well, Maybe not.I think Boyd, Graham and I share a lot of the same top ten Satch tunes, at least pretty much.Well, it would have to be a top twenty, something like:

Engines of Creation, Time Machine, Clouds Race Across the Sky, Echo, With Jupiter in Mind, Lords of Karma, Time, Oriental Melody, Trundrumbalind, Forgotten part 2, Mystical Potatoe Head, Why, Memories, Until We Say Goodbye, stuff like that are my favorites.

Yeah, I mean, all those guys except Kirk are really fast, but they wouldn't be on the list at all if you spent about five minutes on the internet seeing all the crazy stuff that is out there.

Clarky-Yeah, those guys are fucking pussies.3 note per string BS.I thought I was a bad ass until I TRIED to learn the motif from St.Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast.Put me in my place REAL fast.

Greyfox-Rusty is much faster than Joe and Vai.But hten again, that is his big goal, to be really fast.That is definately not Satch or Vai's goal.Please remember that faster does not equal better.I think I am faster than Joe and Vai, but they smoke me like a fine cuban.Speed is a small portion of what guitar playing, nay, music is about.

Speaking of which, only Hornitos Tequila goes in my margaritas, as of about 2 minutes ago.The difference between this and that Cuervo nonsense is stunning.Like the difference between "punching an eclair" and true love. ;D

See Zappa's Jazz Discharge Party hats if the reference is too obscure.

Zachary-Hey man, good call on Danny Gatton.His playing was something else!Vai once said in an interview that if he had to pick the best guitarist on earth, hed say Danny.Id say Morse, but thats just me.Id rather listen to Joe above em all though.

One of the cooler things about Danny was that he was a monster of a player, but totally could care less about the theory side of it.I have both of his videos, and in one of them he is talking about chords.He goes"I really don't know what kinda of chord this is, but I like it a lot.Its got an "A" in it, so I guess it's some kind of A chord."

Ted Nugent was a big influence on Steve Morse, so he can live.As far as I know he eats his kills, and doesn't really do it for sport.Crazy fucker, that guy is.

My favorite Ted quote:(Said to some chick) "Looks are fleeting my dear, you need a contingency plan"

UF DEAN-Yeah, I know.I just can't get over how awesome the second one was.Its like denial...HOW the fuck did they mess up such a great thing?The 2nd matrix set up some brilliant stuff, and they just took the easiest way out.It was just lame.I think ANYBODY could have made the 3rd one work with the way they had it set up after the 2nd one, I just cannot believe it.Oh well!

Jazzy-I have no problem with Metallica charging for that stuff. I also have no problem NOT paying for it.Metallica sucks.

I would have no problem with Joe doing the same thing, honestly.Dream Theater has a similar thing going on, and I'd pay for that if I could afford it.

Don't like the new album much.Bummer.

Searching is pretty good, Gnaa is cool.Is there love in space is probably my favorite track.Too much wah though.

I dunno, some of it just seemed way to happy for my tastes.Bamboo bummed me out, becuase it doesn't relly go anywhere.Its just one big intro....

Sorry to be negative, I was also one of the few who didn't like Strange Beautiful music.

Jazzy-Joe has explained why he plays the classics.Thats what most of the fans want.Trust me, no one wants to hear the rarities more than me, but Joe mentioned the reasons in one of his posts.Just read Joe's posts.

If I had my way, Summer song would be banned :D

But I respect Joe's decisions.Its his show, let him play what he wants.Ill be there no matter what, complaining about the setlist, no matter what. :D

I think the tunes I like on the new album are more than worth the price of the CD.I really, really love the title track.Its up there with Joe's finest, for me.Its just beautiful.The outro solo is perfect.

Im really anxious to hear the bonus tracks, hopefully they are more the esoteric type songs that Joe does that I love so much, as opposed to the "rocking out and having a good time" songs, which just aren't me.Weird how that works.

rusty dog-Nice to see someone agree with me.I felt all by my lonesome when SBM came out, and everyone loved it but me.There were some good tunes on that one though, to be fair.Joe is always gonna have a few tunes on every album that kill me.

I feel bad criticizing Joe (on his own page no less) so I really hope my thoughts don't come off as disrespectful.Joe is as important as it gets for me in the musical world, so I definately don't mean any disrespect, but I won't lie.

I also don't wanna sound like one of those "the old stuff was better"guys.I see the nostalgia thing in full swing at the dream theater websites, and it bugs me when people can't let go of the past.

But, I figure If I get one amazing tune of every album, then I am getting my money's worth a hundred times over.I got 2 awesome tunes from this one, and a couple that I dont mind so much.

Rusty dog-Lol, thanks man.You are probably the only person who got the Hayabusa thing right, lol.Most people go "Is that really your last name?" or "that's an awesome motorcycle"

I hope he plays the title track live too.

But yeah, I mean, I am the same as you.Even though I wasnt into SBM, for the tour I went to 2 shows back to back nights, and I acted like a teenage girl at a ricky martin concert at both of them.Joe is as good as it gets.

Honestly, when I first asked Joe about it in Seattle for the SBM tour, he said that they had been talking about Time Machine in rehearsals, so I'm sure it wasn't JUST me.Although since my votes count as 2, I'm sure I helped a little :D

I think it is AWESOME that Joe actually reads all our posts, and actually bases some things on what we think or want.

I think some people were probably annoyed at my constant PLAY EOC AND TIME MACHINE !!!! posts back then, but hey, same thing happened with Crushing Day, and that got played, so I figured it would work :D

Same thing with Slick and the 8 steps, I think our enthusiasm definately helped getting those released in some form.