Pampersnake23 - Yeah it's an awesome surprise. I kinda tore the bottom corner of the box to get to it, but it's worth it. For those that don't know what the surprise is, don't read my next paragraph...

evbro - I didn't want to mention the surprise on here when it first came up (a few months ago) to give people time to discover it on their own...but I guess it's ok to spill the beans now... If you unscrew the bottom portion of The Secret Jewel Box, there is a small compartment that contains an extra CD. It's an interview CD that has Steve Vai talking about all of the stuff that he hopes to include in the box.

IbaNick - Yeah, I wasn't moving around that much at the LISF gig. I was in awe for the most part...LOL...I've never been that close to a band on stage before. I did a lot of moving around during the first set, but during intermission a lot of people tried to weasel their way up to the front... MegaBoyd and the other people up front didn't have to worry about it because they were up on the front railing...but every time I moved people would creep in on my space...LOL. I'm going go nuts at the KX/DT/JS show on 8/11 though. :-)

IbaNick - There's one more thing that I forgot to mention. Ya know that one camera angle on the DVD that's the camera on the robotic arm that sweeps over the stage towards Stu? That thing would always fly within inches of the top of my head...hehe...so I had to be careful not to jump up and hit it or something. That would've been funny...

JS Clone 1 - It's much longer than 12 minutes. I've only listened to it once, but I thought it was more like an hour long.

Sorry for the multiple posts tonight...

I got a Konica e-Mini digital camera / mp3 player today. Got it pretty cheap on eBay. Very sweet for the price. : )

Hey, where's all the BLUE text?

The new site looks cool (even though I don't prefer black backgrounds). I'd only recommend losing the static width of the site. The content should stretch and flow with the browser...

webmaster - Thanks for adding the underline and fixed-width text options. We can do just about everything now. :-)

alien32 - I'm actually wearing a white long sleeved shirt under a black Joe Satriani tshirt. Go here to see a picture of me with Joe after the 7/1/01 G3 show. I'm wearing the same shirt at the LISF gig, with the white shirt under it. As I think I mentioned before, I'm in just about every establishing shot taken by the camera on the robotic arm. Other than that, the easiest places to see me are:

1.) At the very end of Disc 1. The camera pans through the crowd after Summer Song. I reach up to wipe sweat off my face as the picture fades out.

2.) During the call and response section of Surfing With The Alien on Disc 2. I'm smiling / yelling / singing back to Joe's guitar...

3.) If you have good eyes, you can see me in line outside before the show, in the extra footage at the end of the DVD. I'm wearing the same clothes, as well as a NY Yankees hat.

hey folks, just thought i'd drop a quick report in since i was at the last day of rehearsals today and the boys are sounding fantastic! they warmed up playing a couple of old beatles tunes and then slammed through a select number of tunes one last time. john cuniberti even showed up and played along on drums to a tune :}

also, i've added the support for underlining and quoting in fixed-width font. the list of options is at the bottom of the page when you are posting a message.

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i plan on adding the ability to search for posts by authors and may also add something that provides a link to the most recent post by joe or the band so you can hop directly to it. i'll consider adding a timezone option to change what zone dates are displayed as and also think about how to store last-read messages by account instead of just a cookie. it's a bit complex to do both, so i might just require a member account to use that feature (since one is needed to post anyways).

also, a couple of folks have said something about the archive and submit button being on a white background? it should be a dark blue background so if not, please email me what browser you are using so i can try to see what it doesn't like.

webmaster - I said something about one of the buttons on the site...maybe you misunderstood me (If you weren't talking about my post, I'm sorry for repeating myself). The six buttons (Post Message, View New, Mark All Unread, etc.) show up fine with grey text on a blue background. I was talking about the drop down box below those buttons...the text there (1 hour, 2 hours,..., 6 months, etc.) shows up as grey text with white background. And then the "Go" button is a light grey box with a darker grey lettering. I think the text in both of these areas is supposed to be black. It's just a small thing, but I guess it's worth mentioning. If you're still confused I can email you a JPG screen capture so you can see what I'm talking about...

Also...the pictures sound pretty cool...thanks. And the online listening party sounds like an awesome idea. :-)

Yo Austin, see you @ 8/11!!!