Austin-Yeah, I did post there fairly recently.I have been on JP and MPs forums since like, 2000.I recently decided to stop visiting those sites, since I don't really like their music anymore.It just dawned on me one day that it made no sense to go to a site for something I don't like.

Joe & Steve have that telepathic thing when they play together. I prefer Joe's playing over Steve's hands down, but Steve has a few songs that I really dig. Whoever said Steve was more a showman, and Joe was more a player was spot on. The one major thing that turns me off about Steve is some of the shit he wears on stage. lmao! Joe's more of a manly man as opposed to Steve who is more of a ....girly man. lol! With the fan and the posing - jayzus! lol! Don't get me wrong, I think Steve is absolutely brilliant. His playing is just sometimes over my head.

Dime mentions Steve Vai

Jon Luini--I have a question about the survey you gave recently. What happens if I am between categories of fan? I clicked on the box indicating "Big Fan" even though I have been to only one of Joe's concerts. I have most all his albums and I listen everyday to his music and I play guitar (very slowly and ackwardly) and take lessons from one of Joe's former students. Somehow I am in between "Casual Listener" and "Big Fan".......Just call me unique......

Interesting that Chickenfoot will be in Detroit in a few days.....Alice Cooper's home town.........ooooooo......spooky! LOL!

Canadian Mr. TK became a US citizen in the early 1990s. Now why would he have done something like that unless it had something to do with employment! And now the employment outlook has crashed and is smoldering........Is it time for him to return to Canada??? Oh.....TK......Please take your friends Milli and Steve with you!! SIGH!! ;-/

fatape--Bless your heart! You got that spot on about Joe and Steve Vai and Steve Morse and Yngwie and all the other super guitar masters! Each is unique!

Does the word "unique" ring a bell???;-)

Blue_Moon--A haystack man? I guess it's more comfortable than a cold stone castle........I always suspected you were a unique luni.!.....;-D

Good night all!

Alan sunrise above haystacks is brilliant! Now I'd like you to put THAT image ánd feeling in an original McKenna guitarsong. (Your own "Out of the sunrise") No noodlin around on somebody else's chords anymore. I give you 3 weeks to write, record, mix and master.

Scuba - So you think your a fan eh? Well have you ever written a 7 minute long anthology for the keyboard of the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker?

This is one of my current projects, using several tempo changes, "illegal" movie sounds bytes, and powerful emotional chords based in the D Major - B Minor scales, I am creating my masterpiece, it's at 6 minutes long now and counting.

So put that in your "Star Wars Aficionado" pipe and smoke it :-) :-P

WhammyFreak

Ethn Hayabusa - I find it's hard to fit in at the MP forum...I've posted there off and on for a few years, and I just haven't made many friends there.

I like how MP posts so often on his forum and interacts with fans (more than Satch, in some ways)...that, with the little pieces of inside news he shares all the time, is enough to keep me coming back.

It's not at all like T2J, though...

They absolutely do! I like watching them during G3 jams...it's amazing how with nothing more than a glance, one can tell the other exactly where he's going on the guitar. It really is rare for two people to click like that...I'm glad we've been able to see it.

I'd love to hear it once you're finished...

How to pass 5 minutes.... Parachute game

Joe's Intro at 47 seconds & then

Steves Intro at 25 seconds

I guess had that feeling because I prefer Joe's music. At the end of the day they're both awesome, and we wouldn't have one without the other (i.e. Joe teaching Steve & Steve getting Joe's music to the right people).

Interesting discussion peeps!

Joe Satriani and Jimi Hendrix

Steve Vai and Frank Zappa

For me the big test is what do I enjoy listening to, and how long can I listen to it without the ever powerful "next track" button?

Lets just say Joe rarely gets "next tracked" while with Steve I have a hard time making it through a track with a very few exceptions, Steve is a showman, a spectacle, to be witnessed, not really to be listened to and enjoyed. I am still a 95% listener and maybe 5% viewer of music so substance is important and Joe rules Steve when it comes to substance. Steve's beekeeping thing is cool though!!!

Listening to:[Mellissa's Garden - Steve Vai Can you guess my mood?

burly

Scuba - Please don't think there is an ounce of enmity between you and I...but I could go for a good beer and steak at this point. I bet you don't know the name of the Jedi that Obi-Wan sees Darth Vader kill in the holographic security footage. If you can tell me that...then...you are a fan indeed, think of this as a Jedi trial... :-)

Austin...Party on the Death Star is a cool name but not for this piece, I started writing this piece about a year ago and the title "The Dark Lord and His Humble Apprentice" just kinda stuck to it somehow.

So I hope that clarifies things, and I yes I look forward to posting it when it's finished, I haven't really worked on it for over 4 months, but all this talk of Jedi has gotten me inspired again.

Pip - four people to have dinner with....

Joe Satriani - because I never get enough time to take to him when I see him.

Sully Erna - because he's just bad ass and he'd be cool to hang out with.

Dennis Leary - because he'd make us piss ourselves, and he's a good guy.

hmmm, number four....

