Joe, you've still got a few posts to hit the 1,000 mate!

You must be enjoying a little Joe time I guess, being on here so often over the last week. Everyone's gotta remember to take time to themselves. I'm sure you see this as relaxation don't you? I can't see you thinking... Oh bugger, I've not checked those bloody T2J posts, there will be pages of the buggers, damn I rue the day I agreed to that....

I think you get a kick out of reading through them when you get the chance.

I for one think you are a legend for the amount of time you spare for your fans, and it's just gonna get bigger with the chickenfoot yumcha thingy you've been roped into.

Now that I've patted your ego, got any spare Squares original EP/single/etc you can send my way? hehehehehe can't blame me for asking... :)

Oh, and anyone work out who's distributing for Chickfoot in Australia? I can't find out anywhere, might have to order online to ensure I get me CD and my Vinyl.

ya know Roo, now that u bring it up, it's interesting they're putting out the Chickenfoot album on vinyl....why is that?? Even Joe said in his recent Bone interview he doesn't even own a turntable anymore!!! Most peoples don't I'm thinkin....

Wonder what's the thought behind that....

But my dad has a really cool old turntable, wonder if I could sneak over there and blast him wiff some Chickenfoot, LOL!!!

He might never recover!!

I think vinyl is one of those weird things like classic cars. They are just classic. There's few things in the world like that. If Ferarri put out a remake of a classic they'd sell like hotcakes.

Classic cars, rotary dialers, retro apartment decor and vinyl just stay in there.

But things like Cassette tapes, Betamax, VHS, etc. just die an d go away (except for the historians and the fanatics).

Strange isn't it. But I definitely WILL be getting the vinyl for Chicktoe, it's a MUST!

Hey, I just thought of a good name for bootlegs for chickenfoot - Chickenboot!

Joe - thanks for all the blue we are Flying In a Blue Dream lately....

roo - I'm working on it, hope to have an answer re retailers soon and will pass it on to you and the other Aussies.

Al - those pics are great! Esp Joe by the bus haha.

Goodmorning satchland, Liberation Day in The Netherlands. Festiveties and live music all over the country. Unfortunately bad rainy weather. But one thing never changes: hot coffee in the morning!

SuperSwingDog I like the invisible car! More of that crazy stuff. This 3D guy is the greatest. But using a real car like the art student is best! I'll try to find a much bigger detailed picture. .....Update: Ah this is another view!

slanshroom 'tellybelly technique', I'm sure it will end up between tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs,string bending, harmonics, palm muting, legato slide, pick scrape. But will it be allowed in Air Guitar Championships?

Al great photos you dug up. And very tasty pedalboard.

Joe I never see gate or compressor in your setup. Though most players use them. Can you explain? Using 19" stuff at FOH, or you just don't want it / need it?

Listening to: Buckethead

Monterrey Trace - More and more peeps are getting those turntables that you can plug into the pute and get yer old vinyls digitised and onto the 'pod. Being an old fart I still have a turntable I bought over twenty years ago and have it rigged to play through the bose, man those old vinyls had a certain FEEL (can't really put my finger on exactly what it is) that you just don't get with the technically superior sanitised, digitised, lobotomised, perfect perfect sound we get on modern CD's. Your not THAT much younger than me, i'm sure you remember! Or am I looking back through rose tinted spectacles?

Ahh, nostalgia, it's not what it used to be!

I like the vinyls because you know they are original and that there is a finite number of them. One of I have of Joe's was a 33rpm promo LP of Satch Boogie for SWTA and inside is a wonderfully written marketing letter to the radio station (or whoever) tellling them how Joe is the next sensation in guitar and that a special alien pick was included - really great stuff you can't get with a CD I reckon.

Plus, like the Time Machine LP it's great to read or enjoy the cover which can seem to provide so much more than even a CD slip cover.

I am just setting up the new home media centre thing and will definitely get a turntable component so I can play the vinyl as well.

burly - 'morning!!!!!!! Wakey, wakey. I'll find out about the rice planting and get back to you.

