Today confirms that I am NOT a morning person! Holy Canoli! My supervisor at work wants me to attend a "party" (Library Page Meeting for us shelvers in children's dept.) and I am swamped with paperwork, bills, a dirty house, a car in need of service and a billizion other things! OMG!!!!!!

Michelle--My fevah isn't fatal. It's just a desire to meet Joe's fans face-to-face, especially Al! ;) I will live and get over it unless my demonic selfish side wins!

SuperDave--My heart still goes out to you, Man!! What a sacrifice to have to sell such a valuable box! Also, your kids seem like normal young ones to me. The youngest are so excited about life they want to be awake as soon as possible to enjoy it. The teens are going through that point in life where raging hormones are taking over their bodies and it can be shocking and rather exhausting to them, so they need at least 9 or 10 hours sleep a night. The fact that you mentioned them on this posts shows that you are a caring father. What more could they ask for?

Campbell--I live in the San Francisco Bay area (Central California) which is nearly 400 miles away from Cerritos and Downey, which are in Southern California. I grew up in the L.A. area, Orange County and Imperial County. I moved up north to go to San Jose State University. Your Scottish--Florida wedding must have been a heavenly experience for you and your bride. Congratulations! Hope ya have many happy years together.

Slans--You are so right about Pro Musicians on tour having their lives together. AND the missess at home needs to have her life together as well. She needs to have a beautifully framed picture of her husband/boyfriend at her bedside. This is so important for staying bonded and in touch with the love of her life. Telephones are sooo important--mobiles especially. I wonder if land lines are going the way of the dinosaurs. Mr. Bell invented a great telecommunications device, but I'm not sure what he would think of the latest technology.

Castle 49---"Fire on the hill all night"? What are you talking about?

All the best to everyone at the next 2 Satch Shows! Have fun and safe travels.

Gotta get back to my other obligations. ;-D Thoroughly Golden Milli

Hi everyone...I picked up Al this morning and we made it to my parents' house in one piece. We're leaving for Reno with my dad and brother in about 20 minutes...should be awesome (again).

Austin, but did ya kiss him smack on the lips and tell him it was from London? lmao!!

Austin<Al has his latex sleepin bag at the ready, room for 2 i believe!

Golden Girl 2:Its a whole lot easier in that line of work being single!

Tikimon San: First off, great t see another Martial Artist on the forum, from the sounds of it you have been a VERY active man n if I may say so from how you come across a positive minded one at that even if yer getting on like me...39yrs huff puff wheres my Iron Lung lol.So I leave you t read again which you probably have many times? Bruce Lees ideas on Martial Art Styles, its totally applicable t music in every way

Wisdom beyond the grave..Bruce Lee on Style

To reach the masses, some sort of big organization (whether) domestic and foreign branch affiliation, is not necessary. To reach the growing number of students, some sort of pre-conformed set must be established as standards for the branch to follow. As a result all members will be conditioned according to the prescribed system. Many will probably end up as a prisoner of a systematized drill.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization. That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

To me totality is very important in sparring. Many styles claim this totality. They say that they can cope with all types of attacks; that their structures cover all the possible lines and angles, and are capable of retaliation from all angles and lines. If this is true, then how did all the different styles come about? If they are in totality, why do some use only the straight lines, others the round lines, some only kicks, and why do still others who want to be different just flap and flick their hands? To me a system that clings to one small aspect of combat is actually in bondage.

This statement expresses my feelings perfectly: 'In memory of a once fluid man, crammed and distorted by the classical mess.'

On creating your own personal way of fighting....again its the same for music

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!!!

I just heard from all my peeps in Reno! They're having a great time, and even saw some of the bands members walking around the casino. I was talking to Tracie on the phone and she says to Joan "There's Galen! There! There! Right there in the black jacket!" but he walked past them before she had the chance to say anything. He prolly wasn't close enough for her to yell "HEY GALEN" like I know she wanted to. lol! T and Chris got Stu hugs, so that's always fun! I talked to T, her youngin' Chris, Joan, and the one and only Alan McKenna. lol! I love that guy ffs! lol! Austin and his dad and bro were there somewhere, and Joe Satrini but really Phil hadn't shown up yet. Hope he's okay and makes it in time. Al's having a great time and loves San Fransisco. Dammit I forgot to send him a kiss on the lips from London!

