so did ya try a cup of tea and hob nob biscuit on your tour of eire and northern ireland?

love jeff becks who else cd, hes so expressive, the tone on blast from the east is surperb.ive ordereded another cd of his.

A whole week until my next exam - a mini break, at last!

Probably failed chemistry.

Still have to do revision on my week off.....

Ummm, what's a hob nob biscuit? And no, no tea yet, been drinking some coffee trying to stay on my feet, LOL!!!

Just got done wandering about the streets of Dublin....it's so crazy here, the traffic, plus I'm not paying attention like I should so......lol, not a good combination!! Did you know that cars will drive right up onto sidewalks here ffs!!!!

Okay....so I stopped at a cafe' and had some food, couldn't figger out what everything was so settled for some Irish breakfast at about 2 pm today....and tried the little dark brown hockey puck looking things...ummmm, I don't know what they are and maybe I don't want to know what's in them...but I tried them at least :) Someone asked me if I wanted a banger and I said no :| Just thought I should play it safe cuz I had no idea what that was, lol!!

Oh, I forgot to mention about last night, picks were flying and do you know, with all the Joe-shows I've been to, neither myself nor my son have ever caught a pick...in fact I don't even try now cuz there's always some tall guy who reaches over my head if one comes our way. But anyway, a few picks went in front of the barricade so people were having the security guards run and pick them up for them, nice right? Well, one guy was shown where a pick was and instead of giving it to the fan who spotted it, pocketed it himself and got an evil grin on his face. A POX ON HIM I SAY!!!

But anyways, after the show, Mckenna and Michelle (Irish Michelle) and I ended up in a bar, and as we walked in a guy walks up to me and says "Did you ever get a pick?" I laughed and told him nah, I didn't, so he hands me a pick he'd gotten at the show :))) That was so kind of him!! I'm going to give it to Chris, he'll be thrilled!! And on the pick it does say "Professor Satchafunkilus and the MYsterion of Rock!" It's mispelled, LOL!!! Love it!

I got a lovely hug from Mick outside the Dublin venue, he looked at me standing there and said "what in the world are YOU doing here!!" LOL....I tole him that I was there for them of course!!

Did I already say that people here have been very friendly? It's lovely....Al told me last night that I'm "too friendly", cuz he was going to come up and say hi to me in line at the Belfast show outside the theater, but that I was surrounded by too many people, laughing and talking and he couldn't get through, lol!! We're all just big Satch fans so you can't help but gab away the hours standing in line.

Ned Evett, if you happen to check in here and read the messages, this is Tracie and we met after the show in Belfast. I believe in love, it's the only thing that really matters, so I'm going to say a prayer for you and your special lady that everything works out for you both :) Hope you can both follow your hearts!!

Can't believe the shows are all over all ready, and I'm about to fly back home....I'm thinking of not even going to bed tonight, cuz I need to be up and outta here before 4 am...scared I won't make the flight in time. I'm thinking of leaving a wake-up call, but at this hotel....well, lets just say it's not the best hotel ever, LOL....

Oh and Joe, I've had the same experience as you....the shower....the water goes outside the tub FFS!!! Why is it that the tub only has half a door, and a sign hanging that says Please Close Shower Door...and then when u turn on the water it goes out the part that has no door ANYWAY!!! It don't make nooooooooooo sense, nu uh, not one bit, LOL! I hope for the rest of the tour your showers are better, and your rooms are peaceful and quiet so you can rest. Hugs to ya Joe, and all the gang, and thanks again for two kick-ass shows in Ireland....they ALL want you back ASAP!!!

a hob nob biscuit is a work of baked art. very oaty and if they have chocolate on, rock n' f'in roll!

a banger is a sausage,

have you tried soda bread yet? go on try a cup of tea :) or rosey- lee if ya fancy some cockney rhyming slang! what do you think of UK chocolate bars?

listening to aerosmith rocks, classic stuff.

ooooooo here's a video of Out of the Sunrise, in Cardiff

Good to watch especially in case mine is crap quality, lol!!!

Check it out!!!

Sorry, I'ma post whore in Ireland :)

I walked into a Burger King, dint buy anything but was curious how much a Whopper was here....not a full meal...just a Whopper...it's £4.05, which in American $$ is $6.38....for ONE burger!!! OMG!!! Guess I'll hafta come home, can't afford to live here!!

So I bought a nanner and some yogurt fer supper, LOL....oooo they even charge for bags here at the grocery store!! I'm learning ever so much....

OOOO check this out, LMAO....there was this drunk guy outside the venue in Dublin....

dont eat black pudding its dried pigs blood, ughhh

well unless ya feeling brave.

are you near a thorntons chocolate shop, recommend giving them a visit.

on my surfing notes it says,silver surfer likeness TM-Marvel inc and is used with permission.

thats the 97 remaster btw.

SATCH PUPPET!

Ok Joe, time to get a load of Satch puppets, complete with JS guitar on the website, for sale to all us fans.

ANYONE reading this should flood the website with the same request. That is your purpose!

Igneousiceman, glad you like my stuff! Deliverance is probs my favourite track of mine, so many guitars layered together! you might like Neocity for something a bit different. I guess my pics are a bit cliche in the world of guitar hero music lol....

It means so much that you think I am the next Joe Satriani!! Spread the word! Peace out dude....

I'm finally caught up again...woohoo!

Hold Your Fire is probably my second favorite Rush album (Power Windows is No. 1).

I think the lyrics on HYF are some of Neil's best (Prime Mover, Time Stand Still, Mission), and to me this album is the peak of my favorite style of Neil's drumming. I love how he starts relatively simple with the first verse and chorus, and then each time one of those parts comes back around he adds a new dimension to the section or makes a fill more complex...he keeps building and building throughout the song. I think Prime Mover is the best example of this, and Time Stand Still and Force Ten are good as well.

I like Test For Echo a lot, but if I made a list of favorite Rush albums it'd be somewhere in the middle (it's a "good" middle...a second level of my favorites that also includes Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, and A Farewell To Kings).

I remember hearing the title track on the radio in 1996 when it was new. I liked it, but I didn't know too much about the band back then so it felt weird to hear the DJ hype it as much as he did (I had the same reaction to Van Halen's Human's Being, from the Twister soundtrack, earlier that same year). I like everything on TFE about the same, but my favorite songs on it are probably Totem and Dog Years. And one last thing about it...if there were a "90s albums by older bands" category, this album would be toward the top. Rush doesn't fall into the traps of too drastically reinventing their sound or, at the other end, staying stuck in the past.

I have more to say (as if I haven't already said enough...ha!), but I'll wait for your response... What are a few of your favorite Rush albums?

Thanks for the Muse suggestions. I tried to listen to a few songs of theirs a couple of years ago and wasn't too impressed. But I'll try to find the ones you mentioned...

It's cool to hear that you were listening to Aerosmith's Rocks. That band was my first favorite. Love 'em still...

I don't know if I'd call it "caught out", I think it's more just that some people expect things that they aren't entitled to. To mention another example, I bet this is what all the fighting from Ozzy Osbourne's former bandmates comes from. They were probably only ever hired as session musicians with either a one-time payment or royalty payments for a limited time, and now they want more. I don't know any specifics of course, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is true.

Does Stu still have a solo in the set? Is it similar to the one that's up on YouTube? Is he still doing LZ's Going To California?

Hey again all!

Thanks for the welcomes :)) Check out these vids from the Belfast show, they were posted by a guy that was at the meet and greet with me! Awsome!! Surfin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7_p8WPKOQ&feature=user

Time Machine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB1UzBNJtBg