YTSEJAM Digest 998 Today's Topics: 1) Cygnus UPDATE! by Michael Bahr 2) Re: Fates Warning by James Peele 3) Stuff by email_address_removed (praxxix) 4) Japanese "Images & Words" by Masa Daigo 5) Re: YTSEJAM digest 997 by JIMMY 6) DT Date on LI by James Lutz 7) Subsribe by Edward Ip 8) Re: A "Nice" Little Review by "Jonathan Byrne" 9) Did you hear?? DT is coming!!! by Timothy Adams 10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 996 by email_address_removed 11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 997 by JIMMY 12) My Story. by email_address_removed (praxxix) 13) Lords of Sound by Dan Kidney 14) an unforgettable night by email_address_removed 15) DT Boot CDs by Michael Backof 16) Under A Glass Moon by email_address_removed (praxxix) 17) New Gary Hoey CD by email_address_removed (Edward Ju) 18) Stuff by Mad dog 19) vacation's over by "R. Hailey" 20) YJ #997 by Steve Borzilleri ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 22:01:35 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Subject: Cygnus UPDATE! Message-ID: NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY: RUSH - CYGNUS UPDATE for 9/30/1995 NOTICE: INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE: I am now email_address_removed NOTE: I have sent out ALL CDS ordered through TODAY! If you mailed it and I have received your mail, your CD is going, going, gone! On its way to you. So guessing approximately, anything sent up until Friday is probably enroute to you. Also, a scant few CDs turn up lost or delayed from time to time, I will endeavor to solve that problem ASAP if you let me know! Hi all! It's time to update y'all on the CD project. I have finally received my shipment of the Rush CYGNUS CD, a CD with an incredible sound board show from the mystical Hemispheres tour, on it. And I guess I will go ahead and take orders for it... if you like, you can email a reservation before you send your check or MO. Here's the info: Rush "CYGNUS" Recorded at: TCC Arena (Convention Center Arena) Location: Tucson, Arizona Date: November 20, 1978 Source: 2nd gen of original soundboard reel, transferred to 48kHz DAT and mastered to CD Quality: See notes below. Track Listing: Anthem A Passage to Bangkok By-Tor & the Snow Dog I. At the Tobes of Hades II. Across the Styx III. Of the Battle Xanadu Something for Nothing The Trees Cygnus X-1 Book One: The Voyage Cygnus X-1 Book Two: Hemispheres I. Prelude II. Apollo III. Dionysus IV. Armageddon V. Cygnus VI. The Sphere Circumstances A Farewell to Kings Running time 72:52 I did a pre-order project like this for the Dream Theater mailing list a few months back and it worked out very, very well. Any of you who want a reference or voucher for me, direct your question at any DT fan who is on the Ytsejam list, and I'll let their judgment be the Word. How to order: (PLEASE ALLOW 3 to 4 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY.) -A lot of you might have forgotten about this. Since I'm caught up to today's orders for mailing, it's not likely to take quite this long anymore. Send a cashier's check or money order (made out to me) to: Michael Bahr Limelight Music 3175 N. Price Rd. #1066 Chandler, AZ 85224 Note: I'm just a humble fan with a project going, not a store or CD warehouse... the dealers and mailorder places can give way better prices on other common boots so I don't have or sell any of them. Limelight is what I put on my business license so that I could pay sales tax, thus nobody would ask how I was getting all this money to deposit and why I'd dump thousands at a time into CD production. :) The price is as follows: $25 US - base free - postage within the USA $1 - postage to Canada $2 - postage to anywhere else So it would cost $25 to send it to Humble, Texas... $26 to send it to Lakeside Park... and $27 to Geleen, Holland. There are around 70 copies left... get 'em while they exist! :) A note on quality. It has come to my attention that a lot of people were expecting quality comparable to Rush's live releases (ATWAS, ESL, ASOH) or comparable live albums of the 1970s. No bootleg can compare to these. Even the best of them, Rush's Oakland '92 performance, a digital soundboard, sounds flat and hollow compared to the three live albums. Cygnus is no exception to this: it does _not_ measure up to the three live albums. But!! I will stake this claim here and now and defend it until the day I die: The sound quality of Cygnus is superior to 99% of all Rush bootleg recordings. Since I own over 1000 Rush shows on tape, I can make this claim with some degree of accuracy. :) It's a legit soundboard taken on an analog