YTSEJAM Digest 922 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Ytsejam#920 : Blind Melonheads... by "Craig Newmeyer" 2) Re: YTSEJAM digest 920 by Michael Van Opstall 3) ACoS and other things by 4) A Jammer says farewell by "R. Haskin" 5) YTSEJAM digest 921 by "ZSVJ01@CTSVMC" 6) Dune by email_address_removed (Marc Respass) 7) lefty players by email_address_removed (Marc Respass) 8) long hair by E. Waldron 9) Acoustic Dreams track list question by Paul Gregory Humm 10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 921 by email_address_removed (Monty) 11) Jason Becker's address again by DAVID E WRUCK 12) A few $0.02 worth by euan@waikato.ac.nz (Euan Kilgour) 13) Heaven & Hell: IM & Stryper by Larry G Waterfield 14) I'm an Adoptee too! by email_address_removed 15) Live At The Marquee by Erik Wolfe 16) Blind Melon by Erik Wolfe 17) elise's long hair comments by email_address_removed 18) On the subject of wigs... by email_address_removed 19) Bach & Handel by email_address_removed 20) Bach & Handel pt.2 by email_address_removed 21) FINAL CD SALE UPDATE! MAJESTY/INSTRUMENTAL I&II/RISING POWER by CCSU '95 ALUMNI QUINNIPIAC LAW '98 22) Subconscious + A Change Of Seasons by Wilco Barg 23) Blind Melon by email_address_removed (Monty) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:49:19 EDT From: "Craig Newmeyer" To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Subject: Re: Ytsejam#920 : Blind Melonheads... Message-ID: Hello everyone :) I hope not to offend any of you who may happen to be Blind Melon fans... Brian Adams (No, not that one) posted an interview from GFTPM in jam #920. Brian, I remember that piece very well! I think my blood pressure jumped 20 points the first time I read it! Seeing it again just raised my blood pressure again! ...As I read it again, I couldn't help thinking.... Man, that's pretty big talk for a band who had one hit that is remembered more for a little girl in a bee costume than for the musical content! What a lack of respect and humility! (I know... I'm not much better of a person for saying this here, but...) What do you expect from a band who's lead singer strips during a concert and urinates on the first row of fans... (I believe that happened at a show out in the western US somewhere). If I remember correctly, the local authorities (or was it their promoter) convinced them to return to that venue and play a free concert. If I were dumb enough to go to the first show, I certainly wouldn't go to the free second show! Boy... they must love their fans, eh??? I wonder if their fan club membership includes an umbrella with the bee girl on it???? Sorry if I offended anyone, but I had to vent! See ya! Craig ............................... "Adesso che ho perso la vista,. Ph: 313-337-5671 ...ci vedo meglio e di piu".... Fx: 313-323-0582 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 08:11:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Van Opstall To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 920 Message-ID: I thought Caught in a Web had an awful lot of guitar tracks on it. It has only about 3 meter changes though...Scarred has a lot of space for meter changes, but I'd say it's Erotomania, with 47-48 (counting repeats, with the changes from 5/4 to 9/8). There's a lot there... What about the song with the least? SDV or 6:00 (which is almost entirely in 4) M.A. VanOpstall email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 15:08:57 CET From: To: email_address_removed Subject: ACoS and other things Message-ID: Dear DT-Freaks, I would like to comment on various threads that recently shown up on the list. 1. First the age etc thing: I am a student at the faculty of Pharmacy at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I am 24, and starting with the last year of my studies. Ethnic background: like most Europeans varied (Dutch, Prussian, Irish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Italian) but it really doesn't show on the outside. 2. ACoS: I was quite unhappy with the songs that were picked from the Ronnie Scotts gig. I would really have liked to hear the Marillion, Yes and UK song(s) that were played, and I expected at least one or two of them on the album, especially Starship Trooper and Easter. Now I hold nothing against Elton John, Led Zep or Deep Purple, but that's definitely not what I'm waiting for. I can understand a choice for Zep and Deep Purple, but Elton John?? Maybe he (or Bernie Taupin) wrote some nice songs during the years, but thats what they are-just nice songs. They mean nothing to me and I would not for a moment consider buying an album of Elton John. So why did they put them on? the most probable cause is that it's for commercial reasons, so that people would recognise some of the songs on the EP when they have a look at it in the shops and don't know the band. Well I don't think that this will bring them many new fans. I think that for Europe it would be smarter to put some names on it that make music in the same vein, i.e. Marillion, Yes, so that people have an idea what kind of music is on the CD that they (hopefully) end up buying. Let's hope that the EP, though it isn't really in length an EP, is priced like it. Any chance that the other songs of the Ronnie Scott's gig ever gonna be released? I don't have much hope on getting my hands on a bootleg tape (if it exists). 