Hey Cube, stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is eh??? LMBFAO

Nothing worse than commercial spam/scam on a fan website IMHO

Speaking of spam, the lowly meat (or whatever it is) is making a comeback during this recession!!!

Alexandre, congratulations!! I'm so happy for you! You will make a great and loving father. Happy birthday honey! What a wonderful time in your life. This has put a smile on my face for the day.

Snowed here overnight. No school for the kids. Slept till 10:30 this morning. I love sleep. lol! I usually only get 5 hours sleep on a work night. Sooo not enough! My son thought he'd get to spend the day on xbox. He can...AFTER he shovels! lol! I so enjoy watching him out there busting his butt. lol! It's way more fun than watching him mow the lawn. He does help around the house, but only if I make him, so this is fun for me. lol!

vintagevibeguitars Hey did you know Joe appeared in the film 'For your consideration'..?

alexandrecaetano:wow bro congrats n welcome t the club its a total trip enjoy the ride

maritime:out o bullets time for the the stun gun..., that way they get t be someones bitch in prison b4 death by lethal injection

Geez, does any band have more grief than Lynyrd Skynyrd? Billy Powell, their superb piano player, passed away today RIP Billy......

"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Billy Powell, the original keyboard player with the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died early Wednesday at his Orange Park home.

Powell was 56.

Orange Park police said Powell called 911 just before 1 a.m. complaining of difficulty breathing. Paramedics found him in his bedroom responsive.

Ross Schilling, a publicist with Vector Management, said they believe Powell suffered a heart attack, but an autopsy will be conducted to determine his cause of death.

Orange Park police told Channel 4 Powell had an appointment with his cardiologist on Tuesday, but he did not go.

Powell moved to Jacksonville as a child and attended Bishop Kenny High School, where he met Leon Wilkenson, future bass player for Skynyrd. He originally joined the band in the early '70s as a roadie. Before a gig playing at the The Bolles School prom, he sat down at the piano and impressed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant enough to be invited to join the band as its keyboard player.

Skynyrd went on to sign a national recording contract and become the best-selling southern rock band in history.

In 1977, Van Zant, along with guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister, and backup vocalist Cassie Gaines and assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, were killed when the band's chartered plane crashed in Mississippi.

Powell suffered facial injuries in the crash, but eventually recovered. He was the only band member well enough to attend the funerals of those killed in the crash.

In 1987, Powell rejoined Skynyrd for a tribute tour and has toured with the band ever since. He and guitarist Gary Rossington were the only two original band members who continued to record and tour with the band.

Skynyrd's public relations firm announced that concerts planned Friday in Louisiana and Saturday in Mississippi were cancelled due to Powell's death. Those shows were to be rescheduled in the near future.

first of all, sad to hear about billy powell - makes me wish i had spent my last dime to buy 2 tickets and take my uncle to their show here in minnesota while i had the chance last summer. RIP brother.

secondly, i'm not sure if this is total taboo to talk about or if my post will get deleted - but i just read that CP could've paid joe off and the world wouldn't be the wiser. there's something about that statement that is bugging me. i don't know what the latest is on this case, there doesn't seem to be any new info regarding this after about the middle of december - is it just done? or are we merely waiting for a case to play itself out? if there was a payoff and the world isn't the wiser, then that's just it, "the world isn't any wiser!"

joe, i've been a life long fan of yours, and a very selective, limited fan of CP - i sorta hear the similarities, but the overall flavor of the 2 bands songs are decisively different, i can't support the decision to follow through with this UNLESS there are solid definitive results - regardless of what they are, i think the world needs to know it.

maritime/ibanez_god:think i,ll go for the extra height n weight for that decapetation effect

Michelle - we are heading into our 3rd day of over 40 deg C here in Melbourne. Pretty darn hot that one......14,000 homes lost power last night due to the load.

