YTSEJAM Digest 2216 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Portnoy at NAMM by "Eddie J Cooper" 2) Re: Guitar accessories: help! by "Vincent G. LuPone" 3) Riot by email_address_removed (Deborah J. Seeger) 4) Short NDC: Vai by email_address_removed.se (Lars Nilsson) 5) Minimal DTC by Matthew P Robbins 6) by email_address_removed (Pat Sullivan) 7) Becker by Chris Ptacek 8) Magna Carta's web site by Randall Braun 9) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 by Chris Ptacek 10) Re: Minimal DTC by Syrinx 11) Re: Riot!!! by "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" 12) Hark! A lowly land lubber ye be! by Chris Ptacek 13) Re: Portnoy at NAMM by Syrinx 14) Re: Portnoy at NAMM by Carlos Alfaro 15) Jan Hammer, ELP cit., Andre Matos vox, Bahr update by Randall Braun 16) Re: stuph by Mika Numminen 17) Hammer/Becker/Bafu (what a combo) by Phil Carter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:40:25 0 From: "Eddie J Cooper" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Portnoy at NAMM Message-ID: <9701221741.AA24753@sphinx> On 22 Jan 97, Mike wrote about "Portnoy at NAMM": > I got to talk to Mike at NAMM on Friday. I'm sure this isn't news > to some of you, but in case you didn't know, they are waiting for > the label to put out the next album. They are more than finished > with their part. Errrmm... I thought they hadn't even found a producer yet... > Mike said they have enough material recorded to > put out three cds. It doesn't look like there will be a double disc > because he is the only one in the band that actually wants to do > it. ..dunno about that bit... > He was there signing autographs (for Tama) along with John > Myung for Yamaha and Derek was there too but I didn't know of him > doing any autograph sessions. ..now this really confuses me & makes me feel that this post is not quite truthful (my apologies if I am wrong tho') cos I understood that Portnoy has been a Mapex player for some time... So my apologies Mike if your email is all true, but I think my scepticism is well founded... Can anyone else verify or deny any of this? Laterz Eddie };-)~ - "Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked." - "Boy, life takes a long time to live..." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:59:34 -0700 From: "Vincent G. LuPone" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Guitar accessories: help! Message-ID: At 09:19 AM 1/22/97 -0800, you wrote: >I remember seeing Warlock ads in old guitar >mags, are they still around? Yeah, a few months ago I bought a new '96 Warlock Platinum series. Kicks butt too. Later, Peace be with you and God bless. ~Vince (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vgl) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:03:08 EST From: email_address_removed (Deborah J. Seeger) To: email_address_removed Subject: Riot Message-ID: I saw Riot mentioned in a recent Jam. I thought I was the only person who listened to them! Anyone know what they've been up to since The Privilage of Power? Debbie Seeger email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:17:46 +0100 (MET) From: email_address_removed.se (Lars Nilsson) To: email_address_removed Subject: Short NDC: Vai Message-ID: C. Alfaro wrote: >anyone recomend other cd's of him... (Vai) Yup! I've said it before and I will say it again: Flexable is the best record mr. Steve Vai has done so far. (Or at least if you like Zappa stuff.) Bye - Larsan >it is not the earth that the meek will inherit... > ...but the dirt. hm... "The strong inherit the earth. The meek inherit shit." - Gene Simmons ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:23:29 -0600 (CST) From: Matthew P Robbins To: email_address_removed Subject: Minimal DTC Message-ID: Just listening to my new copy of I Mother Earth - Scenery & Fish and reading the thanks and credits sections in the CD booklet. They thank several bands including DT. However, they misspelled it (ie: reversed the R and E in theater - Dream Theatre). I wonder if this was intentional as some sort of joke of just a typo? Anybody know? BTW, the IME CD is excellent, IMO. Haven't had a chance to check out the enhanced CD-ROM portion yet, but looking forward to it. ~Matt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:45:41 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Pat Sullivan) To: email_address_removed Message-ID: >I noticed a few posts lately about christian bands and the good >music they often make regardless of the music's message. I would like to >LOUDLY agree and to say that anyone