YTSEJAM Digest 2223 Today's Topics: 1) VDomine, FW by "A.R. Bell" 2) Theater vs. Theatre by Nick Guadagnoli 3) Vai, Authentic DT Content by Steve Borzilleri 4) Holy Soldier by Scott Cook 5) Awake by Siddharth Sharma 6) Klank by "Dale R. Newberry" 7) Really Random Thoughts Obviously Influenced By The Devil by Steve Borzilleri 8) an observation by email_address_removed 9) NDTC - Neal Schon by Eddy M 10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2220 by email_address_removed 11) Re: Therion "Theli" (NDTC) by cronos@worldaccess.nl (Richard Karsmakers) 12) dt pin by email_address_removed 13) Re: RATT unplugged, Portnoy bands by email_address_removed 14) RE: Kevin's Keyboard by email_address_removed (Ryan Rafaloff) 15) Nuno's Schizophonic by email_address_removed.or.jp (Keiji Nishihara) 16) Mega... by Andrew Forcier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:30:16 -0600 From: "A.R. Bell" To: Subject: VDomine, FW Message-ID: One name I haven't heard brought up on the current Christian thread is Veni Domine. Kind of hard to describe...Hmmm...A darker, more Gothic Queensryche maybe. Anyway, they are well worth checking out. Also, I have seen FW members listed in the DT tribute bands that have been posted. (I listed Ray and Zonder, myself.) - Someone had mentioned they had not seen any of the Fatez named as such. What kind of sentence structure is that....JEEZUS. My apologies. Later... Aaron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:43:34 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Guadagnoli To: email_address_removed Subject: Theater vs. Theatre Message-ID: Whoever came out of lurk mode to comment on the Theater as opposed to theatre argument should sit down before they fall down. There is a major difference in the definitions of these two words in the american english language-- Theater= the building in which plays, movies and the like are to be seen. Theatre= the actual artistic genre conceptualized by the portrayal of situations by actors. This including musicals and non-musicals. ie: Theatre Arts. My minor at California State University. We perform theatre in the theater. -- Not a flame. I just think that all should know. ProgRockBoy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Borzilleri To: Dream Thespians Subject: Vai, Authentic DT Content Message-ID: > From: "Raivo Hool" > Subject: alien luv secrets > > Is it just me or does "The Boy From Seattle" really sound something > like Hendrix? Hint: Vai didn't write the song in memory of Kurt Cobain. Well yesterday I had some extra cash lying around, so I had James LaBrie flown out here in my private jet. He's a great guy. We went to Denny's in downtown Seattle and had lunch, then I told my pilot he could take the rest of the day off, and flew James back East myself. So the guy got a little queasy on the barrel-rolls, so what. (I mean it takes a little more than just STOMACH ACIDS to put down those iron vocal cords of his...) Anyway, I ordered a basket of seasoned fries at the Denny's and got to chat a bit with The Voice himself... "So yeah, Bafu, it's like I said. People keep comparing Geoff Tate and I like we're competing in the Olympics or something. But let me say this. Geoff Tate and I are completely different singers, not to mention chefs..." "Let me get this straight... You guys sing AND cook?" "Of course! How do you think I got the vocalist spot in Dream Theater? Linguini with clam sauce gets 'em every time. Anyway, Geoff Tate and I both have something to offer, and if you don't like what either one of us has to offer, then fuck off. Go eat at McDonald's for all I care." "Very...profound. So, James, How'd those shows go out East? You know I had to miss all of them 'cause my plane was in the hangar being repaired." "Really? You shoulda told me, you know I raise caribou in Canada, don't you?" "No way!" "Hell yeah, I could have hitched a few of those beasts to our sled and whisked you out here in a matter of hours! Seattle to Long Island, three hours tops! That's pretty quick, you know? I mean that's shorter than what our album's gonna total up to...assuming we decide to leave off Metropolis Part 2..." "Wait, take a SLED to New York? On the ground? Out on the roads?!" "Roads? Where we go, we don't need ROADS. (lunges out of his chair) We go UP! (glares at the waitress while hitting a high C) Into the AAAAAAIIIR!!" "So your caribou....your caribou can fly?" "(sits back down) Of course they can fly! Geez, Bafu, don't believe all that shit about reindeer from the North Pole flying around and stuff. Canadian caribou are where it's at, I'm talkin' two turntables and a microphone. You wanna deliver presents all over the world, you go to the Great North, not the North Pole." "So you actually have a sled? A Dream Theater Sled?" "Look, how do you think we get those Christmas discs to all the good fan club members?" "I thought... The postal service?" "RIGHT! As if they could actually drive those jeeps across oceans or the (hits another high C) VAAAAAAST arctic wastelands of Siberia... Rob Shore, our manager, he puts on the costume and everything and just takes off!" "Wait, did you say Siberia?" "Yeah, we got fans up there, too. Anyway, yeah, that's how we cut our postage costs, we just air-drop the discs from the the sled. Usually we have Jai John on the ground with the DT Golf Cart to make sure Rob nails all the chimneys, I mean otherwise we get jewel-cases splattering all over the place on impact with