hey everyone-- thanks to everyone who has sent photos in. i spent most of today and not only caught up with all current tour photos that had been sent, but i also caught up with other photos over the last year which i hadn't been able to get to, so i'm now completely current!

PhrygianDominant - contact me via email, and i'll sort you out.

howdy folks-- just sticking my head up after being hard at work the last week or two getting the webcast ready for y'all! that's right, it'll be coming to you in under two weeks, and more details will be announced very soon. the short version is that it will be in quicktime 6 (partnered with apple again), and will feature exclusive rehearsal footage + the amsterdam show, split across a month. basically, 1/4 of the show will be available each week and then at the end it will all be available for 2 days. the rehearsal footage includes joe, matt and jeff giving little walkthroughs of some of their gear and there's some cool music and humorous glimpses into life the the rehearsal studio :}

i'm also working on getting the 20 winners for the set list contest chosen and announced so they can know to expect their autographed CDs and concert tour shirt. there's still time to enter-- just select your favorite set list for the tour!

we're still holding on to those bonus tracks to perhaps be able to use in something cool in the future. :}

hey austin-- i'm not sure, but i expect that the "aftershow" pass will start at the end of the entire show. wouldn't be so great to have fans miss the dream theater sets!

hey folks, i'm going to be picking the setlist contest winners shortly, so make sure you've got your set list chosen and if you are having any troubles, please email me at webmaster@satriani.com with details.

non smoker - setlist contest winners will be chosen at random by an automated program. :}

hey folks, just wanted to let you know that i've posted some photos a friend of mine took at The Bone yesterday. they're over in the road section and anyone who listened can (and should) write a review there. if you were lucky enough to be there in person, list yourself of course as attending. and yes, thebone folks got a bit confused-- there was not a video webcast of the show. however, i believe they may be doing some streaming of a couple songs in the future. i'll let you know, of course.

as most of you have noticed, i also uploaded photos from the concord show yesterday and a number of them turned out pretty well.

i also just finally uploaded some pictures from the rehearsal for Strange Beautiful Tour which can be seen by clicking on the "band road gallery" on the road section, or with this link (which is now included in the drop-down link). joe and jeff said they hope to be able to upload more photos from the remaining US dates :}

JazzGuitar - the special button is just so you can see all messages joe has ever posted. when he posts them, they show up with everyone else's, and if you scan back to old messages you can see them in that context, too.

all - if anyone knows of a valid email for nickname Bloop Dogg, let them know that they need to update it in their preferences so i can contact them about winning the setlist contest. i need to confirm their postal address :}

punkdude75 - yeah, quicktime 6 is available for more than just the mac :} the same link lets you download for windows as well. :}

regarding the newsletter-- if you didn't get one, first make sure that your preferences has the box checked for receiving them. if it does, mail me and i'll verify you were on the list of people who should have received them.

if you received more than one copy of the message, send me full copies of each message (including the headers) and i can try and see where the problem was. also make sure you don't have more than one account registered that might result in multiple copies.

don't worry if you can't check into the webcast on friday-- each part will be up for a full week before the next part replaces it. and even then you can see it all at the very end for 2 days. :}

and no, qt5 won't work, you need qt6 because it uses the new MPEG4 encoding.

last, but not least, i added a br and hr tag to ttj posts. br = line break and hr = horizontal rule. put 'em in [], like the other tags. :}

webcast is live now-- went up about 10-15 minutes late :}

hey kda-- are you saying you aren't seeing the links to start the webcast (from this link) or that once you click on those, you don't get the webcast?

toastrie - view source is usually under the View menu. IE has a keyboard shortcut of Command-E on the mac.

if anyone has problems, remember that this will be up for a full week before part2 goes up. that means you can try again later. if you are having network issues, trying at a less active time may help you out there.

kda - it sounds like your web browser isn't picking up the new page for some reason. you can usually force a browser to get a new page by either quitting and restarting, or manually going into your preferences and finding the place that says "empty cache", or even rebooting your computer. of course, clicking "refresh" really is all that you should need to do!

mr. nick - the qt6 download is about 7mb i think for the full set. if you aren't creating any content, you can probably just download the basic which i think is about half of that. if it's taking a long time to download it could be your network connection, or some problem between you and apple's download servers.

you haven't missed anything-- the first part starts today and includes the rehearsal footage and part1 of the live show. it will be available until next friday when part 2 of the live show will replace part 1 (the rehearsal footage will still be there). it continues like that for 4 weeks and then the everything will be up for the weekend. all of the dates are included on the webcast page :}

sorry to hear folks are having troubles with the webcast. the best thing i can suggest is to try during off-peak times, setting your connection speed lower than you actually have, and making sure you aren't behind a firewall. beyond that, feel free to send your comments to apple about qt6-- they should hear about any problems with the software itself.

i tested the streams on different computers and connection speeds and other than some stutterring on the beginning credits of the rehearsal footage, it works well for me. it's hard to help troubleshoot problems you can't reproduce, or i'd help more!

hey all-- if you want the post message to come up in a new window you can simply have your browser open the link that way. windows folks it's typically right-click on the link and mac is typically control-click. :}

booboo - what error do you get when you try to enter the chat? you will definitely need a browser that supports java i just looked at it right now and although it appears to connect, it doesn't seem to really be. i'll check with tyler, who's hosting it in this interim period.

just heard from typer that the chat server is restarted so should be in good shape again.

fyi, part 3 of the webcast is up, along with the re-encoded rehearsal footage. check it out!

i did get and forward the possible lead in holland on the guitar, btw.