out there who is passing over certian >bands based soley on their christian label is being foolish. A big agree here... Back before I listened to any prog, I had reached a "saturation point" with heavy metal in general. I felt like there was nothing else worth buying that I didn't already have. The I started picking up a few christian rock albums (Barren Cross, X-Sinner, Deliverance). It was like a whole new "wing" of music had opened up for me. Suddenly, there was all this new material to get, it was great. The same thing happened when I got on this list, only with prog bands. There is definitely some great non-secular music out there, and it's worth looking for. ----- _____Pat Sullivan_____________________________________________ E-mail: email_address_removed IRC: DDictator WWW: http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/psull/psull.html NP: Dream Theater - "When Dream And Day Unite" ______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:33:43 -0600 From: Chris Ptacek To: email_address_removed Subject: Becker Message-ID: Anyone that's written a letter to the jam about Jason Becker that still has a copy of it in their mail program--can I ask you to mail it directly to me as well? I am putting together a letter on behalf of the jam, with all the Becker related posts I can find. I thought that Jason and his management would appreciate it. Just do me the favor and look through your outbox and wherever you store mail, or if you know what jam it came out in, just cut and paste it from there, and mail it to email_address_removed. Thanks a bunch. Chris W. Ptacek Musician and Listener A.K.A Madsman, on IRC "Can we search for inspiration -- those ideas that just come from 'nowhere'? They don't surface when you're tHiNKinG. They just come. What we CAN do is make fertile the ground on which idea seeds fall." - Michael Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:36:39 -0600 From: Randall Braun To: "'Ytsejam'" Cc: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Magna Carta's web site Message-ID: I searched and searched, but nothing brought up Magna Carta's web site. Anyone have it? Okay, thanks. heh. http://www.zaks.com/magnacarta/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:50:46 -0600 From: Chris Ptacek To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 Message-ID: >From: Quazel Schmirt >Subject: James' autograph... >I am just curious as to how James' autograph pertains in any way to his >singing ability. I am a huge fan of his talent, being a singer myself and >I fail to make the connection here. Did you miss the joke? >how many people rave about this >album because they know of Jason's medical situation. And before >you all start accusing me of being a heartless bastard (which is possibly true) >let me say that a close friend of mine died last year after suffering from ALS >for nearly 20 years. You're not heartless.... there might have been a better way to phrase that.... but I know what you mean. Personally, while I'm impressed to hell with anyone that can write an album worth of music when they are unable to move, I don't think this is the case for me. That in and of itself is a valid reason for me to buy the album... coupled with the fact that Jason has been my favorite musician for almost 10 years now. If someone wants to buy the album as a sign of sympathy, that's fine.... but I doubt if anyone is going to write a rave review out of sympathy if they dislike the album. Music as complex and multifaceted as that on Perspectives requires a few listens to absorb... but I don't know... the opening track catches most people INSTANTLY. You saw firsthand what ALS does to people. You can probably understand just how hard it would be to write an album in that state. Your friend was lucky to live as long as he did--they say the average survival rate is between 5-7 years. That is truly the worst form of punishment I could come up with. >Progmetal? Racer X? Racer X Progmetal? Since when does an album of >sixteenth notes/beats on all instruments (including the vocals) at 380 >beats per minute equal progressive metal? Racer X uses highly technical instrumentation, odd time signatures, and long instrumental passages. Plus it's quite obvious that there's SOME Racer X influence (or perhaps just Paul Gilbert influence) in our beloved Petrucci. Listen to Skit Scat Wah (or watch the opening of the first Gilbert instructional video)and then listen to the end of Erotomania... Those licks are pretty damn similar... I speak from experience of playing them AND listening