reel, manually, in 1978. Those factors weigh in when considering the quality. There are also three dropouts on the master tape that I cleaned up as best I could, usually by fading into them. Be aware of these things when you order... so far people have usually been happy with it (all the boot collectors are having a field day with the comparable quality) but those who were expecting quality like that of the 3 live albums have been disappointed, every single one of them. And that's no fun. Now then, back to ordering via cashier's check or MO. Why use a cashier's check or MO? Besides the fact that they can't bounce, they are traceable both ways. You know that if you don't eventually get a CD or a refund, I'll be in deep shit. :) It's really the safest way to buy, as I myself have been burned in net dealings before, I do my best to alleviate those fears where my projects are concerned. Actually, I don't mind personal checks really... I just recommend the MO or CC because it leaves that paper trail and is totally safe, and if I _didn't_ recommend MO or CC, you'd all have reason to believe it was a scam of some sort. So while a personal check is OK with me, understand that a MO/CC is the best way to buy. PLEASE! When you send the money order, TELL ME that you're ordering the Cygnus CD. Most of you are already doing this, I just wanted to make sure you all knew, as I am still working on Acoustic Dreams, as well as taking the early pre-orders for the next Dream Theater CD. Also, be sure to include your email address. It's quite hard to get ahold of you if something goes awry, without it. :) A note on the CD LABEL: It does not say the word "Rush" anywhere on it but all the songs are labelled correctly (Anthem, The Trees, Hemispheres, etc.) and it says "Cygnus" rather prominently. Dont let this nuance of labelling throw you off. A lot of you are already familiar with this, but before the Italian Cd companies started legally making boots in 1991, all boots produced in the USA could not bear the band's name on their labels. Look at Rush boots like "Through any Window" and "Nassau '82".. on the record labels they have fake band names and song names. I just put the real song names and "Cygnus" and left Rush off, since I didn't want to complicate things any more than they already were. It _IS_ the Rush show from 11/20/78 and it is already well known here on the net, if a bit scarce. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to email me or call me at (602) 777-0501, between the hours of 6pm and 11pm Pacific time. I'm sorry that I don't have an answering machine (as this is my home line, it's mainly available to all of you as a courtesy) but if I'm there, we'll chat. I do have classes these days so I may or may not be there. I do have work and school like the rest of you, after all. I *WILL* answer it if I'm there, that much I will definitely promise you. If you miss me entirely and want *me* to call *you*, I will do so if you leave your number in email. Please understand that it will probably be brief as I'm a starving student with a phone bill. :) Thanks all! -Mike Bahr, email_address_removed "All sweeping generalizations are bad." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 01:35:41 -0400 From: James Peele To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Fates Warning Message-ID: Wow! I am excited about the new Fates Warning! I love "Inside Out" but I was a little disappointed by it (except for "Monument" which must have been written by God). After 'Parallels', I expected the band to take a left turn and try to re-invent them selves. It did not happen with "Inside Out". I think of "Inside Out" as the b-side to "Parallels" (with the obvious exception of "Monument"). Ever notice how the lyrical metaphors of "Life In Still Water" and "Pale Fire" are different metaphors for the same thing: Stagnation. Reading the lyrics to "Leave The Past Behind", "Life In Still Water", "The Eleventh Hour", and "The Road Goes On Forever", it seemed that a left turn was eminent. It seems like it will finally happen. Damn, I am psyched about the new FW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jay Peele For info on INFERNO, E-mail: email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:44:20 -0700 From: email_address_removed (praxxix) To: email_address_removed Subject: Stuff Message-ID: Greetings o, Ytse-Jamming ones, Anyone watch Strange Luck on Friday? IMO that's a great show. Especially the part near the end where the innocent guy was in the electric chair and the other two guys were trying to get there in time to stop the execution, and in the