SLS, you're gonna get evicted if you keep doing that

No, I'm not related to Roger! I get asked that a lot tho, so don't worry about it! hehehe

If you use it lots with the bridge pickup, try the neck instead. And alternative to what DCK said, I have my Wah at the front end of my floorboard, with everything else in the chain after it!

Flight Of The Bumble Bee? ouch! Do you know if there's anybody out there with a signature Glockenspiel?

Crispin, what the others said! hehe. yeah Joe and Steve are excellent at palming the open strings while they tap. also, if youre using a Bad Horsie wah pedal and you hold it in the right place (somewhere around the middle) it seems to pick out the notes you're tapping and eliminate the ones you're not.

The other option is to do what Jenniffer Batten does which is to use a string damper.....it clamps on the neck behind the nut and you just flip it down when you're gonna start tapping. Or if you want to save money, you could use the sock trick! hehe. but that looks pretty pants on stage.

Try turning your tone down when you're using the wah pedal........full is probably not a good idea.

The PGM has 25 frets? crazy, I never knew that.

oh, excellent response to the palm beach review, by the way! good going

Ovation1, I feel ashamed, I forgot about Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways). Lord forgive me. that is a kickass tune, I love it. And dude, that rocks about Paul doing loads of acoustic stuff lately......I gotta hear that! What's the best Racer X album, in your opinion?

Happy 800!

Yeah I reckon a tour of Billy and Stu would be great......they could vary their third member........it would be ace with Jaco Pastorias, or Roscoe Beck, John Myung..........that would rule!

still, I bet he's never been treated as poorly as Vai was - did you ever read the bit in one of Steve's postcards, saying that one magazine journalist said that steve's parents should have been sterilised so he could never have been born?! That is some sick, crazy sh!t man.

I hope that journalist got/gets caught up in one of LA's finest drive-by's. That's the sort of thing that is wrong to say about anybody, regardless of who they are.

UF Dean, you can find Dream Theater's "Funeral For A Friend" on the "A Change Of Seasons" album. oh, I just discovered that Greg gave you a much better review, so....what Stu M said! hehe

Respect to Jaco Pastorias

Yeah, if you look at Vai's 'Postcards' section on his site, you'll see it there. it was earlier this year some time.

Austin, thanks for the info on Jaco Pastorius dude! That's harsh about the way he died, and a shame that he got himself into trouble with drink and drugs. The biography is real interesting.......seems like he was a properly cool guy.

4 months and a five grand payment isn't enough I'm afraid. The bouncer that mamed and slaughtered Jaco Pastorius needs to be sought out and wrecked. See how he likes it when his eye is hanging in the same pool of his own blood that his face is laying in.

Covering someone elses stuff usually isn't too much of a problem if you give them the credit for it.

Oh, have you ever heard the "Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan" record? it's awesome.....it's got so many cool people on it, like Eric Clapton, Bonnie Rate, Jimmie Vaughan, Dr John, BB King, Robert Cray and so on. worth checking out!

It's value is dropping fast, and at the current rate, with people downloading/pirating music and not going out and buying it, music will go out of production in about a decade.

Ethn, wow, that's the bravest statement I've seen yet about Yngwie! respect dude! hehehe. Half the audience could shred his ass? it'd be quite interesting to know how good the audience members actually are. I do kind of have to agree with PhryDom, about the fact that G3 should be more about the entertainment/music, than who's best.

However, I do think that it sucks for a G3 member to be so sloppy, in their playing and their habits.

NINJAS for G3? I bet they could kick even hgiher than YJM! hehe

I know, I'm not a violent person and yeah, what's done is done, but I think what happened to Jaco is really unjustified.

mmm, Kazaa hurts more than you think. I think it was something like a 2 billion dollar loss in the last 12 months.

RT can't even afford to do a festival tour? that's a pretty good indicator of how bad file sharing is. Cheers again dude, your post may turn out to be very helpful!

cool to hear that Jenniffer Batten is working on another record. can't wait for that! On Favored Nations you say? even better!

speaking of which, I need to start taking lessons.

