YTSEJAM Digest 948 Today's Topics: 1) mailing list by Jeff Perrot 2) DT window stickers.. by email_address_removed (godfather) 3) Re: ACoS CD for sale... by email_address_removed 4) Jam Shirts by euan@waikato.ac.nz (Euan Kilgour) 5) ACOS/KNAC (some DTC) by email_address_removed 6) Trivia, Metallica by email_address_removed.de (Steffen Barabasch) 7) Re: Petrucci's REH Instructional Video by Brandon Vaughn 8) ACoS UK release date by Andrew S Moore 9) Mike Portnoy Drum Clinic in Houston! by "Brian V. Cox" 10) Perfect Strangers by email_address_removed (Paul Beresford) 11) Re: A Change of Seasons CD for sale.... by email_address_removed 12) Acoustic Dreams? by Rob Weychert 13) ACoS question. by PRETTY VIV MACHINE 14) Review of ACoS... by email_address_removed 15) A couple fave moments, etc........ by email_address_removed 16) Santa Claus re:#947 by email_address_removed (Brian K. Diefenderfer) 17) Trivia by email_address_removed (David B. Kuznick) 18) .wav files of DT by email_address_removed (Trey Allen) 19) Re: YTSEJAM digest 945 by "GENE (IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING) SZUCS" 20) Dream Theater by Ben Kobashigawa 21) ACOS release in Canada by Darren Freed 22) Mind Control by "GENE (IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING) SZUCS" 23) stuff by Ben Kobashigawa 24) Fun @ Circuit City (SDTC) by email_address_removed 25) Random Stuff by "Ryan P. Skadberg" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 95 23:16:53 -0700 From: Jeff Perrot To: email_address_removed Subject: mailing list Message-ID: Dear sirs, Please add me to your Dream Theatre mailing list. Also, please send information on the Dream Theatre fan club. Thanks, Jeff Perrot ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 21:53:16 -0700 (PDT) From: email_address_removed (godfather) To: email_address_removed Subject: DT window stickers.. Message-ID: I received my DT window sticker a couple days ago, and I must say I'm a little disappointed in the quality of it. If I could explore the WWW graphically, I could have seen it, but alas, I couldn't because I have a shell account and can't get SLIRP or TIA to work. Anyways, it didn't look very good quality-wise, with, for instance, the way curves are drawn with lines instead of smooth curves. I don't know if that made sense but you that have gotten these stickers know what I'm talking about. Also, I thought the Majesty symbol was more circular. I'm not asking for a refund, as I admire this guy(s) want to put out something for all the DT fans. Just call me a sticler for quality stuff, which explains my extreme like of DT. :) I'm sorry if I sound like the bad guy here, I hope nothing bad comes out of this.. Ryan uhm, a DT fan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:59:46 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: ACoS CD for sale... Message-ID: How much? -Hairball ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 17:05:32 +1200 From: euan@waikato.ac.nz (Euan Kilgour) To: email_address_removed Subject: Jam Shirts Message-ID: Is Jason printing more? I have had numerous offers to buy mine. There's this guy who has an awake shirt but went green when he saw mine - he thought he had everything. Ha ha ha! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 01:29:19 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: ACOS/KNAC (some DTC) Message-ID: I stopped in Strawberries Music last night, and asked what the ACOS release date was. My friend who works there looked it up, and told me he had the date as the 19th. Well, I'll save myself the trouble of driving over there by making a phone call. =) (Then again, I've gone out to buy a few albums on their release date, and the people working there have had to open the boxes up... ) BTW: Anyone know the name of the producer(s)? >KNAC (the recently deceased local heavy metal station) Ah, yes! Long Beach, CA. For those of you not familiar with that station, you really missed out. Whenever I was in LA, that's about the only station I listened to. It's like all Hispanic programming now, from what I'm told. And it's a shame that such a great station had to fall by the wayside. :( When I heard about it being sold, I took my "KNAC - PURE ROCK" window decals and turned them upside down in mourning. Happilly, I do have pictures from Foundations Forum of KNAC stuff and the memories of drinking with the station's Program Director, back in '93. =) (Can't remember his name, however...) -Hairball, that audio type, former YJLHB member/co-founder ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:39:21 +0200 (MESZ) From: email_address_removed.de (Steffen Barabasch) To: email_address_removed (Ytsejam - the Dream Theater mailing list) Subject: Trivia, Metallica Message-ID: Hello again! Just read all the DT-info I could find in the German mag "Rock Hard". One thing was the review of ACOS. The first time a DT-release did NOT get a 10 (out of 10) but just a 9. Of course that's just because of the cover tunes ;-)... oh I don't know what LatM did get, maybe they aren't fans of live recordings ;-) Then there was a short