background Live's "Lightning Crashes" was playing. Does anyone besides me think that that was an amazing sequence? As for DT, they still kick as much ass as they did yesterday. Bye. Ben Laussade ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 14:55:00 +0900 From: Masa Daigo To: email_address_removed Subject: Japanese "Images & Words" Message-ID: Michael Backof wrote: >> Images And Words, 1993, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) LP, CT, CD >>Images And Words, 1993, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) >>Need a catalog # (mine is a copy) No, it's wrong, the correct one is: Images and Words, 1993, MMG Inc. (Japan) CD only (AMCY 438) ...and... Another Day, 1993 ATCO 7567-96013-2 (Germany) CD Single Another Day (Album Version) 4:22 A Fortune in Lies (Live) 5:10 Another Day (Live) 4:25 Another Day, 1993, ATCO Promotional (USA) PRCD 5090-2 CD Single Another Day (Album Version) 4:22 Take care, Masa ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:30:53 -0400 (EDT) From: JIMMY To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 997 Message-ID: BAFU VAI, What the hell possesed you to come up with those idiotic lyrics. You're the MERCY FUCK you ASSHOLE. Get a life LOSER. Stop wasting my time with your bullshit letters. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:56:46 -0400 (EDT) From: James Lutz To: email_address_removed Subject: DT Date on LI Message-ID: > I just heard from a guy who heard it on the radio that DT will be playing > Malibu on Long Island. > > That's all I know, he didn't catch the date. I'll try to find out more. I heard that the date was Dec. 28, but i would check with the club to be sure. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;: ; Ytse' Jim : "Seize the Day", I heard him say, ;: ; University of Hartford : Life will not always be this way, ;: ; email_address_removed : Look around, Hear the sounds, ;: ; email_address_removed :Cherish your life while you're still around ;: :;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:16:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Edward Ip To: email_address_removed Subject: Subsribe Message-ID: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Edward Ip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email_address_removed Follower of Eddie Van Halen http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~edwardip Guitar RULEZ!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Office of Student Life, University At Buffalo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 11:57:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Byrne" To: "YtseJam" Subject: Re: A "Nice" Little Review Message-ID: I'm so glad that good ol' objective journalism thrives in the desert! And I though my school's music reviews were biased. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "THIS LIFE'S NOT FOR WINNING, IT'S FOR FIGHTING AND FOR WARS," NO MATTER WHAT THE TRUTH IS, HOLD ON TO WHAT IS YOURS." -"HOLD ON", YES JONATHAN BYRNE WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 12:09:43 -0500 From: Timothy Adams To: email_address_removed Subject: Did you hear?? DT is coming!!! Message-ID: Hey all, Just thought I'd post this again, and again, an aga.......anyway, DT is coming to Connecticut on December 27th. Here is the scoop so far: The club is in New London CT and it's called the El-N-Gee. I stopped at the club yesterday afternoon when they were closed and spoke to the owner. I kinda volunteered my services to do all the flyers for the show and help him with the ticket sales. I have a lot of DT artwork on my machine so this will be no problem (remember the ytsecon??). I showed him the "Thank you" in the ACOS sleeve and he was mildly impressed. Then I showed him the pictures from the Ytsecon and he began to understand that I was serious. Well, he said he'd put me on the guest list and he'd reserve me some tickets if I thought anyone on the jam was interested in coming. He told me his club could hold about 500 people.....yea right, if we all shower that day we might not mind being shoulder to shoulder......anyway, he yelled at his ticket man and told him to call Monday and put the tickets on sale. I#ll keep you all posted as to when they actually go on sale and if I can hold a block of tickets for the Jammers. He said the price would be $10. The club is approximately an hour from Providence, RI and about 2 hours from Boston, MA. I#ll keep you all posetd.... Tim Adams ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 12:22:30 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 996 Message-ID: Ibanez does not make 7-strings any more, last time I checked. They're only available used. The JP signature model is a sixer, and furthermore, the only songs on Awake which do use the 7 are CIAW, Mirror, and Lie. I'm pretty sure about that. