Well, what can I say about the new album? I think it's cool that the title is taken from "third stone from the sun" on Jimi's first album "Are you experienced?"......"Strange, beautiful, grass of green.. and your majestic silver seas....your mysterious mountains I wish to see closely..may I land my kinky machine?"

Since obtaining my copy on 25th June from the Southampon branch of HMV i have played it quite a lot. Not only does my darling wife Julia and I love it to bits BUT my teenage daughter Emily has taped it to take with her on her school trip to Spain. Far out-when I was her age I HATED the music my dad listened to!

Great that there is a Shadows track "sleepwalk" (perhaps "Atlantis" for the next album-hwhen you're ready), but above all , thanks Joe for another complex, melodic, varied and listenable album. "You saved my life" is just SO lovely, but there are so many "STRANGE BEAUTIFUL" guitar moments-well just thanks for doing it again, Joe. Look after that family of yours, and LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.

See ya at Shepherd's Bush Empire.

see you tomorrow, great man! I will have to drive up from Southampton as we have a London underground railway workers strike, what a drag! Still, nothing will spoil my day as long as I get to the Shepperd's Bush Empire in time. Sorry for my fellow Brits who didn't get tickets, I know how you feel-I missed the first G3 tour due to poor information. Joe, many of us here in England love you very much, we don't want you to wear yourself out touring too hard or too often or spend too much time away from your loving family, BUT-if there was a way for you to play a few more or bigger venue gigs....you need to know that the London show was sold out very quickly. What about the "special relationship" Bush and Blair are so keen on?

ANyhow...

OUTSTANDING performance at Shepperd's Bush Emire last night! Thanks especially for playng "I Believe", Joe. Drums a bit loud though, de-emphasising the guitar a touch, but what a minor criticism given a FANTASTIC night with Mr Satriani and the band!

Any chance of a few more English gigs another time? There were a dozen touts outside the auditorium ofering money to fans for "spare" tickets. This unfortunately sends a message which might tempt some to buy extra tickets to sell to touts for a profit, which is hard on genuine fans many of whom are students and not wealthy.

THanks again Joe for playing in London

Just back from G3 in Bournemouth, England. Wow! outstanding guitar music, love the new red guitar-is it a JS1200 or a 2000???

I would score the evening 7.5 out of ten, points lost for not playing SUMMER SONG and for the poorly received opening solo from Robert Fripp (who can do MUCH better that this)Someone should politely tell Mr Fripp though that if he's going to play an tuneless atonal experimental freeform solo lasting half an hour, he ought to get the sound balance right and maybe vary his playing a little-from where I sat there was unhappiness and a lot of people muttering and walking out.

Joe my old mate, thanks for fulfilling the promise you made about 7 years ago to come back to this part of the UK.

Suggestions for next G3....

(a) we'd prefer "an evening with Joe Satriani", Joe we just love you so much that we want more of you.....

(b) try someone from the world of classical or jazz, maybe even a non guitarist like the amazing English violinist Nigel Kennedy. DID YOU HEAR his Hendrix album!?!?!?!?!!?!?!? i wouldn't have believed anyone would have the audacity to cover "1983 a merman I should turn to be" but he did it very beautifully,

Totally bizzare. After watching G3 in Bournemouht on Sunday, I happened to be near my local guitar shop today and dropped in. Notiiced a beat up steel six Framus, exactly the same model as my first decent guitar-a Framus, German make. Remember going up to Shaftesbury avenue in London with a friend to spend our summer holiday job money on guitars, he bought a second hand Fender, I bought the Framus. That was in the summer of 1974 when we were teenagers (I'm 48).

this guitar was distinguished by having a deep brown sunburst body, contoured back, wide wedge-shaped head, and laminated neck. Same guitar. My one had a hole on the top made by an iron bar that rolled off a shelf on to it. So did this one.

Stone me, it was my old guitar from 26 years ago! I had given it away to an impoverished student friend in 1978, I heard he later sold it to pay his rent. Someone had repaired the hole with the back of a watch.

Beat up as it was, the old guitar still sounded pretty good (it was the best guitar in the east end of London in my price range in 1974) despite the worn out string and cracked bridge-obviously there was no alernative but to buy it.

Greetings Joe and thanks again for playing at Bornemouth UK. I wasn't going to take my 16 year old daughter as I said she wouldn't appreciate your music but she said she was upset by this assumption so I bought her and boyfriend tickets and they enjoyed it.

I know people ar always making suggestions about albums and G3 partners, I hope you will permit me to add my suggestions. PLease consider collaborating with Nigel Kennedy, the famous British classical crossover violinist. He produced a best selling CD of Vivaldi's four seasons and has also produced Doors and Hendrix albums, working with classical and jazz musicians and playing in reduced orchestra style. Have you heard his brilliant brilliant brilliant "Kennedy Experience" CD on which he does 3rd stone from the sun, little wing, drifting, 1983 a merman I should turn to be (I'm not joking, its brilliant-worthy of the master) purple haze and fire? There's a musician who really broke the mould.

So how about Joe and Nigel, axe and fiddle, crossing boundaries and reaching new audiences? as my friends beavis and butthead might have said 'he he, that would be COOL!"

SAMMY

sorry to hear about the woman at your work who was shot by her intoxicated boyfriend. Hope she recovers. Drink and guns shure dont mix.