JOE, my man, its been many years I been waiting for you to come close enough to Texas to see you live!!!

Well. I thought finally for the Colossal tour it was going to happen, it didn't, as usual, my life interupted and I couldn't go.

I heard you rocked Austin last year.

Well..... I was already slated to be in Las Vegas this year this week, when I found out your playing here at the HOB I flipped!!!

I got tix and dude, Im gonna try and get as close to the stage as possible!!!! If you happen to read this look for the crazy fool wearing the San Antonio Spurs shirt and hat tommrow night because thats me, Jeremy from Tx who had to come all these miles to finally see you.

Im also pumped to get to see Paul and John as well.

dude, if they were filiming g3 here in vegas that would be sweet

holy....

i just saw a photo of what the HOB vegas venue looks like, its small

so that means no matter where i wind up on the floor this is going to be loud and intimate, oh yea, im so stoked cant you tell?

this probably aint the right place for it, but oh well

g3 07, in a nutshell, saw the Vegas House Of Blues Show

F'ing A man!!!

good god those guys were having too much fun, they really were, Paul Gilbert went up first, he owned, then it was John Petrucci time, he owned, but.....

Satch took the show. They started off with One Big Rush. Dude I was pumped, thats one of my favs. I figured he would only play two or three songs, well..... lets see if I can remember it all, I was so excited its hard to keep it all straight in my head right now.

After One Big Rush, and the order of songs may not be entirely right, Im still a bit buzzed too hehe

Ice 9, Satch Boogie, Surfing with the Alien, Circles, Crowd Chant, The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing, Flying in a Blue Dream, and then Always with me, Always with you. I might be leaving one or two out, lets just say they all kicked major @$$.

On the outro of Always with me, Always with you a second guitar started up and Petrucci joined him from the right of the stage, then a few mins later still in the outro Gilbert arrived from the left. That was too friggin cool.

Once they got the G3 jam going, it was Foxy Lady and some cool Hendrix action, followed by Im going down, a G3 jam classic from the first one and finally Jumping Jack Flash.

Yep, these guys owned all the way around. Im sorry Im cutting things short, still buzzed and need sleep ;)

Oh, really quickly, the Ibanez guitars report, Satch used a Js1000 in white, a JS2PRM, a Js1200 and the JS whatever it is Super Colossal paintjob guitar.

Gilbert had some white RGish double neck guitar in white with his Signature painted F-holes, and then a Cool RFR RG body that appeared to be an RG550 one, but it had a rosewood and sharktooth inlaid neck, looked like a Franken Ibanez of some sorts with all sorts of stickers on it and mismatch colored pickups, black and white and creme colored to be exact.

Sorry, no other Ibanez guitars graced that stage. Side note, Galen Henson the Rythm guitarist actually had a few Sz's if Im remembering right now.

Well, thats all I should write for now I guess.

Cheers all, go see this show if you still can, these three on stage together should be Illegal.

im still pinching myself that i was no more than 25 feet from the amazing satch and his beautiful guitar work, crazy aint it

now i finally understand what folks have always said that its taken to a whole new level when you witness his guitar wizardy firsthand, boy Im definately going to try and catch this dude live again at somepoint in the future, I just got home from my Vegas trip and I have some very Jealous friends now who still don't believe me that I saw him, even with my ticket stub to prove it :D

Thanks Joe, didn't get to meet ya but it was well worth the long trip to see you.

just a shout out to Joe, Galen, Jeff and Dave...

Loved the music, thanks for playing your hearts out for us this G3 07, Im still pumped about seeing you guys this year and sometime in the near future hopefully

