Hello all Satch fans!!!!

@flash moron-I saw that video. RayWilliamJohnson covered it the other day. RayWilliamJohnson's Dikshit vid You have to fast forward to a minute into the vid.

@scubadaz- That video where Joe mimics the fire alarm is hilarious. I watched it twice. lol

@axeshredder- that sound you are hear in "Wind In The Trees" is autotune. I read in an interview before the album came out that Joe was auto-tuning the guitar. But when I actually heard it, shivers ran down my spine and a smile came to my face as I thought, "only Joe".

Now I'm hearing around that a lot of people aren't very fond on "Wind In The Trees" and others just absolutely love the song. Why do such mixed emotions envelop this song???

@fatape-It's weird how they put lyrics to "A Cool New Way". But it's stupid how they rhyme day with "citay"???? And the rapping just ruins it. It's like dumping a garbage can on top of a perfectly good ice cream cone.

@cosmic ape-Guitar Hero didn't inspire to pick up guitar. Joe did, after I heard about him on GH. I think I'm pretty good at GH, but I don't think that means I can just pick up a guitar and play it. But I certainly get what your saying. You're talking about little kids who think they're awesome because they can play GH. Trust me, I know. I play Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live and you get all these little kids saying that they're "beast" at the game when they really suck. If you were to give them an M16 and put them in the front lines in real life, they wouldn't last. I completely recognize the difference between a video game and real life. And all those times kids hear a song on GH and think they're a fan after hearing that one song and don't even bother to listen to another song. That annoys the crap out of me.

I do like the set list that Joe is going with. And the reason I'm acknowledging the set list is the possible chance that I might be going to a concert after all. YAY!!!!! The tickets I might be getting better come with free binoculars. lol

Anyway, I would very much like hearing Why, Crystal Planet, and Big Bad Moon live. And the fact that he is possibly opening with Hordes Of Locusts just blows my mind. Talk about a blast from the past. A couple of months ago I bought Dreaming #11 because that was the only possible way to hear HOL live. I thought that song would just fade away. Now he's freakin' opening with it. WOW!!!

Cheese101- Thanks for the info. With my son being 12, we probably will not be able to wait after the show for too long. He has mild autism and the loud noise of the concert will most likely wear him out. This might sound bad but he will be wearing earplugs to help with the noise level so he can enjoy the concert. I will have him sign up so we have 2 chances to win.

Again thanks for the info!

Oxley- Wind in the Trees is one of my favorite songs on the album.. I don't know if any other guitarist has ever played through auto-tune, (I'm guessing not since nobody can quite nail down the effect he's using), but it seems quite groundbreaking to me. I can't recall any significant milestones using the guitar in recent years, but this is definitely one. Nobody can accuse Joe of not being a pioneer in his field. I see grammy nominations written all over this album, and this song as well.

Anyway, if you read some of the comments on the 'Cool New Way' rap video, one of the people that uploaded the video said that nobody had any idea that the producer used samples of music from Joe until people started bringing it up there. He makes a point to show that Joe has been credited in the words below the video, and went on to say he hopes that Joe will enjoy what they have done with his music as much as they have, or something to that effect.

So, it's probably a safe bet that Joe had no idea what was going on until someone showed the video to him. Same goes for the "Right Through Me"/AWMAWY rip off. Hopefully Joe doesn't let them just get away with doing these things, otherwise these people will just keep "riffing" off everyone else.

Ugh. Driving back to Oregon tomorrow for a funeral on Friday.. Gotta burn a CD tonight before bed. BSAWW, LIP, and CF; GYBO Live, plus about 12GB of assorted Joe and others should get me through the trip. In other news my tickets for Reno came in the mail earlier this week; now just need to reserve the hotel. Anybody got that far in planning yet?

Little Kids Rock is auctioning off some guitars as a means of raising some money. In case you didn't see it already, Joe decorated a Strat with his famous artwork.

I was enjoying the doodles so much that I didn't even realize it wasn't a JS guitar until I read the description. Minimum bid= US$1,000...

Allison, I hear ya. My son also has a form of autism, Asperger's Autism. Joe has been wonderously kind to Chris, always. And he has inspired him as no other. If your son looks up to Joe, you could have no better role model in the world for him :) Earplugs are really a must for any concert these days, no matter who it is. Good luck on the aftershow drawing, I'll cross my fingers for you both! Please tell your son for me I think he has excellent taste in music.

Chad, only fer u mah lil Canadian honeybunch, LOL!! Don't ferget I still own a ladder and can climb up it to kick yer butt when needed!

Oxley and turbo-Ian, I love Wind In The Trees, it's magical to me. I have no idea about auto-tune, but now that Joe has put it in a song I'm sure I'm gonna hear allllllllll about it soon, lol!! And Ian, I agree on the Grammy....I started feeling that very strongly after hearing the first two songs before the album came out. This album takes you on quite a ride of emotions and feelings...if the voters who decide who wins have ANY sense at all, it's Joe's turn!

David Stice, welcome to the board :) Stick around and enjoy all the good Joe-vibes :)

Love the Little Kids Rock guitar Joe but I just gotta ask....do you have bad dreams at night??? LOL!!! Yer such a happy person in real life and these drawings all look a titch....grumpy and sleep deprived...mebbe it's the red eyes, lol! :D It's great you took the time to do this, hope your offering goes for a mint!! I'd love to own it.

cheese.. don't forget to take your super acetaminophen!
(I don't know why I'm so fascinated with that freak, it's like the train wreck I cannot look away from, I always promise myself I won't read his long-ass rants anymore... but I ALWAYS do! Srsly, WTF?!)

smooches,
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@axeshredder- Another one??? I don't get how they think they have the right to use the song. It makes it right if you just say you're gonna use it. ??? What kinda sense does that make? Why do artists nowadays feel the need to leech off of much better artists?

My friend told me a hilarious statement the other day that reminds me of this situation. He said "It's not considered rape if you yell 'surprise!' lol

But that's basically what these "artists"(term used loosely) are doing. They're just coming out and saying they are going to use it instead of hiding it like Coldplay. And to them, they think it's ok. And if they tell you it's a cover, that's a bunch of BS, because a cover is your own interpretation/performance of the song. They're just "singing"(term used loosely) on top of the original song.

I can't tell you how many rappers bass lines I've heard that have been stolen. A prime example is Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. It's so blatant that they stole the famous bass line from Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure.

Thanx for posting Axe...heard that yesterday on another one of her vids...its disgusting what she did with that song....IMHO.

Had a thought ..I was reading a review of BBAWW and the reviewer said that Joe needed to get a songwriter to write his music.....

(which ALSO pissed me off)

but any way evidently not 'cause people are using his music all over the place these days & NOT GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE........

According to one of my Facebook friends-

Did you know...

... that today is Be Bald and Be Free Day? It's the day for all bald people to go shiny and feel good about it. There are 40 million bald men (and counting) in the United States and 432 million in the world.

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