Birmingham, i heard on news with the bullring development it was a model UK city now? is it? i have nt been there for ages. it did produce black sabbath, judas priest .

PSATMOR id give an 8/10, musterion is now an all time joe fave and gets the REVAN 10/10.

hmv website has some joe and vai cds at afiver in case anyone's intrested.

airbourne's 'running wild' album is worth a check, if you like your rock AC/DC style.

any soundgarden fans? ,ive been re listening to their stuff, one of the best live bands ive seen.

finally saw that virgin guitar list, rubbish wasnt it, radiohead for FS! not evenjoe perrywas in there.

Mike : i misssed the s point.. ahahah. & after shave? if i follow the order it's some s..biathlon

Ken : your welcome. The Blues Mavericks are a good blues band. That's some manly blues school you do there. I can hear your Hendrix influence.

Mark : thx. You should love my satch's bullet cover.

Talking about cover, The Crush of Love by Martone is really good.

& i remember that you loved the song Pulsions. It's now a song more interesting, because there's the drums parts. When you'll get time.

mikesb......Ohhh! ! ! Yes, order is definetly important.

JS1200...... HA HA ! ! ! ! Yeah I know what you mean. I've entered the event a lot of times over the years.....but only won twice...lol...... that's why I have two sons....lol......

Guitarmiester:

"Silence... Roar" is indeed an improvement over Goomy in my opinion, and many others agree on it. However, I'm surprised to see Ken our webmaster on the RX board prefers Goomy, and he is an old Paul fan.

Honestly, when it comes to hearing instrumental music, I think Satch's earlier releases are still much better than what Paul is doing... perhaps Paul will improve! I am a fan of Paul because of his work with Racer X, and we're eagerly waiting for a new R X CD that's never coming... Paul is focussing on his solo career, Scott Travis is going to have to tour the world because of the new Judas Priest Nostradamous concept album that's coming this year... All the R X band members are scattered doing something else, but we keep faith.

Paul is I think very grateful to Satch for inviting him to participate in G3, his career has really taken off now that he's been doing instrumental music, and G3 has surely increased his number of fans.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wYTzMlIxqnU http://www.workshoplive.com/satchzone/index.cfm

JS12001000 - I keep visiting that chrome site just for the 'chrome outfit' lmao. Being serious though, the chromed guitar looks spot on. Wonder if it peels? You thinking of getting one chromed?

Gotta Have Joe - don't worry, time will help, and cupid will seek you out again when the time is right. Chin up

Do The Stu - forgot to say I did come up with a set list, but it's a tough job. Don't know how Joe does it! Nice opening section on your list

mikesb - lmao, that's quite a triathlon. What kind of training do you do for that one?

Everyone - just in case you missed it first time round, if you have a personal message for Joe & the band that you want me to give to them in person then please email me and I will be delivery boy for you... if you want. (need 'em by May 15th)

Hi friends,

Back to normal life after my little Satch holidays ;-)

Saw Joe in Granada and Barcelona. Both shows were amazing! The guys know how to rock!

Roy, Joan, Alexandre, yeah! was so cool to meet up in Barcelona! Hope to share more musical moments and talks with you in the future and more cold drinks ;-)

awww Joe, this is very cool, Workshop Live

Would love to hear more of the music on this....

Ken : Musical life is very hard... i renounced here to build a blues band after 5 years of research, & 2 years of work with a good drummer.. it has been a very big frustration. But it was that or turn nut into my head & heart.

About Hendrix, i've listened to a lot. The Electric Ladyland is a masterpiece. Hendrix has done with Blues what Haëndel had done with italian classical school.

I keep the Jimi Blues & the Band of Gypsies as two monuments of Bluesrock.

Jimi playing the Born under a Bad sign (Albert King)

Hendrix genius is powerfull, indeed.. but..

Without Delta Memphis Orlean Chicago Blues..

& Without British Boom..

I try to mean.. the creative & synthetic power of Hendrix is out of doubt..

But the point is onto Guitar, Jeff Beck has been visionnary on several things before him. That's simply the truth.

I mean that, as Haëndel had studied Scarlatti harpsichord, Hendrix has studied Beck guitar while he was in the London's shadows. (you can notice that Hendrix is compared here to Haëndel)

So much guys study nowadays Hendrix without studying Beck.. but Hendrix had studied Beck.

The Legend wants that Hendrix was the best. I'm just wondering now what is better?

To be flash in the pan as Hendrix or Van Halen?

Or to be straight ahead your time all along a life, as Beck?

Once, Clapton has said : "I get something that Beck doesn't get. Beck gets something i don't get. But Hendrix overshoots us both."

I would like to add nowadays that Beck gets something that neither Hendrix nor Clapton get:

A very long creative & evolutive life. Beck is the strongest brain. The Maëstro into & beyond a whole human attitude.

Hendrix has never been more than a young kid, with a powerful genius. A manish boy who is dead, depressive, into his own vomit.

Special respect for Page : Led Zeppelin.

If Hendrix has been the alive blue crossroad of his time, Beck is the genuine Scarlatti of electric guitar. A genius at the ground of all the rest after him.

M'not sure there's a best one. M'not sure that to say there's a best one means anything brilliant or deep.

But if Hendrix as been the best one, Beck is The Maëstro.

Where is the difference between a best one & a maëstro? Probably inside something we call the human standing.

& to be back to Joe Satriani, what Joe has essentially built onto guitar?

A bridge.

A bridge between Beck, Hendrix & Van Halen.

I don't say that Joe has awaked a morning thinking in his mind : "I'm gonna to build a bridge".

But signing up himself into a filiation of guitar genius, it's what he has done with a rare feeling of melody.

Hug.

Ibanez : i already knew all that & it's contained into my post.

Hendrix is dead. Your question has absolutly no sense. It's over for him since long time. Reality.

You can idolize Hendrix as much as you want, he has studied the english. He was probably the more powerful improviser.. he has understood everything about Stratocaster which existed long time before he starts to play guitar, but he's not the first tone visionnary.

They are all great, just listen to the music, thats all that matters. What is everyones favorite Hendrix song?