that's right, another bay area show means i took a ton of photos which you can check out by going to the ROAD section and clicking the (p) next to the Bone Bash III gig on 11/2/02, including the allstar jam of led zep's "rock and roll" with dave meniketti, neal schon and eric (from testament).

Guitar.com has a new feature article/interview with Joe up, along with a cool contest to win an autographed guitar and cool gear.

Read the story here

check out the road section for a few more new US tour dates

also, here's a link to a new page in the band/crew section that provides links to previous welcome messages from joe as well as a downloadable version of the rehearsal part of the 2002 SBM webcast. a streaming version will be following at some point (in Real).

we're very sad to announce that pearly, one of joe's chromeboys (chrome ibanez guitar) was stolen last night after the clearwater, florida show at ruth eckerd hall.

there is a $500 REWARD (NO QUESTIONS ASKED) and all joe is asking is to have the guitar brought to the venue and given to the hall or production manager (check at the box office).

joe just wants his guitar back!

Hello everyone! We want to thank you all for your support of Joe's new album, Strange Beautiful Music, the wonderful feedback on the new web site, and also give a big shout out to everyone who came out for the Europoean tour dates! This newsletter is short and to the point since we've got quite an event just days away. That's right, it's WEBCAST TIME again! In addition to filling you in on those details, we've also got a few other tidbits for you to enjoy.

In this issue:

* STRANGE BEAUTIFUL TOUR 2002 WEBCAST
* LIVE PHOTOS
* SETLIST CONTEST WINNERS
* US & JAPAN TOUR DATES

Once again, we've teamed up with Apple and are taking advantage of their latest QuickTime 6 technology to bring you this exclusive webcast. If you haven't already downloaded and installed it, you'll need to in order to view the webcast. <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/>

This webcast combines bonus rehearsal footage with a live show from Amsterdam, Holland. Each week showcases 1/4th of the 2 hour+ live show, plus an exclusive glimpse at the rehearsal process and walk-throughs of gear and effects by Joe, Matt Bissonette (bass) and Jeff Campitelli (drums). The webcast wraps up with two days that includes the show in its entirety!

Here's the schedule for when you can come to http://www.satriani.com/ and tune in (by the 16th, a big link will be on the home page):

Fri, Aug 16 10AM - Rehearsal Feature + Part 1 of the Live show
Fri, Aug 23 10AM - Rehearsal + Part 2
Fri, Aug 30 10AM - Rehearsal + Part 3
Fri, Sep 6 10AM - Rehearsal + Part 4
Fri, Sep 14 10AM - Everything!

All times are PST and if you need help figuring out what time that is in your timezone, try this link.

We've been uploading photos to Joe's web site as the tour has progressed which you can view by visiting the Road section of the site and clicking on the (P) when it appears next to any show. I also just uploaded a lot of good quality photos from some shows last week:

8/11/02 @ The Chronicle Pavilion (Concord, CA):
http://www.satriani.com/2000/road/lwpg.cgi?dir=2002-08-11

8/12/02 @ 107.7 TheBone Radio In-Studio (SF, CA):
http://www.satriani.com/2000/road/lwpg.cgi?dir=2002-08-12

For more photos (past and present), fan show reviews and tour dates, visit:
http://www.satriani.com/2002/road/

The winners of the setlist contest have been chosen! These folks simply filled out their favorite setlist in their satriani.com member profile and now have picked up a free autographed copy of Strange Beautiful Music plus a tour tshirt!

Nickname (Location)

BlondiBoy (Porsgrunn, Telemark)
Bloop Dogg (San Antonio, TX)
Breed
Cyber Alien (Cazenovia, N.Y.)
Fretboard Lighter (Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan)
Lizard Queen (Lubbock, TX)
Nocturnal Silence (Petaling Jaya, Selangor)
Onarin (Deventer, Overijssel)
Raymie (Edinburgh)
The Monkey (Santa Cruz, CA)
axebearer (sydney, nsw)
chromeboy125 (albuquerque, new mexico)
cliff_82 (Red Bluff, CA)
gruskada (Washington, DC)
korok (Denver, CO)
langvad (farum)
lyonsnet (Kiel, WI)
pcough
rogueonion (Kitchener, Ontario)
sixstring6 (Locust Grove, Ga)

Here's a summary of the remaining US tour dates and a few in Japan. It looks like Joe will will likely return through parts of the US towards the end of the year for some "Evening with..." shows.

