Hey T, while you're in Portland, keep yer eyes open for that pregnant man. What an amazingly ODD story. My dad is a mom, but my dad. That's gunna take sum 'splainin'!

I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for my dogs and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog........Duh!

I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care unit with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV's in both arms. Her eyes about bugged out of her head.

I went on and on with the bogus diet story and she was totally buying it. I told her that it was an easy, inexpensive diet and that the way it works is to load your pockets or purse with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry.

The package said the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.

Horrified, she asked if something in the dog food had poisoned me and was that why I ended up in the hospital.

I said no.....I'd been sitting in the street licking my butt when a car hit me.

I thought the tall guy was going to have to be carried out the door.

chelle, the pregnant "man" is in Bend, so prolly won't be in Portland next week....but what an interesting story....you always manage to find the best ones, lol..... :)

Hi joe i want to congratulate for ure new jewel the tittle is to long for me excuse me i love all the song good feeling with all the album still ure touch ure style and this loving rythm and beautiful melody perfect as usual see u in tour a hope in France ure alway welcome in ure country i work my guitar evryday since i began a day of 1993 when i had my first guitar i always had it its a copy of stratocaster a jim harley i ve customize it new pickup seymour ssl1 she is still a good guitar ive got other guitar many more expansive like a van halen signature but she is cool this strat ive got also two cort a solo series with a fred on bridge and a super3 on neck unsual but cool gotoh poweredd and i ve got a x6 with a dual sound and a paf pro and gotoh powered too my effect is a boss gt6 with a morley wah and an original ts9 my amps is a hughes and ketnner vortex with a 2*12 cabinet i also use sometimes an old analogic pedalfloor a be 5 boss and a parametric pedal arion but the most important is not all this is my finger and the emotion i have when i play hope to see u soon on tour bye

PhilTheMetalhead - Yeah, Victor Wooten is amazing! I saw him with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones back in October. I can't believe some of the things he does. He'll play notes with his first two fingers on the E and A strings while using his other two fingers to play harmonics on the D and G strings at the same time. Awesome.

Considering it's easy for me to wake up early in the morning and I love going to concerts in the evening, I wonder why I work the hours that I do. I really should find more of a 9-5 thing...

Thanks for the compliment JS, glad I could do the song justice

Pro Tools is this recording software that allows you to create multi track recordings, and make mp3s out of the tracks. I think after Joe signed the keyboard, it's now possessed, cause I was able to figure out the drums, bass, rythym and a lot of the lead almost on the first try.

That Korg is the best thing I've ever bought. Last year when I saw Joe, I saw the Karma on stage, which was cool to know that he uses the same keyboard.

I should have the full version on the myspace site by the end of the weekend, I haven't been able to get the song out of my head.

I have some other Joe covers on my youtube site, Satch boogie, Surfing, Flying in a blue Dream, and on the myspace site I have "Made of Tears" and "The Traveller" on there as well.

Let me know what you think, and I hope that I've done the songs justice

http://www.youtube.com/mtg8321

Hi Joe! I'm from Turkiye. I didn't belive my eyes that I've seen your tribute song for our famous saz player Asik Veysel. I'm very happy now. Thank you for your interest.Thank you for your music. I'm not speak English very well and I want to say you in Turkish: "Kendine iyi bak" (:

I think Joe's chops get better with every passing year. He also looks like he's in better shape every frickin' year too!! lol! Must be all those workouts in Pluto slippers holding his guitars ;-)

Buns of steel don't ship UPS!

T-Bo, Bend, Portland, Klamish - it's all in the same bread basket from over here on the right side of the states. lol! my bad. I saw the show on Oprah. It was an odd story. Like I said, I do fear for their saftey. I hope people just let them be.

Chase_82

I find that chromatic stuff helps to advance alternate picking, finger stretching, etc. If, everyday, for example you play a chromatic that uses all the strings from bass "e" to top e-string, 12th fret "e", then your fluency improves, and you can move on to harmonic or melodic minor scales, or just basic major ones. Maybe increase the speed from time to time. You will find that even some of the most complex melodies become easier with this practice.