YTSEJAM Digest 968 Today's Topics: 1) Yet-another-ACOS-review! by Corporate Community Relations 2) A Change of Seasons by email_address_removed 3) Re: Mr. Bungle by email_address_removed (The one they call Jeff) 4) Derek's keys by email_address_removed (The one they call Jeff) 5) Covers by Mike Patrick 6) Re: Watchtower by "BRENDEN R. THOMSON" 7) Re: DT interactive by polzin edward george 8) YKYAADTFW... by "Christopher R. Merlo" 9) ACoS by "John R. Kotzian" 10) ACoS, etc. by Tim Jensen 11) DT & Elektra by 12) INCREDIBLE by email_address_removed 13) Re: Points of general interest... by SaVeur 14) Random Thoughts... by "Brian K. Adams" 15) Journey/DT Stuff by email_address_removed 16) RUSHY RUSHY RUSHY R U S H by China 17) Re: Petrucci Rig on ACOS by email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) 18) DT Content is marked with *'s by email_address_removed 19) Re: YTSEJAM digest 963 by email_address_removed (Lars Hellsten) 20) ACoS is NOT slow! by SaVeur 21) ACOS and First Time w/ DT by Jeremy Peter Lakatos 22) Battle of the Crimsons by email_address_removed 23) More on ACOS by Ramin Miraftabi 24) Voices in ACoS by email_address_removed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 21:43:52 EDT From: Corporate Community Relations To: email_address_removed Subject: Yet-another-ACOS-review! Message-ID: I'll keep it short n sweet. ACOS roolz! I love the new version and it's getting mega airplay on both the car and home stereo. I feel great to have been a part of the "voting" process which we on ytsejam drove to get EastWest to fund this project!! I would like to see someone drive a "thank you DT" project as a follow-up. The cover tunez are novel, but my old band played the same stuff and I think we did it better. Then again, DT plays the DT songs better than we did! 8^) Happy rails, .... Buck .++++++++.\ -- .+++. .+++++++++++++++.\ ... .+++++++. .+++++++++++++++++++++.\ .+++++. .+++++++++++. .+++++++++++++++++++++++++++. .+++++++++. .++++++ William J. Buckley, Jr. +++++++++++++++++++. .+++++++++++++...++++++++ email_address_removed ++++++++++++++++++++++. ----------------------------- email_address_removed --------------------------- ----- Support an American Tradition ... RIDE MORE ROLLER COASTERS !!!!! ----- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are my own. They are not expressed on behalf of, nor are they associated with, my employer Digital Equipment Corp. or any specific non-for-profit organization I have affiliation with. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:15:47 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: A Change of Seasons Message-ID: Time to delurk again... Yesterday was the day. Overall I'm very impressed. A few things I noticed: The intro is incredible. I like how it starts mellow then suddenly... bam! The old opening riff is now played only acoustically. The part where the piano plays over the heavy riffs sounds really cool. The first vocal harmonies (innocence caressing me) are haunting. Also the part where James first sings the line and then speaks the line. Too cool. The swirling screams in the background are a nice effect. My biggest complaint is probably the part where it's just drums and keyboard and Derek plays this jazzy-almost-circusy tune. (12:50ish) It just doesn't fit, man! But I guess he "makes up" for it with the kick-ass-almost-up-to-par-with-The-Kevin-Moore-in-my-opinion solo in the Inevitable Summer. Nice indeed. And not to mention that HUGE sound right before the keyboard solo. Effects like these, when used sparingly, can add to the overall effect of a song. Another cool thing to do is to listen to ACOS with the pitch a little higher so it's sped up a little. Just like Subconscious, man! Yeah! I didn't really care for the new unstructured, bluesy(for lack of a better word) section right after Another World. I've noticed DT uses this style more often nowadays. You know, where the other 3 instruments play the same thing again and again underneath either a keyboard or guitar solo. They used this style quite a lot on Awake, too. I definetly prefer the structured, I&W style- The dual key/guitar harmonies, the intricate melodies, etc.. Also the bellsy piano part at the end just keeps repeating and repeating. I'm not used to this much repetition from DT. Again I'm just nitpicking an otherwise killer tune. They still rule. Deebor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:21:54 -0400 From: email_address_removed (The one they call Jeff) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Mr. Bungle Message-ID: >(and to all you progressive