I Have a friend who is so beautiful in word that i cry!

js1200js1000 - well I am not sure i can actually afford a flat...but i got no choice....so i may well have to start selling my drawings.

I will draw slash next....

philthemetalhead - hope you hanging in there kiddo! :-)

joe satrini - thanks for the nagging deary! LOL

njbeast - acunamatata - no worries!

hugs Satriella xx

Scoobs - Yeah, that one got me a few free beers back in the day! Dribble, hick, I bet you there are three beards in ZZ Top, burp.

Hey Joe,

I've been listening to your music for a year now. Yeah and have heard almost all of it!!

I am from India btw..

Any chance you would ever do a show here?!

Biiiiiiiig Faaaaan!!

Given a choice between Shahrukh Khan and Joe Satriani, I'd run to you for an autograph.

Cube - I'll give it a shot.

big bunny - thanks for the info on Freo. I really enjoyed spending time there and in Perth. Just chilling by the harbour at Freo was cool (apart from the hungry Pelican!) so would be great to come over for the gig, although it looks like the air fare is going to scupper that idea... not set in stone yet though

jblaze - sorry to hear about your dawg. Losing a member of the family is always tough.

Zincmaster - thanks for reminding me of that test. It's annoying all my workmates now, perfect : )

Do The Stu - aw cripes, how do I pick a set list out of all that mastery? I'll have a think and post one, but I think it might take me a while. As a great source of satch facts can you (or anyone else here) answer this one.... been watching the AWMAWY video a fair bit - who's the peeps in it?

Jeff on percussion, Stu?? - bass, ??? - rhythm guit?, pretty lady? I obv only paid attention to the Joe bits before instead of taking it all in so now I'm curious

Clarky - I thought you said you were a fan LOL well, I hope you do get some gigs going outside of London! Expect there'll be a few of us from here checking it out. Musical family all round then?

Cheese - thanks for sharing the story, sounds like a great time! You should deffo go to the gigs, Big Al can look out for you.. you'd do that wouldn't you Blue Moon?

webmaster - thanks jon. The latest one came through fine without me changing any settings. I'd already checked spam before posting so I guess my ISP goofed.... Thanks for the confirmation though and the great work you do for us Satchaholics

Satriella - has the nagging paid off yet tho? Hey? Well?

Wasp2020 - great find, thanks!

Mahavishnu Brian, nice to meet you both too, and for sure, lets catch the next Portland show together, maybe some other t2j'ers can join us....blue buffalo, civgeek?? Chris won't make the fall shows if it's 21+, but for G3 09 he will!! He hits the magic number next February, lol! He doesn't care about it being a legal drinking age, just that it means he can see all the Joe-shows :)

Jamie, thanks....we did have a good time there, Chris most especially...he got to go home with a new Boss GT-10 pedal fer pete's sake.... $$$$$, lol...spent all his monies for the next few months he did!

Joe Satrini, thanks, I'm considering it...but mckenna already said he's too scared of me so he won't be much help while I'm there, if I go.

Austin, yeah, maybe....it's a little scary to think of traveling that far alone and I'd really like my friend to go with me, she just may not be able to :((( It's a hard decision to make, for many reasons. But if I do go, then I'm doing both shows...that's a long way to go for just one, when the next night is just "down the road".....a few hours, lol....I've heard enough bus stories from mckenna though, so that's kinda scary...however, I won't be riding the bus drunk so that might make a difference? LOL!!! Guess I wouldn't pass out and end up somewhere strange, or sleeping in a ditch ;)

Blue Buffalo...Freddie....I thank you so much for your email, you said some very thought-provoking things in it....I'll answer you later today. Thanks for caring enough to write me :)

Satriella Sandy, hope you're hanging in, it sounds like you're making plans, and that's good...having something to do rather than just sitting and crying or feeling miserable is always better...a plan of action. Keep checking in here as you can, you know we'll all be thinking of you.

Slansh

&It could sound weird to people who know me, & know how much decisive for me are guys like joe, srv, evh, malmsteen, fripp, meola & above all, Beck... it could sound weird that this Frank Zappa playing is one of my fav guitar rock playing ever.. but it is.

The Shut Up is all improvisation, raw, visceral, inspired, & in connection with drums.

& i will add this piece of improvisation

after.. Zappa has always said that he wasn't a virtuoso. Zappa has composed more than 65 creative albums with a small 50 years life. When you get 65 creative albums to compose, you don't get time for virtuosity, & his poorest aspect, the shredding.

The shredding.. as Joe says, shred is easy... talking on the very hard worker level, of course.

Guitar shredding, tool for some, egotic disease for others, is a detail of history of music.

& to be clear, to me, This is not guitar shredding.. this is guitar saved from guitar shred's dead end

Mark : cool.

Maritime : The style is by definitiion the difference... lack of style, in all the domains, is a general likeness.

mikesb:bwahaha

Maritime : agreed.. & above all, "Emotional expression over technics".. that's why to me, Beck is all right.

Edit : Sometime, i go back to Django Reinhardt, & realize how much he's by his perfect expressive virtuoso aspect, the best, if there's a best. You listen to him, & simply forget 90% of all the others come after him until this day.. music is hard, very hard.

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Maritime : as already said here, Beck guitar technic is a monster thing, especially the way he plays tremolo arm.. but all with him is under the control of an evolutive feeling.. the genius.