to them. Same technique, same style, same theme. Both (all three I guess) rule. :) Chris W. Ptacek Musician and Listener A.K.A Madsman, on IRC "Can we search for inspiration -- those ideas that just come from 'nowhere'? They don't surface when you're tHiNKinG. They just come. What we CAN do is make fertile the ground on which idea seeds fall." - Michael Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:51:16 -0500 (EST) From: Syrinx To: Matthew P Robbins Subject: Re: Minimal DTC Message-ID: > Just listening to my new copy of I Mother Earth - Scenery & Fish > and reading the thanks and credits sections in the CD booklet. They > thank several bands including DT. However, they misspelled it (ie: > reversed the R and E in theater - Dream Theatre). I wonder if this was > intentional as some sort of joke of just a typo? Anybody know? BTW, the > IME CD is excellent, IMO. Haven't had a chance to check out the enhanced > CD-ROM portion yet, but looking forward to it. the cd-rom's pretty cool. it's got a nice bio on the guys, and part of the video "one more astronaut." actually, i saw the video for "another sunday" last thursday. i actually paid for it (yes, i called the box. i was at my girlfriend's house and she said she'd pay for it) and the video kicks much ass. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "..666 is no longer alone. he's getting out the marrow in your backbone, and the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll gonna blow right down inside your soul. pythagoras with the looking-glass, reflect the full moon. in blood, he's writing the lyrics to a brand new tune.." * * * * * * * * * * mike ostrich e-mail: email_address_removed / email_address_removed world wide web: http://www.mindspring.com/~syrinx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:53:14 -0600 From: "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" To: Heavy Metal Computer Nerds Subject: Re: Riot!!! Message-ID: At 10:08 AM 1/22/97 -0800, you wrote: >I saw Riot mentioned in a recent Jam. I thought I was the only person >who listened to them! Anyone know what they've been up to since The >Privilage of Power? > whoa!!!!!!! where was this, i must have missed it! i've heard these boys, i was just listening to them a few nights ago over at my friends house, they indeed rock. hell, he considers them his favorite band! some of you who know me on irc may have met him once or twice using his nick, ironically "riot" hahaha. damn, the things that wind up on the jams these days. ~Rip ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:58:41 -0600 From: Chris Ptacek To: email_address_removed Subject: Hark! A lowly land lubber ye be! Message-ID: > A quick question about CD burners........my friend is purchasing one and >I was wondering if you can dub audio tracks as well as digital data?? >Any help would be appreciated. Are you thinking of dubbing cds, thus depriving artists of their hard earned royalties, forcing them to go back to menial labor and give up their arts as they are unable to support themselves my making music when the records can be reproduced illegally? If that's the case, then yes. :) CDs are just digital data, not unlike that Warcraft !! cd sitting on your desk. But the cost of blank CDs is not much less than that off the actual release (unless we're talking imports) and I'd gladly pay the extra $5 to get the original case and liners and everything. >christian labels only (Tourniquet, Masquerade, Resurrection Band, Believer, >Precious Death, The 77's, Tamplin, Bride, ect to infinity...). Masquerade is on Metal Blade and I think Believer may be as well. Just thought I'd point that out. Chris W. Ptacek Musician and Listener A.K.A Madsman, on IRC "Can we search for inspiration -- those ideas that just come from 'nowhere'? They don't surface when you're tHiNKinG. They just come. What we CAN do is make fertile the ground on which idea seeds fall." - Michael Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:49:38 -0500 (EST) From: Syrinx To: Eddie J Cooper Subject: Re: Portnoy at NAMM Message-ID: > > I got to talk to Mike at NAMM on Friday. I'm sure this isn't news > > to some of you, but in case you didn't know, they are waiting for > > the label to put out the next album. They are more than finished > > with their part. > > Errrmm... I thought they hadn't even found a producer yet... yep. paul northfield, if i'm not mistaken. > > Mike said they have enough material recorded to > > put out three cds. It doesn't look like there will be a double disc > > because he is the only one in