YTSEJAM Digest 1143 Today's Topics: 1) T-shirts by IKKLESTICK 2) Fan-Club Bootlegs by Michael Backof 3) Quote this? by Jeremy Lakatos 4) Musical Trends - Is Prog Metal the next big thing?!? by Michael Backof 5) Intriguing noise in ACoS/live trades by Dan Kidney 6) Re: Lie Quick Time Video? Help!!! by email_address_removed 7) Re: Moshing by the DT authority - A response by email_address_removed (Stacie Rosenzweig) 8) Re: Survey results... by email_address_removed (Stacie Rosenzweig) 9) Re: Moshing by borlangw 10) Lifting Shadows Web Page by Jeff Chew 11) Fucking IDIOTS! Where were you? :) by Jeff Hochberg 12) IRC - #ytsejam! by email_address_removed (Lars Hellsten) 13) Songs for DT to cover.... by Partha Mukhopadhyay 14) Metallica Question/AD/T-shirts by email_address_removed (Marc Contrady) 15) Official bootleg and fanclub ideas by email_address_removed 16) Re: YTSEJAM digest 1136 by email_address_removed (Spence) 17) ACK!!! IRC news! by email_address_removed (Ktulu) 18) Metalking (interperate it how you like) by email_address_removed (Ktulu) 19) RE: Trey's #'d comments by email_address_removed 20) ...and then I looked at Jam 1138 (skip this if you're paying for it) by Partha Mukhopadhyay 21) The Beatles by email_address_removed 22) The poll, and other things by Michael Bahr 23) Best selling album by Partha Mukhopadhyay 24) Re: Forwarded mail.... by Damon M. Fibraio 25) trivia stuff... by Bigman 26) Concept albums.......... by email_address_removed (Carlo D'Angelo ) 27) Umm.. God? by email_address_removed 28) Mike Portnoy at Drum Day LA - A Review! by email_address_removed (King Lerxt #1 @8851) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:06:34 -0500 (EST) From: IKKLESTICK To: email_address_removed Subject: T-shirts Message-ID: I know this might be kind of late to ask, but I was wondering where I might be able to get these Dream Theater t-shirts, the ones with the glow in the dark "Let the light surround you..." on it. E-mail me personally, please!!! Thanks...... Ikklestick ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 15:40:43 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Backof To: email_address_removed Subject: Fan-Club Bootlegs Message-ID: Hello Jammers, Someone brought up the fan-club bootlegs that Marillion does on their Racket label and said that this should be a pattern for Dream Theater to emulate in getting releases out to the public that would not normally be released by the record companies. I thought about this a while back and about 1 1/2 years ago I mailed Dan Sherman who along with his wife Dana handle The Web USA, which is the USA Marillion fan club. They distribute these disks to fan club members. I mailed Dan to try and get some idea how Marillion got into this business. I don't have the message anymore, but Dan said something to the effect of "the band had to negociate that into their contracts and EMI Worldwide(who was their primary label at the time) gets dibs on the recording first. If they don't want to release it, or have plans to release something similar in the future by the band, they let the band release the disks on their own label" For Dream Theater to do something like this, it would have to be negociated into their contract with Atlantic/ EastWest. I don't think there is a way the band can pull this off with the record company's approval right now, unless they have a mega-hit album with the new disk in 1996. Then the leverage to arrange something like this might be there. If I can run into Portnoy in Birch Hill I will probably ask him something about this. Jammers, try to let him know that there is interest in such a product if you run into him at a clinic or something. I'm sure Mike Bahr would be glad to get on such a product if possible. Later, Mike ************************************************************************ *Mike Backof email_address_removed http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mbacko1* * * *Unsigned & Indie Label Bands Page * *http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mbacko1/munsign.html * ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 15:56:26 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Lakatos To: email_address_removed Subject: Quote this? Message-ID: The answer to the following: "I see children with butterflies trapped inside jars Just girls and boys with real life toys I want to teach them to set them free And if it comes back it was meant to be" Is from The Last Things, "After....Birth." Very interesting, if a little unpolished, progmetal. Now here's an easy one. It's so easy that it's been running through my head all day and I can't place it: "For the first time in a long time everything was right in my world. Then I woke up." This is worse when I recognized the chord progression from Tiamat's "Kaleidoscope" from another song, but couldn't find it. Still can't. Anyway, here's a real quiz. Place this