Ian, thanks very much for the offer of help, I very much appreciate it :))) But Austin is already on board for me, he's going to SLAY ticketmaster and score us front row seats along with passes to anywhere backstage in the venue at ANY time including Joe's dressing room and catering....and all fer the low, low price of nahnteen nahntee fiahve!!

LOL!!

Okay, okay...so he can't quite do ALLLLLLLL of that, but he IS gonna score our tickets for us for the Oakland show while I'm out in the field doing my job :) As for the Reno show, if yer able to buy tickets for that show tomorrow, then by all means buy yers PLUS 3 for me please and thank you, preferable front row center/leftish of center :) But last I saw, it said those tix go on sale on Thursday....I'm in the office Thursday morning, am taking my break at 9:59 and will be madly clicking to buy our 3 tix like everyone else, LOL!

Ticket buying is so dang stressful it's a wonder I survive to actually make it to the shows!

I got a cd package in the mail today and got freakin excited...thought nahhhhhhhhhhhh, BSAWW???? But yeah, thought mebbe, LOL...but no, it was Sully Erna's Avalon cd...so I'm happy with dat :) I do wish *I* would get an email saying *MY* BSAWW cd's have shipped TOO...I live near the west coast so if So Cali peeps are getting shipment notices, shouldn't I? Sigh....

Great song T - The Departed Listen to the lyrics.

It ain't Godspank sista!

Thinking of Katherine Satriani & Joe's family makes me feel warm & fuzzy. Littleworth Lane is just sooo....huge.

To all the great mama's out there - cheers!

Tracie- I got a little confused there with the dates... You're going to too many concerts for me to keep track of! I thought you were going to be out of the office when the Reno presale started; but I was also thinking that if one person bought tickets for everyone who was going, we could all sit as a group- like you guys did with the Napa presale.

Mahavishnu- Sounds like you didn't fare much better than I did for Spokane tickets. When did you buy yours??
I ALMOST bought tickets for Portland last night, but it was gonna cost me $500 just for the trip, and I don't have that kind of money right now. I'm extremely lucky to be able to see Joe at all this year, let alone twice! I'll see you in Reno as well!

turbo236 - I think, if I understood Tracie correctly (and that's a big if, hahaha...j/k):

She won't be around tomorrow to buy any tickets tomorrow, which is why she asked me to buy her Oakland tickets.

She is able to buy Reno tickets on Thursday. But if for some reason you notice Reno is on sale tomorrow (a day early...unlikely, but you never know), buy them for her because she won't be able to (and I won't be able to either, because I'll be buying her Oakland tickets at the same time).

Confusing enough? I hope this stuff isn't on the test! ;-)

Mahavishnu, I had the same problem with getting to the correct presale page for the Portland show. And you are right, the Roseland is not my favorite venue. The Schnitz is awesome, even Keller, or the Armory. I got the premium package which gave me a seat in the front row...of the balcony. It's still worth it to me, but I may ask him why the Roseland has been the venue for his past 4 tours. Maybe it's a money thing.

Austin- Yeah, I think I've got it all sorted out now. I don't anticipate the presale starting tomorrow, but I should be up by then so I'll jump on here and check it out again just in case. The event page still lists all the same information so we should be safe with Thursday.

Mahavishnu- I was trying to buy tickets online for Spokane but kept seating me on the far right side, so finally I just called Ticketswest and told them what seat I wanted. That's how I ended up right behind you. I looked at pics of the venues and the hotels around them and the Bing Crosby obviously won out. I am staying in a hotel that is walking distance away, so I'll just have to take a cab to and from the airport, which is about 15 minutes away I believe.

Posted a new instrumental at:

http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/logicbdj/

Scientists in Britain built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the newly developed fast trains, all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

NASA engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new space shuttle. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof windshield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the astronaut's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.

The horrified Americans sent the disastrous results of the experiment back to the UK, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the Brit scientists for suggestions.

(You're gonna love this . . .)

The Brits responded with a one-line memo -- (below)

Hey Joe, Nice Pic! see rare photo of Joe, Steve...and Rubina?

http://vai.com/SightsSounds/rarephotos/index.html

Big Bad Moon Joe...

http://ec.cdn.cincopa.com/Steve+and+Joe+Purple+Shirt.jpg?o=1&id=0&res=346&h=rq4tiqdzfxdjbm0jjowo5x1ihurza2j4&cdn=ec&p=y&pid=110887&ph=xz0ycccnymcklct4x4na0b1ba1bebdmm&d=AsDA7AAd9DAA6guoAMckxhK&as=mp3

Love the collar , belt and tie Joe...very cool...even today

now that's a link