rock fans with seriously sick senses of humor, >mr. bungle's new album _Disco Volante_ comes out oct. 10. for the unbungled, >the debut album is the most obscene, hilarious, and musically brilliant >avant-circus-jazz-funk-prog-metal-fest ever. for us bungle fans, oct. 10 >will be pottie time.) Finally....another Bungle fan. For the people who like Faith No More and think Patton is a lunatic when he sings for them...you ain't heard nothin yet. This album is the craziest thing to be put out in years. This stuff makes FNM's music look sound the opening to Mr. ROdgers Neigborhood. A must have. Truly psychotic. Later ________________________________________________________________________________ Jeff Forte email_address_removed "All these mistakes you say I've made, got me more laugh-lines than things that felt right" --Neds Atomic Dustbin "We are secrets to each other, each ones life a novel no-one else has read; even joined in the bonds of love, we are linked to one another by such slender threads" --Rush ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:32:04 -0400 From: email_address_removed (The one they call Jeff) To: email_address_removed Subject: Derek's keys Message-ID: Im listening to ACoS now and it just reached the major change at 18:35 which is IMO the best part of the song. But up until this point I was dissappointed with the keyboards but the solo that follows this change is amazing. I hope he plays like this more often Later ________________________________________________________________________________ Jeff Forte email_address_removed "All these mistakes you say I've made, got me more laugh-lines than things that felt right" --Neds Atomic Dustbin "We are secrets to each other, each ones life a novel no-one else has read; even joined in the bonds of love, we are linked to one another by such slender threads" --Rush ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:37:25 -0400 From: Mike Patrick To: email_address_removed Subject: Covers Message-ID: >Well, I must say I'm impressed with the studio version of ACoS, but was >expecting more out of the cover tunes. I honestly expected the boyz to >interpret these classic songs with their own style, not play them >note-for-note like the original artists recorded them. If I wanted to hear >Love Lies Bleeding/Funeral For a Friend as it was orginally recorded, I >could play "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." Considering that they probably learned the tunes in less time than it takes us to get dressed in the morning, you're lucky you got what you got. Besides, Mike goes nuts on the Elton John stuff, so that's worth the price of admission right there. Mike Patrick email_address_removed Still searching for that elusive corner of the Net where civility is all the rage and the content is substantive. Ah, screw it. Who am I kidding? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:43:43 +1000 (EST) From: "BRENDEN R. THOMSON" To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Watchtower Message-ID: > notes. I noticed that they gave thanks to the band Watchtower. I've heard > I figure if DT is giving them thanks maybe somebody here would know > something about them. Anybody have the album _Control and Resistance_ , or I'm pretty sure they're a technical kind of thrash outfit. Technical - a bit like DT hey? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:54:08 -0600 (CDT) From: polzin edward george To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: DT interactive Message-ID: there is no way that you can run the program if it not unzipped. Just a little info. Ed > > To all of you who have trouble running the DT interactive because of > "memory problems," you probably didn't "unzip" it. PKZIP is the program, > and it's all over the net. Once you get it, read the directions. This is > for the PC version, not Mac. > Fern > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:07:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Merlo" To: Ytse Jam Subject: YKYAADTFW... Message-ID: ...you see a license plate that reads "5DT92" and you think it's really cool. Too bad it wasn't a NY plate! -Chris *************************************************************** * Christopher R. Merlo |8^)= * * The University of Vermont, 211 Jeanne Mance Hall * * Burlington, VT 05405 U.S.A. * * "Bill, strange things are afoot at the Circle K." * * -Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure * *************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:09:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "John R. Kotzian" To: email_address_removed (Ytsejam ) Subject: ACoS Message-ID: Hey guys. This ACoS talk is old news! I've had a copy for 3 weeks now. Can't we talk about something else??? Just kidding. Please continue..;) -John P.S. BABS, I need to talk to you about your YtseCon, but every time I try your address, it boubces back to me. Please contact me! Thanx. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:31:42 -0700 (MST) From: Tim Jensen To: YTSEJAM Digest Subject: ACoS, etc. Message-ID: First of all, I want to invite everyone to check out my home page for a rendered image of the Majesty symbol. The URL (for those of you who skip over my .sig) is . Comments, suggestions are welcome. Flames will be ignored. Second, I and two of my friends went to the local Zip's Record Exchange (on Speedway for those of you living here in Tucson) and bought the last three copies of ACoS left yesterday. I must say, it is a masterpiece! I'm listening to now for the fifth time and I still can't believe how great it is. Words can't explain my awe! Lastly, someone mentioned having trouble with DT Interactive on the Windows platform. Someone else mentioned setting the video to an 8 or 4 bit graphics mode. He was right. I switched over to the generic VGA driver and was able to run it. Laters all! -Toast .===================#==================================================. [ --+-- o +. .+ [\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ ] [ | | \/ | [-\-----\-----\-----\-----\-----\-----\-----\-----\] [ | | | | [ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ ] `===================#=[ Home Page: http://east.pima.edu/~tjensen/ ]====' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:30:53 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Subject: DT & Elektra Message-ID: I was browsing around and found a DT page at the Elektra Records cite. According to ACOS, East/West is still a part of Atlantic. What's the deal? ---------------------------------------------------------------- "FAITH IS A CRUTCH, WELL WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU." -BRUCE HORNSBY JONATHAN BYRNE WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:42:47 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: INCREDIBLE Message-ID: I am a silent bystander on this list, but I just wanted to say ACOS is INCREDIBLE! The whole album is great and I was ecstatic to hear COWS by ny all time favorite group. I wish James would have sang. He could have done justice to the vocals. The song ACOS is an extremely cohesive and enjoyable piece. Kansas, Yes and DT are the only three bands that I have seen pull off these lengthy pieces succesfully. Sincerely, J. Butler ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:03:48 -0400 (EDT) From: SaVeur To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Points of general interest... Message-ID: On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Michael Bahr wrote: > * The cover concept is Portnoy's, but who drew it? It looks like > the art of Rob Alexander, best known for drawing covers to fantasy novels > by Jordan, Feist, Weis/Hickman, and for art on Magic: The Gathering cards. it doesn't look like a drawing to me. it looks like 2 separate photos merged into one: the background, and the kid sitting in a sandbox. if you look really carefully, you can see where the sand meets the snow. it could also be 3 photos. that sky is looking awfully suspicious. and of course the rose is drawn. of course, i could be wrong :) > * Anyone want to take over the discography? Damn, I've let that > thing get dated. Let me know. no thanks ;) > * We need a vote! I've got the next few CDs planned out. I am > moving the release of When Dream and Today Unite forward just a bit (how > far is yet to be determined) and postponing Death of a Dictionary until whoohoo! i'll get back to you about a name. > * If you have 23 odds and ends on a table, and 22 of them fall off, > what do you have left, an odd or an end? neither. you have an even. > * It's been a long game and you've got 1 life point left. Your > opponent's Rack will kill you during your next upkeep if you don't win > now. She is at 3 life. She has a swamp, Drudge Skeletons with Unholy > Strength on them, and a Hypnotic Specter with Unholy Strength, Creature > Bond, and White Ward on it. To make things worse, she has out Circle of > Protection: Red and a plains. You have a Farrel's Zealot, a Serra Angel, a > Tawnos' Wand, 2 mountains, and a plains, and you have in your hand only > two cards: Chaoslace and Lightning Bolt. Kill your opponent before the > end of your turn