well skippy, I can't speak for any of the other road test shows, just San Fran, but it was faaaantastic! The energy of the crowd was amazing...the roar....San Fran peeps are usually more jaded than that, but THIS got them excited, LOL!! But....I'da given chelle's left nut and one of Mckenna's boobs to go see all these first shows :)

scuba, can't u just see Joe, very seriously offering to measure someone's head...how precise he would be, lol!!

mc, as always, yer crackin me up :) Would the correct spelling be collEge perhaps? And congrats on yer 20 hours of sobriety, that's a new record fer u :) But I think yer off on the amount of time a bit, considering yesterday.

pip...u could be right, if anyone can score them, it would be Brian, LOL!!! Ohhhhhhhhh BRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIANNNNNNNNN....

and whasamatter with SMD? It says exactly what I want :) U should know that about me by now, LOL!!

cappy...I musta missed somefink...whosa hypocrite? Or should we just say n/m :)

Joe went by his gramma's old place in NY today....I miss my gramma too, she was a wonderful woman, and a lady from head to toe to the end. I used to tell her I had NO idea how she managed to stay sane while raising 5 kids, especially when u consider who they are....my aunt, and uncles are all CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY, lol! But so much fun :) I don't think she ever once spanked any of them (even though they likely deserved it at least 12 times a day) but man could she slay u with "the look". That's all it took to make big 6 feet tall boys quiver and quake in their shoes, LOL!!!

Love u gramma Beebah.

NO SHIRT - NO TICKETS - NO HAPPYCHICKLET - NO SH_T !

Well New York went off apparently, alot of Joe's family went, how fab would that be to play in front of your family?

Cheese - he he he, it's just SMD always sounds odd (to me) coming from a lady. It should almost be SMF.... ha, see what I did there.

Incidentally, is it definitely right that SMF is sick mother f......?

An if that's right, was it referring to anyone in particular!?

good mornin all

Strat players:did a simple lil Eric Johnston mod last night & swapped the tone controls around...impressed you will be its tonetastic, get the soldering bolt out n give it a lash! Apparently 375k pots are a better option for single coil the standard is 250k, 500k for humbuckers

btw:Wiring Diagram

whatever that means :0)

Good morning. Trekking to Little Rock today to help out a friend. New strings ,drumsticks,picks and a set of drum keys from Guitar Center is on the agenda.

Hybes- for you and the other drummers out there. Mike Portnoy As I Am ( drums only) They shot this while recording the song. You used to be able to watch the version with the full band but the record company pulled it. This guy has so much brass around him it's unbelievable. I really like his little short flurries with the double bass. And I love to watch the end (around 7:10 for the all out Blitzkrieg). Mike is one of my heroes.

Pip- thanks for the vid. Those engines are awesome but it's the transmissions in these things that amaze me. I work on my own stuff so I know how intricate these things must be. Amazing.

Skippygirl - I love working in newspapers, but those jobs are disappearing all the time. I really think I was born 20 years too late...haha. If I were born in like 1963 instead of 1983 I'd have had several years to work at a newspaper pre-internet, and (the best part) I could've seen a lot of my favorite classic rock bands in concert in their prime. ;-)

Back to journalism, though, I think the job I find will be either a company that is almost entirely internet-based (which, if it's journalism, won't pay well) or a business/corporate thing that has very little to do with journalism but needs someone who has those skills (which would pay quite well, but could be boring unless I find something awesome). In either case, I plan on doing some writing on my own, to hopefully move into that in a few years.

This might be more than you want to know, but oh well. :-)

It's nice to hear Joe talk about the riff to Runnin' Out (it's in the newest podcast, as well). That riff is one of my favorites from the album...it's really different for Joe.

Also, it's good to hear him say that the band doesn't feel like they need to be covering stuff from their individual careers. While I think it'd be neat to hear them do some certain rare things, doing unrelated covers is a much better idea.

It's cool that you'll be in San Francisco, as it's a wonderful city, but Joe and Chickenfoot will be in Europe during that time...so there's no chance of a meeting.

And yes, you're right about the meaning of S.M.F., although I'm weird and like to joke that he wrote the song about Sacramento International Airport.

I don't know who/what the song was written about. I'm not sure if I'm right, but I've always seen the "sick" as slang for "cool" (that works in American English...I'm not sure about English English though)...despite what Urban Dictionary will tell you.

Joe, can you give us any info?

Good morning, east coasters! I need to get some sleep...

burly - bon dia tot buddy (Roy you started a trend) - yep it is getting cold, we're all snuggled on the couch watching the first X-men movie - being Fri night we have kids here for sleepovers as always - sipping a beautiful South Australian viognier, Mr Skippy is about to go out for treats i.e. chocolate.

Would love to see a pic or vid of all your gear or even better, you playing it - maybe?

Roy - we just went through 11 months of that sh*t renovation noise I feel for you....

Do The Stu - too much info is never enough, I have several buddies in journalism here it's an area that fascinates me, lots of niches especially in the info age. Good luck with the search.

E Johnston wiring diagram from Fender http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/pdf_temp1/stratocaster/0117702A/SD0117702APg2.pdf 5 way switch is reversed, the way its wired is suggesting the middle p/up is without tone, there,s also a 1 kv cap ?¿ hmmmm back t the ol drawin board i guess

Skippy:lol Ibanezguitars here would flip if everyone started speaking Catalan on Joes site btw tot= all, normaly peeps just say bon dia tho...

reet time t pull the finger out n get some work done flu or construction theres no excuses

Pip Satrini&DoTheStu :- When Joe played at the Enmore theater in Sydney,I was fortunate enough to meet him and one of the main questions I asked him was about the title S.M.F. His exact words were "Sick Mother F#%@er".So there you have it from the man himself!!!