Ahh i always like friends-it s a bit bittersweet and dam sharp to.

anyway blackadder.

blackadder is the main character and always has his man servant baldrick.

hes generally a b**stard really, but a funny one and some of the lines are razor sharp.

2 and 3 are set in yee old days and 4 was set in the trench of WW1. and its a very good satire on the mess that was WW1. hes actually a good guy of sorts in this series. and the last episode always brings a lump to my throat. also its historically pretty spot on, its true that in france poppy fields grew over many of the killing fields and so on.also although some of the characters are overblown stephen fry and hugh lauries characters would 'nt have been to far off some of the real characters in britains army at the time.

general trivia-my grandad gave me my great uncles medals from WW1. he went over to france and was dead before christmas-he didnt even get to see the medals. also a most treasured possesion is an engraved tobacco tin sent out to the troops from the queen. inside it had a christmas card from the queen, two pouches of tobacco. he never got to smoke them either.

I wonder if that student would have still shot that austrain fella if he'd have known what would have escalted, because basically WW1 and the germans losing gave rise to the Nazi party and hence WW2-hence the cold war. even the current iraq war can be put down to errors made during this period.

Igneousiceman
Thank you for recommending Madison cycling final. We've got silver medal ! :-)

Hey Joe and to Everyone out there,

It has been a while since I wrote to you all. Been busy with work, running, etc. On a positive note, I get to start a new job at a new Holiday Inn Hotel that is being built. CAN'T WAIT TO START!!! It should finish up in about another week or two. As for my other hotel job (the Hilton), I will only do part-time there. YES, THAT'S RIGHT, I AM WORKING FOR BOTH HOTELS!!! Now I have to wait 90 days until my probation is up so I can get my benefits back. It will be a challenge to work in two hotels. At least I will be working at the Holiday Inn more (FULL-TIME, YEAH BABY!!!) HOSPITALITY ROCKS!!!!

As for running, I am taking some days off because one night I ended up with RLS: Restless-Legs-Syndrome (way too much running). Next two races are half-marathons. My body (legs mostly) better not give me problems.

I just finished listening to the entire Crystal Planet CD (awesome!). Gonna listen to it again and then start listening to Engines of Creation. Joe, how awesome that you will be in Chicago and Cleveland. Got to try to be at one of those cities to see you (maybe try to get Meet & Greet Tickets).

The 2008 Beijing Olympics are awesome (despite China winning about every medal in all the events). One of my friends has the game of it on XBOX 360 (REALLY COOL!!!). One of the pieces of music sounded like Satriani's: Ice 9. Have to listen to it again to make sure it is.

Gotta go. I got work at my "part-time" job. Workers will be glad to see me again.

hi joe! can you come to uruguay?

short but sweet, Joe...

Woohoo...my first of three Dave Matthews Band shows this week is tonight.

If you want to follow along from home (haha), go here:

http://road.davematthewsband.com/SetlistsDir/setlist.asp

The show should start by 8:15 or 8:30 Pacific time (T2J time).

I think the first X-Files movie is better than the second, but they're hard to compare. The show was still on the air when the first one was in theaters, and that one was tied into the show's mythology while the second one is just a standalone.

One of the things that makes the X-Files my favorite TV show is that there was always strong focus on the art of each scene...I liked it for the technical side just as much as the story side. And this new movie is just as strong in both areas.

On to Batmans, Michael Keaton was my favorite until Christian Bale. He's one of my favorite actors, so that's cool...

I saw Velvet Revolver back in February at what ended up being their last U.S. show before Scott Weiland left. It really struck me how professional all of those guys were, and how dedicated they were to putting on a good show. My first thought after that concert was "Man, these guys are GOOD...and I'm so mad at Axl." Even Scott was extremely professional compared to him.

The Simpsons Movie was very fun...I still need to buy that on DVD, actually. Shame on me.

