YTSEJAM Digest 2217 Today's Topics: 1) JJ by "A.R. Bell" 2) Re: Guitar Accessories help by Jeff Hayes 3) DT disc , SFAM by Soul Madness 4) dammit dammit dammit by Carlos Alfaro 5) Soundclips. by Geir Botterli 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 by email_address_removed (Tom Baddley) 7) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 by email_address_removed 8) Bafu's last post by email_address_removed 9) Re: Soundclips. by Carlos Alfaro 10) Re: Portnoy at NAMM by email_address_removed 11) er...re by Pat Sullivan 12) Mastermind in PHL and Japan by "Dave Neff" 13) Portnoy at Namm by Andrew Dietr Miller 14) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2216 by Madelaine 15) Swapped Binary by Adam Barnhart 16) Re: Magna Carta's web site by "Beavis (Wes Foll)" 17) Re: er...re by Taco Belhai 18) Fanclub, and stuff by Andrew Dietr Miller 19) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2216 by Quazel Schmirt 20) Vai, Damn the Machine by email_address_removed 21) "The DJ" internet music service by "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" 22) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 by Jon Byrne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:50:34 -0600 From: "A.R. Bell" To: Cc: Subject: JJ Message-ID: Jens played in Malmsteen's band during the early years (and on a couple tracks recently) with his brother Anders on drums. He is now playing keys in the incredible Stratovarius from Finland. Jens and Anders both released a project with Allan Holdsworth recently, which I haven't been able to locate. (Any help, anyone?) Later... Aaron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 14:17:26 -0600 From: Jeff Hayes To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Guitar Accessories help Message-ID: B.C. Rich is evidentally still in business. They had a fairly large setup at NAMM this past weekend. The Warlock series was featured as well as several Strat-styles. And now for DT content. I got to play a JPM100P3 at the Ibanez setup. WAY COOL, Jr.!!!!! The black and white Picasso thing is pretty bitchin'. I messed around with a Universe Seven string as well. Highly playable guitars, both. I preferred the Petrucci though. List price I believe was $1599. Save your pennies boys and girls!!! Shred 'til yer dead!! Jeff aka IceBLADE ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 15:26 EST From: Soul Madness To: email_address_removed Subject: DT disc , SFAM Message-ID: Can anyone give me info on the bootleg CD by DT called Scenes From A Memory? Does it have good sound, packaging, etc. I did order it from Mike Bahr so I will recieve it one way or another but I'd like to know in advance. To the Devin Townsend haters, check out "The Last Time" off James Murphy's (Testament) solo disc "Convergence"...its a great song. Savatage fans, can you tell me where to get the bootleg CDs by them called Live At L'Mour, Live In Offenbach, Germany or Live In Denver. I recently recieved "Mentally Yours" (a live bootleg) and its amazing. Don Compton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:35:17 -0500 From: Carlos Alfaro To: email_address_removed Subject: dammit dammit dammit Message-ID: Dammit dammit be stupid cd storagebooklets!!!! I just broke Paco de lucia/al di meola /joh n maclaughlin's guitar trio cd!!F uck damit -- 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 21:52:44 +0100 From: Geir Botterli To: email_address_removed Subject: Soundclips. Message-ID: Hi, I downloaded some soundclips from a web-site some time ago. The soundbites I downloaded, was Intuition (Lemur Voice), Ludicrous, and two other songs, with the word thirst and crystal in. Can someone direct me to this web-site, as I can't find it. If the clips don't exist anymore, can someone please tell me who plays these songs? Thanks -- Geir Botterli XMIR email_address_removed.no DT rules. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:57:06 GMT From: email_address_removed (Tom Baddley) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 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 is an actual person. Probably most popular during his days of doing the music for "Miami Vice", he remains one of the most expressive keyboardist ever. At one point in the eighties he and Neil Schon (of Journey) put out a CD together that was really good. My favorite, though, is the work that JH did for "Beyond The Mind's Eye", a computer animation collection on video tape, with original music by him. With the exception of one song ("Too Far"), each and every song touches me in some way. He plays in a style more reminiscent of a guitar player, with riffs and bends (much like the honorable Mr. K. Moore). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:06:59 -0500 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 Message-ID: >As for the LaBrie signing thing. As I said dislexia sux. Read the >original post again. It was a poke of fun at the typo in it. James >singing has nothing to do with his signing. (We hope.) > --David Arkenstone Thanks for clearing that one up David! I was really trying hard to bite my tongue and not respond to that one :) buster ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:17:04 -0500 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Bafu's last post Message-ID: Bafu, I think I'm starting to really understand your sense of humor....and it scares me Seriously though, I got a good laugh out of his last post, but now I see why people are always taking him the wrong way. If you're not careful to notice the sarcasm, he could really seem like a jerk. Anyway, thanks for the laugh, buster ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:14:26 -0500 From: Carlos Alfaro To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Soundclips. Message-ID: Geir Botterli wrote: > > Hi, I downloaded some soundclips from a web-site some time ago. > The soundbites I downloaded, was Intuition (Lemur Voice), Ludicrous, and two > other songs, with the word thirst and crystal in. Can someone direct me to > this web-site, as I can't find it. If the clips don't exist anymore, can > someone > please tell me who plays these songs? > > Thanks > -- > Geir Botterli XMIR email_address_removed.no > DT rules. what do you mean by ludicrous? ... and thirst must be enchant... and crystal must be shadow gallery -- 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 16:40:00 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Portnoy at NAMM Message-ID: In a message dated 1/22/97 6:11:03 PM, you wrote: << .