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: JIMMY To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 997 Message-ID: DECEMBER 28 at Malibu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 11:51:46 -0700 From: email_address_removed (praxxix) To: email_address_removed Subject: My Story. Message-ID: Greetings and Salutations, I figured it was time to post the story of how I got into DT. Once upon a time, in a land that's not too terribly far away, I read Modern Drummer magazine. In that magazine, there were a couple of Mapex Drums ads bragging about how this Mike Portnoy guy used there equipment. I didn't pay much attention. Then, a couple of issues later, Mike Portnoy got voted the best drumming performance of the year for Awake. I had to see what all the buzz was about, so I went and picked up a copy of Awake. As soon as I picked up my jaw off of the ground I went right back to the music store and got Images and Words. Well, there it is. See Ya. Ben Laussade Ben Laussade ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:22:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Kidney To: email_address_removed Subject: Lords of Sound Message-ID: Helloooo jammers! I figure I've lurked here for long enough and it's time to post. My roommate got me turned on to DT right after I&W came out and now I'm addicted. My roomie picked up "Mind Control" a few weeks ago, a boot with mostly stuff from the Japan tour and 2 tracks from a London show. It's sweet--lots of great improv material. I was checking out the insert and there's an order form listing other recordings--one of 'em is called "Lords of Sound", a 2 CD set from a '93 show. Does anyone have this? Do you reccommend it? please mail 'n' let me know. BTW--ACoS continues to rule. A kid in my dorm who, until recently listened exclusively to Rush (the band, not the large Conservative guy), just picked up ACoS on the advice of folks in a Rush newsgroup. I think we have another recruit... Keep jammin'! "All my life's been drained from me The end is drawing near" --Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 15:49:01 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: an unforgettable night Message-ID: Hello all. I am actually someone who is already on the jam, but because "I" wish to keep my real identity anonymous, I shall use another account. You will have to excuse me on that account, but I have my own reasons. I have something I'd really like to share with you all, about an experience I had last night (9/30-10/1). I don't know why I'm doing this, and you may think it's all rubbish, but that's ok. I guess I just wanted to get this out of me once and for all. Last night, my girlfriend and friends did something perhaps bad; we took in some shrooms. I decided that I was going to bring some cd's to listen to on my "journey." I pulled out some Tori Amos, Yes' "Fragile", and a couple of others. The last I put in (and actually became the first and only cd I listened to all night) was ACOS. You have to picture it- it's pitch black outside in this nature preserve in the back of my school, and we're all just tripping face and looking at the millions of stars. Very surreal. ACOS was fun to listen to- it didn't necessarily give me some drug-induced revelations about the world, but it was good listening. Some time later, after it had pretty much worn off of me, I was trying to deal with my girlfriend, who was still going strong (it was her first time). And she wished me to tell her stories, so I began to ramble on as best as I could about King Lear and Titus Andronicus (how's that for opposite sides of the spectrum?), and then she bade me to tell her a "happy story." So I began to tell her about a boy who was growing up so young and innocent, and he would look at the world with those callow eyes, and he would jst get pummeled by everybody and everything in life- he had someone special in his life, and one day, she looked him in the eye and said "I love you", and then "goodbye." Now, are we getting somewhere? Do you all perhaps see where this is going? Yes, my interpretation of the song may be quite "inaccurate", but I'm, afraid that may be irrelevant at this juncture. The story continues. I went on telling my how even after "she" left, "he" (our protagonist)was determined to build himself back up again. Gradually, it beacme a reality, and finally, he was back at the top