3. Long songs: I browsed through my music collection and this is what I came up with: - IQ - Last human gateway (21 min) - Aragon - Rocking horse (21 min) BTW Great that someone mentioned this band in it's signature!! - Asgard - Esoteric Poem (36:54) - Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick (42 min) - Shadow gallery - The city of ice (17:22) Has anybody heard the new album???? - Genesis - Supper's ready (22 min) - Now - Converging universes (33:00) This band has a great little female bass player with a huge six-string bass and a very good guitarists, who did things on stage that I haven't seen JP do (yet?) - Van der Graaf Generator - Pioneers over C (17 min) I'm a bit surprised no-one on this list has ever mentioned this band- They have made complex prog (bit like King Crimson) since the late sixties. I guess some people on this list would like them if they heard them - Cairo - Ruins at Avalon's gate (22:35) - Magellan - Magna Carta (16 min) - Marillion - Grendel (17:22) - Arcansiel - I'm still searching (22 min) Needless to say there are a lot more long songs on this planet floating around some CD's. If anyone wants any info on one of these bands, e-mail me!! 4. Man in smoke?? This may sound very stupid, but when I went to the DT gig in Nijmegen I bought an Awake cover poster and immediately when i got back home I put it up on the wall. The next morning when I woke up I looked at the poster from about 3-4 m and I clearly saw a figure of a standing man in the poster. His head would be reverted from the mirror and leaning on his right forearm, while his left forearm would be extended towards the mirror. All these parts were made up of clouds. His belly would be the head of the statue, and his legs the lower part of the statue. It is not a very goodlooking man, in fact his belly (head of the statue) is rather big. I don't know if any of this makes sense, but then I remembered that there is supposed to be an indication to every song of the album in the cover. I never have read a good explanation for "Innocense faded", but some time ago I noticed the line "The mirror falls behind him" from the chorus. This could make sense, because the man (Gone up in smoke??) reverts his head from the mirror. I would like to hear some comments from someone on this subject. All in all a long post, hope you finished it!! Machiel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Machiel Maseland E-mail: email_address_removed.nl student, etcetera snail-mail: Zevenwouden 237 3524 CR Utrecht interactive vocal information processing and exchange: 030-894287 " Overrated? Overrated??? He is the most overrated person since Judas Iscariot won the 34 AD best disciple contest!" Blackadder III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 08:01:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. Haskin" To: email_address_removed Subject: A Jammer says farewell Message-ID: Well Ytsejammers, Unfortunately, it's time for me to say goodbye to this list -- at least for a little while. I'm finally leaving the University and moving to Las Vegas with the Air Force, thereby I'm losing my 'net access.... I've been on this list since DT'ers first talked about it on alt.music.progressive.metal over two years ago, and I've made a lot of great net-friends. Hell, I remember helping put together the first DT FAQL, along with a bunch of others, when DT info was hellaciously hard to come by. But as you know, the net always comes through when you need it! I have to say that having been a member of the Rush list, the Yes list, and the Marillion list, the Ytsejammers are by far some of the greatest 'netters around. It's been great, guys -- thanks. Special thanks to guys like Mike Bahr (I'd never have those fantastic CDs without him!), Mike Burstein, Brian Cox, Jennifer (I can't remember your last name, Airdance!), Tim Lodge, C-Man, and others for bringing the rare Dream Theater to the masses. It's great people like this that I'm gonna miss... So, as I say farewell, here's my last beg of DT: Please, please, PLEASE release as b-sides "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and "Easter" with Marillion's Steve Rothery and Ian Mosely, the big Yes medley with Steve Howe, and MOST DEFINITELY Tears! Farewell Ytsejammers! Hope to see you again soon! Randy Haskin email_address_removed