Cube - excellent news, congrats!!!

Kayla - I`m doing fine. Today lots of work, moving old tapes for a new space. Tomorrow we will get 35 000 cds for our warehouse to sell later in our clients. Lots of work as you can see :). Thanks for asking and you? :)

Mikeyd - Thank you so much for your words, you rock as always :). You are very kind :). Say hello to all family and have a great weekend. I`m pretty happy about Mike Mangini in Dream Theater, what a tremendous Drummer :). Cheers my friend, later ;).

Michelle - you are right, i felt very emotional for not see Diana with her son :/. RIP Diana.

DCK - Congratulations Mark, enjoy the new life, i love it :).

JOE - the Chickenfoot cd is done? Hope so. Nice to see you and sorry about what happened in USA. Many people died :-(. Warm regards to you Dear Professor.

Good weekend friends, love and later

If you want to laugh - or suffer - I'm playing live Satch covers here for as long as my fingers last and I can remember songs

Congrats Mark on the little Jack Cube.

CUBESICLES- Congrats man on the little one !!

What a great day! After a very long day, I finally have time to get online and say...

CONGRATS AND MUCH LOVE TO THE LONDON FAAAAAMILY!

Ahh man, that just makes my heart so happy!

Mikey, my hubs sent me a text message this morning to tell me Mangini was in. First thing I thought of was your big smile with keys for teeth. lol! Big lettered teeth that spell LMAO!

Alexandre. so glad to see you post again! Nice to hear that your beautiful daughter is getting so big. They grow up so fast. I hope everything is well with you and your family. Only a few more days until we pick up our new baby from the cat rescue foster mom. He's a Manx kitten named Loki. He'll be 9 weeks old next Saturday. He'll add to our family and be kitty #3. Did you get another dog since Hadji passed? I know a baby and a puppy are a lot to handle, so maybe Matilde is enough for now? Hugs!

This post has been on hold for about 2 hours while a friend has chewed my ear to pieces over the phone. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice yourself for a bit to make someone else feel better. My head is numb. lol!

I've had the DT vid on stand-by the whole time! lol! Time to watch it!

edit: wow, that vid took about 30 minutes to load, and kept stopping every few seconds - but so worth watching Mangini's reaction! Nice they showed a bit of Portnoy in there too.

alexandrecaetano: Thank's brotha, we are having a relaxing weekend, and I can't wait to hear what DT sounds like with Mike!! Have a wonderful weekend with the family and Warm Regards. :-)

death cube k: Congrats again /\/\R|<, and my first daughter was a C-section..same thing. The nurses had Mommy up and walking the next morning..it helps heal quicker.

michelle: haha, LMAO is right, and I have written on the blackboard Mike Mangini is the winner 1,000 times so I wont forget, and I am really looking forward to what they sound like!! I am thinking in the realm of Train Of Thought Honor Thy Father!!.... This song (and album) really gets me going cause it is about the heaviest they get, and Mike is just inhuman on this!!!! Love the riffage in the intro....Sick, sick, sick!!!!

Hello Joe ,I'm new in the band !!!!!

It would be so great that next time you come to France in Solo or with Chickenfoot !!!! taht you play anywhere than only Paris !!!! please think to us in South of France sometimes we haven't possibility to go to Paris......Come in Toulouse ,Carcassonne, Montpellier.....

Hello Joe

It's a real pleasure talking with you, the best guitarist in the today's world, you want to play in Brazil? There is a date?

Best Regards

Mikey, Train of Thought is my fav DT album, and Honor Thy Father is my fav song from it! lol! When it first came out, I'd blast it in my little Honda Civic that had killer speakers, and it would be like heaven on earth - at concert level! lol! Funny it never blew out a window when it got right past the 5 minute mark and that chugging starts. lol! That car was so bitchin' for my music. lol! Now I have stock Toyota Corolla speakers in my car. Just not the same :-/ lol! Bet the kid we sold the Honda to had fun with it. lol!

Cube, some time within the next week or so, email me a pic of the baby if you will. I wanna see him too, and I'm so not down with the whole fb thing.

As for Mangini, I saw him in action two times. He was playing with Steve on the first G3 tour. I remember he REALLY blew me away with his skills. The first local G3 show (with EJ) was at the Valley Forge Music Center, which was a revolving stage, so we got all angles of the band. Had to be a bitch for whoever was on stage though. LOL! That was really cool because you could see the drummer from all angles, and not just in the back of the stage (boo!) The second G3 (with KWS) was at the Electric Factory. I distinctly remember Robert Fripp making what sounded like whale sounds for what seemed like hours before the show started. lol!

Cool! Check out this little flashback I found.

michelle: Haha, lol, I do the same thing when I pop DT's TOT cd in my van!! It has got to be the coolest intro to get you going, and it just makes me want to bang myself in the head ala Portnoy, lol, cant get enough of the crunch they deliVA!! :-) Lol on your Civic, I know what you mean about the speakers cause my wife wants me to get rid of our too big Toyota Town Ace van, but I don't want to cause I installed a killer system when I bought it back in '99 and the mini tweeters @ head level give me that concert effect you were talking about! :-)

Btw, thanks for that Mangini blast from the past! I'd love to get one of those "tour books with the music"!!

Hey DCK.. congrats on your little bundle of joy.

WOW I can't believe I am going to see Joe twice in 7 months. Once in Toronto of 2010, and now this coming July in Ottawa at BluesFest. Bought my husband surprise tickets for the concert and I can't wait to give them to him on his birthday in a couple of months. (If I can keep a secret that long) LOL Hopefully there will be an opportunity to get his Ibanez autographed this time around.

Thanks for coming to Ottawa Joe, you saved us older folk less driving.

Mikey, first I had Blaupunkt speakers, and they were awesome...until I blew 'em. lol! Then I got Sony Explode speakers, and they did the job very nicely! That being said, I do tend to say "what?" a lot these days. lol! I literally say to my boss "What? Sorry, to much Metallica" when I have to make her repeat herself. Protect yer ears kiddies! I work in a somewhat loud environment, so the background noise of the AC really drowns out a lot...except what I would like it to... lol! I say buy something smaller, and take all the good stuff out before you sell the biggin'! lol! You and Kay can both be happy :-)

As for Mangini...oh the cartoons that run through my head...Portnoy is known as "the camel" so... will Mangini spit or swallow? I'm just sayin'...

Cube, little Jack is beautiful! I'm so happy for you guys. The next few years will be the best! Enjoy every minute! Thanks for taking time to send me the pics.

Happy May!