feature in the news section with the usual blah we all know, like that ACOS is just an album for the fellow fans and so on. But one thing was that: a) The sales of Awake were more as twice as high as the ones of I&W in Germany and the Netherlands, b) they got triple gold in Japan (don't know which album, maybe all together), c) the US sales were just enough that they won't be dropped (200,000 of Awake, about 400,000 of I&W). And then you're asking why they aren't touring to support ACOS! They just don't like to ruin themselves, it would be too risky to start another tour. But another album isn't that bad either, isn't it? ;-) Hell, I'm wondering who will produce the next album! My vote goes to the Awake-team, everyone else would be compared with these guys. But well, I think they know what they are doing... Really unimportant stuff coming up! Just read the answers to the trivia questions. Here's another band which used the main theme from "America": Metallica on the black album ("Don't tread on me", one of the better songs on a more or less boring album). BTW: Why does everyone like Master of Puppets most? I think the overall best album ever was Ride the Lightning. The german song is named "Der Kommissar" and this guy called Falco came from Austria, but who cares for THIS anyway...? Again the Wayne's World question. Just a few weeks ago I watched it with that in mind. During the concert there's no close-up, but you can see him playing keys and wildly banging his head, very funny ;-) I'm not sure, but I think that you can see him for approx. 0.2 secs on the after show party. Mostly hair and some part of a face - that's not that long, I think. I don't know if it could be Derek, it's just a short flash. The scene I'm thinking of is the moment where our two protagonists are just entering the party room. There's one guy in the foreground who turns his head and that's it. Oh well... Bye, Steffen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 08:45:27 CDT From: Brandon Vaughn To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Petrucci's REH Instructional Video Message-ID: I called Warner Bros. last week about that sucker, and it seems it won't be out for about 3-4 weeks. Maybe they are trying to do a double release with ACOS? Who knows. I guess Petrucci mentioned it since the GW magazine was the October issue. But the way magazines are, we read about it in September and are thrown into a major frenzy because of it. Unless another Jammer hears about it (or gets it) before I do, I'll post when it is available and how to get it. Jamming on, Brandon Vaughn ****** email_address_removed ******* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:37:54 +0100 From: Andrew S Moore To: email_address_removed Subject: ACoS UK release date Message-ID: Hi, The UK release date of ACoS is officially 18th Sept. This date was printed on the UK Channel 4 teletext, and was allegedly taken of the press release. Also I have just been to Our Price records and asked, and they have on their computer that is is out on the 18th. 7 days to go!!!!! can't wait... Andy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:17:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brian V. Cox" To: email_address_removed Subject: Mike Portnoy Drum Clinic in Houston! Message-ID: i just found out about this yesterday. mike portnoy is doing a drum clinic on wednesday, 9/13/95, at 6:30pm. location is "millenium" on fm1960 3 miles east of I-45. tickets are **$1** in advance, $2 day of show. pretty reasonable, eh? ;) i will be there even though i am a guitarist. the commercial for it on the radio was pretty cool. says he will be doing the clinic, a q&a session, a solo, and signing autographs. it said cameras (pictures) were ok, but i dont know about camcorders. too bad mine ate shit and died. i might try to borrow a pro camera if they will allow it. the place holds ~1000 people, so that shouldnt be a problem. the general location of the place is 20 miles northwest of houston off of interstate 45. anyone wanting to hook up let me know via email or phone. my phone # is on my web page if you *really* want to call ;) later... **always looking for rush/dream theater/queensryche/king's x bootlegs** ============================================================================= Voices repeating me, Brian V. Cox Voices discussing me, "Feeling threatened? email_address_removed "Others steal your thoughts We reflect your hopes Dream Theater- They're not confined and fears." A Mind Beside Itself: II. Voices Within your mind." ============================================================================= check out my new homepage: http://tam2000.tamu.edu/~bvc8995 ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 95 12:04:11 EDT From: email_address_removed (Paul Beresford) To: email_address_removed Subject: Perfect Strangers Message-ID: <7B2E5430016C1173@-SMF-> I'm not sure but I was listening to 102.1( ZROCK) Detroit and on the radio they were playing Perfect Strangers and it definitely wasn't Deep Purple. The voice sounded just like James and the sound was D.T's but is it possible that this is D.T's version of the song because it was a great version and I would love to get a copy of this. Does anybody know , if so please let me know and how to get this. Thanks and later, Paul Beresford ( email_address_removed ) lead vox and keys for JESTER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - If I close my eyes would I be blind to all I see who am I fooling "it's me" I deceive.............