the rooves and whatnot...sometimes they hit the golf cart, but hey, Jai's not exactly working for minimum wage down there either..." "Sounds like one hell of an operation. Not to mention your caribou." "Yes, my herd of caribou, which reminds me... I really should get back home to feed them. I mean Jai's cool with driving the golf cart around, but he hates animals. We try to keep Portnoy away from him." That's where the conversation ended. But he did happen to mention that (BEGIN AUTHENTIC INFORMATION HERE) all merchandise from the Fix For '96 shows will soon be available on the DT website (the rsabbs one). That's the shirts, the hats, the whole nine yards. (END AUTHENTIC INFORMATION HERE) Actually, James used a measurement from the metric system which I don't remember...might have been meters or something... Bafu Vai (note: the above mountain of excessive writing was not meant to offend anyone who is James LaBrie or Rob Shore or Mike Portnoy or Jai John, nor was it meant to offend the Canadian Santa Claus if there is in fact such a being, nor was it meant to offend anyone who may have a pet caribou and shrieks at the idea of harnessing it to a sled like some animal. I have never actually seen a caribou, and much like Rodents Of Unusual Size and the fabled episode of "The Incredible Hulk" where his pants fall off and he supposedly doesn't have any underpants on, I don't believe they exist.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:03:56 -0800 (PST) From: Scott Cook To: email_address_removed Subject: Holy Soldier Message-ID: >Holy Soldier did release a new album about a year and a half ago. Its >titled "Promise Man." IMO, their new singer is much better than their >last. Do you know if the old Bass Player is still in the band? I used to work with that guy at a flower shop in Torrance, CA around the time the first album came out. I used to have that cd and it was really good. It's really surprising how different people look when they get in their stage makeup and do their hair up and stuff. I saw him one night after a show he did in L.A. and I didn't even recognize him at first. Scott ************************************************************************** Larry Flynt was at the Supreme Court in 1988. He's been back many times since then, but only to lend videos to Clarence Thomas. Bill Maher - January 22, 1997 ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:50:23 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: Siddharth Sharma To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Awake Message-ID: Hi Mark ! > And I loaned my CD copy of Awake to a friend of mine a week ago. She > won't give it back. Good thing I still have my cassette copy (minus > Scarred, but still...) I have this one quesyion about the tape version of Awake...y'see I live in India and as such have the Indian release (minus lyrics, et al), so I was happily rocking to this amazing band when I chanced upon the lyrics. Here's what I found: On the tape I have, "Voices" ends with the lyrics. Withdrawn and introverted, Infectiously perverted Being laughed at and confused Keeps us pleasantly amused enough to stay Though when I read the lyrics, there were about fifteen lines more. I believe these fiteen lines are missing from the lyrics card on the tape too, but the song has them ? The album sleeve say 9:53, but I haven't sat down with a stopwatch....yet. Could you tell me if the record company has indeed shortchanged us over here ? Hope my question makes sense :-) Sid. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 02:29:06 +0000 From: "Dale R. Newberry" To: email_address_removed Subject: Klank Message-ID: Someone mentioned Klank again (and posted a review) in a recent jam. The dude that does it is Daren Diolosa (aka Klank. funny story behind this name :), who used to play guitar for Circle of Dust. Scott Albert was the main man behind Circle (vox, guitars, producing, etc.), and I think he may be the man behind the alias Celldweller (who produced the Klank CD). If the right people hear the CD, I imagine it could easily be picked up by a mainstream label with a larger budget/more support, kinda like when Fleming & John moved from REX Records to Universal and they re-released their CD. Anyway, Diolosa is a cool guy. Nowhere near as scary as his vocals might indicate :). He is definitely NOT the stereotypical "Christian musician" (he's had his bit of controversy). Heck, how many Christian artists would you see citing Mercyful Fate/King Diamond as an influence? Dale R. Newberry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:45:29 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Borzilleri To: Dream Thespians Subject: Really Random Thoughts Obviously Influenced By The Devil Message-ID: (If you don't watch ER, angrily skip this and curse me.) I'm listening to "Perfect Strangers" right now from the ACOS disc. Dream Theater has to be one of my favorite bands of all time. They haven't done much lately to usher in any huge, colorful discussions. As for me, I'm not interested in Kirk Hammett, his guitarplaying or otherwise. I'm interested in Dream Theater. But like Jack Skellington and Oedipus Rex before him, Doug Ross is a tragic hero. He is constantly reminded of the one he hates every time life presents him with a serious conflict, and this person is none other than his father. Doug Ross is fated to repeat his father's life, and this scares him to death. This outcome is inescapable, as