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If my girlfriend went to all that trouble for me,I would not go unless I could take her with me.But that's just me and my opinion.Hope it helps.Cheers :-)

@fulya- He's touring in Turkey for Thanksgiving. lol

Hi Joe and everyone,

Thanks for the birthday wishes. The day didn't turn out quite the way I planned. Kinda sad really. Except for the dinner at the Island restaurant in Monterey. We didn't make it to Tahoe yet. Maybe September or October.....Sunday afternoon we went back to one our favorite coastal places in Cali--Monterey peninsula, Carmel, Pacific Grove and Marina. We stayed in Monterey Sunday and Monday nights. There's always something going on in that neck o the woods. Car races at Laguna Seca and Pebble Beach Concours winding down on Sunday. Monday, my birthday woke up to Steve having a minor health trauma and me going into one of my blue moods with almost non-stop tears. Then the evening with dinner at the Island brought me back to the land of the living.....waiter and hostess made us feel welcome and treated us like queen and king.....that helped cheer me up. I was wondering if having a few beers with Alan, even though I would get horribly sick, may have been better.....just dreaming once again! Music picked me up as well.....bought copy of Guitar World and just following the architecture of AC/DC's song "Highway to Hell" did the trick.

Song architecture is fascinating to me. The rythmn, flow, beat and tunings, chords......It's all sooooo goood!! Still lovin' ZZ's Song and its nuts and bolts and flow......so cool...Thank you, Joseph!

Hey guys! Nice to see you all here again! I wanted to ask if anyone knows when the Js guitar design contest is going to have its results published... Can anyone who is better informed than me help me with that? :) Thank you in advance.

not much to say anymore, except I'm listening to your work, Joe. Thank you very much!! > Love Thing (Crystal Planet album)

Hope your new album is coming out sometime; but not rushing it. Art is worth its time!

GG2, I'm glad yer birthday ended up better than it started.

Fatape, did you take the kids for their back to school haircuts yet?

wolf, you must be the healthiest nad massaging tooth flosser in Canada. Congrats.

T-Bones, ya really gotta see it to believe it I guess. LOL!

Chrisburito Tostito Mosquito Margarita, have a lovely time with yer ol' mum.

Here's a little info on the Wormhole theory. Haven't had a chance to read it all yet, but along with the Black Swan Theory, this all seems right up Joe's alley.

Joe will admit...there's pretty much fog in his alley.

michelle

I gave the kids some shears and told them to go play!!!

Do you like the result???

Hey Satchland, comments and questions for everyone with the answers. I was watching the dvd for SWTA on the legacy edition rerelease from 2007 and these things came to mind. 1. Why isn't the actual Surfin song part of the dvd?

2. When Joe, Jon and Stu came onstage it was crickets, but by the end of the concert you could hear and see the crowd digging it. And the rest as we all know it now is Satch History.

3. Took me back to when I first heard Surfin' which was during the winter of 89-90. I heard it on the radio around the South Padre Island area of Southern Texas. All I could ask my cousins was who is this kicking my ass. "Some guy named Joe" is all they said.

4. I remember I played the label off of my cassette, then I bought it again and did it again. I think I still have the same DVD I bought in the 90's

Fatape, now they're gonna go hang out with that creepy dude down the road. lol! Best get Uncle Rico to keep an eye on them!

Night peeps!

@bluebuffalo- It seems that a lot of people were introduced to Joe with SWTA or Time Machine, believe or not. I hear a lot of the usual with the SWTA story, but some strange Time machine stories. With Surfing With The Alien, it's basically people heard it on the radio and they stopped dead in their tracks. And the rest is history.

But for the Time machine, it's different. On Youtube, one guy said he was walking down the street and some guy handed him the Time Machine album brand new. The guy said (not quoting exactly) You will enjoy the music when you listen and because of that, you will buy the rest of his albums for years to come. Don't know if it's true or not, but why would somebody make it up. What's the point of lying on Youtube.

And there was another story. Also from Youtube. This one, is more believeable.

This guy has a brother who listens to Joe. He never cared to listen to his brothers musical opinions, so he lets it pass. Then he gets dumped by his girlfriend. She drops him off at some record shop. He walks up to it, finds the slightly damaged, two-disc Time Machine album lying on the ground outside the shop, and picks it up. Takes it home, pops it in, and listens to it. He has been "infatuated" with Joe music ever since.

Strange stories but I always enjoy finding out how people get into being a Satch fan. Mine isn't all too riveting.