YJ fan club # 118 Sub and AD number 113 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:16:10 GMT From: "ZSVJ01@CTSVMC" To: email_address_removed Subject: YTSEJAM digest 921 Message-ID: *** Reply to note of 08/15/95 09:23 FROM: Steven Johnson, P&GA, ext. 6066 Subject: YTSEJAM digest 921 I too am on the verge of writing a scathing note here about Blind Melon (who have a new album out and vid on MTV -- only seen the beginning and it's still Greatful Dead-ish). THEY ABSOLUTELY SUCK!! Almost no bands in the "hip" MTV vien have members who have mastered their instruments. That's what's so attractive about gain. You don't need to hit the right strings. Enough overdrive will cover the super-slop, but not the slop. Anyway, my guess is that 98 percent of the 'Jam would like to write an angry rebut to the Melon-head comments, but since we all agree, what's the point? LATER- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------- "I know that money talks 'cause mine always says, 'Goodbye.'" - David Lee Roth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:55:01 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Marc Respass) To: email_address_removed Subject: Dune Message-ID: "Craig Newmeyer" wrote: > Book(s): Frank Herbert's Dune series... far & away the best story > ever written! YEAH! I read all 6 in the series then read the last 4 again a year later. That was a great story! I remember seeing the movie before I read the book. My friends thought it was the stupidest thing going. Then I read the book and hated the movie because I thought that the movie was way off base. My hate for the movie translated into hate for David Lynch. Then I read the rest of the series and realised that David Lynch had actually taken stuff from the first 3 books and put it into the movie. I later came to love David Lynch's work in Twin Peaks (one of the best series ever!). Sorry about no DT content but Dune is great. ---------------- Marc Respass email_address_removed http://www.iii.net/users/mer/Welcome.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:55:07 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Marc Respass) To: email_address_removed Subject: lefty players Message-ID: > On lefty players, wasn't Paul McCartney a > lefty bassist? Not sure, but i think so. Not only was he a lefty bassist but he still is ;). He was recently on the cover of Bass Player magazine. Great bassist, BTW. ---------------- Marc Respass email_address_removed http://www.iii.net/users/mer/Welcome.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:59:15 -0600 From: E. Waldron To: email_address_removed Subject: long hair Message-ID: hello. this doesn't really have much to do with DT at all, but i've been lurking here for a while and i just wanted to ask what is up with the hair debate. i know there are a lot of people who are into it, but personally i find long hair on men quite disgusting, as do all of my female friends. just a note to those of you who can't get a date, cut the hair. i do admit that there are a few men who can pull it off quite well (i won't name names) but not many. -elise ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:18:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul Gregory Humm To: email_address_removed Subject: Acoustic Dreams track list question Message-ID: > > Acoustic Dreams > 1. Another Day > 2. Lifting Shadows off a Dream > 3. Wait For Sleep > 4. The Silent Man > 5. Lie (boogie version) > 6. Tears (Rush cover) > 7. O Holy Night > > Electric Extras > 8. Perfect Strangers (with Bruce Dickinson on vocals) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 9. 6:00 (performed in session with a much better mix) > 10. Caught In A Web (another better performance) > > Bonus Tracks (acoustic) > 11. Voices (just a small part of it was all there was) acoustic > 12. Bad (U2 cover) acoustic > I have a question about the track list for Acoustic Dreams (shown above) which I hope that either Mike Bahr, or maybe someone else on the list, can answer. I see that "Perfect Strangers" is listed as one of the tracks to be included on Acoustic Dreams. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that one of the tracks from the Ronnie Scotts gig which is going to be included on the upcoming EP? Is this the same version which is slated for inclusion on Acoustic Dreams, is it a different version of the same song, or am I mistaken and it is actually a completely different song? If someone could clarify this for me I would appreciate it. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:07:04 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Monty) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 921 Message-ID: >At the risk of sounding like a geek, has anybody noticed the similarity of a lot >of DT material to classical music--especially Bach or Handel? The counterpoints >in Metropolis and TTT seem very baroque. Could we call DT Baroque Metal? Yeah, noticed it. I also noticed the same with much of Tourniquet's music (i.e. Impending Embolism & Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance). I just can't say enough about this band. Drummer Ted Kirkpatrick cited as his main influence (in addition to Neal Peart), the baroque composer Dominico Scarlatti. Cool, eh. >3. I saw a post a day or so ago about someones criticism about being >"anti-choice". For the record, I'm Pro-Life, but can we keep abortion >comments off the 'Jam? It's too controversial - and there are other >places on the Net for that. Yes, please. I'm glad that it hasn't happened yet. > Movie: The Crow! Brandon Lee was brilliant! Agree. While not my FAVE movie, it is among my faves, and Brandon did do a great job. > Book(s): Frank Herbert's Dune series... far & away the best story > ever written! Ditto on what I said about The Crow, except replace "Brandon" with "Herbert." >i wonder why they ended up dropping that Christian preaching in their last >album....at least i think they did...i seem to remember they weren't yellow >anymore, but blue... They didn't TOTALLY drop the "preachy" thing. They just had a change of direction. The title "Against the Law" was a reaction to much of the judgmentalism they were having to undergo as a result of being outspoken Christians in a musical genre such as they were in. Also, I don't think they were "blue," but just dropped the Yellow/Black thing and decided to look like dudes for once (I have a "To Hell w/the Devil" poster in my room, and I must say that they look like chicks - sorry to all you females out there who are offended by the word "chick"). BTW, there is going to be a Stryper tribute album coming out soon featuring such bands as Sometime Sunday, Dig Hay Zoose, and possibly Believer :))))) doing Stryper tunes. I'll let y'all know more when I find it out. Oh, BTW, there was a Stryper update in a recent Heaven's Metal mag. If anyone wants it, I could maybe copy it and send it to you. >Oh well...at least they're (Blind Melon) gone now and DT's >not! (At least I hope they're gone) Sorry to bust your bubble, but BM are still around. I heard a new song on the radio the other day. I remember another part of that coimmentary on DT that they made where they said something like "I bet they have nice hair." DId anyone see BM's performance at Woodstock '94? The singer, to quote a review in the St. Louis paper, looked like "Bjork's ugly younger sister." Hmm..... >Uh-oh...you don't want to offend Jaime, Babs, myself...and the many female >lurkers, do you? We're here, and we're vocal - right, ladies? :) And I >know female DT fans who aren't on the 'jam, too... Cool. One of the things my now ex-girlfriend and I highly disagreed on was music. She HATED metal/hard music (including prog) of any kind, good or bad. She was more into stuff like Air Supply, Bette Midler, and all that sappy romantic crud (I have a romantic side, too, just HATE sappy crud). She also liked Chicago, which isn't too bad, but there was no hope for DT. Like I said, she's now my ex. (no we didn't break up over music). >"I had to let her go... because I love her." - Beast I can relate to that... :) God bless. The Great Cornholio, Dale R. Newberry "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "When will it all end?" Then a voice comes to me that says, "Right after the credits!" -Charlie Brown ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:06:11 -0600 (MDT) From: DAVID E WRUCK To: Ytsejam Subject: Jason Becker's address again Message-ID: No one has Jason Becker's address? Boy, am I bummed I missed it now... --Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:13:27 +1200 From: euan@waikato.ac.nz (Euan Kilgour) To: email_address_removed Subject: A few $0.02 worth Message-ID: Just having my say on a couple of things: 1) I am 1/2 Fijian and 1/2 New Zealand European (4th generation Scottish). 2) I am adopted. 3) I appear to be the only New Zealander (sorry, person living in NZ) mailing to the jam regularly (a big Gidday to all the Kiwi lurkers out there!). 