Argh...I wish I would have known Joe was in the chat during Rockline. Oh well...

You don't have to go through Ebay to get the Japanese version of ITLIS?...it should still be available to purchase online. Of course if it's cheaper on Ebay you could go with that...but you can click here to buy it from CD Universe. It says they only have one in stock now but I bet they'll get more.

Lastly, I'll say that with the internet being what it is today, you can find free (and illegal) downloads of just about anything if you look hard enough. But that's a decision for you to make on your own, and it's not something I'm going to encourage...especially on Joe's website of all places.

Best of luck...

Awesome...just wait until the Australia tour, hopefully then you'll be able to say you spoke to him in person. I've met him five times or so now, I think...he really is one of the nicest people (musician or otherwise) I've ever met.

My job is sucking the life out of me too, but in different ways I guess.

What's your dissertation on?

I'm doing OK I guess...there's not too much in life I can complain about. I'm working as a newspaper copy editor...I've been doing this since graduating college two years ago. The journalism industry is in a weird place right now and won't be getting better anytime soon though, so I don't know what'll end up happening. I'll probably move on to something/somewhere else sometime this year.

Well, I have more to say but I'm approaching the character limit...I'll be back in a few hours to catch up on the rest of the posts.

My CD arrived yesterday, I have only listened to 2x so far, upon 1st impressions,

the CD from a few years back "TIME MACHINE" comes to mind, some ballads, some rockers, some of this some of that.

Finally got the album-sod the coursework for a day!

hi metalhead as far as buying it from this site i dont know but i just ordered mine from www.play.com about 12 £ +dvd bargin

oh asda do it to online ! lol

good luck with the gcse's

Frankt2525

Turkey Man is on a very hard to find CD called Additional Creations. You might try ebay. If you're REALLY desperate, I think a few Russian music downloading sites have it.

Dog with Crown and Earring (along with Tumble) are available for listening on the listening party for Is There Love in Space? which can be found on the media page of foreverjoe.com That page also has Talk to Me if you can get it to play for you.

Joe, I didn't know you were a Snowboarder! Cool. I started back in 198x with a swallowtail and fin! Terry Kidwell was the man!

Can you let us know when the instore appearances and stuff are for OZ?

Thanks, gotta jump on a plane, cheers,

Thanks for the new album Joe, always a treat when you release new material - have been buying/listening to your music since SWTA.

I have attended a number of your shows in Las Vegas, but one in particular really stood out for me - a few years ago you did a show by yourself (before your more recent G3 or w/Eric Johnson shows), the set was at least 3+ hours with an intermission inbetween. Do you have any plans to repeat this style of performance in the future? Not that I minded anything about the other shows, but there was something special about the long solo set with the extended jams.

I love new music favorites on the album are the campy but enjoyable "i just wanna rock" ...more cowbell, and wasnt that a twisted sister song? every element of an 80's rock hit...seeing the video made it more enjoyable, hope he brings the bot on tour.....

IMHO " come on baby" was the best song, reminded me a bit of Eric Johnson...maybe a little mellow for some taste but definately smooth and cool. I thought "out of the sunrise" was also very good. classic sounding Joe. some of the other songs were a little too experimental for my taste but time will tell, joe's songs sometimes take a bit to be appreciated. I would rather he try left field on a song or 2 than to crank out the same sounding stuff over and over.

I thought "Andalusia" was going to be an accoustic throw down by Joe (from the sample byte) but it turned out to be so much more. I thought the clapping or castanetts or whatever should have been behind the guitar part and was mildly disappointed when the song went electric, but the jamming made me quickly forgive the change....I wish around the 5 minute mark he would have held on a high end guitar scream, faded out, and returned to accoustic giving the song an ebb and flow feel (maybe next album?) instead Joe cranks up the intensity on his electric guitar making it scream, do electronic seagulls, squeal and moan, shred and spill a few more intense riffs. I wouldn't doubt if on its last note the guitar was smoking. I would like to see if he could play it like that live, night after night.

DO ThE StU

Thank you very much for your advise,

I believe it starts at 6pm, so It is going to be a tight squeeze as I then have a flight to San Jose at about 9pm

does anyone know how long the show lasts please many regards

Seattle guitar clinic gig

does anyone know how much a taxi would be from Seattle Airport to the venue

regards

UncleScorp

Actually, I too am really disappointed with the direction of the new album and I've heard a few others say so as well. I've really been too pissed the last two days to even post about PSATMOR...I went out on April 1st with such high hopes that Joe would finally de-throne Summer Song or CP with some new, high-pitched rockers. The most aggressive tunes on the new record are Asik and Andalusia. They both have aggressive moods but both also meander too much and have no solid hooks. They seem to be stuck on the end of the album almost as if they were an afterthought.

Has anyone else noticed the solos on the last three albums are almost completely free-form and don't seem to relate back to the main melody? Just sticking wild meandering solos for 4 minutes at the end of songs does not define a 'structured' rocker. Maybe it's just me, but I like more order than that in the music I listen to and Joe used to consistently deliver solos that connected album after album. The songs are just all over the map on this one, which we expect from a Joe release, but the overall mood is very mellow/somber just like the last two albums. We basically still have the "essence" of Joe's old sound but without the balance of structured upbeat rockers/hooks like the aforementioned Summer Song or others like Lords of Karma, Circles, Ceremony, Speed of Light(pure Genius), Extremist, Up in the Sky, Big Bad Moon, One Big Rush, etc. I really don't mind a few meandering tracks on an album because I know Joe needs room to experiment, but UncleScorp has a point when he says this album(and in all honesty the last few) lacks straight ahead rockers. Even CP's Psycho Monkey had a hook and that was a pretty weird tune...If you think of these songs and other Joe greats they all have memorable hooks you can hum. Can anyone here hum a hook from Andalusia?

So, I listened to Rockline last night to see if I could glean some insight into Joe's thinking on his style's evolution. What I came away with was that he's in an even more experimental mood than ever these days which is a GOOD thing and a BAD thing at the same time. The GOOD is that he's still creating cool new sounds, but the BAD in my opinion is that there seems to be less of an effort to do cool aggressive hooks/albums with cohesive themes and more of an effort to do unplanned meandering jams and slow to mid-speed ballads. Joe himself said the album was all over the place, and that they didn't even have a title until the project was done.

I realize I sound negative here which is a real shame because anyone who knows me at all knows I'm very positive. I still respect Joe and his work, it's just I've felt so let down by everything since CP that I had to speak out and voice my opinion. I know he still has the ability in him if he ever decides to do another straight away rock album like Extremist or CP. I guess the right mood just has to strike him....so I'll continue to wait for the next GREAT one.

Its actually pretty easy for me to define too. I'll know its arrived when it has rockers like the ones listed above, a journey track like the song Time Machine and one or two slow to mid-tempo sweet gems like Cryin' , AWYAWM. Hell, I wouldn't even mind a vocal track as I am part of the minority of fans that finds Joe's singing cool. Man, remember Can't Slow Down, Ride!......Now THAT will be an album that kicks some major @ss!

Should I do a track by track breakdown of PSATMOR?...