J

well maam, umm i had to go from texas all the way to vegas to see Joe, so yea theres nothing wrong with going a few thousand miles like that, no airplane, just a long drive

hey audio jimbo, your daughter wasnt the only one that showed up like that, i seen a few where i saw joe

hehehe i actually thought wow, could i crowd surf like in the middle of alien or something.... yep I've done alot of that at several ozzfests and a ton of other punk shows, so much fun, your so right, total different type of crowd, it would be the coolest thing to be the first to crowd surf while joe was playing surfing with the alien, to my knowledge not sure if anyones ever crowd surfed at a joe show at all, thats a question i have reserved to ask him if i ever get a shot at meeting him eventually, god I would love to be the first, im crazy enough to do it too, IMHO the musics perfect enough for it, it has to be high energy, yep, no moshing though, just surfing, moshing sux when your a lil guy like me

yep, i sure as hell would crowd surf though during the alien

then I could officially change my name to "I really surfed with the Satch man"

that would be cooler beans than any autograph to be the first hehe

kinda mad at myself that I didn't attempt it, dont think it was the right venue though hehe

how rude of me, i totally forgot to say hi to Satriella and Kayla while I was on here, im so sorry

these are for you 2

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hi all

hope your weathers as great as mine, sadly i was indoors though and watch the san antonio spurs get screwed, such BS grrr, tossing timmy out like that, yep im getting excited about the NBA post season again, its thier year though, have to believe in your team, always have faith with good and with the bad, sucks when they lose though :(

hey K, remember

@ satriella you're very welcome ;) and I want to know all about the London guitar show and PG's show when you have it, many many thanks again for the sketches of the kids

@kayla

sorry I missed ya online tonight, maybe soon hopefully and thanks for letting me tell you about my crazy wierdo dream I had

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big hug from me as always, remember to smile alot, it looks good on ya

@ all the other folks in here, have a great monday

@ michelle, thanks for sharing that, i been saying all along it should have been illegal to allow those 3 on the same stage together, this confirmed it, no offense meant Joe, your great as always but the addition of Paul was what really made this g3 great

@satriella, as soon as they arrive in the mail you will be the first to know his reaction, hes going to flip over that sketch, i know it, BTW be safe on the train that late, I would hate to never hear from you again :( if i lived closer I would go with ya, to see Paul of course but more importantly so you would have a bodyguard, hehe yea right with my build some bodyguard hehe, and someone needs to keep you from running at the stage and ooops, i probably need to be quiet hehe, sorry about that, I wont tell promise

@michelle, yea I was quite happy Stevie wasn't going to be there and it was Paul instead, dudes a total trip aint he, Sandy's gonna love seeing him, Vais cool and all but I think the variety factor is a good thing, of course if theres ever a G3 without Satch whats the point in going right???? :)

@shredguy, I agree, a gun is a tool nothing more nothing less, someone has to physically load it, physically discharge it, they don't do that by themselves, we could completely outlaw them, but man has devised many other ways of killing each other long before guns, I could go beat the crap out of someone with my barehands, are we going to outlaw hands and cut everyones off thier arms..... doubtful

anyhow

@ everyone else, good morning, have a nice day

@ kayla who seems to be MIA at the moment.....

Hi all....

@k babe, there you are :)

@any of the guitar players in here, anyone check out those new Ibanez RG 20th anniversary guitars yet? im like so in love and want one now after playing on one for a few hours

its all the buzz on ibanez forums and jemsite

@ zen

Im very well aware this is not an Ibanez forum, I just asked a simple question, sorry

on the same note, with the 20th Vai model just coming out and the 20th Rg's as well its been floating around what Joe and Ibanez are up to, he did that interview a while back on him and Ibanez being up to something and a few of us are excited about the possibility of that maybe being the JS 20th anniversary, if they do a production 7 string JS thats going to be the shiznit, 20 years is just around the corner ;) since the first JS1's

no worries zen, ibanez is very good hehe

have you ever seen this by chance....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GP9VZo3ix0

its been killing me to know what they are up too... :) joe I know you can't say anything even if you did pop in here but please, any hints would be fab man

not a damn thing wrong with a strat sir, nothing at all, had one along time ago, hope you enjoyed the link

@ kayla, grr im happy and sad now hehehe

ill just sit back and let them ponder though, it should be fun, thanks for the information

lets go K, not only is Satch going to be there but Stone Sour too, grrr, that would be sweet as is without Joe, Metallica too, arrrghhh, thats a pretty fat bill to attend

I'll buy you a glass of Super Bock In Libson :) Hell I'll buy ya 2 or 3, deal?

yea, lets go meet her hehe

zen, that reminds me of one, have you come across this yet? Malmsteen thinks hes god

Best Wishes Sandy