or you lose. What do you do? seek psychiatric help...fast. > * The band photos on the ACOS liner are excellent. Also, the poor > young boy on the front seems to have the great misfortune of being a > double-amputee below the knees. If I'm wrong, then where the hell are his > feet! He's sitting smack flat in the snow. he's sitting on them. ie. his feet are under his butt. [huh huh he said "butt"] > on the CD itself would have IMO made a better cover, but I like the cover > they _did_ use. It's less dark and menacing, and DT needed a bit of a > refresher there after LATM and Awake, and the gothic IAW cover. i also noticed that the ACoS disc is lacking the Majesty symbol. WDaDU doesn't have it either (at least my version, on Mechanic, doesn't). i can't find my LatM so i dunno bout that one. > * I talk too much. nah :) ::::::::::John C. Jens, Jr.:::::::::::::::::::"You could make a choice,:::::::: :::::::::::email_address_removed:::::::::::::::::::::but you never learned to think.":: ::http://www.site.gmu.edu/~jjens/:::::::::::::::::::-Fates Warning::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian K. Adams" To: email_address_removed Subject: Random Thoughts... Message-ID: Hello all! I'm going to assume that all of you have been as excited as I have recently to get that adrenaline rush of buying a new Dream Theater CD. I just got ACoS just like the rest of you and have a few random thoughts about that and some other stuff. * ACoS..........One word, Masterpiece! * Derek's Playing- I have noticed one major difference (not necessarily good/bad) is that Derek plays like a keyboardist, Kevin played in a style that closely resembled a guitarist (not always, but most of the time). I am still getting familiar with Derek's choice of synth voices but I'll get used to it * I agree totally with Michael Kizer. I feel we as the mentioned "online Ytse-Jammers have an obligation to thank DT for not only releasing the material for us but thanking us in the liner notes. Let me know Michael, I support your motion. * And Lastly, to the guy asking about the Mesa Boogie Tri-Axis preamp. Yes, very cool unit, but there are also many other things to consider in a tone like JP's. He is also using very expensive very excellent sounding additional processing (i.e. Lexicon, T.C. Electronics). I personally use the ADA MP-1 (which you can pick up for around $450 now that they introduced the MP-2) (even cooler). I use the ADA with seven other rack devices which I won't go into anymore detail about here (not the place) but if ANY of you want to discuss theory, DT, or guitars/tones/effects mail me. (sorry for the ramble, I work at a guitar/music store...It's my job) Lost among thousands of Garth Brooks near Athens, Ohio (SAVE ME.....PLEASE) Brian K Adams (Yes it's me again and that is my real name) (Sorry for the length and the overdose on Parentheses)))))))()()()()())))))())()()( I cant' stop! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:17:31 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Journey/DT Stuff Message-ID: >6. I don't care for the Journey song. Or Love Lies Bleeding. Heh, ya wanna know how I found the Ytsejam? I was on the Journey List-Server for a while. When Perry's album "For The Love Of Strange Medicine" came out, I was among the first (and one of the few) to rip it to shreds. It sucks. Luckilly, I wasn't alone in this opinion - but, I kept talking about how great DT was, so, someone finally got annoyed enough with me to tell me how to subscribe to Ytsejam. =) (and how to unsubscribe from the Journey list!) Anyway, How I Got Into DT: (Sorry if you've heard this before!) I forget when this was (maybe sometime in the late spring of '92), but, I was hanging out with my radio partner. He slips me this tape, "Images & Words" by Dream Theater, with the words: "Listen to this band: They sound like Rush." I popped it into the boom-box on the back seat, and listened to it. I thought the first side was damn good. Then, I put on Metropolis. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: That song nearly caused me to get into an accident. =) I told Mike this, to which he replied: "Driving while listening to Metropolis should be illegal ...definitely brain damage material." Anyway, suffice it to say that I made it a personal mission to convert everyone on this planet to DT fans. I did this via playing at least one DT song from that album every week for about a year. I also coerced my partner (who was the metal director when the station had one) into reporting DT in his top 5 for many months; phone interviews, playing the death out of everything I could get my hands on...etc. (For which Jim Pitulski thanked us. You wanna talk about one of my proudest moments in life?) So, here I am! =) Oh, incidentally - as for those who were wondering about how close to the original DT's version of "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" is? Well, it's damned close. I doubt Gregg Rollie played the same piano fill every night...or Jon Cain. And, Cruise Control is incredibly close to the original. It should be pointed out, however, that as a veteran of cover bands, I like it when musicians add their own flair to things - the only guitar solos I bothered to learn were "Crazy Train" (out of respect for Randy), and "Everything About You" by UKJ...for no real good reason - it was just so damned simple, why not? =) Anyway, I don't care if everything's perfect - they're covers. Have fun with 'em, I say. =) -hairball ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:35:20 -0400 (EDT) From: China To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RUSHY RUSHY RUSHY R U S H Message-ID: Can anyone post the setlist for the Rush bootleg, "Rush 'n' Roulette 92?" I'm interested in getting it. ****************************************************************************** Brandon "TIME WILL NOT DIM THE GLORY OF THE HAJJ" email_address_removed "No one can hear when you're screaming in digital" - Queensryche ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:44:38 PDT From: email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Petrucci Rig on ACOS Message-ID: On the Eve of Destruction, email_address_removed said: >Hey dudes...dudettes...im back..... > >Does anyone know what kind of guitar preamp Petrucci uses on ACOS (does >he still use the Tri-Axis, and if so how does he get so much gain from it), Yes, he's still using the Tri-Axis.. I believe it's in the Mark IV lead mode for rhythm... the sound also has a lot to do with David Prater's production, he's very strong on guitar production. >I have a Mesa-Boogie DC-3, and i was wondering if anyone can reccomend >a preamp (under $600) to get that Petrucci tone (i cant afford a Triaxis), i >was considering driving the DC-3 with a Mesa V-Twin, would that be a good >idea?, ok well later all.... > You can get an ADA... it's not quite a Tri-Axis... but it probably is the most similiar. That would be the ADA MP-1 with Mesa tone tubes. >Thunder -- #$%*#$*@ REAL: email_address_removed + VIRTUAL: email_address_removed *@#$*@#$ *$%&%#$* The Dream Theater Archives: ftp.netcom.com: /pub/dr/drkhoe/dt &*@#$*@$ **%^$#$% WWW: "ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/dr/drkhoe/www/dthome.html" #$**@#*$ *$*$*$*# Reality Enhancement Software - Engineering Reality *$&#*#@$ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:53:30 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: DT Content is marked with *'s Message-ID: >Someone asked about the Dregs. YES, they are that good! Particularly >a live album they did a couple of years ago called _Bring 'em Back Alive_. I will wholeheartedly second this recommendation for this album. It's QUITE amazing...and the fact that it's live is even more astounding - there's not ONE note out of place. And Rod Morgenstein (yes, Winger's drummer) is COMPLETELY in his element here. His drum solo is actually interesting to listen to, compositionally speaking. And yes, Cruise Control is on that album. (is it ever!) [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ >My name is Damon. I am a D.J. I have played several really long songs, >over 20 minutes... I used to play the entire "Third Side" of Extreme's III Sides To Every Story. *'Matter o' fact, the night I interviewed Kevin, the 2nd song in the trilogy *was about 4 minutes away from ending when he called. He said, "Oh, *definitely wait until this song's over. We listen to that CD on the bus all * the time." *Ever notice the odd parallels between AMBI & that Extreme thing? =) *As I said before, I think "Awake" shows what they'd been listening to *on the bus. =) And there was one other one. I used it only in dire emergencies, because I don't think it's all that good - Manowar's "Triumph Of Steel..." whatever that first cut's called...it's around 29 minutes long...and boring. But, hey... =) -Hairball ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 95 16:22:49 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Lars Hellsten) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 963 Message-ID: yt> email_address_removed.ca (LAU JONATHAN) To: ... yt> Get this... There are 3 music stores at my local shopping