Glitzy?

mornin all

Cuth:just back from droppin him off at kindergarden, great lil guy, taken t his feet recently so he,s all over the gaff da da..... ooooh, that,ll be ma floor fxs presets gettin scrambled....again

scuba:sorted... got yer req... catches ale, see y for beer oclock round 9 tonight

guitarvibes: air guitar tellybelly technique, could be entertaining!!

Cappy:Good on ya! the missus pounced on me at 5 this morn so....yup...smiles all round :) no beers for me till the workloads done, i,ll have a cool one in yer honor around 9 tonight tho cheers!!

Joe:Indeed, loosing friends through alc or any other drug abuse/addiction is hard hittin, i,ve seen more lay t waste than i care for in a lifetime

Joe - Thanks for the extra info on Andy. Don't Dream It's Over is such a huge song...I knew you had done some work with Crowded House on that album, but I didn't know Andy was involved with that song.

And I have a nice size laminated poster-size Ibanez ad that's Satch in the red leather jacket, just like the "Blue Steel" picture you posted. I'd like to see Joe bring that back as well...haha.

It's the bonus track that bugs me a bit. I don't have a record player, but even if I did it means I could only listen to the bonus track at home. I can listen to the rest of the album in my car and at the gym and as I'm walking down the street. I'm OK with things like limited editions and exclusive releases, but I wish the format didn't restrict when I can listen to the music once I already have it. I know you can convert it...but if everyone is going to do that, why not just release it in the other format in the first place?

Sorry, I'm being picky...

Do The Stu - can't sleep or still partying? How is the search for work going? I notice Warren Buffet just said at the shareholder meeting that he wouldn't touch a newspaper in the States at the moment .

I just had to play Don't Dream It's Over - I never knew that Andy Milton from The Squares sang with Joe on that. Can't believe it was 1986! Such a shame also that Paul Hester the Crowded House drummer committed suicide a few years ago here in Melbourne in a park, apparently he had suffered from depression.....

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Chad Smith's Chickenfoot Tour Kit is finished! Follow our production updates to see how is was made.

Cosmic Ape- Thanks for the info on Mixo songs. It helps me a great deal to know what direction to head as far as the scale. I am very slow at tabs but once in a while I will decide I really want to learn a particular song and commit to learn it. Like Riviera Paradise. This is a beautiful song that just really grabbed my interest. I wish tab books would denote modes and scales. I think I could get a better mental picture of the direction that a particular section was headed.

Growing up I never really wanted to play anything other than Blues or Blues based rock or maybe I did just never ventured from my comfort zone. Never took lessons, but am considering taking a few from Weiner to help me with improvising in different scales as well as being more creative with use of chord voicing and double stops. I can play the E Mixo scale but would like to gain more knowledge of implementing double stops into my improv involving my new found scales.

I can't read music at all, want to do that as well. I went to a very small rural school that had a weak,weak almost non- existent music program.

I guess you could say I took the "Larry Bill" route....No, no I have to give myself a little more credit. I do realize that my guitar needs to be tuned at least once a year :-) I don't have the tele belly either.

hey JOE..how ya doin....did your dad really give you one piece of drum kit at a time?

Al - I like the pedal board. How did you fasten them to the board?

It is sad, what happened with Andy....and Joe is right, people should step in to help their friends if they can.

But people have to want to be helped, and it has to be caught early if possible. By the time I see them, in my job, they can't be reached anymore. The drugs &/or alcohol have done the damage to the brain and that's it, there's no recovery of damaged brain cells.

I saw a guy yesterday, mid-50's...he had a heart attack two years ago. Wouldn't u think that's enough of a wake-up call? But he's been using marijuana daily since, that dint change, continues to drink beer, and admits to "sometimes" using meth, like every other day or so. And now he's had a stroke....and prolly wonders why this happened to him...hard to tell since he can't communicate hardly at all now. Who knows, might not have had anything at all to do with the booze and drugs. But it makes u wonder. He didn't want help with his addictions but now is forced into it because he can't move...so has to be on withdrawal protocol in the hospital. And he's scared. Enough to stop? I dunno. Things take hold of a person and they take hold HARD.