It's been cool reading about everyone's Satch experiences. It seems so many of us are equally die-hard fans, we've all just been introduced to Joe at different times...

I got into them about 10 years ago through Aerosmith (they've covered many Yardbirds songs over the years), and I REALLY like them. Their BBC Sessions is a great album. There are a few interview clips included between the songs as well...it's so neat to hear such a young Jimmy Page.

I'm pretty confident that older info is accurate. The G3 shows are on such a tight schedule that there's not really any room for setlist variation from night to night, so all you need is a bootleg from each tour to have the setlist figured out.

I think the 2001 tour was my favorite G3. I was in the front row on stage left, and John Petrucci was only inches from me for his entire set. Very awesome.

If I had to pick a single song as a highlight, though, I'd go with some from G3 2003. Steve Vai's Whispering A Prayer from the show I saw in LA was perfection, and Rockin' In The Free World from that night's jam was very fun too.

Listening to: The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We (current song: How)

So over the weekend I was packing up stuff into boxes ready to move out for a few weeks whilst we have some renovations done, and was rocking away to Satch, when I thought about Samsquanch's post and how great it would be to learn guitar and perfect some of Satch's tunes for future glory on stage, or least for friends and family.

Then I was thinking about how Smoke on The Water rates very high in the list of air guitar covers (for me and amongst our friends) and for most guitarists I know and maybe I could learn that, (and Crunchy Granola Suite :0)). And I remembered this episode of "Hey Hey its Saturday"

Deep Purple on Hey Hey or if that doesn't work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq8qBuY4RFM

from 1999. Aussies will probably remember it, for those outside Australia it was the longest running variety show (28 years) and was on every Saturday night. They always had bands and other acts on. When Deep Purple played live in the studio, the show's producers announced that anybody who wanted to play Smoke on the Water should come in to the Channel 9 studios in Melbourne and Sydney and they could play along.

So as you can see in the video heaps of people went in with their guitars in Melbourne and Sydney and were able to play SOTW on TV.

Here's my crazy idea : what if we organised an Australian (or, even better, world-wide) co-ordinated Satch play-off for all guitarists (and drummers and bassists if they want) to be filmed playing a JS cover, in huge groups all at the same time???

What is the easiest or most popular song to play? Surfing?

Only needs someone to synchronise watches and film the gathered groups of people performing. Easy!! Just recently a group of several hundred people stood still in the centre of Sydney for 2 minutes - all co-ordinated on the net.

Thoughts and feedback anyone???

Crazy ideas are my forte, so look out for future posts.

Skippygirl.

When a winner artist is inspired, lot of losers used to think that he uses drugs. Things are like that.

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Igneous ; ahahah... SRV was the Blues. He was blue soul to blue soul. I'm sick to death he's gone so early. All the blues players come after him bore me. That's a weird disease.

Do the Stu : Yardbirds.. great pioneers! That's a shame that Clapton, Beck, & Page are so famous, & not this band. Clapton has found the Cream idea inside the Yardbirds. Page has found the Ledzep idea inside the Yardbirds. Or even the Hendrix Experience has something to see with the Yardbirds.

As for Beck, he has been very perceived to let down the Jeff Beck Group to give his life to instrumental guitar.

Good Morning Satchland....How Is Everyone Today?????

Read this......You're gonna love it.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, this is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh, my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

I was in the buenos Aires Concert on july the 25, it was a great show, man, but the place, "pepsi music stadium", i prefer the Rex theatre or the luna park, but i doesn't matter, i follow you till the end of times, mas i'been in 1995 and in all the others and you go up, growing, better any time, you are the best.

Best wishes

Ken: That is a little bit very good...This is another one, but by the well know Physicist Niels Bohr (who went on to help split the atom):

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.

The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)."

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.

WEBMASTER JON -

thanks joe to play crowd chant whit my banner,beautiful, and to use my bonnet in the most greates show in chile,my two gifts arrived to your hands,and I cry to happiness,the most beautiful momment in my life,thanks god for this happiness that live on my heart... a number one fun from CHILE

charlie alcalde vasquez,thaks to band for his magic...

mr gellen,mr jeff,mr stu god of bass,mr micke manning for take my banner whit your holy hands,and all team back to satch god guitar...

mygod satch I hope that you enjoy my gift,,,

I love you mr satch...my god...

thanks for his happiness

Hi-digging through my old CDs, found one of my all time faves-jane's addiction-ritual delo habitual-its got been caught stealing-love that song.

any other fans-anyone lucky enough to see them before they split.

Ken
ROTFLMAO on the frozen hell. I agree with the student, cause Fleetwood Mac reunited LOL

OK, so who was the first person here to see a Satch show? Of the people who have spoken up so far I think michelle is the winner, but surely someone has seen him earlier than the mid-90s?

DTS-have you tried 'Second Coming' from the Stone Roses? If you heard it then i apologise, but its more rock than anything and reminded me of the mighty Led Zep-which is why the British Indy press and Indy fans slated it. but hey there loss, Driving South is one of my all time fave rock trcks-A REVAN 10/10-and thats from an Indie band.

oi! His GUITAR whammy, people! Though now that you put it that way.....

lmao!!

bow-chicka-wah-waaahhhhh!!

;-)