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... >> Was a mapex player, he went back to tama about a year ago, Matter of fact at Birch Hill 95, (December) he had his mapex set with 3x5 cards that said TAMA covering the mapex logo, this is because at the time he had just signed a contract with TAMA and they hadn't yet finished his new kit, and obviously since he was contracted with TAMA, playing Maoex would be a breach of caontract. Soooo.. they covered up the logo, around June or July of 96 ads for his new TAMA kit started showing up in Modern Drummer and he had it at the fix shows, its quite groovy looking. so there may be some merit to the NAMM post. Maybe they have all the material recorded and thier label is just giving them the runaround, or whatever....... Laterz, Stan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:27:47 -0500 From: Pat Sullivan To: email_address_removed Subject: er...re Message-ID: >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). Hmm...I sense something similar to what happened between DT and Fates Warning, (FW put "Dream Theatre" on Parallels, DT put "Fatez Warning" on Awake). Basically, don't be shocked if on the thank-you list for DT'd next album you see "I Mothre Earth" :) ----- ________Pat Sullivan__________________________________ E-mail: email_address_removed WWW: http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/psull/psull.html IRC: DDictator NP: Tool - "Aenima" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:56:14 -0500 From: "Dave Neff" To: "The Non-DT Mailing List" Subject: Mastermind in PHL and Japan Message-ID: Hey Folks! I got to see Mastermind in Philadelphia on friday, and I must say that I was mucho impressed! Got to meet Bill Berends after the show, too. Nice guy. I identified myself as a Ytsejammer (he knows who we are), and asked him if there was anything he wanted to tell the world. He said "Yeah! Check us out!" Not too profound, perhaps, but I did put him on the spot.... Anyway, he said that they were leaving for Japan soon - yesterday I believe - and they also have plans in the works to tour with Spock's Beard and ... uh, (doh!) somebody else, so we should keep an eye on their web page: http://www.mosquito.com/~bberends/mastermind/ I also managed to get a copy of "Mastermind IV: Until Eternity", which I like a *lot* more than "Mastermind III: Tragic Symphony". I would recommend picking up #4 if you can find it (try Tower), but you may want to give it a listen first, especially if you demand high quality vox. They're a great live band, but his singing is an acquired taste. During the show, they played "Ride of the Valkyries" and "William Tell Overture". :) Some of us commented about how cool those tunes were; he said they'd like to put out an entire album of "cover songs" like those! That would rule! So check out the web page, especially you Japanese Jammers, and go see a great 3-man prog band! Back to lurk mode ... - Dave Neff (email_address_removed) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:15:16 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Dietr Miller To: email_address_removed Subject: Portnoy at Namm Message-ID: I'm sure someone answered the question about Tama, but to reiterate what John Pettruci told me himself..... Paul Northfield will produce the new album. andy Andrew Miller The world couldn't be much more grey, email_address_removed Andy died that day. The world couldn't -or- turn away, Andy died that day. The world email_address_removed could find the words to say "We'll miss you", Andy died that day. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:12:40 -0600 From: Madelaine To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2216 Message-ID: >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:16:20 -0500 >From: Phil Carter >Bafu then graced us with his views on zamboni-patrol (and other things): > >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? I used to live in a college town... (Oshkosh, B'gosh, Wisconsin), and, even on the campus street, I'd move my butt pretty quickly getting to the other sidewalk. Of course, maybe it's because I'm short and most people can't see me over their monster jacked-up pickups with the deer carcass tied to the front grille... ;) >> 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... >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.") > My family has an '82 Ford LTD station wagon...we (I) call it the "Toad Mobile"... (It's powder blue...there's a long story behind the nickname) However, while driving it down the road, I always drove with the attitude that my car was made of cast iron, and therefore could crush just about anything but one of them Ford Suburbans. :) > >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) Either that, or pistol whipping would be a grand sport... ;) *******NDTC******** -Maddy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:03:41 -0800 From: Adam Barnhart To: email_address_removed Subject: Swapped Binary Message-ID: Jan Hammer: Yeah, he HAS been around for a long time. He's done a number of things, including the movie and telvision themes, some solo work...even that record he did with Neal Schon (anyone remember that thing?) He's really a superior player and probably the master of the pitch wheel -- he's a very guitaristic player, like Derek. Singers: Ray Alder's a great one live. Or, at least, he was the night (the ONE night) I saw him. He was just awesome...tremendously powerful, hitting notes, the full range. I was extremely impressed -- it was probably the best live performance I'd seen by a rock