Good Morning Satchland.....What a Beautiful morn it is in Chicago.

guitarboy01......Congrats. I'm really excited for you on meeting Joe. Joe is the most kind, genuine, and cool man you'll ever meet. He loves meeting his fans and always takes the time to sign autographs, take pics and whatever he can do for a fan at the moment. Have fun at the show and meet-n-greet. You're gonna abSOULutly love it.....Take Care.

Have A Great Day Everyone !!!!

BTW......michelle.....How are you sweetie? FYI....for ya. Black Tide has a small interview in the latest issue of Guitar Player. I love this band. Thanks for the tip. Always Hugs.....

JS1200......The family and I are doin' fine and thanks for askin'. I miss my dad a lot....especially when his 83rd birthday is comin' up on July 7th. It is getting easier and I guess that's what time allows. It's hard though.

The weather in Chi -Town has ben' great this year. Upper 70's lower 80's and averaging mid to upper 60's at night. Nice...no AC. I don't like AC but a necessary evil....lol.....Take Care

OK, I listened to Super Colossal this morning and jotted down some notes. I'll make another post about the album either in an hour or so before I go to work, or late tonight/early tomorrow when I get home.

And don't take this the wrong way (it's a compliment, I promise!), but from reading your posts I would've thought you were already in college (you come across a few years older)...but you're still in high school?

JS1200.....I'm sorry for your loss. It's tough. My mom is gone also so I have like an empty feeling now that my dad has joined her. I felt bad for my dad when my mom passed for so many reasons.... one being they missed the 50 yr. married milestone by 6 months. It's still a little weird but like I said it gets a little easier over time.

DO THE STU..... Yeah.... banner weather in Chicago. I'm lovin' it. I sound like a McDonald's commercial....lol..... No hot water for the shower???......Can you say....Shrinkage?.....I'll just leave it at that.....lol.....

JS1200JS1000- lol when you said 38 degrees is hot, I was thinking farenheit where 32 is freezing.

Do the Stu: thanks for your feedback on 'Why' and whether Joe's ever played this live (you replied a long while back, I haven't been on here for a while!). Couldn't manage to find any videos, but if I do I'll post them! Interesting he did it on the Strange Beautiful Music tour. Why is one of my fav satch tracks too, I love the stuff on the Extremist. For me Joe's high point was the Crystal Planet album.

I've been contemplating what I should do with my music a lot recently, how I can improve it etc. You seem quite a reputable character in Satchland, so I was wondering what you thought?! check out the 'fusion' album (most recent) here! Would appreciate your and anybody else's feedback!

Mountain Song has gotta be up there too!

Hi, It's very cool to find a area to write a message to Joe and his community of fan :) Just sorry for my english, i come from belgium and i don't was a good student in english at school ... (and in other study too).. So let's go !

I play guitar for 3 years and i record myself sometimes. I would like to know what do you think about this record :

http://periplenforum.e3b.org/zik/etencoreun.mp3

Is a guitarist or joe himself could give me advice for improved myself? (Yeah thank google translate XD) I try to learn the guitar alone, because I had teachers that gives me less eager to play that when I do it alone. So it's very difficult to find a good structure, a good way to learn effectively.

Thanks a lot in advance :)

T-Bones, what going on?

don't worry chelle...just sore tooth...nothing booze and drugs wouldn't cure, at least temporarily :| Of which I can't do the booze, and the drugs make me sickie, lol....root canals SUCK.

*sniff*

However, I did just watch the latest podcast, craaaaaaazy as usual, loved where Joe is on the street getting mobbed by fans...they musta been like...HOLEE SHIT IT'S JOE!!! :)

"We aliens"....and fans who are currently on drugs...."find the orange wig......disturrrrrrbing....."

LMAO! You go Princess Leila, ermmmm, I mean....Joe :) We love ya in any color, lol!

ps....

Did somebody say... BROKEN?

A little Satch Boogie to start the day, an some SWTA for good measure hr

MIchelle - they don't look as tired as they did for Montreux LOL. It almost felt like maybe they'd not long been playing together?

Do The Stu - thanks for the info on the Sansa. I take it it's light as well? It's sounding pretty good. I want something for long haul flights (like if I was nuts enough to come over for some more Satch) so mega capacity is good, but also light so I can use it when running.

Look forward to your comments ref SC.

