Austin: I got there 2 1/2 hours before show start (they told us to be there at that time), and the lines were not too bad, about 100 people total. I assume everyone there was GA, why wait over an hour in the sun if you have a reserved seat?? :) By the time everyone with a pass got in, front row was full, but took quite a while for the rest of the pit to get semi-crowded, as they didn't sell the full capacity of the pit.

The spot you want is exactly the spot where Steve Harris plays - most of the time. I was on the right side of the stage and you can see Steve on some of the pics playing next to Janick. Steve does roam quite a lot, Dave and Adrian stay on the left side pretty much the whole show and Janick stays on the right. And Bruce...I'm still trying to catch Bruce!!!

I spent part of tonight organizing some of my music souvenirs, and thought I'd share a quick picture:

http://twitpic.com/1xprnm

I know it's hard to tell what's what, but I just did this really quick. Setlists are from the John Butler Trio, Dredg, Eric Johnson, Tim Reynolds, Dixie Dregs, Joe Perry, Shinedown, and Davy Knowles. Then I have a booth setlist from this past Experience Hendrix tour and a crew schedule for Progressive Nation 2008.

The towel in the lower right is from Don Airey of Deep Purple. The bag next to that contains a bunch of Lacuna Coil and Shadows Fall autographs. Autographed ticket stubs include Mountain, Satch (and Jeff and Stu and Galen), Kaki King, Collective Soul, and Steve Morse. The bag of guitar picks includes some from Satch, Sammy Hagar, Lacuna Coil, Steve Morse (Deep Purple and solo), Dredg, They Might Be Giants, and many more...

Listening to: Aerosmith - Blind Man

Michelle--Gotta agree with you on S.M.F. being one of Joe's best songs......I'd say one of his best Blues songs. I would say it's an opener to a Satch Music Festival! Just an idea for what the abbreviation could be.......then again.

That girlfriend is seeing too much of the world......When is Al coming home? Don't his loved ones miss him???? I do :-/

Tracie and Michelle--I saw the movie, The Lovely Bones and I gots mixed feelings about it. It's interesting to see something from the 14-year-old girl's point of view even in the beyond. That murderer was so sick/twisted, made me feel like my skin was sliding off. How could anyone feel safe within 10 feet of him? Was there that much of a disconnect between the generations?

I love Joe and Steve Vai and Steve Morse and Andy Timmons and John Petrucci and Jeff Beck and all the instrumental guitarists that have the guts to play it and say it with their guitars, amps and selected gear......all the best sounds in the world! Father's Day is comin' up and a certain dad I remember from my youngest days may be gone but he's not forgotten.....I remember such good times with my dad, Joe.

One robot: that's a Good question I'm not sure I ask myself the same thing but remember Joe started playing after Jimi's death so if you think about it even though its still sad that he passed If Jimi didn't died we might not even have Joe's music to listen to,which I can't even think about.

Man, the US team got totally robbed today! I counted no less than 3 penalties that the referee did not call, and then there was no foul on the goal that got voided. Hopefully no one will get to see that referee again!

Austin: That's a cool collection dude!! One of the side benefits of attending a billion concerts :)

I did see that post, but at least in my show the merch was there when the concert ended, and it's a good thing that I bought my stuff there, I had thought about waiting until Phoenix to buy my things.

It is finally Friday!!!

I'm done with the next installment of my Joe's titles passages. And this time I had full intention of making the passage with Joe's titles in it, so some of them might seem more blatant. But I think they still blended very well. I'm also running out of the more natural titles. This one is not so much as a statement, as it is more of a quandary. Something to give a little thought to. It's about dreams. (Not like hopes and dreams, but when when dream while we are asleep.)

Dreams. Elusive pieces of imagination. Like smoke on the water. Like delicate tears in the rain. Like the strange echo of an oriental melody playing in the distance. These colorful, vivid images intrigue us so. But the crazy ventures our brains experience are difficult for us to grasp. More exotic than music. Yet they inspire us like music would. We don't always remember the journey we take, but it always leads us somewhere. What are the resons for the enigmatic thoughts that go through our hed while we sleep? Are we searching for something unknown to us? Or are we dwellers on the threshold of a window to another realm? We may not quite understand it, but a parallel dimension could be awaiting us.

Im not really feeling TFI Friday today.... anyhow.... it'll be Saturday soon enough. So...

tears in the rain strange echo oriental melody crazy always (!?) the journey the enigmatic searching dweller(s) on the threshold

Haven't seen anyone mention this, The Metallica / Megadeth / Anthrax / Slayer concert will be played in movie theaters this Tuesday

Hi Everyone.

Hope everyone is doing well. Listened to the Live In Paris CD and it was excellent.

Elpp: Congrats on seeing Iron Maiden. Haven't seen your pics yet, but I will soon.

Mystical Robot & one_robot: I agree, we probably wouldn't have Joe's music if Joe didn't hear of Jimi's passing.

Do The Stu: Neat pics. BTW, you have a message from me on FB.

Oxley11: Just saw your new one: 1.) TEARS IN THE RAIN 2.) STRANGE 3.) ECHO 4.) ORIENTAL MELODY 5.) CRAZY 6.) THE JOURNEY 7.) THE ENIGMATIC 8.) SEARCHING 9.) DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD 10.) AWMAWY (Always used) I wasn't sure if that counts or not.

Pip55: Yep, you beat me before I got to it. ;-)

Axeshredder: Hey there! \m/

Busy this weekend, and the following week/weekend for me, and yes, it's work & running races. Looking forward to Sundays. The guitar store I work is being named/featured on our local radio for a month (on Sundays). We are hosting Acoustic Sundays on WXKE Rock104, our local classic rock station. WOO-HOO! SWEET! :D We're slowly, but surely, drawing more of the people's attention to our store. We already have two stores in our Fort Wayne area and we plan on getting another one of our stores up & running, and this one will be near Chiacgo.

Hope things are going well/smoothly for you Joe. I saw your message on Facebook & Youtube. Looking forward to your next project. I know it's early, but I hope you have a safe and wonderful Father's Day (this upcoming Sunday) with Rubina & ZZ.

TTYL everyone. Peace out! \mXm/

minimoog

I would run everything as you have it except I'd run the Time Machine through the amps effects loop on its own.Cheers.

Mike Keneally says he has finished work on the Batch of Satch record.

How long do they take to mix and engineer, then print and ship????