YTSEJAM Digest 786 Today's Topics: 1) Petrucci's Home Studio by Gilbert Jack Thetgyi 2) Re: Request for Erotomania transcription. by email_address_removed 3) Re: Mastermind, Chasing Time (Fates) by email_address_removed (Zack Gemmill) 4) ANNOUNCE: New FW fan! by Mats Rydstr\vm 5) all by Michael Van Opstall 6) Re: Request for Erotomania transcription. by A Humble Dream Theater Fanatic 7) Usless Info (no DT Content, sorry!) by Hairball ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 17:16:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Gilbert Jack Thetgyi To: email_address_removed Subject: Petrucci's Home Studio Message-ID: I don't know if this article has already been addressed, so please disregard this message if it has. I just renewed my subscription to Musician magazine, and lo and behold, there's a 2-page picture and description of Petrucci's home studio. It's in the May 1995 issue with Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard on the cover. Anyway, it's a nifty picture, and I could only detect one error: "his standard Universe [guitar]" was labeled as the custom 7-string. On a lighter note, was this picture taken in Chicago? Oh well, gotta run, I'm going to catch Urban Dance Squad in Cleveland tonight. Maybe I'll see some of you at the Queensryche show in Toledo on 4/19. Sincerely, G. Jack Thetgyi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 23:14:22 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Subject: Re: Request for Erotomania transcription. Message-ID: Hi Marc, my name is Andrew and I'm a fellow bass player and DT fan. GUITAR WORLD's Andy Aledort transcribed "Erotomania" in the January 1995 edition. There is a bass transcription included. I'd be glad to send you a copy via snailmail if you want to reply with an address. BTW, a few months ago, I posted an informal and probably incomplete listing of transcriptions and interviews in mags that I've collected. FYI, somebody posted it to that ftp site at netcom under the heading "tablist" or something to that effect. My "mcgill.ca" email address listed there is wrong however. The Delphi one is right. McGill University officially has the worst internet access in all of Canada, if not the world! But Delphi rules and I'm glad to be with them. Anyway, Marc, from one b.p. to another let me know if you want that transcription. Best wishes, Andrew. The finest opportunity ever given the world was thrown away because the passion for Equality made vain the hope for Freedom. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Apr 95 18:55:47 PDT From: email_address_removed (Zack Gemmill) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Mastermind, Chasing Time (Fates) Message-ID: > Mastermind > ---------- > If you are interesting in getting Brainstorm, the second Mastermind album > just e-mail email_address_removed he has the CDs for sale for about $15 > each. Bill is the esteemed guitar god on the albums, be happy to comment > on his music or prog in general, Bill loves to talk about "the > industry". think he is close to a major distribution deal> > > Mike Speaking of which, I strongly recommend this album to everyone. I picked it up today at the used CD store in pristine condition. Other than scanning through every track on the album before I bought it (although I only had to listen to 30 secs. to know that I had to have it), I only got to listen to 10 mins of it from there to work. Brilliant musicianship these two (brothers, I assume?) put into their music. Although I can't really classify the sound, the closest I'd venture would be a lot harder hitting Magellan style (speed Magellan?), but more guitar driven. Their "covers" of Wagner's The Ride of the Valkrie and The William Tell Overture are brilliant additions to an already perfect album. Since I'll be driving all weekend, I'll get to know the disc inside out and perhaps send Bill a note... I also picked up Chasing Time at the store, too. However, it was an import from the UK. Has this been released in the States? Well, too late anyway, since I already bought it. Although I think Broon's production on Parallels is a bit weak for a five-piece band, the remix of WOSG isn't as good as the original (even though it is harder-hitting). Now I appreciate Terry Brown's job on the original better. At Fate's Fingers is cool (although it's almost the same music as At Fate's Hands), as is Circles (but this is a much better variation of -dammit! I forget the name- [...] on Inside Out). They should've forgotten about anything before NE and put Static Acts and Face the Fear on this. AFN... Zach ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 13:58:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mats Rydstr\vm To: Ytsejam Subject: ANNOUNCE: New FW fan! Message-ID: Hi! I'm proud to announce that I'm now a fan of FATES WARNING. Many thanks to all of you who recommended albums to buy, and to Jonas Wallden who put up some sampled FW music on his Web-page for me. It took a while to understand the greatness of FW, but it was all worth it. /Mats ________________________________________________________________________ / Mats Rydstrom - email_address_removed.se - http://www.nada.kth.se/~d94-mry / /-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ / "We can hope for the future, though there may not be one" - ACOS / /_______________________________________________________________________/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 13:27:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Van Opstall To: email_address_removed Subject: all Message-ID: I agree with whoever said the singer Mr. Soto from Yngwie J. Malmsteen's rising force is really cool, but I'm glad he doesn't sing much, because I like the playing better. By the way, whoever asked a loong time ago about great mixed albums, Deliverance's Stay of Execution is the best I've heard. That out of the way, lets get on to the real reason I'm here. Someone asked about solos to scare a Van Halen fan. How about the almost-completely two handed tapped Fortune in Lies solo. Erotomania? Anyone have any personal absolute favorite DT solos? They're all great, but I especially like the guitar solos in Under a Glass Moon and Scarred, and the keyboard stuff on Only a Matter of Time and Take the Time. The guitar solos are the most melodic I've heard from DT, and I like the sort of slippery feel in each. I just saw the Japanese version of LatM today, and the only difference I saw was that the back cover only has pictures and song list, no copyright or Recorded At: information. The one I saw also had a sleeve of Japanese information on it. On the macho guitar player deal: I can play the chromatic part and the solo from Caught in a Web, string skips and all. OOOh, wow! By the way, I believe the verse for Surrounded is in 9/8, if that's what everyone is talking about not or so progressive. I really don't care. I got into Dream Theater because I heard they were progressive, but I just like it because its the type of music I've been looking for forever, very melodic, catchy, and fast and tricky. That's the same way I got into Rush and Yngwie. Anyway...oh yeah, someone asked, sure I can play slow. Sort of. M.A. VanOpstall email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:13:15 -0500 (CDT) From: A Humble Dream Theater Fanatic To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Request for Erotomania transcription. Message-ID: I was just wondering if anyone had a close bass transcription of Learning to Live. I really want to learn this song but do not have the time to sit down and transcribe it all myself. Any help would be appreciated. Ed Polzin WWW: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~polzin/ email_address_removed email_address_removed email_address_removed email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:55:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Hairball To: email_address_removed Subject: Usless Info (no DT Content, sorry!) Message-ID: > 11) Troubled Child - "Chasing the Moon" He holds moon for at least > 10 seconds and crescendos at the end. Marvelous. It's also double-tracked. =) So is "Rubicon" : 'Opportunity is yours" (actually, that's more likely triple-tracked) >Have you guys ever heard of that guy called JEFF SCOTT SOTO?? >He sang on one (or two?) early Yngwie-records Jeff also makes a guest appearance on Saigon Kick's debut album, singing backups on a VERY beatlesque song called "My Life." I believe he also sang on Chris Impelliteri's debut EP. Graham Bonet sang on the 2nd, full length Impelliteri album (along with a whole bunch of other LA metal band members...) Graham, formerly of Alcatraz (sp) (who had a certain guitarist with the initials YM...hehe. It's a small world, isn't it?), has recently joined forces with Bob Kulick (brother of Bruce (of Kiss), who played some brilliant guitar on W.A.S.P.'s THE CRIMSON IDOL album) in a band whose name I forget. Call it the over 40 short hair/balding band. =) Also, since a few people sent me email about Styx, I figure I'd throw this in. I asked him what happened after Styx, and he told me he's been writing a lot. So, he's definitely not in the band anymore. And, in case you missed it, Dennis DeYoung was in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar as Pontious (sp) Pilot. Consequently, he put an album out called "10 On Broadway," a collection of show tunes. So, Styx's whereabouts are a big question mark to me. =) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 786 *************************