Hello friends I just got back from my Honeymoon trip with my wife. We went to Puerto Vallarta and stayed at the Las Palmas by the Sea Hotel. It was a wonderful trip, the weather was very hot, I had to drink some margaritas and tequila to chill up, mi wife's pregnant so she only had pina colada and sodas lol....

gotta go, I have 10 pages to catch on..later

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats o'er dales and hills

Deciding which of two to drink

Becks or Holsten Pils.

twiiter Joe and band crew and chickenfoot band members and talk to joers? are welcome to follow me at twitter

Congrats punkdude and Mrs punkdude times two

A couple of others from around that time Al

Bentley Rhythm Ace

Afro Celt Sound System

but my all time fav mix has t be Propellerheads - On Her Majesty's Secret Service....just wicked

Comic monkey - For me, Blackmore was the transition from hard rock to heavy metal.

Slan - Shudder known you'd come up with summat sensible! Early seventies Purple with Blackmore was something truly special for me. I'm not particularly a Blackmore fan as such but when peeps talk about influential guitarists I would say he's right up there.

Hey everyone! I interviewed Joe yesterday about Chickenfoot and his new Ibanez JS24 (24 fret JS model). You can check out the interview here:

http://www.iheartguitarblog.com/2009/06/interview-joe-satriani.html

Hybes- It is my belief that we are blessed with many great players in many genres and many styles within each genre. When you mention a player like Slash some will say yes he is unique which I think he is , some will say he is not. Gilmour, Schenker EVH, so many great players that are recognizable to most just by playing a single note. There are way to many for me to list of the ones I admire. Innovation or creativity is in the mind of each listener. Very few players are able to span the admiration of all but some have as you well know. I am just thankful that we are so blessed.

yeah, so far only Berkeley and then down between San Diego and LA.....sigh.....

Where's Vegas, Reno, and Portland Joe? It sez only a few more dates to be put up to finish out the tour.....

Jaysus!!! I am knackered......My Steve had 2 appointments at Stanford clinics today.......one at 12:00 to give a pint of blood to get workups done for hematology dept. doctor..........one at 1:00 to meet a doctor's assistant and Dr. Long or was it Lueng in the helmatology clinic........it took 1 1/2 hours before we got to meet the assistant and another 45 minutes before we met Dr. Long! I guess his name means waiting time is at least an hour or more??! ;-/ By the time we got to see the doctor, Steve was almost out of his mind.......I had to ask about 50% of the questions including why we were meeting with this doctor when he hadn't read the reports from the neurosurgeon and Steve's epileptologist! Also we had expected that he would have met with these doctors or spoken to them over the phone about Steve's medical history, so Steve and I didn't have to cover ground that we pay the doctors to cover! Crazy and Strange all rolled into one.......that's how I feel.....bring on the Satch songs!!

What Guitarvibes says about EVH, I agree. Too bad he has gone into hiding........hiding behind ego, personality flaws and who knows what other shite is going on........not being straight up with Mikey on history of Van Halen........not being able to say, "Yeah, Mikey, you're right. You never left Van Halen." Why he didn't answer straight is a mystery to me. Interesting interview......Sad about Eddie. ;-(

Zenf---What I said above......You are right about the miraculous gift.

Wow......KNAC.com interview with Joe was awesome and answers a lot of questions I have been thinking about.

Austin--Thanks for your postings of interviews and helping answer my questions.

Michelle--The Iron Maiden vid that you posted was something else.......Those guys play rippin' guitars in a fearce way.....they look soooo mean and territorial!!......And the audience.......they are all guys.......no women.....how scary is that???! Ya just like scary stuff don't ya?? ;-/

Cappy Steve---Yes.....Ritchie Blackmore gets me movin' and groovin'.........When Machine Head came out, I thought I had died and gone to heaven!! And Jake was there to share the listening experience with me......the best looking guy at summer school!!! All these memories of 1972!! Great times with rock n roll.....Led Zeppelin, ELP, ELO, BOC......How sweet!!

Alan BlueMc---Please, take me by the hand......take me there to the Crystal Planet......where the music of a hundred guitars rings out in sweeeeeet harmony with Joe gently leading them.

