It's wedding day. Nice way to start the day! Hard to put make-up on with tears in my eyes. LOL!

RIP Diana

alexandrecaetano: My brotha it's great to see you here! :-) When the tsunami happened Roy told me there were some peeps here wondering how I was, and I found out how much I missed this place..Keep up the rock my friend, you have a lot to be proud for, and 3 dias 3 ano rocks..Warm Regards to your family! :-)

Thanks for all you do JOE, you are the epitome of your music, your few words speak volumes....

Hooray for the new Duke & Duchess! :-)

Yo /\/\/\R|<, death cube k san, that is so awesome to hear!! We are so happy for you guys, man, I am speechless..congrats again bro!! :-)

OMG Cube that's FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations to you and Brigette, many blessings on your whole family!! Kiss lil Jack for me!! I'm so happy I'm crying, LOL!!

Haven't watched the royal wedding yet, but I know I'll be crying like a baby when I do :) Diana must be so proud.

Ohhhhhhhhhh Mikey, Michelle is at work but she just heard the news and tole me to tell you to please start eating yer keyboard cuz the decision is now in....it's MANGINI!! LOL!

Congrats Cube !!!

There will be a little cube running around the house now - at least in a few months there will be.

Way to go Cube! Hopefully when I have a son, the mother will lets me name him Satch. or at least his middle name.

Kayla- its a local technical college so I pay by the class, 12 credits (about 4 classes) is full time student and last semester was $1800. this semester one of my classes was cancelled so tuition was only $1500 for 3 classes, but thats still a lot for me, If I do well in my classes I am guaranteed into the University of Wisconsin. That will cost a lot more, several thousand. So for the moment I am happy to pay $1800.

So the JS guitar will have to wait. $2000 is my whole years pay. but mark my words I will have one eventually.

cheese101: haha Tracie, I've been slow cooking my keyboard overnight like a Turkey and basting it with the electron juices, lmao!!!! It tastes like crap no matter what I put on it, and the keys are even worse!! But I'm happy for Mike, he is representing us MA folks, and that makes me proud!! :-)

michelle: Got any leftovers to go along with my keyboard, lol, this is the worst thing I've ever eaten, and even our dog cookie will have nothing to do with it, and she'll even eat celery, haha! Lucky I have a spare keyboard to type my sorrow's on, lol! In retrospect, I realize why Mike got it, and I think the boyz knew who their decision was going to be from the get-go.... Mike just has this presence, the "look" and the confidence like no other drummer I have ever seen, and I should have know better. I was just hoping someone could topple him (especially Marco, but he was not the DT "serious" type), lol, but Mike is representing my hometown of MA, and that ROCKS!! \m/ And now I cant wait to hear the new DT album!! I'm sure it will be sick!!

....And now I eat another key while I watch Mike Mangini win.... Keyboards are not good for dinner, and they are not recommended for children under 12! ;-)

Cube- Congrats to your family!

Interesting that Joe would post about his use of pedals as I was just looking through some of his old setup pics yesterday. He was really a Boss man back in the day (at one point, at least). It's kind of cool to see how his pedal board has progressed along with his career, up to the point where he has his own signature effects.

Joe Have you ever thought of auctioning off an old piece of gear or two every year, or even just something that you've used for one tour (or one show!)? Even an old broken guitar neck that you once played would probably do well at an auction.

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.