So anyways, CHEERS to friendship and all the peeps who are lucky enough to meet and get together for these shows, and CHEERS to Joe for having this great website to make it all possible!

It's an awesome night, and I'm not even there. lol!

It sucks that I have to work all weekend, cause T was gonna call me during the show and let me listen in like she always does :-) Joe prolly won't hit the stage till after midnight EST, and I have to get up at 5 am. Hopefully they'll leave me a few voice mails to wake up to. lol!

Either way... T got a new camera, so it's all on video *insert extreme grin here*

Shit man yeah! lmao!!

The suspense is killing me, somebody post the Reno review paleeeeeeeezz.

Hi everyone.....

Reno gig was excellent, especially as I got to meet Cheese & son Chris, Do The Stu and family, Blue Moon, Mahavishnu (spelling), just joan, and some other nice couple (who were glad not to have crazy or drunk people by them...

I am KNACKERED.... it's actually 2am but my body says it's 10am UK time.... and I have to try an get up at 6 to make the plane to San Fran..... wish me luck!

Saw Galen & Mick as Austin an I walked through the casino, gave them the nod, not sure if mick double taked me, will ask him tomorrow hopefully

Michelle - I made it ok, it's just my flight got in around 5pm, then transfe to Casino etc so I was a good few hours behind everyone else. But they're all lookin out for me, lovely bunch. I think Al/Brian/Joan are still at the bar : )

Joan took a good pic of me & t & chris so hope to get hold of that one.

Golden Girl - if you're in the bay area are you not going to the Joe gig later today? If not, you could just go to the queue and get to meet your Blue Moon (and others)?

Satriella - really!? (new name)

Ok, that's it - am gonna try to sleep, then more joseph. I hope I made it onto your recording Joe, see you later

G'nite all

Hmmm...I had a few things to say but it looks like some other people beat me to it. ;-) The T2J meet-up was nice...I'm sure I'll have more to say about these crazy people after the SF show, so I'll wait until then.

The Reno show was a bit shorter due to venue time constraints. Mountain played for 30 minutes instead of 45 and a few songs were dropped from Joe's set (Overdriver, Super Colossal, Cool #9). And I'm sorry michelle, but it was refreshing to go to a Satch show and not hear that last one... ;-)

I missed Overdriver a bit, but if I had to pick three songs to do without they probably would've been these three. The set flowed fine without them, and Joe seemed to have more energy for the middle third or so of the set.

That part of the show, Ghosts (love those melodies!) through Andalusia, is probably one of the best stretches of a Satch gig I've ever seen.

Joe's outro solo during Revelation was some of the best playing I've ever seen him do. I've seen that one three times now, and the improv there really reminds me of how he'd let loose on Starry Night back in the SBM days. The songs are different, of course, but the "free" feeling is there.

One Big Rush maybe have been the strongest version I've heard. Jeff went all-out mad on the drums during the intro, and Joe toyed with some of the melody lines in some cool ways...one of them toward the end of this song was him playing harmonics as a lead-in to the chorus...insane.

Time Machine in Reno was much stronger than the previous two nights...it seemed to have a dynamic quality that was missing at the other gigs. And Joe did this crazy improv bit on his whammy pedal at the end that he didn't really do in SD or LA. I loved it...it'd be neat to see him build off of it in SF.

Stu's solo was the best of the three I've seen this tour...it wasn't as sloppy (loose) as some of the bits in LA. He missed his harmonic toward the end, though. ;-)

Andalusia featured Jeff's strongest drumming of the night...he really got into what I call "Psycho Monkey"-mode in my head for some reason (I may have stolen that description from someone here; I don't know). The jam at the end seemed to stop just as it was getting good, unfortunately.

I rarely comment on the songs Joe plays all the time, but I will say that the tapping section of AWMAWY in Reno was probably the cleanest I've ever seen. But I do miss the ending jam.

Well, that's all for now...I need to get some sleep.

Stu's new vid - oysters - ack!!!

Forgot to mention Brian in Reno - sorry B.

off to work... :-/

slansh, record something fierce! ask me anything, if i can be of help i will.

good american college football day. the local usf bulls are playing and i am going. the uf GATORS are playing .. GO GATORS!!