Allen Whitman, blog #3 from the road...

Dear Mr. Satriani, My son, Nathan, is 14 years old and he idolizes you. When he found out that you were coming to WA State on January 8, 2011, he was so excited. You should have seen the disappointment on his face when he found out that the Venue was for 21 years and older only. He watches your DVDs because he likes your style, they way you shred, your finger tapping and pinching. He hopes to someday meet you and even wrote an essay about that when he was in 6th grade. He has been playing the guitar for almost 5 years now. I hope that the next time you return to WA State, it will be open to all ages. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Dear Mr. Satriani, My son, Nathan, is 14 years old and he idolizes you. He was so excited when he found out that you were coming to WA State on January 8, 2011. You should have seen the disappointment on his face when he found out that the Venue was for 21 years and older only. He watches your DVDs because he likes your style, the way you shred, your finger tapping and pinching. He hopes to someday meet you and even wrote an essay about that when he was in 6th grade. He has been playing the guitar for almost 5 years now. I hope that when you return to WA State, it will be open to all ages. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Can someone help please any member out of Joe's band or Chickenfoot maybe? I'm taking a course at my school which insists that I study an idol of my choice, and I chose to do my project on Joe so can someone please help me by sending me a e-mal me some information on Joe and how his band has progressed throughout the years, I would prefer if the message was from Joe himself so I can actually have a personal description of his job. Please help me Joe i'm really counting on you I love all your music I even have one of your signature guitars please help me.

Send the letter to this email address: Liamsy_1996@hotmail.co.uk

Wow what a great gig on Tuesday 19th October! We met up with our old friends John and Sylv in the pub down the road, along with their friends and family, NJ Beast then joined us too. Off we all went to the Apollo and went to our seats, not many were there for the start of Simon Mcbride which was a shame as he played a very good set with some real rocking and loud stuff! Dave (my boyfriend) recognised his name as soon as he saw the ticket and remembered seeing him on a TV programme about child prodigys about 15 years ago, he was playing Joe better than Joe at the time LOL and there was an interview in his bedroom with Posters of Joe and Steve etc on his wall, so what a dream come true to be supporting his idol!...we saw him in the foyet afterwards and had a long photo shoot, signing and chat, very broad irish accent which was hard to understand at times, but he was a very nice and patient man. The unfortunate thing about the gig as far as Joe was concerned was that it was like piccadilly circus with people coming and going for drinks etc more than I have ever seen at a gig...twas ridiculous that the security were hot on telling people off for taking photos yet people getting up and down was fine! I dont see the logic...that was far more distracting than a flash going off! All that aside the gig was fantastic, some old classics in there were good to hear, I especially enjoyed Big Bad Moon as Joe sings and plays harmonica so well. A lot of other classics were in there like Why, always with me always with you, ice 9, Flying in a blue dream, Mystical Potato Head, where Joe admitted to not listening on the phone, Memories, Hoards of Lucusts, Wind in the Trees, Crystal Planet, Love Thing, Light Years Away, Piric victoria, Premonition, andalucia, Satch Boogie & Summer Song, wormhole Wizards, Dreamsong &...a favourite of mine from the new album Littleworth Lane all played fanastically well ! I do have to say that I didn't like the keyboards much, it wasOk when it blended in the background but there were a number of times where it drowned Joe out....if I was into piano I would go see Elton John or Richard Clayderman or whoever plays keyboards! I know that Galen and Joe were not happy with the general sound, Joe was making many gestures to the side as was galen. Tried to see Joe out the back afterwards but unfortunately, we saw them all in the van, but it drove past us...boo hoo...should have laid in the road.

THANK YOU JOE FOR COMING TO THE UK AND PLAYING SUCH AN AMAZING SHOW!

LOVE YOU

Well good news peeps. We have found a second gtr and a drummer. Both played in a Rush tribute band so the chops are there and both are really nice guys. Right now they are learning our current material while putting their own spin on them. Hopefully by Jan we will be writing new material. I will post recordings as they come in. We also have a vocalist coming in this week so we'll see how that goes.

