YTSEJAM Digest 939 Today's Topics: 1) I CUT MY HAIR OFF! (NDTC) by email_address_removed 2) Bad traders by John Mastin 3) A Change of Seasons CD Cover by "David Ernest Desalvo" 4) Re: Damn The Machine? by Tilman Kuendgen 5) Hello all from a new Jammer... by email_address_removed 6) Derek in Brasil by Jose Marcel Berto de Souza 7) Actual Dream Theater stuff by Michael Bahr 8) RE: Illuvitar by Greg Picklesimer 9) JP in SF Chronicle by Younis Youssef Hilal 10) GFTPM Review of "ACoS" EP by email_address_removed (S. Craig Caldwell) 11) ACOS Japanese Release... by "DR. TEETH" 12) Re: JP in SF Chronicle by Shaft 13) Re: a funny story by BERTAPELLE ADAM RAYE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 12:58:03 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: I CUT MY HAIR OFF! (NDTC) Message-ID: (Acronym central in the subject field, eh?! )Is NDTC a universal acronym? Someone used it once, and I thought it was better than typing out No DT Content. (if not, can we make it universal?) >Johnny, member of the YLHB (Ytsejam Long-Haired Brotherhood) Regarding the YLHB - I am no longer eligible to be a member! =) That's right, gang - I got it chopped off! :( Yesterday, I get a phone call from an NBC affiliate in Lancaster, PA. (For those of you not from the east coast, it's basically a dinky hick town with a lot of Amish/Pennsylvania Dutch people up there.) Anyway, I'd sent this guy a resume about a relief tech position. The phone rings at 11:00am, and I hear the machine in the other room go off. I JUMPED out of bed when I heard the guy's name, played the message back, and, within 2 minutes, I had an interview set up for 9/5 @ 11am. Well, considering that I'm fresh out of college, and need a job BADLY - mind you, I'm not sure what this pays, but, it's full time!; so, I did it. It's gone. (Sigh) However, it would make me feel better if you all still refered to me as Hairball...then again, only people who've gotten checks from me know my real name. =) My band is gonna shit a collective brick. And so will my now ex-g/f, who called at 3am asking me to get back together...haha. This oughta keep her away from me! =) Sorry to waste space, but, I had to tell someone! -Hairball, still an audio type/musician; just minus the hair. =( ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 13:31:18 -0400 From: John Mastin To: email_address_removed Subject: Bad traders Message-ID: Pat Daugherty wrote: > Regardless of their many excuses the bad traders I have experienced are > Al Balkiewicz and Jermey Haynes. > Wait a minute. I know Jeremy Haynes screwed over a few peoeple but wasn't Al Balkiewicz involved in a car accident and hospitalized a while back? Has anyone heard from Brian Cox? I ordered a few boots from him and he disappeared. No email from him. No boots either. What gives? Johnny ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 13:57:19 -0400 From: "David Ernest Desalvo" To: email_address_removed Subject: A Change of Seasons CD Cover Message-ID: For those of you who have seen the CD for ACOS, what is the significance of the date on the claender on the back cover?? I may be missing something obvious but the seasons don't change on Nov 18. (If I remember correctly, that's the date shown) Later Dave email_address_removed PS The CD sounded unbelievable. Production much like I&W. Which makes sense since they worked with the same people (so the liner says) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tilman Kuendgen To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Damn The Machine? Message-ID: Ken asked: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all! For the past year or so, I've been trying to find Damn the Machine's album, but it doesn't seem to be available here in Norway. A friend of mine is going to Washington D.C. in a few weeks, and he's going to buy a copy of the album if he could find it. I was wondering if someone in the D.C. area could tell me where he could find the CD. I'm also interested in any information about the band. The only thing I've heard is that they made one album and then broke up. ------------------------------------------------------------- A month ago I got this info from a guy when I asked in the usenet about the actual status of DTM: What a coincidence, I've spent months looking for info on Damn The Machine, and then this morning I actually found something out, so I can actually tell you about it. Anyway, apparently the original line-up for Damn The Machine, minus the singer, are in a new band called Mumbo's Brain. I'm not sure if they're getting another vocalist in, or if one of the band are gonna do it, or what the story is there. If I find out more I'll let you know. Hope I could help! If you don't succeed in getting the album, lemme know! Tilman. email_address_removed.