That is very cool, But I think it would be more impressive to use his slide as a harmonica!

Roo is a useless guitarist, don't worry, I won't be in the running for the "find the next G3 player" contest.

But I LOVE playing music! It is sooooooo much fun!

Hey Joe.. Seeing my kids enjoy music too, and my little boy ripping the fretboard at 7, I'd like to find out how we could get some of the "little kids rock" initiative going in Australia? I don't know who to talk to, but I'd do what I can to talk to people and coordinate things? I think it's a great initiative and would be honoured to help kids get the chance to play...

I'm going to have a look into it.

Seen the chickenfoot stuff yet?

Joe.

Mate.

Buddy.

Chickenfoot? Cmon! You HAVE to keep that name.

Every bloody band is airothing and metalballon and crap.

Who would have thought Deep Purple was a cool name?

"Chickenfoot" is cool.

Who's with me?

Oh, hey, I just remembered.

I went to a very respectable club the other night. And I was wearing the Joe Satriani album shirt.

A girl peered at me and struggled to recognize the shirt.

She asked me who it was and I replied (very proudly) "Satriani"

To which she said: "you look far to young to be interested in him!"

LOL!

Sorry Joe, we all gettin old mate!

Like a fine wine my friend.

With Sammy Hagar? Definitely some lyrics.

It's going to be a little strange to have only sections of solo from Joe.

I think they are ripping from what I can find out on the interweb.

Sammy is being more vocal about "The Chickenfoot Experience!". LOL - hey Joe, that's a great name for the first album!

Do a google on Sammy and there's some discussion going on in those circles. I bet the same goes for the fans of the other guys too.

WIll there be Singing?

Of course!!!!!

Didn't you know, there's no instruments. They are a superBOYband.

4 part harmonies... Barbershop quartet...

Drake the Snake: As long as they are Ibanez guitars, Joe should be happy to sign them.

Hey, I am having enormous fun with the site, I've put in google maps mashups for the satch venues now! Here's one to look at: http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=node/965.

I'm working on a "tour map" as a mashup, so you'll see a line all over the globe where you can follow tours. And other cool stuff.

What would be awesome would be if Joe would make a set of his sketches for each song he's ever recorded, then I could use each one as a picture for that track. How 'bout it Joe? That's a unique idea. You could be the only musician in history that pairs every song with a logo. It could be a cool way to project more of your feeling into the titles.

I volunteer to manage the database, you need only forward the jpegs to me... :)

I tell you what though, it's a LOT of work entering all the old information like venues, dates, locations, performances, songs, tracks, CDs, media, blah, blah... Hope it's of use to someone.

And to think, I still have to attach mp3 samples to it all.

BTW: the duration fields are populated, the web server code just has an issue displaying them, I'm working on it.

I've also found it's a cool resource to track down particular performances of a favourite song, If you like listening to "super colossol" for instance, you can go to the "tracks" page (http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=alltracks) and look it up, then see all the different recorded versions to get the one you want to hear!

I also need help though, if you are ever browsing it and see something wrong or missing, please leave a not or email me and I'll research it to get it added or get it accurate.

Oh, and I'm very excited!

Ibanez emailed me last night and said the case and certificate for my Black Dog are in the post today! Cannot wait to get the whole kit re-united!

(commence chewing nails....)

Hey Joe,

I thought about this some more, I really think the idea of the sketch for each song is a great idea. How cool to have a little sketch that represents something about the song, like a scribbled Joe flying in a Blue Dream, a train with angels around it, or with wings, a bunch of fast moving clouds, a cool time machine contraption, a view looking up at a super colossal Joe...

A cool motorcycle driver, a cryin' face, a belly dancer.. LOL

I can almost picture them in my head already!

Please start the collection with a couple. It wouldn't take long and would be very cool.

Anyone else think so?

I'm just entering "Two Sides Of..." on my site and it's got very extended jams for a few songs:

Midnight - 8:48

Echo - 12:50

Lords of Karma - 11:49

ahhhhh, those were the days....

elpp: thanks for the feedback

Not sure what you meant be "loops back to itself" I called it up fine. What is the symptom you're seeing?

