edges and lo pro edges are great for that-

On jamming today with Neil (which was great, hope you got home in one piece) - I decided that I need a new guitar. I need one which has tuning I trust. First I need some money though. Maybe I could dip into some inheritance...

Also my amp cut out. Great. I only just got it back the other day.

And also I need to practise more :P and better. Oh, how much can a man learn...

Anyway it was great fun, it'd be good to do it again sometime. Give me a chance to get my chops up to scratch first though...

CALLING ALL SAN DIEGO SATCH FANS!! Tonight (7/26) I want to invite you out to catch my instrumental rock group RDG at Dream Street, located at 2228 Bacon Street, in OB. For more info, plus free tunes, check out http://www.mp3.com/rdg

Can't wait to catch the MASTER at Humphrey's, tearing it up with Dream Theater and King's X. SBM is INCREDIBLE

Sharon: good day today, thanks! My last working day! I'm on holiday now for 4 weeks!!!!! And a cousin from New Zealand brought me 400 g of chocolate from down under! And the sun is shining but it's not too hot! Could it be a better day? Good luck Sunny Monster!

Clarky - Oh, man - I think I'm just as excited as you... lol

Shell/Dragonchild - There were cameras at the Thursday night show too. He recorded both shows, that's why I asked which one he decided to use. I know this because I was there on Thursday (when he played my blow-up guitar...) and there loads of cameras roaming around. And a friend of mine was there on the Friday, and he said they recorded that show as well. In fact, he said the Steve actually stopped in the middle of a song and start it again because he played a wrong note. Hmmm...

The Local Person - They weren't mistakes, they were "clash tones"... lol. Seriously though, whilst you are certainly no virtuoso (but few people are...) you are an incredible musician. This is probably because you're classically trained. Your theory knowledge is solid, and you know your way around the guitar fluently. The only thing that lets you down (apart from your amp) is the technical side of things, but that only takes practise. Years of it, but it's only practise... lol. But getting home was fun - I missed the turning for Hastings off the A272 and ended up going right into Hurst Green at totally the other end of that stretch of road, which brought me out on the A21, so then I knew where I was... Who knew driving could be so much fun?

Neil

VetteGuy43

refer to the Ibanez site. I think that somewhere there you can find information about changing strings. Or, search for "Ibanez changing strings" in Yahoo, you'll find something useful.

Consider changing the bridge and Humbuckers some day!

get a loaf

no not impossible to play - difficult to get the sound though ;)

Ovation1 --- is Joe featured in Young Guitar this month?? i'll try my best to get my hands on an issue then!!

MMMindSSStorm Thanks for your comment. First of all I agree that it is wrong to compare guitarists (I wrote that in one of my messages).

In the the early sixties and seventies there were some magazines that did polls in those days. Or there were some radio campaigns. And Eric became #1 for his work with John Mayall, The Yardbirds, Cream. Jimi Hendrix was a great fan of Eric clapton. Jan Akkerman took over #1 during his work with Focus. And like I've said before TO ME Joe is the greatest guitarist for this moment in time.

Yes, the poll is a small one. And a little known. But if more and more people vote or even visit the site, its populairity will rise.

The question in that poll is not "Who is the best guitarist" but "what guitarplayer impressed you the most". So it's not to compare guitarists (like the BBC poll of 1993), but a little bit some kind of a personal question. BTW it's not MY website or MY poll.

I enjoy the music of Joe very much. And think he is a very nice person too. So that is why I vote.

Naty - you lucky thing, hols for 4 weeks, going somewhere nice? Have a good holiday. Which JS shirt did you have. Glad you have some new servants, those shirts do need ironing once washed.

Phyrg Dominant - what country are you from, it doesn't say on the list. Doesn't matter anyway, post the funny stuff.

Wildwayz - Joe is my wallpaper at work too, I need something exciting to look at whilst at work for the boring, need a firecracker up your backside Council.

The Local Person - glad you have an inheritance to tap into, you lucky kid. I had to go straight to work for my pennies. Satch fans, met Mr Huxley at Shepherd's Bush - very polite person. Good luck with you playing local person.

Nighty night everybody,

Joe, just before I go off to bed I just want to say, memories of my first Satch concert live are still rolling round in my head. You played stuff that I'm particularly fond of and I loved Midnight, could have listened to that just a bit longer. Hats off to the rest of the band. What teamwork.

Thanks for giving us a great time.

IbaNick

Thank you for you comments. It's always fun to read the reactions about the little poll. And because the site is Dutch, it would be great to get Joe on the first place in stead of Jan Akkerman. And that I cannot do by myself. That is why I started the little campaign about voting for Joe in a Dutch Poll. If I knew of any other guitarists poll, with Joe in the list, I would go to that site and vote. But the Dutch one is the one I know of. Second in the list? The question in the poll is 'what guitarist impressed you the most'. So that is a personal question. And if you notice the many, many links to even more guitarplayers, it's not astonishing that 'not in the list' has a lot of votes. Before i knew Joe's music I voted 'not in the list' because I was impressed by Jeff Healy.

And you are right to say that 20 (or 19) guitarists doesn't do right to all those other great guitarists. And I do have some serious plans to contact the webmaster about the poll. And about some other stuff about the whole site. I got a vacation now, so i have some more time to do these things.

And right, if Joe gets on the first place, that doesn't proove anything but one thing, that most people who have voted were the most impressed by Joe Satriani. That would be nice. No more No less.

But explain me, why is it worse to say Joe impressed me the most as a guitarist? Why is that so wrong to say? Or why is it wrong to make people aware of the fact that somewhere in the world there is a poll where they ask "what guitarist impressed you the most". And if you like you can vote. What is wrong about that. Or is it wrong to make people aware of the music of joe Satriani. Or other great guitar music? (I consider myself a great guitar music fan, more than a Joe Satriani fan). The poll won't do wrong to anybody. The poll isn't perfect, but then again, WHAT IS? There's nothing to proove. It's just FOR FUN. And even if Clapton or any other guitarist would get on the first place? SO WHAT? It means that there are more people impressed by Eric clapton and voted in that poll. So What? I think it's rather strange that some (fans?) are 'annoyd' because they are made aware of a guitarists poll where they can vote for Joe.

Ritchie Blackmore and Yngwie are guitarists. That I know. But as for Jesus, I have never heard that he was a guitarplayer.

And yes, those who know me personal, think that I am a nice person. Persistant sometimes.

Nikos, no hard feelings. But don't ask me to stop being a Joe Satriani fan who makes other Joe satriani fans aware of the fact that they can vote in a (Dutch) guitarist poll. And the number of the votes increases every day.

Major Tom