hey everyone - i'm happy to say we finally have picked up access (thanks sony/epic!) to the http://facebook.com/joesatriani page and will be including that in our regular activities. so if you're a facebook person (and really, who isn't these days?) become a fan there and you'll get news streamed to you in that neck of the woods too.

hey all - here's another link to the skating clip with joe's music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8gqkiUPvg&feature=related

and also, a gentle reminder to please show some respect to all here on the T2J board. may i channel your mothers for a moment? "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"... we want everyone to feel comfortable sharing things but please do so with some respect for others.

any RENO-area fans out there? just posted this to facebook.com/joesatriani and wanted to make sure y'all saw it here too...

Two chances to catch Joe in RENO next Friday, Mar 12! If you have the cash, he's LIVE with Experience Hendrix at Silver Legacy and if you need a dose of the 'foot on the big screen, LOUD AND LARGE, check out the Virtual Concert preview of Chickenfoot live in Phoenix (soon to be on DVD) at the Knitting Factory!

hey folks, if you haven't checked it out yet, go take a read of the second part of joe's exp. hendrix blog he's doing for music radar read here

and of course in case anyone missed the early morning posting of the new Ice-9 pedal announcement, here it is! VOX Ice 9 Official Product Introduction

if you aren't already a friend on facebook, hop over there since we're using it to post these sorts of things. http://facebook.com/joesatriani

new video message from joe (recorded during rehearsal last week before entering studio) now up.

Facebook Video

hi everyone! - you've all seen the news and heard the tune teaser so far, i'm sure, so i'm going to just respond to a few other questions i saw here in T2J...

new newsletter - new newsletter should be in inboxes with a summary of all of the news. also posted as a news item here and of course over on facebook which we are continuing to use moving forward since we have such a huge number of folks we can reach there. come join in if you haven't yet -- www.facebook.com/joesatriani

Canada shows & presales - the system that sony is using for the cd and ticketing they can only run in the US which is why canada dates don't have that offer. however, there will still be a presale and the codes for those are posted on the road page-- it's just a more wide open one (which we feel is better than none!) instead of using a secret code. CLUB JOE packages will be available for all shows and the presale codes will get you access to those once the presale starts, should you be interested.

aftershow pass giveaways - yes, we are continuing to do these for just about all shows (festivals are usually the only exceptions).

more videos! - we have plans for a video for the first single, plus we have over 50 hours of footage from the rehearsal and recording of the album that we are pulling some special webisode podcasts from. we are also going into sammy's pad in about a week to record our now-standard intros with joe talking about each song. these will run in the days leading up to the release date and we have a few cool new ideas in the works that we know you'll dig.

God Is Crying... is not the first single, but it's a real nice teaser of the album that Joe picked out to share with y'all :}

un-affected live in paris - i'm happy to report that we received a copy of an unaffected edited version of this and joe has selected a few tracks to be plucked out to appear on an exclusive version of BSAWW. details to come on that as they develop.

site updates, fan artwork, etc - i have to apologize for the lack of action here. we have lots of photos and art people have sent but amidst chickenfoot activities, satriani.com got put on the back burner for a while. as you can see, we are back into full on SOLO mode here now, but we are thinking about some bigger changes for the site so going through that stuff will probably not happen until after we work through that. but nothing will be lost and we'll let you know more as it develops!

Phydeaux_3 - you see that other photo of joe load and then it gets quickly replaced by the flash version with the rotation/fade animation. people on non-flash enabled browsers will still get the still image (instead of nothing). we aim to please!

just was reading through comments and noticed a few folks had some issues with the presale. if you have a moment, it's good to hear details so we can pass them on to the ticketing folks to (hopefully) try to improve upon things next time. so if you had any troubles, please email a description to webmaster@satriani.com with the subject line "PRESALE" and we'll compile them together. include your code since that might also be helpful.

CINCINATTI PRESALE/ONSALE CHANGE

all - if you haven't already picked up your free mp3 of "Light Years Away", check it out now at http://satriani.com/lightyearsaway -- we're giving it to ya for a tweet or facebook post to see how that works to help spread the news of the new album :}

do the stu - ended up missing the dmb show due to car failure (long story). joe's rehearsal for the tour starts at the end of the month so i think you still have some time to make your suggestions for songs :}

logicbdj - you can send things to Joe Satriani Music, PO Box 2830, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 but understand he doesn't have time to listen to everything sent to him.

Guitarman77897 - it sounds like you may be having some problems with cookies in your browser. try clearing them all out and see if that helps.

