Hi everyone! :)

I don't know much about this so I thought you people could give me some help on this.

I'm thinking about buying an acoustic/electric guitar. I don't have money so I'll have to start saving, so I was thinking of something relatively cheap (equal or under 200$) Do you have any suggestions? I just saw an Ibanez TCY10 Transparent Blue Sunburst at music123.com for 200$ and I love the looks! And the reviews are quite good too! What do you think? Please help if u can.

the prez .. i'm a die-hard vai fan, and i love When I Was A Little Boy - it cracks me up, especially the old school 'scared' mac text-to-speech voice.

Oh, and So Happy is pure genius .. notice the guitar doubling the voice perfectly? (a-la-Zappa, 'jazz discharge party hats')

Webmaster - Happy 100..........

brennan 77 - yeah , Mr. Beck would be amazing for the next G3, He would balance out the shredding... it would be perfect. But I'm sure that Joe already tried to get him... The only problem is that 40 minutes of him are not nearly enough. And he can play fast too, check out the ending of "Left Hook" from You Had It Coming. I remember seeing Derek Trucks's name being mentioned for G3 , well he's not a fast player either. Mr. Beck' s playing style is so much more than plain shredding... his last three CD's were not even transcribed ( to my knowledge ). Geoff Whitehorn - a guitar tutor at GUITAR TECHNIQUES tried to play "Brush With The Blues" but only got halfway through (february 2002 issue).

Here's a Satch trivia for everyoane : which song from Crystal Planet was written and recorded earlier ?

r6r - maybe I'm a freak of asses due to my nature... lmao..

look out from me at the Den?... who do you support.....????

as well as the CD the pictures will be in the the inner sleave along with the performance notes for each track..
the website will carry the same information and art work too plus more info about what guitars played what parts on what track etc... also, if there are nice little stories that go with the track [like me writing part of the Rape at the station] I'll sling that on the website too.. I think that it all helps the listener get inside the track... and I'd hope it would take the experience of my music beyond a purely audio one..
also, if I can get it to work out, I'd like to have very nice versions of the pics in a downloadable format on CD along with the music... not sure about that though... depends upon the costs...

If I can, I'll also put the full score to Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit [the guitar quartet] on the website too...

also I agree with you about Satch... there are many more angles to his music that the shredded parts... in fact there are more angles than the guitar playing alone... his sense for creating lyrical melody is superb.. another sign of a great creative musician is to be able to use some unusual scale types and make them sound very natural when so many others would sould off the wall in the same setting.. it gives the music a subtle twist that is lost on many folks..

shredding is shredding... lots of guys can do it... but there are other kinds of precision... the main theme to Crying.. soulfull, melodically simple.. executed with absolute precision without detriment to the feel... and for all the gymnastics... I personally think that getting Crying 100% down is one of the trickier moments in Satch's catalogue.. interesting that something apparently so simple is such a bitch to play at that resolution.. a sign of true class in my view..

now me... I am a cheeseball finger wiggler... lol.. my take is that if the notes only exist for a milli-second then no one will know if they are good or not... lol

dck - so does the trembolt stop the whammy from getting louder and quieter.. lol lol

jeez I can be such a pain in the ass... lol

dck - lol... where tremolo = fluctation in volume.. so I guess this bolts onto the volume knob... so if it was bolted onto mine the guitar would be permanently set to '11'.. lol

T1MER1DER - good job !

btastey prob already answerd but yes joe is maried to rubin and has son named zz short for zachariah (hope thats spe rite)

Clarky - Actually I did kind of get a new version in my head. Of course it was a similar story, but the physical setting changed and my mind made some slight tweaks to what happened. That's cool how things like that change when under different situations... Awesome compostion man!

Ovation - I ordered that Mike Stern cd yesterday. It pulled a cheap trick on me though, it said "will ship in 24 hours" at first, then when I bought it, it jumped to "will ship in 2-3 weeks"! lol, so cruel!! I didn't want to spend too much more cash, so I'll get one of those Greg Howe ones later on. Thanks for the recommendations... I wait eagerly ;)!

Webmaster - Aha! I was the one who knew you had the secret Webmeister powers to access all. The Great Eye of Jon sees everything! Haha, much thanks for the info... and what's this? Happy 100 posts Jon ;)!

Joe - FUNK!!!! I know it's in you, don't hide it! lol... let the groove flow my bro!