Since Queensland is 75% flood effected, and Queensland is twice the size of Texas, that means it's like 1.5 texases being flooded!

And since qld is 5 times to size of the uk, that's over 4 entire uk's flooded at once!

Woah!
Roo

Roo, it's also more than Germany and France combined!! That's serious flooding.

Yes, we all made it here safe and sound...biggest ordeal of our trip was finding parking in San Francisco, LOL!! Mc and JJ had their own stories...The roads were decent, not at all as bad as I feared they may be. But I had my chains just in case!!

Went to an Italian restaurant where right out of the gate the guy who seated us was rude to our friend JJ...that started the tone for the whole evening...that and Mckenna being late and having "Issues", LOL! But it was a good evening, rowdy until the lights went out (even then it took a few to settle down...a lot like summer camp, LOL!!)

So now...I'm up just after 6:30, the rest are still snoozing and I'm checking the puter....coffee next. Hope the weather is decent today, we're going to go exploring :)

JJ brought a t shirt for Mc, and fabric pens...we're going to scribble on it all week to decorate it for him...of course there will be rude comments and images put on, I'm sure, LOL!!

Zyko demon- LOL that's so funny! It was such a good show! I thought for crowd chant we did pretty good but summer song coulda been better!! It was funny cause I had watched vids on youtube and live in paris so much I knew it was a call and response so I was doing it but it totally sounded like in the beginning I was alone.. I still went with it then all the bulding got the idea when Joe kept moving his hands. Where were you seated? Shoot me an email. I got tons of pics!

Kayla- I think we were a pretty good crowd. At least compared to Reno 08. I really enjoyed the "intimate" size of the venue. The sound was just right (for me, at least), although Galen was a little quiet there, too. I didn't go to hear Galen, though. Haha! I thought the crowd was going to be lame-o until Joe broke out Satch Boogie. I really wasn't all that excited to hear it again, but when the crowd started screaming my perspective changed! I thought it was cool that pretty much everyone in the house got into Crowd Chant too.
I was a little bummed that nobody picked up on the call and response at the beginning of Summer Song, but then again a LOT of the people I talked to had never seen Joe live before including DVD's, so part of me wasn't surprised. I didn't really know what to think of Joe's rendition of Wind in the Trees, I think he just kind of started playing and took it somewhere far, far away. Definitely a far stretch from what he was playing in October!

Here's a link to my photos I took last night.

So I have some questions.. is it normally eaiser to learn to play sitting down or standing up? For learning, what is the right things to play to begin?

If you only play sitting down, you're prolly gonna have a hard time playing standing up. Then again, if you never need to stand up to play, it's all gravy.

sort it out peanuthead. lol!

Joe!

Thanks for rocking portland out again! Fantastic show. Did some counting and I am up to 14 now counting G3's. Last night was one of the best.

Take care and see you again soon...

Finally home !!! The trip back home was a little delayed had to wait for the Columbia river Gorge to melt a little snow & ice off the free-way before we headed home.

So anyway the meet n greet was awesome , People had some interesting questions for JOE..although as I was kind of feeling tougue tied I could not think of any good questions. My hubby told JOE that JOES music relaxed me & helped my nerves which kinda made me blush ... I guess that might be how my husband see's it however I just love the music...depends on the song what emotion it makes me feel.

As PortlandAxe said -Joe is just great to meet... very patient with the fans even ones that almost walk off with out getting their photo taken... (me) HA HA .... It was one of the high points of my life having this experience & it was just as awesome as I thought it would be . My husband is now a JOE fan too, he really enjoyed meeting Joe. The concert was so full of energy I could hardly sit. All in all it was great and I met a lot of great Joe fans too... PortlandAxe it was great to meet ya & you can bet that if JOE comes to PORTLAND again- I will be there...

Tracie--Correction on previous post. I said Wednesday...Not Wed......See you Thursday....tomorrow! I'm glad you're having fun with Mc. I can't wait to meet you all tomorrow.

Al--See you tomorrow afternoon. We will be standing in line for will call as usual. Wish we could get some line numbers from the venue.......I guess that would be asking to much. How's a person look after themselves without losing their place in line?

I guess we'll find out.

Joe, I can't wait to see you, Jeff, Mike and Allen at the show Thursday!