r6rocker: lol bro' way to go on the r6!!....I agree with ya' on the Blackbird....Man, it is amazing what they have now....ABS for bikes and all....They s/b outlawed, lol!! BTW, I know what you mean by "little ones" changing thing's, lol ;-)

SIREN: HAPPY HUNDRED!!!!!! Keep it up with those sexy JOE pic's!! lol....Sexy Joe for G3 ;-)

Thank's for that new's update Clarky!! LMAO!! ;-)

trutina - the back track has been writen, I just need to complete the drum programming refinements and then record the guitars... my AW16W is due pretty soon so I'll wait and record onto that as the quality will be far superior to what I have now... fingers crossed and a fair wind I'm expecting you to get my CD around mid to late April - I hope that's not too long to wait... the track ended up at 9 mins 30... I'll have a good listen and may edit it down to something a little shorter to save space on the CD if you think I should... especially before I commit the guitars to tape... it's sounding quite sweet so far.... far better than I initially expected...

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~junap95/fighters/su37.htm

http://www.sci.fi/~fta/Su-27.htm

top motor... I want one............

and potentially some bad news for the F22

http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/su37.htm

about the deli creeps/buckethead gig friday 3/14

hey all!

so this past friday (3/14), the very mega boyd and i ended up in petaluma at the mystic theater to witness "the deli creeps featuring buckethead".

sidetrack: i got there about 5:30 and they were soundchecking. i headed off to this music store half a block away and enountered a most unusual fender - an '80s MIJ i-Line semi-hollowbody telecaster .. with a kahler/floyd and 24 frets. weakass pickups, though. if i encounter 300 bucks i may go back for it!

anyhow, the megaboyd came by and we got a bite to eat and headed into the venue and a beeline for the bucket's side of stage and found ourselves pretty much right up against stage. the opening act (woven .. www.wovenmusic.com) were pretty interesting .. trippy electronica vibe, unusual format .. 6 piece with vocals+guitar, guitar, bass, keys/electronics (kurzweil k2600+tibook), and two drummers behind one giant rack setup. each guitarist had only about thirty or so effects, bass player - 13. quite cool, though, even though i was so tired i was dozing thru some of their set pretty much leaning onto stage.

anyhow, they cleared the stage after about a 45 minute set, and buckethead's tech came and set up some five pedals on the floor (for those who care .. tuner->some octave divider->some other weird effect->yellow colored weird wah->whammy->crybaby -> triple recto head into a boogie 4x12 with a midiverbII in the effects loop). anyhow, i got to know these in an interesting way, i'll get to that later. so anyhow, after some waiting and friend-making with the other people there, the deli creeps took the stage - three very crazy looking men in deli aprons and another crazy looking animatronic robot with his standard issue kfc bucket and micheal myers mask wearing his deli apron like a cape. got right there, the bucket plugged his white les paul in.

and they started playing. this is where my mind started to lose cohesion as i stood there gawking at the perfect psychoticness that was going on. of course there were a couple numbnuts who were doing all they could to spoil it ("BUCKETHEAD!!! YOU FUCKING RULE BUCKETHEAD!!!" at every instance, during songs, solos, banter, antics, EVERYTHING *grrr* .. luckily this guy eventually 'disappeared' from the area next to us .. i wonder what happened to him. another dude was chanting about how the thing to do was to "GET DRUNK AND LISTEN TO THE DELI CREEPS AND ASSFUCKING IS GOOD") so my mind kept melting more and more and i KNOW that the awe on my face was visible to anyone who was looking. it should be illegal to play a guitar like that. there were lots of props used, including pepper shakers, a rubber chicken, disembodied hand, and of course, buckethead standard issue nunchuckas. these were used on an atrophied torso of st. patrick's corpse somewhere along the course of the show. also featured madness included 'eruption' and a quasi SRV solo played by buckethead behind a curtain while maximum bob (singer, err, vocalist) played along on a wireframe guitar sculpture.

continued, from above

also featured was rampage-a-plenty. this is where it got interesting: buckethead went totally nuts at one point and jumped up on the drum stage and started bashing cymbals with his headstock and then flung his guitar around a lot (all this while brutally playing chords with only his left hand .. and they sounded like full on angry muted chords, even) - and the guitar hit maximum bob's mike stand, which proceeded to fly across stage and landed a few inches from my face. it also took out BH's pedals in its wake. of course, i love a challenge, so i reached as far as i could and plugged the cords i could reach back in and BH came and plugged the last one i couldn't reach in and kept playing, but not before giving a robotic a-ok sign :D. this was, of course, incredibly cool, hehe.

