loll and Ibanez_God - Thanks. That's kind of what I was thinking. I didn't think that you would have enough power to go straight from the pedals to the cab. I do still have my combo amp. I like the combo amp, but the better I get at playing the more I want to try different sounds and do more things than a combo will do. I have been putting together a collection of stomp boxes and think I'm ready to get rid of the combo. I might try to pull that amp apart. Now, when you talk about matching the impedance...how do you change it if its not correct?

I guess if worse comes to worse I could buy a cheaper cab and head. I think Marshal makes one for 500 or so. I'll give it a shot....thanks.

hmmm, I thought that was just yer typical night and that falling in a ditch was out of the norm......

of course u don't remember it cuz u were....well....out of it, lol...but u fell asleep on the bus and got off on the wrong stop, then had to walk 654643 miles to try to find yer way home in the dark, and this lil ditch got in yer way.....

It was a very entertaining story in the chat that night :D

Hey Joe,

Any clue when there will be tourdates for 2009 on the website? Would like to know if you'll be in Belgium this year. Really looking forward to see/hear you play live once in my life (hopefully more offc. :P)

Anyway,cheers.

\m/ Wish u the best (including all other fans)

Slan, thanks hon. Darren's just lucky I wasn't drinking some "man-hater" to match his "wife-beater", or it would have been on. I let him have that one ;-) Yer a good soul Marchbank - I hope ya know that.

I miss Clarky's stories of drunken madness. They were some good ones.

Al, all yer drunken stories from the chat usually need to be deciphered by at least 2 people to figger out what the hell yer on about. It's always entertaining and funny as hell, and we do have pictures that most of Europe has seen yer arse at one time or another!

Anyways, I'm just back from a viewing of my daughter's friend's mum. Only 58 years old. She'd been battling cancer since the girls were in 7th grade - which is as long as I've known her - seven years. Her husband unexpectedly died of a heart attack on Dec. 16th. Guess the plan was for him to get there first to help her over. The family has really come together, and I know in my heart my daughter's friend, the youngest of 5, will be okay. The mum had a great sense of humor, and kept it until the end.

R.I.P. Andy

She left us all with these beautiful words on her memorial card:

Afterglow

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one,

I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when day is gone.

I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times, and laughing times, and bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun,

Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

hmmm, slan, this Buckfast sounds interesting and like it has possibilities, LOL.....not fer me of course, I'm now a total wimp when it comes to drinkin, dammit....but could be entertaining to watch others :D Mckenna comes to mind......

And I hear what u say...yer just u, it's all you can be. Don't we all have a dark side? I'm thinkin yep, definitely, but most of the time we manage to keep it under control. Mostly :)

Chelle, u know I love it when u let loose yer balls, lol!! But ahem....so yeah....

The memorial words are beautiful, and a lovely way to be remembered in this life. I hope they brought some comfort to her daughter, or will someday. Sounds like she left behind beautiful memories for all, so that's a life well-lived, even if too short. God bless her and her family and friends.

It looks like the music page has had a makeover..

EDIT: Music NOT road, sorry! I t'was hoping for some tour news of course...but not to be!

Cheese: If y drink Bucky, drink it with your #1 friend...its the only person that can save you from jail or hospital.Its savage monk brew

Alan...that's just plain freaky =|

anibur....I'm thinkin Sammy says "Talk to me cheeks!!" Cuz u know, Joe has very cute cheeks :) But I suppose it cud be chief...that's just not as fun, lol!

Cadburys last stand....kind of like the pop industry....making pre pube girls n boys believe they are cool deep n edgy in order t rob their piggy banks

Satan is alive

My Steve is depressed and says he doesn't know what the doctors are doing these days in regards to the Cyberknife treatment they talked about. The radiation machine has been used on brain cancer patients, but not on epilepsy patients. They are so cautious because they don't want to make any mistakes--understandable. Steve doesn't want his skull opened up, but he is continuing to have seizures both simple partial and complex partial. We both want him well enough to get him off some of these draining medications. Finding a cure for epilepsy is daunting!!

I have to be present for him and see to my own health needs as well. So much!!

Gotta go to work at the lovely library work with the wonderful people. No guarantees about my job after July 2009. Time to search for another job! Another task added to my overflowing IN BOX! Overload must be the name of the club we all belong to!

no... its religion

I don't need no blind belief

I don't need no comic relief

I don't need to t see the scars

I don't need Jesus Christ Superstar

Idon't need no Sunday Television

Y Bet your life i don't need religion

n i,ll tell y somethin else

I don't need no time for prayer

Don't save no knee-pads for me up there

If your head's alright, ya don't need binoculars to see the light

You don't need no miracle vision

You bet ya life y dont need religion

I don't need no Santa Claus

n I don't believe in fairies no more

I don't need to go to confession

I'm already trying to fight depression

I don't need no exorcism

Gong hey fa choy!

Sorry, I'm broke, will you take an I O U?