Daughter is performing "Northern Downpour" later this month at a school talent showcase. So I told her I was NOT her roadie a couple of weeks ago , I find myself this afternoon wagging the gear up to the school auditorium to set up for rehearsal later this evening. I guess I told her....Anyway I had planned on her running through the little Marshall MG series 30 amp...well it turns out I need that one to run the keyboard, so....now I carry the 4X12 up with my Gator rack case with the Peavey head and GSP 2101...My poor back!!..I'm liking the trumpet better and better. What she needs is some payin' gigs.

cosmic_ape:There are apple outlets here that have various macs up & running with logic & Pro Tools, digidesign were at first bed buds with apple but got the hump when apple came out with logic because all the plug in fxs etc are free :O as y may know or not if you want t get quality fxs with digidesign y got t cough up a ton o cash so the affair was short lived

Pro Tools versus Logic.. the new Pro tools 8 software apparently kicks logics ass?¿ i cant say n i,m not goin t start the timewarp again of linking PT8 with Leopard its just 2 much grief.Story goes logic is better for sequencing midi work but falls short on audio PTLE/HD better for audio but the sequencing depo is a bit of a disaster just try copy paste n y,ll see what i mean.M powered PTools sucks its ok for demos but it ends there full stp, no idea about HD its out my budget however if i were t do it all again

Makes perfect sense Slansh..and with a bit of a Scottish accent in written form. Thanks for that info.

fatape - Well, I was no help (haha), but it's good that you finally figured out the cookie thing.

Hi Joe

Thanks to everyone who gave best wishes to my Steve and me. We had great Easter with my buddy sister from San Fran. She and I have always been best friends from times it was difficult to interpret my parents modes of communication. She would tell me what was goin' on. Me mom told me to shut up and said I asked way too many questions. Only Dad (Joe Fidler) would play horsey with us kids and give shoulder rides. He was great at giving little kids swing rides. And I always remember him sitting at my bedside to tell me stories or just be with me when I was sick. Mum was too busy in the kitchen or doing cleaning or gardening or knitting, crocheting or at the sewing machine making new clothes or mending. It's difficult to talk with me mum---she always seems 1000 miles away even when we visit and are in the same room. She is scary! Me dad died about 6 or 7 weeks after Frank Zappa! And five months after I was layed off from my most favorite job at a library on the same campus where L Doyle (astronomer of SETI) works. Long story-----a lot o water under the bridge!

I'm gettin too old and have too much stuff behind me--I need to be lookin' forward to Chickenfoot! Chickenfoot! In SAN FRAN where the city people look after each other and it's collective neighborhoods!! I saw the movie MILK----That candle-light vigil where 30,000 people turned out in the streets after Harvey Milk and George Moscone were murdered. That's the spirit! That's powerful support and collective soul---we are in this together, united.

Chickenfoot, Chickenfoot!! DEVELOPMENTS---I bought Satch CDS--Numbers 16 & 17 today at Streetlight Records. DREAMING #11 and G3 Live, Satriani, Johnson and Vai 1997.

Thank you all of ya who suggested places to go shopping for these CDs and DVDs. I will be looking at Rasputin next.

well then, get good n drunk, ring me up on IM and we'll get you all sorted fer yer trip out here, but you'd best hurry, it's in a month or so!!

Just joined the Chickenfoot fan club and will be getting tickets when they go on sale this Sunday. Just don't tell Alan McKenna I'm goin' cause if he finds out, I'm in trouble, big time! It's okay to tell Tracie and Michelle and Guitarvibes because they'll be cool about it. Alan will find an Irish link to the SF bay area through the Murphy family or maybe the Doyles and sneak over here and go pub hopping and find.....oooooooh never mind! Yikes! That angel face melts me into goo!

Roo and Guitarvibes--you have mail!!

bit late, but I've now set up a linked-in group for chickenfoot

Hey Joe,

I've been watching a few of your interviews (trying to catch up actually).

I noticed you mentioned around 10 pedals in total (3 out, 5 to come)... Can you drop a hint as to whether a whammy/voice box is in that mix? I am hunting around for a Digitech, but if you are creating one I'll hold off 6 months or so to try it out.