mall. yt> I couldn't find ACoS at the first 2 stores I walked into. The staff yt> said that they've never even heard of Dream Theater before. I was Wait a minute. You're going to the UofT Scarborough campus. I live in Scarborough as well - would this happen to be the Scarborough Town Center you're talking about? Because they happen to have 3 music stores there, and it sounds like you're talking about the same sales guy (although, I've seen DT albums in the other music stores there). Only, I walked into HMV first (I assumed Music World and SAMs wouldn't have it). yt> section. It was $13.99 CDN. I was so excited. I was telling the ... yt> an alternative band?". I say, "Well I really can't describe them yt> but they're sort of like Metal and Progressive Rock." He didn't yt> look too interested. He looked disgusted. Then he tells me that Hahaha... :) It MUST have been the STC you went to! If so, I was the FIRST of those 4 people. I walked in, asked him "Do you have 'A Change of Seasons' by Dream Theater? It was supposed to come out today...", and the guy seemed pretty uninterested and said "yeah, wait here" and went and unpacked the boxes, etc. He didn't say anything else, and had this disapproving look on his face. Maybe because it was like 10:00am and he thought I should've been in school or something... $13.99? Where DID you buy it? The HMV I went to had it at $17.99. I didn't mind paying that, since I knew it was either that, or run all over the city looking for a copy. If you got it at the same HMV I did, I'm gonna go back and complain to them and ask for my 4 bucks. ;) yt> What?! Hasn't anybody heard of Dream Theater before. I mean... yt> they only sold 4 ACoS CDs all day?! Oh well. Well, don't forget, people that aren't on the 'net might have no idea what it is or that it was being released today. 4 CDs isn't THAT bad, I'm sure most of the CDs that aren't new-releases don't sell that many. It's not like it's a full-length album, so I suspect only the hardcore fans would buy it... -- |Fidonet: Lars Hellsten 1:250/320 |Internet: email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:58:19 -0400 (EDT) From: SaVeur To: email_address_removed Subject: ACoS is NOT slow! Message-ID: ok, i was thinking about how everyone, including me, thinks that ACoS (EP version) is slower than the Subcon or DoE or wutever version. thing is, the EP version is not slower. really. the truth is that the versions we're used to are FASTER than it was written to be. ie. live, things tend to get sped up. not rushed, just slightly faster than the album version. i know this happened with the shitty demo i played on 3 years ago. course, DT *are* musical gods and they *never* speed things up/slow things down. *always* 100% accurate tempo and beats per minute. then again....i'll shut up now. time to get rid of this old .sig too.... ::::::::::John C. Jens, Jr.:::::::::::::::::::"You could make a choice,:::::::: :::::::::::email_address_removed:::::::::::::::::::::but you never learned to think.":: ::http://www.site.gmu.edu/~jjens/:::::::::::::::::::-Fates Warning::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 02:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Peter Lakatos To: email_address_removed Subject: ACOS and First Time w/ DT Message-ID: First, ACOS: I don't like a few of the changes, weakened lyrics, etc, and Derek doesn't seem to take as much of a role as Kevin (why did he have to change tastes? why? why? he was my favorite keyboardist and now he'll be making schlock. only 2.5 albums?? um, sorry about that), but overall I think it is a lost more atmospheric than the original, more moody. I got the other on tape which is okay I guess but I really wish it was at the START of the tape--easy rewind. I would have loved I&W w/ ACOS instead of Another Day and Surrounded, but I like the Awake in the new version better, I think. Kevin's hammond-on-acid sound, real drums, Eroto in Sunrise, Scarred-similarity in Summer, and am I crazy when I say I hear Space Dye Vest's sound in the intro/outro? I like the snare, mostly. If I get picky about it, it's not the best, but it's very similar to Tim Alexander's tight snare sound, which I love. So clear. Now, the tale of a DT heretic. I'll preface this by saying that DT is my favorite band. ACOS is still my favorite song (as it was when I heard the bootlegged version), topping even "Knots" by Gentle Giant--the perfect short progressive song, BTW--and each of the individual musicians (minus vocalist) dominate their instruments. Okay, I got I&W because I loved Queensryche and people on the net said if you