Okay, okay, I have teenagers here, so that could be why I thought the kid was so retardedly funny, but anyways, maybe I can redeem myself...

If yer band ever finds itself short a drummer, an old tractor will do.

Any better?

WELCOME HOME T & C!!

Ah Cheesey it just sounds fantastic. Hope you don't mind me following the tweets, I sent you a couple but you may not have had time.

What did you do to amuse yourselves in line for 9 hrs??? Apart from the guy with the pooh in his pants that is.

Did you have to elbow everyone out of the way to run to the position or did you do what I do and tell the kids to "RUN!!!!" and bags it first cos they're quicker?

Which reminds me my Foot fan T Shirt and stuff hasn't arrived......

God I hope they play the Forum in Melbourne.

Cosmic-ape and Austin - can we rely on you for an LA update? Austin can you tweet some updates pls?

Oh and congrats Kayla!!!

Al McKenna--The blue cushy hearos are the best--worked great on Sunday night! You and Austin know your gear so well! Thanks a million! Now get over here and rock with us Cali and Oregon ppls!

k, anudder post before I go to bed...still hyper, LOL.....

When we got to San Fran on Saturday and got all checked in at the hotel, we decided we all wanted to go to Real Guitars....the store shown in the Reel Satriani tape. I gotta say, we walked right past the place the first go-round, lol....the signage isn't terribly obvious.

But we did find it...went inside and got to meet Gary Brower...he sometimes works on Joe's guitars :) Really nice guy and very personable. Also met Fernando who works there and has seen Joe come into the store several times. He had some fun stories to share about Joe, and he had a JS1000BP for sale, used....Gary had it all set up exactly to Joe's specifications too, with his favorite pickups....Chris tried it and of course fell in love. Sigh......cool lil place.

San Fran is this odd mixture of very cool, and very bizarre, lol! All day long standing in line, which is right at a bus stop, these people were pouring outta the bus and were dressed....very strangely. Guys in tutu's, hula skirts, cheerleader outfits, Girls in skin tight running clothes, even someone dressed like a tree.....dangly things all over them, oh and 3 guys barely dressed in anything, kinda like Chippendale guys, LOL....I guess there was some sort of run going on and they dressed up for it, but damn me if I could figger out ANY theme fer the race, LOL!!!

And oh yeah...this one lil guy came tottering down the street to I think wait for the bus....he was staring at the ground almost the entire time...except when he decided to yell at me in a foreign language.....I kinda wasn't paying attention at that point, but was told I'd made a "new friend".

:|

Mckenna so woulda fit right in :)

cheese101 wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GaTWwWJauU

and that ladies n gentlemen is how ya fuckin do it!

satchblues - Thanks for finding that video. That little speech from Sammy was one of the coolest moments of the whole show.

Van Halen was never specifically mentioned onstage, but everyone at the gig had to have had a "this is what could have been" moment at some point. I know I had several...Mikey's harmonies are all over the songs, and there are a few riffs scattered throughout that are very VH-like (think Best Of Both Worlds).

So after 75 minutes of moments like these, Sammy's comments were really fitting...there's a bit of a "I'm glad I'm not still in that band" feeling there, and I think everyone at the Fillmore agreed with him...I know I did.

satchblues - thanks for the vid, Sexy Little Thing is up there too now.

It looks like the vid might have been taken right near you Austin? Seems to be in front of Joe.

Sammy reminds of so many of my brother-in-laws friends! Even down to the wiping the face with the T-shirt.

Hope to see you all on Joe's vid.

Have a great time in LA tonight.

dream3 - oh no, hope we aint going to be dudded by Fanfire.

There's a Chromeboy JS PRM for sale - are they less quality or valuable than the first 2 models?

burly - salamat pagi mate.

Cappy - LOL no, I did some Bahasa Indonesia in uni is all.

What about you, any languages other than the native?

Hey Joe, you've been quoted in this concert of the italian rocker Vasco Rossi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZbADXX8YSI

the guitar player is Stef Burns from California

Hi Joe and everyone out in Satchland,

Joe, I wanted to update you on some of my work in music and education.

I had mentioned on this site over the years that my young students write poetry to your beautiful song Ten Words...in the past we focused on Ten Words for Peace and this year we did Ten Words for Nature....keeping our thoughts framed in ten words was a very interesting and enriching experience...of course listening to your incredible song was most inspiring...

Thank you for creating such powerful and thoughtful music.

Best, illuminata (Christine)

SkippyGirl: " roo - it's all yours mate...." - did I miss something? Are you referring to our earlier discussion? If so, COOL and you are a legend! Otherwise I am unsure.

You lucky Americanas! The Filmore gig sounds like it was AWESOME! would love to have been there but just couldn't swing it. Hopefully very soon.