anyhow, the show carried on - the 'ballad' they did was called 'pink wagon' and the chorus went something like "let me park my pink wagon in your brown street", which pretty much summed up the theme of the show (@$$f#ck1ng) - got over, encores happened which included the flinging of cool Lord of The Rings(tm) toys out into the audience.

waited around inside 'til we were kicked out, but i managed to snag half of BH's setlist, and boyd got the salt cellar, haha. then waited around some more (i think it was an hour and a half or so?), spoke w/ the opening act guys, and then finally the real people themselves showed, although with the buckethead reduced merely to maskface. not a word out of him, but he signed the shirts we had bought and my guitar (right next to joe!) .. i said something to the effect of "please sign the thing next to joe satch's thing on the thing" .. and he raised it up, examined joe's sharpie-art and added his own - and shook hands in a very robotic, lifeless kinda way. the rest of the band was more animated, and they said to look out for possible deli creeps reappearances in a few months. the bassist, josh said they like to keep it special and low key, hence the relatively remote venue.

anyhow, they made the 2.5hour one-way journey TOTALLY worth it.

and i owe boyd dinner. :)

:D

~A

Clarky: lol, before I dozed off I did some checking out of those sites, lol....The one that impressed me the most was the SU37....I like their concept of not sacrificing agility and maneuverability as in the F119....If you catch the 119 visually, it is as good as dead....I think it's a toss-up, and is something that will have to be proven over time....On the SU27....I love the part where the guy said he almost choked on his kilbasa watching it at Farnborough!!....I don't agree with the Russian use of Titanium though!!....Other metals/composites will provide you with the same strength characteristics at 1/4 of the weight....When you look at the SU27 you can see the aerodynamic flaws, but nothing denies what it can do....I know the F18 & the Harrier can do some wild shit, but nothing comes close to what I've seen that thing do....It remains to be seen what the F22 is fully capable of, but when your talking supercruise....Mach speeds w/o the use of afterburner!!..lol.. The Air Force is juggling numbers on how many purchases, and that is also affecting how many Eagle upgrade's will be done....It remain's to be seen....The 15 is still a bad mofo, and will still cause anyone trouble, lol....I love airplanes, and sorry for the long post guy's!!

/\/\ike

Speaking is an Englishman with a reasonable knowledge of the last 100 years of European history I think that I should point out on behalf of the UK and our bro's in the USA:

The French have always been there when they really needed us...

OMG Clarky....lol, I can't believe you said that!!....Or..Yes I can!! lol, my sentiment's exactly bro, lol....

btw, Invigor: Shut up and finish your Moosehead!! ;-)

crushingday62...looks like it was a quite a show...i think i might just buy his new album now.

jsclone1....er....eh? right click and propeties on which page??

clarky..sooo.....what your saying is the 12 bar blues doesn't really have those 3 chords in nor does it last 12 bars????

invigor..you mentioned a while ago about my song always, did you like it or not? which bits do you think need improving??

ni ni ni ni ni ni!! you shall cut down the mightiest tree in this forst.with..a.....................herring!!!...lol

trutina $699 for a jsw1000? I spent that many pounds on much less guitar! Wow, I wish I lived in america. I wish I could be in the market for a guitar right now! Oh, we all have dreams.

Happy 100, Siren

What the French are doing is really wrong. The reason they are taking the position they take is to try and get some power by getting one over on the US. This is very childish and they have no consideration at all for the welfare of the Iraqi people. BTW whoever says it's about oil, we already buy loads of oil off Iraq. They are allowed to sell as much as they like as long as they spend it on food, medical supplies or rebuilding Kuwait. Anyway, look at Libya, the UN has lifted all sanctions there, but the US hasn't and even though US companies like Chevron own wells there, they aren't allowed to do free trade3, because of the US concern for human rights in libya. (another interesting fact, Libya (and therefore colnel Quadaffi) is in charge of human rights at the UN.)

