Igneousiceman:lol they should av me caracter in viz mag starting with me carrying Coldplays decapitated heads on fire impaled on Ibanez guitars....titled slansh the impaler....wot a cunt!

hey...welcome back Master Yoda!...Say hi to clarky next time ya see him....you helping on album 2?

scubadaz - oh....hope you are ok? why visiting the hospital?...hmmm maybe too personal...get well soon if you are ill!

Artanis - A very cool reply I thought...you reminded me of the Disney version of Robin Hood when you said that.

js1200js1000 - Oh....is the work drying up then? You gonna move on or stay? I am good...mostly hehe

Gotta do some early morning venting. I'm in the unenviable position of having too much on my plate right now. I'm sure most of you know the feeling. I have a bad habit of doing this to myself. Hopefully one of these days I'll figure out how to only take on as much as I can do.

To start with is the fact that I'm married and I have four kids, that's item number one. Then I work part time doing data entry for an insurance company, that's not really stressful just kind of tedious and annoying but at this rate at least I have my job. I'm also working on starting my own business. I mentioned that a few posts back. I've been working on it for five years and it's exceptionally slow going. The big problem is that it's not exactly what one would call a normal business, and so we can't really make money in a normal fashion. That's the big stress right now.

See I run a paranormal investigation group. We have finally made enough money to do the filing for non-profit status so I'm in the process of navigating that red tape and making sure we get everything done right. We're also in the process of editing our first documentary which will hopefully be finished sometime in October and ready for Sundance in January. My only worry with it is making sure we can get the music right since I can't pay anyone for it.

This summer we have two more documentaries to film, a few publicity events, and this spring we have a charity event that we've started organizing. I hate to say it but this will probably be our last year for the charity event because it's becoming too much of a pain and the organization that we do it for really doesn't help much at all.

Man I'm getting tired of this stuff. Sometimes I wish I didn't run my own group and could be someone that just gets told when and where to show up. I'm horrible at managing schedules, organization, and then of course finding the time to work on filling out paperwork for non-profit status and then making sure we use the money correctly so that we can keep the non-profit status.

16 pages behind...

Thanks everyone for your kind words and prayers for my sis. I'll be asking for some prayers for her surgery Thursday, that's for sure. Thanks again!

A McKenna--Waddaya expect from three straight-up family woman? M, T and me wouldn't be alive if we weren't lookin' out for ya!

Now I say--Blue Moon is a heavenly body and why degrade or damage that heavenly body by poluting it? What would M London say? Please sort yourself out and come to San Francisco to LoveJoy's place and we'll have some tea! It would do yer body and mind good! Ya gotta admit yer a part of the lunis too!

Michelle and Tracie--I rest my case! Al is a certified luni!!!!!

Hi Joe what is the chicken foot band all about ? Are you joining Sammy Hagar and what about your band with Jeff and Eric and Galen and Stu ..?? we all wonder what it is all about ? and you have not posted new information on your web site in a long time and we all need to know what is happening to your band and will there be a 3 g tour with Sammy ?? please update your web site and let us know ok Thanks for all the great music you have created and all the dvd's too you are one of the best and I would like to see you with a Mr. Steve Vai again you guys always put on a excellent show .... you and Steve are very good friends too .. we all need to know when we can see you again with your new chicken foot music and the best of wishes to you and Sammy ..

bye for now Minnesota's # 1 Joe Satriani fan ... take care Joe

SuperSwingDog, starting the group didn't involve any red tape. Becoming a business does. I've asked myself many times why exactly I want it to become a business. The truth is I want to be able to dedicate all of my time to the paranormal rather than just my out of day job hours. To do that I need to make money doing it so I can support my family. The investigators on my team have the same needs. However, I refuse to charge anyone that wants us to investigate for them. So the money has to come from other sources. The easiest way would be through donations, hence the non-profit thing. The hardest way is through entertainment venues.

Though to be sure it's only hard for me because I approach this with a high standard of integrity. So that makes selling documentaries, books, and lectures a little bit harder because it shows how boring this actually is. The investigative process is exceptionally boring and it's only exciting when you find something. Well we don't always find stuff. So we could fake like the groups with reality shows and some other famous paranormal people. Or we stay true to ourselves and go the hard road.

As for stories I've got a few that I can share. My favorite is from Fredericksberg Virginia. We went there a few years ago for a convention and got a chance to investigate the Civil War battle field. It was an intense experience. Inside of a house on the field I stood to the side of a doorway generally just watching everyone and got a sudden pain in my back like someone had hit me with a seldge hammer or something. I reached back to rub my back and my fingers rubbed against a bullet hole in the wall. I moved one of my other people in front of it without telling her anything and she had the same experience.

Outside on the battle site we could hear drum cadences, gun fire, and yelling. You could also smell smoke, and what I call death. A sickly sweet smell that is really rather nauseating.

We shouldn't have had any of these smells as it was pouring rain and there was no wind moving. All of that is what we would call a residual haunting. Just something that replays due to the intense emotions of the event.

"oh ya not really a marley fan, bob dylan,jimi hendrix etc!!! i know most people are!! i really grew up on Guns and roses i loved slash!! then i heard about joe and ive always been into guitar..."

I have to agree to that; a lot of people think I'm nuts for being a guitarist who does not idolise Hendrix, but I've built up a li'l concept for my argument.

I see famous guitarists in generations; Hendrix, Clapton and Beck (and loads others who I forgot or havn't heard of) I label as being 1st generation (rock) guitarists who developed their own unique and signature sounds with the guitaro. Satchy, Vai, Petrucci, Johnson, Gilbert (etc) I see as second generation guitarists, who were influenced heavily by 1st generation guitarists and used that influence to develope their own unique sound. I aspire to become a 3rd gen. guitarist, drawing most of my inspiration from 2nd gen (most specifically Satchy) guitarists to develope my own style and sound. I use this theory to draw influences and expand my own technique. It's a tad silly, but it's all just for fun, haha!

That said, I don't only enjoy 2nd gen. guitarists, I also really like Clapton, and I respect Hendrix, but I don't like Hendrix enough to go out and actively listen to his music.

Slanshroom - Well, I got married back in April and then in September moved house, pretty much from one end of the country to the other!!! Working as a peripatetic guitar teacher in schools across Yorkshire now. How are you?