Meantime I'm still waiting for the Roo Balckberry App to come out. :)

Joe Satriani - Dream Song Budapest 2010. 11. 08.

Satriella... hello. I'm from Sudbury, Ontario (Canada). This city was named after your town... the founder named the city after his wife (where she was from). Best wishes.

Far Rider - Welcome! - Are you a Dweezil fan too? Have you seen the Hendrix/Zappa guitar "restored" (using that term loosely)?

anibur - I don't know WT$#@! that ZZ thing was!

cheese101 - thanks for the 3rd Allen blog update!

Satriella - Thanks for the great review, stunned that you were not digging the Keneally keys, but I guess if the mix is off it can just overpower Joe & that's never a nice thing. I'm still really looking forward to seeing Mike play, hopefully the sound will be nicely balanced in Montréal. And yes, you should have laid down in front of the van! LOL ;0)

Peace Lily - Thanks for the link from Budapest!

I don't know of anyone has posted this before but I laughed my ass off (it's true! I now have no ass!) watching this vid of dude playing Satch Boogie on Telecaster ukulele (a T-Kulele?!). Well done, considering. And just when I thought my mind was well & truly BLOWN.. I watched this guy! *head explodes*

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Phydeaux_3-" Ukulele weeps" was lovely ...thanks for posting. Edit- this performance of the same is pretty awesome too Jake Shimabukuro LIVE Ukulele Concert: While My Guitar Gently Weeps wow.... :-)

Satriella- Thanks for review..sorry Joe got drowned out by keyboards..when the mix is right it they are such a welcome addition..too bad you did not get to experience Mike's contributions properly.

Glitzman- Thanks for your up-date, get luck with your runs....

Hello all! First time here so thanks for having me.

There's a good MusicRadar interview with Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson that I thought I'd share, since I've talked about that band here in the past and it seemed like some people were interested:

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-porcupine-tree-frontman-steven-wilson-293255

And if you'd like, you can go to their website and stream most of their music for free.

Hi!

OK so I bit the bullet and got two Buckethead albums, Colma and Electric Tears. Very good albums !

I really want to get Population Override or Captain Eo's Voyage next.

Peace Lily - Thanks! That one was even better... he sure puts his whole body into his music.

DTS - Nice! Prompted me to throw on Fear Of A Blank Planet. I've got it blasting right now... real good stuff! Also very interested to have read that Steven Wilson is remastering all the King Crimson stuff with Fripp... very cool!.

Basspedals - Good on ya mate! Definitely get Captain Eo's Voyage next, possibly also A Real Diamond In The Rough and/or Shadows Between The Sky! I'm doing the same thing as you, I was over-dosing on Joe (severely) so I'm trying to break it up a little now, I'll get hard-core into Joe-mode again a couple of weeks before the show.

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» Phy³

So then, I take it Joe's been to Budapest...

11 more gigs till he's back in the states. Wonder if they took any Twizzlers on the road with them?

Wanna get the in-laws out of the house a little sooner this year? Here's a one course meal for Thanksgiving that's sure to get the party moving from the table to the door a whole lot sooner. lol!

ack! lol!

Wow! Way to go Moscow, THAT'S the way to do Crowd Chant!! Woo!

The audience there seemed to totally love Joe and the guys in all the vids I saw, betcha they'll be invited back fer like...ferever, lol!

Chelle, I'm still waitin' on my chili delivery, izit coming soon? It's snowing here, and getting late and I might need to get to bed u know.....

Corrr great vids coming through thick and fast from the tour - all excellente. Those Ruskies sure had a great time, think I'd like to partay with those guys!

Satriella - great review, thanks.

*Sigh* let's hope the new Russian market doesn't mean Joe diverts his next tours there at teh expense of Oz, they certainly are cashed up so I could understand if he did but......