Chris has been trying for the last hour to make a ringtone of the sound sample....he just brought me my phone and said he'd try again tomorrow, he was tired and wanted to go to bed....then walked into his bedroom and called my phone...where I heard some very funky sounds coming from it, LOL!! He did it, but it's a pretty short version of it.

Gotta give him props, I wouldn't even know where to start such a thing, and he's persistant and brilliant!! lol!

Joe, I'll happily buy all yer ringtones, can you put some of the new album up? Do we hafta wait for the album release, or could we have it sooner...I dunno that side of things, but I think it must be done!!!

I'm really excited to get the whole album...is it October 5th YET!!!!! I pre-ordered two cd's but I just KNOW they won't be here on the 5th, it's usually a couple days later...so I may hafta go on the hunt fer a store cd on the day of :) Who needs 3 cds? ME!!!!

MY NAME IS SKIPPY AND I'M A SATCHAHOLIC YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the new front page pic!

Love God is Crying. Thanks for the links Peace and Cheese (now there's a band name).

Ordered my CD's (that makes 3 in total including the Amazon one but 2 will be signed). How long after ordering did peeps receive their pre-sales code thingy??

I assume the cities listed for Leg 2 are in order, so if it's western Canada first at the start of Jan it looks like I'll miss out but maybe February fingers crossed, or December, hell I have no idea but I'll try!

roo - earth to roo? I presume the iphone app is not able to be upgraded then? I had found it easy to post from the iphone so bit of a bugger if that's the case.

Happy Satch Day everyone!! Still stoked that BSAWW is released on my birthday.

Glitzy - hope you had a great time seeing Dave Weiner.

The new album title is cool.

The Teaser sounds good... but why the heck the hand clap effects again ;-)

And I hope the mix and mastering is better than the compressed sound on Professor...

OK, now that things are officially out there...

- I love the album title...definitely one of my favorites from Satch, even if it's a bit similar to Dream Theater's Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

- I generally don't like Joe's album covers because they're usually just a picture of him and a guitar. That's the case here again...BUT, among all of the "Joe and a guitar" covers, this one is my favorite.

- God Is Crying is my favorite first sound clip from Satch going back to at least Strange Beautiful Music (I don't remember if we got one ahead of that album, but if we did I guess it was Starry Night?). But I like this clip more than I Just Wanna Rock, Super Colossal, and Hands In The Air. I wonder if it'll be the "single."

Skippy- Check your spam folder, that's where my CD order email went. I ordered 2 myself!

I am definitely wanting to hear more of God Is Crying... First couple of seconds had me thinking about Crowd Chant, then it kind of merged in to the Big Bad Wah promo stuff that Joe did a while back. I'll bet this is gonna be a pretty effects heavy album given the way he's been playing the last year or so and the sound of God Is Crying. Joe is definitely a master of effects. That's an art in and of itself as far as I'm concerned and I love hearing Joe work his magic.

I'm sure I'm dreaming to hope that there might be a DVD from this tour too.... They have filmed tours from the last 2 albums so maybe it's not that far fetched. For that matter, has anyone heard any more about the possibility of there being an unaffected version of LIP released? I haven't read anything about it in awhile, so I'm assuming it's either on the back burner, or it got scratched completely.

hi everyone! - you've all seen the news and heard the tune teaser so far, i'm sure, so i'm going to just respond to a few other questions i saw here in T2J...

new newsletter - new newsletter should be in inboxes with a summary of all of the news. also posted as a news item here and of course over on facebook which we are continuing to use moving forward since we have such a huge number of folks we can reach there. come join in if you haven't yet -- www.facebook.com/joesatriani

Canada shows & presales - the system that sony is using for the cd and ticketing they can only run in the US which is why canada dates don't have that offer. however, there will still be a presale and the codes for those are posted on the road page-- it's just a more wide open one (which we feel is better than none!) instead of using a secret code. CLUB JOE packages will be available for all shows and the presale codes will get you access to those once the presale starts, should you be interested.

aftershow pass giveaways - yes, we are continuing to do these for just about all shows (festivals are usually the only exceptions).

more videos! - we have plans for a video for the first single, plus we have over 50 hours of footage from the rehearsal and recording of the album that we are pulling some special webisode podcasts from. we are also going into sammy's pad in about a week to record our now-standard intros with joe talking about each song. these will run in the days leading up to the release date and we have a few cool new ideas in the works that we know you'll dig.

God Is Crying... is not the first single, but it's a real nice teaser of the album that Joe picked out to share with y'all :}

un-affected live in paris - i'm happy to report that we received a copy of an unaffected edited version of this and joe has selected a few tracks to be plucked out to appear on an exclusive version of BSAWW. details to come on that as they develop.

site updates, fan artwork, etc - i have to apologize for the lack of action here. we have lots of photos and art people have sent but amidst chickenfoot activities, satriani.com got put on the back burner for a while. as you can see, we are back into full on SOLO mode here now, but we are thinking about some bigger changes for the site so going through that stuff will probably not happen until after we work through that. but nothing will be lost and we'll let you know more as it develops!

Heya webby.

Thanks for the update. Can you do me a favor? I have patched the t2j app and it's in with apple for review, but if you are changing talk 2 Joe, can you give me some access to the beta site to update and test my app before you go live? Thanks mate.

Keep up the awesome work mate!

Roo
Roo

I slept about an hour. I blame you and yer brilliance Joseph!

Hey Joe,

Congrats on the successful completion of your album.

As far as a concert setlist goes, I would love to hear a nice long version of The Forgotten, I & II. I have always loved the melody and great feeling of those tunes.

Any possibility of a D.C. or a Northern VA date? North Bethesda is do-able but a bit of a haul. I imagine the Winter weather limits you to inside venues, so the options may be limited.

Take it easy.

dream3 - after April next year buddy - so Galen said anyway. I need a line buddy so get ready!!!

This explains the pre-sales code thing "Unfortunately, this is only happening for U.S. residents, but fear not, we have plenty of other cool exclusive videos coming from the recording studio, and Club Joe continues to run through the upcoming dates (see the updated package descriptions below)."

So no pre-sales for Aussies.

Gee I hope the Leg2 dates go up BEFORE 23 Aug otherwise how do peeps know to go to the east coast shows or the west coast shows?

Don't they know a girl's gotta alot of legwork to do??? :0)

YEAH JOE!! love the teaser, preordered the CD and gonna buy tickets for the Chicago show!

If yer takin' requests, I think Souls of Distortion would be an excellent song to play live, I can't find a live video on youtube so I would love to see the real deal.

So still looking for prices on everything, for the I Just Wanna Rock Tour, I had regular tickets up in the balcony, now I have a job and can afford some better tickets, maybe even "Club Joe" tickets, so what are the prices? if I can remember correctly, in 08 club Joe was around $400. Right? I am willing to pay that.

I just pressed replay on the God Is Crying teaser for the 100th time. love the vibe! it will be killer live!

Can't wait for the CD to get here, then gotta wait until Dec.9 for the show. I am sure it will be well worth the wait!

Is Joe only allowed to sign Ibanez guitars? I remember reading that somewhere, but I got my Ibanez signed last March and I want to get my Fender signed now, the Fender was my first guitar and will always be my favorite. and if it gets signed by Joe Satriani, that would make it the most special guitar in the world to me.