Thanks DTS for enquiring...yes as usual it was a bit of a disaster...my car broke down, I went home for one night and borrowed a car to go and pack up my tent the next day. The weather is crap over here.

Good news is it looks like I'm romancing! Weird I know but the singer in the rock band who wrote that special song for my ex husband who died last year has expressed an interest in me.... I feel like a teenager again!

Mr Mean my husband did that for me too when I was pregnant. Our two sons listened to Rock music since the day the bump showed! They're bright little cookies, do well at school and are very musical...so there's probably something in it!

I'm just scared that they'll turn against it, my Dad force fed me Abba and I just hated it by the time I was a teenager! It still brings me out in a rash just thinking about that music!

I like your idea about an acoustic set. Acoustic doesn't seem to suit Joes style of playing though so maybe Galen should do it instead!

How cool was Jimmy P at the Olympic Closing ceremony! Don't shoot me but I liked Leonas vocals.

Listening to Black Stone Cherry, Rain Wizard

Woohoo! Just took delivery of my *MINT* JS2KPLT Crystal Planet!

Will update the photo on my site tonight!

Yeehaa, shes a beauty!

Ibanezjoan, I hope your stepdad is doing well. Thanks for the good wishes.

Thanks Keniko, Al, Slan, and anyone else who sent a prayer or good thought.

The day was LONG. Left here at 5:00 a.m., and just got home at 9:30 p.m. His admission was at 7, but his surgery wasn't until almost 10:30. We heard from the doctor at 2:10 that they removed the tumor and surrounding lymph nodes and did the colostomy. They said recovery would take a few hours. FINALLY at 7:10 I called the desk for the 5th time, and they said he was out of recovery and had a room. YAY! We could fiinally go see him and get out of the waiting room we had spent 12 hours in.

He looked really good - like nothing even happened! Of course that's because they had him jacked up on morphine and whatever else - and he has an epidural in his spine to numb him for 48 hours from his chest down. When that wears off, me tinks he won't be so chipper.

My mum will be 75 tomorrow, but she held up well. We were all sooo tired, and none of us got any sleep last night. She was a trooper, but her bum was dragging hard before we left. She just wanted to see my pop before we left to make sure he was okay. We spent about an hour with him before we headed out for the hour ride back home.

Problem was - we went with my sisters effin GPS thing, and it took us a way we never went before, over the turnpike, and the looooong way. I had to call my husband 2x for emergency directions because this feckin thing was insane! It was telling us to go ways that I knew were so far out of the way. Once I finally got to a road I knew, I told my sis to throw the fucker out the window and just DRIVE the way I know to get home. FFS! We were almost home and it was telling us to take an exit that would have taken us way out of the way. I'm supposed to take my mom to the hospital on Wednesday. It should be a feckin adventure for sure since I was supposed to scam the proper way home - which we DIDN'T take. LOL!

If I said I was spent, that just wouldn't cover it. We're all so happy we finally got to see my pop at the end of the day. We just hope and pray they got all the cancer.

We googled directions now, and I sent them to my sis for her drive 2mo. It should be 100x LESS stressful. lol! I just hope I can get there and back without getting lost on Wednesday when it's my turn to take me mum.

I literally just closed my eyes and fell asleep sitting here for a minute.

I'm fer bed!

Namaste

Kilgelec - Yeah, the EP is a nice collector's item...I'd love to come across one someday. I was talking to Jeff after a G3 show last year (it took me like 15 shows to win the contest here, hehe...and technically it was my dad, not me, who won), and he said he thinks Joe still has boxes and boxes of them lying around somewhere. It'd be nice to see them put up for sale/auction at some point...

As for the music on the EP, you've heard 4 of the 5 songs if you have Joe's Time Machine. I have an MP3 of the other song (Talk To Me)...it wasn't included because its master tape was damaged. I can upload that if you'd like to hear it (and if someone else doesn't beat me to it).

And about meeting Joe...if you wait by his bus after the show chances are pretty good that you'll meet him. Be prepared to wait at least 90 minutes though...