Sharif, have you heard the "Lords Of Karma: A Tribute To Steve Vai and Joe Satriani" CD? check out George Lynch's contribution to that. it aint bad, but nothing on that record is excellent. just good. Not that I'm saying Lynch isn't good - he's bloody amazing! He could make an interesting G3 member.

Yeah I know what you mean about those loose trem arms. That really pisses me off. The locking, threadless ones have bushes that last until you get it out the shop door, then you need to go back in and buy more. And the TRS threads are kinda shite. Any trem use and it works loose. I think they need a smaller guage thread on 'em. I too like the arm to stay where I leave it, as part of my playing, and having the bastard thing making it's own arrangements doesn't help at all.

mischievous, stealing my thing? not at all bro'! I'm always glad to see supporters of the Hill Groove For G3! campaign. I'm pleased I helped your re-discovery of an amazing Satch future-classic! Hill Groove is such an uplifting, happy melody, it really sticks out on that album, and the whole album is fantastic, so for something to stick out is pretty awesome!

Go check out The Forgoten on the FIABD album, and maybe I'll soon have you adding The Forgotten (Part 2) For G3! to your posts too! hehehe.

Oh, and regards Halo, you need to find you some money. I don't play games much, but it's gotta be right up against GTA3 and Half-Life (actually it's better than Half-Life) as the best game ever written. I thoroughly recommend Halo, so much effort was put into it's production, and it has an awesome storyline.

"it's like buying a 36 hour clock lol!" hehehehehe, that's damn good man! I'll have to use thatin future!

I apologise sincerely for my boldness! Due to a typing error (forgetting the bloody 'b' in the closing brackets) in my last post (2 days ago), the whole thing came out in Bold. I'm sorry guys, I didn't mean to shout! hehehehe.

It's all amended now!

Nuno has shorter hair these days, which is kinda nuts.....he looked cool with long hair! He really should have an official website, dammit!

However, my top-ten musicians would be a little different; these are the people who make guitar-based music something really interesting ~ 1. Eric Johnson, *3. Steve Vai/Joe Satriani, 4. Igor Belsky, 5. Nuno Bettencourt, 6. Andy Timmons, 7. Steve Lukather, 8. Kenny-Wayne Shepherd, 9. John Petrucci, 10. Paul Gilbert

*I left out number 2 cuz Vai and Satriani share a place but are two people!

Also interesting to see your opinions on drugs/alcohol. I was disappointed too when I found out that Kirk had had a coke habbit. It's great to see that people like him and Hetfield and Lukather can go through rehab and make it work......but still...!

Anyone else checked out www.ibanez-guitar-players.com?

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!

So Surfing With The Alien had some shred in it, as did Crushing Day, but why can't these mindless bastards listen to things like Always With Me, Always With You and appreciate it for what it really is?! Joe writes proper music, he structures it with thought, care and emotion, and isn't a mindless shredder. He's hardly a shredder at all actually - he's a legato man, not a pick-every-note man. What does it take for people to see the difference?

Austin, yeah I thought that quote was pretty good too man! Joe's approach to improving your playing is quite interesting, and really cool, I think.

If you want to check out Nuno's stuff, best get either Extreme II: Pornograffitti of Extreme III: III Sides To Every Story, or get the self-titled Mourning Widows album. Mourning Widows is still kinda funk metal, but modernised, and Nuno does most of the production as well.

Why not use the chat room? umm, I wanted to watch a funny show on TV before I crawled into bed, I'm usually completey tired out by about half nine at night! It kinda sucks!

Yeah, that ibanez-guitar-players quote about Steve is pretty cool! hehe

On the subject of Gibsons with Floyd Rose bridges on........funniest thing I ever saw was a 335 with a Floyd!

mischievous, yes Extreme as in More Than Words. Is that the only thing of theirs you heard? if so, a lot theie other stuff is a little different. I would imagine you may have heard Decadance Dance and maybe Get The Funk Out too?

Anyhow, yeah, there were four of 'em, with Gary Cherone singing lead vocals, Pat Badger playing bass, Paul Geary playing drums, and Nuno playing guitars/keyboards/some brass/some strings, and just about everything else that was added in there! Although for some of the brass/strings sections he just arranged it for others to play.