As to music, I want to put up sound bytes, I won't be putting up whole songs.

I've thought about it about it a few times, but every time I think that I can only justify a sound byte, because it's a tease of the cool stuff Joe does.

But I feel putting a complete track up, even if it's available elsewhere on the net, is taking something away from Joe. He works hard and I want to do everything to help him succeed and get a good compensation for his effort.

So, in short, I want to give sound bytes for all tracks and performances, but will not provide full songs, unless they are approved by Joe and the relevant people.

hey elpp: do other pages do it?

I've had no issues on IE7, safari (not sure of version) and chrome beta.

There's no code on the page to request a reload, it sounds like your browser is crapping out and retrying. There's style sheets in there, but I don't think they'd cause that. about the only culprit I can see is the qt satch video, but that's on every page, so let me know if you can load other pages ok.... ok?

I'll pick on this one: Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV? = Same reason you are IN a soap opera and ON the big screen... One talks about the content, the other is the medium you are display on. Sorry, that's the nerd showing through....

HOWEVER! You do appear on a chat-show, not in one! And you also appear BOTH IN and ON the news.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Is anyone else having a problem on the CommercialCDs page? please let me know, I want it to be a great site for everyone.

Thanks also for the G3 date and the feedback on the site overall. It's sorta pointless putting this stuff up if it doesn't help people at all, though it's a good catalog for me as well.

I will be trying to get a complete tour history up, including G3. And maybe link it back into this site to leverage and support the effort in gig reviews, attendance and the like that is being done here.

So it'll evolve into a mega-mash-up of the collection, google maps, Joe site, maybe other fan sites as they have material that contributes, etc..

But then again, it's not my full time job, so some mashing may take time to achieve.

mjs99: hey what was the exact date for that G3 gig? It's probably on the 'net, but if you know it, let me know the venue and exact date.

Do the Stu: thanks man.

He's been having issues with: http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=CommercialCDs

mjs99: thanks for the G3 info, I've added it to the venues and gigs: http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=node/2089

Do the Stu, thanks for checking the link. I'll keep an eye on it and work out what might be causing it over time hopefully.

Yay.. Sort of.... :)

Got the tour maps sort of running, there's a few bugs and a lot of gig venues are not geo-coded yet. And a lot of gigs aren't entered either (I'm only human!).

Here's a beta: http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=node/384

There's a few glitches, like the lines don't update if the map isn't in the correct place or zoom, I think it's a bug with the mapper widget. But you can click on the alpha in the list next to a venue to zoom in to the venue.

Isn't the interweb a wonderful place?

Roo

PS. Hey, have you guys seen Photosynth? MS was working on it for a while, I've been tracking for a year or more, and it was released now a few months ago. It's sorta like an online photo album, but they auto calculate where you were standing and the 3d model of what you photographed and give you a fly-through photo album. It's pretty cool.

They are even looking at things like auto detecting the subject of your photo, so imagine you take a photo of a statue whilst touring and loading it in to your photo album. Then, not only can you fly around it, but it has links to show you the artist, the history of it, when it was made, etc. All automatically! Very cool.

I also just hacked in an attendance and gig review link back to satriani.com from the gigs.

Here's an example: http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=node/23

It's amazing what you can do now with a few lines of code.

I have only put the gig link on that gig. All I have to do to connect others is enter the gig ID for each one and the links will display themselves.

Thanks Igneousiceman.

I just want to do whatever I can to help drive interest in Joe's Music. I think Joe is just so brilliant with Music and a genuinely nice guy.

Not sure about the psychotic robot that's started following him around lately though.... He worries me a bit.

Interesting about the concept of interplay between tempo and key... Hmmm. I wonder if we look at some of the worst songs of history if they would have done better in a different key or tempo?

Eric: Thanks for the gear tip, I'll check it out.

Also, maybe you should sneak up on Stu when he's asleep to shave his head.

Joe, I understand the T2J has got noisy, I guess with the chat down there's a lot of stuff going on here that's "noise". But if you see this I know we are all waiting for some snippets of info on chickenfoot, apparently you guys had already easily blasted together enough material for 2 albums! Come on, share something with us.

Roo