vickomaniac - I forgot to mention this the other day, but thanks for sharing that link...good music!

Tomorrow, tomorrow, it soon will be tomorrow with the sun...shi-ning!

I can't wait! Godsmack & Chickenfoot. WOOO!

I'm going to Best Buy straight from work. I'm so excited! lol!

Man did it rain over the last 24 hours!! The front of our basement flooded, so my hubs was up half the night with the shop vac sucking up buckets of water. A bunch of stuff got wet, but the studio is fine. I'm not complaining either. Have you seen Mississippi? Tennessee? Now that's flooding! Yikes! 13 inches of rain in 2 days and a few deaths. No sir, I'm not complaining!

I was complaining earlier but now I am feeling bad for the peeps that really have troubles........floods ~tornado's~volcanoes erupting~earthquakes ~massive oil spills heading their way ~etc~etc~etc~

Stay safe peeps!

edit- Skippy you make me LOL,!!! I hope the Gods Of Rock hear your plea .............

Michelle- Sorry about your basement..sounds like a regular pain......

And I too am looking forward to getting my Chickenfoot dvd.........

The end of that book was kinda blah. I just kept thinking what a stank ass he had to be for most of that book. lol! Who cares about hygiene when yer ripped like that. eww! lol! Slash's book is way better, but I prolly like Anthony better than Slash - go figger. lol! Get Sully Erna's book. That was a good one!

Peace - thanks, I have everything crossed in the hope that somehow either Joe solo or with Chickenfoot he books a tour for us.

I also just finished Scar Tissue and agree with you. How much drugs can one person do? How did he remember every gig, recording and girl? And he didn't say how he is now. Interesting little bits tho, like Buckethead auditioning for them, never knew that.

I just got my Chickenfoot DVD ducked out if work and got it at JB. They're not stocking the Blu-Ray at all so settled for the DVD. Whilst I was there I did some therapy and got It Might Get Loud. Anvil, and Iron Man 1 haha.

My US Visa expired back in February. I procrastinated on renewing it for a long time and almost missed the Dream Theater gig in June, but I finally got it done today, should be getting my new visa by the end of May. Will have to check out all the new Satch releases then! (they're too expensive on the Mexican side of the border).

It looks like I will make it to the Rush show in June after all :D more on that later.

Michelle: I was reading the Ozzfest announcement, this is probably one of the lamest Ozzfest lineups ever. No wonder they're doing less than 10 shows :)

Joe, thanks for sharing that, wonder what your thoughts are on the whole situation.

It is an outrage but it could happen anywhere....... if we let it . Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter, Joe.

I didnt mean it to sound rude! Arizona calls them Aliens. Im fine with the ones that are forced to move out of Arizona to move to Oregon. Its mainly Peace and Love here.

Thanks for sharing that, Joe. It's nice to see a longer comment from someone like Zack instead of a lot of the knee-jerk criticisms I've seen elsewhere that don't have much thought put into them.

I think if this bill is successful at anything, it's that it will bring the issue front and center, as elpp said.

I'm not sure that a boycott is the right way to protest this, at least not yet. A boycott worked when the MLK holiday stuff happened 20 years ago...the NFL even moved the Super Bowl from Arizona to California one year. I think this situation is a bit different, though. The MLK thing was primarily the governor's doing (as I understand it), but 17 state legislators voted to pass this immigration bill. Regardless of my thoughts on the bill, I think because more people were involved in its passage a court challenege or statewide vote should be pursued before people turn to a boycott. Right or wrong, that's how I think the system should work.

Here is a version of that song on YouTube...I REALLY like Grace's voice.

And just for fun, here's the Grace Potter performance that's posted here all the time.

:-)

Hey Joe, i know you have many other things on your mind, and your busy with all your work and music. How ever, i really want you to hear this; and maybe hear your opinion. But i just know that this vintage rock/blues band "Blind Lion" could/would be a perfect opening act for Chickenfoot. Or maybe just for some westcoast shows! Our live sound is completely different ( better, a little heavier guitar and sound ). We will have videos up soon. Hope you have a quick listen. If i need to send a presskit so you can know more about us and what we do, and have done will do! Blind Lion Music

Skippygirl - To answer your question in a different way...

When state laws and federal laws conflict with each other, the federal laws win. For example, federal law says it's a crime to possess marijuana for any reason. But some states, like California, have passed laws saying possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes is OK. So every now and then you'll hear about federal agents raiding medicinal marijuana facilities in California and making arrests (it doesn't happen too often...the federal government has avoided the confrontation by saying prosecuting medicinal marijuana cases isn't worth the resources).

In the case of the Arizona immigration bill, yes, the federal government could pass a new law to override it. But that's tricky...they can't just single out Arizona and cancel that one law, they'd have to pass a general law saying that only the federal government (and not individual states) has the power to create laws concerning immigration. And that won't happen, because it'd create a whole mess of other problems in states that already have other less controversial immigration laws in place.

It's a very complicated issue.

I think Obama's exact words were...

"That bitch is crazy!"

j/k, but I'm sure he said that at some point.

I really can't believe they passed a law like that. It's insane. So glad to hear yer views on it Joe. What can we do to help? If you find something - let us know!