the band that actually wants to do > > it. > > ..dunno about that bit... i do. when i spoke to portnoy about it (eons ago...at that dman ethyl mertz show) we all came to the conclusion that it would be a disaster if they put out a double disc. > > He was there signing autographs (for Tama) along with John > > Myung for Yamaha and Derek was there too but I didn't know of him > > doing any autograph sessions. > > ..now this really confuses me & makes me feel that this post is not > quite truthful (my apologies if I am wrong tho') cos I understood > that Portnoy has been a Mapex player for some time... he switched back to tama last year. the all mighty syrinx. erotomania - the web sight: coming soon. http://www.mindspring.com/~syrinx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:23:47 -0500 From: Carlos Alfaro To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Portnoy at NAMM Message-ID: Eddie J Cooper wrote: > > > > He was there signing autographs (for Tama) along with John > > Myung for Yamaha and Derek was there too but I didn't know of him > > doing any autograph sessions. > > ..now this really confuses me & makes me feel that this post is not > quite truthful (my apologies if I am wrong tho') cos I understood > that Portnoy has been a Mapex player for some time... > > Hes changed to Tama again... in the FIX96 shows he was using a Tama set.. Myung is using Yamaha fretless now.. Seize the day, I heard him say : "Life will not always be this way, Look around...hear the sounds... Cherish your life,while you're still around... " WoWoW! WoWoW! WoWoW! -Mike Portnoy mailto:email_address_removed mailto:email_address_removed http://premium.caribe.net/~calfaro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:09:16 -0600 From: Randall Braun To: "'Ytsejam'" Subject: Jan Hammer, ELP cit., Andre Matos vox, Bahr update Message-ID: I was under the impression that 'jan hammer' was the name of a band, and that jordan rudess was the keyboard (ski?!) player... if this is not so, can someone straighten me out? Jan Hammer has been on keys for a long time. The earliest that I have is Mahavishnu Orchestra's *Birds of Fire*, circa early 1970's (MO is/was an early vehicle for guitar god, John McLaughlin; percussion god Billy Cobham was also part of MO at this time). On this album there are some tremendous guitar/keys/violin (Jerry Goodman) shredding duos/trios; MO later also featured fusion violin god Jean-Luc Ponty. Jan Hammer is most famous, unfortunately, as the composer of the theme for TV's *Miami Vice*. Jan Hammer is also featured on some of the earlier Jeff Beck solo albums. "...And he laughs until he cries, then he dies, then he dies..." --- Lake/Sinfield >>>it's from ELP's Brain Salad Surgery, Karn Evil 9, Pt.1 On Angra's Andre Matos vox: IMHO, AM sounds more like Fates Warning's Ray Adler with a larger vocal range, than DT's JL BTW, what the latest on the Mike B/Majesty CD's? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:30:55 +0100 (MET) From: Mika Numminen To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: stuph Message-ID: At 19.29 1997-01-21 -0800, D-man wrote: >> To Mika Numminen and his Progquiz: Why couldn't any of the logic questions >> on the LSAT be that fun? :) > >No kidding! The GRE would have actually been tolerable if there were >questions like that! :) > LOL! Look for that queestions in the next GRE, I'm sure we got a jammer somewhere to sneak it in! :) %&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%& & Mika Numminen & aarre.n@swipnet.se % % aka Viking % email_address_removed.se & &%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&% % http://www.hgs.se/~te95mne & & http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-330353 (Coming soon!) % %&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%& ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:16:20 -0500 From: Phil Carter To: email_address_removed Subject: Hammer/Becker/Bafu (what a combo) Message-ID: Chris sez: >I was under the impression that 'jan hammer' was the name of a band, >and that jordan rudess was the keyboard (ski?!) player... >if this is not so, can someone straighten me out? Jan Hammer, composer and keyboardist, has been around a lot longer than most people would think. He was releasing solo stuff as far back as '68 ("Make Love"). Hammer wrote the "Miami Vice" theme that was so popular in the show's heyday. I believe he also wrote the "Axel F" theme popularized by Harold Faltermeyer in "Beverly Hills Cop." Hammer has dozens of solo albums out there, most unfortunately out