Wow chelle, that Raymond Fairchild is an amazing player....

Helluva stage presence too, "wooden" u say? LOL....

Here's what I'm thinkin....u, me and the two massive ones head to Barca next year (save those pennies!) and do some whiskey-tastin and comparin with Slan...take a few winery tours, taste some more....go to Scotland, tour some whiskey places, more drinkin.....tour some cemetaries...then down some more juice....

Hello T2Jers...Hope everyone had a good weekend and all ready to go at a new week.

We all got some good news on the Chickenfoot project, I am a little jealous of you West coast ppl, but happy for you at the same time.

A diverse bunch these T2Jers but all good. You get along like brothers and sisters. You are helpful and courteous. I am glad to have gotten to know a new set of friends.

Tough week ahead,..I need some positive energy sent my way. A law suit over a contractual matter involving grain is about to increase in intensity. Just know that I am in the right and am battling a legal bear. Pray for me and send whatever positive energy you can.

Got lluuccaass in the chat but so far he's not responding at all to my questions or statements. Hmmmmm.

lllluuucccass

My excuse for being a human being........Cat man and Bird woman got married and had 3 daughters of which I am the second........I started out as cat girl because the cats in the neighborhood liked me and followed me all over the place. Then I found a Scotty dog, he was a right hand-full because of his running the neighborhood ways......he didn't like his collar and leash and liked to make the slip on me......I had to rein him in on a harness......silly 3-year-old girl wants Scotty dog she sees in a library book!!! Parents thought she was so cute! Hey mum and dad please act like adults and say no dog......Way too high maintanence! Cat would have been better and would have pleased me dad. They have huge motor purrs and make great music!! Another luni thing about me is I liked Herb Alpert and the Tijiana Brass when I was about 10 or 11!! YES, Al McKenna, I am luni and I'm painting meself GREEN this Tuesday for Saint Patrick's Day!! Maritime--A wetland would be a nice change from the dry Cali weather! Michelle--I mixed up right now!! Tracie---Please send a humane officer to shoot me with a tranquiler dart and throw a net o'er me!!!!!!

lluuccaass, thanks for calming down on the posts....we all really appreciate it and I bet Joe does too. How about you tell us more about yourself, your favorite music, your influences, etc.....talk to the peeps here!

mama M:"hijo de puta" is THE fav line for all non fluent/non spanish speaking immigrants in construction usually followed by spittin a flem gem

Today is Wolfgang Van Halen's 18th birthday. This feels kinda weird to say, but in a way I'm glad Wolfie is in Van Halen now because it means we get Mikey in Chickenfoot. :-)

Two of my early ideas are a Crowd Chant chorus pedal and (this is a bit of a stretch) a Headless Horseman compression pedal.

And about the thing you can't talk about, which is probably a Chickenfoot rehearsal...does "down south" mean Los Angeles? If so, can you provide more clues so I can accidentally stumble across the band while they're here? ;-)

The guitar was tuned to drop-D. I think he played it on Friends on the Strange Beautiful Music tour, but he hasn't used it since then. I assumed the guitar had been retired, as Joe used a different guitar (a JS-100 prototype) for later drop-D songs like Up In Flames from Is There Love In Space? (edit - this isn't the best picture, but I think this is the guitar I'm talking about).

Personally, I love the Snake guitar and I hope he plans on using it on the Chickenfoot tour. I think it's my second favorite of Joe's guitars, behind the Electric Rainbow.

When Joe opened for Deep Purple on the ITLIS? tour, they brought him out to jam at the LA show. One of my favorite Satch memories is him and Steve Morse going back and forth before Smoke On The Water at that gig. They had huge smiles on their faces while they were trading licks, and then Steve stepped back and let Joe play the main riff as the song started. I thought that was very classy...

elpp- thanks for that but I did have the box checked n preferences ......weird. cos I don't get any emails...

So did anybody see any of the Sound Relief concert? It was on cable here, great line up of bands.

Our renovations officially finish tomorrow after 10.5 months, can finally arrange the whole house and set up my office which will be my guitar practice area. Set up the PC, get Guitar Pro and Power Tab, and have loads of parties for all our friends who have fed us over the last few months :0).

Happy Monday peoples!