AS PER STU'S MYSPACE, feel free to post that on the other music sites you peeps go to. SPREAD THE WORD!

Joe satrini but really phil, I'm not sure if it was from the same lot of vids or not. I just come across these things on my own and thru links posted here. It's kinda hard to keep track of what goes together beings there's so much Joe out there :-)

Austin, J. Simpson is all jugs and hair. If yer anything like my husband, you watch her with the tv muted. lmao!!

Skippygirl, you have to get the G3 Live In Tokyo DVD! It's killer!

Slan, the Universal sock monster comes to yer house to, eh? lol! I have a 23 yr old niece who refuses to wear two of the same socks just for that reason. It confuses the sock monster when ya don't care if ya have matching feets. lol!

Update on my pop... We just had him back to Hershey for a check-up. He's doing better than he was. He was having a rough time for about 12 days. He still has some problems, but they doc said they think they got all the cancer. That doesn't mean he's totally free and clear yet, but it's great news for now. Thank you to all who sent good vibes and prayers to my parents over the last few weeks. He said to tell all my friends to keep it up - it's working, and he says THANKS

Alan, let us know how yer commando feet & junk feel after yer holiday, and please take count of all yer socks and britches so you know if the sock monster goes on holiday.

..........................CHICKENFOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like the name "Chickenfoot" you should keep it ^_^

Check out Weiner's C Lydian Riff New record is 80 minutes - 14 songs! yay!! It's due out early '09.

And, on the way to the hospital with my parents today, I had Crystal Planet playing. Rasp. Jam came on, and I said how I love this song. My mom says "Is this that Joe Sandioni guy?" sigh* I said "Yeah mom, it's Joe Sandioni." lmao!!

He's that little bald headed man that plays the electric guitar I think?

Have fun Friday night at the Guitar Superstar competition Joe....you and Steve try to behave yerselves....well...maybe not :) Guess it's more fun that way! lol...

Chelle, u know I love that vid of Searching so damn much...I used the guest computer at the hotel and it actually had speakers....so I played the whole thing and cranked it as high as it would go....it wasn't too loud, but enuff that anyone who was in the lobby heard it :)))

A new Weiner cd....that's good news, Chrispie will love to hear that!

Mckenna....twenny minutes late....tsk tsk tsk....see, I TOLE u Irish street signs were damn confusing!!! In Gaelic...was that yer problem? lol....anyway, when do u hear about the job? It sounds like heaven for a player to work at, if ya hafta work outside of yer band.....

Guitarman77897 - This Chickenfoot thing is only a side project, but even if it were a full-time thing I don't think Joe would stop making solo albums with Jeff and the other guys...

In this latest interview Joe said they've written about two albums worth of Chickenfoot music, so for now I see them staying together for two album cycles. Assuming the first album is recorded in December I think a spring 2009 release and summer tour is likely. I can then see Joe doing some kind of solo thing (a G3 tour overseas, maybe?) later that year, and then making 2010 another Chickenfoot album and tour year assuming the project isn't a commercial failure. After that, I bet everyone goes back to their own thing.

Joe has kinda always done things on his own terms, but you have to remember these other guys are in bands too. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony touring with the Wabos in between all of this Chickenfoot stuff, but Sammy will want to get another solo album out soon too. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers are on hiatus, but I can't see that lasting longer than late 2009 or early 2010 so Chad Smith's availability will become somewhat limited by then.

This is just Too fekkin cool for words

Satrini - thanks for the set up tips. I am probablly just being a little paranoid since I've never used a tremolo system before, but I guess better safe than sorry. Also, thanks for the strings link. I just ordered 10 of them.

Do the Stu - I do know of harmonics, but I have never really practiced them much. You mentioned harmonics on the bridge or close to the bridge? This I am not familiar with. I just know the standard 5, 7 and 12th frets. Sometimes when I'm playing I get the non traditional type harmonics, but I think that has something to do with my thumb scraping the string that I am picking. Not totally sure on that one. It's funny when you make a mistake and it sounds good.

hybes - Harmonics are fun to mess around with. If you go up and down the neck you'll find others in addition to the ones you mentioned.

There's some music math that I won't get into, but basically you get the harmonic "sound" if you're touching (but not fretting) the string at a point that divides the string into equal pieces. You get a harmonic at the 12th fret because that's the middle of the string. You get one at the 7th fret because that's a third of the way down the string (the distances from 0 to 7, 7 to 19, and 19 to the bridge are the same). So if you play a harmonic at the 19th fret it'll have the same sound as at the 7th fret. All harmonics are symmetrical around the 12th fret...if you could fold a string in half at that fret, all the spots where you can play harmonics would line up.

Harmonics at the 4th, 9th, and 16th frets also all have the same sound...they divide the string into fifths. But these are only three of the four dividing points. The last one will be somewhere over one of your pickups. Just go the same distance that you did between all of the other frets and you'll find it...it should sound the same as the other three. There are some other harmonics down by your pickups too...play around and you'll find them.

You might notice that the 5th fret harmonic of one string sounds the same as the 7th fret harmonic of the next highest string (except for G and B, due to the different interval). So if you have a good ear, you can tune your guitar by just playing harmonics.

There's more I can get into...artificial harmonics (Steve Morse uses those quite a bit) and tapping harmonics (Eddie Van Halen). Those things are easier to understand than they are to execute, but I'll wait and make sure all of this makes sense before I get into that...