Prototyped - woo hoo an Aussie drummer!!!! Welcome and tell us about yourself. Do you play some Satch? Maybe you could join the Great Mass Satch Jam whenever I get it organised.

sixnickells - lovely post about the concert, it was great your son got to go to his first Joe show. I love AWYAWM. I've just been listening to some early live versions of it and it is magic.

ibanezplyr - nice shot of you and Joe too!!!! Hey you didn't happen to see Blue Moon Al McKenna in Dublin did you?

Last show of the tour - by my calcs it is now 9pm in SF so I guess they are all at the Warfield right now, lucky buggers.

Guess they're all out partying after the show........

OMG - Joe, Jeff, Galen & Stu, that was the most awesome show I've seen you guys do yet!

I had a great time today, but the concert really iced it, the encores, the ending, and hanging out with all these great people from T2J - hell, it was probably worth the trip over from the UK just for that!

Hopefully there'll be a podcast so anyone who wasn't there can see what I'm talking about. Heads too buzzing to recall anything in great detail, and D, T & Mr Mck will probably put it in better form than I will.

Funs over now though, gotta pack in a bit and head home in the morning : (

Just Joan / Mahavushnu / Do The Stu / Cheese / Blue Moon / Guitarmeister2005 ? (Chris) and of course Joe & Band - thank you all so much for making such a great trip..... must do it again some time ; )

All the best Phil

Joe Satrini - did you get to meet him?

Satch rocks...! :-)

Igneousiceman--That Cowbell vid was funny! lol!

Michelle--I pronounce you "Godess of the Message Board" you really make my day! Wankin' vs. wailin'! You make me lmao!! I hope you take your vid camera with you and catch some of these precious moments when you attend a Satch concert!! Isn't the English language diverse and a crack up at times?! So many different meanings to words.

AND Michelle--I agree about the suicide you mentioned, the woman wasn't thinking, she was obviously on "autopilot mode" when she ran in front of the rig. What a despicable act! You have further encouraged me to seek help and I have. Years ago when I was diagnosed with depression, I committed myself to a psych ward at a nearby hospital and my husband accompanied me. I was given treatment, follow-up support and after 3 days I was released. It wasn't easy, but it was necessary for my own and others safety. I am responsible for not only my own actions, but other people's safety as well.

As I said before, we are all in this world together! I need to do right by everyone. It is my moral, God-given duty! I am an heiress of the same God that gave Joe Satriani his infinite gifts and capacity to express them.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Good news everyone--They caught the guy that murdered the 3 execs at the Scott Blvd., Santa Clara firm. The Santa Clara City police caught him at a major intersection in the city of Mountain View. I hope justice will be swift!

Meanwhile, news of southern california--There are 4 fires--one in Santa Barbara County that is nearly contained (Castle49--I think you have more info on this than I), one near Sylmar in L.A. county, one at the border of Orange and Riverside counties and one started by an arsonist in Malibu. Fortunately, the cops caught the arsonist not long after the fire was set!

Hello, Joe!

I'm looking to make the transition from a carnivorous diet to one more herbaceous. I know you are a vegetarian. Do you make actual meals or do you just pick at things during the day? Also, how do you keep from losing your mind over being hungry? Are there satisfying recipes out there? What are some recipes that you like?

Regards,

Michellica - If you ever do get those pics please warn me if you are going to link to them, I so DON'T want to see them. LMAO.

OK...now that I've had a chance to get some sleep, I'll elaborate on my "Satch rocks" comment.

The songs I mentioned in Reno are still the highlight of the four shows I just saw, but the performance/energy of the San Francisco show as a whole is the best of the four.

Both bands played their full set again...I heard Mountain do Crossroads for the first time this tour. The rest of their set was pretty similar to the other shows. And Joe had Overdriver, Super Colossal, and Cool #9 back in.

There were a few end-of-tour jokes spread throughout the night. Corky Lang had the regular bit at each show where he'd purposefully knock a cymbal stand over, and the drum tech would run out to fix it. In SF, the stand was attached to fishing line that was strung over the top of the stage...and whenever he knocked it over, someone would pull the string and it'd come back up on its own...really funny.

Joe's whole set was solid...I think the highlight for me this time around would be Flying In A Blue Dream, actually. That might be the best version of that song I've ever heard.

Leslie broke a string during Stormy Monday, and his tech brought out Joe's white JS series guitar for him to play. The strap on that guitar was set up perfectly and everything, so I think Leslie "broke" the string on purpose...just to play it. ;-) But it was really cool to see Satch playing a Leslie West guitar and Leslie playing a JS guitar. And it was fun to watch Leslie try to use the whammy bar.

I met Joe after the show (Al gave me the second aftershow pass...more on that later) and he said it was Leslie's guitar for good now. Joe had used that for a few album/tour cycles and seemed a bit sad to let it go...but it's Leslie West. ;-)

Corky and Rev from Mountain came out for Going Down, so that ended up being a huge jam. And a ton of red and white balloons fell from the ceiling so that song was one huge party...

I met all of Mountain after their show and got autographs...Leslie was pretty busy talking to other people, but I talked to Corky and Rev quite a bit.

I also met all of Joe's band, including Stu (finally!). I got a picture with most of 'em and got autographs. Very cool...

I have some news to share, but I'll put that in a new post so things aren't cluttered.

Galen said he will likely be the road manager for next year's Chickenfoot tour. He says there are nine Chickenfoot songs so far. Joe said they still need to finish recording, as we all know...that'll happen in December (Sammy still has some shows this week in New Orleans and St. Louis). Galen said they're looking for a March release date, but they don't yet know (or maybe Galen just wouldn't tell me...hehe) what record label it'll come out on. Galen also said it might end up being an arena tour, which would be awesome...I'd love to see Satch in a 20,000-seat venue, even if it means I'll be much further back from the stage than I usually am.

Both Galen and Jeff joked about being more or less out of work for the next year. I bugged Jeff about doing some kind of solo album or side project in the meantime, and he said he had some session work lined up. Also, he said he hoped to get his own website up and running in the next few months.

Jon Luini was also there...I was able to get some info out of him for the YouTube live thing on 11/22. It sounds like plans for that event are changing all the time, but people seem to think it'll be a huge variety show / festival setting and Satch will only do a song or two. I won two free tickets to that, so I might go, but I also have Buckethead tickets for the same night so I'll probably do that instead (Al has a ticket to that and I'm his ride, so...).

I'm sure I've forgotten a thing or two, so I'll probably make another post in a bit.

Actually, I do have one last piece of news: Tracie and Al had a run-in with a police officer at Joe's show...I'll just be vague and say that they'll be spending some time in a police car soon.

Did they get into a fight? Did Al make a bomb threat? Will they be arrested? Is Al going to be deported? Or is it something else entirely? I'll let them share... ;-)

Do The Stu - oooooohh it all sounds like great fun thanks for the review - *sniff* wish I could see Joe again too. Would love to see the pics.