YTSEJAM Digest 1195 Today's Topics: 1) Re: God discussions (NDTC)/Finals by email_address_removed (Michael Coghlan ) 2) LOTS OF THINGS, EH! :) by Michael Bahr 3) MORE NEAT STUFF! by Michael Bahr 4) just got FW! by email_address_removed (acook) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 01:31:58 -0800 From: email_address_removed (Michael Coghlan ) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: God discussions (NDTC)/Finals Message-ID: Jodi wrote: > >Keep the God/religion discussions coming!! > >It takes me much less time to read the 'jam now that I have all >these posts to skip over, and that's very helpful around finals! Glad to accomodate you Jodi, here to serve. God Bless, Michael C. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 04:01:25 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: LOTS OF THINGS, EH! :) Message-ID: Hi everyone! First of all, I apologize for the lack of a WDATU/Antiquities update this week. Finals are upon me, and I didn't have a chance to type it up. It will be posted Monday night, I SWEAR. :) Second of all. It looks like I _am_ coming up to New York for the three shows and the Ytsecon and the whole fucking banana!!! YES!!! The reason for this is that the ski trip that was to take precedence over it, was cancelled due to the extreme lack of snow. One concern however is the cost of passage, which I think I can cover. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to open the floodgates early on Antiquities ordering, probably 12/15/95 as planned. I will use the temporary float to pay for the tickets out to NY, and compensate by selling something off when I come back, or perhaps by selling rare Dream Theater and Rush collectibles and Magic cards while I'm _there_. Now it comes to the issue of where I'll stay. I want to meet as many of you as is humanly possible, so I will want to stay with someone who's going to all three shows and to the Ytsecon. Also, I will need to get tickets somehow... I sure hope someone has extras. I'm willing to pay for them of course. Finally, I am willing to pay my host for food and such that I'd use up while I stayed there, and you can bet I'll be leaving goodies for everyone. So what this means is that I want the ten or eleven of you who so very kindly and graciously invited me to stay with you, to send me a spot of e-mail if you could, so we can "talk amongst ourselves" and maybe split up the stay to make it easier on you guys and girls (only one night hosting that weirdo from Arizona instead of five) and arrange for transport and so on. I imagine I'll rent a car or something. I'll also want advice on how I should do this: fly into NYC? Fly into Conneticut? What. You people live there, you're the experts I need the help of. :) Here in Phoenix, it's stupidly simple: fly to the only major airport in the state, and drive to the gig. It gets a bit more complex back East. :) I _REALLY_ appreciate, from the bottom of my heart, all the help I've been offered in this effort, because it's just damn hard to do this sort of thing without it, and you all offered it freely. OK, on to other matters... Antiquities is finally taking shape. I've got one of the pieces of art I'm goin to use (it will either be the cover or the tray liner (spine and CD case) I haven't decided yet. Scott McCammon has given me a _great_ piece of work that I'm proud to be able to use for AQ. I think one or two other people were working on it for me also, so if you could contact me and/or send the artwork along, it would be extremely appreciated. People are asking about the origins of the songs on AD and WDATU, well I've given Steffen Barabasch the info about the AD and WDATU songs so that he can put together another FANTASTIC notesfile on them the way his great Subconscious info file was... lyrics, etc. I don't know when he's going to be doing that, but I imagine it won't take long. For Antiquities onward, the proper origins and so forth will be in a more standard CD liner as I experimetn with using a color laser printer. More in a little bit... I need to step back and regather the things I was going to talk about here, and send another piece o' mail. I wonder if it will be in the same 'Jam? :) Mike Bahr, email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 04:21:47 -0700 (MST) From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: MORE NEAT STUFF! Message-ID: OK time for more fun facts. :) The religion argument... it's now in a fully degenerate state. I'm sorry I ever posted a reply to it. Let's let it die now. The IRC... looks like I finally made it on WITHOUT getting booted, but my lagtime was furious... 