4) I don't like Blind Melon (and I'm sure they don't like me either). I agree with what is being said. What is wrong with good technique? I get a lot of people telling me that the technical thing died in the latter part of the eighties, but DT IMHO don't sacrifice feel and good songwriting for the sake of the technical skills they are all blessed with. I feel that they actually did do this to an extent with WD&DU, but since then they have matured musically with every subsequent release. I think at the end of the day that there is absolutely nothing wrong with musical ability, as long as the songs are not suffering as a result. > email_address_removed (James Garrett) wrote: > At the risk of sounding like a geek, has anybody noticed the similarity >of a lot > of DT material to classical music--especially Bach or Handel? The >counterpoints > in Metropolis and TTT seem very baroque. Could we call DT Baroque Metal? I would have thought the most baroque sounding piece was the latter part of Erotomania where JP does his Yngwie thing with the arpeggio's. > email_address_removed exquisitely replied to Michael Martin: > Uh-oh...you don't want to offend Jaime, Babs, myself...and the many female > lurkers, do you? We're here, and we're vocal - right, ladies? :) And I > know female DT fans who aren't on the 'jam, too... Go ladies! My girlfriend has joined the ranks of the 'living awake'. It's good to see some ladies who have musical appreciation for prog metal. I'm getting sick of women who like Pantera / Metallica / Fight / Sepultura / Megadeth / Slayer and the only DT song they like is Mirror. I appreciate your input (and I hope everyone else does too). ON WITH THE JAM!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 17:31:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry G Waterfield To: email_address_removed Subject: Heaven & Hell: IM & Stryper Message-ID: Hey all! This is mostly in response to Dave's comment about having Iron Maiden and Stryper in the same CD player: Heaven and Hell. I resent that! Iron Maiden is NOT satanic! The rotting corpses on their album covers (all of them the creation of Derek Riggs, not IM) just give that impression sometimes. That's what turned me away from them until I listened to them. "But what about 'Number of the Beast?'" Sorry, this is ABOUT a satanic cult, not preaching it. It really reminds me of the short story "Young Goodman Brown." Actually, esp. where Bruce is concerned, IM is sort of Christian, i.e. 'Revelations' 'No Prayer for the Dying' 'Holy Smoke', etc. Now maybe IM was in your young, or 'hellion', music stage but they're not satanic. I'm a Christian, and I still like 'em. A whole lot. I'll get down from my soapbox now. Thanks for listening! "Up the Irons!" Glenn For the sake of nitpickers, I know that Derek didn't draw the last cover. Oh yeah, Stryper was OK. I just though their singer's (Sweet?) voice was a bit too feminine. Not that I don't like feminine voices... Just on women. You know what I mean! Sheesh, look at the time... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ L. Glenn Waterfield "Listen brain; I don't like you and you don't "Physics advisor like me, so let's just get this over with so to the stars" I can get back to killing you with beer." Argonne National Labs -- Homer J. Simpson email_address_removed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:30:25 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: I'm an Adoptee too! Message-ID: So, I guess a fellow jammer was wondering if any of us were adopted also? I am. I dont really think about it much. I have a younger brother who is adopted also. (by the way, last I heard...his band is getting signed. It is nothing like DT, so I wont discuss it. However, my family, friends, and I are all excited for him!!) Anyways, It has caused me some discomfort in the far past. I remember my brother and I talking when I was nine and he was about seven. We did not believe that we were adopted, because we kind of looked like various family members and we acted like each other (yeah, I know such behavior is common between kids, but I did not realize it at the time). My brother and I were so adamant that we were not adopted, my mom took us to the agency where they got us. We spoke to the lady who had taken care of the paperwork. I never found out who my biological parents were, but I do know that they were a recently, happily married couple who simply did not have enough money to afford a child. At least they had enough love to carry the kid to term and give it up for adoption. Every once in a while I wonder what they are like. (I guess that I should mention that I was about 6 mos. old when I was adopted and my brother was about 9 mos). I especially wonder if my personality matches theirs, or (for that matter) if I have any biological brothers and sisters!! What if I had a twin?? (I'm sure my friend who also is on this list, AKOZAR, could testify on my behalf that when I say that one Chris Horvath in the world is enough trouble, I'm not exaggerating!! :) Hairball, I hope that it does not give ya too much trouble. If you would like to email me about this, please feel free. You can reach me at email_address_removed I would be more than willing to "listen" to whatever... Laters folks!! Keep Jammin!! ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 95 19:46:25 EDT From: Erik Wolfe To: "INTERNET:ytsejam@arastar.com" Subject: Live At The Marquee Message-ID: Was re-released in Japan only, but is available as an import over here currently. