All of you who have good moms, be grateful because some of us have moms who are better off living on another planet. If my mom really cared about me, she would respect my wishes and stop calling me every day to check up on if I have made contact with either one of my 2 sisters. She also asks if I have heard from my dad. Ffss! My dad died more than 15 years ago! How many times do I have to tell her before she gets it?

Got the BEST news today....Chris's biopsy report came back negative, so that's two in a row now. Surgeon said with two negatives, if another lump comes his way, we prolly won't hafta have it taken out, just watched. What a huge relief!

Thank God for good news....and for family and good friends, and for Joe and his music, and for road trips and hysterically funny Bubba teeth and escalator butt dances and being able to find whatever it was that came up missing every day....and for M&M's, Cheezits and watermelon and kitties :) And a bazillion other things....some days are diamonds :)

I'm still on east coast time, wonder how I convince my body that it's back here out west and to knock it off?? LOL!

Austin, WB. My husband's co-worker went to the doc today. The fracture they saw in his arm yesterday was an old fracture, so he didn't break any bones. I have no idea what that means in terms of a "healed" bone if you can still see an old fracture? Anyways, he stopped in to see the guys and say thanks to my hubs for all his help. His wrist is pretty swelled up and he's in pretty much pain. The doc gave him the rest of the week off, so that good. Dude can take it easy and come to terms about saying goodbye to his Harley :-/ Oh yeah, I took a cd to AC to give to T for you, but we gave it to Joe. lol! I have to send a book to T, so I'll send a cd along for you then. She'll give it to you at ChickenHOe.

I love EOC!

T-Bones, nothin' wrong with east coast time :-) Ya get to go to bed earlier. lol!

Okay peeps - wanna talk Satch fans?? On Sunday we said our goodbyes and we all left the hotel in AC around lunchtime. They headed off to the airport for their flights home. My hubs and I drove and got home around 4ish. I got a txt from J saying she was home around 9-9:30 p.m.. Tracie was still flying. I got up for work Monday morning and got my shower, etc... and headed off to work. As I was walking up the path to the door at my job, I got a text. Tracie had JUST gotten home!!! It was 7 in the effin morning here - and she was just getting in her house! THEN she went to work after an hour or two of sleep!!!

SATCHAHOLICS - I think we can safely say YES!

Don1963,

that's awesome that you got to meet Joe. I'm going to save up money for the next time Chickenfoot comes around my area and get the backstage ticket package thing.

I happen to prefer the taste of Coke Zero over diet Coke or even regular Coke.

Diet sodas are being found to be worse for you than regular sodas. Aspertame may actually be to blame for a large portion of obesity.

I prefer coffee...me and Wolf2...lots of coffee.

ATLANTA SHOW ATTENDEES_Anyone else be standing with me and the Mrs. in line on Sunday for the General Admission seats?

I really screwed up. The section off to Joe's side was reserved and I could have gotten descent seats there. I did "click and pick" and jumped on those 4th row seats ( which had been reservered for VIP and back stage packages only hours earlier.....AHHH! BURLY!!! Anyway come by and say hi. I'll be the bald guy with the "Got Riffs" t shirt (My Chickenfoot shirt is too big for me)

just posted my review of of the show in NH. Chickenfoot Rocks!

Axe; i can bet it did hurt. i'm pretty sure i saw a little lump on the back of his head.

Scuba; Mikey's the only one left untouched so far!

Skippy; full review posted now, pics to follow tomorrow.

cheese; AWESOME to hear!

Re:Vai's list.The only tunes I like on there are "Meeting of the Spirits" and "Is there Love in Space?". "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" is decent, of course, but I have read him praise "Where Were You?" in the past over that one.

I dunno, just looks suspicious to me.He picked the most typical instrumentals from pretty much each artist, as if that was the only song he knew by each one.

Midnight by Hendrix looks to be the only other Non-Most well know track.

Perhaps he didn't mean for these to be his favorites, but rather his view of the most important ones in the history of Rock guitar instrumentals.That makes a little more sense to me, because the choices are so typical.

His picks are along the lines of Beethoven's 9th symphony and Greensleeves or something.

Hendrix-Midnight.Not too typical. Malmsteen-Black Star-Signature tune. Satriani-Odd choice.Fair enough. Mahavishnu-Meeting...-Track 1 off of their first album. Zappa-Black Napkins-Pretty standard for an instrumental choice.In his box set he names 3-4 other Zappa tunes as his favorite instrumental, i.e RDNZL, Strictly Genteel, etc. Santana-Europa.Whatever. SRV-Lenny.At least he didn't say Little Wing. Tequila.Seriously? Holdsworth-That must be the only track he has ever heard.Every 80s rock guitarist mentioned that song.I would have picked something off of Secrets or his stuff with Tony Williams.

