Check this out. I wish that everyone that leaked a record would be caught and penalized!

Blogger sentenced for leaking Guns N' Roses album July 14, 2009, 3:51 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge has sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to leaking part of the Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to a year's probation.

Blogger Kevin Cogill will also serve two months of home confinement, subject his computers to government scrutiny, and record a public service announcement for the Industry Association of America.

Cogill pleaded guilty earlier this year to one misdemeanor count of copyright infringement for posting nine tracks from the long-awaited Guns 'N Roses album last year.

He said in court Tuesday that he posted the tracks to promote the band, not hurt it.

A federal prosecutor had asked a judge to sentence Cogill to some prison time, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Abrams said he felt Cogill had learned his lesson.

Happy b'day Joe!!! Enjoy it!!!

Happy birthday Joe!

To be honest, I haven't been listening to your music much lately. Kotaro Oshio (http://www.kotaro-oshio.com/index.html) held me captive in his brilliance of guitar playing, but today I'll celebrate your birthday by listening to your songs.

I hope Chickenfoot is still going strong. Both your own albums and Chickenfoot's album are great, so adding a couple more Chickenfoot albums to my collection would be a great thing!

Monterrey Trace - All children are special but some need that bit extra effort and understanding that only special moms give without thinking it's any biggie. My wife is a special mom but I don't think i'm a special dad, i'm just a mean cynical old git! LOL

Joe--Happy Birthday! To all that you are--son, brother, musician, teacher, learner, friend to so many, husband, father and soulful human being--thank you for all the beautiful music!

Love,

Hi Joe, i wanted to wish you a very happy birthday today.. I hope you have an awesome day. Rock on!

Do The Stu: interesting question you post. I probably don't know drums that well to answer accurately, but here are my two cents:

- Instead of asking who plays better or whose style matches better Joe's playing, I think it's more relevant to ask which one of them understands better what Joe plays and with that in mind, I think Jeff probably is THE one as they've played together for so long and they probably have that understanding that surpasses words.

I don't know if you ever had that feeling, but there are moments between musicians when they don't need to talk or even look at each other as they know each other so well that they guess what the other one will play.

And that's probably Jeff's case while with Chad they would still have to work on it.

This doesn't mean I don't like Chad's playing. Au contraire.

One of the pleasant suprises of Chickenfoot was the apparent chemistry between Chad and Michael. The CF's rythmic section is awesome, imo!

Before I listened to CF, I would never guessed Chad could play straight rock so well.

Another example of great guitar/drums chemistry: Petrucci/Portnoy

Forgot to repeat myself :)

Hey!! My birthday is also on the 15th...

of next month ;-)

Searching

One of my Satch favs!

I hope he's having a fun day.

Do the Stu : Hey SOMEBODY read my sad little outcry....!! Thanks for trying to cheer me up. I know you´re right about the waitingpart - if I only knew HOW long that would be though, that would make a world of difference. Hopefully the Chickenfootshow in Montreux will come out on DVD sometime, like Joe said!!

I was considering flying over to catch Chickenfoot in NY; but I have no idea whether it´s sold out or not. Also I´ll be in London that weekend for U2. A friend of mine insists that at some point I´ll realize that Edge´s guitarplaying is up there among the best, so he´s dragging me to London - I like the sound of Edge´s guitars, though. But he still has to practice a little to reach the level of expression of a Joe Satriani, I think. Of course it´ll always be a different kind of guitarplaying when you´re in a band with such a charismatic leadsinger, than if your guitar has to do all the singing, as in Joe´s case, though! - Would have switched the U2-show for a Chickenfoot-show anytime though!!

Also, I have often read your input here on the T2J-section and you seem to know quite a lot about high-quality rockmusic and guitarplayers. Wish I had the time to check it all out - your recommendations and so I mean......Aren´t you the guy talking about how great it was to finally hear "Echo" played live, on the DVD-part of the Professor-album?? I agree with you totally - I was one of the 10 lucky winners to join Joe and the band in the studio for the 20th anniversary of "Surfing with the alien" 2 years ago - so I too got to hear it played live for sure.....

.......From a lot of the input here today it seems that today is Joe´s birthday......so here´s another birthdaygreeting for you Joe: HAPPY BIRTHDAY and have a good one.....

Thanks again "Stu" - maybe I´ll "talk" to you again sometime??!!......Best to you from Denmark