Hey Joe

I'm probly 1 of your biggest fans! I'm going to your concert in sydney and really looking forward to it because it will be my first ever concert that i've been too.

Could you give me just the names of a few songs that you will be play that night?

A really well done video of AWM, AWY in Stuttgart Nice video and audio quality :)

Klausi: I feel your pain. Michelle beat me to it but I'll echo what she said: if you are an inexperienced concert goer, please take some concert ear plugs with you (not the kind you wear for DIY ear protection - although they would be better than nothing). You can order them on-line. They are the kind of thing that drummers wear. You can get really expensive ones made to fit your ears but cheaper options are available. If you value your hearing they are worth having on you just in case you find the sound guy starts to get a bit fader happy! I speak from experience: my hearing is partially shot from attending too many loud shows. I now have tinitus particularly on my left side. The one time I remembered to take my plugs I somehow went and lost them before the show! Doh! That was the show that really finished my ears off too. :o(

However, earplugs or not, there is nothing more frustrating than having your favourite, world class musicians in front of you and not be able to hear them properly. Sadly, it happens all too often. I definitely felt that the guy on the sound desk was pushing the PA too hard at the show I attended. The thing with Joe's music is that it is so detailed and you want to catch it all. If the bass and kick drum are blowing out all over the place it smothers a lot of the other sounds because your ears can't cope with the imbalance. It's great that it's loud but it shouldn't be at the expense of the music.

From experience getting close to the stage at floor level tends to increase the bass problem. However, you were right near the sound desk and it was still a problem! I'd like to know if folks on the balconies found the sound was pretty well balanced? I may chose a seat there next time if the sound is better.

baudi67: first gig eh? I'm not laughing but I am smiling just a little. :o) However, you do make a valid point: a Satch show should serve up the music in as accessible way as possible. That means that a decent level of volume is essential but not overly so as to make it hard to figure out what's going on. I think Joe's sound crew got it pretty well spot on last tour (Super Colossal) but pushed the levels up more this time around. You should definitely have had some plugs on you though. Make sure you get some and try them out next time around.

Personally, I love a concert to be loud but that doesn't mean I like distorted sound from overcooked PA systems. I know great sound can be achieved. I saw Steely Dan last summer at the Bimingham NIA Academy. Awesome show and awesome sound; loud but clear as a bell. I would also sight Joe's Super Colossal gig at St. David's Hall Cardiff in 2006 as one of the best sounding shows I've ever heard.

After the show in Cardiff this year I turned to the guy next to me and asked how he had liked his first Joe gig? "Very loud" he replied! Nuff said.

Satriella: Glad you survived the shows. Next time around I'll try and do a couple of shows, if only to double the chance of bumping into you! :o)

Cheese--- Yes that is a very cool vid, He did that in the EWJ tour vith slight variations. It sounded like he was gonna bust out Rasberry Delta Jam for a minute there didn't it? That woulda been too raw.

Tuesdayschild---- you read music? That's cool, If your son plays too you will both find that book helpful. I never learned to read music. 16 1/2 years without it and I do alright. One benefit of never learning to read is I can pretty much play anything I hear the first time around. Well not anything let me rephrase that. Any solo I hear no matter how fast it may be. When I hear a blazing solo my ears turn the notes into like bullet-time from the matrix. I can pick it all up almost instantly.

The downside is that songs that have a lot of chords in them I dont do so well on 'cause I dont have an extensive chord vocabulary. Just your basic major, minor, maj&min 7, nothing extravagant.

So I could never play like Phil Keaggy songs and he's another one of my top ranking guitar heroes. For only having 9 fingers this guy is one of the sickest dudes to ever pick up a guitar.

This version of Salvation Army Band must be crazy to see live…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV3bLZLpqTQ

I'll echo what michelle and loll said. If you're bothered by the sound you need to wear earplugs. Even Satch says so:

http://www.hearnet.com/audio_video/video/satrianipsa.mov
http://www.hearnet.com/

EVH, on the other hand, responds with attitude when he gets asked about his thoughts on participating in a G3 tour. I love his band and I think he's an excellent guitarist, but man...a little humility would do EVH a lot of good.

