Never noticed how dynamically produced the Self titled album was, just seen the Down, down, down soundwave... Very cool, wish more music produced liek this nowadays, instead of maxing absolutely every sound!

Cheese - good to know he's feeling better. Hope mums a little less stressed for the moment too? Pass him my best

Joe - class act as ever. Thanks

Blue Moon - you wanted curtains, you got more curtains

R.S.V.P by Heart covered by me

What did you do to check out that sound wave then?

Wooleyman - am sure I have some good photos of my gear somewhere but check above for a reasonable shot of my red/white JS. It's got Joe's exact set up on it now

JSTony, happy 10th anniversary!! May you have many more wonderful years together :)

Mc, no refills on the really good stuff, but so far ibuprofen is holding things at bay....he has pain today, but not as sharp as yesterday, so we're hoping he's just gonna keep getting better.

Grampy Steve, thanks for the information. I looked that condition up and it sure sounds like what was happening to Chris....I forwarded him the info too, even though the Dr. said it's not his heart, he's still nervous that could be it...so to get other info that appears to fit better gives him comfort. :) I appreciate it!

Thanks to everyone who also posted good wishes to Chris since last night....I think he's going to be okay, we'll see how it goes for him at work tomorrow. He does landscaping, so that will be very telling, see if he gets through the day okay there. He slept alot yesterday and slept in this morning, which is unusual for him but drugs prolly made him do it, lol....and he's trying to take it easy today but he gets bored....sigh....."but mom, I HAVE to play at least a little bit of guitar"....

He's (im)patiently waiting for Tarja's new cd to get to him in the mail, should be there any day now. And we're both (im)patiently waiting for Joe's new cd :) The two new songs we've heard have only whetted our appetites for MORE!! ASAP please! lol!

Scuba, glad you got yer ticket, that's always a relief! Sorry it was a mess for you, but in the end a good result.

Thanks everyone, we appreciate your kindness :)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JOHN AND JUNE SELBY, 66 WUNNERFUL YEARS TODAY!! They are so cute, I lubs them so, lol!

Carry on peeps!

Tracie - How is Chris doing? I'm sure he's better after seeing Joe's message. Thanks for the Anniversary wishes. Only 56 more years and I'll have caught up to your parents. LOL

Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Selby. You've got al lovely daughter and grandson.

Me, I'm off to New Zealand tonight for some extreme sports with the joeys.

Happy Friday everyone!

Thanks Skippy and Tony....I managed to sneak over some lovely flowers and a card to my folks, and in about an hour will take them out to dinner....my mom is already trying to figger out a way to pay SOMETHING towards dinner, but I've got her flummoxed, LOL!

Chris is doing okay, pain off and on...right now he's dealing with a dead amp so that totally blew his day, pun intended. He turned it on, and tubes started exploding. He called the company and they said it sounds like major problems, starting with the heater?? or cooler?? or....I dunno but he's bummed cuz this is the second amp to have issues, both brand new and well cared-for. So we gotta get that figgered out again but it'll work out, things always do :) Meanwhile he's gonna look for a cheap amp to get him by while this one goes back to be repaired.

Wasn't there a book by Gilda Radner titled "It's Always Something" ?? I do believe she's right, lol! She was a funny funny lady.

I wish wolfie would bring me some coffee! I'm the walking dead!!

Finally getting around to looking through pictures from Chickenhoe and recouping my thoughts from the concert. I'm finding that a lot of the pics that I took didn't turn out as well as I had expected. Out of 110 pics, I'd say I'll have about 20 good ones. I don't know if someone else tinkered with my settings or if I was just too much into the concert to focus on my picture taking, but I usually get better pictures than this. I'll get them posted when I finish weeding the blurry ones out.

