I'm jumping in on page 13 of the 17 I'm behind.

DCK, Mark, so sorry to hear about your sis in law. Man what a horrible thing. My heart goes out to ya bro.

mikesb, I watched Napoleon Dynamite with my son. Dude, I had to leave the room. I wanted to smack him down myself for being such a dork, or was it for making such a stupid movie. lol! My kids loved it and thought it was the funniest thing ever. I, on the other hand, was like what...the...hell?? Later I saw the guy who play Napoleon on The Tonight Show. He's really a cool kid. They gave him a perm and dorked him up for the movie. I must say, he did play the part VERY well. lol! In retrospect, it was a "stupid funny" movie, but I really don't need to see it again. lol!

This is just for you honey ~ http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/napoleon.php

Tracie, thanks hon. Big hug to ya!

Delfino, my pop wasn't going anywhere (in his mind) till his dr appt. on Wednesday. I took my mom for groceries, and when we came back he looked so pathetic. He was just stuck there in the recliner. He could barely stand up or even move. I started talking to him asking him if he was just going to sit there and die. He has no health insurance, so he really didn't want to go to the hospital because he knew they would keep him. I laid into him about his LIFE being more important than the bills, and as long as he made payments there is nothing they can do. I asked him if he was going to the bathroom because I knew he could barely walk. He said yes and pointed to a container he had sitting near him. He was to weak to get up to go upstairs. I looked at the container and said "Holy shit Pop, your pissing blood!" (sorry for being so graphic) He told me it was just a dark color. Dark color my ass! I threw a little fit and asked him if he was ready to go out like that sitting in his chair with my mom watching him go, then I left the room. When I came back I asked him if he was ready to go (to the hospital), and he said yes. *insert huge exhale here*. I told him I'd give him 2 hours to get whatever he needed to get together ready. I had to get home and get my daughter to work and get my husband to help with getting him in and out of the car. My pop used my shoulders as support as I walked in front of him going down the steps. We got him in the van, but could barely get him out. I ran into the ER to get someone with a wheelchair, and it took 3 of us to get him out. Like I said before, I'm sooo glad he's finally getting treated. They're running a lot of tests. Took 21 vials of blood so far. His fever went down, so that's good. His BP is okay as well as his heart, so that's good. They still don't know what's causing all his other ailments though. Whao, sorry for the ramble...

Hey Guys, I bought the G3 live in denver DVD, but I heard there is an extra video on the web for the ones who bought the 2 cds Rockin' In The Free World; Is there any way for me to see that especial bonus video with out buyin the the audio cd's???

COOLIO: I am in the shithole of Wisconsin....Kenosha. One retarded ass place. 91,000 people and not a freakin downtown area. Green Bay is soooo much better.

Hoiguy79 : sorry to here about the internet probs

Jazzzzzzy got to talkin to a friend so I left.

drop a post or somethin.

Jazzzzy

Don't fight with your mom, unless you absolutely have to.

PFields:

I have never heard that term "Pinched Harmonic" before but I have played for 28 years. My guess is that it is what used to be called an "artificial harmonic" If so, it is when you create a harmonic by plucking with your Pic hand while slightly deadening the string at the third, fifith, etc. point depending on the string and or fret position, with your chord hand. Another type would be when you slightly deaden the string with the same Pic hand while plucking the string. This would appear like pinching the string at the point of the strike point, relatively. So something like snapping your finger. There is also a technique using your Pic and your index finger nail, "la Grange - Tres Hombres ZZ TOP sort of plucking and deadening at the same time on the same point. Joes technique when he bends his whammy bar down with his chord hand and pinches the string while the string is in the tensionless point of the whammy bend then pulling up allowing the harmonic to ascend tonally as the tension is re-applied. There is the Hammer technique, EVH - intro to "Women in Love" VH II. This where the chord hand changes chord positions while the Pic hand simply hammers the 3rd, 5th, 7th, or 12th harmonic point of each string in the chord(s) Standard EVH.

Hello dear alls!

and Happy New Year! Yes, it's cool that there is a possibility to celebrate just another New Year (this time the chinese one).. So, happy new year to everybody!!

And have a nice day!

Keep rockin' peeps.

Started at 14, first song learned: Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones. Then, Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin. Zep and Floyd where heaviest initial influances, until EVH and VH I was released. Page and Van Halen became my most practiced stuff, Zep Blues and ZZ top Blues, SRV blues - ultimate, Steve Howe of YES, Trevo Rabin, Iggwi MEimstein Neal Schon, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, and then I heard JS Surfing with An Alien. JS and SRV became the only thing I listened to and practiced. Still only listen to JS and SRV for guitar inspiration. I of course own all of the initial releases of each now. Neal Schon would be a good G3 addition by the way. I must admit I did not like Steve Vai when I first heard him and saw him with DAVE - got nobody now. However, many moons have passed since then and I am only now beginning to listen to him more and more.

Melissa's Garden seems to have alot of almost-gettin-there, feelin. There are some melodies in that stuff that is very familiar but not, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, guitar becomes you if you play it long enough. I approach life the same now. I try to play to the best of my ability at all times. I do not judge, I enjoy, as everyone has something to offer.

I still play regularly - three or four times a week for about two to three hours each.

Don't get caught up in the times...work on you and what you believe in. If you don't know what that is then you need to stop what you are doing, determine what is important to you. Focus on that, set goals and do your best to keep them.

Why?

In the end, you take only what you personally contributed to in this world, along with what you learned from it. What are your memories if they are just images? The soul gains density proportionally to the efforts experienced.