5 to 7 minutes. I hope I didn't piss off those who were on the channel with the slow and sporadic replies to questions. I didn't mean to be rude... just fighting the inadequacies of a poorly created IRC server. :) I've seen a frightening number of posts from people who hate the Jam as it is now and think the subject matter is way off and so on and so forth. Im concerned about this because the Jam is still far and away the best mailing list I'm on because of the very freedom that causes the occasional shitty thread or bad posts. I think people who have problem with the Jam should be forced to read a month straight on rec.music.metallica, rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc, or alt.games.mk; or join TNMS or SID where content is censored. One thing I really love about the Jam is that we CAN go onto a tangent, and that USUALLY they are enjoyable tangents. Sometimes they're not. It's just a matter of where we have to take the good with the bad. I guess what really annoys me is the complaints themselves. Complaining about something never accomplishes a damn thing. All it does is ruffle feathers. Including this complaint, a complaint about complaining (so those of you with irony on your minds needn't point that out to me). So instead of just complaining, I want to lead by example, since I believe the appropriate way to respond to something instead of complaining about it is to start doing what YOU would rather have done, and encourage others to follow. I hope to think I follow this example by every post I make, with any number of thread-starting or fact-stating topics, so as to cover a lot of ground and give people a lot to do/think about. Speaking of which, while I'm in New York this winter for those three shows, I'll need suggestions on things to see and do while I'm there. Like I said, I want to meet as many of you as possible. YtseCon will accomplish at least some part of this. Why do you all think that DT chose not to release that video of the RS gig? It was a covers gig... it would have sold at LEAST as well as LIT did anyway. I rented the laserdisc of this movie "Clerks" just to check it out. Let me tell you all.. this is MANDATORY viewing! It's the Breakfast Club of the 1990s. That movie was an instant classic with everyone I know down here that's seen it. In-fucking-credible. Believe me, you will not be disappointed by this one. Anyway I've said enough for now. Keep the questions coming. I'm almost to the bottom of a HUGE pile of e-mail so if you haven't heard from me yet, don't panic, I PROMISE I will answer your mail as soon as it is humanly possible. Weekends, my band plays out anyway, so I don't get to log in until late (if at all) Friday or Saturday. That's part of the reason for the big ole' delays. I want to encourage people never to decide against mailing me just because they're afraid I'm too busy to answer... believe me, I don't mind the mail if you don't mind the possible delay in response. Take care everyone, and I hope to see some of you at year's end. Mike Bahr, email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:40:06 -0500 From: email_address_removed (acook) To: email_address_removed Subject: just got FW! Message-ID: Well jammers, i finally picked up Chasing Time by Fates Warning. Monument is such an incredible song! The others are good too but I've had a hard time getting into them. Anyways, now I'll have to pick up all their albums. Hmph. :-) Needless to say, which one should I buy first? And howcome nobody gives these guys any credit? Aresti is a great soloist, and Alder has great range, and I love Zonder's choice of beats. I have a Dimarzio Steve's Special bridge humbucker in my Ibanez S guitar now. It's clean and clear, yet bright and powerful, just like JP's tone. I'm happy. Now I complain. I think the current guitar industry kind of...sucks. It seems like very few people are intent on playing their guitar to the best of their abilities. Everybody is being kind of lazy about it. In a current issue of guitar world, one guy just about summed up the mainstream style by saying, "One day I decided I'd never be Hendrix, so why try?" It's like, it's ok to give up and write stupid songs since people will buy them anyway. I think somebody who's adapted best to the times is Joe Satriani. He uses his technique and knowledge to flavor the songs, not make a bland record or a too flashy one. I think the food analogy works best... You have to use spices to flavor the dish, too much and the dish gets spoiled. However, not enough and the dish becomes bland and tasteless. Whereas in the 80's, everybody was pouring on loads of technique and the songs had little substance, in the 90's many are slacking off and not giving a damn. Needless to say Dream Theater is the perfect mix for me. John's solo on LIT tells it all... email_address_removed Adam Cook http://www.tiac.net/users/acook (hard hat construction area) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 1195 **************************