lyric: "Who hunter? Who victim? God love America He surely doesn't love him" -- Know Inform? I need a programmer for 10% of an IF game. PLEASE help. email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:08:47 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Backof To: email_address_removed Subject: Musical Trends - Is Prog Metal the next big thing?!? Message-ID: Hello Jammers, Something that Bafu Vai said (not again) struck a chord. I have seen quite a bit of good prog-metal pop up in recent years and I'm sure from listening to it that these people are fans of Dream Theater, Fate's Warning. Queensryche, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Metallica, Iron Maiden.... etc. Someone also mentioned Threshold and Ivanhoe, both are exceptional prog-metal bands! I can't see why any Dream Theater fan wouldn't like their music. I have a clip of Threshold on my WWW page and Trey Allen has sound files of Ivanhoe on his page. Some other prog-metal bands to look out for: Leger De Main - Rush and Dream Theater style band with a female vocalist very complex, and very cool. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago. You can get in touch with the band through my WWW page. Angra - Excellent melodic prog-metal with a great singer, strong musicianship, and above average (for a proog-metal band) songwriting. They even cover a Kate Bush tune for the classic proggers out there, though that cover is atypical of the rest of the album. I have a sound clip of them on my page as well. Inferno - Great instrumental work, lots of interlocking guitar parts that remind me of Fates Warning, lyrics that remind me of late 70's and early 1980's Rush, and they are starting to add some stranger spacy interludes. I am working on the homepage for this band with Jay Peele right now. I could name some more bands, but I'd be here all night.... Check out the page- http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mbacko1/munsign.html Drop me a note, say "this sucks", "this is cool", oh my God! you have my ultimate guitar god's e-mail address on here. I just love Bill Berend's Mastermind! (who may be opening for Dream Theater this Christmas) Featured Bands -------------- Anekdoten / Angra/ Auditory Imagery/ Black Jester/ Boud Deun/ Curious Works/ Divine Regale/ Elan/ Iluvatar/ Inferno/ Introspection/ Ivanhoe/ Kingston Wall/ Leger De Main/ Magellan/ Shadow Gallery/ Threshold/ Velvet Hammer/ Visionary I have discographies (if anyone can make these more complete, e-mail me), band member lists, comments (I am working on these), contact addresses (WWW sites for the band, e-mail links to their management, snail addresses), and some sound files. Later, Mike ************************************************************************ *Mike Backof email_address_removed http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mbacko1* * * *Unsigned & Indie Label Bands Page * *http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mbacko1/munsign.html * ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 15:23:52 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Kidney To: email_address_removed Subject: Intriguing noise in ACoS/live trades Message-ID: what the heck is that grinding sound at 18:35? Did someone turn on the garbage disposal during the recording session? Just wondering. Also, my roomie and I are dying to get a dub of the Japan 10/28/95 NHK hall show and/or of the Japanese PPV video from 1/24/95. Here's the live/rare/sorta almost kinda rare stuff we have: WDADU, Subcon, AD, AKIaD, Mind Control and TDoE. And what the hell, if yer into The Cure, I've got Entreat, Glastonbury '95, M and Carnage Visors/Curiosity Anomalies too. Pleeeeeeze mail if you'd like to trade or if you just feel bad for us. 8) One more thing--doesn't that monster bass guitar on Long Island Expressway just make you drool with joy? Mmmm. Yum-lick-shus. --YtseDan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:50:42 +0000 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Lie Quick Time Video? Help!!! Message-ID: > Hello all ye jammers! > > I have a very quick question here. I hope some one can help me out with > this. Okay. I downloaded this quicktime mov file of 'Lie' from Dream > Theater's internet www site. And now I'm running into a problem that my I tried downloading that one as well some time ago. Quicktime said the file was corrupted. Then, I downloaded it again just to see if I got an error while receiving it. I didn't. I guess the file is for Mac or maybe it's just a bad file format. My PC wouldn't play it at all. rq ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 17:09:37 +22299548 (CST) From: email_address_removed (Stacie Rosenzweig) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Moshing by the DT authority - A response Message-ID: > > Toxic Waltzer wrote: > > >As a DT fan I am surprised that more of you do not like moshing. Whats > >the whole point of seeing a band if you aren't going to do anything but > >sit there and watch? You might as well have bought their video. First of all, there is a difference between "moshing" and "sitting and watching." I don't mosh (I am female, but more on that later), because I find I can't hear the music when 10 people are piled on top of me. If I end up in a mosh pit, I'm paying more attention to not getting hurt and to the fact that I am moshing than to the music. I don't "sit and watch" either. I'm not exactly sure what I do, but I know sometimes I dance, sometimes I "let the light surround me," so to speak. > >Also anyone who gets injured while moshing is either: a) a pussy b) a > >wimp c) a girl (girls are excused). I am always in the dead center of a > >mosh pit and have never received a bruise in my career. Toxic Waltzer, I think you deserve a big, resounding "fuck you" from the women on the digest. To equate us with "pussys" (a sexist word I don't like) and "wimps" is obnoxious. (I lost the original post, so I can't reply to you personally...besides, I think the women on the 'jam deserve to see this) Besides, why would we get excused? Do women bruise easier? Do people in pits beat up on women? (Remember, we have to give birth.) And furthermore, if what you say is true, you've been in a benevolent mosh pit. I find it that too many people get the wrong idea about moshing, and tru to beat the crap out of each other. No, you don't have to be a wimp to get injured in a mosh pit. You just have to be in the wrong pit (I know some people who I would not call wimps who have broken nose, black eyes, etc. because of idiots in the pit.) Stacie email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 17:12:51 +22299548 (CST) From: email_address_removed (Stacie Rosenzweig) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Survey results... Message-ID: > > The following appeared in Ytsejam #1140: > > >> ______________________________________________________ > >> > >> The fourth question asked which sex you were. All but 4 were male. > >> > >> Amongst those four women, there was no agreement whatsoever about > >> favorite song or least favorite song. FAV's were Metropolis, LtL, > >> Scarred, SDV, Mirror/Lie, Least FAV's were IF, Afterlife, SM, Lie. > > >Only four women? Okay, lemmee guess who they were: > > >Jodi, Patricia, Jenniebear, Babs > Nope. One of them was me (I'm here, and I contribute occasionally). For the record, my favorite (that day, anyway) was SDV and IF was my least. Stacie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:59:07 GMT From: borlangw To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Moshing Message-ID: Ummm . . . when you talk about 'moshing', what exactly do you mean? Maybe I've been inadvertently confessing to crimes that I didn't commit. I got a lot of email from people who regard it as running into people, wreaking havoc, and making life miserable for everyone else. NO NO NO! That's not what I meant. I agree, there are a couple of dickheads at (almost) every show who do that, and it does piss me off. What I MEANT was, that I can't stand still. I have to move at least my head, and try and jump up and down a bit if I'm not being squashed too tight. Good music just gets my adrenaline going so much. Trying not to move would be like . . . umm . . . trying not to get killed if a jumbo jet lands on your bedroom while you're fast asleep. I went to see The Phantom Of The Opera on Saturday (you know, the musical). I didn't mosh. Graham B. ______________________________ ______________________________________ |o o| |o o| | Graham Borland |:: | email_address_removed.ac.uk |:: | Dept. of Computing Science |:: | http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~borlangw |:: | Glasgow University |:: | +44 (0)141 357 4033 |:: |______________________________|:: |______________________________________|:: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:21:48 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Chew To: Ytsejam Subject: Lifting Shadows Web Page Message-ID: Dear jammers, Hey there! Just wanted to let you guys know that my web page is now called the "Lifting Shadows: Dream Theater Web Page". Anyways, check out the really cool logo I made for it! Yours, Jeff =) http://www.columbia.edu/~jc309/dreamt.html <<<==============---------------<<<<<<<>>>>>>>---------------==============>>> "I still taste your kisses Jeff Chew is: Your voice sings in my ear email_address_removed You can betray http://www.columbia.edu/~jc309 what we were yesterday But you'll come back tonight (212) 853-6952 for him" <--- Kim from Miss Saigon <<<==============---------------<<<<<<<>>>>>>>---------------==============>>> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:40:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hochberg To: Dream Theater mailing list Subject: Fucking IDIOTS! Where were