Pip55 - we're just putting the final touches on the first podcast episode and i think you'll love it-- it'll be released soon!

hi everyone -- here is the new podcast page!

http://www.satriani.com/podcast/BSAWW/

hi all - trying to take a moment to catch up on webmaster-related comments here. as you can see, we've been burning the candle at both ends to get all of these podcasts out to ya! i am very glad to see the positive response to the quality so that helps keep us motivated to continue this sort of feature in the future :}

death cube k - i saw your post saying you did the fb post but couldn't get your light years away mp3. if you haven't already, please try it again (you can always delete the previous one if you want) and post back if you still have troubles.

Pip55 - if you subscribe to the podcast, you will end up with downloaded copies of all of the podcast episodes. you can also just open up that xml file in your browser and download the files by hand if you prefer.

jsTony - i don't think we are getting any additional details on the JS version of the Amplug beyond what they have on their website and Joe's youtube video of playing around with it. it's pretty straightforward and sounds amazing for such a tiny product!

dream3 - i restarted the chat server, not sure what took it down!

napa peeps - was good to see you out in force last night and hope you all had as great a time as the band and crew. everyone is in high spirits about the kickoff the tour and bringing these songs out to everyone!

chat folks - got the msg that it was down again so i've restarted it again!

BigBunny - to be realistic, i think the fan art section isn't likely to get updated still for some time since once we get through the remaining video content i'm going to try and focus on a larger sitewide upgrade, but it could be part of that!

urbzz - sorry to hear about your disappointment! the bonus tracks are legally only available through best buy/napster otherwise they would have been included. but, this is why we jumped through many hoops to this time make those bonus tracks available as standalone downloads for fairly cheap at napster http://music.napster.com/album/songs.htm?albumid=13930091&s_module=hypermodule

Stan31 - the Nokia Theater was recently picked up by Best Buy so it's a name change! I've updated it on SATRIANI.COM.

js1200js1000 - i can guarantee that joe signed all of those cd covers himself and it took him a long time, too! what might be possible is that you got one from the end when his hand was getting tired :}

alan vs. allen -- it's Allen, not alan, whitman :}

ok people, check this out:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&¬e_id=154537064592725&id=9012139058

hey thanks everyone who did a "like" over on the facebook note to show your support for the idea! now the next stage is to put the actual package together and work out some logistics of how it would all work and then put up a place for people to actually enter their info.

we're considering using kickstarter to fund it (they make it easy to only complete charges when the minimum is met) and they say they support international payments which i think is a requirement-- one of the main reasons for doing this is being able to offer something to fans in countries it's hard to get joe out to.

and yes, it is a little bit like what i do, but realizing i can't go out on the road, and the rest of the crew is overwhelmed doing their job i figured this was a way to get someone i trust out there to capture something at every single show which is something we've never done before.

to all those anxious for the presale info/code for the Benefit For Cliff II show with steve vai & friends, just a quick update--- the ticketmaster page that was supposed to be ready by 10am this morning still hasn't come through.

as soon as we get the info that it's up, we'll get it up on the road page!

new guests announced for the "benefit for cliff ii" show in LA on jul 10th!

included are dweezil zappa, orianthi, brendon small (dethklok), tony macalpine!

also announced some very cool auction items that have been donated by joe, steve, paul gilbert.

hi folks - just a few quick things...

1) Sorry for being checked out from TTJ for so long - as you've no doubt noticed, we've been moving to Facebook and Google+ for getting a lot of information out lately, and an unfortunate side effect of that is that with limited time, the Talk To Joe forum was sort of left to operate on its own. Joe has gone back and forth on keeping it around and getting rid of it, and I think we'll be making a decision on that in the new year sometime, along with a site update. I'm sure that how we see it being used will heavily influence that decision, as will how inviting it is for new fans to join in the conversation and community that is based on Joe's music (and of course expands a bit as people get to know each other).

2) Darren's (JemJVM) account has been deleted upon his request. While I am sad to see anyone leave and always sorry to see people not able to work their issues out, it was his request to have his account deleted.

3) I've deleted the one post in discussion by Blue_moon - although it may not be all that offensive in nature, it is fair to say it is *way* off-topic, and not exactly welcoming and appropriate to the wide range of Joe's fans (many of whom are younger). I don't think it was intended to offend, but let's all please do our part to keep T2J a comfortable place for all kinds of Joe's fans to join in the discussion of music and art.

here's archives of yesterday's hangout / video chats!

Joe's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avIit0wBf_E