( JESTER's song "Lies") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:59:45 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: A Change of Seasons CD for sale.... Message-ID: Hi, I've already received a number of responses from people who are interested in the ACoS promo CD so there is no need for anyone to send more replies. BTW, for those that asked, I did not get this promo CD for free (I wish I *did* get free promo CDs!) -- I asked around at some stores and finally came across a place that was willing to sell two of them at regular CD prices. I'm asking $20 (which includes shipping) so I'm really only making a few dollars on it. I hope no one thinks I'm out to make a mint or something. You should try asking at stores in your area too -- you never know. :-) Steve -- Steve Chew - email_address_removed - http://www.clark.net/pub/iz/home.html "The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom." -- things children say... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:45:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Weychert To: email_address_removed Subject: Acoustic Dreams? Message-ID: Hello all, While I had access to my school account over the summer, I didn't read the Ytsejam that often because I just didn't have time (thank God I'm back at school and can relax! ;) and since I've been reading them regularly lately, I've seen people talking about Mike Bahr's Acoustic Dreams CD. What I want to know is: Did ordering and production already take place? When Mike first introduced this CD idea, I was really excited and couldn't wait to get my hands on the CD. I'm really hoping that I didn't miss my chance! :( Mike or anyone else who knows, if you read this, please E-mail me if you have time and let me know what the scoop is. I would appreciate it greatly. :) --ROb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:06:37 -0400 (EDT) From: PRETTY VIV MACHINE To: email_address_removed Subject: ACoS question. Message-ID: i hate to keep asking this but i really would like to know. does the American version of A Change of Seasons have all the covers that appear on the Japanese version? i hate to be anal-retentive about this but i just have to know. thanks for your time and patience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. The Viv This VivMail has been brought programme, vox, bassoon, to you by VivNet. Group Indiana Univ. of PA email_address_removed "He is the frog of all frogs. There is none higher." --Butthead on Peter Gabriel. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:59:35 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Review of ACoS... Message-ID: As I promised earlier, here is my review of the ACoS CD. Overall, it's great! :-) I especially enjoy the new introduction to ACoS and the vocals sound much better than on the live version (and the backing vocals add some nice texture). I'm not particularly fond of the crunching guitar sound, but other guitar sounds are used as well, so there is nice variety. I now know why no one replied when I asked if my favorite part of ACoS (the part at 15:00 in the live version) was still in there. :-( It's not really there, though pieces of it are still used. That was pretty disappointing for me. Why they took out that cool jam, I guess I'll never know. Sigh. As I listen to it more, I'm getting over it though. ;) The middle section of the song is very strong, especially the vocals. I'm listening to that part now. Cool! Anyway, I really enjoy the disc -- the covers are all very good too. I think it's wonderful that DT would put out a release like this mainly for their fans. It shows what a cool band they are. Thanks DT!! Steve -- Steve Chew - email_address_removed - http://www.clark.net/pub/iz/home.html "Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." -- Saint Augustine ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 12:35:43 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: A couple fave moments, etc........ First of all yet another huge THANK YOU! to Mike Bahr on Cygnus, it's simply awesome/enthralling, fill in your own superlatives... To add to the Favorite DT moments thread 1) The section of Scarred from "Do you feel...." through "Sometimes i feel i should face this alone...." (~5:00-6:30) sometimes brings tears to my eyes 2) Approx. from 4:00 to 4:30 of Bombay Vindaloo, especially the last ten seconds....I don't know how to describe it in musical terms, but it hits me *right there* 3) The Instrumental section in the middle of "A Vision" (from the Majesty Demos)--I like that section enough to vault the whole song into top 5 status when I make up a Favorite DT songs list On the flip side: 1) I don't particularly like UaGM--it's the one song on IaW that just never hooked me.....I know exactly what the guy who talked about 'cycles of liking some songs' means, but I guess UaGM's number hasn't come up yet 2) When I see mention of the IF outro here, I feel sorta left out, and wonder if I'm listening to the same song as you are....another section that has never struck me as PARTICULARLY awesome...... 