hehe, sorry about that.I was gonna keep going too! lol.

I see where you are coming from though, I have a lot of boots, and On of of my DT boots, JP completely flubs up the hardest lick in the song "Scarred", instead of a smooth legato, he starts picking as fast as possible on a three note pattern and just moves it up the fretboard chromatically.Totally Inti-climatic.EDIT:(huh?inti? supposed to say Anti-Climatic.I improvised that word) :D

Also a Vai boot I have, on "I would love to", towards the end there is a sick lick, and instead he just did sloppy intervalic slides.Lame.

now, in defense, it was an off night for Vai, I have other performances of his where it seems like he is a god, just amazing.

And the same for petrucci, when you play 3-4 hour shows, you are gonng miss a lick here and there. I know if I could call him up, he could play me the lick over the phone right now, lol.

Actually JOE could you call up JP right now and make him play that lick for you?lol.

You know, keep him on his toes :D

I always marvel at that, and am baffled how any body could fault him (if you spend any time at other guitar related sites, there is a lot of Satch and Vai bashing, and it's baffling some of the criticisms these people dish out.Sad.)

firstly my prayers are with the families of the crew of the columbia.

about the whole improv argument what i was speeking out against was people saying they can play the song when they cannot play the solo. improv is an art of its own and i happen to improv quiite a lot but an improv can never really be better than a solo cos if it was it would have been the solo. anyway thats how i feel bout that.

ALL GUITAR PLAYERS here is an exersize i found is well good for practicing your improv. if you have a cd player in the room where u practice put on a song and then just solo above it. ill get some of mine on iuma soon. Appetite for destruction has good songs for doin this.

sorry bout the long post.

and the usual

JOE PLEASE PLAY THE LONDON ASTORIA.

My master Sensei Alphonzo, long since passed away, came to me today in spirit, during my afternoon meditation.His words were brief yet, cryptic.

He said to me, "Learn the great Debate solo, but play it left handed.The honeys will like that" I do not understand, was this really my master, or am I privy to the mechanations of:

The Dark Shred....

and about the EJ signature thing. Kirk Hammet is endorsed by ESP yet when he plays live he uses fenders and jacksons aswell as his ESP's.

John petrucci has two signature models and so does EVH. why doesnt EJ have a gibson and a fender. I just feel that he is too good not to have a signiture guitar. How can someone like steven carpenter (deftones guitarist) have one and then someone of the awseome playing ability like EJ not have one.

yeah Lights Of Heaven does seem kind of fitting doesn't it?

One has to feel sorry for the families of the 7 pioneers killed yesterday, as well as the other NASA pilots who were meant to fly Discovery and Atlantis in the next few years. The internationl space station and mars probe projects are going to have been severely damaged. One has to feel sorry for the two remaining shuttles themselves! Sounds crazy, but think of what they have accomplished. They have been blasted at stupid speeds against stupid forces to give us more information about the space we live in, and their future of doing the same hangs in the ballance as NASA decides whether to decommission them and build new, or spend ten years making sure they are going to work safely.

Look at Steve Vai's postcards from late last year - he talked in December about being invited to go and see one of Joe's gigs, and something Steve said was that he is always amazed by Joe's improvisation, and that he is perfect proof that with age comes experience, and with experience comes expression - Steve truly believes that Joe is always getting better, and i'm not going to argue. I have tried nothing of Steve's that I haven't liked, so i'm certainly going to trust him on this one.

since peopl are pleading for the ASTORIA i think its fitting that we start a vote for the LONDON ASTORIA

JOE TO PLAY AT THE LONDON ASTORIA!!!!!!!

A very sad day for the families of the lost astronauts. My prayers go out to all of them.

John Petrucci only has one signature model, so does EVH.unless you consider the 7 string, and the wolfgang special a seperate mode.Maybe you meant JP has HAD 2 signature models?

I don't think EJ wants one.I don't see the point really.The difference between the Strat sig models is just stuff like woods, Neck profile, and pickups, or in YJM's case a scalloped fretboard.

EVH had a music man signature guitar. john petrucci has the ibanez aswell.

anyway the usual

for those interested, I just posted a general review of the Sat. show @ the Filmore. It should be up shortly.

That's why I wrote "maybe you meant Jp has HAD 2 signature models"

Actually eddie has had like, 3 lol.

Kramer, Musicman, Peavey, and I *think* he was briefly with another company, Jackson maybe.Not positive about that one.

michelle: LMAO @ the abduction experience!!!! I would have loved to see you return with only the t-shirt and muddy shoes, lol ;-)

Phry Dom: ....Moving?!?!

On the improv thingie....It is self expression, comes out of the heart, and it is a good thing....But, it is much better if you give it a better vibe and solo....For example....White Lion's version of "Radar Love"!!!!.......Much better than the original with the incomparable Vito Bratta!!!!!! Of course you add double bass drums and technology..wella!!

Anyone seen John Luini in the last month?!?!

Nite all, /\/\ike

My iuma is still screwy. Anyone besides Sharif and I having these problems. Same as last night, actual page looks fine but in artist uplink, no songs listed and in stat page all songs called on fire.