@turbo236- Actually, big Youtube user, Chuggaaconroy, was talking about black holes on one of his videos, recently. I'm not sure if anybody here would know about him because he does commentary on Nintendo video games as he plays them. Anyway he was describing the theory that it would be "the most painful death" anybody could witness. Your body would go through "spaghettification". Everybody here probably has heard the theory that your body is stretched out just like spaghetti when you enter a black hole. Apparently it's worse than that. Check it out. Chuggaaconroy explains Black Hole Theory On Super Luigi Galaxy You only have to watch 7:07 to 7:44 to see what he's talking about.

My "intro to Joe" story, as told here on 02-25-03:

The story of my introduction to Satch isn't very interesting, but oh well. ;-) Back in 8th grade, a guitar-playing friend of mine introduced me to Eric Johnson's Cliffs Of Dover. I knew that song and liked it. I also thought his new song at the time, Pavillion, was really cool. So I bought a few EJ CDs, and eventually ended up with the G3 live album. I fell in love with Joe's music because of that CD. I think The Extremist was the first "real" Joe album that I bought, followed by Time Machine. I got into Crystal Planet after hearing Lights Of Heaven on the radio a few times...man, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when I could hear Joe on the radio...hehe.

When I started this post I thought I had the album title all figured out, but the more I think about it, the more I need to continue thinking about it. If that makes sense....

The man behind the idea says that black swans are "undirected and unpredicted" And a wormhole is basically a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in spacetime. The wormhole theory discusses using these for space travel and what not. As someone mentioned earlier, a Black Swan Event has to meet 3 criteria; I won't re post them, but maybe the title is just a reference to a 'wizard' traveling though space and time unexpectedly on a very important journey. A journey he knows nothing about until it is completed?

Or, most likely, I am dead wrong. I'll read a little more about the two when I have some more time because I have no idea what I'm talking about. Maybe Joe Satriani will give us some background on that name in the meantime??

I'm not sure if this has made the national news yet, but...

Remains of babies dead for possibly 70 years found in L.A. basement

The bodies of two babies wrapped in Los Angeles Times newspapers from the 1930s were found in an apartment building basement near downtown L.A.

The LAPD and the Los Angeles coroner's office are investigating. A coroner's official told The Times that the newspaper-wrapped bodies of the children had a mummified appearance.

More info:

Mysterious woman is at center of probe into dead babies found in L.A. basement

There might not be any foul play involved, but this whole thing has the setup of a murder mystery...what an interesting story.

I'm new to the forum.

Glad to be hear.

I preordered the "black swans and wizard wormhole" new cd. (signed) awesome!

I'm a bit of a satch fan (duh..why wouldn't I be here) and own every album he's put out.

looking forward to this new album and looking forward to see what chickenfoot has in store for us next.

JOE SATRIANI, one of rock music’s most renowned electric guitarists, has announced that his 14th studio album, Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards, is to be released in the UK on Monday, October 4th via Epic Records (Tuesday, October 5th in North America). The album release dovetails Satch’s fall UK tour, which kicks off on October 17th at the Manchester Apollo.

On the new album, Satriani’s classic sound is accompanied by a surprisingly rich new texture. The first single,'Light Years Away', is destined to be a hit, alongside several other high energy offerings, like 'Wormhole Wizards' and 'Premonition'.

Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards tracklisting:

'Premonition' 'Dream Song' 'Pyrrhic Victoria' 'Light Years Away' 'Solitude' 'Littlleworth Lane' 'The Golden Room' 'Two Sides To Every Story' 'Wormhole Wizards' 'Wind In The Trees' 'God Is Crying'

Satriani joined with former VAN HALEN front man SAMMY HAGAR, former bassist Michael Anthony, and RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS’ drummer Chad Smith, to form the stand-out rock collaboration, CHICKENFOOT. After a highly successful world tour, their self-titled debut album was certified gold in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America with over 500,000 sales.

Over the last two decades, Joe Satriani has traveled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star G3 guitar extravaganza. As one of the world’s most renowned instrumental artists, Satriani recorded Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock! in 2008 at The Grand Rex Theater in Paris, France. The live two-disc CD and DVD was released in February 2010 through Epic Records and contained such memorable songs as 'Surfing With The Alien', 'Flying in a Blue Dream', along with recent hits like 'Super Colossal' and 'I Just Wanna Rock'. Of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them.

The UK release of Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards dovetails Joe Satriani’s autumn 2010 UK tour, tickets for all UK shows are on sale now and available from the national credit card hotline 0844 888 9991 or can be booked online at www.ticketline.co.uk.

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Michelle--Thanks, I needed that. Life ain't easy with my emotional disturbances and Steve's seizures and other health probs.

Austin--What a treat the way you learned you loved Satch's music and hearing it on the radio. The only song of Joe's I've heard on the radio is AWMAWY!

Gotta go get my car serviced this morning.

Hope everyone is well and at least content if not happy.

Hi Mr. McKenna!