Ten posts and no snarky comment from Lofton? I'm amazed.

Absolutely - there's no question, in my mind, that TWAT deserves a November Rain style epic video. I always entertained hopes, when Buckethead was still in the band, that we'd get a TWAT video in which Bucket emerges from a chicken coop on top of the same mountain that played host to the church from the November Rain video. He does his massive solo, and is then beamed up to a waiting spaceship to return to his home planet, his work on Earth done.

It's good news as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I'd like to see Robin playing This I Love and TWAT live, but Ashba's a solid replacement. He's got the emotive playing down pat, he should shut up a few of the wankers who seem to think image is important, by looking like a more typical rocker, and he's obviously more of a Bumblefoot when it comes to interacting with the fans.

I think it'll be really interesting to see how Ashba and Fortus - two fairly conventional rock axemen - interact with Bumblefoot's Zappa-esque weirdness.

Of all the stuff that's out there, the material I really want to hear is the '99 AFD redux/CD sessions with Finck and Tobias on guitars. The versions of I.R.S. and TWAT we have from those sessions are so completely different from the finished versions, you get a real picture of how CD developed. And the AFD material is a fascinating curio - I'd love to hear studio versions of Finck's reinterpretations of the tracks.

Seconded. I NEED to hear this.