behind the scenes with Larry DiMarzio's photo shoot with Joe Satriani & John 5 for the cover of Total Guitar Magazine

Happy Halloween Joe, did ya morph into John 5 for the night? Or something more........alien......or professorily......

....and I'd watch out fer that talking shirt if I wuz u, throw candy at him, keep him happy =|

That's just creepy. lol! Joe looks good that way, but I'm glad he doesn't hide behind something gimmicky like that. Hell, he doesn't even hide behind hair! lol! I guess Joe's stage "make-up" would be his Oakleys.

BABYDADDY, what are you saying that is being ignored? Hi. How are you? Happy Halloween.

and lets not ferget the fetching bucket hats :)

I thought that vid was kinda cool too in a creepy sorta way, lol...good for Halloween.

BTW chelle, did u dress up yer "howie mandell" guy fer Halloween this year?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!

my teeth still hurt! =D

Zinc lol the car joke!

I scared some kids, so I had a fun halloween! how about everyone else?

T, ya need to put those ideas in my head a little sooner than 9:36 pm Halloween night. lol! Been busy, especially today taking E back to school after work. Three hrs sleep, 8 hrs of work, 1/2 hour home, hour to Mville, 20 min. there, hour back, dinner/trick or treaters, quick visit from Mady Elmo minus Georgie, some vid watching and emailing, and how's my brain supposed to remember dressing up cardboard Joe? If I come up with something within the next 3 minutes, I'll take a pic for you. lol! Just to tell you how I'm feeling, I;m drinking tea. lmao!! Yeah, one cup, one bag - I know.

Lorenzo - I'm a bit of an analyst at heart. I am not in any way disregarding the time and effort it would take to learn guitar, rather I am trying to get some seasoned opinions on the step-by-step most efficient process.

I don't know if I'll do it yet, I want to nail the sort of roadmap I'd be looking at, and then I need to see if logistically alot of my current responsibilities could be outsourced or reduced so as to free me up. I could, of course, tinker for many years and eventually get to where I would ike to be, but I do like fast-tracking if I can.

So thanks for Step 1 - what model or type of guitar would you recommend and why? Remember - no prior knowledge of guitar so it could be a Nimbus 2000 for all I know.

Anybody else?

Blue Moon - could you send us a pic of you in your nightgown :))? Even better, whilst playing guitar?

OOOOooooo Skippygirl, DONT tempt the Mckenna!!! He just might do it!!! Actually, I've seen worse of him, LOL.....but lemme tell you, there are some pics floating around out there of him in his very manly Homer Simpson slippers.....he even wears them on one of his vids of him playing guitar....

GO MC!!!

Travis...do u have any other...."kids"? Is she friendly? My friend had a pit bull, sweetest dog ever!

ahem.....I distinctly remember....

I TOLE U SO!!

Michelle,

White Zombie look and sound like they were meant for Halloween!! "Black Sunshine" had some freaky elements in it. What's with the old typewriter and the Mustang? Must be the period in history it depicts.

Maritime,

Where are you? SF Bay Area is finally getting wet weather! It's a welcome change.

Tracie,

Thanks for the love and encouragement. My man is very important to me. He has to stay healthy enough to work and work extra hard to stay healthy.

It's raining and the trick or treaters are out and about anyway. The kids are so cute in their princess, clown and pirate costumes--so far.

Cheese101 - evening! Please could you check yer email for me pretty please? Cool about the lesson!

Kilgelec: Joe draws them on a black shirt before every show. Just get a black shirt and draw one! :) LOL. Really, maybe you can take a cool hendrix shirt or something and offer to trade after the show? Sorry Joe.

The Satch Zone stuff is PERFECT for beginners, sign up now! Do it! go on! what are you waiting for? :)

Had a great day today, met some wonderful and interesting people here in San Francisco. Now I'm sitting in the departure lounge waiting for my flight home.

Pity I didn't come here a few weelks later to see Joe play at the Warfield (or will it be the Fillmore?).

Also had some people close to the action relay the same message. Joe and Hagar are STOKED about the stuff from Chickenfoot. I CANNOT WAIT! This is gonna blow some MINDS!