aussiefudd
Big Bad Wah-bit swayer New Lambton, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (39 years)
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Simon and Garfunkel!! did someone say Simon and Garfunkel!!! Hell, these guys are the reason I got into guitar. I saw The Concert in Central Park on tv as a pup, I'd never heard of them up until then. I still enjoy listening to them.
BLAME CANADA!!!!!!!!!!
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Fri Dec 26 '08 7:49:12 am
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Good morning Satchland! Happy Boxing Day Canada and UK!
SuperDave--Sounds like Santa was good to you.
I got to give my older sister limo service (me & me car) from her San Francisco apartment to the humble Moritz house, a bottle of Balsamic/Currant vinegar from my older sister, the Fender Acoustic Guitar (early December gift), framed photos of my younger sister's and brilliant brother-in-law's teenage son and 5-year-old daughter, and lots of hugs from my hubby and older sister!
Michelle, Tracie, Skippygirl, Satriella, Tuesdayschild, SuperDave, Slans, Maritime, DoThe Stu,Chris Botti, JS1200JS1000, Blue_Moon, Steve Morse, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satrini, Glitzman, McJimini Jillickers, JS_JS, roo, mrbluetone, Ibanezguitars, Cappy Steve, roy marchbank, anibur, AND ALL THE T2Jers THAT MY FEEBLE MIND MAY HAVE MISSED--YOU PEOPLE ROCK!!
I WILL BE AT ME MOM'S OVER THE WEEKEND AND MAY GET TO SEE MY YOUNGER SISTER, BRO-IN-LAW AND NEPHEW AND NIECE! A 2 1/2 HOUR DRIVE OVER THE EAST HILLS.
Love, Peace and hugs to you all!
GoldenGirl2 ;-) ;-D
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Fri Dec 26 '08 7:56:08 am
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aussiefudd
Big Bad Wah-bit swayer New Lambton, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (39 years)
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AND NOW !!!!! FOR MY 200th POST !!!!!!!!! I'd like to share a little Christmas Carroll with you all........
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
I'm gunna burn your branches.
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
I'm gunna burn your branches.
I'm gunna burn them to the ground,
and piss on them to put them out.
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
I'm gunna burn your branches.
thunk you vury much, and ta ta for now........
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Fri Dec 26 '08 7:58:16 am
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michelle
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Just downloaded a bunch of music on my new mp3 player Santa bought me. First album listen goes to Al's ... Reunited cd. Ohhh, the widdly widdly widdly woowooo parts sound killer!! lol! Opening bit sounds funny. Quit talking in my ear!
Next is Super Colossal.
I'm gonna love dis toy!! lol!
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Fri Dec 26 '08 9:06:34 am
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Zinc Master
Zinc Master Crown Point, IN USA
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Guitar Hero Must Die!
by Mick Farren in The MOJO Blog
The new generation of music games are sounding a widdly-widdly death knell for rock 'n' roll, argues MOJO's Mick Farren.
Saturation yuletide advertising has finally convinced me that virtual music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, in which participants attempt to "play" classic metal solos by following flashing light sequences on guitar-shaped plastic peripherals, pose an even greater threat to the future of rock 'n' roll than Simon Cowell.
For confirmation that these games are an unpleasant victory for short-attention commercial exploitation, we need look no further than a South Park episode titled "Guitar Queer-o," in which Stan and Kyle become Guitar Hero heroes, and, when Stan's dad attempts to teach the fourth graders to actually play a real guitar, Cartman scathingly responds that "real guitars are for old people."
What's being exploited here is as old as rock 'n' roll itself. Few of us have not, at some time in our lives, or perhaps as recently as this morning, played clandestine air guitar or posed in front of a mirror pretending to be Elvis, Jimi, Joe Strummer, or even Joe Satriani. But the global electronic game corporations who have co-opted this youthful narcissism into a competitive game of manual dexterity, with plastic reproductions of Gibsons and Fenders, are having a negative impact on music's future. OK, so we tolerated Tom Cruise dancing around in his underwear to Bob Seger in Risky Business, but enough is, culturally speaking, enough.