Oh, by the way, I meant to say - my bad on calling you bro'! Hehehe, sorry about that. That's partly why I added my name to my public profile, cuz "962" isn't gender-specific!

edit: having finished downloading it I can say......mm.....if your connection is slow like mine it's not worth the effort. You can't properly hear Jon's part, and the sound quality isn't good, which is okay, cuz it is a 'bootleg', but that aspect could be made more obvious.

Narface, no, David Dickinson is an ORANGE FREAK! Now, I doubt if that will mean anything at all to you, but anybody else here who's from the UK, may know what I'm talkin about! hehehehe.

But he did try serious, or at least more sophisticated, which isn't what people wanted - they wanted more metal. I actually think Nuno's Mourning Widows work is far better than that of Extreme, but it's different, and I love everything he did with Extreme. MW is amazingly good to listen to, and I sincerely hope it hasn't been terminated after 2 albums.

Oh, he also needs to be signed by a bigger label, so he can get some exposure!

hehehe, Narface, and anyone else who's confused about my Orange comment - David Dickinson hosts a crappy day-time TV show here in the UK, and is famed for his bright orange fake-sun-tan that he always wears. So yeah, he's an Orange Freak! hehe

pulp-1; no pulp-2

Speaking of artwork, how awesome is the artwork in Train Of Thought?

miiiiiikey, wow, cheers for your input. That's a real suprise, I always thought Steve had done nothing lead-vocal-wise on S&R! You learn something new every day!

You can get Joe Satriani lyrics from Joe Satriani CD liners. If you don't have the CD liners it means you have a hot copy of his stuff, or you downloaded it.

dammit! bad news really gets on my tits! We now have to wait till JANUARY for the Live At The Astoria DVD. In the time this is taking, Vai could have recorded a whole new DVD and released it.

Also, both the Satch and Vai anthology releases are not being released normally in the UK - we have to get them on import, which translates as around $32 each. What happened to international relations?

and thank you, it's great to finally see someone write that The Forgotten (Parts 1 and 2) are their favourite tracks of the FIABD album! damn right dude, The Forgotten (Part 2) is my favourite tune by Joe.

Trutina, dude, that sucks. Hope your neural problems don't get worse. Take it real easy man, you're lucky you didn't break a bunch of limbs!

If you go to as many european shows by Joe, Steve and all their peers, as you possibly can, it'll generate more interest in the genre and will increase the chances of G3 in europe.

About Steve's clothes - damn nice! I wonder who advises him on what to wear?!

mischievous, "why monkey?" a damn good question! I'd never thought of that, but now you mention it, why indeed should it be just for monkeys?! hehe.

Yeah I should think Steve has a large hand in his wardrobe selection, since it's him who's been to the various shops in Hollywood.

I heard a funny but harsh story about it the other day - some guy here in the UK was lookin for a Les Paul Gold Top, and had been quoted 3 grand by a shop. He said he could find it cheaper, and looked on Ebay, and sure enough, found a Les Paul Gold Top, advertised at 2-and-a-1/2 grand. Great. He payed for it, and a few days later recieved a Les Paul guitar case with a brick inside. That's the most expensive brick he'll ever buy.

silly twat.

mischievous, you mean the 'credits'? those reems and reems of small-print that only the most committed watch all the way through. And even if it's an animation, 'grip' always seems to make an appearance. Get a grip! hehe. oh my god that was bad, I apologise! hehe

To anybody who doesn't know what it's like - some of it consists of mashed beans with a sweet syrupy jelly mixed with it, so it comes out kind like sweet refried beans. Crazy, but not unpleasant.

Hooh yeah! Just got my replacement for Andy Timmons' "The Spoken And The Unspoken", cuz the last one I ordered had a massive chip out of the disc. This is an awesome album. "All Is Forgiven" is a great opening track. It was worth the 6-8 week wait!

Oh, about Stevie - Dave, the tongue thing isn't a fake with a sustainer and a whammy pedal, cuz he did it at the London show with a guitar without the Sustainer in. Dave Weiner does it too and he doesn't have the Fernandez. And what's that about pro-tools? Steve doesn't program his stuff - it's almost all do-able, even if it does need rack effects.

thanks for the links - what a cool recipe for Anko; 1 cup of beans, 1/3 cup of sugar, 10 cups of water! That is so simple!