For those who have catched that i definitly prefer talk with music rather than with talkin'

Yes Blues

Do the stu : to defend a few Van Halen, you shouldn't forget that when the journalist talked to him about G3, eddie was just gettin out of cancer & in full rupture with valery..

I mean : not be simplist about psychologic aspects of life can be sometime required.. thx. We all know that ed is crap with words. & he's the first to recognize this lack.

hola, yup listened to 3 sides matey, it got slammed but i thought it was a good album. have nt heard it for years, but it reminds me of super castlevania 4 on the snes, as they came out close ish. extreme 1st album is a bit dodgy mind.

listening to rust in peace, hangar 18 great tune. megadeth have some unusual compositions which are addictive, never use to be mad on them, but prefer them to metallica by far nowadays.

better photo blue moon, when you met joe did you freeze or keep ya cool?

i dunno what id be like, probably blub somthing like ' i invented the bananna' and nod emphatically.

Do the Stu - totally agree. It's a shame when a a guy with so much talent has so poor an attitude. I really have always appreciated Joe for doing the "little" things for his fans. All the little videos about guitar tips and the radio interviews..podcasts...you name it. In this day and age when you have to decide to split your money on the latest cd and gas...you want to atleast give your money to the guy that puts all on the line every night of the week for you. I just hope that I have the opportunity to see Joe live. It's a shame to be a fan for 20 years and have still not had the opportunity. Wish I could afford one of the trips over the Europe and catch a couple....sigh....goals.

Zenfish - There is no denying Eddie has had some tough times, but he's also just too full of himself. There is a new interview in Rolling Stone and he kind of snubs other bands. He said he doesn't listen to anyone except Cream. Not that he has to listen to any bands, he just comes off so crappy about it,

Achoooooooo - That video was hilarious! That poor old guy almost fell over tapping his pedals, and then he had to give the guitar a quick tune in mid song! CLASSIC!!

LOL....haha....yeah....hopefully by the time joe comes again I will have a car of my own and will do every gig next time.....although I think that would only be if Paul was supporting again....and Joe said that they were the best support act they have had...musically and in backstage fun!

so thats hopeful....and they both are inspired by Hendrix...in fact paul plays hendrix better than hendrix did!

Anyway....as for me....I dont think the sound was loud enough!!!!!

GIVE ME MORE!!!!!!!!!!!

I JUST WANNA ROCK (JOE) I LIKE ROCK!!!!! (PAUL)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my word Joe and Yngwie at the guitar show........

and I dont think I can afford to go

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

gutted!!!!

Hybes : If you listen to VH's music, you hear that his musical culture goes far beyond Cream.. maybe you ignore that he was pianist & drummer before playing guitar. & that his father is a jazz musician.. but well.. ed is simply human. Lot of people are full of themselves. But very few get his miraculous genius. This must be a very heavy burden.. that + success very young + alcohol + drugs... & you get a lost guy. A lost guy jaded with lot of money. Sad. EVH has played with the greatest guitar players in his time.. Holdsworth, Brian May, Lukather... now, he's jaded & G3 couldn't bring anything more to his experience.

About Cream, i think he's not wrong to defend this band against amnesia.. Cream is the base of lot of rock thing, & that before the Hendrix Experience, before Led Zeppelin, before Black Sabbath, before Deep Purple.. just after the Yardbirds.

On an other point, i don't see why everybody would have to agree with the G3 direction. I respect Joe. But G3 is an elitist stage for specialists. Nothing more. There's several others ways to defend guitar's place on the world.

I know that several people here think that Joe is the ultimate rock player.. but the EVH's musical revolution was here before him, & will always be here for ever. If you really search, you find that he has been more revolutionnary than Hendrix.

I'm happy to not have to bear that kind of burden. EVH must be very alone.

May This Be Love ~ Satriani

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