again with someone special in his life again, and towards the end, he would sit back and think happily that although his life was ending (or perhaps just beginning), some other fledging was about to take the long path which we can call "life." As I was telling this story to my girlfriend, something else on a much more REAL scale began to dawn upon me. All my life I was searching for "her", the person who meant the most to me. When I was a little younger, I thought I had found her, but once I was away at college, during that time when one discovers his or her true friends, she basically told me "I love you, goodbye."Her being out of my life was perhaps the most difficult thing I had to go through (ironically, SHE goes to my school as well- a twist of fate, I guess). And yet, I knew I had to move on, and grow up. Somehow, somewhere along the line, I found someone who has evolved into the exact perosn I was looking for since God knows when, and she was lying next to me holding me tightly. To have this concept dawn upon me was so incredible. At this point, it wasn't the drugs talking for me, it really was my pure emotions.I swear to God, it was the greatest feeling I've ever had- no drug can nor ever will do that to me. I am fully aware of the fact that my sense of accuracy is questionable, but do you knwo what? That's ok with me. Firstly, we are all open to our own interpretations of music (although I actually concur with the recent opinion posted back about how ACOS is more like a "rebellion against religion", as I'll call it), and secondly, it's just nor all that relevant. I'd just like to say that ACOS (directly or indirectly I'm uncertain) did something HUGE to me. Thank you all, and if Mr. Portnoy happens to catch this, THANK YOU!. Please do not reply to me personally, as i will terminate this ASAP. Put it on the jam. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:44:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Backof To: Ytsejam Digest Subject: DT Boot CDs Message-ID: Hello Jammers, Several people have asked about the availability of boots CDs and how to get them. The guy I buy from is very reliable (I have ordered from him about 15 times) and he gets the orders back to me within 2 weeks in good condition. I am willing to do one order for people on the list. Here are the Dream Theater CDs I can get: Consciously Unreal 2CD (USA 1989, 1992 Charlie on 1989 vox Charlie singing Metropolis The Dance of Eternity 2CD (New York City, USA Limelight 3/93) Original A Change Of Seasons, Eve, To Live Forever Tragedy 1CD (New York City, USA Limelight 3/93) Comedy 1CD (New York City, USA Limelight 3/93) Lost in the Sky 2CD (Milan, Italy Paridiso 11/93) OAMOT, Afterlife, To Live Forever, Eve A Kick into a Dream 2CD (New York City, USA 10/28/94) TOWHTSTS, most of Awake Majestic Harmonies 1CD (Stockholm 10/27/93 & Majesty demos) Wake Up 2CD (Japan PPV Show 1/24/95) most of Awake, instrumental jam Mind Control 2CD (Japan PPV Show 1/24/95/Acoustic Holland 95) **Notes** 1. Tragedy and Comedy are the same show as The Dance of Eternity, except they are split into two different packages. 2. Wake Up and Mind Control are the same show except Mind Control has bonus Holland Acoustic 1995 tracks. 3. Majestic Harmonies contains some of the Majesty demos are filler. 4. The sound quality of The Dance of Eternity, Lost in the Sky, Wake Up, Mind Control, Tragedy, and Comedy are all excellent for boots. 5. A Kick into a Dream and Consciously Unreal have really good sound quality for a boot, and I haven't heard Majestic Harmonies. 6. I can provide set list information on Wake Up, Lost in the Sky, The Dance of Eternity since I own these. Ordering: 1. I will be accepting orders until October 31st by e-mail at email_address_removed The CDs will take 2 weeks tops to come back once I get the money so If I have all money in by November 7th I can have the CDs to you by November 24th. 2. Pricing - This is going to depend on the number of orders since I can get a price break the more I order. Initially the prices are as follows: 1CD set $26 2CD set $45 This price includes priority mail shipping in the USA, if you are ordering from another country e-mail me and we will work out shipping prices. If I get more than $200 in orders overall the price of the disks will decrease. I will let you know when I confirm your order, they will probably drop to 1CD $23 and 2CD $42 respectively. 