vocalist. I always see Queensryche at the end of tours, for some reason, when Geoff Tate's suffering from Ian Anderson Disease, though he's still sounded good. On record, though, I'm far more impressed with him than any other vocalist. Jon Anderson's good in both environments, as well, and Greg Lake's voice is pretty strong live, though I don't think it's been recorded with quite as much oomph. Adam D. Barnhart email_address_removed email_address_removed http://www.cfmc.com/adamb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:04:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Beavis (Wes Foll)" To: Randall Braun Cc: "'Ytsejam'" Subject: Re: Magna Carta's web site Message-ID: thanks for the help! see ya on da jam...8) Beavis (Wes Foll) http://www.america.net/~wfoll/beavis.htm /| / ||\ / || \ ______________ _ ______ _ __ __ //| || \\_____ _____| ||___ // |\ \/ / //_| || \ | || || | | || |/ ///|| \ / / __ || |\ \ | || || |__| || To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: er...re Message-ID: > >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). > > Hmm...I sense something similar to what happened between DT and Fates > Warning, (FW put "Dream Theatre" on Parallels, DT put "Fatez Warning" on Awake). I doubt that IME intentionally did that. Neither did FW. But DT spelled "Fatez Warning" on purpose in the liner notes. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:27:54 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Dietr Miller To: email_address_removed Subject: Fanclub, and stuff Message-ID: How long does it take for the fan club shit to get to you? two weeks? I was thinking earlier today about the power ballad. Listen to Another Day, I had a few thoughts as to why it never made it. In my opinon and I think I'm right, Silent Lucidity was the last power ballad to top the charts(this is baring Metalica songs). Hear me out before you say I'm wrong. I think it was one of two things, 1) Silent Lucidity was the best power ballad every written and therefore they need not every show another video, or air another song in its vain again. ----or---- 2) Silent Lucidity was only the tip of the iceburg and MTV officals relized that Progressive metal was going to overtake all forms of music in general. Therefore by stopping Queensryche, they put a stop to Prog-rock because they just thought Kurt Cobain (not to bust on Kurt... he has made some awesome music) just looked cooler. And it's not really about the music at all but about the image. ---------- 3) Acually it could be a little of both of these but I just think MTV didn't relized that Queensryche was a progressive band, and just see all bands of the sort of shoots of Glam rock, and for all intensive purposes just didn't want to support that image anymore. later...........andy Andrew Miller The world couldn't be much more grey, email_address_removed Andy died that day. The world couldn't -or- turn away, Andy died that day. The world email_address_removed could find the words to say "We'll miss you", Andy died that day. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:50:00 -0500 (EST) From: Quazel Schmirt To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2216 Message-ID: Yes, I missed the joke. Yes, I feel like an ass! Oh well! Jill ----------- Quazel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:28:12 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Vai, Damn the Machine Message-ID: ABout Ya-Yo Gakk... I don't find it at all annoying... it's the humor song on the album... and just thinking that Steve spent a year recording his son singing that, and then went thru the whole thing to find all the phrases that were in tune, etc... A question for those who know... is Damn the Machine still around? Did they only release one CD? I got it, and it just rocked... ok. that's it for now ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 97 14:33:40 -0800 From: "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" To: email_address_removed Subject: "The DJ" internet music service Message-ID: Just wanted to inform you all that there is an online music service (FREE) at "www.thedj.com". It is similar to DMX, in that you can select a genre of music, and songs from that genre will play, without commercials, continuously. The "progressive" and "great guitar" channels are sadly lacking right now, but things should be picking up soon, as I am going to lend a large portion of my CD collection to the guys who started this company (I know them, some are ex-employees of my company). So check it out if you wish and enjoy -- and remember that the content and variety of "progressive" and "great guitar" should be improving.. later, -Neil. /===============================================================\ | Neil Evans Phone: 415.506.3503 | | Server Technologies Division Fax: 415.506.7370 | | Oracle Corporation email: email_address_removed | \===============================================================/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:39:43 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Byrne To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2214 Message-ID: At 01:01 PM 1/22/97 -0800, Tom Baddley wrote about Jan Hammer: >He plays in a style more >reminiscent of a guitar player, with riffs and bends (much like the >honorable Mr. K. Moore). I have the album _Untold Passion_, which is Hammer and Neal Schon (of Journey & Santana fame), who's no slouch on guitar himself. There is a lot of guitar & guitar synth playing off Hammer's keys, and sometimes it is very hard to tell who is playing what. Jonathan Byrne, 1L West Virginia University College of Law email_address_removed (WormWood or DrNick on IRC) NEW WEBPAGE! http://access.mountain.net/~rael/home.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- "Can a song bring out the love inside us? Can it ease our deepest fear? Can a song change all the wrong to right? Cand it stop a single tear?" -Brett Kull, "Meaning and the Moment", echolyn ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2217 **************************