Can't help myself....

My lil mum at dinner tonight

and not to be forgotten, my dad :)

We had a lovely afternoon and dinner together, my mom and I watched Terminator 3, LOL....and then my dad joined us for a visit and dinner and some kitty time :)

Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms, Grandmas, Aunts. Stepmoms, and all you ladies out there.

Joe: Happy Mother's Day to Rubina and too your late Mom. Prayers to y'all.

I ran the Indy-Mini last Saturday and my (unofficial time) was 1 hour, 24 minutes, and 30 seconds for the half-marathon. That's 5 and a half minutes faster than last year. I not only received a medal for finishing, I also finished in the top 500 and received an extra medal for that. I'll find out my official time & placing soon.

I also worked Mother's Day Buffet earlier today, and we had a little over 650 people coming out to eat, including my folks. Glad that's another holiday buffet (out of the way).

Cheese101: Great pics.

BTW, I've listened to Super Colossal (a number of times), and enjoyed every song on there, especially Crowd Chant. That was probably a motivational song for me before that Indy-Mini run. Next up: Satriani Live.

Best to you all.

Joe.

Come back to New Zealand!!!!!!

Glitzman- Congrats on your time. You had a very busy weekend with your running and restaurant work.

Don- I enjoyed your Mothers Day poem, thank you for sharing.

cheese- Thanx for sharing the photos of your folks. Looks like your Mom & Dad were having a great time . :-)

Skippy- I remember when I used to get vouchers from my kids but my kids are all about grown.... .goes by too fast.

Glitz Man - Nice job on the half marathon. 13 miles is a loooooooong ways! lol.

I have always been a big fan of super colossal. There is some great work there. I think you'll really enjoy Live 2006. The version of Circles on this one is my favorite version ever.

Hey everybody!! Haven't posted in about a week or so. I saw Iron Man 2 on Friday and it was pretty good. Wasn't as good as the first one (in my opinion), but I'm not going to say why. I'm not a spoiler. lol But that doesn't mean it was bad by any means. The special effects were as good as flawless as always. After I saw the movie with my uncle, we went to a bar and they had an Internet Jukebox. Of course I had to look for Joe and they had MOST of his songs. They were missing about maybe 10. But I played the Live version of Big Bad Moon. It was only one dollar which was very worth it. I wanted to play Summer Song also, but more people started coming in and it got too loud. I could barely hear the music after around 11:30.

DESPERATELY waiting for a release date on the Ice 9 pedal. If somebody knows please tell the world.

I'm catching up on weekend stuff...

I agree on Australia, but "on yer swing through Europe!"...? What kind of twisted Satch geography is that? ;-)

Yeah, that's been a problem going back a few years now. I think it'd be really interesting for the US to cut all ties internationally for a few years...pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan and stop going to Asia for cheap labor/manufacturing. Prices would go up initially, but soon EVERYONE in the US would have a job. I don't think that's a healthy long-term solution, but I think it's always good to shake things up every now and then.

I haven't had one since...last month, maybe? Haha...

Pori Finland 2000 - wasn't that where Joe had a guitar shaped birthday cake from Jussi? :-) Good times man, good times!

Ahh yeah - there it is! Love the archives on this site! lol! Great memories! Totally forgot about the book of greetings :-)

Chadley, thanks for the Mum's day wishes. Glad you had a great time with Lhadly!

Wow. What a crazy day in Oklahoma today. We had between 26 and 30 tornadoes between 4 and 7:30. They just kept popping up everywhere!

Its my birthday wooo and i got the chickenfoot get yo buzz on dvd! stoked!

Hi,

I've been playing guitar for some time, focusing on the satch songs, but one thing always annoys me - backing tracks. As you possibly know, Steve Vai released Naked tracks album - the backing tracks of all his famous songs.

Joe, do you plan to do something like this for us, community of amateur guitar players ? :) I know there are some backtracks, but its quality is quite miserable. (rubina (live), if i could fly, ...)

In fact, I would be enormous grateful for a project like that.

Sammy, Mike and the Wabos playing SLT at Tahoe last weekend

If anyone is interested, Davy Knowles is playing the following dates and venues:

July 16 - Arcata Theatre - Arcata, CA
July 17 - String Summit @ Horning's Hideout - North Plains, OR
July 18 - Britt Pavilion - Jacksonville, OR
July 22 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
July 24 - Spud Drive In - Driggs, ID
July 25 - Red Butte Garden - Salt Lake City, UT
July 27 - Orpheum Theater - Flagstaff, AZ
July 28 - Rialto Theatre - Tucscon, AZ
July 29 - Soundwave - San Diego, CA
July 31 - Gathering of the Vibes Festival - Bridgeport, CT

hey ho joe! bit late I know, but I hve just ordered the chickenfoot dvd...

Cappy Steve - Thanks I really appreciate your words...yes I had thought of doing that recently...I have up to now been sending cards with a letter inside...but maybe now I should just keep a diary more for them to give when we finally get reunited.

Do the Stu - Well I should have got my albums out to listen so I could say which song it was...it ws a recent one...I have taken the dvd back to the rental shop now...but like I said it is played again right at the end of the credits, so you could do that without watching the film.