SkippyGirl--How I love ZZ's Song.....5-2, 4-4, 2-2, 1/2-0, 3/2-4.......lovely, lovely....--How can Joe's music be anything but heavenly?!

dear joe produces an overdrive pedal

for your line of pedals

Cosmic_Ape--When you showed the map of L.A. and the locations of the Best Buy stores.....it sure brought back memories of Sawtelle Blvd. where my parents were renting an apartment back in the mid-1950s when I was born. I got to see that place as my dad drove by when I was 10 years old. The first place I remember living was a house in Canoga Park. Amazing.......different times......While back in NY the Satriani family had a month old baby boy with great promise and a bright future! ;-)

Joe--I hope you don't mind if I brag about you.......although your sisters and Steve Vai have done such a grand job of that already!!!

Chickenfoot in California? Woohoo! The cities so far are kind of odd choices, so I wouldn't be surprised if a proper LA date is still coming.

If not, though, I'll happily drive up to Berkeley. That venue is one of my favorites. It's an outdoor amphitheater-style venue that holds 8,000 people, but it's GA so there's a really cool vibe. It's on the UC Berkeley campus...

Does anyone else feel like a road trip?

I'm going to Fuddrucker's for lunch tomorrow, with some old co-workers. If they have beetroot (I doubt it) I'll try it. ;-)

I would've loved to be a teenager in the late 70s...

But at the same time, Slash is a god to millions of younger people across the country (both people in their mid-20s who grew up with GNR like me, and teenagers who only know him from Guitar Hero). So I'd say the same thing is true about him that Zenfish and I were just talking about with EVH...Slash has done a lot to keep guitar alive.

You're right about this being a great totpic...I think it'd be neat to have everyone here list their top 25 or so guitarists, and then tally everything up and see what the site thinks as a whole. If I don't find a job soon maybe that's a project I'll take on. ;-)

Is anyone else here on twitter? Follow me.

Austin...that venue looks to have nuttin but seats....sooooo...how can it be GA??? Can u enlighten me a titch please? Cuz it's lookin like prolly the closest fer Chris and I to get to, unless something else pops up.

Hotel reserved for Atlantic City, concert tickets bought...hmmm..what am I missing....OH YEAH....a flight from here to there and back again....but hackshully, it doesn't appear as if dey want anyone from the west coast ever to go to AC....not very "flight-friendly"....

I'ma be dead-dog tarred comin home at the end of it all and hafta show up fer work right away. I hope my boss or co-workers don't expect too much from meh...like breaving in and out that whole day. Might be a stretch....

Hotel booked!

HI 5!

Here's a link to an info page on the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, with a satellite photo, from a Dave Matthews Band site.

I guess it's not ALWAYS general admission, but it often is. With the way Chickenfoot have been doing things, I bet they'd go GA with early entry for package people.

It's shaped just like any outdoor concert venue, but there aren't seats...it's an open floor in front, then a series of cement risers, and a lawn in the back. So it looks like an amphitheater you'd see at a campground (something like this), but much bigger...it holds 8,000 people.

The stone risers and floor area do have seat numbers painted on them, but a lot of shows there are sold entirely as GA. So you can either stand on the floor up front or pick any seat or lawn spot to watch the show from.

It's a really cool way to experience a show. And it'd be a great place to get a big group together...it's on the edge of the UC Berkeley campus, as I said before, so there are a lot of great food options within walking distance.

Cap : ahah.

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Saw that you are talking about Slash.

With all my recognition for his cool feeling, & even if i think that nobody could replace him into a configuration like GNR, the truth is that he has brought nothing at all to guitar playing.

Obviously..

Also wondering why nobody is mentionning at least mr Steve Howe, historic guitar player of YES?

I'd also find very weird that almost everybody is talking with evh about tapping, forgetting the essential : EVH is probably the more insane rythmical player of story of Rock. The first one who has been able to make swing hardrock. & Since? No one has really taken the succession.

Last thing, as i've said it several time here, the Strateinstein has definitly changed the electric guitar conception.

Charvel was looking for. Eddie has found.

& then, Ibanez is come.

That what we call history.

Back to Joe.. how could we resume a so melodical & lyric musician to shred?