evidenced when Charlie reached out to him with a plea that he become her foster father, and he bluntly refused to help her. This refusal was born of his fear that he would end up repeating the actions of his own father. Inwardly he is terrified by the idea that he might someday play a role in creating another Doug Ross, that even a chance exists that another child will end up experiencing his own childhood sufferings, and this is probably the biggest reason he ends up leaving every woman he gets involved with who even hints that they think he would make a good father. (Every time someone says "you're a very nice man," or "you'd make a great father," Ross goes dead silent and stares at the floor. Why?) Then when Charlie began screaming at him, Doug Ross The Badass promptly bolted out of the room. He admitted to her that he was not ready for the responsibility of taking care of a child. Also notice that he did not interject or attempt to calm her when earlier on she muttered, "Sex, rape, what's the difference?" This was because part of him agreed. He knew his lifestyle only contributed to this theory. In Charlie's hopeless voice he heard the lamenting of not only an abused little girl but the voice of his abused mother, and saw in her broken soul the broken souls of all the women he had ever been with who loved him and whom he could not love back. This is why he could not bring his own eyes to meet Charlie's when she blew up at him - because she was RIGHT. Doug Ross is not proud of his promiscuity, nor his painful, frustrating inability to feel compassion for anyone or anything. He struggles every step of the way. But then again, that's the only constant thing about ER, other than people dying left and right: those doctors have absolutely horrible lives. This post was written in a blaze of fury after a seventeen year old girl in the TV Room watching the show in a group of about fifteen people blurted out upon seeing Doug Ross, "Oh I hate this guy! That girl got beaten up cause he was too MACHO to help her, and all he does is sleep around with every woman in the entire hospital! He's basically a male slut, but they can't call him that because he's *DOCTOR* Ross!" If anyone on this list agrees with the above opinion, you're a fucking idiot. This sort of sensibility is what leads people into misfortunes, like being taken advantage of or accidentally eating Otis Spunkenmeyer cookies before getting into a skisuit, and I can't believe this girl sitting right in front of me couldn't see past the images on the glowing screen... Yeahyeahyeah, take it to the ER list. Can someone please hang on to the beginning of this homosexual thread so I can swallow the other end? I mean, even if that doesn't end the discussion, I need to floss my colon with SOMETHING. Bafu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 03:57:41 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: an observation Message-ID: Here's a little observation of mine. It seems to me that the reason a lot of people are dissatisfied w/ JLB's singing live is because of the grittiness he has in his voice, especially when he hits the high notes... this is also noticeable on Awake. I guess since he sang so cleanly on I&W, that's what people xpect of him. I for one prefer the grit. It fits in better w/ the heavy songs, and I think that's why it#s present on Awake, since it's a heavier album. I also find that when he hits those extreme highs, he hits 'em w/ more power than most singer, hence not sounding like (as Pete Steele so eloquently put it) "little girls having their feet tickled." I also find that many people categorize DT w/ other 80's style band, but I find that DT doesn't belong to that group, and they made it quite clear on Awake( except for IF). Not that I don't like 80's style bands... I&W is very 80's sounding, and like Angra. But DT is the type of band that grows and changes w/ the times, and that's one of the reasons I dig 'em so much. Just an opinion. On another note, I just saw the STM video on HBB... they should do all their videos in that style.... Ernie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 20:21:05 -0800 From: Eddy M To: email_address_removed Subject: NDTC - Neal Schon Message-ID: The Neal Schon and Jan Hammer albums are titled - Untold Passion (CBS) 1981 Here To Stay (CBS) 1982 Neal also plays on - Michael Bolton - The Hunger (CBS) 1987 Aussie singer Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart and he did a song with Eric Martin on the soundtrack to the movie 'Teachers' Eddy (not Eddie) in the centre (not center) of Melbourne (pronounced Melbun) Oztraylia (Australia) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 06:35:07 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2220 Message-ID: In a message dated 1/24/97 1:23:46 AM, you wrote: << howz it going. I was just wondering ....was "learning to l live" ever been played live??? if it were did jp do the acoustic parts on an acoustic or on a electric. on other thoughts ..just got the tape from the band Power of Omen. >> UHHHHHH, yeah, and a yea i just got the power of omen thing to, i really liked it Laterz, Stan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 12:13:32 GMT From: cronos@worldaccess.nl (Richard Karsmakers) To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed (Ytsejam Mailing List) Subject: Re: Therion "Theli" (NDTC) Message-ID: Walter, my man, you may seriously dig Therion. "Theli" is their latest offering. Loads of choire/female vocals, but a kind of gruntish vocalist as well. Plenty of classical instruments, keys, but definite metal guitar and drums. I heard it once at a party and I was hooked INSTANTLY. It's pretty unique. You might call it progressive, but it's nothing like Dream Theater or Rush. It reminds me more of regular metal, only it is progressive in the way that it is definitely something *new*. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | Richard Karsmakers cronos@worldaccess.nl | \--------------------------------------------------------------/ C.R.I.M.E. Development; "Twilight World" Magazine; WWW-MMM "ST NEWS" ST/TT/Falcon disk magazine; "Ultimate Virus Killer" alt.music.gwar FUQ II maintainer P.O. Box 67, 3500 AB, Utrecht, Netherlands /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?" | \--------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 05:02:04 -0800 From: email_address_removed Subject: dt pin Message-ID: Yee Hah, I got my metal DT logo pin from Rock Toys today! It's pretty cool, but was a bit expensive ($6 + $4 s&h). It's about half-dollar US size. I also got some cool cds from a band I havn't seen discussed on the jam called Tad Morose-Sender of Thoughts and Leaving the Past Behind. They're from Sweeden. Speaking of Sweeden, does anyone else remember a Sweedish metal band from about '89 called 220 Volt? Trevor W. Hoit ¸ ---------------------------------------------------- The Gathering-Always $9 I Lethal-Maza $6 I Tonto's Expanding Head Band $6 I ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:38:22 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: RATT unplugged, Portnoy bands Message-ID: Just FYI, there's a "Hard Rock Web Page" out there somewhere (sorry, don't have the address). There's an interview with Rudy Sarzo (of Quiet Riot, Ozzy, Whitesnake). He's presently recording for the RATT reunion album (minus Juan Croucier, obviously!) I'd be interested in that RATT unplugged set as well. I only saw it for 3 seconds on the "Back To The 80s Part II" special on MTV. They were playing "Way Cool Junior" We should see the comeback of all the 80s bands soon... C.C. Deville is back with Poison.... RATT is recording... Night Ranger is recording (all original members) Motley Crue is back with Vince Neil.... They can open for DT!!!! Yeah! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 08:35:01 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Ryan Rafaloff) To: email_address_removed Subject: RE: Kevin's Keyboard Message-ID: NuGgeTMaN wrote: > > I was watchin' LiT today and noticed somethin' on Kev's Keyboards > (especially duringthe TtT video) that kinda looks like some kinda > decorations of some kind. Oh yeah...I'm NOT talking about the > Japanese symbols on his stand just in case some of you geniuses are > thinkin' "Damn he's stupid...it's Japanese!" Later Kids! > Carlos Wrote: >Well i was first thinkin about that.. but seing the video again theres >also some japanese in the keyboard itself..and the stand..so i dont know >what exactly are you talking about.. -- Yeah, I've alway wondered too. The writing on the stand is obviously Japanese. But there is also some other writing across the top of the keyboard. I thought that too, was Japanese writing. I never noticed anything other than that. BTW, I was always curious to know what type of a keyboard that was. Any ideas? Rock On, -Raf- -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tanagraphics, Inc. 263 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 1000 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:10:25 +0900 From: email_address_removed.or.jp (Keiji Nishihara) To: email_address_removed Subject: Nuno's Schizophonic Message-ID: Hi! to everyone. I got Nuno's 1st solo album titled "Schizophonic" today. It's owesome.I think I must not tell you much about this album before you listen it. So just let me use 2 words to explain about this album----'MODERN' and 'EMOTIONAL'. Don't expect him what you enjoyed with EXTREME. Btw,am I the only one thought he should have been the singer for Extreme? Here's track list 1.Gravity 2.Swollen Princess 3.Crave 4.What You Want 5.Fallen Angels 6.2 Weeks In Dizkneelande 7.Pursuit Of Happiness 8.Fine By Me 9.Karmalaa 10.Confrontation 11.Note On The Screen Door 12.I Wonder 13.Got To Have You 14.You 15.Severed 13.Hop The Train-bonus track Later! -Keiji Nishihara email_address_removed.or.jp email_address_removed.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:10:59 -0800 From: Andrew Forcier To: email_address_removed Subject: Mega... Message-ID: Hello, Hate to be a stickler, but: >> You don't see people saying Megadeath or Corn. Why not? That's how the >>words are spelled. Actually, when I was in high school and made cracks about Megadeth not spelling "death" right(I was of yet unschooled in the art of Mustaine), a friend had me look it up and that was in fact the correct spelling of Megadeth. There was only the one "a". For the curious: it refers to one million deaths as the result of a nuclear explosion. But I have checked other dictionaries since, and it is different in each one. I even took a Defense Policy course where there were different spellings of it. I guess we should go with the Megadeth FAQ saying Dave dropped the second "a" so people wouldn't think the band was just about death. I mean, they write a lot about murder too... hehe Andrew ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2223 **************************