Blue_Moon:- McKenna,seein's how you're always "never drinkin' again" ya might as well have a coupla pints for my liver as well !!! Cheers brother!

scuby - yes, the last 2 notes in that tab - he does this - 3rd fret/A string AND 5th fret G string (so two fingers) slide BOTH up 2 frets then come back and pick both in the original spot (can't see his right hand so must assume he hits A,D and G strings all at once?) THEN the start of the next bar is the funny barre chord thing 3rd fret barre, slide 4th/G to 5th, then pick both 5th and 6th strings together, then slide G back from 5 to 4.

Igneousiceman:- Flexable is definitely very weird but personally I think of it as the best album to showcase the very essence of who Steve Vai really is...Still very weird though!!!!

Roy- Thanks for the link,..another talented T2Jer. How did you record the album?. Did you use amp modeling software? The reason I ask is that I am in the planning stages of building a home studio. I have been asking some people for opinions, some are purist and like to mic the cabinet, but that gets to be pretty expensive. I would like to spend around $1500.00 at the most to get me up and running. I am looking at Pro Tools via Mbox. I think I can get entry level for that. Since I don't have electric drums I will probably get the digidesign virtual drummer add on.

Igneousiceman & fatape Latest Guitar World mag is full of Vai. Read it last week, he has a lot to tell!
Next month: Chickenfoot.

liar y were tree hundred n tirty tree n one turd

Burly:The guitar parts on the link were unfortunately all recorded on an old fujitsu 40GB comp with a barely functioning cracked cakewalk program and soundblaster Audigy soundcard *shiver* n mixed by a studio ignoramus at the time me scroll t bottom for info, so no 5 star studio production back then for ol slanshy bollox.Happy t say i,m sorted gear wise at last, the new recorded work sounds astonishing, really lookin forward t puttin it out there but y do need t knuckle down n put the hours in how t use it properly, took me 1 day t use but 1 1/2 t suss it all out

Pro Tools or logic pro 8 for eg with Pro Tools LE is an inexpensive but pro sounding rec app, but do yourself a favour n upgrade yer computer, some plugins require buckets of CPU power so have a core2 comp at hand with 4gb of ram and a decent external hard drive t store samples, it will save a LOT o headache, if y get that far mail me your home add n i,ll bag y some software apps, Reason4, Drumkit from Hell superior etc etc

Happy Easter Everyone!

Guitarvibes: Like the joke a lot.

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm going to be with my folks and were eating out so that will be awesome. By the way, I made it through 40 days without eating ice cream & drinking alcohol and those energy drinks. I'm not Catholic, but I did the whole Lent thing in respect.

Starting Saturday, I'll have my running races, and I'll be having at least one race every Saturday for now. Therefore, my Saturdays (mornings) are booked.

Skippygirl - The Squares never did a proper album, but they recorded a few songs. Someone posted a link to a website a few months ago with a lot of Squares info (MP3s of two full songs, clips of others, and some pictures/early promo materials). I just looked in the archives, though, and the page is dead.

The band is Satch on guitar and backing vocals, Jeff Campitelli on drums, and Andy Milton on bass and vocals.

I still have the MP3s, so:

The Squares - Follow That Heart
The Squares - Give It Up

"Turn it down, modulate your decibels"...hehe. I love this stuff!

Actually, hmmm, now that I think about it the goofy credit might actually be on Flex-Able Leftovers...oh well. ;-)

Hey ! I downloaded this song "Give it up".(the quality of this mp3 is not very well)

it's a funny song!!! I disliked the fact that the guitar solo was short. --------------------------------------------------------

Have you seen this ? : http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x237/squishyhams/steve_vai-heart_guitar.jpg

Happy Easter Joe and to your family....

and to all the peeps here who celebrate it in whatever fashion :) If u don't celebrate Easter, happy Sunday/Monday.

I GOT MY FRICKIN TAXES DONE, YYYYYYEAAAAAAHHH!!

shhhhh, never mind, I meant to get them done by Feb 15th but well....u know.....good intentions and alla dat.....I HATE DOING TAXES!!!

I just have something to say, Mr. Satriani is almost one of the best guitarist in the world, I'm trying te work his technic, but I don't manage to, but, with work maybe

Love your music Mr.Satriani :D

Slansh-Great interview and interesting story. Thanks for the insight on recording and BTW I will be upgrading to a MAC before I purchase software unless the software version will work on the PC and MAC..?? Are there 2 different versions or will it work on either? I am guessing that if Leopard will run Windows you can use the same software..I badly want a Roland TD-20 kit but can't really swing it now. The wife wants to replace the carpets with hardwood which we can't afford right now either but..ya know.....I will have to settle for the virtual drummer as well.

Alan- Stop drinkin' while you're young..take my advise you will thank me for it later. We all want to see a healthy Alan McKenna playing guitar. Life By the Drop

You can see who John Mayer was heavily influenced by. Life Without You :-)