Guitar Hero and Rock Band broaden the perceived gulf between performer and audience by pandering to the most juvenile extremes of rock 'n' roll idol worship. Worse than that, they betray the great populist promise of rock 'n' roll--which has held good from the days of The Shadows--that any garage band with a set of cheap instruments and perfunctory chops can achieve icon status if it gets the breaks and is sufficiently relentless.
Equally unpleasant is the unseemly rush by many of our current guitar "heroes" to lease their music for inclusion. Among the shameless are Aerosmith, Metallica, Motorhead, AC/DC and the Sex Pistols, while The Beatles and the Jimi Hendrix estate are reportedly ready to deal. Whether or not this is more heinous than flogging one's songs for TV commercials is open to debate, but the basic absurdity is underscored by the song "Thunderhorse" by DethKlok--the fictional death metal band from the U.S. TV cartoon show Metalocalypse--being incorporated in Guitar Hero II.
At a time when musical education in schools has become a cause célèbre, the promotion of video games that offer nothing more than a closed loop of virtual experience, devoid of creativity, does nothing to help. A spokesman for the game makers has claimed that they teach "sensitivity to rhythm, as well as develop the dexterity and independent hand usage necessary to play the instrument," but this seems disingenuous when the games do nothing to impart the real fundamentals of music.
And just to add injury to insult, an outfit called Mad Catz in San Diego, California will retrofit a perfectly good Fender Stratocaster, replacing strings, pickups and fretboard with the input controls for Rock Band.
Is nothing sacred?
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Fri Dec 26 '08 10:59:43 am
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LARR
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JS - Had a wicked christmas. Spent most of my time in Kenora Ont. with friends and family. I was hoping that santa would have brought me my JS1200 but that didn't happened yet. All well, maybe next year. Chat it up on MSN,
Gotta run man, peace.
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Fri Dec 26 '08 11:54:01 am
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wolf2
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I dont feel very well man,oh I have had this rotax feeling before it,s the xtra horespower i made when i rebuilt my tm bored out flatslide 38 milimeter carbs just listen i am a lamborghing mechanic hey man no shit general motors holds my licence now i tottaly overhauled these carbueratos i fixed 35 things in each carb it took 7 hours i have well like gerry from cycle salavge said an easy 90 more horspower buddy before i rebuilt them under half thorttle was 113 miles an hour at 6000rpm in less then a quarter mile now i have so much horspower i cant go over 4,100 rpm man no shit and i took her to 6000 with the new hosrpower and it was just too foucking fast i remeber telling myself to much horspower now dont go over 4100 thats safe but it had to have more at the time so steady 6,000 same old but with 90 extra horspower way to much horpower now i have to develop a way to harness it! later wolf2 i use energy saveing light bulbs in my dasement so that 7hour carb thing roughly shouldnt matter later wolf2.
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Fri Dec 26 '08 11:56:16 am
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campbell
paul campbell coatbridge, lanarkshire scotland Plays: Guitar (2018 years)
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Hi everyone had a fantastic Christmas with family and friends, hope it was as good for each and every one of you.
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Fri Dec 26 '08 12:22:17 pm
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fatape
craig North Lambton/Newcastle, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (54 years)
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Ozzy_Fudd:- At least NOW i know what happened to MY Christmas tree!!! C'MON AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fri Dec 26 '08 12:47:33 pm
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fatape
craig North Lambton/Newcastle, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (54 years)
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Tuesdayschild:-Good to see you've learnt your lesson and you're back to your old self...and soon it will be New Year so take extra care with beer and posts.Hugs to you,girl. C'MON AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fri Dec 26 '08 12:52:03 pm
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pc54
p c nashville, TN usa Plays: Guitar (34 years)
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hey nice people.
happy holidays.
I just want to say recently I have been blessed with the oppurtinity in spring of 2009 to play lead guitar in a band that will do a 100 city tour. and i bought the Satchurator pedal it will be my chief distortion. man it sound sooooo good! i get to play in through my carvin legacy. i heard the pedal was good and i didnt even try it out at the store. i just bought it, brought it home, hooked it up. then wiped the tear of joy that rolled down my cheek.
great job Joe!!!!
if anyone reading this has not bought this pedal....then get off your butt and go get it!!!!