It's good to hear about the possible relationship...I hope that works out for you, even though it is a bit of a sticky situation. Let us know how that goes...

I'm still single...I'm somewhat shy (I bet that sounds crazy considering how much I have to say here) so I don't meet many women, but it seems like I've failed in every possible way (friend of a friend at a party, co-worker at a new job, set-up by a friend, new co-worker at my job, and the list just goes on). Oh well...

I finally got a chance to give this a proper listen, and I think it's the best of the three remasters. The acoustic guitar really comes through here. I haven't listened to this album in a long time, as I've been on a big The Unforgettable Fire and Achtung Baby kick, but it's such a good one. Anyway, all of these remasters are great...buy them.

mama M.... long may the good news continue

Do The Stu

Yes - please upload "Talk To Me" so that we can all download a copy. I have heard about it, but have never heard it.

Thanks.

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

michelle......Great news. I'm happy for you and family. ....especially Pop. That's not an easy operation to go through at any age. Happy Birdie to Mum. God Bless all of you. Hugs to you and Mum.

Gigging this Sat. I can't wait. Man, I love playing guitar......

DEAR JOE, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I'M HUGE FAN THAT ONCE SERVED YOU A TRAY FULL OFF LONGNECKS AND DR PEPPER SHOTS FOR YOU AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS AT THE SEASIDE INN I NEW PORT RICHEY(FLORIDA) BACK IN THE 1990'S WAS THAT REALLY YOU? EVERYONE SAID IT WAS . ANYWAY RECENTLY I'VE BEEN TURNED ON TO YOUR MUSIC THROUGH INTERNET. I LOVE IT . IT'S SO GREAT TO BE 49 YEARS OLD AND TO HAVE MUSIC TO I REALLY LIKE. I BOUGHT TICKETS TO YOUR CLEARWATER RUTH ECKERD HALL CONCERT. iT WILL BE MY FIRST. I WILL BE THE TALL BLONDE IN AA53 AND AA54 PORTAL 9* IF BEING THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE GOVENOR AND SENATOR SPESSARD HOLLAND OF BARTOW FLORIDA GETS ME BACKSTAGE FOR AN AUTOGRAPH LET IT BE KNOWN THATS ME LESLIE HOLLAND SLEEPE. ITS A LONG STORY HOW I GOT FROM POLK COUNTY TO THE SEASIDE INN BUT THAT WAS ALSO SHORT LIVED AND I LIVE IN TAMPA NOW AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU LIVE IN CONCERT PLAYING THAT AWESOME SOUND . SINCERELY SEE YOU SOON

LESLIE H SLEEPE

Hey Mac..... Yeah, I also forgot mine seat # for the Oct. Chicago show. Thanks God it's general admission........

DTS.....you're young, you've plenty of time (really you do). I think these things happen when you least expect it!

I'm 34, have had an eight year marriage, and since it ended, two relationships. The first turned out to be an abusive relationship, with anger and aggressiveness. I'm still recovering from that. The next had little impact on me, I got dumped, I cared little. To be honest, I wanted to DO single, preferably for the rest of my life!

Now this guys come along, he's crazy about me, he's a big, tough, tattoo covered biker, and I'm a singer in my church choir and might be considered a bit 'posh'. I find I quite like the attention and might reconsider my steadfastly single position!

anyway, I think that the 'right' relationship is worth waiting for. I wish now that I'd waited until I was at least 30 before I settled down, as I now know I wasn't very mature, or sure of what I needed or wanted in life.

This possible new relationship is complicated, he's actually a friend of my ex husband, who as might know, died last year. This biker guy actually has an R.I.P. and my exes name tattooed on him so how weird is that for me! My ex husbands name on my boyfriends body!

Squier Strat Guy- Joe's first guitar was a hagstrom 3

John-where you off to now?

Al-You haven't been on halo3 in a while. too busy with GTA 4?

My guitar is fixed and sounding nice again, learned the rest of AWYAWM I have known the beginning and middle but never got to the end, I always went by ear, but now I have a tab book.

I think I am going to buy Rainbow six Vegas 2. It's a fun game all for this particular moment in time.

Do_The_Stu,