehe...where is Yoda anyway...haven't seen him round here in a while....Say Hi for me!

mthead101 - Why thank you kind sir! Can't see any difference myself..only that I am getting quicker, so good to know I am possible imporving a little too!

Hey everyone hope all is well, just got my diamond ticket for the manchester, UK tour!!!!! :-) Hoping to afford tickets to other uk gigs as well.

Cant wait to see the new line up with DAve playing. It should be awesome. Hope to see and meet as many satcdh fans as possible

peace

HI again

cabn anyone give advise please on how to fix the paintwork on a JS10 I would be grateful

regards

kayla...on the ability to link...

mthead101...no move yet...preparation...thanks

Hey Joe.. Damn man this year ur not coming to Istanbul as always... damn sponsors why dont they contact the best musician on earth !!!! if i had a big holding or a company dude ! damn anyways are these the last dates ? no more will be added ? so ur show is ending n july? well i hope i'll be in nebraska n june so i guess i can see u in the states.. damn i really wanna see u play ten words. i hope this year i'll get to see u , i'm missing sooo many moments in my life damnit i hate life.. anyways man please take care listening to u works as well.. ur my everything, my reason to live.. thanks a lot for everything.. take care , Ur biggest crazy!

A Tale of Two Robins

Two robins were sitting in a tree.

"I'm really hungry," said the first one. "Let's fly down and find some lunch."

They flew down to the ground and found a nice plot of newly plowed ground that was full of worms. They ate and ate and ate till they could eat no more.

"I'm so full, I don't think I can fly back up into the tree," said the first one.

"Let's just lay back here and bask in the warm sun," said the second.

"O K," said the first.

So they plopped down, basking in the sun. No sooner than they had fallen asleep, when a big fat tomcat up and gobbled them up.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

In follow-up to boiling water in the microwave . . .

Don't microwave sponges for 3 minutes.

They will stink like hell and destroy your microwave with the smell.

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

Office Depot CEO Steve Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an upscale French restaurant in Denver.

The purple sorbet in cut glass he was serving tumbled onto the expensive white gown of an obviously rich and important woman. "I watched in slow motion ruining her dress for the evening," Odland says. "I thought I would be shot on sight."

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can't get the stain out of his mind, nor the woman's kind reaction. She was startled, regained composure and, in a reassuring voice, told the teenage Odland, "It's OK. It wasn't your fault." When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn't the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those rare laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It's hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but all interviewed agree with the Waiter Rule.

They acknowledge that CEOs live in a Lake Wobegon world where every dinner or lunch partner is above average in their deference. How others treat the CEO says nothing, they say. But how others treat the waiter is like a magical window into the soul.

And beware of anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, "I could buy this place and fire you," or "I know the owner and I could have you fired." Those who say such things have revealed more about their character than about their wealth and power.

Whoever came up with the waiter observation "is bang spot on," says BMW North America President Tom Purves, a native of Scotland, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, who lives in New York City with his Norwegian wife, Hilde, and works for a German company. That makes him qualified to speak on different cultures, and he says the waiter theory is true everywhere.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a booklet of 33 short leadership observations called Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management. Raytheon has given away 250,000 of the books.

Among those 33 rules is only one that Swanson says never fails: "A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person."

Swanson says he first noticed this in the 1970s when he was eating with a man who became "absolutely obnoxious" to a waiter because the restaurant did not stock a particular wine.

"Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with," Swanson writes. "Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles."

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

Part II

Shaich says any time candidates are being considered for executive positions at Panera Bread, he asks his assistant, Laura Parisi, how they treated her, because some applicants are "pushy, self-absorbed and rude" to her before she transfers the call to him.

Just about every CEO has a waiter story to tell. Dave Gould, CEO of Witness Systems, experienced the rule firsthand when a waitress dumped a full glass of red wine on the expensive suit of another CEO during a contract negotiation. The victim CEO put her at ease with a joke about not having had time to shower that morning. A few days later, when there was an apparent impasse during negotiations, Gould trusted that CEO to have the character to work out any differences.

CEOs who blow up at waiters have an ego out of control, Gould says. "They're saying, 'I'm better. I'm smarter.' Those people tend not to be collaborative."

"To some people, speaking in a condescending manner makes them feel important, which to me is a total turnoff," says Seymour Holtzman, chairman of Casual Male Retail Group, which operates big-and-tall men's clothing stores including Casual Male XL.

How people were raised

Such behavior is an accurate predictor of character because it isn't easily learned or unlearned but rather speaks to how people were raised, says Siki Giunta, CEO of U.S. technology company Managed Objects, a native of Rome who once worked as a London bartender.

More recently, she had a boss who would not speak directly to the waiter but would tell his assistant what he wanted to eat, and the assistant would tell the waiter in a comical three-way display of pomposity. What did Giunta learn about his character? "That he was demanding and could not function well without a lot of hand-holding from his support system," she said.

It's somewhat telling, Giunta says, that the more elegant the restaurant, the more distant and invisible the wait staff is. As if the more important the customer, the less the wait staff matters. People view waiters as their temporary personal employees. Therefore, how executives treat waiters probably demonstrates how they treat their actual employees, says Sara Lee CEO Brenda Barnes, a former waitress and postal clerk, who says she is a demanding boss but never shouts at or demeans an employee.

"Sitting in the chair of CEO makes me no better of a person than the forklift operator in our plant," she says. "If you treat the waiter, or a subordinate, like garbage, guess what? Are they going to give it their all? I don't think so."

CEOs aren't the only ones who have discovered the Waiter Rule. A November survey of 2,500 by It's Just Lunch, a dating service for professionals, found that being rude to waiters ranks No. 1 as the worst in dining etiquette, at 52%, way ahead of blowing your nose at the table, at 35%.

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

Part III (final part)

Rule works with celebrities, too

The Waiter Rule also applies to celebrities, says Jimmy Rosemond, CEO of agency Czar Entertainment, who has brokered deals for Mike Tyson, Mario Winans and Guerilla Black. Rosemond declines to name names, but he remembers one dinner episode in Houston a few years back with a rude divisional president of a major music company.

When dinner was over, Rosemond felt compelled to apologize to the waiter on the way out. "I said, 'Please forgive my friend for acting like that.' It's embarrassing. They go into rages for simple mistakes like forgetting an order."

Rosemond says that particular music executive also treated his assistants and interns poorly - and was eventually fired.

Odland says he saw all types of people 30 years ago as a busboy. "People treated me wonderfully and others treated me like dirt. There were a lot of ugly people. I didn't have the money or the CEO title at the time, but I had the same intelligence and raw ability as I have today.

"Why would people treat me differently? Your value system and ethics need to be constant at all times regardless of who you are dealing with."

Holtzman grew up in the coal-mining town of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and in the 1950s saw opportunity as a waiter 90 miles away in the Catskill Mountains, where customers did not tip until the end of the week. When they tipped poorly, he would say: "Sir, will you and your wife be tipping separately?"

"I saw a lot of character, or the lack thereof," says Holtzman, who says he can still carry three dishes in his right hand and two in his left.

"But for some twist of fate in life, they're the waiter and you're the one being waited on," Barnes says.

Clarky,

Joe Satriani’s best song on Super Colossal is…

It’s always difficult to pick just one...but if I must then it will be…

‘THE MEANING OF LOVE’…

Something about that song…

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mthead101-

Man, you had some rare comics..that’s a shame…