happy birthday Joe , hope you get to have some time off and see your family!!

Hello Joe, If you can see into the future, any idea when you might be playing in Reno, Nevada again or Vegas? Really enjoyed the benefit concert at the House of Blues in Hollywood, July 2011. When I walked out at the end I was 25 again and my ears were bleeding, OMG. I'm 64 and still flying ultralights. Take care and thanks for the music!!!

Listening to Machine Head on Spotify. It's always been one of my favorite albums.

R.I.P. JL

Amazing music.

Here's a nice little jam. Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Ricky Phillips and Ed Roth April 26, 2012 rehearsal at The Plant in Sausalito, CA for the Ronnie Montrose Tribute Concert on April 27, 2012 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA.

Check it!!

Deep Purple live in 1999 taken from TOTAL ABANDON AUSTRALIA '99 featuring Jon Lord

My goosebumps got goosebumps ffs!!

I just ordered this dvd. Hooooleeee shit maaaaan!

Ever since my father took me to see them in 1973 in Copenhagen, at the impressionable age of 9, Deep Purple has been the most constant, continuous and inspiring musical presence in my life. They have meant more to me than any other band in existence, and have had an enormous part in shaping who I am. So obviously I’m beyond bummed, saddened and devastated by today’s news of the untimely passing of keyboardist Jon Lord.

We can all be guilty of lightly throwing adjectives like “unique,” “one-of-a-kind” and “pioneering” around when we want to describe our heroes and the people who’ve moved us, but there are no more fitting words than those right now and there simply was no musician like Jon Lord in the history of hard rock. Nobody. Period.

There was nobody that played like him. There was nobody that sounded like him. There was nobody that wrote like him. There was nobody that looked like him. There was nobody more articulate, gentlemanly, warm, or fucking cooler that ever played keyboards or got anywhere near a keyboard. What he did was all his own. Including obviously his unique sound. Whatever it was he did with that Hammond organ, the way the Leslie distorted what he was playing and pushed it to some unheard of place, the way he attacked it while he was throwing it around, and whatever the fuck else it was that was going down between Jon and “The Beast”, as he called his organ, it was unlike anything before, during or after. That simple.

Deep Purple of course was also an entity all their own, always unpredictable, often impulsive, never repetitive and most of the time, other worldly. I had the good fortune of seeing them three times in Copenhagen between ’73 and ’75, numerous times again on the reunion runs in ’85 and ’87. We even played a couple of gigs in Germany with them in the summer of ’87 and needless to say, every time was an experience that had a major impact on me. Seeing Jon on stage right playing the riffs, the colorings, the textures, the next level solos, intros, outros, blues bits, classical pieces and whatever else came into his head each night AND on top of that keeping up with Ritchie Blackmore song after song, night after night, was the sign of the master of his craft . . . the most accomplished, original and unique hard rock keyboardist that ever walked this planet.

In 1992 when we played Munich on the Black Album tour, Jon Lord and lead singer, Ian Gillan came down to the show and stood in the snake pit the whole time. I was in heaven. Performing in front of members of the band that had meant more to me than anything in my life was a dream come true. And when I got a signed note after the show that they had had to leave and get back to their milk and cookies and be ready for the recording sessions the next day, I was simply beyond psyched. My hero(es) in the fuckin snake pit.!!!!! “Look Mom, on top of the fuckin world!!”

….Full circle for the impressionable 9 year old from KB Hallen in Copenhagen in February ’73.

Rest in peace Jon and THANK YOU for everything,

Lars

- nicely said.

GTFO!!

Crazy stuff going on there!

Whooznxt support stinks!

The contest is great and there are many talented entries.

We are having trouble with Whooznxt support.

My son's video for the Satriani Master Class contest "The Golden Room" had problems due to copyright infringement - YouTube actually labels the artist as "Joe Satriani" on his page because the content matched so closely. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKM4Pqyjo8

Though you can play the video from the http://Satriani.whooznxt.com site (he's number 22 on the list right now) THEY ARE NOT COUNTING ANY YouTube SUBSCRIPTIONS on his account!!!

We have tried to contact Whooznxt several times with NO response.

Hey Joe,

There's this crazy show here in Holland called 'Fans' which is all about deranged fans who are really devoted to their idol or that band they idolize. They go really far and it makes me laugh every time. However tonight I could sympathize with them because here I was left standing again together with just five other people at the back exit of the Heineken Music Hall, just in time to wave goodbye when the white van left in a hurry. I don't know. Just trying to get da masters' signature on my custom chromed guitar...Same thing in Tilburg in 2010... Am I taking this too seriously?