Fri 8/16 NextStage (Grand Prairie, TX)
Sat 8/17 Austin Music Hall (Austin, TX)
Sun 8/18 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Houston, TX)
Tue 8/20 Florida Theater (Jacksonville, FL)
Wed 8/21 Ruth Eckerd Hall (Clearwater, FL)
Thu 8/22 Pompano Beach Amphitheatre (Pompano Beach, FL)
Fri 8/23 House Of Blues (Orlando, FL)
Sat 8/24 Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
Mon 8/26 Pop's - Outdoors (Sauget, IL)
Tue 8/27 Riverside Theatre (Milwaukee, WI)
Wed 8/28 Rosemont Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Fri 8/30 DTE Energy Music Theatre (Detroit, MI)
Sat 8/31 Molson Amphitheatre (Toronto, Ontario CA)

Sun 9/01 L'Agora Du Vieux Port (Quebec City, Quebec CA)
Tue 9/03 Tower City Amphitheatre (Cleveland, OH)
Fri 9/06 Pier 6 Concert Pavilion (Baltimore, MD)
Sat 9/07 AJ Palumbo Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA)
Sun 9/08 Tweeter Water (Camden, NJ)
Tue 9/10 Oakdale Theatre (Wallingford, CT)
Thu 9/12 Fleet Pavilion (Boston, MA)
Fri 9/13 PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
Sat 9/14 Jones Beach Amphitheatre (Wantagh, NY)

Thu 10/03 Nagoya, JPN Club Quattro
Fri 10/04 Osaka, JPN On Air Osaka
Sun 10/06 Tokyo, JPN Shibuya Ax

As always, you can see the latest tour dates, show reviews, and photos online at: http://www.satriani.com/2002/road/

Thanks for your continued support of all things Joe!

The winners of the setlist contest have been chosen! These folks simply filled out their favorite setlist in their satriani.com member profile and now have picked up a free autographed copy of Strange Beautiful Music plus a tour tshirt! These winners were chosen randomly from all people who entered any setlist info.

Nickname (Location)

londiBoy (Porsgrunn, Telemark)
Bloop Dogg (San Antonio, TX)
Breed
Cyber Alien (Cazenovia, N.Y.)
Fretboard Lighter (Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan)
Lizard Queen (Lubbock, TX)
Nocturnal Silence (Petaling Jaya, Selangor)
Onarin (Deventer, Overijssel)
Raymie (Edinburgh)
The Monkey (Santa Cruz, CA)
axebearer (sydney, nsw)
chromeboy125 (albuquerque, new mexico)
cliff_82 (Red Bluff, CA)
gruskada (Washington, DC)
korok (Denver, CO)
langvad (farum)
lyonsnet (Kiel, WI)
pcough
rogueonion (Kitchener, Ontario)
sixstring6 (Locust Grove, Ga)

That's right, the webcast is coming your way starting Friday August 16th! We'll be rolling the live show out across a month with a different part each week and the exclusive rehearsal footage for the entire time. At the very end, the entire show will be up for the whole weekend (that corresponds to the last date of the US tour). We're partnered with Apple once again and it'll be in QuickTime 6 (using the latest high quality MPEG codecs) and should look great.

More details as we get closer!

In Los Angeles,CA on Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 1:00 pm, Joe will be signing copies of “Strange Beautiful Music” as well as giving one lucky fan a chance to win a signed signature Ibanez guitar (winner will need to be present to win). The location is the Wherehouse Records at 7127 Sunset Blvd (at La Brea) in Hollywood.

Joe is scheduled to do a chat with USAToday.com on Monday, August 5th from 6:00-6:30 pm EST. Here is a link to their chat site.

howdy, so the webcast for netherlands folks of tonight's show in Amsterdam is hours away. i've received two links but am not sure which is the best one so i'm listing them both here. remember, the quality may not be good if you are outside of the Netherlands and/or Europe, but we will will rebroadcasting in a few weeks worldwide with additional bonus footage! Here are the links to try. When listening outside of Europe, try the lower speed broadcast if you have problems.

Heineken Music Hall Webcast Link

Ok, here's the scoop. We've arrange to webcast the Amsterdam show, but the quality and support for people outside of the Netherlands to watch the show is a little bit sketchy, so what we'll be doing is getting the master tapes and then taking them back to the US, adding in a little bit of bonus footage (from rehearsal, for example), and then teaming up with the QuickTime folks at Apple for another full worldwide webcast on-demand that will go on for a few weeks!

i've just finished making modifications to the T2J section here so it will load quicker than before. it's somewhat expotential depending on how many pages you have to read. ie, if you go to read ALL messages, it will be a *lot* faster now.

i also made it so hopping around a large number of pages is a bit nicer instead of it just spewing out 200 page links, you only see 20 at a time and can skip forward/backward another 20 by using the >> and <<