you? :) Message-ID: OK, it's 8:40 eastern time on Sunday, and I just got off IRC. Guess how many of us were chatting on #ytsejam? Four! Man, Bafu and Ben weren't even there. Not that it wasn't fun... hey, at least some of us actually showed up.Anyway, I think we should start making a habit of setting up dates & times to meet on IRC and maybe more people will join in eventually. Gotta run. Jeff (NewtSlayer) email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:46:52 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Lars Hellsten) To: email_address_removed Subject: IRC - #ytsejam! Message-ID: <199511200146.UAA03798@infinity> Hey! It's Sunday night, where the hell are you fucking idiots?! :) Ben? BAFU?! Oh well, this is slightly disappointing. I hope more people show up next week. We had about 4 people on here tonight, but things quickly died when someone had to leave... it was the first time someone else was actually there other than myself though, and it was nice talking to you guys. Everyone get on the IRC around 7-9pm next Sunday, this is really pathetic, with 1200+ jammers we should be able to arrange a time where e can at least get maybe a dozen or so people on. Lars Hellsten email_address_removed http://infinity-online.com/~larsh/ Lars Hellsten <*> "Once I reached for love, but email_address_removed <*> now I reach for life" http://infinity-online.com/~larsh/ <*> - Dream Theater ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:47:53 -0500 (EST) From: Partha Mukhopadhyay To: email_address_removed Subject: Songs for DT to cover.... Message-ID: Apologies to those sick of this already, but... Think I read on this here forum that DT was actually gonna do "Child in Time" by Deep Purple for Ronnie Scott's, originally, before Bruce Dickinson invited them to do Perfect Strangers on BBC--I would love to hear them play CiT.... Also, I think a DT version of U2's Bullet the Blue Sky would be interesting Partha p.s. Here's a vote for making Ben Laussade's ASCII burning heart the official ending of every Ytsejam, as it was in Jam 1137 great effect, that symbol, followed by "End of Ytsejam 1137" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 06:09:57 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Marc Contrady) To: email_address_removed Subject: Metallica Question/AD/T-shirts Message-ID: This may have been covered but I'm behind on reading these posts so bare with me: The original lineup for Metallica was: James Hetfield Lars Ulrich Dave Mustaine Ron McGuvney (I can'e remember how to spell it but it's something like this) I think that's the right answer. I'd also like to thank Jason Giles and Mike Bahr for the T-shirt and the AD cd. Great work guys. Marc Contrady email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 12:32:43 -0600 (CST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Official bootleg and fanclub ideas Message-ID: Hi all (and Bafu - MBVIYY) Just some further thoughts about the official boot idea: I was thinking that maybe we 'Jammers could make suggestions for titles for these (just as we are for Mike B's already) and maybe cover concepts (hey, maybe even the real covers). For instance, how about these for some titles: "Surrender to the Secret" & "Beneath a Blackened Summer Sky" for I&W shows (as they are lyrics from that album) and "Reflections of Reality" for an Awake show (lyrics from Awake)? Okay, so maybe this was kind of a rehash post since Mike B already does this...just thought I'd mention it (specifically if any in the band are reading this). Also I think it was Mark M that mentioned this would require DT to get more involved with the fanclub. How 'bout this: make Mike B the head of the fanclub as he already is doing so much "fan club" type stuff already? After all, we know he would at least keep things moving, unlike whoever is running the fanclub right now. And maybe Neil Elliott could handle things for Europe as he is also heavily involved with DT (doing the I&W fanzine and all...). BTW, Patricia, make sure you let us know when Neil gets on-line, okay? Enuff ramblings...c-ya! Scott Hansen email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 17:44:33 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Spence) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 1136 Message-ID: PLEASE STOP SENDING ME YTSEJAM DIGEST EMAILS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 11:36:29 -0700 From: email_address_removed (Ktulu) To: email_address_removed Subject: ACK!!! IRC news! Message-ID: Well, the IRC #ytsejam channel has been taken over. The bastards in #p/g! are suspected. If this gets posted in time, at 8:00 Eastern, go to #dreamtheater. Okay? Seeya there, unless we get the channel back. Ben Laussade email_address_removed "No v's for Damon." "This is not reality" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:00:11 -0700 From: email_address_removed (Ktulu) To: email_address_removed Subject: Metalking (interperate it how you like) Message-ID: >I just joined this >thing a week ago and am very disappointed so far because I haven't seen >anybody that likes anything heavier than Metallica (and their fucking >sold out). If any of you go to the New Jersey concert you can't expect my >size 15 shoe going down your throat and out your ass and an elbow from my >girlfriend (any DT girls here that mosh?). Also anyone who gets injured >while moshing is either: a) a pussy b) a wimp c) a girl (girls are >excused). I am always in the dead center of a mosh pit and have never >received a bruise in my career. See you guys in Jersey. Man. This guy might as well ASK for flames. First of all, I refuse to start the Metallica selling out discussion again. They didn't. End of story. Second: Why are girls excused? I'm sure a few female Jammers will have something to say about that. Anyone who gets injured in a mosh pit is either:a) Unlucky b)stupid c) trying to get hurt d) trying to hurt someone else. >Dyslexia is punishment for taking the name of Dog in vain. Cool. I know a guy with lesdyxia-Oops! I mean dyslexia. Wow. That was a short post. (For me) Seeya. And in case you hadn't noticed, we have #ytsejam back. About the subject: Me talking, or Metal King Ben Laussade email_address_removed "No v's for Damon." "This is not reality" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:57:15 EST From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: RE: Trey's #'d comments Message-ID: Trey Allen-- Are you sure the voices on TTT are in unison, or are they octaves? Anyway, you can have a pitch-shifter do unisons to and it sounds very similar to the vocals on TTT. Sean Haider bassist, INTROSPECTION ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:04:32 -0500 (EST) From: Partha Mukhopadhyay To: email_address_removed Subject: ...and then I looked at Jam 1138 (skip this if you're paying for it) Message-ID: Can I change my vote for Jam-ending Majesty symbol to the new guy's version? partha p.s. hey, how come I never noticed the cool jazz section from 17:20 onward in ACOS....this is some great stuff...uh, wait a second, didn't I slag it back in September? Guess it goes to show, you just give a song enough time, and it'll grow on you....but, I still like the tDOE/Subcon version intro better.... psm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:07:33 EST From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: The Beatles Message-ID: Hello all-- Just a reminder: The greatest rock band of all time will be releasing their first album in about 25 years this Tuesday. I urge all of you to check it out. Remember, DT covered "Golden Slumbers" and "Carry That Weight." Sean Haider bassist (read "Paul McCartney is God") ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:31:38 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Subject: The poll, and other things Message-ID: OK... just so you all know.. I _am_ scoring the write-in votes on the Best Of The Longest poll, and they will appear in the next posting of it as available choices. I didn' claim to know EVERY long song or concept album ever. However! Be a bit careful about what you mail me as a concept album. Some of the ones I have been mailed are simply NOT. Most of them are, though, so no problem there. Also, remember, no instrumentals... that's why La Villa Strangiato isn't on there. Another WDATU update will be along early this week. Not much else to say today. Listen to WDADU if you haven't lately. That album is so interestingly written. If you can get past Charlie's vocals, and they aren't all that bad really, the songs themselves are deep and complex with a taste that can't be beat. :) Mike Bahr, email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) From: Partha Mukhopadhyay To: email_address_removed Subject: Best selling album Message-ID: Best selling album? Michael Jackson's Thriller, about 30+ million to 14.6 million for Floyd's Dark Side.... AS far as Record goes, and I'm going by the Grammy definition, where they give Record of the Year to a single, as opposed to an entire album, it is Bing Crosby's White Christmas--I think it had hit 40+ million the last I heard..... Partha A defense of Dream TheaTRE goers....think overanxious fingers....I've done it many a time, just because I can't type worth a shit (But then again, I go back and check the speeling) :) Partha Mukhopadhyay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 95 23:23:20 EST From: Damon M. Fibraio To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: Hey, man. I may be mistaken if you were joking, but that really is harsh. Telling a guy to unsubscribe because he doesn't listen to DT 24/7. Maybe it was ajoke, and I am sure it is, but still, man. Pretty harsh stuff to say to a newcomer. And by the way, if my g's and h's are interchanged, my computer keyboard is all screwed up. Forgive. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:51:53 -0600 (CST) From: Bigman To: email_address_removed Subject: trivia stuff... Message-ID: > From: email_address_removed (Ktulu) > Who were the four original members of Metallica? > Not as easy as you might think.... Lemme see, I believe that would be: James Hetfield Dave Mustaine Cliff Burton (R.I.P.) Lars Ulrich > Here's a lyrics quiz: > You have to listend carefully for this one... > > "Fucking Mooooooooooooove, Fuck!" > > Lets see if you can guess it. Is that Lawnmower Deth? Is it? Later... Bigman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:22:36 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Carlo D'Angelo ) To: email_address_removed Subject: Concept albums.......... Message-ID: You forgot to add these beauties: HELSTAR "Nosferatu" <-----One of the BEST albums EVER!!!!!!! KING DIAMOND "Abigail" "Them" "Conspiracy" "The Eye" RUNNING WILD "Black Hand Inn" "Masquerade" Cheers, Carlo P.S. I think everyone needs to listen to WDADU again...its a lot more progressive than "Awake" is! OAMOT is AMAZING!! Have no idea why they never play this...probably too much of Kevin's influence on it...its the best song the album! -- | [] | |] | ******* ** | [] | |] | "For one flickering moment, he seemed to catch | [| an image, one he found both exciting and disturbing: | [] | |] | an enormous tower constructed of dark and sooty ****** ** ** stone, standing in a field of red roses. Slit ** **** ** windows twisted up its sides in a brooding spiral." |] | | [| | [] | "Go then, there are other worlds than these." |] | ** *** *** ** --Stephen King ** **** **** (The Gunslinger: Dark Tower series) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 02:46:17 -0600 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Umm.. God? Message-ID: I've been lurking for a looong time.. and finally noticed that people are writing "God Quotes". Feeling left out, I must add one. Kudos to those of you who recognize it.. you are real fans :) "Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children" bye... kyl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Innocence caressing me I never felt so young before There was so much life in me Still I longed to search for more... Ignorance surrounding me I've never felt so filled with fear All my life's been drained from me The end is drawing near... Mike Portnoy - A Change of Seasons - Innocence ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 05:09:39 GMT From: email_address_removed (King Lerxt #1 @8851) To: email_address_removed Subject: Mike Portnoy at Drum Day LA - A Review! Message-ID: Reply : Requested Ok folks, for those of you who missed out on the Drum Day LA show in Hollywood, CA, here is my review. (Mike Portnoy WAS THERE and he DID PLAY, just to dispell any rumors that said otherwise). BTW, this is a LONG POST but worth the read. It took place at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd. Who went? It was myself, Shadowman (Evan) and Xavier (John) from my BBS: KLCC. Mike Bahr was supposed to be there (instead of John) but he canceled at the last minute because of a family crisis. He missed out! We arrived early and we were the 1st in line! :) We ended up getting 4th row seats on the right side of the stage (we didn't know Mike's drum set was on the left side). I wore my brand new Ytsejam T-shirt and brought my DT hat and A Change of Seasons liner notes to get it signed by Mike. It was a full day of events. First they had the top 5 nationwide amateur drummers there. It ended up being a tie for 1st between a 32 yr old So. Cal guy (Steve Bankutti) and a 11 yr old kid from Kentucky (Tony Royster Jr)!! This kid was was amazing and played so damn loud and fast. He brought the house down and got many standing ovations. They both won a brand new drum set. They also had celebrity drummers there to do the judging for the amateur contest : a) Dave Abbruzzese (Pearl Jam) b) Tommy Lee ( wasn't there but was supposed to be) c) Simon Phillips d) Chad Smith e) Ralph Humphrey f) Stephen Perkins g) Joe Porcaro h) Matt Sorum and a few others Then they had various artists perform solo stuff and talk about their music such as: a) Steve Smith (Journey, Jean-Luc Ponty) b) Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! c) Sheila E. and the E-Train Steve was cool. Sheila E was amazing with her whole band of horns and keyboards and cool percussion effects. The crowd went wild. She is full of energy. ============= But now to talk about *MIKE PORTNOY* ========================== He came out after Steve Smith. Right before he came on they opened up the top section of the bar (which swings out and overhangs the stage) so it was exposed to the eating area of the club. This turned out to be a bad thing. Right before he sat down on his drum throne, I yelled out : "Ytsejam!" and Mike Portnoy and a DT fan behind us chuckled! :) Anyways, Mike