Peace Lily - my fave from PSATMOR is Andalusia. I could play it all day. I love the flamenco-ey intro and then Joe rips in with the louder guitar, nearly driven off the road a few times with that one...

Austin-Yeah, it's weird. I hate to promote any kind of hearsay regarding negative remarks about Joe, but II have read him say negative things at least twice over the years.

Maybe the interviewer asked him what he thought and just didn't print the entire interview so that the remarks would be less offensive in context.That happens fairly regularly with interviews, from what I have heard.

GoldenGirl2 - Actually, the air here in Long Beach is staying pretty clear. It's a nice change from all the fires in the past to have the smoke blowing inland and not over my head.

I did hear from a friend in Denver (juju808, for those who remember her) that smoke from the LA fires is visible waaay out there. That's 1,000 miles away!

You don't have Joe's Not Of This Earth album yet, do you? Musterion from PSATMOR is reminiscent of the NOTE title track in some ways...listen here.

And the Coldplagiarism shirt has been posted here before, but it's a good one so thanks for sharing it again. :-)

Or similar to what Coldplay has said about Satc...wait, no, they're just jerks. ;-)

I love, love, love this album.

I saw an interview somewhere on You Tube, with that band(you know ,those cold guys )Several months back. I wish I could remember what they said verbatim but they where very condescending and disrespectful and smug when they referred to Joe. Only they didn't call him Joe. ANY WHOOOOS..... I do not let that other (cold Guys)music pollute my mind any longer. From that day forward as a matter of principal.....because there is such a thing as respecting the artists that have paid their dues and put their heart and soul into their music and appreciate their fans the way that JOE does.

SkippyGirl--Steve Vai's 10 Favorite Instrumentals!!! I agree 100% with his Number 1 and Number 5 picks! When I first heard "Europa" by Carlos Santana, I thought I had entered heaven by sonic waves! And Joe Satriani's ITLIS title track is transforming and takes me to a place I want to return to again and again. I have the Jeff Beck CD "Blow by Blow" and love listening to it.....however, I have to be careful to bring myself back to earth once it's done.

Music is so loving and lovely and connecting. It bonds us to each other like nothing else!

Aww, Blue_Moon--If I kiss yer finger, do ya think it'll feel better? I'll let you kiss my troubled finger with the stupid cyst on it and maybe it will be the kiss of healing......It could very well be. ;-) Musicians can perform miracles!

Have a good night.

Elpp : You really don't have such places there?

Greece is full of them. the band you heard is going to have it's own cd in a while, and then they will have their myspace after that and i will post it here to see it.

Amir!!!!! Where are you??????????????????????

I found an old Joe interview a few weeks ago when the internet was out at my apartment...I forgot about it until now. It's from the promo tour Joe did when ITLIS? was released. Joe talked a lot and played a few songs over the air. I edited two snippets together into one MP3 file...he's talking about Coldplay in the first, and he explains the If I Could Fly chords in the second. Looking back, I think it's funny that both of these things came up in the same interview.

This was from 4/16/04, which is a good year and a half after Coldplay's Chris Martin made a negative comment about Joe in a VH1 interview (the second question from the end). So even though Chris Martin had trashed him, Joe still had plenty of nice things to say about the band.

Have a listen:

http://alewis525.googlepages.com/JSonC.mp3

(EDIT - And Joe, I'm sure you and your lawyers have everything well under control, but I can provide a copy of this whole radio interview if it's useful to you in any way [historical record of you and Coldplay mentioning each other in the press, etc.]...just let me know.)

Just thought that could use repeating. And I do remember the Coldplay Moe Batriani comment...I think it was in a video clilp from an AOL concert...?

And back to Joe, I haven't heard much of Hordes Of Locusts in Musterion...but to be fair, HOL isn't one of my favorite songs so it's probably not something I'd pick up on.

GG2 - you got it girl.

Who's packing for Tahoe yet?

Hope everyone is alright with the fires in California, Lord we know the sort of damage they can wreak.

alex - congrats on the baby!!

thanx to the T2Jer that confirmed that chickenfootJoe is indeed our Joe >=:) i'm now following him O_o Chad looks good in a witches hat... nice ;P

alexandre :- Congrats on the new arrival. May you and the Mrs. be forever blessed. Enjoy the ride.There's a large bottle of Moet Chandon in the fridge for you in the fridge as well as a big fat Cuban Cigar if you're so inclined.Cheers,brother!!!