Hey Joe..I think the new Album is your best work yet. I like the alturnate tunings and the use of acoustic guitars. All the songs are so good I don't know where to start. " Chords of life", "What breaks a heart" and "The Travel" are great examples of you'r ability to keep coming up with new and fresh ideas,you never make the same album twice.

I bought my tickets today for the show here in Jacksonville. I only learned of the Jacksonville date a few days ago, It must have been added to the tour because I didn't notice it before. I almost bought tickets to the Orlando show at the House of Blues where I saw you the last two times you were on tour. Jacksonville is a hard market to sell tickets in so I understood why you passed up Jacksonville on your last few tours. Eric Johnson played here last year in front of only about 300 peolpe max, It was sad, but being the true professional that he is he still put on a great show. My wife and I look forward to seeing you on the 20th of August at the Florida Thearter.

jblaze 1: have you had enough of the sun yet. Once you've lived here for awhile you'll notice that you start hiding from it. I think I found why next amp. Mesa Dual Rectifier Road King. I'm going to sell off all my stuff in order to buy one. $ 2,499 for the head and $799 for the 4 X 12 cab.

I can't stop listening to this "Strange Beautiful Music". This offering is like manna from heaven to my ears.

jblaze1: I don't know if you'd be interested but I have a few things I'm going to sell and I thought you might want first dibs

1.) ADA MP-2............................................$250

2.)Digitech 2112.........................................$300

3.)Digitech Control one................................$150

......2112 & Control one................................$400

4.)Mesa Boogie 395 simul-stereo...................$375

5.)Tascam 424 4 tracker................................$125

6.)Gallien Kruger ML-250................................$225

7.)ART midi foot control w/ cable....................$50

8.)Crate 4X12 cab w/ 70watt celestions...........$325

jblaze1: You should get yerself to a GC or Mars music and check one out for yourself, be warned, you may throw rocks at your old rig when you get home. I may sell my JS-100 w/ case....$400 and I pay for shipping

Michele: Do you remember a little over a year ago I mentioned a pit bull puppy I named Miss-hell? It just so happens that she is the pup my wife and I wound up keeping. My wife didn't care much for the name misshell so I renamed her Betty Boop and to my embarrasment my wife calls her "BOOPY". She has turned out to be the most beautiful dog I've ever owned,Black w/ a white chest and very athletic. I wonder if Joe has a dog?

Hey Joe, Welome home man. Glad to hear you had such a great time in europe. I hope all of you are just as pumped up as I am for the next part of your tour. I have never been disappointed at one of your shows,you are a class act and I thank you for being who you are,A SHRED MONSTER! I 'll bet when you were in high school all the kids would see you and say, hey man there's that guy that plays the guitar I wish I could play like that. most of us are still saying that, except for maybe little Stevie Vai( SHRED MONSTER).

jblaze1: How in tarnation did ya get yer ear impacted. Putting yer ear to the speaker with the stereo turned up full blast is not the best way to listen to Mind Storm ya know. You have to put a speaker to each side of your head so's the presure equals out, dat way ya don't gets these problems....lol. Man that has got to suck. Last time I saw Joe was on the EOC tour and I had one of the worst headaches of my life. I have sinus trouble and it just so happened that I came down with a sinus infection a couple of days before the show, so I went to the doctor to see what he could give me, he said, son!, son!, you've gone too far...and he gave me some Vicodin which only made matters worse because they dried my sinus's out. Imagine being on three 7.5 vikies and still having the worst headache ever and to top it all off the A.C. vent was blasting right on my head where we were sitting. Then the headache moved to my ears. Between the headache/earache and being druged out on Vicodin I was in some kinda bad shape but in true pit bull style I stuck it for the whole show then I went back to the hotel room and died. I hope your feeling better come show time, I don't know how serious an impacted ear is but it doesn't sound good at all. About the e-mail, I'll have to check it out but, I think I must have given you another bogus e-mail address. The right addy should be hmaclean@fdn.com.

Hello to Joe and everyone at T2J......

Sharon: LED ZEPPELIN is my favorite group of all time. Could any band ever fill those shoe's?

I've seen a few post here and there about SBM, but not as much as I thought there would be. In my humble opinion (like I have one) I think this is some of Joe's best work to date, if not his best work ever.

minus human: I here ya bro, but I think you misunderstood. Metallica is not my fav, Zeppelin is. Too bad about Layne Staley. Alice in Chains was my favorite band of recent times(90's). Are Metallica still a band?I haven't heard anything about them since Jason left.

Q:What do the Blue Man Group and Joe have in common?

Hello all, Does anyone here listen to anything other than Rock or Metal? I Don't listen to the radio much so I find myself checking out other kinds music like Taj Mahal,Robert Johnson,Andres Segovia,Celtic folk and some Classical.

cabrao: there are certain things, a smell, a place, a sound that remind me of loved ones who have passed away and I'm very thankful when they come. I can see that one of those certain things for you and Gabriel is Joe. Turn them speakers up full blast, play it all night long!

jblaze1: now that you mention it, yeah I can hear some Jeff Beck in there as well.

Hey Joe, Only a couple of days until you hit the road again, I hope you are well rested for the U.S. tour. I love the new album, I think it's you'r best work yet. ......................A FRIEND AND FAN FOR LIFE.

Kell and ethn: Thanx for the info on Micheal Hedges.I only heard his music once, it was on the radio of all places, late at night on a Jazz station out of New York as I was traveling from Boston to my home in Jacksonville,Fl. As I remember the DJ did say someone had passed away but I wasn't sure if it was Michael he was speaking of. I look forward to discovering his music.

Joe: I hope this leg of the tour goes as well as the first. My wife and I are looking forward to seeing you(and the band)in Jacksonville,Fl on 8/20 at the Florida Theatre with great anticipation. Wishing you and the band the best as you travel from town to town.

jblaze1: I hear ya, I'll enjoy the show regardless.

michele: no...