Burly - Your grandson has great taste getting into Neil Peart so early in life!! Wow!! I played drums for 30 years and finally decided a few years ago to try guitar. Drums was so easy and natural for me, but I always loved watching guitar players. Guitar definitely does not come naturally for me!! Good lord!

Cube : yeap, a killer indeed. & Wooten & Smith. Nice trio. These guys know their shit. & a very good cd production.Thx for the link.

I always loved jazzrock era, i mean jazz with a rock tone. Especially Beck & Stanley Clarke. & now, i'm wondering what could become rockjazz, or the enigmatic swinghard, if you prefer. The work should start from the rythmical aspect.

Other point. I should come to Canada next year. At last.

Joe : Do you get some memory of this one?

I always found this piece very special in all your opus.

& if i check again that

I see clearly the ground of rockjazz.

Axeshredderj - sorry about that :0) always have to think about the time diff.

I'm playing catch-up...there were a few pages from around the time of last week's Chickenfoot gigs that I don't think I ever read. So...

gotta have Joe - Congrats on graduating, and it's very cool to hear that you got a scholarship as well...way to go! :-)

Where will you be going to college?

And to answer your question about turning someone on to Joe, I think you need to treat each case differently. I've made a few mixes for people and I think the song that appears most often is Friends, so if I had to pick one song I'd go with that.

If I think they'll like ballads I'll go with Love Thing or Thinking Of You early on. If they'll like rockers, I favor One Big Rush, The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing, or The Souls Of Distortion.

I'm still playing catch-up so I don't know if you've answered yet. But if not, what would you go with?

It's hard to find a middle ground, I guess. I wish magazines would look harder, though, because I think the "reviews" that appear in magazines like Rolling Stone are too focused on image and reaction of the masses as a result. And I think that has really hurt music.

burly - sawadee ka mate, wow you got a lot of equipment you could open your own pub :0), would be great to see the little guy bashing on the drums but maybe not so good for the ears?

mahavishnu - well you and Mrs M will have to come on the Aussie Foot tour and meet up with all of us! You've been everywhere else :0) would be great to meet some T2Jers if they travel out. Mind you, you will get to see them (again) before us .

Do The Stu - what area (field) do you want to work in next? TV, print, radio, internet, corporate?

Kayla - well done, great achievement! Are you going to see Chickenfoot on the next tour?

Glltzy?

Pip - I like your range of Satch shirts, very impressive.

Iggy - good luck with Biology, I am picking up the "Red Rocket" (my friend's cast-off hybrid bike) this weekend for a spin hopefully I'll go faster.

scoob- got your guitar back yet?

GG2 - hope it all went well with Steve, can you give me a rundown on how your lessons with Ry are going? I can hack out "Father and Son" this week and a lovely person recorded himself playing Ten Words for me in slow motion so I can keep learning it, how cool is that? Super coolies.

Skippy- He bangs away and can hit with surprising accuracy but he kinda thinks the sound of a rim shot is cool and he likes to whack the top of the bass drum which is a beautiful wine red mahogany. So I am having to cover up the spots he can do damage to. If I tell him to strike the inside of the circle he can, but he has an unbelievable mischievous streak.(which he didn't get from me BTW). My hearing damage might have had something to do with the drums but I blame the giant Magnavox headphones I had as a teenager and Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo cranked to 11.5.

Hybes- glad to hear you are a drummer too. It's fun to revisit, do you still play?

Austin- Maybe Joe knows someone in the music/ journalism field who could hook you up with a potential employer.

Roy- in the states you'd be dead with a temp of 39 as we use the Fahrenheit scale. We Americans have to be different ya know. Normal for us in 98.6 F. Hope you get to feeling better.

Good day all.

Joe Satriani (Chickenfoot)

http://www.metalexpressradio.com/menu.php?main=interviews&id=822

Love Day 4 of the Foot! (You know where it is www.chickenfoot.us) I really think this is a great marketing approach, giving people an insight into the 4 band members and where each song has come from. The rapport between them is obvious.

short pre-show Chickenfoot interview May 26

Future's In The Past from Boston

Burly - I haven't played drums for several years now. I think I was 31 or 32 the last time I picked up sticks (other than playing guitar hero with the kids). I have really thrown myself at the guitar. It's funny because I have always had more interest in guitar...I just was naturally better at drums.

A knights tale is one of my favourite movies of all time...well when it starts with a medieaval ...darn it how do you spell that...ok starts with a joust and all the audience are are singing and doing the motions to we will rock you...you know its gonna be good...along with the blues brothers of course!

but I found the soundtrack at a boot sale last week for a quid...awesome...and there is an eric clapton track which is great...

http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Clapton/_/Further+on+up+the+Road

hey JOE...ever wanted to play with Eric?

I have to admit that I have not really heard much of Eric Clapton before...only the usual...like Layla etc...but this track is muchly awesome...I may have to look into more from this chappy! LOL

Do the Stu - oh well....worth looking into...this day next year or the year after.

Clarky - thanks for the birthday wishes!

Cappy Steve - LOL Trouble is if its a germ....a cricket box wont help much...coz they get everywhere.

Pip - Ta muchly for replies ....great job on overdrive.

Thanks for the link Skippy, there are two more of that same interview carrying on there...that was pure craziness, don't know how anyone could hear a thing, either from the interviewer or the guys. Things are gettin crazy, eh?

And check this segment out

Get a load of Joe's new bucket hat....has his drawings all over it with big, glowy alien eyes on it, LOL!!

Have ya gone into the hat bidness now Joe? It's way cool!! If that guitar thing dunt work out for ya, you've always got clothing and accessory designs to fall back on ;)

LOL!

Morning Tracie - yeah I think the European tour is now definitely going to be HUGE, McKenna, guitarvibes etc better give us a good report but I fear Al will be plastered most of the time :0). So far I think I wish I was at San Fran (for the home crowd) and at Boston (for the small venue) - they seem to have been the best shows so far.

I agree with Austin on "Learning to Fall" it's just lovely.