A couple of people have whined about Satch on rhythm guitar. Are you guys NUTS!

I was listening to the youtube live thing and could hear brilliance in the way Joe played. I must admit I think funtwo must have been sooooo nervous, hell I couldn't try to play lead like that with Satch and the rest in front of thousands, alll power to him, you guys are just jealous.

:)

cheese101: that's what I was alluding to. I know Chickenfoot is going to absolutely rock! Advance warning: I am gonna be leaning on all my contacts for backstage/aftershow passes for those shows!

I think it was an omen, after the talk about Martial Arts on here, I pulled out my uniform to iron it before class and there was a spot that had folded while it was in the laundry and it was shaped exactly like a chickenfoot! Weird. I couldn't even iron it out!

do de do do, do de do do (Twilight zone music).

thanks for the chelle-wich. ANyone who get's the chance, I thoroughly recommend it.

mjs99: thanks for the lead, I've been drooling over the JS20th more. But I have spent FAR TOO MUCH on guitars this year. Estimating about $24K I think. I cannot drop another 10K on the surfer.

I guess I didn't get a placing in the fan finish as I can't find time to enter stuff. I'm averaging a new CD or album per day now and just cannot find time to update the site.

I swear I still have probably half the collection to enter.

Actually, theres a couple of things I am trying to get and willl probably have next year. I'll post info when they arrive and then we'll do a re-count of the fan stakes.

I should explain.... No, it is not underwear!

EUUUUWWWWWWWWW

Hey, I sammished meself! Wooohooo

Riviera_Grande: Check out the "Road" section for the tour just completed.

I saw Joe at the Metro (Sydney) in 1995 and also Melbourne shows, plus an in-stoore private jam at Allans in Melbourne that day, that was awesome. I met Joe three times over 2 days, After show in Sydney, on the plane and we chatted for a while, and at the in-store at Allans.

Then I missed G3 - had a massive deal on at work and couldn't get away, so pissed at that, we also lost the deal, so it was a double loss.

Then in 2006 he did the ITLIS tour, only got to the Enmore in Sydney for that, but got backstage and met up with Matt/Jeff/Galen and Joe again. Got to really meet Mick for the first time then.

Then this year I went to the Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane shows, got to catch up with Joe again 3 times. Thank you so much Joe, Mick, Galen, Stu, Jeff - you guys rock.

At the Brisbane show my friend couldn't make it, so I had a spare aftershow pass, I gave it to a guy next to me after we were talking for a while and he said "it would be insane to meet the guy, but how the hell do you get the opportunity?"

Unfortunately, since then I have collected probably another 20 or more unique items I didn't have for my collection, so there more left to sign Joe LOL!

So to answer your question, YES Joe has really come to Australia, and yes it was insane to see him play live. There is no other experience close. The Albums are awesome, and the bootlegs and live dvds etc, but LIVE is the BEST without a doubt. You completely get pwned by the music! LOL

Skippygirl: why, what cd can you send me? :)

Seriously, If we discount the obvious fakes, then it used to be easy, but it's quite a lot harder now.

Some bootlegs were produced by backyard boys anyway (I think "Cotton pickin" was made up by someone who got a copy of an original Cotton Club and wanted to make a cover for it. And I think "Joe goes to war" was only ever on a second rate production in cardboard sleeves), and I believe some of the originals were mailed around as CDRs and some guy later made up the slips and had them professionally produced to resell. So it really depends what you are looking for.

In the past it was sight unseen ordered off a mailing list, but I pretty much got exactly what I expected each time, no bad experience. Now with ebay, and so many smart counterfeiters out there, I can probably say I don't really care about original originals, As long as I get a cd that looks professionally produced, then I'm happy. And it has to be a recording that I preferrably don't have. I know for instance that "Luminous Guitar Giant" and a few others were only ever produced in a very small batch as CDR with stick-on cd labels. That is the original original anything that looks more professional and is called that is a copy!

Hope that answers your question.

Just spent 2.5 hours playing my JS2K Crystal Planet. Love that guitar, the sustain is incredible and it's such a full warm sound. played heaps of stuff from every album, sorta was in a ballad mood and musthav played Ten Words about 10 times... So easy to get lost in time picking up the guitar.