of print now. "Escape From Television" includes songs from Miami Vice, while "Beyond The Mind's Eye" is a jazz/fusion oriented album like much of Hammer's stuff; it's also available as a video with different tracks. A very approachable album is 1994's "Drive," with Jeff Beck on guitar (!) and Michael Brecker on sax. Other solo stuff he has: "Chancer," "Snapshots," "Here to Stay," "Too Much to Lose," "Black Sheep," "Melodies," "Untold Passions." If you can find any of these, check them out; Hammer's a great keyboardist. Neil says: >following all this talk about Jason Becker's album "perspectives", I decided >to check it out at my local CD store. I didn't buy it. There is certainly >some interesting stuff on it, but nothing that really knocked me out. I then >wondered (WARNING: heretical question coming) how many people rave about >this album because they know of Jason's medical situation. *boggle* Oh well. As one of the people who's been raving about the album: I pondered that question for all of three milliseconds (it may have been a bit longer) before answering it with a resounding "Nah." I don't care how the music was written (most of it by computer due to Jason's condition). I'm saddened that Jason can't play all of it himself the way he no doubt wanted to. But I think it's beautiful regardless, and that's why I love the album. If you didn't feel it -- well, that's your opinion. :) Bafu then graced us with his views on zamboni-patrol (and other things): >Yeah, I know what you mean. Like when I see someone in a car ahead of me >STOP unnecessarily at an intersection because some PEDESTRIAN has decided >to casually yet DEFIANTLYcross the street in a crosswalk AGAINST the >"don't walk" signal...then all of a sudden instead of being polite the >driver just hits the gas and PLOWS 'em down... I don't know whether you live in a "college town" or not, Bafu, but lemme tell you that here in a 28,000+ -student college town like this one (Athens, GA) it's just about unendurable. Am I the only one who thinks that when you cross a street and the light changes, you should HURRY? Andrew responds with his own views on driving: >Neat trick: when waiting for idiots to cross against the light, >which is of course green for you, drop your car into neutral and rev the >engine (or just hold in the clutch, for us manual shifters). I've been >pleasantly surprised by the number of people who pick up the pace fearing >their demise. Or maybe it was Dave Mustaine blasting from my car that >scared them... I've tried this, but revving of engines loses a bit of its threatening punch when it's coming from a 4-cylinder Ford Escort. :) :) I have at times laid on the horn, though. > A dream of mine is to buy a car completely made of steel, or >build it myself. I would then humble all of the fiberglass conveyance >driving Jersey morons by crippling their fragile vehicles. Ahhhh... the >sound of crunching plastic as that Lexus driving bastard gets his due for >not using a directional when changing lanes... YES! YES! YES! Build me one too! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Er....what I meant to say is that it's a cool idea. I've actually toyed with the idea of fixing a ram-plate (a la "Mad Max") onto the front of my parents' junk-hauler, a '76 Ford LTD station wagon. (We call it "Tank.") Bafu in full force again: >> I was *not* the one that shaved Mike Portnoy's head. > >Oh, of course not. It was the Jagermeister. Yeah. I suppose it is also >true that people don't kill people, GUNS kill people... Neither one is true. Guns don't kill people. People don't kill people. Bullets kill people. Just make bullets impossible to get and you'd see a lot less deaths from shootings. (The rate of clubbings would probably rise pretty quickly though). The NRA couldn't even form the National Bullet Association; the letters are already taken. >Nevermind... Oh, good grief, I thought we were free of the Nirvana discussions...Where's Skadz?!?!?! >"Waruku Omouna." > --Guy, Street Fighter Alpha "Hakuna Matata." -- Timon and Pumbaa, The Lion King Cheers, Phil ========================================================= Phil Carter -- email_address_removed * Pittsburgh Penguins -- Stanley Cup in 1997! * "To do is to be." -- Plato "To be is to do." -- Aristotle "Doo bee doo bee doo..." -- The Bud Ice Penguin Guitarists: * Joe Satriani * Jason Becker * Steve Morse * Yngwie Malmsteen * * John Petrucci * Steve Vai * Eric Johnson * Gary Hoey * Richie Kotzen * ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2216 **************************