Conference napalm::guitar

    
    	Wow, that could be a great show.
    
    	Are they going to come out to the MA area?
    

    
    
    I'd go and see that!
    
    
    						ian

    Satch's WWW page only had the start date.  I'll go too.  Probably hit
    the concessions and restroom break during the Vai set. ;-)

    Wow! Sounds like a great show. I agree Vai may be a good time for a
    whiz. P.S. What is Satch's web site, Please.
    

    I don't know if I'd go...  I'd probably never pick up my axe again.
    :-)

    I usually get EXTRA motivated when I go to shows like that.
    -ss

    Well, sometimes I get a "eh, that's nothin'..." attitude, but not
    usually...  ;-)
    

    I hope that they put Satriani on last so I don't have to miss Letterman
    that night.

    
    Any new info on this??
    
    

    Yeah, Morse didn't make the grade at the audition so they were forced
    to call it G3 instead of G4.  What a shame to see the once great Morse
    beaten by the emotive Vai.

    A big multi-page poster promoting the tour was included in one of the
    guitar rags that gave three web sites as sources of information: one
    for Vai, one for EJ, one for the other guy whose name I forget.
    
    Not only didn't any of these sites have tour dates, none of them even
    mentioned the tour!
    
    	db

>    Yeah, Morse didn't make the grade at the audition so they were forced
>    to call it G3 instead of G4.  What a shame to see the once great Morse
>    beaten by the emotive Vai.
    
    Mikie is just trying to come to grips with the shame of seeing  the
    once great Satriani being reduced to having to share equal billing with
    unemotive guitarists like Vai while Morse plays as the headline act
    with Deep Purple.

    yeah, Deep Purple is one gig that everyone wants on their resumes. 
    It's where all the guitarists went who couldn't make the G3 cut.

   Didja ever think he might actually want a "job" with some security, as op-
   posed to doing (yet another) "one tour wonder"?

   I know if I were pursuing my playing as a career I'd prefer to have a gig
   I could think of as a "job", and not one where I only work 6 months out of
   the year (or rather, one 6 month stretch out of the next 3 years...)

   But I guess actually looking at it logically, enjoying the music, and all
   that is secondary to bickering over who's guitar god is better than the
   others.

   -- Sam

    Well when you sell as many CD's as Satch, you can afford to only work a
    few months every few years.
    
    Mike

>    yeah, Deep Purple is one gig that everyone wants on their resumes. 
>    It's where all the guitarists went who couldn't make the G3 cut.
    
    You don't see Phil Keaggy in EITHER band now do ya?
    
    In any case, at least we finally got Mikie to acknowledge that
    players he admits are un-emotive like Vai are in the same "cut"
    as Satriani.
    
    	db
    	

    ...and thanks for admiting that Morse couldn't make the grade.

    >   ...and thanks for admiting that Morse couldn't make the grade.
    
    Never did.   Only said that he got the better Purple gig because
    Satriani couldn't make the grade of "permanent member of Deep Purple".
    
    Why would he leave headlining with Purple to become Unemotional
    Steve Vai's opening act.
    
    	Morse    answer: He didn't - no need
    	Satriani answer: He did    - no choice

    More power to him, if he values Deep Purple that much.  95% of the
    music world doesn't.  Some musicians are leaders, making their own
    music, others are followers, playing dredged up oldies.

    >> music, others are followers, playing dredged up oldies.
        
    or is that "dregged" up oldies...
    

re: 21

Touche'

    
    
    Sherman, set the way back machine back a few years. ... Yep, same
    rat hole.
    
    ...zzzzzzz  

   Oh, is this a "rat hole"?  I thought that those two were just incapable
   of any other type of discourse.

   -- Sam

Ooouh,,, the gloves are comin off....

Yow..

    db, I guess we still have too many humor impaired in here.

    Geez, this isn't a "rat hole".  It's a running joke. 
    
    Mike likes Morse and I like Satriani.  
    
    It may be getting old, but there's no reason to uptight about it.
    
    	db

>    It may be getting old, but there's no reason to uptight about it.

   Okay, I won't uptight.

   But, maybe...

   IT JUST ISN'T FUNNY ANY MORE AND HASN'T BEEN FOR A LONG TIME.

   There.  Is that sufficiently direct?

   -- Sam

    Sam, read your personal string 

    Personally, I think they should let Vai play with Deep Purple so Morse 
    can do the G3 tour.  I have no interest or desire to see Vai or Deep
    Purple.

    re: Lambert
    
    I'm curious about something, Sam:  
    
    	Have you ever told or thought about telling a moral zealot 
    	to "just change the channel" if he doesn't like what he sees/hears?
    
    	Or have you ever told someone to "next unseen" or just wished
    	they would?
    
    Thanks and have a nice weekend,
    
    	db

    G3 is playing in Boston at Harbor Lights on 6/22....tickets went on
    sale today at NEXT Tickets (617-423-6000).
    
    Includes Satriani, Vai and a new third performer. Eric Johnson is not
    included on this G3 tour.
    
    

    I believe the new third guitarist is blooze wunderkind Kenny Wayne
    Shepherd.