"im never drinking again" Alan McKenna--Your 4 words stand out to me......You have the desire and let's see ya put this into practice....I BELIEVE.....Joe said we can change anything!

SkippyGirl---Getting that quiet time to practice guitar is very difficult when I need to give my time and attention to my Steve who asks me why his life is so difficult.....he works at Home Depot and has super co-workers who help him take breaks when he needs them......and has so many simple partial seizures.....takes a medication to stop them.......he says taking meds works for a short time and then he has to take the stuff again.......auugghh!....asking why doesn't work......I'm here and I care does. I'm glad for any time I have to practice, even if it's only 15 min. to 1/2 hour. I just do what is possible.

Guitarvibes--I love the Dutch attitude......democracy and capitalism with compassion and a comfortable, clean, honest living......not extravagant......sustainable......music (the arts)being a necessity for our collective health! I'm loving reading the M Resch book!

DotheStu--Your sharing is priceless......I'm enjoying the pictures.

E minor is a beautiful chord......I hope the Moody Blues found that "Lost Chord" from their album.."In Search of the Lost Chord"......LOL! ;-)

Mornin' everyone----It's coffee time!

Ahh man, I think Joe needs to come play in Boston real soon. Maybe at like the Berklee performance center or something. Last year I saw Steve there, so there's pretty much only one other guitarist I could want to see after that.

I just wanna rock!

Skippygirl - You should only be picking one note per slide. So pick at the 5th fret, slide up to the 7th fret, and hold the note. If it doesn't ring out strongly enough after the slide there's probably something in your technique that's incorrect. Maybe another finger is touching the string, or you aren't passing over the frets smoothly...?

It helped me initially to think of slides as separate two notes, instead of one action (I think of them as one action now, but it might be easier to learn as two).

It's boring to just sit there and do exercises that are mechanical...it helps if you can find a song that's all about what you want. So instead of just practicing slides, learn the bass part to U2's With Or Without You. It's all eighth notes, and you can play them all on the 6th string. It's four notes...play eight of each before sliding up or down a few frets to the next one. The notes are D, A, B, and G.

You probably know the song so I bet you can figure it out from there, but let me know if you have any questions... The part is such a simple one; you can turn it into exercise. Play through the line three times sliding with your first finger, then three times sliding with your second, then your third, and then your fourth...

It's funny that you ask about me playing bass. I just stumbled across some old (5+ years) audio clips of me playing bass...the sound quality is horrible, as they were only recorded with a cheap computer microphone, but maybe I'll post one of 'em online somewhere.

The difference, though, is that this is where it'd end for me. But the Hall will look at it as "Run DMC is there, so we need Public Enemy, and the Wu-Tang Clan, and Eminem, and..."

They see "rock and roll" as a synonym for "music", and that's so wrong.

Austin- Great advice for Skippy, that would take the boredom out of it.

DWs lessons are very reasonable, Scott, the guy I posted the link to Friday took lessons in 1979 @ $120.00/ hr. They were great lessons from a really great teacher, problem is you can't find that good around here anymore without driving to Memphis (1hr 45 min.).

Here are two videos from the jam after the Hall of Fame ceremony...check 'em out (you too, Joe, if you didn't catch the ceremony on TV):

Beck's Bolero / Immigrant Song (Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcVHtz56Psk

Train Kept A Rollin' (Metallica, Beck, Page, Joe Perry, Ron Wood, Flea):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HnEPqk1PnQ

Hey joe

Your one of my bigger influences in my playing i was wondering if you could give me some advice about my playing....

Austin, just watched the Train Kept a' Rollin' vid. Beck gets a giant FAIL for his solo IMO. Hammett showed him how it's done, then Perry followed nicely behind him. Is this going to be on TV or was it and I missed it? As for the streets being blocked off for filming - it was filmed at the top of a mountain, and since it's not really a main traffic route, there was no real need for peeps to get excited.

I was just at the grocery store and my keys fell out of my pocket and my G3 key chain broke in half and the picture fell out. *makes boo-boo face*

Do The Stu - thanks for that advice, I'll give WOWY a go tonight.

I've been trying to learn the notes and theory in parallel to trying to learn a song (one of Joe's is my goal) because, as scuby pointed out, I need a sense of accomplishment along the way.

I printed the tab from G Pro for Ten Words, and I've been writing over the top of it what the notes (in letter form) actually are, so that I know them Then I have a 2nd line where I've written down what the guy on YT is doing (which is different).

However, it is very gratifying to just follow the guy on YT and not think about which notes they are or which scale and be able to hack out sounds they resemble the song, I feel like I am playing something real. At some point I'll need to get a teacher to show me how to do it all correctly, prob best I do it soon.

Ah Monday, off we go again...............

Michelle--The Pagoda is beautiful.....That page and pictures of the place must be your way of twisting arms so people like me will desire a trip to PA to see all those neat architectural wonders back there! I don't know if I can make it back that way.......I'm expecting to buy tickets to see Joe in ChickenFoot in the SF Bay Area or maybe with a friend who lives near Carson City, Nevada. Or maybe Cheef Tracie in Oregon....possibly.

Michelle---When do I have time to watch FX TV when I have Joe's CDs to listen to and DVDs to watch? Also my Steve is into Carla Bruni's music, Diana Krall's music and "Sax in the City!" He wants to know when ZZ Satriani will appear in concert with his saxophone!!

The Moritz household is jumpin with music, music, music of all kinds EXCEPT opera and twangy country. Yuck!! And I guess opera is an ITALIAN thing, ain't it? Sorry, all you Italians out there. I hate opera, prolly as much as Alan hates U2.....music that is!! ;-( It's a human thang!! Likes and dislikes....human.......human.....human!!!

Scubadaz---How does one recover from Laughing one's arse off after viewing all the different versions of MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YOUR MOMMA!????

Glitz Man---You can roll the credits just as well as I can OR anyone else in T2J for that matter! Bring um on, people!!

Ozzy_Fud--Yes.....By all means go see ZPZ. I saw in Santa Cruz (Ocean city, Northern Monterey Bay) 4 March and it was so effing fantastic, funny and I couldn't take my eyes off the amazing musicians.....Dweezel was playing killer guitar........that SG rocked the foundation of the Rio Theatre!! You are in for the trip of your life!