I totally agree with you Michelle about the phone call to Trutina (Bil McKim)... Does anyone know his phone number? anyone? and regarding the long distance charge. In Canada I know it doesn't cost any more if you were calling from the next city or to Florida, the cost would be the same... even better if you have a long distance plan in place on your phone bill, it doesn't cost anything if you pay for a service such as that...

Well in Canada anyway... home of SARS, MAD COWS, WEST NILE, Lousey National Security...

I trust him too... I only brought the whole thing up for arguement sake...

Alexandre buddy!!

yeah I know man...

it's been a tough year...

probably for everyone...

Half of BC mountains nearly burnt up, as well as Portugal, as well as California...

and to beleive there's even worse things going on right now, especially in Iran...

Gawd Joe what a Life...

Record producing and snowboarding... Sounds like a tough job to do...

Think I'll stay at the backbreaking painful job I do everyday... of course snowboarding can be backbreaking, painful work too... Take care with that at least Joe... Don't be doing any extreme stuff like riding an avalanche... that's my only advice... Only do that if you have delusions of grandure thinking you're Franky Avalon like Back To The Beach... or something... It's the Big Kahuna...

As for the record producing... Go Nuts...

just wanted to give you guys a heads up...

IUMA is giving me problems as of late... as everytime I want to upload something they say they're down for maintainance...

So now I've got a Soundclick site going...

here's the link...

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/barriepoole.htm

tell me what you think...

my most recent recording is a Live Blues Jam performance...

Have a listen... hope you enjoy!!!

Hey Kirk... yeah, I was messin around one day through the charts on soundclick and stumbled on your soundclick site a few days ago... I didn't have a chance to listen though, but I'll make the time...

I would state in all fairness to Alex Lifeson. I feel the excessive use of force used by the Naples Police on his son Justin, was probably not necessary... As a father it was probably very upsetting for him to see his son shocked by a taser gun. And all Alex was trying to do was come to his son's aid.

And the whole thing quite simply got blown out of proportion...

Ovation... yeah, you're actually not downloading, it's actually being streamed, unless you found a way to download it, that's cool, all the power too you...

if you had a hotmail email address, I could add it to my MSN Messenger... and you could download the Blues Jam directly from me... here's mine if you have a problem with leaving it here for everyone to see...

plumloco15@hotmail.com

OvationI just finished adding you to my MSN Messenger...

Also, I'd love to hear you play... I don't think I've ever seen you post a music site of your own!?!? do you have one? or do you have any tunes recorded somewhere?

Yeah Michelle...

Alex is a big guy... and Geddy is the same height as him.

But have you ever seen pictures of Neil Peart standing with them?? Now that dude is really, really tall... He's got to be 6' 5".. he'd be standing eye to eye with Hulk Hogan, that's how tall...

hehe of course when Neil is sitting at his drum set, it's hard to believe but he towers over Geddy & Alex...

he he... They're a band of Canadian misfits that absolutely rock!!! LOL

haha, thanks Ovation!! did you finally hear the Blues Jam? cool if you did...

my Band has a sound click as well, it's not instrumental but I get to noodle around too...

Man that's some sad news about Bil...

well, I hope it isn't Brain Cancer, I know what my Best Friend and my Uncle went through with it...

Ovation 1... I'm on MSN right now man...

yeah, BTW Joe...

What's this new record going to be like?

Is it all out rock like SBM, The Extremist, & Crystal Planet were or is it a combination of Electronic and Live...

that would be cool, to mix what you did in EOC and mix it with stuff you did in SBM style stuff... kinda like an Incubus thing...

Ovation 1... hahaha thanks man... glad U liked that one... I always get mixed reactions over that one... my friends thought I lost my marbles...

"I probably have" but it was fun to record...LOL

I'd like to thank my rhythm section for that crazy funky stuff... Mr Casio Keyboard... LOL

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/barriepoole.htm

Ovation 1... I just realized that my own soundclick didn't have mp3 downloads... I just changed all of them around so you can download them now like my IUMA...

Aarren man... They've been down for at least 2 months to my knowledge... I got sick of it and started up a soundclick site... they've kind of taken place for mp3.com users, as well as iuma...

Hey Joe! I read the article in the news section at Peavey.com and things sound pretty good with that JSX... I was just kinda curious... the article also said something about the amp being very affordable to the public as well... any idea how much that would be in US dollars? just a ball park figure?

Hey Joe... The new JS1200 looks cool... the PAF Joe pickup, what is the difference from that and the PAF Pro? sound and tone wise?

Ethn...

check out Line 6 dude... their amps sound like everything... tons of different distortions to go along with it... The Spider I I in particular has stacks at very affordable prices... and they have every effect built in that you'd ever want...

here's a look see at what I'm talking about...

http://www.music123.com/Item/?itemno=117822

Ethn...

Man... all this talk about amps is killin me...

As much as I hate to break it to y'all...

Tone Is In The Fingers... I don't know how many times Joe has said it, but I learned that within the 1st 5 years of playing... and all I ever had was a RockTek Mini amp to spare... the only tone I ever needed was the adjustments on the guitar and very little adjustment on the amp. I was so broke as a teen that when I was learning how to play, the amp's reverb would actually make it squeal & feedback with avengence until I figured out a way to wrap it with a bath towel to stop the feedback... that little amp rocked for all I could afford... it was cheap, a pain in the ass to fix all the time, but I still have that amp for sentimental reasons... simply because it was a reminder on how things used to be... it also let me realize that I could be a far better player if I just worked on accuracy and not masking the tone with crazy effects like my buddies did...

The only way I see controlling tone, volume, and distortion are the controls on the guitar itself. leave the pedals and gadgets alone... I mean yeah ok, I have a Line 6 Spider 212 which is loaded with effects but half the time I have it on the Twang, Blues, & Crunch settings and the rest is controlled on the guitar, the reverb is usually set to 25%, Delay is barely noticable, and Distortion is all controlled on my guitar...

Everyone's different I realize, but as fun as effects are... don't let it control or mask the true tone out of your playing ability! Don't let it rule your lives either...

Trutina buddy...

glad your back...

I've had people listen to Joe's music and I flat out told them that he's an instrumental guitarist and they still ask me where the words are... So it might not be because they want to hear words, it might be that fact that they don't understand too much of any thing about music in general... Kinda like the Grammy's and the voters involved... you know how it is...

Bmadd4...

I'm sure you're not one of those guys that comes and bashes Joe's site or anything...

But all those scales from 1 to 10 kinda look like you gave Joe all negative 10s LOL...

Wow Trutina...

Cool man... I personally don't believe in the marriage thing but anyone who's up for it is ok in my books... All the power to them...