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Chickenfoot's siggy on The Tonight Show wall

No biggie yesterday.......just took my Steve to Nurse Practitioner appointment for staple removal--doctors don't do stitches anymore for small cuts in the skin. Steve had several simple partial seizures yesterday......no fun.....he was disoriented and grumpy.......;-/

It's clear that Sammy the surfer, RHCP Chad and Bass master Mike are super fans of Joe! I can tell because they want to spend time hanging out with him as well as making great music together!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AUGUST 18TH FOOT SHOW IN ALBANY, NY? It was there this morning with a TBA for sales, but now it's not showing at all. NOOOOOOOO!!!

Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Yeah yeah yeah yeah!

We gonna live for~ever ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dang! It's taking me forever to get through 15 pages of posts.

Slans--Thanks for the hugs and well wishes.

Scubadaz--Next week Steve has an appointment with a hematologist. I guess we will find out what tests need to be done at that time. I think they'll have to look at his platelets at the molecular level and figure out why they aren't working the way they're supposed to........this is a setback......and yet, Stanford doctors don't give up easily and neither do we!

Guitarvibes--I love the vids of Marco Sfogli.....I like Andromeda and will give a listen to the CD "There's hope".

Alan--Sorry ta hear about your sister. Too bad you have to share a bathroom with her. If this helps....My friend who lives in Santa Cruz grew up with 6 sisters and 2 brothers!! He is the oldest and couldn't believe his parents were having kids like rabbits!! His sisters always hung their girlie clothes in the bathrooms that he shared with 8 siblings......they had to share 2 bathrooms........4 or 5 in line for a bathroom!! imagine that......yikes! He said his best defense was getting out of the house as soon as possible in the morning!

I guess I was lucky to have only 2 sisters and we did ok sharing.....most of the time! ;-)

Michelle, Tracie and Austin--I'm running as fast as I can to catch up on these posts! I'm about ready to pass out!

hey T2J, long time no typey... very much enjoyed watching/listening to the Foot on Conan the other night >=:o) i gotta get me the CF cd... i want the Bitten By The Wolf track that the band was talkin' about on their site, but it's not listed on amazon.com :/

Joe Satriani - when you gave Conan your guitar i was like O_o Oh My Goodness... does the pale skinned red head who is now being burnt by the LA sun realize what he has just been given??!! the lightsaber of guitars!!! *drool* I just upgraded my CF membership Joe... so you gotta slate some Aussie dates in now >=;)

August Guitar Player has a review of the new Chickenfoot album, and an article on Jason Becker, Joe is quoted briefly in it...I'ma hafta check out his latest album. AND....

Joe and Sammy are gonna be on next months (Septembers) Guitar Player cover, with a feature story on Chickenfoots :)

I have 4 people at work convinced to buy the cd so far, woo woo!! I'm slowly workin my way around to everyone, LOL!!

Ya know.....I never used to believe in magic, dint think it was real at all. But when I listen to new music, such as a new Joe album, or this Chickenfoot album.....I become a believer. How else can you explain how human beings can take some instruments, come up with some ideas....and put all the separate parts together into an incredible whole and come up with these songs?? I mean....who would think to put that little warble there, or that particular drum beat here, or that harmonica line wherever....strings at unexpected times, or piano...putting harmonies together with voices...HOW do they do it??? And do it so incredibly well??? HOW???

It's totally amazing and mysterious to me and I thank god for the people who do it so well....makes life worth living.

Joe.....awesome chemistry with these other 3 guys, not a bad idea you had to hook up with em, LOL!!! U done good Sparky :)

Gad dang but I LOVE Bitten By The Wolf!!!! Well hell...I love the whole album!!! BBTW is just soooo different though!!

Oh yes....faces are gonna slide right off in AC, LOL!!!!

YEEFOOKINHAW!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!

Well done on the album sales guys! 6th spot on the first week on Billboard wasn't it? Awesome.

I am doing what I can to promote you guys too. Everyone around here is threatening to buy 2 albums each if it will just shut me up! :)

Hahahaha

Also, Webbie - have you sorted out T2J accounts for Chad and Michael yet? What colors did they get? You also need an account for Sammys wife/Personal Assistant, and a suitable color also. We need to get the band to pop in and post every so often. I am dreaming of the day I log in to a technicolor page one day with posts from the whole band. What a kick that would be!

Anyway, again, keep up the awesome work. Cannot WAIT to see you guys live! Still trying to swing a trip to the US for the end of the year....

Guitarvibes : as said in your link, tone starts with fingers. Fingers can become very executive of all sort of stuff with training, but tone is not here. The knowledge of material, i mean your material, counts also a lot. But tone is not here.