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:00:16 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Hello all from a new Jammer... Message-ID: Hope this doesn't sound all that corny, but I assure you, Im into DT enough to be here, so I suppose that offsets the nothing I have to say. I live in the SF area. I hooked up with a guy on AOL that sent me a Majesty CD, and once I remember his adress Ill pass along the information to all of you. As far as Im concerned, this guy is for real, becasue I have recieved some stuff including 3 cds. If Im doing something wrong having to do with the format of this newsgroup, please email me and set me straight. email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:42:46 -0300 From: Jose Marcel Berto de Souza To: email_address_removed Subject: Derek in Brasil Message-ID: Tomorrow (09/02/95), there will be the brasilian version of Monsters Of Rock, and one of the stars is Alice Cooper. The keyboardist will be Derek!!!!!!!! i'm really excited to see the DT keyboardist. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:34:19 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: Actual Dream Theater stuff Message-ID: It's funny the way things turn out when we're not paying attention to them. I've posted nonstop on CDs, CD-related material, my general observations, etc, while not actively participating in a lot of the arguments at hand. I figure it's high time I posted some of my thoughts on DT for comment, and I would like commentary from anyone interested to post their replies to the list... You see, in a position like mine, for some strange reason (which is even stranger when you consider what a goof-off I am in real life) a lot of Jammers and alt.music.*ers mail _me_ when they have a question about something, or at times, mail _me_ when there's an argument going on that I haven't jumped in on, to get my take on it. Most fascinating is that half the time I don't know the answer myself. Not that I mind the mail. It's nice to be liked in cyberspace (oooh I hate that word tho). I am then put into the interesting position that since people usually listen at least passively to what I say, I don't want to destroy the coniguity of a thread or make a person's (totally valid) opinion seem "wrong" _just because_ I disagree. This isn't an ego thing; it was brought to my attention by another Jammer as I didn't even realize it myself. So with that in mind, I hope nobody will hold back a biting, hard, evil response to my comments on the perception that the rest of the Jam will take sides against them. :) * My top 5 ESSENTIAL DREAM THEATER moments * 1. The end jam on Innocence Faded. Takes an otherwise average song and makes it the very best. There is no other song currently out that surges my blood and pumps my adrenaline like the end jam on IF. 2. "By nature's inflexible grace, I'm learning to liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiive......." (bass notes follow). This entire part of the song LTL, concluding with the passage above, is of an intensity level to be awed. 3. "I sit down with my son, and with him we watch the crimson sunset... (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may....)" This part of A Change of Seasons is awe-inspiring, as is the whole opening section, hell, the whole song. but this final passage is so appropriate, so perfect, so touching, and the backup vocals make it even more insistent. 4. "Seen my diary on the newsstand, seems we've lost the truth to quicksand, it's a shame no one is praying, cause these voices in my head keep saying...." The high point of the AMBI trilogy. The backup harmony is beautiful, and this passage has a person instinctively singing along even if they don't realize it. I sat down and learned the vocal harmony part, and it sounds _so cool_ to sing the high part while the low part dominates on the album, and to hit the harmony just right. 5. "Pull me under, pull me under, pull me under I'm not afraid. Living my life too much in the sun, only until your will is DONE!!!" the final chorus. A lot of times we forget the popular PMU, which is even more odd since it's the song that got 90% of us into Dream Theater. The chorus of PMU is what makes it shine. The final chorus is the best. Listen to the ALBUM VERSION (the non-harmonized live version don't cut it) again and re-capture the awe and wonder at this musical masterpiece. There are other parts that I like as well, but those are the most vital, the most thrilling to me. I'm interested to see what people think of these choices, not simply to see a cavalcade of LISTS, but to see WHY people love or hate MY choices and WHY they like theirs. It just may be that there's a mind-bendingly great passage that I haven't given due course to. More on ACOS... when you guys get this album, you're gonna shit... it just rules, beginning to end. ACOS has grown on me and it's NOT getting old and boring... every time I listen to it I find something new. It's much in the style of Images & Words musically and vocally, which was fine by me since I liked both IAW and Awake, but those who shunned Awake will be reborn anew. Also, there is the