Are you much of a sci-fi fan? Are you familiar with the show Firefly, created by Joss Whedon (of Buffy and Angel fame)...? The show aired for half a season in 2002 before it was cancelled, and they made a movie, Serenity, in 2005. That's an excellent film...

Hey Satch-fans!

Thought folks might be interested to hear that Satch music has been used at the Beijing Olympics! I have been able to catch snippets of a few Satch songs used at a couple of venues in Beijing - caught em on NBC TV broadcasts....Again, they were played at the venue and not broadcast specifically by NBC.

- Starry Night [in the boxing venue, during 8/19/2008 broadcast on Universal HD channel]; - Super Colossal [in the Water Cube swimming venue during the NBC broadcast of the men's 3m springboard final]; - Summer Song [in the beach volleyball venue, during a ladies beach volleyball match].

This brings me to a question: Satch stuff has been a favorite of sports broadcasters for years [CBS, NBC, FOX football, baseball and many other sports broadcasts]. In these cases, the production team uses Satch material as background during highlights or interviews [or whatever].

Does Joe get any royalties at all from these uses?

I am guessing that any songs used in sporting venues during the events themselves don't pay royalties to the original artists. Or do they? If yes, how is this controlled?

re: the network broadcast usage of Satch songs, whether he gets any royalties or not is not the really issue for me [but may be for Joe!]. I simply think it is extremely cool that the audio people for the networks have so many Satch fans working among the production. And this has been the case for many years!

Hey Joe,

Not sure if your interested in this or not. I have been watching the Olympics on multiple channels and during the run for the Gold in Fencing, Sunday 8/17/08 (USA versus France) right after France won Gold and the USA won Silver right before they cut to the break they were playing one of your songs, I did not 100% catch it and did not have my DVR running, but I think I recognized it as Super Colossal.

Anyway just thought I let you know it was really cool to hear you jammin at the Olympics!

Hi! Do the Stu and everyone else,

I bought the G3 with Satch, Vai and Johnson about 6 years ago, was the first time I heard some material about Joe. However I didn't pay too much attention to him at the time, during that time I was more a powermetal/numetal fan.

A couple of years later I was kinda getting bored of the powermetal wave and decided to buy "Crystal Planet" and "Flying in a blue dream" as they were on sale :$, I loved them the momment I played the CD in the car, actually the first time I heard "up in the sky" I was totally enchanted is such a happy yet sentimental song, I don't know, still today is one of my favorites.

From that time, I practically listen to one of Joe's albums everyday, since it doesn't matter the feel of each day there's always one song that fits perfectly with the mood. Of course I listen to other guitar players (Morse, Vai, Gilbert, Johnson, Malmsteen) but nothing like Joe, he's my favorite.

About the Rock-Jazz electronics fusion, well I'm not that much into Jazz, just that my guitar teacher calls "Rock-Jazz Fusion" that music style that might sound like rock but you mix things up with some harmonies, scales and modes from jazz music. I try to take that direction adding some electronic elements (beats, atmospheric psycodelic pads, noise, etc).

"Engines of Creation" is a nice album for me, the proposal is quite fresh, and even if not the best work from Joe (IMOH) I think it has the value of beeing something different, kind of a well taken experiment. I don't take it directly as an influence to my writing but like a "display" where I can see some things you could do when trying to put the electric rock guitar over some electronic sequences, as wich could be one of the possible results. I feel my style is more industrial, with heavier/harder riffs and more synths, and noise.

Sorry for my lousy english and thanks if you kept reading so far xD

Double post - had to see if link worked , arf!! My brother told me about this 11 year old playing Rush

DoTheStu - Yes she is coming to SanFran show , but she doesn't like to bring her purse. I'll wear some cargo pants or bring a jacket. No worries....

Cheese - your thing ama bob is on the way!

ty Brian, I just sent u an email about it :)

Mahavishnu -

ty Brian....it sounds like mebbe you'd like to be the one wearing the fanny pack? It's fetching, really....all kindsa "psychadelic colahs"....or is that psychOdelic :)