As far as the show goes, Austin and Tracie both covered it pretty well. Aaron Hagar and the Wabos were a great start to a great show. A couple songs that stood out for me were Rock Candy, Summer of 69, and especially Halfway to Memphis. Like Tracie said, Aaron is a chip off the ol' rock; it was just like watching a young Sammy up there with his own band. In fact, Sammy watched most of their set from the side of the stage, and Aaron kept looking over at him and even asked at one point if he was satisfied with his performance.

This was only my 3rd time seeing Chickenfoot; 2 of which have been at Tahoe and the other being the famed Seattle road test show that was shut down by the City Fire Marshal. That being said, I think that the Seattle show has actually been my favorite show so far, even though the venue was horrible. But, even though I wasn't there, I think the DVD is the best I've seen the band perform together. That's probably why they chose to release the Phoenix show.

As Austin said, there was a little flub as Joe was coming out of 'Learning to Fall', but they recovered so well that I don't think most people noticed it. I also remember that Joe was a little late coming in to "Avenida" as Chad started pounding away, but again, I don't think anyone noticed. There were a couple other places I noticed that Chad got a little off beat and kind of shook his head as he corrected himself, but I wouldn't have noticed myself if I hadn't been looking at him at that exact moment. Not to sound like I am bashing, but it kind of showed that the band had not had much (if any) time to rehearse for the show (other than the show the night before, as Sammy noted during sound check). The guys were each individually on fire, especially Joe, but as a band I could tell that they have all been very busy outside of Chickenfoot.

The fact that these 4 guys can come together, out of the blue, and play kick-ass music without having hardly any time to rehearse it is a testament to how well these guys work together. Chickenfoot is Chickenfoot, and I was thrilled to hear Sammy say that they are going to work around Chad's schedule and wait until January to go into the studio.

Another thing that stood out to me was that Joe didn't seem to use his effects as much as he has in the past. Not that it's bad at all, just something that I noticed. I was hoping he would do the intro to 'Get It Up' in the style of the DVD, but he did a very exotic 'middle eastern' intro instead, which was super awesome! He also did an extended solo on BBTW, which was a 10 out of 10, and had the most incredible tone I think I've ever heard! Maybe a song or two from Tahoe will show up on a future DVD. It seemed to me like his tone was a bit different compared to Tahoe last year. I assume he was using a proto of the Ice 9 last year and maybe the final product this year, but I really didn't care as much for his sound this year. I know Joe is always tweaking, so who knows what it is. I'm no good at describing sounds, but it had a little too much of something and not enough of another (for my taste).

The crowd was at least 10x better this year , but still had room to improve. That's just Tahoe for ya! I was literally sick to my stomach from all the pot smoke around us by the time the show was over. Ugh! Too bad the security folks can't do anything more than stand there and laugh.

New York City Battered by Fierce Storm

YIKES!!! That was a wicked one!!

My apologies for the huge post. I actually used up all 4,000 characters...

One thing I left out that I posted a couple days ago about the show was that Joe's performance of the Star Spangled Banner at the end of the show is without a doubt the single most memorable moment from any concert I have ever attended. It wasn't too fast, wasn't too slow. He didn't add any flair to it; just the Star Spangled Banner, plain and simple, from the heart, full of emotion- perfect!

Tracie-Sorry to hear Chris is having problems with his amp again. That JSX has really been giving him a fit. Maybe Joe was having a lot of the same problems with his- thus our explanation for the switch to Marshall?? I picked up an OLD 30 watt solid state Traynor amp on craigslist and a Digitech RP70 a while back; $60 for the pair. I ended up having to replace the speaker in the amp, but it works incredibly well. I absolutely hate the way it sounds, but for no better than I can play, I don't need anything fancy. I also have a 15W Fender bullet reverb that sounds heavenly, it just isn't loud enough! Hope he can get it fixed up.
Is is still under warranty?

Watch how this storm rolled in - amazing!

Tracie--I hope Chris is feeling better and you are feeling more at peace. Joe's wishes on here are so wonderful and show what an in-the-moment man he is.......means so much!'

A Train of Angels from Joe is a huge comfort to me! Bring 'em on!