mu·sic Pronunciation Key (my-oo-zk)n.

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.

[Middle English, from Old French musique, from Latin msica, from Greek mousik (tekhn), (art) of the Muses, feminine of mousikos, of the Muses, from Mousa, Muse. See men-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

I hole-heartedly agree Neil!

JS Clone 1: One of my fav songs to jam along with...

Listening now........................ Here it comes....

Sorry Bud.... Didn't hear a thing....

Hey Gang... I just finished recording a little melody.... It's a bit of a tribute to Eddie... once you hear it, you'll know why (at least, I hope so) ... it's my favourite Van Halen tone that he produces...

give it a try...entitled "Ode To Edward"... http://barriepoole.iuma.com Oh and feel free to download any of my other tunes... please.

Hope I don't disappoint you diehard shredders out there...

31 years ago today....Jim Morrison died in his bathtub of a cardiac arrest! (He literally burnt himself out for all of the abuse that he put himself through)

Richard... I shook hands with ya man... your hands are just as big as mine... and I know mine are pretty big... not long but thick & wide... anyways... it doesn't matter...

Satch3d, JS Clone 1, Neal "The Nut", this is what people love to come here and read up on... It's mainly a website about Joe, but it's much more than that as well... It's a place that people can join together to.... make friends, trade ideas, ask questions etc. (whatever else floats your boat)

Another neat thing, thanks to the Internet and www.satriani.com , MegaBoyd and myself are trying to collaborate on a tune together... I created this Midi drum track that's pretty cool and upbeat in tempo, sent it off to Boyd and then he's going to mess around with it, add a Bass line to it... send it back and then I'll do some guitar work... If it wasn't for all of you guys that make this great community possible here, things like this would never happen... 2 guys (thosands, and thosands of miles away from each other are able to record a tune together) An online band if you will...

That's one thing I'd like to work on with a few people that visit here all the time, Matt King, Richard ... we've jammed online before, but I think it would be so cool to record a tune together with a whole bunch of players! I'm moving in just over a month and I'll be setting up a music studio for myself, So I can't wait for that... things will be a little more organized then and bigger and better tunes will hopefully be recorded soon enough...

Thanks for your time gang!!

RIGHT NOW JOE HAS REACHED THE NEXT LEVEL IN THE DUTCH TOP 20 GUITARISTS POLL. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO HAS VOTED. BUT.... DEAR FRIENDS AND FANS...... LET'S TRY TO GET JOE ON THE NEXT LEVEL !! TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. AND MAKE IT HAPPEN WE WILL !!!

JUST NEED 300 VOTES TO GET JOE ON THE NEXT LEVEL IN A DUTCH GUITAR POLL. JUST GOTO http://gitaristen.pagina.nl Then go to the item TOP 20 GITARISTEN at the right side of that page THE ITEM IS UNDERLINED. CLICK ON IT AND YOU WILL ENTER THE POLL. Look for the name JOE SATRIANI and CLICK on THE ROUND BUTTON ON THE LEFT SIDE OF JOE'S NAME. Then scroll to the bottom of that page and look for the button with the label STEM (IT MEANS VOTE IN ENGLISH). AND CLICK ON IT. IF YOU HAVE DONE THAT, YOU HAVE VOTED AND YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS OF THE VOTING SO FAR IN A COLOURFULL SCHEDUAL. PLEASE VOTE FOR JOE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

JOHN SAELMANS A.K.A. MAJOR TOM

p.s. You can vote more than just once. If your vote is used, you'll have access again for the voting. So with a bit of luck, you can vote at least every day !!

You know.....it would really be nice if Joe visited his own website once and awhile and posted some messages... (joke)

Joe??? The double arm guitar!!!! YES!!!! Did you ever listen to any of Rik Emmett's stuff with Triumph when he played his 2 necker? Of course one for his was a 12 string...

Guitars, Guitars, Guitars!!!

Ya Yo... the only thing I can think of for The Double JS is that one is tuned differently and possibly could be wired different for a slightly different tone...

Glad you had a blast Joe!! You've got to get more photos of your new axes in the guitar gallery... those new guitars you're sporting are sharp looking!!!

And about wearing your guitar a little higher... I do that to, but I always find my hand falls asleep on me because of the fact that I have to lift my hand higher to get under the guitar a bit because of the adjustment... So I take the good with the bad. I play better if it's higher or closer to me, but run the risk of my hand falling asleep and screwing up royally or I wear it a little lower so that my hand stays awake, and I have to pay more attention of what I'm doing with my left hand.

I actually think it all depends on the song you're playing Joe... If your going to be doing a song that has more chording work, then you might want to hang it a little lower, if you're playing a song where your playing nothing but lead, then you might want to wear it higher than usual...

Yep Joe! but that's the thing... You must have one of the coolest jobs around... you can take holidays and vacations anytime you want... And while you're on tour, you get to travel to new and exciting places all the time... Playing on stage with a bunch of bands, it's not like you're risking an injury before you get back to work or anything... well, ok maybe one thing... DEAFNESS...

JS Clone 1! You traded the black Jem?

Welp, as long as your happy with it's replacement!

How's the Jem 7VWH?

Still playing her?

Me... I'm affraid I'm happily stuck with what I have!!! Still love my Warmoth since the day I put it all together and strummed my first chord, played my 1st blues lick, whammy scream, trill, hammer on, tap, etc...

For those of you who aren't familiar with Warmoth go here!!!

http://www.warmoth.com so many styles so many choices for your version of the perfect Axe!!!

Hey Gang... for those of you who are interested, I just uploaded a whole bunch of tunes to my IUMA site... I've been busy... perhaps it's because I'm about to move and all, and it's hard to say how much time I'll have to spend recording after it's all said and done... anyways... Some new tracks enititled "Cry Of Desperation", "Slick New Hair Do", "Ode To Edward", and finally a cover of Joe's tune "Until We Say Goodbye".

You can download them at http://barriepoole.iuma.com

Thanks for your time!

Joe, I know you're a busy guy, I was messin with ya too... I mean... as if you have the time to sit around the computer like us bums in the T2J community... If you did have the time you'd visit the chat more often... Questions, Questions, Questions... Here's one...

So Joe!

You start your North American Tour today!! Good Luck and have a safe trip on the ROAD!!!

See ya August 31st in "T.O."

Hey Joe, I finally bought SBM! And I must say that whoever ripped you off and posted it on the net, did a lousy job of converting it to mp3 and posting it... Because the sound quality is far superior to what I heard before!

I truely believe this is your best all around rock record to date!

Of course I think that every time I hear new music from you!