Great! Now I'll be going to work singin' "weiners and wine."

Thanks for that. lol!

SURVIVOR ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR NEW STUDIO ALBUM:

from melodicrock

Survivor--Robin McAuley (vocals), Frankie Sullivan (guitar), Marc Droubay (drums), Michael Young (keyboards, guitars) and Billy Ozzello (bass)­is currently hard at work at studios in Chicago and Los Angeles on a new studio album which they hope to release by the end of the year.

Singer Robin McAuley joined Survivor in 2006.

Guitarist/founding member Frankie Sullivan knew he was the perfect person to front the band. “When we made the decision to replace Jimi Jamison,” he explained, “I had no idea what we would do. Then it hit me--Robin McAuley! Is he available? How can he possibly be available?! Can I be lucky yet again in my career to work with such a talented singer? Well, the short answer, he was available, we gave him the songs of a set list we would perform, he came to the Windy City and blew our socks off! Robin is a pure pleasure to work with and he's such a great person. With Robin, what you see is what you get. And boy do you get it!”

McAuley continued: “I'm very excited at this opportunity to sing for Survivor. I can only hope the Survivor fans give me a fighting chance. Frankie and I have worked together in the past I am extremely excited to start writing with him again and playing with a great bunch of guys. This new Survivor promises to be full of energy, and with such a stable of awesome tunes to pick from, who knows what each show will bring. I'm ready!”

GPS units:

A couple of weeks ago a friend told me that someone she knew had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard.

When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen.

The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents.

CELL PHONEs:

I never thought of this....... This lady has now changed=2 0her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet... Etc...was stolen.

20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago.'

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pi n number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.

Moral of the lesson:

Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your phone contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc....

And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.

Also, whe n you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you.

*PLEASE PASS THIS ON

* I never thought about THAT! As of now, I no longer have 'home' listed on my cell phone

Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.

Ahhhhh.....There's nothing like Irish Breakfast tea in the morning! The sun is shining and we have a break from the rain until Saturday from what the weather people say. It is still winter!

Al--Yes, please pass the bisquits, scones and strawberry or whatever berry ya have jam! Yum! Mr. McKenna, you are one unique funny young man!

Maritime--My condolences for causing such a proliferation of sexy pictures and guitar porn! LOL! I can't help it if guitars and the music they produce are sexy! It just goes with the landscape or manscape! Lmao! I can tell you like double-breasted guitars! Do guitars have legs? Enough questions for now! LOL!

Cosmic_ape--Thank you....thank you for explaining Joe's guitar tuning with his double-neck guitar. It makes sense to me since I have been taking guitar lessons and reading music again--first time in 36 years! What took me so long?

Joseph---Maybe you will share the stage with Carla Bruni? What do you think--am I just dreaming or is this a real possibility? I would love to see/hear this collaboration.

With all that I am and "You are what you Is"!

"May you live in interesting times." This I know is true! We are making history in a BIG way!

Love and great adventures ya'll!

Mahavishnu - Argh...I had no idea Jeff Beck was playing in California! I've still never seen him...and his LA shows are sold out. Next time around, I guess...

have a great day friends, time to get some lunch

Hey Joe My Name is Mark i really love your music!! its perfect! and i like to play your music on my guitar and now its time to buy me a new guitar my old guitar is the ESP LTD M-300 and i want one ibanez from the JS series i like the guitar (the snake, chrome boy, and crystal planet) but i dont know where i can buy one of this guitars and how expensiv they are .. Here in Germany i cant finde one of this guitars and in internet too.. maybe you can help me if i could buy a guitar from USA

greetings

Hey Talk2Joe fans, I love keeping in touch w/ satch fans.

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Rock on, Brad

hrblocked

Very good point - about car registrations.

Oh dear, coldplay didn't win any brits... ok, that's childish of me, but it was brought to my attention, along with it being cool not to like them... I assume they've pi**ed off more peeps than just Sir Joe

Ibanez God - yep, good edit. Shame you can't really tell if what you're doing is having an effect

Igneous - guess I have to take a trip to the gear shop and try them out. Probably is, none of my local places like it cranked up. If the 4.5 comes in team colours (which I just find a more interesting colour set) then that might be the one. More interesting lance vids on his site, and he's doing pretty well in the tour of California

Michelle - was that be frenchy or be frenchied (it was valentines day after all ha ha)? J o k e. Not sure pink's my colour, and I suppose if I come as Danny I won't make it past security.... BTW, I thought THIS was Al's other love, or did I lose track?

Ozzy Fudd - yeah, I suppose it (valentines) is commercial as hell, but I look at it as a handy reminder to be nice for 1 day out of the 365 lmao

Cheese - nice find on "Clouds race...". Yeah, maybe that was a little brave but seeing as I fessed up about tears, and Chelle called me out on wearing a big red dress I guess there's nothing to hide LOL an there is no way in hell I'm doing a video of me as Frenchie - because I can't sing ; ) Definitely will be allowing extra days next time (wahoo)

Do The Stu - that's brave (13 being your fave number). I def remember the Reno conversation, I think more so the look on your Dad's face when I started talking about Marino, he was chuffed (I think). I tend to avoid that as a seat number for anything, doh! Any luck on cop chick LOL ? Oh, Coldplay starting a US tour I think - starting in Oregon. We should send in the Cheese as our weapon of choice (wot say u trace?)

Blue Moon - thanks for all your lady pics. Which one was cop chic?