3. Payment - Send money orders only to the following address once I e- mail you with the amount of your total order. Michael Backof 1894 Uniontown Road Westminster, Maryland 21158 USA 4. If you have any questions and comments please e-mail me. Later, Mike Backof email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:47:39 -0700 From: email_address_removed (praxxix) To: email_address_removed Subject: Under A Glass Moon Message-ID: Hi, At about 1:08 in UaGM when Mike P.'s got the sixteenth's going on the bass drums and hittin' the snare on two and four, that thing just takes off! But when he switches the snare hits to one and three it just kind of ruins the whole effect. Agree? Disagree? Possible new thread? Ben Laussade ******************************************************************************** "Would you like to buy a monkey?" David Letterman from "Cabin Boy" ******************************************************************************** email_address_removed Ben Laussade ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:39:11 -0700 From: email_address_removed (Edward Ju) To: email_address_removed Subject: New Gary Hoey CD Message-ID: This may be a bit off topic, but I just saw Gary Hoey's new CD at Best Buy yesterday. He's on Surfdog Records now (probably his own label) and the new CD is simply self-titled (Gary Hoey). Gone are his rhythm section from the his first two albums, now replaced by Nick South on bass and Frankie Banali on drums. Tony Franklin returns on the first track "High-Top Bop" and additional keyboards were done by Lori Weinhouse. This is still a guitar instrumental album, so fans of the genre that Joe Satriani popularized should definitely check it out. I am listening to it for the first time right now, sorry I can't review it yet. But I like what I hear so far. Eddie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:53:13 -0700 (MST) From: Mad dog To: ytsejam Subject: Stuff Message-ID: A response to a bunch of things by a bunch of different people: 1) A lot of people got into DT through PMU because thats the song that has gotten the most radio play (I would assume so at least...). PMU is a very good semi-radio-friendly song. Personally, i like _Metropolis_ much better, but I is a much different song, maybe a little too different for someone who isnt into that type of thing. 2) Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I bought the same ACoS as the rest of ya. Listening to LaBrie sing Zep hurts. I also really like Queen, and I don't really like James singing that either. In SOME places, I think James does a little better than Elton John, but overall, I think Elton has more emotion. James has almost nothing in his voice for the Genesis, and Roger Waters just does so well on PF's _In The Flesh?_ that James can't touch it. Give me James singing _Surrounded_, _To Live Forever_, _Voices_, ect and he's incredible, but the covers... no. 4) I know Jason Fickett, and I think that for the most part, he has great music taste. He likes alot of quality music, and is open to hearing new stuff. He doesnt quite have the respect for DT that I do, but... Anyways, I don't see what is wrong with his review. Yes, I did just say that. He didn't like the CD, so he gave it a bad review. If someone gave me something I didn't like to review, I would have no credibility if I gave a glowing review. I probably would try to point out some of the good points, but if i didn't like it, I wouldn't say that I did. What would be the point of writing Fickett saying that you love ACoS? You're not gonna change a thing. The 1000+ people on this list personally wrote me saying that they love how James sings on the covers, and how I'm not a real DT fan, or a real James LaBrie fan because I don't, I wouldn't bow to the pressure and develop a love for how James sings there. 5) I love Dream Theater. Really. 6) I borrowed (thanks Fernando) _Structural Damage_ by the Steve Morse Band (Dixie Dregs guitarist) amd it's pretty cool... A "Mad dog shaven head bottle boy Freak" aka John Haveman --------------------------------------------------------------- "You know that they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?" "Really?" said Arthur. "No, I didn't. For what offence?" Trillian frowned. "Offence?" "I see." - Douglas Adams, _Life, the Universe and Everything_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:15:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. Hailey" To: digest Subject: vacation's over Message-ID: well, I recently finished reading all the Posts From the Summer (all 2700 of them, approx...)