I guess Black Country Communion's new album, "2", will be available for pre-order starting April 18th, with a release date "sometime in June".

T, I'm gonna send it to ya, and yer gonna love it or else! When I say it's to country for me, I mean you'll love it! lol!

AGGGHHH! Tooooo country!

Joe, Just wanted to thank you for being such a big inspiration to my life. Your music has been in my life ever since your 3rd album surfing...I love your new album Black Swans. Awesome new feel~ Been playing 12 years and practice your music everyday. Hope to see you live once again and hope all is well in your life. One Love

Evocative of buffalo.

Smells like windmills....

Hey bartender, I'll have what they're having.

Hi Two Shay. I been busy with taxes and lookin' for work. All that fun stuff. Plus I've been reading RED.....Sammy has an interesting history. I like his cute baby pictures!

Hi Joe and Al and Tracie and Michelle and Pip and all the rest of Joe's fans here.

It's so quiet here! What's everyone been up to?

I'm two weeks into my new job. It's nice to be working on a "normal" 8-5 M-F schedule and being able to go to concerts without having to take a day off...haha.

Does anyone here know of Zoe Keating? I saw her open for Kaki King a few weeks ago and was blown away (it's always a nice surprise when an opener does that). She plays cello, with a lot of loops and delays to build up a song that she then solos over. It's really impressive to watch. Joe, if you're reading this, have you heard her? She's from San Francisco.

For something that more people here will probably know/like, I think the new Mr. Big album (What If...) is quite good. Check out the lead single here. It really reminds me of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge-era Van Halen. But more importantly, it's Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan...come on!

Hiya GoGi, glad to see yer still kickin'! Good luck on yer job search. Lots of peeps reading RED. It'll be a while (if ever) till I read that. I have a stack of 10 books on my desk to get through, + as soon as Nikki Sixx's book gets here, I'm gonna start that. Right now I'm reading Maya Angelou at home, and Stephen Colbert at work. I need his hilarity to get me though the day.I just don't find Sammy that interesting. What's actually going on here anyway?

Austin, I'll check yer links tomorrow. All my peeps are sleeping now.

looks like Joe is making a signature Marshall head. And he says the 2400 is he favorite guitar. So does that mean I should save up an extra $200 and go for the JS2400 instead of the JS1200?

Hi back Millie, hope you find a job very soon, it's a scary time I'm sure!!

Well lookit that, Matt King is all growed hup now, gots hisself an iPhone and everything!! Woot! :)

Ha! Yeah, let's give Mc some new knives and see what he can whhhhip up in the kitchen besides fingertip stir fry.

as well as shoehorns.

Austin- It's understandable that they would want to accumulate more material before they tour. My only beef about the first CF tour was that the songs off of the album definitely needed some rotation. Now for CF IV they will have to decide; do we play all of the songs off the new album or do we throw in some off CF I to keep the set list fresh. I would go with the latter.

Part of me wonders that if part of BCC's plan is to beat CF to the punch when it comes to the sophomore release.... I think sales of BCC's first album will suffer because of the way they've went about it, but I could be wrong.

Guitarman- I'm no guitar whiz by any means, but if it were my money, I'd save up the extra $200 and go for the 2400. That gets you the full 24 frets, a pretty unique pickup combo with the slightly hotter Mo' Joe bridge p/u and the Pro Track single coil at the neck. Everyone has great things to say about them. Otherwise, except for the color, I believe they are exactly the same as the 1200's.

Apr 12 2011 "Get Your Buzz On Live" to air on Palladia HD TV in April/May!

We've just learned that the high-def music TV channel, Palladia will be showing "Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On!" at the end of April/beginning of May. Currently scheduled dates are:

Master Satriani, Im just wondering if you have ever planned on releasing your music in "backtracks"? I know you will make money off of it, but Im willing to spend regardless. You the teacher, and releasing your music as backtracks, would benefit your guitar playing fans, as well as the young.

I have been searching for a backtrack of "Lords Of Karma" for almost 5 months now. I have found a real trashy one (almost MIDI sounding) but seriouslllyyy would be embarrassing to you.

And before I go on, for people that dont know what a "backtrack" is,. is its very similar to karaoke, but in the Masters case, since he dont sing, his guitar playing would be missing.

You can either sell online (individual, or whole CD) or have in record stores. For a CD of your backtrack, consisting of about 15 tunes, should go for about,,,,,$25 to $30 American dollars. Get ALL your tunes out there. Trust me Master it would sell.

And please, dont anyone just say "Hey, got to this site" The Master has been here for the world to listen to him, the least he should do is make a profit off it. I already have a few backtracks already, but the quality is just horrible.

Master Satch what do you think? I need "Lords of Karma" For some reason that song just has a hold on me. And if anyone know if he doing this ALREADY, can you email me at

dsbickford@yahoo.com

and title it "Satriani Backtracks" Please dont spam me. Just desperate for a legit, true quality backtrack version of "Lords of Karma" Im ready to spend money on it :)