Don1963 : Spacey.. exactly.. as the song is directly a tribute to the John Carpenter's movie, i tried to figure something coming from space, & rising among us discreetly, imitating our forms, until it is brought to light, & then, the thing becomes very aggressive, several forms explode like a terrifying organic chaos..

In fact, Pinocchio album tries to combine two tales : Pinocchio & The Thing.

Keyboard parts are done with synthetizer guitar.

To tell the truth, The Thing is the hardest mix i ever tried to do. Keep you posted when i'll get the final song, if you want.

& about lyrics, we get some here, but nothing before 2011.

pitch axis is quite difficult, if go to google and type "pitch axis", you will find a wiki page somewhere. when i went onto forever joe a few months ago, i found it totally confusing!! so i looked up wikipedia and found out what it means.

In every MODE, you have a chord that accompanies that MODE. when that chord occurs, that MODE can be used for melody or for soloing. on the wikipedia page, there should be a table with the MODES on the left, and the chords which accompanies it on the right, now you know what the chords are that accompany it. here's something very intressting i found out.

when you have modes, there's a order that the modes have to be in (this is not about pitch axis by the way).

C Major broken up into modes

Ionian C D E F G A B (major) Dorian D E F G A B C D Phrygian E F G A B C D E Lydian F G A B C D E F Mixolydian G A B C D E F G Aeolian A B C D E F G A (minor) Locrian B C D E F G A B

Then you're back to C Major. If you're in A minor, you just start on Aeolian and go down intill you get A Aelolian.

So back to pitch axis, if you look on not of this earth, Joe changes mode each bar. this is because of the chord changing when he changes mode. The whole thing is in E, every mode he changes is always in E, the thing up there is nothing to do with pitch axis but is useful when you're not using pitch axis, i think he uses that example up there on some of his playing, who knows.

wheres the f# in c lydian

theres f# in c lydian... sharpened 4th man...

we're already on mutual terms the only thing f is lydian IN c major.... is cause the Bb in f maj is made nautural in C maj.... hence f g a b c d e ...#4th

DTS - thanks. All clear. How you been anyway? What's up with my big guy Austin? You've been quiet lately.

i seen these 2 cool kick ass acoustic guitar players last night they;re awsome... ill post some names n links sosbar tomo... still a bit drunk.... at some aftershow party in a house and the studio and some weird place... weird night but kinda fun

You guys are right about EVH: he was God once but he stagnated a long time ago (still amazes me how he plays the same solo for more than 20 years...) But, then again, he played stuff that no other could even think of playing...

I'm just not so sure that he's the only bad guy in the picture... It's true VH owes a lot to Sammy but the contrary is also true.

Finally got Vai's DVD!!! :) Only watched the first disc so far, but it is awesome! The guy is a really mature showman...

The violins fit great and Dave Weiner's guitar sounds awesome (usually the rhythm guitar sounds poorly on these instrumental live tracks - not the case!) His 7-strings contribute a lot to the heavy sound that I like so much... :)

In general, the sound is excellent, you can hear all the instruments clearly and the video is colorful and original (I think Vai himself took care of the editing)

Anyway, just to recommend...

Skippy, no question, you're going to LOVE Davy Knowles!!! Have a great time at the show! And if you haven't already, be sure to buy his albums if you can spare the monies, they are well worth the cost....a very talented young man!!

Awww Austin and roo, *sniff*....u boys were so good to Skippy, makes a mother's heart proud, lol!!

Chelly, any "new" news on mum? Tinking ov yew as always...loved yer birthday story :)

I might need to check out Vai's new dvd but haven't heard much in the way of review about it from anyone here.....anyone? Guitarvibes, Vinnie Moore is the SHIT!! lol!! We love him!

K.....off to my training again in just a few minutes, then a long-ass drive home in the dark over a biiiiiiig mountain pass. ALL deer must stay OFF the road, that's an ORDER!!

And can hardly stand to wait to get back and check on my parents, dad especially. My mom said last night he wasn't able to keep food down yesterday, don't know if it's just a bug or something else...I told her to please give him a kiss and hug from me when she sees him today, and then tell him I'll spank him if he doesn't get better!! He dint wanna get out of bed at all yesterday :( One step forward, half a step back. I can see Ms. Bossy needs to get back there and quick!

Keniko, happy anniversary to you and wifey!! 30 years is amazing!

UH OH!! We're gettin' into academics here. Ppls who go to music schools really get to know their glossary of terms very well. Music has interesting language to go with it. Takes a while to get used to. I think Joe uses it in a fun way.

Impressive!

Aww man, that Paris vid made me so happy! Joe back with JEFF, STUUUUUUUUUUU, & GALEN!! Just what my hurtin' lil' soul needed tonight.

Not sure about Joe's hat, but the jeans make up for it. lol!

Trace, me mum's news isn't so great. I'm really scared for her. She was at the heart doctor today and they said that the blood in her heart was starting to clot. That's NOT good. They gave her a pill of some sort, and told her that if she would start bleeding from her nose or anywhere else tonight, she needs to go to the ER immediately! She was so congested yesterday and coughed so much that now her whole body aches. She also said something about being on percocet. I'm not sure what all they did for her or told her to do. The info never really makes a lot of sense unless I go to the doc with her and hear it for myself. My pop hears one thing, and mum hears something totally different, which means that unless myself or one of my sisters goes, we don't really know what's going on. What I do know is that this is really serious. Her heart has already been damaged by 2 heart attacks and she had bypass surgery about 13 years ago. Her lungs aren't good, and her diabetes is acting up. Like I said, I'm really scared. Prayers for ol' Vivian would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to give her another call now to check in. I think I'll order her some roses while I'm at it. I love me mummy.

I think I'll watch that Paris clip again before I call. I don't want her to know I'm so upset, cause that'll just upset her more.

Hope you got to see yer dad tonight. Give John & Junebugs hugs fer meh.

Hmmm...I have mixed feelings about that clip (more good than bad, though).

I love how the digital effects are mixed with the concert; I think they blend together very well. However, I think the effects themselves look really low budget...especially the two or four scrolling columns of drawings that just fly by.

It looks good at other times, though, like when there's just one larger drawing digitally added in the background behind Joe.

I also love some of the camera angles...they're unlike any other live DVD I've seen. Specifically, I like the shots of Jeff (especially the one through the cymbals), and the many shots of Joe's guitar (and Galen's, sometimes) from an angle that's slightly above.

I look forward to seeing the whole DVD like this, but I bet there will be complaints from outside the core fanbase if there's no option to turn off all of the effects.

Just a few more months...