Oh, BTW, above regarding the vids I posted of early Satch - when did JM, SH and Satch first start playing together? From memory, the first album credit is Flying - so is it possible those vids reflect some of the first stuff they did together or am I way off?

Blue Moon - nice playing as always, and enjoying the pedal dance. What's the next track you're going to do then?

JS1200JS1000 - things good for me thanks. Wish satch was coming back to europe already... awesome on those tickets, make sure you tell is all about the shows!

Satrionic1 - try youtube for vids (search some of the song titles before 1995) and do a google image search? Should be plenty of photos & vids out there

Cheese - ouch... tooth pain/dental work sucks.

Boogie + Chat from a GC session

Hello,

Hey Joe,.I was there with you at your birthday last year at the conrad hotel,my brother(Emir)(Satrionic1) was there too.I REALLY MISSED YOU SO MUCH! we will come to see you real soon. Your new album is so beautiful and unique,you are something else i think.'Come on baby' is the meaning of my life,thank you for every song you made and please keep doing what you do. Wanna say "happy birthday" for your coming birthday. And someday if you ever see me or my brother in front of your door,please don't be suprised alright? :-) Please take care... Send our best to Mrs. Satriani & Z.Z.

I'm getting antsy...I want the rest of Joe's California tour dates so I can start planning my road trip!

I didn't see The Happening, but I've never been too interested in any of M. Night Shyamalan's movies.

Have you seen The Strangers, by any chance? I thought that was a great twist on the typical horror movie.

I'm almost positive Why was included in the webcast we got from the SBM tour, from Joe's gig in The Netherlands. I'll try to find it on my computer...I remember the concert being in four parts.

Crystal Planet is one of my top three Satch albums (along with ITLIS? and PSATMOR). The Extremist was one of my early favorites, but I haven't given it a proper listen in a long time. I'll need to get on that soon. On the topic of rare songs, Joe played Motorcycle Driver a few years ago...I think it was on one of the ITLIS? tour legs. That was a nice surprise.

Thanks for the link to your music. I do remember checking out a few of your songs a while ago, but I'm not sure if I commented on them. I don't have time to listen now (it's late and I need sleep), but I will again soon. If I haven't said anything in another day or so, yell at me and post the link again. ;-)

Joe Satrini - Yeah, the Sansa View is small (2 inches by 4 inches or so, about the size of the older iPod Nanos) and light. It has a pretty big screen for its size, if you want to use it for video playback (I haven't used mine for that, but a sample video came loaded on it and the quality is much better than I would have expected).

I have the 16 GB player and the amount of music it holds is just insane. I'm sure you saw my post a few days ago (Is that what started this whole discussion?), but here's what I have on it at the moment. And that's even at a higher bitrate than normal (192 kb/s).

Yeah, you could get an MP3 player with a hard drive upwards of 30 GB, but flash players are advantageous in so many ways (faster, lighter, smaller, fewer parts that can break). And with the Sansa specifically, the drag-and-drop interface makes it so easy to change everything. So you can get by just fine without extra space (but if you need it, there's even an expansion slot for a flash memory card). Sorry for sounding like a commercial, but I really love this player...

Getting back to Satch...yeah, I think JM and SH first started playing with Satch on the SWTA tour in 1987 (I don't know if Joe toured in support of NOTE). So the videos you just posted are probably some of their earliest moments together. You can hear audio from the SWTA tour on Dreaming #11 and the second disc of Time Machine. And then of course there's the show on the DVD in the 20th anniversary edition of SWTA. I'm sure you know that though.

But you might not know...Joe played guitar on a few tracks on Stu's first solo album, Radio Free Albemuth, in 1988. And Jonathan Mover played drums on Stu's next album, Kings Of Sleep, in 1989.

I'm a bit fuzzy on Satch's early history because I didn't discover him until the late 90s. But he toured with the Bissonette brothers for The Extremist, and then brought Jonathan Mover back for the JS95 tour...I think with Stu as well. And Jeff Campitelli was involved with that tour in some form, maybe playing keyboards or rhythm guitar? And drums on a few songs too, I think. I don't know, though... JM and Joe had a falling out on that tour...it was discussed here a few years ago, if you dig through the T2J archives you can find it.

OK, I could talk about Satch forever...but I need sleep.

I still have my SC notes...I'll post them soon.