A few pages behind so I'll have to play catch up later....

Blue Moon - remind me, the Eric thing - they'd have difficulty getting him out on tour?

(post above edited - my comment was based on something I believed I had first read on here... however, I have searched and am unable to find anything to confirm the story)

Cheese - ah, that's great news about Chrisper. So, you're stuck on a different time zone hey?? Deja-vu. Don't worry, it'll only last a coupla weeks ho ho. Do we get any video of escalator dancing? Could be the new craze......

Michelle - "SATCHAHOLICS - I think we can safely say YES! ".... ah, very good - we can Safley say YES!... I see what you did there ; ) which one was the typo?

Don1963 - nice... nice... did I say nice!

Skippy - I saw that sneaky swig but I won't tell. Who's soob though? lol

Dear Mr. Satriani,

Knowing your time is extremely limited I’ll hop straight to the point. While watching your many stage performances on Youtube, something came over me to attempt to put words to your song (ten words). I was doing my stretching exercises and thought of ten words that (sort of) fit. After that, I was hooked~! Finishing that song for my fiancée, I soon began on others.

Obviously, you pour your heart into your work, which makes me wonder what’s going through that mantle of yours as you play, which also helped with inspiration toward putting lyrics to some of your work. That, and of course the titles themselves were a big clue.

Simply for your enjoyment, (and my voracious curiosity) would you allow me the honor of having you see if the lyrics somewhat match the mindset which you had intended for a specific song?……………..Please???

Having the gifted, and very busy musician, Sir Satchmo, actually do this, would truly be a treat to always remember~!

Warm Wishes to You and Yours,

I think most of EOC can work live, even without Eric Caudieux or another keyboard player. Devil's Slide was played as a three-piece on the 2001 G3 tour. I think Borg Sex would sound neat as an encore, with an occasional guest guitarist playing Eric's part in the middle.

As for songs that haven't yet been done live, the rock remix of Flavor Crystal 7 (click here) proves that that song can work. I also think Champagne? could sound very cool.

The viewing platform you mentioned isn't part of Grand Canyon National Park, it's owned and operated by a nearby indian tribe and is kind of difficult to get to. It's a neat idea, but it's also very expensive (about three times the cost of admission to the entire national park). And I did some stuff at the park that's much better, as pictures will soon show...

I didn't do a helicopter ride, but I did take a hike down into the canyon that was about three miles round-trip. That was very fun, but quite tiring...it feels so weird to hike down at the beginning and up at the end.

There's a 12-mile round-trip hike you can do that goes all the way down to the Colorado River, but you need to bring camping supplies as it's too much to do in one day. I'd love to do that one another time...

When you fracture a bone, it heals in the same way you'd fix a sidewalk crack by filling it with cement. New material is added to fill the gap, and because it's a different age and consistency than the original material it looks a slightly different color...but in the end it's just about as strong as it originally was.

The mistake is an easy one to make, especially early on when the doctors are more concerned with bleeding and other things that'll kill someone before a broken bone will.

"I took a cd to AC to give to T for you, but we gave it to Joe. lol!"

Hmmm...if I happen to meet Joe at one of the shows I'm going to next month, should I ask him for it? ;-)

I did eat at Sonic on the way back from the Grand Canyon. Very delicious.

And about that guitarist...I found some cool videos on her page of SV's Hand On Heart. There are three videos, recorded a few years apart...it's cool to see/hear how her playing has progressed.

I know when Joe and other people do similar things (iTunes celebrity playlists, etc.), the choices tend to be pretty popular.

Scoob - aww I'm just messin' with ya. I appreciate the advice and concern. I reckon I would have 6 Coke Zeros a year, max. On the other hand I have 600 litres of wine every year hmmmm....

Do The Stu: I love those songs on the SF DVD, probably because they're played by real musicians with a real feel into it. They don't even sound the same. What I don't like is the synthetic tone of the album. Lack of feeling, but that's highly subjective and dependant on each one's sensitivity. In my case, it doesn't work. To be honest, EOC sounds to me like an experiment that Joe himself has decided to discontinue. If he was that happy with the result, I think he would have continued to develop that kind of sound which as we know, didn't happen.