The source of tone is inside the expression that your soul transmits to your fingers with the help of your ears. No secret. Just you in front of music. To see arise your own tone is the more difficult thing. I think that all the advanced players will agree on that point.

That's why i'd always recommand to beginners to start with acoustic guitar, & listen to what happens just with fingers, strings & wood.

& about pedals, as i dare to think that i know the subject, pedals are a long way, a way without end. A way where occurs the subjective taste, & the maze of settings.

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Other subject : does anybody notice that during a mix, if you follow your ears, the result will get more dynamic than if you follow the level's indicators?

Roo- Red is taken already so Sammy can't be the RED Rocker on here.[br}

Pip from the reaction of those girls, it must taste really harsh. I usually am not afraid to try new foods because I figure I may be missing something good. Me and food go way back. I'm a big fan.

Hybes-

Looks like the rain split us. We are in the North East corner. We could actually use a small bit in places. We got rained out in one area yesterday until noon but remained dry in another spot.

I like the Chickenfoot " feather thing" that was a great line. Yeah I'm a bit disappointed they are not at least coming to St. Louis.

On the whole VH thing with Ed and his BS, well I think you all know how I feel. I mean at a certain point you have to say look Ed this is not Van Halen anymore. It's a freakin' side project. I swear he is one the the people who I look at as having the world by the tail and doing everything they can think of to screw it up. I am very passionate on this subject. When Sammy was out, it gave me a sick feeling in my gut and I still have not bought a VH album since. It kinda bothers me that there are some VH songs I have never heard, but that's the way it has to be. I have lost all respect for Ed and Alex.

Yesterday while driving , I had someone in the truck with me and were talking so I had Chickenfoot down to conversation level. Sam and Mike's harmonies sound like "Van Hagar" which for me is a good thing. I can't even remember which song was playing but I guess it sounded so much like Van Hagar that when the solo started I stopped talking and looked at my cd player I guess expecting the hear EVH and I realized what Joe has brought to the table here is something different and special for me. The more I listen to this record the more it grows on me.

I hope that this project continues and I would like to see Joe influence the melodies a bit more. He has done that on somewhat of these songs and it adds a nice touch. I feel this thing will only get better with time.

Well I looked at the radar and got caught back up on the posts, back to bed for a couple of hours.

Oh and Skippy I was just giving you and the girls a hard time. I know Lemmy would have to take a backseat to Hugh :-) Pip mentioned a specific kind of bread to try with the Vegemite.

Party on Wayne!!

Morning and afternoon all, well it's Foot Day here tomorrow - I shall trundle down to the local JB HiFi and they better have the Foot CD and LP or I will brain them.

Joe - congrats on the #4 debut, hopefully after tomorrow the Aussies can help you even higher.

BigBunny - where are you located?

So I sent Joe a quick note on twitter to congratulate him on the No. 6 debut, and he tells me the album will actually be at No. 4 (it looks like Skippygirl just saw that, too). I guess he knows something we don't.

A debut in the top five? Awesome! :-)

I thought the same thing about 10 or so years ago, when he was on one of the late night TV programs to cut his hair for Locks of Love.

I wonder what he'd look like with a shaved head...

It was really funny hearing comments from people in town who saw the photo in the paper...everyone from my landlord to a journalism professor from college had something to say about it.

You can get the Bitten By The Wolf bonus track if you buy the Chickenfoot album on iTunes...

To me, here is The Genuine Red

Edward Van Halen is what i want to call a miraculous gift.

He has gotten all that a guitar player could dream : genius, recognition, playing with the greatest of your time (as Holdsworth, May, Luthaker..), & lot of money.

Sad to see that as vine, he has unfortunatly taken the road of vinegar.

Morning Austin - how's the holiday?

Skippygirl - i'm in Perth, Go Dockers! >=:)

BigBunny - you on the Chickenfoot bus with us? Looks like a tour early next year. Did you see Joe last year?

Go Tigers!!!

Burly: Red's Taken? "Off with his head!"..!!!! :)

Skippy, thanks for that, bloody quality control, I need to fire someone.

Talking about Aerosmith... I had a cool surprise a couple of years ago, we had a global sales kickoff in Vegas and after the main sessions it was announced that the company had hired Aerosmith to play a private concert that night for us! They'd apparently flown them over from Boston (or somewhere).. It was a very cool, and sort of surreal experience, a private concert just for employees, at the MGM. Actually ended up only having a fraction of everyone turning up for it, so we were wondering around walking right up to the stage.. very fun night.