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 95 20:01:11 EDT From: Erik Wolfe To: "INTERNET:ytsejam@arastar.com" Subject: Blind Melon Message-ID: Since we're all flaming them... and if anyone cares... I managed to purchase an original Echoplex from a store here which had a down-payment on it by Rogers of Blind Melon.. I thought, and so did the owner of the store think that he would not be back for it. However, as I was walking out with it, he walked in to get it. I laughed at him....man, was he ugly! I still laugh about this today. If anyone cares... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:48:31 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: elise's long hair comments Message-ID: Quoting: > i find long hair on men quite disgusting, as do all of my female >friends. just a note to those of you who can't get a date, cut the >hair. Well, just a few comments to add to this: 1) I'm very sorry that I had begun to believe the mentality displayed above about 3 years ago, and cut off my nearly waist long hair. (Incidentally, I used to get compliments from strange women that I didn't know...in grocery stores, asking me what kind of conditioner and shampoo I used, and if it was a perm...hehe...) After I chopped it off, the situation worsened. So, I decided to grow it back, realizing that a woman who would (a) love me for who I WAS INSIDE and (b) Like my long hair would come along. Sure enough, she did. I've been dating her for nearly a year and a half. Not only is she beautiful - *you can ask Dave Neff if you don't believe me* - she's also about to graduate with a 3.87 from Temple university with a degree in Music Therapy, and has made the Dean's list every single semester she was at Temple. =) 2) Women who go around judging guys by their hair length should bear one thing in mind: You can't judge a book by it's cover. Not only is it shallow, but, you may miss out on someone who was "Mr. Right," and wind up going out with some jerk with short hair, a nice car, but treats his dog better. The only guys with long hair that you REALLY have to watch out for are the ones who let it become a huge rat's nest...and even then, you could still be wrong. That's just as shallow as guys not going out with a woman who's "a bit heavy." Sexism on both sides. And, one last thought: Are you sure it's not jealousy out of the fact that some guys have nicer hair than some women? Shallow people really annoy me. -Hairball, one of those long haired guys who DOES look better with it, and is actually quite inteeeligynt...er...er...gots smarts! p.s. Think about this one: I've been the first long haired guys most of my ex's have ever dated...one mom had the above mentioned mentality, and wouldn't let me go out with her daughter without a reference. (Literally!) However, she was a mistake...but, I won't go into it... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:47:22 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: On the subject of wigs... Message-ID: The following appeared in Ytsejam #918: >In the KISS "Revenge" tourbook from 1992, there is a picture of Derek (he played keys backstage for KISS on that tour), and he very visibly has long hair. My guess is that either a) the short hair is relatively recent (like in the past 2 yrs or so), or b) he wore a wig while he was touring with KISS. Neither would really be a surprise to me. And, further, neither makes any difference whatsoever regarding his musicianship and what he will be bringing to Dream Theater.< The b) comment brought a smile to my face... Okay, so it's not DT related, but it's musically related...kinda. One of the bands Keith was in was very image oriented...so all the guys who didn't have naturally long hair had to wear wigs. (Mind you, this was at a time when nobody in metal had short hair, but, still, it seems silly to me!) I definitely wonder how Keith looked as he's always had extremely short hair since I first met him... On ethnicity... While I have a touch of Swedish, Dutch, and Scotch, I am very German...on both sides of my family. (You would not doubt it all if I told you what my "pre-marital" name - I'm not going to get into "the name thing" - was. *Very* German.) Hubby is also quite German... Jen -- "Could we see clearer in a virtual reality?" - Magellan "I am the beat of your pulse/the computer word made flesh" - Queensryche email_address_removed email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:00:16 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Bach & Handel Message-ID: You bring up a good point about progressive metal and most heavy metal in general (at least the guitar solos (which are argueably the defining characteristic of heavy metal)). Heavy metal (encompassing prog.) does appropriate certain techniques of "Baroque" music mainly in the constant and motoric rhythms. The Baroque technique of sequencing is also popular. These appropriations are not limited to progressive metal but have been more commercially popularized by Eddie VH, Randy Rhoads, and Yngwie. Oh yea, way back when there was this guy named Ritchie Blackmore... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:07:39 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Bach & Handel pt.2 Message-ID: --Sorry, hit the wrong button-- Bands like DT and (to some extent Fates) expand the Baroque stuff by adding the counterpoint you mentioned. I've always thought that the emphasis on single note lines instead of the more "chordal" styles of "normal" metal was what set DT apart. 99% of Erotomania is what I'm thinking of here. Anyway, for more ideas on this I urge you to check out a book called "Runnin' With the Devil: Power, Gender & Madness in Heavy Metal" by Robert Walser. There is a full chapter on the appropriation thing. Anyway, good observation. Glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 0:35:17 -0400 (EDT) From: CCSU '95 ALUMNI QUINNIPIAC LAW '98 To: email_address_removed Subject: FINAL CD SALE UPDATE! MAJESTY/INSTRUMENTAL I&II/RISING POWER Message-ID: INSTRUMENTAL/INSTUMENTAL II/MAJESTY DEMOS/RISING POWER **FINAL CD EVER UPDATE** Thanks to all who have ordered so far.... As of this Friday (8-17-95) all paid orders have been shipped. The following CD's still remain for sale: Approx: 17 Dream Theater: InstruMENTAL II CD's 15 Dream Theater: as Majesty, the 1986 Demo CD's 15 Dream Theater: InstruMENTAL I CD's 4 Rising Power w/Mike Portnoy CD's If you are interested in complete ordering/cd info, please email me at the email address below. First come first serve.... Thanks Tim email_address_removed SETLISTS:::::: DT: INSTRUMENTAL II TRACKS: YYZ (DEMO OF RUSH COVER), METROPOLIS (STUDIO DEMO), ANOTHER WON (STUDIO BERKLEE DEMO), THE FARANDOLE (BERKLEE DEMO OF TALAS SONG), A CHANGE OF SEASONS (STUDIO DEMO), STARS (UNR. DEMO) MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (DEMO), LIGHT GUITAR PIECE, LONG ISLAND SOUND ( 1987 STUDIO DEMOS UNRELEASED), GUITAR PLAYER SPOTLIGHT II: CONFESSIONS OF AN ARTIST, SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBOW. DREAM THEATER - performing as Majesty. The Official 1986 Demo. 1 CD. Includes - Another Won, Your Majesty, A Vision, Vital Tyrant, Too Far. Featuring Chris Collins on Vocals. DREAM THEATER - InstruMENTAL! The Official 1987 Demo Recordings! Includes demos of: Afterlife, The Ones Who help to set the sun, Ytsejam, Indulge in Reverie, A Late Summer's Rain, Schizophrenia. and MORE!!!! RISING POWER - Power to the People! Mike Portnoy's 1st band when he was 17. Features great artwork, bio, lyrics, and pictures! 11 tracks!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "bALLS AND CHUNK IS WHERE ITS AT" - Mike Portnoy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:33:44 +0200 From: Wilco Barg To: email_address_removed Subject: Subconscious + A Change Of Seasons Message-ID: Dear all, It's been awhile since my last contribution to this page, but today I'm back. On August the first I got my copy of Subconcious. It had take a long time to get to the Netherlands, but in the end you forget the waiting when you listen to all those songs. Thanks Mike for sending me a copy. The next thing I got was on August the fifth. It's the pre-release tape for the EP A Change Of Seasons due for release in Europe on September 15th. Besides A Change Of Seasons it contains four tracks from the Ronnie Scotts concert on January 31st, 1995. These songs are: Funeral For A Friend, Perfect Stranger, Led Zeppelin Medley and Big Medley. I think the new version of A Change Of Seasons is great, much more better than the old version of two/three years ago. Hope you people like it as well when you hear it. :-) Wilco email_address_removed.NL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:54:07 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Monty) To: email_address_removed Subject: Blind Melon Message-ID: I just read a review of Blind Melon's latest album (Soup) in some guitar magazine, and many of you will be happy to know that it only got 1 1/2 stars (I assume out of 5). The reviewer said something like it died long before the 14 songs ran their course. I seriously doubt that DT would get such a review. Maybe we'll find out when ACoS comes out... The Great Cornholio, Dale R. Newberry "The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited P.S. I just saw, on Conan O'Brien (underrated, IMO) where they did part of the theme song from "Friends" (I'll be there for you) as Jimi Hendrix would have done it. They also had an obscure reference to the book/movie Johnny Got His Gun (see "One," bby Metallica). This show is actually kind of funny. ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 922 *************************