HI EVERYBODY!! Hope you all had a GREAT weekend!

SATRIELLA Hey wonderful lady. I b one ugly dude Sandy. No, seriously. I'm pretty busted up. Growler is a kind nick name to describe my looks. My wife will only sit and talk with me if its pitch black in the room. In my youth I looked like a typical "surfer dude." I was blonde with blue eyes and about six feet tall and 190 lbs. Now, its like "what happened!" Its best you not see me, I'm hiddeous. Loved Stairway to Heaven!

SUZIE Your married? Is there any way you can sneak away to Hawaii for awhile to watch Bruce Lee movies and Tarantino flicks? I'm married as well, hiddeous looking, but good company at the movies. Like Tarantino as well. In fact, just played some cuts off the Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn soundtracks. Did you see Jackie Brown? What did you think? Tarantino really likes Pam Grier. When I lived on the mainland I hung out with her brother Rod, this is how I know this. But, who cares! Trivia. Be coool girl.

KAYLA Get that pinky fixed, its still growing!

DO THE STU Austin, thanks for the heads up on U2 as I havent seen them . Will really try hard to get there. Sorry, I didnt know that you had been posting on the site so long. Welcome back then! You staying cool over there? Last time I was in Long Beach was 00 or 01 for the Fender Blues on Catalina Island. Took the ferry over. It was great!

SLANSH Excellent links as always bro. How difficult is that to do? That guy compound fractured both the tibia and the fibula at the same time! It was hard to tell just how he threw that kick, but from the looks of it he tried to sweep him instead of kick, with his toes facing upward. Dude, I couldnt help but show that to my wife and she about threw up on me! Love it! You know what I like. We seem to function on the same wavelength.

Sounds like you had a great time at the concert. Sorry you didnt get to see the boyz afterward. Its difficult to figure out the right exit. I guess its luck of the draw. Whatever that means. Well, good to hear from you bro. Peace and Joy to you and your family.

Swissy

well people.....i have VERY IMPORTANT NEWS to share with everyone concerned......yesterday i called steven and our conversation lasted for about 20 minutes or so...i have been trying to get in touch with him since thursday but could not get through..yesterday thank god we connected and i managed to talk with him......frankly our conversation could not have been any worse .....it was full of tears and emotions....steven is going thru probably the "TOUGHEST PHASE OF HIS LIFE" AND he needs all the prayers and best wishes......he was in tears thru out the conversation.......he has problems galore and would like everyone of his friends here to pray for him........i had a tough night as it was already nearing midnight by the time i finished talking to him..i couldnt sleep till about 4.30 in the morning,twisting and turning all over the bed......i can feel the pain and so please if any of yu cares for steven do pray for him....please light a candle for him, it does not take more than a few seconds to light a candle and who knows,,,this act by all of yu might change the fortune of stevens life...i am worried but frankly am in bno position to help but only pray to god to help steven overcome all his problems,,,i know what he is going thru is not any ordinary problem that we go thru in life and i could feel it in his cries yesterday...it is sad that a person who is so loving and caring should have to go thru so much pain.he does not deserve this!!!!!! period!!!!!he was repeating the fact that he loves and misses everyone at t2j........he thanked all of yu who have been remembering and praying for him......he made an honest request to everyone concerned to please "pray for him".........believe me as i write this i am holding back my tears as this is my workplace but there is no stopping me at home......i canno fathom why a person so loving and sincere and affectionate as Steven have to go thru this.........i hope God answers all our prayers and give him back his life.......PLEASE PRAY FOR STEVEN.....i am shatterred and at a wits end......i hope god knows what he is doing to steven.just so yu guys know everytime i mentioned someone from t2j he was moved to tears...he sorely and badly misses everyone at t2j....

marimari....yu have a very important mail with some important messages from steven.....so please check out yur mail box....

randell(ATN)...bro steven wants yu to get in touch with me..i hope yu know what i mean to say...please check out yur mail from me today and reply immediately as i will be calling him again tonight .......please mail back immediately.

lucysorets....hi...thanks for the mail.....yu have one too...

ovation.....sorry bro not in a position to write much....tough day for me,,,,but i have mail for yu too.

satriella......hi ..thanks for the mail...please pray for my good friend Steven Wilde who is in dire need of help.

artanis....suzie2000......austin...zenfish.......slanshroom.......

all yu guys....bye...

WEBMASTER..........jon i request you to kindly tell joe that steven wilde our good friend from this forum to whom joe has personally posted once or twice in the years gone by, is going thru a very tough phase....perhaps Joe can inspire Steven.....just a simple message to him at T2j saying that "Joe cares " would mean so much for steven.....please JON.........please.

PLEASE...I BEG EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU...........DO PRAY FOR STEVEN............A FEW SECONDS OF YOUR PRAYERS DEDICATED TO STEVEN MIGHT CHANGE HIS WORLD.............I HUMBLY BEG YOU ALL........PRAY FOR HIM.

THIS IS AN OPEN INVITATION TO ALL MY FRIENDS AT T2J......