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Fri Dec 26 '08 1:02:53 pm
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Ibanezplyr
Randell Mulligan Dublin, CA USA Plays: Guitar (50 years)
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Glitzman: I'm okay but tired. Christmas was great. I got practicle but needed clothes. I fired up the Gary Howie album and opened up presents. I guess I just haveta keep my foot open at night to let it dry out. I'm on the mend. Thanks to you for inquiring about me. Merry christmas! Keep listening to Joe! Above The Numbers music is still at :cdbaby.com/cd/abovetn for pics of me with some "friends" with my guitar: flickr.com/photos/ibanezplayer
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Fri Dec 26 '08 6:46:56 pm
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trumpet
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Joe,
I've been out of touch with your work for a while, but I just picked up your "Super Colossal" cd; what a nice body of work! Very musical, not a vehicle to show the world how accomplished a muscian you are (we already know that).
I've been playing it and playing and playing it...can't put it away.
Warmest regards
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Fri Dec 26 '08 7:34:34 pm
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cheese101
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Ooooo, nice photo shoot and interview Joe, with you, Zakk Wylde and Les Paul in the Guitar Edge mag....Jan/Feb edition...
So was Zakk really crazy in person? I thought the mix of the 3 of u was a really interesting choice....sp diverse and yet joined in spirit by your love of all things guitar.....
Oh, and my guitar guy/friend Troy is going to be at Winter Namm and told me about the "mini G-3" that's gonna happen...DANG that sounds fantastic!! I'm betting there'll be more than the 3 of you on that stage before the end of the night, YEAH!! VIDEO!!! lol!!
Have a great time there Joe :)
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Fri Dec 26 '08 8:29:00 pm
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Sylvan
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Hey Joe, one of my friends claimed that you don't use the standard Ibanez JS guitars. He said that Joe must use some sort of custom made ones. I told him why not to use for example JS1200 as it is because it's already custom made by yourself. OK, I know that you own custom ones besides the standard guitars. However, is it true that you don't use standard JS guitars (during the concert for example)? In fact, yours may have slight differences. Can you enlighten us? ;)
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Sat Dec 27 '08 12:48:51 am
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wolf2
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Psychiartic is not mental,I have between -979 to -1300 metal conglomeright my dillusion disorder is a guaranteed a-8 the no menatl allows me to tottaly be myself that the omc schizophrenia well metal from seing and hearing people distorts the way eat chew move your body etc the omc a-8 dillusion disorder at 15% allows me to have absolutely no omion interfearncce in the linial aliment cores of the brain plus plus schiozophrenia and a 15% dillusion disorder psychatric are the two most respected psychatric things in the world,like I can talk to president of the united states anytime i want first you call washington tell them your reading you gauranteed soude then they put down your allowed to talk to them anyways more coffee later wolf2.
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Sat Dec 27 '08 4:07:18 am
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fatape
craig North Lambton/Newcastle, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (54 years)
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Blue Moon:-Al, I thought i told you to write it out in musical form? Now,was that F#.Fb or just plain old F off?Oh,and i'd just like to ask:whatever happened to the sweet melodic McKenna we all know and love.Please come back,we miss you. C'MON AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sat Dec 27 '08 4:43:53 am
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wolf2
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Man I dont even know how old I am, well the biker chics come here man and it,s a dad seen realy! and jackster I remeber spanking fouckn jackster and she got to be 40 now and julian fantino man I give him a job as the commisioner of the opp right man it was the best thing I have but this dude did give me the canadian death penalty one time he made me 22 years younger or something,hey the biker chics must be going holy fouck dad looks about 29 years old i have to be a hundred and something by now man yep driveway was plowed for biker chic later wolf2.
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Sat Dec 27 '08 5:12:40 am
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jimmy66
stephen mc grogan perpignan, Pyreneés orientales france Plays: Guitar (29 years)
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Hi Joe, I just wanted you to see this illustration I made for you, here is a link to see it, Stephen (send message for origional file..)
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Sat Dec 27 '08 5:58:35 am
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