Long time i dream to do a tribute to Haendel.

Long time i craddle since any idea.

Tried to do a synthetizer cover of sarabande, but shit, that was just shit in front of the original played by orchestra.

Chickenfoot gig.

Wow…what can I say…I will start at the beginning…me and Dave got separated from our friends because there were two queues, one for upstairs seating and one for downstairs standing, which was a little annoying, but the familiar voice of NJBeast rang out within seconds, had a chat with him then went to our queue. I thought we would be quite far back as it was quite a long queue. At about 6.50 a car pulled up, the queue went to one side and who should get out but Sammy about 10 feet away. I ws surprised when we got into the venue that we were only about 4 rows back, left hand side of course for Joe! I was quite worried that pip had had an accident as I hadn’t heard from him, but was relieved to see him…AT THE FRONT! (Jealous, jealous) It was a surreal thing for Dave to see the group Skin, who were asked to reform to play this gig, up there as the support act, he had met them before about 10 years ago when he worked in a record store and they were doing a signing and while looking through the cd’s he had quite a chat with them. They did an acoustic set, 3 men, 3 guitars and great voices. chickenfoot came on to a roar from the crowd and just played so amazingly, you can tell that these are all seasoned musicians, they were loving every minute. As has been said, Sammy was trying various beers, he has his own brand of Tequila, I think that was why he mentioned getting that over here. Sammy’s voice was incredible, the way he screams along in the same note to Joes guitar (a new one with the chickenfoot logo on, of course) is amazing. Joes playing was just out of this world as always, it must be nice for him to just sit back and play rather than have to be the frontman. It was nice to see that Michael played his infamous Jack Daniels Bass, but he too was all over the stage joining in with joe and Sammy and having a great time. Chad played well too, they make such a good team, he was throwing drum sticks out into the audience like there was no tomorrow!

Our friends who were upstairs were pretty sure they saw Rubina and ZZ (they have met them a number of times) although they were a bit of a way away in the VIP section.

Of course the highlight for me was when I threw my banner, which is the one I had with me for every show last year, onto the stage, it said “Satriella loves wot u do!” ,I felt like a naughty little schoolgirl to do it, it landed in between Joe and Sammy…Joe looked down as he was playing and I thought that was it….but then Sammy picked it up, read it and said “Thank you Satriella” then he proceeded to try and wear it, putting it round his head while he sang…I wonder if Joe said to him afterwards…”oh she is a fan of mine!” LOL…At least Joe knew I was there supporting him, that was the main idea.

They played the whole album, plus Highway star, plus an old song of Sammy’s, cant remember the name, but he played a thing like a steel lap guitar. The guy next to me knew all the words, he was an idiot though, I mean you know what its like at the front of a gig, squashed like sardines, I was to the left of him and slightly in front, when I could feel him getting closer, with his legs and arms rigid pushing into me, I turned round and he had the cheek to say I was pushing him!....If he had relaxed and gone with the flow it would have been better for him, but he just got dug his elbows into me… I nearly moved to the back, but then an opening in front of me meant I could step in front of him, to the left… I have to say I was quite pleased that the person directly in front of him was really tall and he was really short!

After it finished, we chatted with Scubadaz and Pip, then went to get some merchandise.

Anyway the next weird and great thing for Dave was that as we stood at the back, he saw a familiar face, I thought he had gone to speak to the skin guitarist who was standing there, but actually he was talking the Adrian Smith, guitarist of Iron Maiden, he is a huge Maiden fan, so to go over and say “Hi, I love your music” was a great highlight for him….to meet one of your hero’s always is eh? As anyone who has met joe etc will testify.

Anyway then this guy comes down the stairs shouting that Michael Jackson was dead. Again, a weird moment for Dave, who is not a major fan, but has a collection of his CD’s…who hasn’t he got on CD…the man is music mad!!!

SO..for anyone who has not seen Chickenfoot yet, GO GO GO…it’s a fantastic performance.

The nice thing is that obviously there are various fans there, I mean not all Joe fans, so there is a good mix of people…I certainly think this will do Joe the power of good and he will get a lot more fans as a result!

Thank you so much and well done for a fantastic show Joe, I love you!

Pictures...bit blurry though

http://community.webshots.com/album/573289167LpPbuv

Hugs Satriella xx

Burly "Myself as a ten year old sweaty , buzz hair cut kid wearing a farrah Fawcett t shirt. I think that must have been what did it for her :-0"

I almost blew my coffee all over my monitor. Thanks for that. lmao!

Nice reviews peeps!

Elpp, I listened to the first cd yesterday. It just seems like soooo much of the same stuff. Same stuff on every record. Same over the top see how many notes we can fit in this hole heard it all before kinda record. With that said, Petrucci and Portnoy are two of my favorite artists. I'll give it a few more listens before I file it with the cobweb cd's.

That reminds me - I was listening to CF over the weekend, and I forget which song it was, but at the end Joe plays it out. I was listening really intently to Joe's guitar at that point, and as the song ended I was so happy that Joe ended it the way he did - with a simple, graceful few chords. He didn't try to widdly widdly a million notes into the ending. Dunno why that stuck in my head and grabbed my attention, but I totally enjoyed it.

Fair enough with kidding (talking to myself).

Here a serious slicer thing.

Some here know how much i admire Haendel.

Haendel into Balde Runner World

Ok.

Al, yer pure entertainment girlfriend!

Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison

Cappy:Invaluable memories skipper long may they continue

I,m working with a spanish poet at mo.I like this idea of guitar improvisation with poetry, he talks about people & the way they are.He has many years of experience with really poor & very rich n all inbetween so i figured is it really that important a person can sing?¿

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dear joe produces an overdrive pedal

for your line of pedals