Is Koko the gorilla people? Ahh, she is in my book. I'll add her :-)

Hey Joe, congratulations for making your dream of being a member of a hard rock band come true! Chickenfoot is looking awesome, you guys are in great shape and you definitely know your art, i can see it in your posted live shows. Anyways, i gotta be honest with this: i'm a huge fan of progressive rock, jazz, fussion and other complex music, tho i also love some good old rock n' roll, in that spirit, i'd say i felt some of Chickenfoot's songs kinda weak, maybe not individually but i think putting them in the context of a whole album, they seem a bit generic despite an awesome rhytmical section and strong riffs and lyrics. Maybe since we are all accustomed to hearing your more highly technical work i was expecting kinda of a breaktrough album, a masterpiece of suchs, i dont know. But i have listened to it a lot of times and i have gotten to appreciate the feel of the entire album, still it just doesnt hit me the way i expected. Onstage you 4 got some magic that makes it work, some sort of a mixture of raw power, creativity and individuality that makes the songs sound unique, and i'm dead sure if you put that special quality more into play for the songwritting equation, we'll all forget about Led Zep, Deep Purple or even Jimi's Experience.

Another thing, why isn't "Bitten By The Wolf" in the physical record? It adds some edge to the album, plus your guitar work is awesome in that one. Hope the South American edition features it as a Bonus Track.

By the way, when are you guys (Chickenfoot) coming to Peru? Last year you came here with Jeff, Stu, Galen and Eric and blow our minds with a top notch concert -just regretting you couldnt play "Crushing Day" and "Searching"- so if Chickenfoot plans on touring in South America, i'd tell you'll be more than welcome in my country, plus i think it'd be the first time for the other 3 members in Peru, so it'd definitely be fun. Anyways, i hope you keep making awesome music both solo and as member of Chickenfoot, till next time Satch.

pip...I pretty much SUCK at that parachute game....course, it took me 5 times of Daffy doing a torpedo face-plant into the ground to figger out I should also click the "chute" button....ermmmmm...so yeah.....I kilt him dead :)

our boys in Chicago, love this song!

Watch Chad, he always looks like he's tryin to moiderize his drum kit, with an occasional stick toss or twirl thrown in fer good measure, LOL!

Ken, good to hear you weren't gonna miss ChickenGO...I was kinda wonderin, since u were so quiet. How was it, or do I even need to ask?

4 people to have for dinner....well, Joe is of course a given...and if Joe is there then Chrispy has to be there...and then...my gramma cuz she was a lovely and intelligent lady and I miss her. Hmmm...#4....maybe Erma Bombeck for the giggle-factor? LOL!! It's hard to pick just 4, as long as it's fantasy, can we have at least 12? Chelle, would u please share Sully cuz damn he's hot :D There's some other authors I'd like to have there as well...and oh hell, Leslie West to spice it up but he hasta wash out his potty mouth around my gramma! She'd SLAY him with just one look!!

Guitarvibes--The youngins have what it takes to compose and perform......you have what it takes to teach the world huge lessons!

Nancy Sinatra wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times--"Radio Free America" from Los Angeles, Tuesday, 4 August 2009. Does everyone know why a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Joe Satriani by his attorneys with Coldplay and attorneys? This article by N. Sinatra may answer your questions. It's an issue of fair pay and lack of mandatory compensation (on Coldplay's part specifically).

When one segment of society (musicians) is denied fair pay......another segment of society (Librarians and library workers for example) could also be abused pay-wise. This may cause a domino effect--and I see in my life it already has--that further deepens the financial crisis. Retail workers are impacted and so on. When workers act in responsible ways and uphold their hours and abide by codes of ethics and bring in higher profits for the company they work for, shouldn't their company's HR and payroll departments reward them with fair and adequate compensation? When medical, vision and dental benefits are shifted from employers to a public provider, couldn't the resulting savings go to higher pay for employees??? Employers have a responsibility to compensate their employees so the employees can keep living in their homes, pay their mortgages and provide for all their modern needs in the HERE and NOW. Not stick pay levels in the 1980s!

USA and California (as well as other states) are going through financial and social hell! Our infrastructure can't take this neglect and neither can people neglect each other without dire consequences. When will we wake up to the fact we are all interdependent?

Listening to "Cryin'" and "Baroque"....the best of Joseph and Chickenfoot--"Oh, Yeah!" and "Learning to Fall."

So, in response to mikesb's post...what Satch songs out there cause everyone here to hit the "next track" button? I'm not talking about songs we're tired of hearing live (I've heard Summer Song a million times in concert, but I enjoy hearing it in the context of The Extremist). Focus on studio versions only...

I expect a lot of people will say Woodstock Jam and Killer Bee Bop, but try to go deeper than that.

I don't like Hordes Of Locusts all that much (although it was nice to hear live on the ITLIS? tour...it was something different). And no matter how hard I try, I still don't really like the title track from Engines Of Creation. I love that album, but that song seems to be the favorite for most people...and I just can't "get" it. I also don't really care for the title track from Super Colossal.

Despite all this, I'll never actually skip a song when listening to an album...I always play them from start to finish. But if I'm listening to Satch on shuffle, I might skip one of the above songs if it comes up...

By the way, Mike Portnoy was asked that question in a recent interview (here).

His answer? Jesus, Adolf Hitler, Quentin Tarantino, and Howard Stern.

I'll have to think a bit on my answers...I'll be back with that later today.