Clarky Gooners lmao, friends of yours ? heh heh. I was interested to see your comment about it being more difficult to pick up Yngwie's playing style a day or so back. I'm assuming that was because of his phrasing and not purely the speed ?

Trutina Hey Bil! Dude, DO NOT leave here without 'our' permission again, wandering minds rarely gravitate to the positive (hey my own QOTD!) ;-)

michelle - Thanks, but you're a little late I'm afraid. I wrote the outcome of the date a few posts before yours... It could have been better. It could have been a hell of a lot worse, but it could have been better.

The platinum packages for the 9/4/04 Greek Theatre show have already sold out... Ugh...I was hoping people wouldn't buy them. ;-)

DelfinoPie - "I think bringing up the whole religion subject was a bad idea on my behalf"

Why do you feel that way? We're having an intelligent discussion...what's so bad about that?

I have a feeling he'll be back to a more "greatest hits" set when he's back in the US for the Deep Purple tour... The same thing happened when he went from Europe to the US in 2002... Oh well.

Hi Joe,

Yoda - I'm glad to see that the tracks appear to be going down well with pretty much everyone you play them to.. that's really encouraging stuff...
I like the Raft and Artaud too.. I suspect though that once you here the 'final mixed' version and learn to play it, that The Baptist will be taking Number 1 spot... lol..

Artaud is nice though.. very pretty...
have you actually tried free-styling over the opening chord progression yet?..try it.. lol.. it's a real bitch..

the new testament is not a holy book at all.. it is a detailed history of a people that were under occupation by Rome.. during a time when signaificant and radical changes were occuring [Jesus' life being a considerable part of it] the Essene's needed to document their history.. but they also needed to protect those involved less they be arrested and most likely exectuted by Rome... So the whole series of events where written and encrypted to ensure that the history survives that traumatic time and those people / places / times and dates remain protected from prying Roman eyes..

Much of the true meaning of the bible was lost in translation from Hebrew.. all you see is the basic text that was translated at face value... did you know that the Bible in Hebrew describes two different Jerusalem's.. one is masculine and the other is feminine... in translation to Latin and Greek this 'error' was corrected... and English has no such concept of masculine and feminine words.. so the true meaning is lost... the masculine Jerusalem is the one we know today... the feminine one is Kumran.. [the New Jerusalem]... Jesus did not create Christianity.. that faith was manufactured long after he died.. and my money says that Christianity from it's invention to the current day bears no resemblance to anything Jesus was into.. from what I understand.. the faith that was most like that which Jesus was trying to create was the Cathar faith.. which in turn ceased to exist after one particular Pope sent 20,000 knights to remove them from the face of the earth in the early 13th century... Christainity is a manufactured thing.. most Christians don't even really understand the 'real' content of the bible.. they just read it at face value... and a minority built properous careers and empires in the name of that book...

I totally admire and respect everythig that Jesus set out to achieve.. to me he was a great man.. a real visionary.. and unfortunately for him the societies of the time were just not ready for such a forward thinking reformist..

I've read the bible cover to cover.. studied it to to some degree.. and studied it with reference to history and the Kumran Scrolls too.. the Bible is a simply mindboggling work of genius.. the book that is really interesting is the old testament.. now there a whole facinating story to be unearthed.. and from what I gather.. an epic and tragic one too.. I'd like to find out a lot more about that one..

delphino - sorry bro.. I missed out last night.. I was away from my pc for a little white.. saw you'd came in and then gone..

girlie = cute girl.. so for me.. girlies = my guitars.. and I love them all.. lol..

delfino - speed is a nice thing to have, and a pointless thing to rely upon...

she gave you all the right signals and you simply didn't spot them..

"just want to be good friends" obviously means she wants you to shove a baseball bat up her hula and knock it in with a great big mallet...

"will you stop pestering me" means try again a little latter with a beyonette and trench club, and I'll most likely say yes hot stuff...

"piss off" means bend me over the sink, mash my face into the taps a few times whilst doing me up the hoop and smashing me about the back of the head with a jerry can...

you see.. all the signals where there, you just failled to read them...

I reckon it's 'cos you're just a lil' teensie bit shy... lol ... lol..

vfr - gooners friends of mine... ??? lmao.. you're having a fucking giraffe... lmao..

you are totally spot on with the Malmsteen stuff.. yes the speed is obviously quite a challenge.. but even slow.. some of the fingerings and phrasings are really very very tough...
too many write him off as a mindless speed freak... there is a lot more to him than meets the eye.. study his riffs and riffs and licks and you'll be amazed.. I actually think that if some of the lickas were played a little slower.. the soul in the note selection would be much more apparent.. but at those real high speeds the notes often just don't exist for long enough to get the full / best effect..
malmsteen is a player I greatly admire.. admitedly he has become repetitive.. but you could say the same for Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Led Zep, Slipknot, Manson, Satch, etc, etc, etc, etc...

so.. in my opinion [and experience] the guys that I've found to be most techniacally demanding are Malmsteen, Martin Talyor, Vai and Petrucci..

if there is a higher being, then the relationship is between me and it.. no holy books, protocols, priests or ceremonies can make me any more or less faithfull.. if anything, organised religion dilutes true faith by confining it within its own interpretation.. anything interpretted by someone else and passed down is not pure..
so if I want to talk to a higher being, I'll do it myself..

Hi

I am attending the G3 shows in Glasgow and London.

I heard alot of reviews saying that the sound was way to loud.

What I want to ask is about ear plugs. Are the necassary? I have been to a heap of concerts and have never once worn ear plugs.

I saw Satch in Glasgow on his Joe Satriani tour (circa 1995) and didnt wear any ear plugs. I havent seen Steve live yet (cant wait) but loads of folk are saying the ear plugs are needed.

I feel this might spoil the experience.

earplugs smearplugs, im goin to the london show (CRUSHING DAY and THE SNAKE (- jus for fun) by the way joe ;)

What can I write... I am still waiting and I am sure that it will be the one and only show in this year! I can't stand any longer for it :) waiting is so long and sad ;) Do my best and be here in Poland longer than one concert and one day ;) G3 is something special for me, so if You will have a concept to do it again here I will be the first who will buy a ticket to be one more time ;) and so on... ;)

Come here quick! Come here now! :)

Greetz

i had a business test today, and it was disasterous! i didnt finish it and done terrible! But what can i do its done now and worryings a waste of time!

+ on a lighter note i seen a funny saying today,

Young Bernie ~ excerpt from Joe Satriani interview:

Guitar6: You used to teach guitar lessons for legends like Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai. Do you have any advice you'd like to give to teachers or students?

Joe Satriani: Sure; Learn every note everywhere on the guitar, learn every scale everywhere on the guitar, and learn every chord everywhere on the guitar...then we'll talk.

...peace,everyone...

yoda: sorry to hear that, that just means there is something better to come...& yeah i guess you should have consulted clarky first...lmao

clarky: i didnt realize you were so old fashioned...lol...

Hey up everyone. Hows my peeps doin on this hot not-so-glorious day???? anyone live near stafford who wants to hang out???? he he

Hey Delfino, how ya doin man, girl wotever he he. wot u up to today dude/dude-ette