So I have finally started the painful process of backing up and converting my itunes library! Anyone who has done this knows the pain. The good thing is that once you finally burn it all to disc you can put the disc back in your computer and use windows to convert it to a non protected mp3. That's a long painful way around the DRM issue also. I just waited to long. It's going to take me about 120 CDs to get my entire purchased library burned. Yuck! Once the music is uncompressed though, you have a near out of the store quality sound. When you start ripping them back to mp3 format, you can do it at 320kbps. That's better than aac format. Not lossles, but good for compressed music. Once I finally finish this whole process, I will finally be able to branch off to other mp3 players. Maybe a Sony walkman or one of the Samsung P2's. It would be nice to have an mp3 player with an FM tuner built in.

Joe Satrini--Thanks for your kind words about my Steve. He is feeling much better.

Sunday brought the rain! At last our reservoirs will fill instead of empty! The snow level is dropping to 1000 feet in the next 24 hours.

Slans, Slans, Slans--How could I ever make you do something you don't want to do? Not my motive at all! Just want to pass along the Hypocratic oath, "First, do no harm." If I offended you, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. FZ had a unique view of life. No one will ever take his place.

Michelle--How is Sully? Is he enjoying his catnip?

Happy Monday to all T2Jers!

GO JOE!!!!!!!

I checked out that coldplay song and they sing Joe's EXACT melody.......

so GO JOE!!!!!!!

and bankrupt coldplay so we never have to hear chris martin's whiny, quivering excuse for a voice again!!!!!

Satriella - do i have to register to vote for your drawing? can you post the link again? >=:o) thank yous

p.s. how did you enter your work to Guitar World?

Joe Satriani YOU ROCK!!

slans...do you call cigarettes "spliff's" over there or should I be on my way to your place..lol. I don't recall ciggies making me go "Aaahhhhhhhh"

I would just like to lend Joe my support and let him know us south'ner's (hemisphere) are behind him. Although, I feel a bit uneasy about it, just because I really do not like Coldplay (even waaaaay before this whole incident) and that I hold Satchy as my favourite artist, I admit that I do hold an unfair bias towards Joe. Also, I recognised 'Viva La Vida' being significantly close to 'If I Could Fly' around early July (when I believe it was released), however I lack the theoretical knowledge to make up an educated decision about the similarities. I do wish I could understand the situation more, and actually show my support to Joe in a way that reinforces his decision to move this to court, but the sad fact is that I don't; I instead trust in his judgement and blindly support him.

In the end though, I really think Satchy can only come out on top. I'm not saying he's going to win the case, I have no way of knowing that, but I believe his reputation will rise, as he is the underdog with the honest and heart-tugging persona that will only garner him a wider audience.

roo - I assume the answer will be no, but...would you consider a "Please pick a name that isn't Chickenfoot!" petition on your site for people like me? ;-)

Do some research and you'll see Coldplay have been accused of plagiarism before. You'll also see that Coldplay knew of Joe Satriani at least as early as 2002 when they mentiontioned him in an interview. It wasn't a positive mention, which makes me think the band has been upset with Satch for a while. But were they upset enough to steal one of his songs? We'll have to wait and see...

The players can handle multiple audio and video formats, and they also have an FM tuner. My favorite thing about them, though, is that you can transfer music to/from them by dragging and dropping, just as if the player was a floppy disk or flash drive (if you want, you can even put non-music files on there and temporarily treat your player as a huge flash drive). But if you'd rather not drag and drop, the players are compatible with Media Monkey or other media library managing software.

It sounds like you aren't looking for a new player just yet, but keep this one in mind. The amount of storage space you get for the price with these players is great...

;-)

Seriously, though, it's nice to see your point of view...

Good Afternoon Satchland..... How is Everyone?

El Niko.....

In the end though, I really think Satchy can only come out on top. I'm not saying he's going to win the case, I have no way of knowing that, but I believe his reputation will rise, as he is the underdog with the honest and heart-tugging persona that will only garner him a wider audience.

What a great way of looking at this situation. I never looked at it that way and you're right. a lot of Coldplay fans are gonna be checkin' out Joe's music. There's aways a positive from a negitive,,,,,Always. Take Care

Do The Stu - I checked out the links. It was cool to have Joe get into the Mind Storm thing. I guess Okinawa Mike is no longer around?

As for Sept 11th - it was strange reading that page. Interestingly enough, the second post was to me and my ex-wife Lucinda from Evolve2B - talking about what I must have said in a prior post (whatever that was). This is like a personal diary!!

Do the Stu:

not chickenfoot

I suggested: maybe it should be Chickenplay or Coldfoot? ColdChicken?

But I'm sticking with this:

Do The Stu - thanks for those links to the T2J archives - v. interesting reading the old posts (poor Michelle!) and it hits home just how long you guys have been around!

A shame Joe doesn't get as much time to give out some blue, it must have been nice back then to get a regular post from him.

Did you like the Joe-elfing?

Where are you going for vacation? Somewhere warm? Come to Australia, it's lovely right now (well, Melbourne just got 4 days of rain which is freaky but so needed).

Been looking at Fender acoustics on ebay - prolly out of my price range I reckon. Plus I wouldn't know a good one from a dud one anyway. Caught up with my little bro on the weekend and he showed me his GuitarPro (or was it Gearbox) program which has 00's of songs with all the effects, and his LIne 6 thing as well - he is like a kid in a lolly shop.

This song brought me to tears tonight...it's gorgeous...I heard the first version of it a coupla years ago, but since then the song has matured even more and filled out and should be played live :)

Our favorite Irish guitarist....one of his own compositions :)