goatbrother70 - you never know, Joe might just do that for you, best of luck.

elpp - yeah I'm interested in Iron Maiden's tour, the Showgrounds here in Melbourne is a terrible venue though. Will see what happens.

Glitzy - well done great run there buddy!!! You just keep getting faster and doing better!

Scuba - I know you didn't ask for advice but can't help myself :) - good on you for giving up smoking you'll live a lot longer for sure and be wealthier. You know that there is a more powerful tool than willpower? It's actually your imagination. Imagination is far stronger than willpower, which is why people struggle with giving up habits like smoking by trying to use willpower. They imagine themselves having a smoke, or still see themselves as smokers who are just temporarily trying not to smoke, and sooner or later it gets them.

So you use imagination to your own advantage. When you decide to quit, if you immediately only think of yourself as a nonsmoker for the rest of your life (not someone who just isn't smoking right now) then you will more than likely have a greater chance of staying that way.

It's sorta like, "why would I have a smoke when I'm a non-smoker? Non-smokers don't smoke, so that's me too. I do what other non-smokers do." When you feel a bit lost about not having a ciggy in your hand, you just look at the nearest non-smoker and copy what they are doing, cos that's what you do when you're a non-smoker.

If you try to just will yourself not to smoke, in the end your imagination will play so many images in your mind about picking one up, lighting it, holding it and drawing in the smoke and enjoyig the feeling, that it's very hard to beat.

Hope that helps a bit. It's worth a try, right? And yes, I used to smoke, in my 20's :0)

Happy week everybody!

Joe - any blue for us buddy????

Michelle--The 15th and sometime in the 1960s? That means you could be 10 or more years younger than this old woman! Wadda ya know!?! :-)

Al--How would PA Michelle and Cali Milli get together to celebrate birthdays together when we live almost 3,000 miles apart??? I'm tethered to a Library that needs me to keep books, CDs and DVDs on their shelves and can't take more than 2 days off fer me birhday.......My Steve and a few friends and relatives are gonna help me celebrate. They want me to get out and see the stars at night to help me keep a perspective on life. Also, my Steve wants to have some feline friends drop into our back yard to get their fill of catnip. The friend from Sandy Cruz says it's contributing to the deliquency of a feline.....:-0 Wow! Imagine that! lmao! I just love them cute, furry critters!

Hello DONKEY, I guess the male tackling is so very important to protect........avoid trips to the tackling doctor! :-)

I posted Mike & Max Portnoy playing this song the other day on the drums. Now check this girl out - JP Millenix - Drum Cover - Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold @ Indonesia Mencari Bakat 7 August 2010

GG2, I'll be 46. I wonder when I'll get to that number that I'll be dreading that age? Don't think that'll ever happen though. It's all gravy IMO. No use in bitchin' about it. Either you add a number or you don't. I'd rather keep adding, thank you very much. lol! It really cracks me up when somebody younger than me busts on me for being old. WTF do you think is coming to you? lol! Ahhh, the ignorance of the young. lmao!! Growing older is cool. All the aches and pains...not so much. LOL! I'm just sayin'....

Hey Glitz..going ok...been a long time since i made a video but heres a sample of the js2400 in action..some blues improv ...i cant put my finger on why this guitar is so attractive..i sware ive spent just as much time staring at it as playing it..so far...i want to put it away just so i dont get use to it..hope yas dig it

JS2400WH Test Drive

axeshredderjc: Awesome, Awesome video. Thanks for posting. My heart sank when I read about your first one. Enjoy the new one.

Did anyone happen to see Emmitt Smith's acceptance speech into the Hall? Total class. What he said to Moose Johnston was just amazing.

Van Halen back in the studio with Roth to make another studio album!!!!!!

Axe- Awesome vid man! That guitar is beautiful. I see where Scubz is comin from on the odd looks; that new neck pup looked very out of place on a JS at first, but I think it fits quite nicely now that I've admired it a while. I think some people actually like it more than the traditional JS style.
What I would really like to see is the teal single coil prototype from the EH tour. That thing was a monster in looks and sound!

On another note, I'll use my 100th post to announce that, contrary to my Joe boycott, I will be attending the CF show at Lake Tahoe. (Got 2 tix for my b-day). Speaking of boycotts, I wonder if Joe has called it good with Arizona now that the Feds have pretty much scrapped the law.

Do The Stu- Have you decided on Chickenhoe yet? Tracie, I noticed that your name was on the attending list. I also noticed that they are doing after show pass giveaways for the two CF dates.

McDave-Glad ya liked it..Thanks!

jsTony- thanks....yeah my heart was shattered..and then broken....i had to try again...but i actually saved a heap of cash and i have the guitar a guitar of dreams and wishes.

Scuba- thanks...but i dont see the imbalance....it rang awesome from the first time i saw it..and i really like white guitars....i asked Joe once for new colors and he said which one and i said white...he seemed disappointed with the answer..lol..ok..Lime Green then..Really!..with led dots. I think a js1200 in white with white pups/all chrome would be a freekin awesome guitar.

turbo236- thanks..yep i agree with you..many will seek this guitar i think for its originality in design and excellent features that are second to none..the EH proto will always be a proto (i guess)...

In other supergroup news...

The Black Country Communion album will be released September 21. Here's some preorder info:

http://bccommunion.com/newsletter/

It looks like you can go here to get a free download of a song if you tell them your city/state and email address. I gave them my info but haven't yet gotten the email with more instructions.

EDIT - The email got caught in my spam filter. The free MP3 is One Last Soul, which is one of the two songs the band played at a Joe B. show a few months back. Sounds great!

Tonight I'm caressing a JS and a bottle of white. The white is getting more mileage currently lol

Here's another Always with me as you can never have too much of that song

... and maybe Up In The Sky to make this post a link fest

Axe - nicely done. What changed your mind on getting another? Did they just send you a replacement? Are you just straight uploading Mpeg2 by the way?

Scuba - good luck with giving up. Am sure you can do it! So, JSX or Marshall next?

Mattriani - nice job on always. What amp/effects? Agreed on the socks : ) C'mon, next it'll be Satch Boogie in PJ's!....

flloyd5 - hi, welcome back

.... and if the end of that vid gets you in the mood how about part of Ghosts on the same JS2400?

Hope everyone is well

Pip - hope that was a nice Australian white wine? Lovely to watch your vids again, *sigh* wish I could play like that. Gets me here every time.

scooblydoobly

That reference to the "large Australian chimpanzee''...wouldn't be anyone we know,by any chance would it??!!??