Jamie: Best wishes and prayers for your friends and everyone caught up in this horrific disaster.

Hopefully with the temperatures dropping they can start getting these fires under control and spare too much more damage and loss.

Yknow... It's VERY interesting that the arguments FOR Satriani vs Coldplay go like:

The Chord progression is identical because.... The Melody is the same because...... The Tempo is the same.

And the arguments against Satriani are:

You are a b&*^*%*#(*#%^#... and I don't like your music....

I had signed up for the chickenfoot list...

and....

NO UPDATE RECEIVED! ????

Weird. So I've signed up again, hopefully I will be "the first to find out more" next time...

:)

More updates on the Roo's Collection site: Added pretty much all the clothing I've collected, mostly shirts, and couldn't find my cap from 1996 in the cupboard, will add that when it turns up. It's going really well, Last time I checked I was getting over several hundred hits a day. Would be nice to turn some of that into money! :) Naaah, I don't do it for money...

Go Joe! Chickenfoot rules

Hey, talking about money.. Did you all hear we (Australia) managed to raise over 150 Million Dollars for the bushfire victims just in donations from the public/corporate sector?

Skippygirl!

Shame, shame, shame. You can't possibly say that and not tell me WHICH vinyl!

dream3: ha ha ha - absolutely....

I will be forwarding the naysayer list to Joe for appropriate retribution.

In fact, all those who said "no" to chickenfoot have to promise to eat chickenfeet next time they go to a chinese restaurant!

Pip Satrini: the js3 was owned by Pete Galindo: here and here

I know I will kick myself for years to come that I let it slip through my fingers... :(

Oh well, had to make the decision and the timing was bad.

HEY - NEW CHICKENFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! IPHONE RINGTONES to download from my site on the left info bar under "Download Ringtones"

I basically split the Chickenfoot promo in the middle, so you can have either the "chickenfoot, chickenfoot, chiiickenfooooooooot..." as a ringtone, or the snip of music they played at the end.

karusian: Ahhhh Daniel-san, first you must learn block! then you can learn punch!

Wax-on wax-off. Paint-da-fence.

Na-a-a-a-a-aa LOOK EYES! ALWAYS LOOK EYES!

Don't know, never been attacked by tree!

either karate do yes, or karate do no.

Oh come on, "Daniel Caruso"? he's obviously the Karate kid!

dream3: no sign of the chickenfoot platinum passes yet, I had heaps of room on that credit card and it seemed to be charged (quite expensive though).

I can't think why we haven't got them yet.

Oh well, they'll turn up soon I guess.

JS10th and JS2:

Guys I hope no-one bid on that JS10th (501) that was on ebay, I have a feeling it was a scam, I asked for escrow and didn't get a response so I didn't bid.

Also, there's one under the title JS2PRM on at the moment for $37,000 - the facts on the page are quite incorrect. I don't think anyone here would pay that much for that guitar. It is potentially collectable, but not for that much I recon.

Yknow, it's absolutely no wonder Joe cannot respond as much as he used to here.

If I forget to look at the site every day, then I have to wade through several pages of idle chat about other artists, heaps of jokes, peoples problems, updates on disasters around the world and the occassional question to Joe.

So if Joe only gets a chance to drop by once a month or so, then he's faced with a bazzillion new posts that don't actually have much to do with him. I think after the first page or 2 he gets the impression noone wants to talk to him, skips to the last page and writes a one-liner to say he dropped by or an update on tours/albums/events.

I'm not complaining about the discussions we have, this is what the general population want to do here. But we cannot complain if we've turned this into something that makes it harder for Joe to interact with us.

Strictly speaking, we'd get a lot more interaction with Joe if we split questions and interaction with Joe into this forum (what it was built for) and moved all non direct Joe discussion to another forum.

Again, not complaining, and if it stays this way, we just have to realise it's unlikely Joe will respond to anyone here because he'd have to have the patience of a saint and a lot of time to filter out all the noise and find a question or thread to get engaged with.