most AWESOME riff/lick/basic theme in ACOS that gets played acoustically first, then electrically, that sounds for all the world like they pulled it out of an Ultima or Myst soundtrack. See if you can spot this lick. It was particularly impacted on me since I'm reading the Jordan "Wheel of Time" series now and my mind is attuned to fantasy/D&D. Magic... can't live with it, can't live without it. I'm working on a Dream Theater expansion, with such Summon Legends as the Miracle and The Sleeper, and enchantments like Glass Moon. :) That'd be cool... "Don't Look Past Me" was the most promising of DT's earlier musical experiments, if you ask me, if a bit cheesecakey. King's X would have been proud, though. When will we get another GALACTIC COWBOYS album?? I can't wait to hear DT's next summer album, since Showdown was interesting enough.... The best movies out right _now_ are Waterworld, Desperado, Under Siege II, and Mortal Kombat. The best movie so far this year is Braveheart. The best animation so far is Pocahontas. The worst movie so far is the Jerky Boys. (what a sad excuse for a movie! the tapes were more than enough of this idiotic pair, and were funny to boot!) Mike Bahr, email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 95 15:56:03 MDT From: Greg Picklesimer To: email_address_removed Subject: RE: Illuvitar Message-ID: I second this recommendation for Illuvitar. The music reminds me of the Marillion or Genesis(what they should be, not what they are now), but with some outstanding guitar work. Unfortunately, I don't know about any new releases., but agree that it's worth a listen. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Picklesimer (email_address_removed) Symbios Logic Inc Fax: (719)573-3824 1635 Aeroplaza Dr. Colorado Springs CO 80916 Phone:(719)573-3497 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:05:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Younis Youssef Hilal To: email_address_removed Subject: JP in SF Chronicle Message-ID: I just wanted to let everybody know there's some guy called John Petrucci living in San Francisco. Apparently, he got burned up about something in the Chronicle editorial section and sent in a response. Either that, or it was a Petrucci fan who didn't want to give his name away. I don't know if anybody else cares, but I haven't run into anybody with the same name as any of DT's members. Younis email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:42:15 -0500 From: email_address_removed (S. Craig Caldwell) To: email_address_removed Subject: GFTPM Review of "ACoS" EP Message-ID: All - I was somewhat surprised when I got the latest copy of "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" to see a review of the new DT EP "A Change of Seasons."(October 1995 issue - the one with the two members of Red Hot Chili Peppers kissing on the front....from them that DOESN'T surprise me!!! ). I was surprised because, #1) it's not out yet, and #2) technically, "ACoS" is being released as an "EP," and I've never seen an EP reviewed in such a magazine before. While I'm thinking of it, one thing of note: "Awake" was released on East-West records (division of Atco), while the article lists "ACoS" as being released on Elektra.....is "A Change of Seasons" also "A Change of Labels??" Hmmmm.... Anyway, for those of you who might be interested, following is the entire text of the review, reprinted without permission of GFTPM (Which, BTW, is THE best Guitar-oriented magazine in print, IMHO). [My comments are in these brackets]. ****************************************************************** [Taken from October 1995 "Guitar For The Practicing Musician"] DREAM THEATER - A Change of Seasons (Elektra) PERFOMANCE: From a serious epic to light cover tunes HOT SPOTS: "A Change Of Seasons," "Funeral For A Friend," "Achilles Last Stand." BOTTOM LINE: The two faces of Dream Theater revealed. Here's something different from Dream Theater: their first large-scale epic, "A Change of Seasons," plus a whole batch of groovy cover tunes. The title cut kicks off with lilting, baritone-sounding arpeggios that segue into a thrashy overture with lots of DT trademarks: odd-meter rhythms, dark, minor-flavored passages, and the vicious power riffing of John Petrucci. Stylistically, this isn't much of a departure from DT's standard fare--just a lot longer. The musicianship of Petrucci and his bandmates is stellar as usual (there's one stunning instrumental riff in the middle that delightfully blasts off into the chromatic ozone), though if you weren't a fan before, this probably won't convert you. Really, "A Change Of Seasons" is a love letter to the band's loyal cult of fans, in effect thanking them for the years of support. No doubt, the Theaterheads will go gaga for this epic, much the same way Rush fans went berserk over the side-long "Hemispheres" back in 1978. The cover tracks, on the other hand, show a lighter side of the band. Gone are the minor-key shadings