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?

I decided a couple of weeks ago that I'm going to get the sheet music (not the tabs, the actual sheet music) to the main riff of "The Crush of Love" tattooed on my arm.

Problem is that I can't find sheet music for it anywhere and I can't transcribe it myself.

Roy : each single guitar player has just to discover what is inside him.. all the rest hasn't really something to do with music.

I personnaly think that guitar world is rotten by lot of things which have nothing to see with music.

Vai? He has learnt guitar playing with Joe, composition & musical freedom with Zappa, Show with Lee Roth. He's a lucky man. He's a showman, a guitar hero, but above all, we know, he's a great composer.

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Anorexia? weird idea..

Cosmic_ape: poor baby! If I could drive there I would! But my car don't float!

Cmgio: just tatoo the words: "wawawawawa. Wawawa waa waa wawawa"

Hey, this morning my wife was offered some free football tix! Australia v japan. I'm standing just inside the gates charging my iPhone in the wall socket I just found. Looks like sweet seating, level 1 premium, haven't seen the seats yet. I have a spare if anyone can get down here in the next hour. Kickoff at 8:20pm. Should be awesome!<br>Roo<br>

Just a quick reminder that Chickenfoot is on Rockline tonight at 8:30 p.m. Pacific (same time as the T2J clock):

http://www.rocklineradio.com/

The site says the interview was pre-recorded, so we won't be able to call in.

A list of stations that carry Rockline can be found here.

San Francisco's 107.7 The Bone carries the show, so we can all listen to their online stream just like we do for their other Satch-related stuff.

Joe... I'm brazilian and I'd like to know if Chickenfoot will come from Brazil ? Because only Euroupe and North America had shows :(

Do The Stu - just quickly, the alarm went off to Chris Moyles Breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 as normal... and they're talking about burgers and where's the best place they've had them....

Hi everyone....

Skippygirl - well one thing you can guarentee is that I will be jumping up and down singing screaming waving etc etc!!! LOL

Scubadaz - I am travelling with others who have seats, so I dont think they will be in a hurry to get there early, if it was down to me I would probably start queueing about 2 as well...I do for Paul!...

haha...a work colleague had a bad reaction to something over the weekend resulting in a hot itchy rash and a puffed up face...she has got some antihistimines from the doctor...it says on the front..

"does not cause drowsiness!"

but on the side effects it says

"may cause tiredness or sleepiness, itching or rash!"

how funny is that!

hugs Satriella xx

Oh... Yeah... Australia won the game!

Oh... Yeah... My lyrics are so lame!

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I then logged into eBay Germany from the gate with 2 minutes to spare and pwned the chickenfoot promo cd! Woohoo!

Aussies rule! And so does beetroot!

yeah yeah, i know, "Roo - take yer meds!"<br>Roo<br>

roo - we were in the same stadium and yet so far........

next time at Chickenfoot!!

Men to women ratio at shows... My first couple of Joe Satriani shows, the ration was about 90/10 men over women. I remember the line for the mens room going on forever, and I had maybe 3 ladies in front of me for the ladies room. That was the first time *I* had to wait for my hubs. lol! That's changed quite a bit over the years. I remember at one show we were walking up the stairs from the restrooms, and some dude I've never met made a comment that my husband probably dragged me to the show. He's lucky to be alive today. Bitch betta rekanize! lol! Dunno why, but that still pisses me off to this day. lol! Da noive ah dat guy! Bam ZOOM!

Today's song in my head is Oh Yeah. It's on auto-play in my brain. I haven't even listened to any music yet today.

Time for some eggs, toast & coffee. I'm hungry!

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My love for percussion started way back with bands like Rare Earth :-) 2:41 never gets old! I was like 7-8 years old when this came out, and my dad had cool psychedelic lights and all that hippy stuff going on. Love those memories...

Here's a perfect example! That bunch of crusty dudes were the shit!

Monterrey Trace - Missed your post at first but got it on catch up! We had a good holiday thanks. Eithne's heart problem is resolved and she's near enough back to normal. (Except for back probs after spine surgery some years ago), thanks very much for asking. Son continues to test my patience and sanity!

Cappy, have you informed the young lad that long periods at sea are and always have been the backbone of your great nation and that perhaps he should share in that tradition????

Do the Stu - Ya. I was in my first year in the Navy when Appetite for Destruction came out. The guitar work was really good on that cd. It's funny to hear Slash talk about how much he hated the riff for Sweet Child O Mine. I will try to think of my top 25 guitarists and list them and why.

Thanks Scoobs, funnily enough young fellow me lad reckons he is sending an application to the RN.