Just to clarify, I agree completely.

I didn't say I wasn't getting sucked into the same behaviour and I certainly was not throwing stones.

I was just pointing out we cannot complain that Joe barely says hi if we make it hard for him to want to be involved in his own forum.

Maybe a solution for the webmaster is, leave this forum as it has become, it's obviously what people want to talk about here, all as part of Joe's worldwide fan club and friends.

But how about making things easier for Joe? Let's create a SECOND forum that is moderated for conversation with Joe. Pick a few moderators from the group here, there are plenty of people who would give their left leg to have the honor.

Then, Joe can check through a filtered set of things worth responding to and be more involved without the overhead, and can still poke his head in here if he feels inclined.

I just get the impression it may be bugging him that it's too hard to get enough time to respond to anyone here due to the noise, and if I know him, it's probably something that disappoints him.

Just a thought. Like I said, I'm certainly not trying to say this forum use is wrong, it's what the forum IS, so let's go with it. I certainly have been, which was pointed out to me a few posts ago. But let's consider helping Joe out with an easier option that enables us to stay in contact with him more easily as well.

Yes but no but yes but no but....

I agree Al, but moderators could do the same thing. Leaving quality conversation in a forum for Joe to peruse at his convenience.

And we redirect all the douches and dumn questions to this forum! :)

Bloody hell Joe, you made me look like a right GIT!

:)

Oh, no wait, I did that on my own! LOL!

Good to hear from you Joe, I think you underestimate the impact a little blue has on all of us.

I had only one question then, do the loyal T2J satchers get a preview of chickenfoot? Cmon, throw us a little soap on a rope!

Thats it! I'm flying to Europe to see Chickenfoot. Anyone happy to put me up for a few nights?

If anyone is thinking of following the tour for a few stops (when we know the itinerary) let me know and I'll come along if you don't mind!

See you in Europe Joe!

Skippy Girl,

Latest teaching for kids here, not sure if it's worldwide thinking, is to learn lead guitar (or "note" playing) before chords.

It makes sense really, chords require control over every finger to cleanly fret the notes and bridge neatly over others because you're playing more than one string.

I learnt chords first and it's good for simple "koom-by-ya" style songs, but it can be very frustrating (as you've found) with complex chords.

My boy started learning guitar recently and he's 8. He can play the first melody line to "Ten Words" and learnt it in one sitting. If you pick something like that you get enourmous satisfaction from hearing the melody and learning more fingering techniques but only with one or 2 fingers at a time.

If you look at the tab book for "Always" (the first satch song I learnt), and ten words, and many others, there are recognisable melodies that are not difficult to learn fairly rapidly. That is great fun. Then, every time you play them, you improve your feeling, style, method, etc... And can flip through other material spotting easier sections of melodies you like and learning them.

Give that a go, especially Ten Words, let me know how that goes.

Be prepared to hit a brick wall when you get to the "tricky" bits in each song though! :) It will take a while to start learning the method of doing the faster bits with bends and stretches, etc when you hit them.

JSPhil: there was no price on the JS3, I needed to make a bid to secure it against a second (tenacious) buyer that I told about it (stupidly)? - not really, I had spent far too much on guitars and had to let it slip through my fingers. I decided not to contest it.

ah well, I know it went to a good home - I don't mind helping a fellow collector.

Went to an Iron maiden tribute show Matt (the floor manager from the local music shop) was singing in last night.

What a FUN night. Very cool to hear some really good music played by good musicians, rarely get that around here.

I'm not a maiden fan, so didn't know the songs, but it went off! They played number of the beast and I loved phantom of the opera and many of the others.

I am absolutely serious about this chickenfoot euro tour bus thing. As soon as we get dates, let's start organizing it. I wonder what the plans are for a chickenfoot.us/fansforum site? I guess it makes sense to bring all the fans together soon.