and the overly dramatic vocal posturings of singer Jamie [The author's typo, not mine] LaBrie; instead, you'll hear faithful covers of such tracks as Elton John's "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers," in which Petrucci absolutely _KILLS_ during his solo. Equally exciting is their take on Zeppelin's "The Rover" and "Achilles Last Stand," which has another barnburning guitar break. [ It seems like the author of this article LOVES Petrucci, but doesn't care too much for LaBrie...which means that I only HALFway agree with him. ] Less successful is the medley of "Carry On Wayward Son," "Bohemian Rhapsody," Journey's "Loving, Touching, Squeezing" (now you know why the singer sounds like he does), The Dixie Dregs' "Cruise Control," and Genesis' "Turn It On Again." These latter performances are perfectly fine and you can see why they would go over well in concert, but as small snippets of famous tunes they don't seem to have any purpose in a pre-recorded format. The full-length Purple and Zeppelin tracks work far better. Ultimately, no matter how you slice it, this Dream Theater disc is simply a gift to their existing fans. And when you hear the band playing simpler, more straightforward cover material so successfully, you'll realize that it's food for thought, too. Check it out and feed your head. --- Pete Prown [From this last paragraph, I think Pete liked the disc as a whole. I DON'T think he realizes that this is supposed to be an "ACoS" _EP_ and that the covers are basically just bonus songs] ****************************************************************** Hope you all found that to be interesting!!!! Later....I'm BEACH-BOUND for the week!!!!! Craig -------------------------+--------------------------------------------- S. Craig Caldwell |"Every day sends future to past Trident Data Systems | Every breath leaves me one less to my last." Fairfax, VA | - John Petrucci | ("Pull Me Under" - Dream Theater) -------------------------+--------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 21:01:40 -0600 (CST) From: "DR. TEETH" To: email_address_removed Subject: ACOS Japanese Release... Message-ID: Again, I'd appreciate it if I could get some help in obtaining the upcoming Japanese release of A Change of Season. I've heard the arguement that this is unethical because it will keep The Theater from touring the U.S. but hey! The news is out! They're not going to tour for this release. I'm sure it could be said that SOMEHOW I'm hurting the future U.S. touring possiblities, but this is SUCH a minute little drop in the bucket that I can live with the guilt. ;) I mean, sure you can have you opinion, but I have mine. And that's that. Okay, enough about politics!!! (I can't stand the subject, personally.) I'm just here to beg for some help finding that Japanese release, so if you can help, please e-mail me directly. If there's enough demand (as I am expecting there to be) then post it if you wish. Thanks again! .-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=. | ______ "Hmmmmmmm..." ____ ______ - David Peterson - | | /\_____\ /\ \ /\ /\___\ /\_____\ email_address_removed | | / /___ / / \/ / / / /\ /_/__ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| | / /\__/\ / / / / / / / / /\____\ "The most beautiful thing that | | /_/___/ //_/___ / / /_/___/ / /_/____ this world has to offer is a | | \_____\/ \_____\ \/ \_____\/ \______\ woman's smiling face" - Me | `-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 22:17:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Shaft To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: JP in SF Chronicle Message-ID: Actually this reminded me of something. There was a John Myung on my floor last year. Just thought i would let you know. Ed On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Younis Youssef Hilal wrote: > I just wanted to let everybody know there's some guy called John Petrucci > living in San Francisco. Apparently, he got burned up about something in > the Chronicle editorial section and sent in a response. Either that, or > it was a Petrucci fan who didn't want to give his name away. > I don't know if anybody else cares, but I haven't run into anybody with > the same name as any of DT's members. > > Younis email_address_removed > > > > Ed Polzin WWW: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~polzin/ email_address_removed email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 23:18:17 -0600 (MDT) From: BERTAPELLE ADAM RAYE To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: a funny story Message-ID: When I got Awake, listening to it the first time through, I got to Innocence Faded, and miner along with my friend's reactions was "This sounds kind of Bon Jovi-ish. That was, of course, before the jamming outro. I could understand the naive statement; thank god I've seen my wrongdoing (BTW, I love the song now!) -Adam ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 939 *************************