hey everybody I'm back- I couldnt read all 1320 or so new posts so i skipped.. I see there's some stuff about the enigmaitc scale- do you know where it comes from?

I hope all the other guys and girls who took A levels/ AS exams this year did well. I got A for Music and Maths, with D for Physics. On the three Physics papers I got A, A and unclassified.... stupid coursework. Neil Morgan?

QT6 requires the download of an an installer, and then the installer will download about 20-30 minutes worth of 56k bandwidth, so it'll take 40 minutes or so in all.

Has there been discussion about Joe saying about a classical side project? sounds exciting. Fits in with the Rock/something different alternation Joe does (out there NOTE, mainstreamish SWTA, FIABD vocals, Extremist rock, time machine 1 /red album something a bit different, CP rock, EOC electronica, SBM rock)

sharon- well, i'll be a musician, composer, rocket scientist, vicar, nun, cricket player and acrobat. Oh and I'll write a book or two ;)

ok, webcast really jittery... yeah, that's with me on 56k modem and eith 28.8/36.6k option on quicktime 6. Oh, and nothing else using my internet connection. Oh dear. Can anyone streambox it or anything? I happily wait 24 hours or so to download huge files onto the computer. as long as they're satriani webcasts that is.

JSC1 -RSI is killer, I know three people who've had it and still have it. A drummer, my girlfriend (piano, flute) and a singer.

You have to be very disciplined. It's better to play guitar a little bit with RSI than to leave it for ages and then release it all with a massive lot of guitar playing. If you think you might fall for that one, make sure you play a little bit every now and then.

When playing the guitar, check your posture. Most forms of RSI originate in the back. Check your posture at the computer, bad wrist positions can do a lot of damage. Other than that, good luck.

hehe it's funny someone mentioning stu beef, since beefstu is my nickname on guitar.com - partially a pun on stu hamm, but also since i was made to ask the headman of a band i'm into whether he preferred roast chicken of beef stew. (he answered roast chicken).

Joe- sad to hear about the guitar, what you gonna do with you bluesy toons now? I suppose you can't bring out a strat of yours due to contracts and stuff (though you can in a studio). Hmm. Good luck with finding the person responsible. And with the two other guitars which as far as i know arte still not found.

a tool is an extension of one's body by, well definition.

austin - i can't find the link i followed of here to that interview, so I can't find out for sure. Oh well, I'm sure you are right, but my superego tells me otherwise (or something- I'm not really a psychologist)

kyle, megaboyd, RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking the exact same thing when he played the intro to EOC. By the time I had told my mate Jason this was one of my faves and i had no idea he was playing it, he had gone onto the next bit of the intro.

aldous huxley- how could i not read his most famous book when i share his surname ;) I'm not related to him (as far as we know) though I am related fairly distantly to Charles Dickens. The book brave new world is pretty cool imho. Try reading "the doors of perception" though. i did. It's a bit interesting....

phatman-hehe, i'm not actually since i have them all on video- i might tune into one or two, certainly when the new series comes out.

"You're All individuals!"

"YES WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!"

"err I'm not!"

the mighty turtlehead would be great to play live. just cause of the title ;)

I was thinking related to the comment about having a guitar tutorial section of some kind on this site. I think that's actually a fairly silly. I'm well up for tutorials but why on this site? I mean we all want Satch to do well with his new album and future ones, so if he's going to do that kinda thing, doing it at something like guitar.com where he can get a lot more exposure, or on a magazine site is a far more sensible idea. Although I'm well up for any tips, they would be more effective elsewhere.

And that got me thinkging. A band i'm into (Ooberman) have a bunch of fans who have a long time set up "ooberarmy" which has the job of basically getting it as much publicity as they can get, since the music is great, but their indepoendent and need exposure. So they have a large tips site of how to be effective (radio stations to phone up, appropriate numbers, tips for getting the requests accepted, tips about how to buy (eg. going in and asking if they have any of a new single in, even if you've already got it, in order to get the m to order more, and similar things).

It wouldn't I don't think work with Satch's music cause it's a genre that either you'll be interested and then fascinated in or you'll just have nothing to do with it- less accessible than pop/rock format of quality music (eg. meaningful words, cool recording techniques, classical to 20th century influences eg. Stravinsky)

Austin - street teams eh? you learn something new every day - I agree, i mean Satriani is a pretty major artist- he's just limited to people who can dig instrumental music which some people can't. Maybe in about ten years or so he'll invite lots of songwriting stars for an album and do a Santana eh?

i think the limit of what we can do with Sony doing the job and getting enough records into shops and all that, is to mention Satriani as a great guitarists to beginners and lend them an album or two of suitable nature (ones closer to music they like) That way they'll almost certainly be more proficient guitarists, nicer people than if you mentioned Yngwie, and hopefully buy some albums themselves (like my girlfriend's brother who I did the above to)

mr nick - I live in the UK, have a 56bps modem and downloaded it in 20 minutes. That's with a 45bps connection from NTL. Make sure you're trying to download the right thing- you should have filled in a little form on the quicktime site, and then downloaded a small file for installation purposes. Choose the SMALLEST version- that's all you need, and it'll be a lot quicker. So make certain you're downloading the correct file.

On my connection (45k) i can download just in excess of 25Mb in two hours. So there shouldn't be any trouble for you downloading a 9Mb or so file in two hours unless you have a connection speed of about 14k. Right now, look at your connection speed by double clicking the two little computers at the bottom right bit of your screen- it should say "conneced at 46667bps"

Or a different number- tell us if that number is a lot smaller, eg. 14400 in which case the only way might be to get it on a cd, or get a new internet service provider.

sharon - I can I can't!!!!! that's one of the funniest bits in my opinion.

non-smoker - well i couldn't get it workign before on 45600 but i could get the download of QT6 working, at least, then he's got a chance.. but yeah if he does have a poor connection, it's gonna be even harder to get the webcast going

j3dimaster - Al though I agree, Getright is great, dead simple but works without making stupid gorilla noises, unless you download from a mirror, QT6 is downloaded with by it's own installation program

wdkeck - Steve Vai was taught by Joe when young, as Austin so aptly pointed out. They still seem to be good friends and do the G3 thing.

the_crippler - I think the word is.... no- you seen him in Goldmember ;)

Kholdstayr - I truly hang my head in shame... I really don't know what I was thinking.. I know full well it's 11 tracks. thank you for pointing it out- you still get the jist though.