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY FRIEND STEVEN WILDE.HE DESERVES BETTER IN LIFE AND AFTER ALL THAT HE HAS BEEN THROUGH I THINK IT IS TIME THAT GOD STARTS GIVING HIM HIS LIFE BACK.....I AM NOT TRYING TO QUESTION GOD BUT JUST WANNA HUMBLY REQUEST THE "MAKER" TO GIVE STEVEN HIS NORMAL LIFE BACK.

PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM.....JUST TELL GOD TO "PLEASE HELP STEVEN GOD" AND YOU SHALL BE BLESSED FOR YOUR EFFORT IN TRYING TO MAKE STEVENS' LIFE A BETTER ONE.

OK who is a star wars fan or a funny stuff fan

Darth Vader being Smart!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM&NR

Star Wars a Lost Hope.....this is funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1M-wwlNi4&mode=related&search=

Eddy Izzard does Darth in the Canteen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AL2DEX2SGg&mode=related&search=

Oh have fun peeps!

Slansh & Satriella - thanks for the Star Wars posts: Magic!

Here's an old one for you in return...

Hi Satriella! Your drawing is great :)))

I'm not "VF Rocker", but "ptRocker":)) But your draw makes no mistakes!

I'll send you my address on a email, if you don't mind to send me the original drawing...

Once again, thanks a lot!!! :)))

I think this was the first time I was ever drawn so this is a very special drawing to me!

Hi all,

now that I had the time I'd like to share my impressions about the Madrid concert:

It was great! :)))) Joe's is definetely in a tremendous shape!!!

I was very close to him during the first two thirds of the concert and could enjoy every detail he was playing! The sound was very good as well and his guitar never lost definition.

The rythm guitar was perhaps too low.

The bass and drums were incredible. Great quality sound! I loved Jeff's playing, very smily, very cheerful, very contagious...

He kick-off with "Flyin'" and it still amazes me how he's able to control all those feedbacks, specially in that high C in th middle. But he played it just like the record. Awesome! The crowd reacted accordingly...

"The Extremist" followed. The guitar was too loud so you couldn't hear the harmonica solo that well :S But the solo was amazing! :))

To me, the next highlight happened with "Super Colossal", with Joe showing great pride in his new guitar! :D Who wouldn't? The sound was exactly like the record!

As always expected, "Always with me, always with you" is still with me! That's my favourite satch song and Joe didn't let me down... This time he played it with an extension ending. It sounded great! :)))

"Surfing with the alien" surprised me since I wasn't expecting so many songs from that album but when he left after this song, I knew he had to came back! :))) "Crowd Chant"?

Indeed!!! "Crowd Chant" was fantastic! The audience knew exactly what to do and I loved the full arranged version with bass and drums. When the song was ending I remember telling my girlfriend: "There's still Summer Song missing!"

And he ended exactly with one. Somehow I knew this was the last, simply because he had already played all the most significant ones. I hoped he could play "Friends" but it was over :(((

Those two hours passed by so quickly!

My only remark is that Joe probably could have let the other musicians have a little more space... I think Dave LaRue was the only one to solo during the entire show...

Alexandre: foi pena não termos conseguido beber uma caña! Eu cheguei a Madrid atrasadíssimo e quando cheguei já o primeiro número tinha começado (já ía em stress com a possibilidade de perder o mister) Mas foi excelente, não foi? ;) Quando tocares aqui perto, avisa! Eu vou estrear a minha banda de originais daqui a poucas semanas na Arruda dos Vinhos.

Campbell: Welcome to the site! You will make many friends here. I myself am trying to relearn the guitar after MANY years of not playing. I am not even trying to be as good as Joe. I am just trying to learn to be a good rythmn player who can throw in the odd fill here and there.

Again, welcome to the site.

Thanks Joe !! I was in Nîmes last Saturday, just in front of you. Hearing your amazing guitar, I kept a big smile on the face during all the show !! You play with great pleasure, we listen to you with great pleasure !! A bientôt. Franck

My funky band website : http://magictongfamily.free.fr/

Hello Mr. Satriani,

I'm a 23 years old drummer, my name is Luca and I'm from Italy. I watched the G3 dvd's and I saw that in every gig U invite a new guitar player so I'd like to ask U: " with all the great guitar players that U invited, did U ever thought to invite also Toto's guitarist STEVE LUKATHER on a G3? " At my opinion He's an amazing musician and I'm sure that it could be a great gig with him.

SATRIELLA- Thanks, I hope so anyway!! I have a good feeling about the job :)

PHRYDOM- Think Myspace is back up now, at least it loaded the page just now.

SLANSH- Thanks, we are looking forward to visiting Barcelona... not too long now! Are you off on holidays soon?

ZEN- Got your mail, Matt will reply later:)

GROWLER- lol :) Actually I think "Jackie Brown" is Tarantino's best film, although I am a huge fan of all his films, particularly loved Kill Bill Vol 2. He really has the talent to incorporate such fitting soundtracks to all his films, they always seem so perfectly suited to the moment. That is some cool information about Pam Grier! I have also always thought it a big shame about how Natural Born Killers turned out... should have used Quentin's screenplay and let him direct it! :)

Not sure if this Joe interview has been posted or not? If not, enjoy!

Interview

Playing hookie ha ha.