hey hey hey...hello joe and all...

Have a Great weekend everyone.

Ibanez-god - sounds like a great little amp..you are very clever!

Glitzman - Typical man...where are the details..did you ask him anything? What did he say to you?

Goldengirl2 - A site called boreme.com...they have great video's and pictures too! Its great that Joe posts here and keeps in touch with the fans personally...Paul does emails Joe does this...its just great!

"I played your song and no one liked it so please make me feel better"

Tracie--Thanks for the vids. I would love to see Joe live one of these days. You have great memories and pictures and vids to prove it!

Maritime--Luck? I prefer to think of it as serendipity. I like to think that Joe remembered the special hospitality of the Dutch in Amsterdam and the pictures reminded him of good memories/good times! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he remembered you.

Thanks for the great Zappa songs, "You are what you Is" and "Don't eat the Yellow Snow" are fun. LOL!

How's your 6-year-old niece? My little niece will be 6 in May! She likes to talk to me on the phone and tell me what she has been doing in Kindergarten.

Al McKenna--You wrote one dreamy love song, man! Great Valentines Day gift for that special someone. ;-D

Cosmic_ape--"I'm such a dirty old bastard..." Is that such a bad thing? Just listen to Joe's "I Like the Rain" before you answer that question! Heee heeee!

Maritime--Here's another reason the USA is a backwards country: No medical marijuana research and development funding. What's up with this? Doctors have to make secret deals and go outside the system to prescribe it. Stupidity seems the order of the day on this subject. Michael Phelps and the famous photo of him smoking pot is all over the news. What's the big deal? It seems everyone has mobile phone cameras with them at all times these days.

I'm frustrated that the American Medical Association or some other agency hasn't done research on medicinal uses for marijuana or the chemical THC it contains that has some kind of medical efficacy at least for cancer patients. There are doctors who are tearing their hair out over this and patients are waiting who could benefit.

good song

large car

live pigeons...LOL

Congrats Joe! Voted to be in the Guitar World Hall of Fame! Previous winners include Dimebag Darrel, Jimi Hendrix, Kirk Hammet, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimmy Page!

Though unfortunatly, Professor Satchafunkilis and the Munsterion of Rock didn't win for best shred album. :( Paul Gilbert won that one, with Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar.

Slan, we just watched a ghost show about the South Bridge vaults in Edinburgh. What a nasty little place that is! Then they showed them walking through one of the most haunted cemeteries there. Skulls and crossbones everywhere, faces, children holding skulls, and headless people carved on the stones with all sorts of get the F outta town kinda mad scary stuff on them. I do believe that's another place to mark on my list of places I never have to go! lol! Yikes!

I think THIS is the one. Freaky as hell man! It looks like a feckin typical American haunted house at Halloween that ya pay a few bucks to go thru and get yer kicks.

Now I have to watch some satch vids to make the scardy cat in me go away. lol!

*shivers*

I'ma watch that show chelle, it's on here at 10.....hold me.....

