I just got my Club Joe tickets - wondering, is it acceptable to take a guitar for him to autograph? I've never done this kind of thing before, so I'm a little clueless.

PhilTheMetalhead - Acid Rain was awesome. They opened with it, which was cool because it's the first LTE song I ever heard. Someone at T2J recommended it to me ahead of the G3 2001 tour with John Petrucci.

The first half of the song was pretty faithful to the album version, but the solos at the end went a little further. Very nice...

I know I haven't talked to you about this much, but I gather you've been through a lot of pain recently...I think this is a good step toward making things better.

WHY DO THE MELBOURNE CONCERTS HAVE TO BE OVER 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i the biggest satch fan i lvoe him to death i wuda seen all 3 and traveled form adelaide cept im on 17.5!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw iron maiden twice in melbourne and twice in sydney at the start of this year!!!!!!!!!!

AND IM MISSING 3 SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please can someone explain why these shows are over 18 and why joe coudnt or wasnt aloud to play at a different venue!!!!!!!!

My Black Dog from 89/90. Not quite a JS : -o ... the cost of the graphics was about £5 (and yes, I know it shows)

Do The Stu - I don't really have an MP3 budget, in as much as when I find the right one I'll get it. I'm being really choosey I know, but I want small and light with mass storage - and of course drag & drop - but also the sound quality. Did you do a comparison before settling on the SanDisk (great company, I user their cards for my DC)?

Oh, and really ref the SC album? Since PSATMOR I haven't played SC much, but I loved it, and really didn't hear it in the way you've described. Will have to give it a play through and see if there's anything particular that has that vibe. Do you feel that about every track on it?

JS1200JS1000 - cool on your gig tickets! Did you get the car tint sorted and are there any pics now of your new dream machine?

GottaHaveJoe - sorry to hear that, you will feel better in time, who know's what good things are round the corner. Maybe a satch concert fix will help for a little while

Some vintage Satch, not sure if these have been posted b4:

Satch Boogie

Ice Nine

Stu

Joe had to hum the melody of Ice 9 to Jonathan before he started. LOL! They must have been tired.

Good find!

Wavy_davy_dymo Just a quick one, anybody else bough premium to the FReo show next week and not received any confirmation 2 weeks prior or do we kust take the booking details and get let in at the door at 6?

Do the Stu very cool about the LTE concert. How long was the guitar rig down for, and did they get it sorted out in the end?

Hey Peeps.........

Wow..... Ive been away so long..... how are we all?.....

Been wrighting some new tune's will be up on www.myspace.com/warlockwren Soon......

Hope your all well........

Joe Rocks.... YEAH BABY.....

Joe.....

I have a question...... Do you know of the "Via Hand Grip" product and if so what are your thoughts on it?. As I am unable to play my guitar for a lot of the day due to work comitments would you say its worth getting one for when i'm on the go?

P.S.... Thank you for all you amazing advice about my music, To have the amazing Joe Satriani the man I have tryed to play like for 10 years of my life was an amazing experince.... I Thank You, Mick and all the crew for such an amazing Europe leg of the tour. Enjoy the rest of it.....

Hope to catch you is San Fran Later this year.

Take Care,

hello 7 pages!

just saying howdy on my new computer, magic the cat says hi to! i think shes gonna attack my fingers. shes a 10 week old kitten, shes very funny.

Wow...this is a long post. Sorry about that. ;-)

It stinks that you'll miss him this time around, but the good news is it seems like Australia is a regular stop on his world tours now (unlike a few years ago)...so you'll almost definitely be able to catch him the next time around.

Creative makes some good players, and I considered them for a while, but they didn't have the capacity I wanted. So I was pretty set on getting the 8 GB iPod Nano, but then I heard about SanDisk's new Sansa View. I forget what I paid for it, around $250 I think...it was about twice the capacity of the iPod Nano for the same price. And you can get my player for about $100 less today, I bet.

It's very reliable. The battery life is great (20-something hours), and it can take a beating...I've dropped it once or twice, and it gets thrown around in my gym bag yet still works fine. I've had it for about 9 months, and there have been maybe three times where it just stopped working with no explanation. But I let it sit for about 30 minutes and then it just works. It's been at least four months since it last did something like that though...so maybe it had something to do with it being a new unit.

About Super Colossal, yeah...I feel that way about most of the album. Exceptions would be Redshift Riders and Ten Words (if you look at my setlist here you'll see those two songs are still in it), which I think are two of the best songs Satch has done in recent years. I also don't think the song Super Colossal fits my description, but it still isn't one of my favorites as far as Joe's "singles" go. I'll try to listen to the album tonight, and I'll be more specific with my comments and try to reference track numbers and time codes.

It happened maybe a minute or two before the keyboard solo in Universal Mind. John switched to a backup guitar, but that didn't do anything. By this point, Jordan was into his solo...and John and his tech were scrambling around, unplugging and replugging everything. Mike scribbled a note on a piece of paper (basically, "keep soloing") and showed it to Jordan. So he kept going until John fixed the problem.

This is funny because the other night in Chicago, Jordan's rig went down. The other three guys jammed for an hour or so while he tried to fix it, but he couldn't. So they stopped the show after that huge improv jam.

Anyway, about your concert...do you have an MP3 of that "Song For A Friend"? I remember looking at that site for it earlier but couldn't find it.

I ended up not going to that Led Zepagain show (the girl didn't want to)...instead, I went with some other friends to a screening of a Hitchcock movie at a cemetery up in Hollywood. That was really cool...

Hey, guitar techies...

Would you guys recommend a noise suppressor before or after distortion? Or does anyone prefer noise gates?

Has anyone had trouble buying tickets from Joe's site? I have been trying to get premium tickets for the Dallas show for 3 days now and everytime I try to buy them, I get a message that says can't find any seats for my order. Have I missed something? Surely the show isn't sold out yet.

hybes...you're right, there's no way to get any tickets of any kind for that show, which means there's prolly a glitch at Ticketmaster for some wierd reason. You might try calling the venue directly at (214) 978-2583 or, if it was me, I'd be calling Ticketmaster directly for the Dallas area at (214)-373-8000 and asking them what up. You might be able to order your tix by phone. Good luck, I hope they still have some Club Joe for you if that's what you want.

Hi there. I thought the Song for a Friend played automatically when the website was entered, it does on my computer but not on everyones I guess. Anyway, last night they paid some bloke £50 to record the show for Youtube, so I'll post to it when it appears, although I'm not too sure if I should. The camera kept pointing round in my direction and I was slightly inebriated and - oh dear- headbanging. Thank goodness my two kids weren't there (wouldn't have been a suitable venue for children anyway) I wouldn't have been a cool mum then. But still, I had a great time!!

Sorry to hear the girl in question didn't go to the Zep tribute band, but good to hear you made a good night of it anyway.

The Rubber Plants, my buddies (I'm friend to the stars now!) were playing at that same event last night. Unfortunately at the same time, different stages. It meant I kept having to run back and forth to see them both!! The bar was in between both bands, made too many pit stops there! The drummer told me he has the same kit as John Bonham, but his day job is working in a music shop so I suppose he'd be the guy to get it!

As for LTE, I'm really getting into this album (the first one). I'm leaving for a camping trip in the morning, no access to a computer for two weeks so no way of charging up the ipod, so when it runs out of life I'll have to do without!