r6rocker: "The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away." Young

Redemption! Well sort of anyway. I got the new Zep cd but no dvd so I'm halfway there! On my first listen now, on track 1 and I can just tell I'll be banging my head all night long. Too damn cool.

r6rocker: "The world is not black and white. It is many shades of grey." Me!

mowlie 2000: Congrats! Kids are cool to borrow sometimes, but it's nice to give 'em back lol

death cube K: Cool little story on that link. I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later lol

Cover Art Voting: Yeah, I think we're close to being ready to vote. We just got in one more and hopefully PhryDom can get it up on the site sometime pretty soon although he's going thru some hefty computer problems so it might be a wee bit on that. Anyway, once the new one is up we'll see if I can get Jon to help us out again.

Mr. Nick: I wouldn't worry, you should hear me try to play that song. My dog looks at me cross and the fish all hide from me. I think they're trying to tell me something.

Hey everybody, I'm back. Well I never left, but I was unable to respond to the posts I was reading due to a momentary laspse of reason of sorts. I moved my desk around a little bit, and my keyboard quit working. So instead of checking to see if it came unplugged, I did the logical thing and beat it relentlessly. When this didn't fix the problem, I had my most mature moment of the week and broke it in half over my knee. That didn't fix anything either. When I went to replace it this morning I found that it had indeed come unplugged. Oh well.

OCPS470: I use fender pics too. To help avoid "pic walk" (when the damn things just seem to rotate around in your fingers, trying desperately to escape) I put the top 2/3 of the pic on a grinding wheel and just rough it up a little. It doesn't really texture it, but it takes the gloss off and makes them a little less slick. I could do the same thing with sandpaper, put that doesn't involve a power tool and that just isn't as cool unless you can make noise while doing it lol

Austin: The Zep Cd's are awesome. I have listened to nothing else since I bought them. I'm addicted. Almost like rediscovering them.

r6rocker: That's a great original quote and as true as anything else I've heard.

McDave: Yes, but smashing it felt so very good.

PhryDom: Wow man, all those covers are looking great. I don't think it'll be a problem getting Jon to hook us up with another poll to choose them, but like you said, we need to cover our asses before anything is set in stone. Oh, and there have been a couple people that paid the submission fees to me by check, so we're doing a little better than you think lol.

Ovation: Not only is the ball rolling, but it's picking up speed at an incredible rate! Look out everyone, this is a virtual bowling alley here!

crushingday62: See if your bank can issue a money order in U.S. funds. If not I'll ask my bank if they can handle different currencies.

PhryDom: No probs man, you had no way of knowing. And as far as the other stuff, I'm on the case.

punkdude75: When it's available, it will be sold at our site.

Well, I'm off to clean out my basement. If I'm not back by this evening, call the authorities lol

PhryDom: Sleep Training eh? That would be cool. Listen to some cd's while you sleep, wake up and be able to play them. I like that idea.

crushingday62: Cool man, no problems with that at all. Let me know if you have any trouble.

alexandrecaetano: That's great, good luck to you.

Well, I spent all day down in the basement again. I'm almost done. I hate doing stuff like that. Anyways, as far as everyone on the T2J submission payments, don't worry. I haven't sent out my big collector guy Guido just yet. lol

PhryDom: Dude, you kick ass. Everyone, go vote for covers.

mowlie 2000: Should be a little less than 31 pounds I believe.

I think Eddie's clean/dirty sound has a lot to do with his clean/sloppy technique. That's what I always liked about him. He always sounded like his fingers were just running loose and it sounded so damn cool. A real nice mix of accuracy and balls out bullshit is hard to do really well like he does.

Austin: Sorry about that lol

Megaboyd: Puppetry of the Penis?

Jellyman: Cool new tune, nice groove to it.

Hiram Abif: The Avarice Clarky's referring to is a custom made 7 string he's been waiting on since the dawn of time. As for the other Avarice, there is a link to Clarky there too, but it's a long story.

Hiram Abif: Confused yet? We were lol.

mowlie 2000: I've received a few strange emails regarding my iuma as well. Not recently, but when I first put it up. Anyway, a lot of those things are scams I think so be careful.

ToneCapone: I've got a GNX3 and I really like it. If you want, check out my iuma for some examples of it's recording capabilites. Every sound you hear came from that little board, every effect and most of the drums as well. Also, check out the GNX3 forum at digitech.com where there are lots of people that can answer questions for you as well as show more examples of tunes. Also, as far as my songs, they don't sound good because I can't play, not because the GNX3 isn't any good lol.

Clarky: AVARICE is IN me? That's not cool. Not cool at all. I'm not gay, have no problem with people who are gay, but if I were forced to be gay for some reason, I'd like to think of myself as a pitcher, not a catcher! I feel violated!

Quote of the day: "It may be remarked for the comfort of honest poverty, that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow in a barren soil." Hughes

Ricky Garcia: Yeah, I think we should do some sort of cooperation deal with the Vai project as well. I did have that thread set up to email me when ever there was a new post, but for some reason it stopped doing it. I was wondering if there had been any more discussion on it and I just checked and saw that it is indeed going strong. Keep us posted on the progress and we'll see how we can best help one another. Also, to all from here and there, this shouldn't be a competition between Satch and Vai fans on who can make the better tribute cd or whatever. I think we can both benefit from these projects so everyone should help everyone else out. Plus they can learn from our mistakes, and we can learn from their mistakes for our 2nd cd. All good things.

Morning all, just catching up from being gone all weekend. Hope all is well with everyone.

death cube K: You slipped into the quad digits while I wasn't looking, Happy 1001 to you dude! You thought Zakk sucked huh? I saw him several years ago with Ozzy and really liked the show. But that could have been due to all of the bare breasts that were surronding me at the time and distracted me from the music lol

OCPS470: I've used the NS-2 before and it works well, although I found I had very little need for it. I used it at the end of my chain to level everything out, but a lot of times I just turned it off. You play a lot cleaner than I normally do though, so it might work well for you.

Adrianorb: Thanks, that was a track I just kinda winged it on. I hit record, tried to stay within a scale and lost all track of time. I'm amazed the drums fit it at all as I didn't have any backing track or metronome going, just gleefully hopping along in my own world. So after a one take guitar I spent all day messing with the drum machine to come up with something that sort of fit and grooved. Glad you liked it.

Tonecapone: Cool man, let us know when you have some songs up that we can listen to and don't let these guys intimidate you. There's some unreal players here, but they can give tons of advice to you once they've heard some of your stuff.

dragonchild: Don't worry, there's plenty of guitars on my track. Actually, on the clip there are two acoustics, a bass, and at the very end of it the start of a distorted electric. Later in the track 2 more electrics come in so it'll make more sense once you hear the whole tune.

Thought of the day: The reason the mainstream is though of as a stream is because of it's shallowness. Speaking of water ways, always remember: When swimming the river of life, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.

death cube K: Cool, I'll try to find it.

alexandrecaetano: Cool man, thanks. Let me know what you think.

gutterboy: Good luck in the Navy. It's sure to be an adventure. You can liberate foreign lands with Joe's music and make the world a better place.