Maritime--You are so funny, man! Did I shower? lmao! Even with the drought in Cali, people here take showers including yours truly!

Cali is in serious trouble, people. This 2/3 majority vote for passing a budget has got to go the way of the dinosaur. No more roadblocks when dealing with the people's money. We may as well be held hostage by our legislators!

Ibanez_god---I love "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals! I have loved it since I was a young girl! That Rickenbacher guitar rocks! I love those chords every last one of them. Want to learn--another student and teacher jam!

Michelle--your weather looks brutal--hope this Groundhog Day brings some sunny weather to you for a least a day. Do you think Al McKenna is working on that song, "F On" in the key of F? I hope so--such a gift of composition must be expressed!

Tracie--Would you please send some more rain down to Cali? We need to fill those reservoirs to the max. A fiscal crisis is bad enough! We don't need another dry season of fire storms! Thank you for your generous posts on this forum--generous like your "brother" Joe!

Cheers, brothers and sisters of T2J!!

Joe--My curiousity about you is boundless. Everything I have learned about you so far--what you say in interviews, what Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Morse or any other musician says about you is so amazing, inspiring and enriching. I want to play my guitar every day with all my heart and learn, learn, learn--give and receive! Ry Kihn does you proud!

Your love/generousity is palpable and I am thankful!

Satch fan for life,

I posted some videos of me playing Satch songs. I used the backtracks that Maritime gave the link for (thanks Maritime). but they are only viewable to people on my friends list. And I can only record up to 2 minutes of video :'( so anyways There's: Crushing day, If I could Fly, There was Super Colossal (but I noticed a HUGE error and deleted it) Crystal Planet, Revelation and I just uploaded Ten Words. But I can only record the first 2 minutes of each song, so that sucks. anyways if you want to see them, you have to be my friend on facebook. Matt Schoenbeck, got a picture of me playing guitar and doing the Satch Scream. add me and tell me who you are so I don't delete you.

and If you do see the videos I kinda messed up on Crushing day, nothing major, my finger slipped and made a weird note, and in If I Could Fly one note didn't ring out the way it was supposed to, but other wise they are just my slightly modified versions of the songs ENJOY!

The question in the office today is "what's a store-bought woman" Neil Diamond?

Alexandre, big congratulations on your news, your whole world is about to change :) And happy birthday poppa!! Next year you'll have a lil "helper" to assist you in opening presents, lol....or at least watch from his momma's lap and gurgle happy noises at you :)

Chelle, glad u had fun watching A do all the work...bet he just looooooooooooves snow days, eh? :)

slan...there are definitely times I prefare stun guns... tasers....etc. They do come in handy, LOL! And oh, I saw that whole movie Ghost Ship....naaaaaasty part, that was....

Millie, sorry, if I could send Cali some rain I would. Right now we're just cold...with little bits of snow here and there. Things are getting tough all over, between the weather, the economy, loss of jobs....so many troubles out there. No wonder I come home and go straight to my room.

Wonder how Mc is faring with the German peoples.....

Cube, I'm thinking Al is over in Germany making part II of this vid. That's what I'm thinking anyways...

Skippygirl, thousands of homes here in the states with no power due to the ice storm that just blew through. Kansas got hit hard! It sucks to be that hot or that cold. Rafa - ohh-la-la!

GGirl, Al is working on a song, but it's the one I posted to Cube above. lol!

I spent the last 7 hours or so on the sofa with a bitchin' sinus headache. It feels like somebody is standing on my face with a high heel digging in right above my left eye. Some ppl never get headaches. I think I get their share :- /

Ahh well, I prefer a headache over being giddy in the belly any day.

OH, some good news before I go to bed - my pop has been "dismissed" by 2 of his doctor's, and won't be needing another round of chemo like they thought he would. His scans and blood work came back pretty good, so for now he's good to go. The other doctors told him they'll check him again in a year, and the doc he saw on Tuesday said he'll check him again in 3 months. YAY!