( you may think I'm mad, and you're probably Right but at least I won't be trying to start a Thread Concerning Hair...) (not in the Near Future, at least...) happily, I chanced to Pick Up my copy of ACoS even Without the help of Fellow Ytsejammers to tell me when It came out and, even more happily, thus missed the Opportunity to be Driven Mad by all those Pre-Release Reviews... :) now, (here's the part where it gets Long) my views on ACoS... on my First Listen, I was Disappointed. that Marching Snare (or Piccolo Snare, or Tin Can, or Whatever) hit me First Off and I thought it was because of the poorness of my stereo System...I found out I was mistaken... I still don't know what to Make of it -- it really Sticks Out (good? bad?) I think I'm used to it Now and I notice that it just Demands airdrumming... :) (actually, one thing my bro and I noticed on LiT was that Most of the Time it was Impossible to tell whether or not he was Actually Using a snare... and Maybe that's why this Thing is there) I distinctly heard Sherinian miss his Cues and come in Late in several places although I admit that those Places are no longer So Obvious to me The slowness of James' singing Really Bothered me... I'm used to it now, though I still do Think that a certain Intensity has been Lost Derek's Clean Piano Sound really rankles me...it just doesn't Rock and reminds me rather of a Barroom Piano...or something I *really* miss the Excluded Verses, esp the 'I stood outside...' bit but I do agree that it No Longer Fits within the Context of the song I think that's enough Slag for one post now for the Good Stuff... the intro is Good and Appropriate I'm gratified to be able to hear Myung a Bit More Easily (sounds as though they Thinned his Tone) and I have a Question for bassists: is that a Tapping Pattern under 'the snow has now fallen - ff' or what? it sure sounds Bloody Good I love the three Sections (in pt.IV) where the instruments take turns Doubling the Drums (though Derek's sound is Odd right there...) I like the way James speaks the "preparing for the flight - ff' passage (and yes, I do miss [and sing] the "Please Don't Go!") big Sigh of Relief that 'mercy fornification' was not included (even Bigger one, that 'massive act of fornification' wasn't :) ) now about the Covers... the Sound Quality is Astounding on these... I love LLB/FfaF...hard to choose between That and the Original (I don't think my mom noticed it wasn't Elton John when I played it for her) PS is pretty good...I Actually Heard it on KISW in Seattle (granted it was on Metal Shop at 1:30ish on a Sunday... :P ) the Zep medley is incredible... out of Curiosity I listened to the Original Studio Versions and DT absolutly Crushes, Stomps All Over, and Buries the originals... (and I mean that in the Nicest Possible Way, all you ZepHeads...) it started out as my Least Fave and is now one of my Most Faved The Big Medley is sweet... the only Sour Part for me is BoRhap because it is not done So Well. Derek comes in Late, *with* the Wrong Piano Sound, and then... well, Petrucci just doesn't do Brian's solo Justice...sorry guys... aside from that, the BM is Great and Beautiful and I gotta go my next post will probably dissect the Album Art, so Be Prepared! chris every grinch can find true meaning l r.christopher hailey all your moves are up to you l -0- l email_address_removed echolyn 'letters;a short essay' l__ _.. _. _ .. . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Borzilleri To: Dream Thespians Subject: YJ #997 Message-ID: Gotta do it. > Hey Bafu, > Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines inequity as > 1: INJUSTICE, UNFAIRNESS 2: an instance of injustice or unfairness. > You need a new dictionary bud. Not a flame. Just picking up the > ball where it dropped. > Bracken Hey Bracken, Let me begin by re-stating what my p.s. began with. "For those who remember," ie if you weren't around the Ytsejams when I deciphered all the lyrics to ACOS and corrected a lot of crazy things people had written in, you probably won't understand why I included that p.s. in the first place. I am aware "inequity" is a real word. That's how I translated James' singing from the live shows I had to work with. However, a lot of people e-mailed me directly after "the big translation" to tell me (1) I couldn't speak English, (2) I needed to get a new dictionary, (3) "inequity" isn't a real word, (4) please stop posting non-real phrases that don't exist because you're cluttering up the jams with bullshit, etc. I was being sarcastic in my p.s. by displaying to those Angry Ones the actual lyrics and re-stating what they had all said to me, thus adding, with a big smile on my face, and without words, that Mike Portnoy seems to agree with me after all. :) Bafu Vai ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 998 *************************