3) The song Afterlife form WDADU--after great verse lyrics, like the "Running like Mice through a maze" line, the chorus is a huge disappointment and just killed the song for me One last thing: As I said above, "A Vision"is on o' my fave DT songs, even if they weren't exactly DT at the time....Has the band ever done studio versions of the songs from the demos, or are there any bootlegs out there including "A Vision"--I'd love to hear a LaBrie sung version of that song..... Partha Mukhopadhyay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:41:56 +0600 From: email_address_removed (Brian K. Diefenderfer) To: email_address_removed Subject: Santa Claus re:#947 Message-ID: David G. Swanston, IV wrote: >BTW, does anybody else think of Santa when they hear the intro to >Metropolis? Actually, it makes me think of "Christmas with the Devil" off of Spinal Tap's 'Break Like the WInd'!! Dief... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 13:35:30 -0400 From: email_address_removed (David B. Kuznick) To: email_address_removed Subject: Trivia Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 19:56:29 -0700 > From: email_address_removed (Randall Braun) > >>>What other group played a song by the same name as that of the above > >>>mentioned piece by KE/Nice? Although this song has the same name, it > >>>was compsed by which other contemporary artist? What is the historical > >>>significance of this song? > > Yes did a cover of Paul Simon's "America". This is the first song recorded > by Yes with Rick Wakeman on keys; it first appeared on an Atlantic Records > ('The Age of Atlantic', I think it was called) compilation album, and later > was included on Yes' 'Yesterdays' album, which otherwise is a best of Yes' > first two albums (+ some B sides). It was also released in a shortened form > as a b-side. Someone suggested an even closer tie betweeen Yes & West Side > Story: I don't know, but would appreciate the info. Answer time: Yes released a version of "Something's Coming" around the time of the first album. It can now be found on the YesYears Box Set. > >>>New Trivia questions: > > What band did Rick Wakeman play with before Yes? The Strawbs. New question: What album(s) did he appear on? Another Wakeman question: What's his favorite Mellotron part he ever played? What was the complete > original name of that band? Hmmm... The Strawberries? Which short-term member of this band also made > a guest appearance on which Led Zepplin song? Sandy Denny on "Battle of Evermore" What band was this person > most closely associated with? Fairport Convention David Kuznick - email_address_removed (preferred) or email_address_removed So storm through the barricades and raise your hands up high All of you pull down your walls, help those too scared to try Don't let them tell you it's only a dream, for never to dream is to die. Don't close your eyes. - "For Your Eyes" - ARAGON ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 15:51:05 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Trey Allen) To: email_address_removed Subject: .wav files of DT Message-ID: For the guy who asked and anyone else, I have some .wav files of DT on my homepage. Check 'em out! http://junix.ju.edu/UsrWebPages/tallen/home.html Trey Allen ____________________________________________________________________________ "...the Miracle and the Sleeper know that the third is love; Love is the dance of eternity." (John Petrucci of Dream Theater) Trey Allen - email_address_removed - http://junix.ju.edu/UsrWebPages/tallen/home.html _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:03:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "GENE (IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING) SZUCS" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 945 Message-ID: I saw Stabbing Westward on their first tour last year opening for Depeche Mode (yes, Depeche Mode). . . Their rhythm section was really intense (drummer especially) and their keys player was just nuts! I have passed up buying their disc for a while, should I go get it? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 18:17:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Kobashigawa To: Dream Theater Subject: Dream Theater Message-ID: The address for Dream Theater is 701 Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey, CA The phone number is 1-408-372-1331. Any one could have found it, just dial a directory service. I went to Tower records the other day, and looked up on their list of releases-to-come. Surprise,surprise, A Change of Seasons was not on the list. I asked the clerk, who checked up on his handy-dandy computer, and there was nothing about a Dream Theater release arriving in the future. Nor was there a recent release. Nor did they have the demo. What is up with this? Any similar results aside from Tower and Musicland? Perhaps we should complain to them. -Jun-Dai Bates ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 16:22:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Darren Freed To: email_address_removed Subject: ACOS release in Canada Message-ID: The local HMV here in Edomonton said that the release date for ACOS was sept. 26, so maybe it's just you guys in the east. Anyways, I have a copy of the Sub. CD for sale. I am going to start the bidding at $25 US, since that is what I paid for it. Please E-mail me directly. My address is: email_address_removed.ca later, Darren ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:33:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "GENE (IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING) SZUCS" To: email_address_removed Subject: Mind Control Message-ID: Hey, I was just looking at CDNOW, and they offer Mind Control, which i have never heard of (includes acoustic set). Anyone got any clues? You guys might have discussed this already, but i kind of just got back from t he summer, so I might've missed it!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:38:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Kobashigawa To: Dream Theater Subject: stuff Message-ID: Braveheart rules!! It may not be entirely historically accurate (it's not, I checked), but the battle scenes are excellent, and he does a braw Scottish accent. The real test, though, will be what the Scots think of it. Desperado rules the world as well. The scene where he's walking towards this guy and brushes hand through his hair and pulls out a gun- I didn't know anybody could be that cool! Apparently a movie version of "Evita" will be coming out, with Madonna and Antonio Banderas. I can't wait!!! Sorry for the random movie comments, they needed to be expressed. I eagerly await Sept. 19th. -Jun-Dai Bates ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:08:53 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Fun @ Circuit City (SDTC) Message-ID: >Please add me to your Dream Theatre mailing list. Also, please send >information on the Dream Theatre fan club. "Not until you learn to spell it right, PAL!" hehe...j/k! Anyway, I finally broke down and bought myself car stereo #3. =) Hopefully this one stays around... *Fun At The Electronics Store* - by Hairball (Contains SOME DTC!) Went to Circuit City (hey, they're the cheapest around here...) and (of course) brought Awake with me. =) I popped it into the car stereo display, and another sales guy came over, wondering who was playing DT...heh...I bought the stereo, paid for it, and went back & chatted with him for a while. (I had about an hour to kill before they got it in) He got busy, so, I wandered around for a while. Finally, I went out, they took the car in, I signed, they went to work. Back into the store again...I went to the music department, and asked the guy what release date he had for ACoS. He didn't have it. We talked about DT - I heard him playing Tull earlier - and I actually convinced him to let me put Awake in the stereo system. =) He also got on the phone (at my suggestion) and called the retail rep (who I also know), and was going to try to get a promo copy of the CD in (I asked him to try for two...hehe...). By the time I left, he said he would probably buy Awake. =) Another sale success story! =) -Hairball (ex-YJLBH) Audio type & unoffical pusher of DT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 23:21:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ryan P. Skadberg" To: email_address_removed Subject: Random Stuff Message-ID: First lemme say that you all suck who have gotten promo ACOS CDs. I tried my local import/used CD store and they didn't have it. I even asked :( Second, lemme just say a word of thanks to everyone for visiting my Dream Theater Site. I am planning on doing a complete make over of my Dream Theater pagessoon, so any input would be greatly appreciated. The Stickers just rock. I love em. Check em out on my Dream Theater Page at http://www.dreamt.org. Last but not least I wanna say, Brian Wherry is a Guitar God. :) And he's even being nice enough to give me lessons, so I can be as cool as him someday. Think that's it for now. Talk to you all later Skadz -- =-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_= | | "Seize the day | | Ryan P. Skadberg | I heard him say | | email_address_removed | life will not always be this way | | System Administrator | look around, and hear the sound | | Blue Sky Inc. | another time like this can't be found" | | | "A Change Of Seasons" - Dream Theater | =-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_= | My home page: http://www.bluesky.net/skadz | | My Dream Theater Page: http://www.dreamt.org | | Pages I have designed: http://www.stream.com | =-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_= ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 948 *************************