HAHAHA What better topic for school can I talk about other than my HERO!

They are asking who has been our inspiration, our motivator, our hero! HAHAHA

Joe totally rocked the Roseland Theater tonight in Portland!

It truly was an amazing experience. The Meet & Greet package was well worth it, too. My Ibanez JS1200 Joe Satriani Signature guitar finally has, well, a real signature. ;-) The privilege of actually meeting my guitar idol can't really be put into the proper words. What I can say succinctly is that Joe is incredibly generous with his time, his thoughts, and his kindness. This evening just made my whole year, and we're only 11 days into it! :)

It was great to meet you Peace Lily! Maybe I'll catch you at the next Satch PDX show, whenever that may be.

Peace,

Cuts draw blood
Arizona has shredded safety net, pushed 45% of state mental health services recipients off the rolls

Recessions Kill
"I know those people are haunted with demons. I'm very concerned about it." – Arizona's GOP Governor Jan Brewer on massive cuts in mental health spending, January, 2010

Everyone Saw It Coming
"By slashing these programs, experts say the state will force more people to use emergency rooms or end up in the criminal justice system, which will cost the state more." – July, 2010 article

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Peace - how was it?????

Just watching in disbelief the footage of Brisbane under water, including the city skyscrapers, southbank where I spent a new year's eve once, suburbs totally swimming with only rooftops visible. My friend who lives there spent the day canoeing round his suburb helping people after sending his family away south. No power until Saturday. No business, no transport, the whole city is stopped. E-coli and other diseases are next. Unbelievable.

Its our turn for a tour Joe!!

Thanks again to all for the lovely messages about mum...funeral was yesterday...it was very surreal...it didn't feel like it was my mums funeral at all..I didn't feel sad at all.

Still onward and upward preparing for the wedding now!

Roffler....It doesn't really matter if its rocky coz I am a rocky kinda girl...but you do kinda feel it should be a more mellow song for a wedding...all in all I keep listening to tracks and thinking "oh yeah this would be good" however...my mind still comes back to "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" its always been my favourite and its kind of my HAPPY PLACE...it always makes me smile...the only thing is I kind of feel that its Rubina's song so maybe it would be wrong from that standpoint to use it?

Kayla - Wow what a night for you...nice relaxed pictures with the guys....you look lovely...but as you say...it takes so long to come then over in a flash boo hoo...now we wait....again!

Since Queensland is 75% flood effected, and Queensland is twice the size of Texas, that means it's like 1.5 texases being flooded!

And since qld is 5 times to size of the uk, that's over 4 entire uk's flooded at once!

Woah!
Roo

Roo, it's also more than Germany and France combined!! That's serious flooding.

Yes, we all made it here safe and sound...biggest ordeal of our trip was finding parking in San Francisco, LOL!! Mc and JJ had their own stories...The roads were decent, not at all as bad as I feared they may be. But I had my chains just in case!!

Went to an Italian restaurant where right out of the gate the guy who seated us was rude to our friend JJ...that started the tone for the whole evening...that and Mckenna being late and having "Issues", LOL! But it was a good evening, rowdy until the lights went out (even then it took a few to settle down...a lot like summer camp, LOL!!)

So now...I'm up just after 6:30, the rest are still snoozing and I'm checking the puter....coffee next. Hope the weather is decent today, we're going to go exploring :)

JJ brought a t shirt for Mc, and fabric pens...we're going to scribble on it all week to decorate it for him...of course there will be rude comments and images put on, I'm sure, LOL!!

Zyko demon- LOL that's so funny! It was such a good show! I thought for crowd chant we did pretty good but summer song coulda been better!! It was funny cause I had watched vids on youtube and live in paris so much I knew it was a call and response so I was doing it but it totally sounded like in the beginning I was alone.. I still went with it then all the bulding got the idea when Joe kept moving his hands. Where were you seated? Shoot me an email. I got tons of pics!

Kayla- I think we were a pretty good crowd. At least compared to Reno 08. I really enjoyed the "intimate" size of the venue. The sound was just right (for me, at least), although Galen was a little quiet there, too. I didn't go to hear Galen, though. Haha! I thought the crowd was going to be lame-o until Joe broke out Satch Boogie. I really wasn't all that excited to hear it again, but when the crowd started screaming my perspective changed! I thought it was cool that pretty much everyone in the house got into Crowd Chant too.
I was a little bummed that nobody picked up on the call and response at the beginning of Summer Song, but then again a LOT of the people I talked to had never seen Joe live before including DVD's, so part of me wasn't surprised. I didn't really know what to think of Joe's rendition of Wind in the Trees, I think he just kind of started playing and took it somewhere far, far away. Definitely a far stretch from what he was playing in October!

Here's a link to my photos I took last night.

So I have some questions.. is it normally eaiser to learn to play sitting down or standing up? For learning, what is the right things to play to begin?