Guess what was on last night? REVENGE OF THE NERDS! I was ROTFLMAO! Hair Pie, Hair Pie! - what a classic. Whoever had said 80's Joe was Booger is mean bastard, I couldn't get the image out of my head when Booger was dancing with the Moo girls with a crazy face and says "Damn, you moos sure can party!"... LMAO! I also thought Ogre reminded me of Stu! So I started looking for Jeff and Galen too!

Joe, for the record, I don't think you look like Booger. :)

Roo

Roo's Satriani Collection Update:

Added:

1) Speed of light (PROMO) CD

2) I Believe (PROMO) CD

3) Cruizin the Strip CD

I reckon Joe needs to get some publicity in the movie industry and write a soundtrack (or at least the title theme) for a major movie. Then the tossbuckets doing the Grammies might stop stuffing around and seriously involve Joe in the process, he'd also be "Main stream" enough to get the votes.

I know Joe mentioned he would like to do sound tracks for movies, I think he has an amazing knack for being a composer and could be the next big composer for movie themes. He just needs to shake the rock legend stigma.

How about it Joe? You're not far from Hollywood. Write a few cool title themes for movies, action, comedy, drama, horror, etc. Start sending a demo cd to the studios, Go start hassling them. Or get your management to do it.

Don't forget to send me a signed copy of the cd, and invite me as a personal guest to each premier. :)

I don't know about you guys, but I think we are on the verge of history being made here. I don't want to get my hopes up, or build it up too big. But the chemistry just sounds right. And the groundwork Joe has put into music to date.

It just feels like the calm before the storm, I have a feeling that in about 10 years time we will be amazed that we knew Joe in the years before Chickenfoot.

I really do believe the time is right, just like the satchurator, it's about time and it's the right time. Bring on more pedals. Bring on Chickenfoot.

I wasn't wishing them luck.

BREAK A LEG JOE!

Joe: Just a quick one. I'm also in your corner for the coldplay thing.

Hope it all goes well.

maritime: you are very generous. How much do the cds cost where you are, how can you afford to buy cds and send them to the less fortunate?

Joe and the T2J guys (and of course, the legendary T2J girls) : There are 2 things absolutely positive that have come of the Coldplay thing:

1) A helovalot more people know who Joe is... "Any publicity is good publicity" and...

2) a lot more people are getting interested and being exposed to a lot more music theory and it's meaning/applicability/etc..

Joe Satrini: You are right, that timing was spooky, I hadn't thought of that. Queue Twilight Zone music.......

Joe, everyone here is absolutely behind you 100% - you are doing the right thing and I am disappointed that it's happened. Your music really does speak from you as a true artist. So it must feel like something has been taken from you.

If it helps at all, we know it's an expression from you and it will always be yours.

Chickenfoot petition has died. Not enough interest. Joe, you guys are getting no argument from us, call the band whatever, we will love it anyway.

Also, given that so much emotion and brilliance is released in each of Joe's songs, then I guess the next album will feature a song with a title like "Ripped Off" or "Stinky Lousy Cheats" or something. It would have a sort of mellow start to show the creative process, build up to a complex and beautiful tune, then break tempo or something into a sinister dark tune, with heavy overtones to show disappointment. Then I guess there could be a growing mellow sound that starts small and then works up to consume the dark sound to show the overall good becoming triumphant and finishing with a light-hearted playout.

Miami fan, try reading a paper, watching the news, or perhaps googling or youtubing it?

OK, sounds like the petition is revived.

So what I did was create the petition as a forum topic on my site:

http://roo.emu.id.au/newsatch/?q=node/3026

And I've done a proxy vote for the following:

Skippygirl

Fatape

Roo

Dream3

Michelle

elpp

Glitz Man

and

SuperDaveMcCarthy

So if your name is not on that list, rock over to the web site and add your vote as a comment.

C'mon, reports are Joe and the guys are aware of fans liking "chickenfoot" as the name, let's give them a good idea of how many really do like it!

Cappy : Satchiella - That Vai drawing looks just like one of the pics I sent you, good stuff.

Uh-oh, watch out Satriella, I can see a copyright issue being raised here.

SuperDave: I actually bought 2 cds from these guys:

Planet of Rock

and I'm very happy with the purchase. Money well spent. Most of the tracks are awesome, some are not so good, but they are the minority. Very fun to play along with.

Apparently they are releasing the satchafunkilus backings in about a month.

I bought the "100 tracks" and "Super collosal" (that's all the satch they have).

I particularly like Chicken tostados.