Delfino Pie- you said... if you're talking about sitcoms only, here are my thoughts on those you mentioned

Fawlty Towers - definitely Only Fools And Horses - never particularly enjoyed or watched this Bottom - very funny at times, yes, possibly not in top 10 though Black Adder - yeah, this deserves a top 10 place Red Dwarf - probably also a top 10er though not as strong as some others... Men Behaving Badly - in the same class as Bottom... good but probably not top ten... The Young Ones - yeah... low in a top ten... Porridge - never particularly watched or liked.. Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - how DARE you... this is truly awful (everything i've seen of it)... Coupling - good, can be very funny, yet to fully prove itself though...

here's a favourite family guy quote -

stewie - yes, I rather like this God fellow, very theatrical you know... and omnipotence... gotta get me some of that!

olympics - great britain just got their first medal with a silver in men's synchronised diving - really cool little competition that - great to watch.

americans seem to be good at anything that doesn't involve working in a team (all individual events) but in team sports they are way lower... it seems that there is a high value on winning in america and getting the best for you... I think this leads to individual success rather than team success.

YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, THIS IS AN ADVANCED WARNING

do not spend all your money in the coming weeks - for on August 31 Jordan Rudess (keyboardist in Dream Theater)'s new solo album comes out. So what? Well, Satriani plays guitar on one track, and there are some other great musicians on it. Keep back a bit of money for that one!

mr nick - radio 2 could be a lot worse than it is...

mr nick - like austin said, i'm a JR fan... though I could have phrased my sentence better- meant that in the same way as Jordan Rudess, I don't like listening to radio...

yoda - shoot the guy who took that picture of you! i bet he did it deliberately as a joke...

the astoria's gay night is friday nights and i went to a gig on Nov 23rd 2003, which I believe was a Friday... with a gay guy... however, it was at the mean fiddler next door, and I didn't know he was gay- well, I wasn't sure...

do the stu - here only since 2000? that's when I started posting- I assumed that since you are omniscient (within the Satriani context) you would also be eternal (in the T2J context).

I think JS Clone 2 came in later- though JS Clone 1 (or BIGGEST JS FAN EVER as he once was called) was there first...

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yayogakk, gutterboy, michelle, andy of uk, ken campbell, biggest js fan ever, sparrow, ah and twig... they're recognisbale names on the first page viewable (which starts on Mar 15 2000 - my 15th birthday, strangley enough). Also matt king, evbro, slideman (pete mulas), johnblaze, naso, 2 ton tessie, colin patullo,

mitch1616 - welcome! this is *the* place to talk about anything you like, as long as it's respectful!

delfino pie - har har! everyone else who's answered your question on acid rain has it wrong i'm afraid. Acid Rain *is* on the DVD. Go to the tour photographs section and you'll find the entire performance of acid rain live being played over the top of it. But they're right in saying there's no video footage of it.

Oh, I feel like a DT boff. Do you like the audio commentary on the DVD? I love it...

Anyone else love naked gun here?

Jane - "..he had a moustache, about 6'3.." Frank Drebin - "that's an awfully big moustache"

EVERYONE

Jordan Rudess' solo album Rhythm of Time is now available!One track features Joe Satriani..

Screaming Head is less metal and more rocked up jazz fusion with a slight funk feel. A basic riff lays the foundation for Rudess's keboard experimentations which see good use of the pitch wheel. The track does take a complete u turn for a dark gothic vibe before launching into the main melody once again. Guitar here comes courtesy of Joe Satriani and it has to be said his style of space age lead work is the perfect compliment to the track.

killer bebop

Satriani and Vai are friends. They both admire each other's playing loads, and there's not the tiniest bit of hosility - neither should there be between satch and vai fans (many of us think they're both great).

Technically speaking I don't think there's anyone on this planet who can touch Vai. Some of his music I also love (most of Ultra Zone, the Fire Garden suite, a lot of P & W), but there's also a lot of stuff that really doesn't inspire me (eg. Alien Water Kiss)

I think like you Joe can play in pretty much any style and excel, whereas Vai just does a few styles very well. But I don't think Satch has the technique that Vai does.

TheBob - that was Robert Fripp who said that of Joe Satriani. But he was referring to the musical side of things rather than the technical.

Joe Satriani is famous for being an instrumental rock guitar player. So when he comes on stage, when he writes a new album, that is what is expected of him. Rock.

Of course he broke out of that mold with Engines of Creation, where in my opinion he produced some of his greatest work. Another of my favourite bits of his playing are in an old video from guitar.com where he goes through pitch axis in E...