was _trying_ to do his drum clinic thing he's been doing all across the country _but_ it was not the place to do it. He was talking very technical and trying to teach the people what he was doing. He was telling us how drumming isn't really that hard (oh sure, not for GODS like him and Neil Peart of Rush, hehe) and that it all comes down to NUMBERS. He showed how he took various DT pieces and changed them from easy 4/4 timing to complex odd timings. Anyways, a lot of the crowd was _talking_ (ala those damn fans from the Acoustic Dreams live songs, hehe) and so it was very hard for Mike to talk OVER them. It was obvious a lot of the stuff he was talking about was over their heads or they weren't interested. The other guys had just played and didn't talk much so it was a big change to hear the guy TALK more than play. He would play for 5 - 10 secs and then talk for 30-60 secs. I was feeling bad for Mike because of that. His mic stand was also giving him a hard by slipping down all the time. At one point he said "I feel like I'm someone's dinner entertainment", gesturing to the people above the stage eating at the tables. The crowd chuckled at that. You could see he was confused and frustrated though. :( He was also taking questions from the audience. A few people spoke up. I forget what they asked, but I asked him a stupid question. I didn't know what to say but I wanted to help Mike out and keep it going and show there were people who WERE interested in what he was doing and saying, even though I'm not a drummer myself (I play guitar), so I asked him : "What is your fav. song tp play, and what is the hardest song for you to play?" He replied that "my fav is 'Wait For Sleep' because I get to hang out in the back and kick back"... that gave us all a good laugh. And he said that there isn't any song that is really that hard for him to play. He went on to say that as long as you start out slow and count it out and practice, you can do anything you want to do. He is a great teacher and very technical and serious about his playing. He really wanted to TEACH us something that day. Unfortunately most of the crowd wanted to hear MUSIC and not TALK. Also at one point he showed us something really cool, and after he did that one guy on the upper balcony yelled out "How'd you do that?!" and we all laughed with Mike. I yelled back "He's a GOD!" :) He ended his set by playing along to 'Erotomania' in its entirety, which had the drum parts mixed out. It was INCREDIBLE! He really kicked butt. The crowd started getting into his playing, FINALLY, once they heard him play for longer than 5 seconds. I was glad because up to that point, it was like they were ignoring him and thought he didn't know how to play. I was jamming along with Mike as he played. It was incredible to see Mike that close up! Anyways, we watched the rest of the show (Sheila E and her band) and I kept waiting for Mike to come out and sit down with the rest of the famous player/judges. I was getting worried when he hadn't shown up and the show was almost over but my horrors were quelled when I saw he finally came out. As soon as the show was over we all rushed over to talk to Mike. I knew if we didn't get over there quickly it was going to be impossible to get to talk to him, since they had to clear out the place for the evening show (this drum thing lasted from 1230p - 530p !!). During his set he was wearing a bandana on his head, and after the show he had taken it off and put on a EXTRA LARGE white 'A Change of Seasons' tour shirt. We came up on him and said hi, and asked for him to sign our CD liner notes. When I got up to him I said Hi and that Mike Bahr was supposed to be there but had to cancel at the last minute. He replied saying, "really?, doesn't he live in Arizona or something?" and I said yeah, and that Mike Bahr was coming into town for the show but missed it. I said we enjoyed the show and that he did great, but he kind of frowned and said that he was a bit disappointed that he didn't get to do his whole CLINIC set where he plays for almost 2 hours and gets to do a bunch of stuff. I said it was ok. He mentioned that he was going to be playing a REAL drum clinic next week in Garden Grove, and I said OH REALLY?. I have find out where that's going to be, so I can maybe check it out! Oh well we all got our liner notes signed and we got out of there. It was an incredible show and a great experience to finally meet Mike. It was the 1st time I had ever met ANY rock star up close and personal. I think my life is almost complete now... :) And all for only $14 a ticket! How can you go wrong with a 5 hour show where you get to meet one of your fav band's drummer in person!? I wish you had all been there, but.... Later all. Stephen Soukup (King Lerxt) SysOp : KLCC BBS, Glendale, CA ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 1143 **************************