X->out

Rat01

i think it's great the venue said you can go to the show with a parent. i don't see what the problem is?

the problem would be if they said NO you have to be 18 - but it looks like they are letting younger people in, which is good.

i'd talk to one of your parents - there's nothing wrong with wearing ear-plugs :)

Steven Wilde, yeah thanks dude, i'll let you know how the new system turns out. when it gets here... I hate waiting! haha. Especially when the clock is ticking...

Hy friends around the world, time to post a few things.......
Mr. Smooth - I know I´m not Joe, but I hope the following information helps (I contacted the Ibanez distributor in Austria,(yes, there´s life in this little country :-), and got the following info for the european countries:

Sometimes Ibanez produces high-quality special edition guitars like the new JS2PRM in an limited edition at the japanese factory. The number of pieces is fixed individually and depends on efforts of the technical production at one hand and the customers interest that is to expect on the other hand. The distributors order a number of pieces that is equivalent to the order of the market of this country. This is empirically and on this way the number of pieces are distributed automatically.
At the website www.ibanezrules.com people get the information that 60 pieces will be produced by Ibanez and they are sold worldwide (38 to the USA), that seems realistical. But fact is, the number of pieces, they will produce really, is not exactly fixed yet. The european distributors of Ibanez will get the information about the availability, the (european) price and the delivery period in April at the Frankfurter Musikmesse. After this event the distributors of every country (except the USA, because the number of pieces is fixed to 38) order, after 4 month Ibanez produces and after 6 month the guitar(s) should be in austria, so the Ibanez JS2PRM will not be available before autumn 2005 (So the information of the Ibanez distribution company in Austria!)

You see the distributors can order this special edition model, but they do not have to, so: it will be a special order and I think you´re doing better to contact your Ibanez distributor at your country quickly (because I don´t know where you live) to get the correct info how you can order the JS2PRM if you want to have this guitar. I don´t think you will have the luck to go to the shop and get the guitar.

For the The JS2PRM specifics try the following link:
www.ibanezrules.com

Oh, before I forget, I wanted to say something else....

death cube k – very sorry to hear,(I know I´m a little late, never much time to read all posts...) – my condolences....... it´s never easy to loose someone you love......

Michelle – read your posts about your pop, glad to hear he is an the way to recovering.......I have a brother, he is at the age of 34 and has diabetes too, I can understand how you´re feelin´ ,I´m also always worried about my brother .... unfortunately my brother has an auto-immune disease called psoriasis and an intestinal disease called colitis ulcerosa too, he is invalid at over 70 percent and he works for a company as a network administrator (heavy-going job), but you can´t see it in his face, he looks like he would be at full health and that´s the tragic thing....... He has to take a lot of medicaments because the 3 things affect on each other, if diabetes is getting better, colitis ulcerosa is getting worse and so on. So he has to make some health checks periodical. Fortunately he has a very good doctor and he receives very good medical treatment.
So I hope your pop also receives now the best medical treatment he can get and they find out what caused all this other ailments.......But I can also understand that your pop is worried about the hospital fees ........

Joe – the year of the monkey is over :-( ........but: you´re fully recovered!!!
The master spoke........ I didn´t knew you are a fan of the movie “Terminator”.......sorry, I have to say it again:" I´ll be back" ..... that was funny.......
(I can´t wait to get more infos about at which european festivals you will do a show...... and about the new cd.....

DCK! Sorry to hear about your Loss Bro... my condelences to your family...

I'm a little shaken up and numb myself...

yesterday morning I rolled my Jeep due to glare ice on the roads, A total wreck... I travel a long way on one stretch of highway and each township it seems treats their roads differently on snow and ice removal... I'm lucky to be alive, my shoulder's a little sore but not even a scratch on me, thank god for seatbelts.

I managed to salvage your cds Joe, they were burried in a snow bank after my rear view window smashed out... It's all I could think of doing other than saving my lunch...

Cube I'm saddened to hear about your Sister-in law,man. I hope that you and the family are bearing up okay.Peace to you and yours bro'.

Plum Loco Glad to hear that you escaped from your crash unscathed dude, ain't nothing you can do about ice like that. Got to answer the question honestly now though, which did you think about saving first ? your lunch or the CDs ?

Steven Wilde....how do you spell relief?

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Zenfish.....Katie Melua...lol

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AmyLee...do you know where the Felician College is? Welcome to the site!

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VFRrocker!!!

Plum, so glad to hear you came away from the accident with minimal injury. I love my seatbelt too. lol! I can only imagine how scary it must have been. I feel ya bro, the cd's are high on the list of what to salvage. Good luck with all the "after accident" stuff too.

tune, wow, your brother has three nasty things going on. My best to him. It's the undiagnosed things that are hard to deal with because you don't know how to treat it if you don't know what it is. Don't get me wrong, the diagnosed stuff isn't always easy to keep in line either. I know I'm wore out, so my mom must really be wrung out. She's 71 and she's usually the one who gets sick. My pop was never sick, so she's not used to this routine she's been thrust into.

Wow, it just came over the t.v. that more people die from medical mistakes than car accidents, Aids, and I forget the third thing. Hmmm, I'm so sure that's true. The doctors got 2 strikes with my pop so far. First the P.A. diagnosed his severe kidney infection as back spasms and put him on a muscle relaxer instead of antibiotics, second, they gave him a glucose drip IV in the ER and continued it for 12+ hours until his new doctor caught it during his morning rounds. You never give a diabetic who has a blood sugar count of 331 a glucose IV.

Geez man, I really should talk about Joe more often. This other stuff is depressing. Sorry peeps. My happy self is around here somewhere. lol!