One last thing....I can't sleep after reading Clarky's post, lol.... I would just like to personally thank Mr. Blair for having the courage to put his political career on the line for his fellow comrades, the U.S., and for alway's being there when we need him!! Amen.... I think I will make myself some Freedom toast and some Freedom fries in the mornin', lol ;-)

Ovation - I'm not really an authority on aviation technology at all really... although I do find some of the design and engineering aspect very interesting... so the aero flaws are well beyond my knowledge to comment...
As for the F15 and F16 - their awesome track records speak for themselves......
Although I don't know much about it, I've been told that the new Euro-Fighter is supposed to be quite a formidable air superiority machine....
I've seen Harriers and F16's at airshows and they are truely amazing... but when I saw the SU-37 it just blew everyone away... such a beautiful plane too...
I'll never forget seeing the way the Harrier ripped appart the Argentine air force in the Falklands war - supposedly inferior to the Mirage that it was fighting against too....

I think that I can safely state that over the last 100 years, the UK and the USA have been the closest of allies. We've always been there to sort out everyone elses problems and left to rely only upon each other to sort out our own ones. Where ever there is a crisis we seem to be there not as a token measure but with the sort of commitment that can actually make a difference...
This being the case, there will always be those that will have plenty to say against us... we could have stood by and watch French cafe waiters serve coffee to 200,000 German soldiers in Paris.. twice..... or allowed the North Koreans to impose themselves upon the South.. or say that the Serbian ethnic cleansing was none of our business... the list of this stuff is just too long.... At a time when so many nations are against us they should think again at what the combined British and US military have achieved in the name of freedom for over 100 years - maybe even bring themselves to thank us for being strong and commited to the cause..
I see no reason why this unique Anglo-American relationship should change - other than getting stronger than ever before....

...does everybody know that ???? there are Joe stuff on sale on ebay !!

George Bush, Tony Blair, Saddam Hussein and Jacques Chirac were given 1 wish each to help in world peace! Saddam and Jacques asked for wall's to be put up all around their respective countries! Tony and Goerge asked "how big are these walls?", to which they were told they were 50 feet wide by 500 feet high! Great they said "can you fill them with water!"

Okay a bit extreme, but how come South Africa got rid of all their weapons of mass destruction in 1 year, and it has taken Saddam 12 years??

Clarky - Amen. A-fucking-men!!!!!

Nick - Okay, so once I've joined this thing what to do I click on to hear your stuff? I don't know why I thought it was a clip...

PhrygDom - I'm not sure how I'm gonna send you my photo since hotmail don't let you sent anything bigger than 1MB, and jpegs are usually bigger than that aren't they?

My audition went well. Didn't get the gig but it went well. And they said "we'll bear you in mind for anything else that might come along". I'm sure they will... lol... I guess that's more time to concentrate on my T2J track now. Trouble is, the ACM studio's pretty much all booked up this week and I'm probably going home for Easter on saturday. I only need to add the bass and lead guitar parts dammit!!!!!

NM MY IUMA

I just remembered I've got my "Theory and Applied Harmony" exam in about half a hour. I hope it's not gonna be as hilarious as the one I had to endure last term - what is a stave? What is a triad? What is a scale? What note is a major third higher than F? Write out the key signature for A major, etc. - I couldn't believe it. We had an hour to do it but me and a couple of my class mates finished in around ten minutes. Felt sorry for the singers though.... lol

Yes! I finally get to see Paul Gilbert play live. Talk about a supergroup! Anyone else going?

Yellow Matter Custard featuring Mike Portnoy, Matt Bissonette, Neal Morse and Paul Gilbert Sunday May 18th BB King's in NYC 8PM show / 6 PM doors Tickets are ON SALE NOW!!

http://www.bbkingblues.com/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=958

There's this married couple and their sex life is rapidly disappearing down the toilet. They've tried everything to spice it up but so far nothing has worked. So, one day when the guy's at work the woman decides to venture into an Ann Summers shop to see what she can find. She stumbles across a pair of crotchless panties and thinks they might just do the trick so she buys them.

That evening as the guy comes home from work she decides to handcuff herself to the headboard of their bed wearing only her new purchase with her legs spread wide apart. The man walks into their room and she looks up at him and asks seductively "do you want some of this"? The man replies "Fuck off - look what it's done to your panties!"

Funy as hell that one...