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Good afternoon Mr Joe,

George Carlin gets in one last laugh on death July 28, 2008, 7:15 PM EST LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death — and making it the butt of his jokes.

"You know what I've been doing? Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have outlasted another old friend," Carlin says on what turned out to be his final comedy album. The recording, "It's Bad For Ya," comes out Tuesday on Eardrum Records.

Carlin died June 22 of a heart attack at 71.

In an interview four months before his death, he told The Associated Press he was particularly pleased with the material he was working up for the album and an HBO show that aired last March.

"Definitely some people who are close to me who have seen this show, and have seen a lot of the others, feel this is my best stuff yet," he said.

Among them was his daughter, Kelly Carlin McCall, who said she was delighted to see the album mark a return to what she called her father's "playful goofiness." In recent years, she noted, his routines had seemed to get darker and angrier.

Not so this time, with Carlin waxing on — with four-letter words in abundance — about the advantages of getting older.

"It's a great time of life, you get to take advantage of people and you're not responsible for anything," he says on the album. He adds that he discovered a popular pastime could be had gathering family members around and pretending to have Alzheimer's.

"You say, 'Who are you people and where's my horse?"

Although there will be no more new routines, Carlin is still around, thanks to his daughter and brother, Patrick, who spent a weekend earlier this month scattering his ashes at his favorite haunts around the country. They stopped in front of the nightclubs he played in New York City's Greenwich Village and at a summer camp in New Hampshire where, as a child, he received a necklace for winning the drama competition. He was wearing it the day he died.

Accompanied by old friends from the neighborhood, they also stopped at a park on the edge of Harlem where Carlin grew up.

"The wind blew him around a little bit when Kelly threw his ashes," Patrick Carlin recalled.

Stevie & Jimmy

That's the shit right there!

TSB Stadium in New Plymouth, New Zealand

Do the stu : i will check your links later.

Castle : glad you enjoy SRV & Buchanan... they were both out there.

Ibanezguitar : a Beck's herald.. never thought about that.

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I will post two tributes for SRV as soon as i'll get time for.

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You want to talk about Blues...

This is a bit long.

Iggy, Nick and elpp I love your enthusiasm! It wouldn't be impossible and I will put some serious thought to it, whether if it happens is another thing but I am not writing it off just yet.

It would probably make sense to see if there was enough interest for a local Melbourne one, bearing in mind, though, that anybody who wanted to join in from anywhere could synchronise their watches and video themselves or their group playing at the same time.

Loosely (it IS a crazy idea remember) in principle all we need is to organise a time and place, let's say, (just for example), whoever can be at Federation Square in Melbourne on a certain Saturday afternoon (roo? Jamie???) which, by the way is probably the right venue for a Joe jam if you think of the architecture, it is very ITLIS or CP-like. This is easier than trying to obtain a building or hall.

For those who can actually play guitar, unlike me, who can only do air guitar, all you have to do is bring your guitar (what could drummers bring??) and be ready at the appointed time. No need for any amps etc as there won't be any power anyway, and I would imagine the concoction of differently tuned guitars and different levels of skill might be tough. Kids, teenagers and adults - doesn't matter as long as they want to play.

We decide on which song or songs, let them rip from some sort of portable MP3 or CD player (big enough for everyone to hear) and everyone plays along - EASY PEASY, there is your chance to play Satriani in public!. And record it all for your family and friends and put it on YouTube if you want - you Brits and any others can do the same.

How funny if everyone wore a bald wig and sunnies?

Everyone is only 6 deg of separation at most from someone who could help. It could be something random for fun. For example, I know a certain keen, 16 yo budding journalist who might like to document or cover it, if we even bother with some sort of public record.

Copyright, liability, logistics, motivation, they are just minor details :0). I guess Joe wouldn't mind if his material was played in public, much like me leaving my car window open as I drive down Flinders St with sWTA blasting out the windows (not that I do that).

Again, not getting too far ahead of myself, but key items I might look into might be: - what are the forums that Melbourne guitarists frequent so as to communicate with them and gauge interest? - what are the top 5 Joe songs that are most commonly learnt by people who can play guitar? - who wants in? - who has talents for organising stuff?

Listening.......Just Look Up (magic) Drinking........lovely Yarra Valley pinot noir

Ugh...I got a flat tire tonight. I guess it's good I'm off work Wednesday, so I can go take care of it, but it sucks. Argh...

I'm going to send some Dream Theater MP3s to hybes when I'm done here. If you email me I can send them to you as well.

- Joe Satriani
- Jimmy Page
- Joe Perry
- Slash
- Eddie Van Halen
- Eric Johnson
- John Petrucci
- Steve Vai

Hmmm...I can make those 10 sets of initials with only six letters.

The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real)

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History 101

For those that don't know about history ... Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and

2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.