Hey Joe. It's great to see you finally found the time to post last week. It sure has been a while. You are a busy guy,I know. So I don't blame you. I also understand you couldn't possibly read each and every thing posted here by all those people. I drop in from time to time, and sometimes leave a message. Mostly reactions to other fans though, as I realize the chance you getting to actually read them is very remote. I'm gonna give it a try anyway and hope this somehow reaches you..There's a lot I'd like to tell you, but I'll try hard not to bother you with things you must have heard a zillion times before. Let me start by saying this; Thank you. For everything..I owe you my life. Quite literally, believe me. I've been a fan for over 19 years now, since the very first time I heard of you..Since that day my perception of music in general changed completely. I had enjoyed music before,but this was different. For the first time in my life, I learned the truth. I finally understood then what music really means..I was simply blown away..still am. No other artist in the world has ever touched my soul on this level. To me, " cryin' " is the deepest possible magic.- the most beautifull thing I have ever heard. I remember first hearing it ,alone in my room. I burst into tears..I really did. I checked the back of the album cover for the title of the track and cried some more, this time with a smile on my face...unbelievable. That had never happend to me before. The sheer emotion conveyed through it is like a tidal wave. Unstopable and overwhelming. The positive energy that resides in youre music mends my tortured soul. As you may have figured out by now,I have not had an easy life. At age 15 developed a stress-related skindisorder which comes and goes as it pleases. It prevents me from leading what I would consider a normal and happy life. I deal with it though, and I don't complain about it to anyone. Dispite it all, I am not a bitter person. I have never blamed anyone else for my problem..how could I ? At 30 , on December 5, 2006 I had a massive heart-attack, also stress-related. I almost died twice that week. Doctors were clueless, ran test after test. Nothing showed up on X-rays that could cause a healthy 30year old man to suddenly have a heart attack. When I told them my girl,- whom I had shared my life with for over 11 years -had left me for some other guy she barely knew, they stopped looking for clues. Up untill then, I always thought It isn't actually possible to die from a broken heart.. I was wrong about that, so the doctors told me. I was so deeply hurt, my heart started to fail. That was quite an eye-opener for me. Being able to love someone so deeply that losing them could kill me, made me realize,maybe it was time to start loving myself. So ultimately, it has made me a stronger person. I'm doing okay by now. I"ve been playing the guitar for years, but only since early 2007 I started to come into my own. I even got the oppurtunity to record some tracks at a friends little home studio. It's all fairly simplistic electronic beats,and the quality soundwise is a little pain in the neck sometimes, but we make do with whatever tools we have. In what little spare time we have. It feels so good to play my guitar..it's a healing experience. You know what I mean,right? I never had any lessons,can't read tabs and my technique is far,far from perfected,-trust me, I know my place in the food-chain;-) but I it's all about expression, the feeling..isn't it? I'm starting to learn to speak my mind, without actually saying a word. This keeps me safe from bottled up emotions that could kill me. I Owe all that to you,my friend. I couldn't possibly thank you enough for the shining example that saved my life. Last week ,januari 28 I decided to put some of the tracks on myspace.com/mespooky09 check if you like, love & respect from stephan,Holland.

Ibanez_god--True. Recreational use of drugs is a waste of time and body. Shifting marijuana to the medical realm would make it less of a risky thrill to recreational users and hopefully provide sufferers relief.

I believe in the doctor's "First do no harm" as a practical principle. I would that everyone put this principle into practice. The paradox is that when there is no cure with conditions such as epilepsy, doctors and their assistants are left searching and dreaming and searching for drugs that can lessen the number of seizures. They try by guessing what drugs may work with their patients. My Steve and I are at a crossroads with his treatment--drugs have only worked so far and with diminishing results. The seizures are smaller and more frequent--simple partial--moments of lapses of conciousness where he is aware something is happening and can only hold up his hand to indicate he can't hear or speak for about a half to one minute or so. So sudden, so random! Three doctors at Stanford are talking about skull openings for brain mapping and after a month to 6 weeks of healing the skull suichures, Cyberknife radio surgery to zap the focal point of the seizure activity. It is difficult to describe here.

Wow! I rented and saw Satch Tapes last night. What a keeper when I can find the money to buy it. A great way to meet Joe and learn about him and his music. _________________________________________________ With a strinking savings account--life is getting more difficult. May have to buy much less expensive food--spam (yuck!), oatmeal, potatoes, onions (onion soup is good), any other inexpensive foods like dried peas and beans, etc. I guess rabbit food is fairly inexpensive--lettuce and carrots. Much less meat, but I like chicken, fish, turkey and ham. What ever happened to bison or buffalo meat? Is that expensive? Must be.

Where are the 21st century "green" jobs? Where are the venture capitalists? Where are the patrons, sponsors, donors? I wish I knew. Musicianship crosses all the centuries and is very "green" because the guitarists use clean electricity!

Hey all you T2Jers--Has anyone written a song called, "Ode to Joe"? I am working on a poem by that name.

Joe,

Would love to see anyone's brain while they are listening to SWTA.............

I wrote a song once called "Pass The Bong, Joe", but then I got high and forgot the lyrics.