liked QR you might like Fates Warning, and so I did, and then people said if you liked FW you just had to get DT. So I bought I&W from Columbia House. The first fifteen minutes or so were ecstacy (didn't have time to hate Another Day yet), but I started to notice that most of the songs seemed to wander. It really bugged me how the best parts, usually the bass parts found in the beginning of TTT, Metropolis, and LTL, were lost and forgotten in the rest of the song. I was used to QR who would keep the the dark parts strong (Mindcrime! ... sorry). I almost sent the CD back. I had to fight, listen to it many many times, program over Surrounded and then AD, but I kept the disk on the strengths in TTT, Metropolis, and LTL, learning to lighten up a bit. It set the stage for me to become a progrock fan. It was a struggle. Anyone else on the list begin by disliking DT? -- jeremy (email_address_removed) Through Nature's inflexible grace, I'm learning to die. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:26:34 -0700 (MST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Battle of the Crimsons Message-ID: Okay, the inevitable debate is already raging between my roomate and I: Which part of ACOS is better, Sunrise or Sunset? I have to go with the latter. The combo of James' vocals and the throttling drums make my blood boil. I know Sunrise is at a disadvantage (or am I misjudging my fellow jammers?) since it has to vocals, but people like my roommate might overlook this. Sunrise really pumps you up, but it just doesn't have the emotion, IMHO, that Sunset does. Also: does anybody know if Easter (the Marillion cover DT did for all of you non-freaks) is going to be released as a b-side to an upcoming single? I heard that the Perfect Strangers single in Europe is going to have the Dickinson b-side. One last thing: was Caught in a Web ever released as a true single? My roommate has the promo single, with just an edit and album version, but I remember during the Awake show, James said announced before they played it that, "We have a new single out. It's called Caught in a Web. And it's a shitty place to be." I've never seen it, though. ______________________________________________________________________________ Brian Gilbert "So I open the door to my enemies, email_address_removed, And I ask if we can wipe the where the 13 is for Marino, slate clean. the 7 is for KJ, But they tell me to please the 8 is for Ripken, go fuck myself. and the 4 is for B-$. You know you just can't win." 13 - 7 + 8 - 4 = 10 -Dave Gilmour 10 = # of UofA wins this year! "Lost For Words" PhreakBillyIamhavingaseriousidentitycrisisheresomebodyhelpmeEyoreDoodleFredB$ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:44:26 +0300 (EET DST) From: Ramin Miraftabi To: email_address_removed Subject: More on ACOS Message-ID: HI again to all of you! On ACOS: Is it just a production error or aare all the CD's back covers upsidedown in relation to the front? All the copies that I've seen are upside down... The Bohemian Rhapsody Cover on ACOS is good... I like, even though I'm a Die- hard fan of Queen... Best version of a Queen song that wasn't done by Queen, IMHO... On the Subcon Dub site issue: My stereo isn't that good but it should make a desent copy of subcon and if anyone is interested, I live in Europe, so... Ramin Miraftabi Steve Vai, Dream Theater and Queen RULE the world http://dawn.joensuu.fi/~ramin/ email_address_removed.fi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1970 03:04:54 -0600 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Voices in ACoS Message-ID: Hi again, Does anyone know exactly what the voice under James's 'whoa'ing from 9:48-10:08 is saying. I can pick up a little of it but not it all.... Also check out http://www.guitarworld.com/sep95/lessons/menu/le.menu.html It's the Guitar World Online Lesson page. It's got monthly lessons from John Petrucci with music, tab, and .wav files. Pretty cool. lates, dave P.S. as if i had to say... the times are from ACoS. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh come let us adore him, Abuse then ignore him. No matter what, don't let him be. Let's feed upon his misery, Then string him up for all the world to see. Mike Portnoy - ACoS: Another World ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I stood outside in the rain for us... I tried to work out all of the pain for us... I sat alone and took the blame for us... My mind has torn and gone insane for us... Mike Portnoy - ACoS (Subconcious) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 968 *************************