YTSEJAM Digest 2229 Today's Topics: 1) DigiTech's new AMPLIFIER!! (NDTC) by "Vincent G. LuPone" 2) Re: Dream Theater Translations! by "Vincent G. LuPone" 3) Angra cds by Mark Smeets 4) Casios, Water, Fire, Wood by Steve Borzilleri 5) News .. news .. news by Jan van Huizen 6) taco bell, no dtc whatsoever by email_address_removed 7) DT Lyric Translations v2.0 and more about phonetics. by "Rudy van IJzendoorn" 8) I just had a great idea ! by Mark Bredius 9) by flavio maia 10) Re: Musings with regard to jam 2226 (NDTC) by Gary Cleghorn 11) Re: Theater vs. Theatre by Gary Cleghorn 12) Power of Omens by email_address_removed 13) JLB on ACOS by email_address_removed 14) Re: Ayayayayayayay. by Stephen Daedalus 15) 220 volt by "Raivo Hool" 16) Re: Power of Omens by Glover 17) Payne's Gray by email_address_removed.de (Roger Klambauer (T. Froehlich)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 01:51:49 -0700 From: "Vincent G. LuPone" To: email_address_removed Subject: DigiTech's new AMPLIFIER!! (NDTC) Message-ID: Hi all, This goes out to all you guitarists out there. Digitech, the manufacturer of some really awesome processors just came put w/ a new amplifier. Yah! This was lifted from Harmony Central: --------------------------------------- DigiTech Unveils "Johnson Millennium" Guitar Amplifier DigiTech proudly unveils its first guitar amplifier at the 1997 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Dubbed the "Johnson Millennium", the product pushes the envelope of guitar amplification to the next level by combining a powerful 150 watt stereo amplifier (75 watts per side), two 12-inch speakers and an on-board programmable multi-effects processor. ---------------------------------------- Peace be with you and God bless. ~Vince (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vgl) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:03:11 -0700 From: "Vincent G. LuPone" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Dream Theater Translations! Message-ID: At 11:52 PM 1/25/97 -0800, you wrote: > It saddens me to see what you'll do to try to be "cool". I guess I >went through it myself, some time ago... I can't blame you. You try so hard >to be something you're not--and everyone can see right through it... maybe >someday you'll get your act together and grow up. I want you for who you >are... you can't see yourself anymore, but I know you're still there... and >you still think about me. ;p This has got to be "Scarred". This is pretty darn close to my interpretation of that song. I just read through "Scarred"'s lyrics for the first time ever (I'd always just listened to the song), and I noticed the line "Well, we're not laughing". I always thought it was "Well, what about what I think?" Anyone else hear this too? What about the "Fatalistic Remedies" line? To me that one sounds like "Elastic Rubbernads" or something. Anyone else? Later, Peace be with you and God bless. ~Vince (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vgl) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:04:56 PST From: Mark Smeets To: email_address_removed Subject: Angra cds Message-ID: ** Reply to note from email_address_removed 01/26/97 01:00am -0800 Hey, Bafu, Angra's second cd is called Holy Land. They also released an EP called Freedom Call after Holy Land was released. The cd which your talking about, is a combination of the Japanese release of Holy Land (that has the 1 extra song, Queen of the Night) and the second cd, Live at the FNAC, which has 3 acoustic songs. Im my opinion, you'd be better off getting the normal Holy Land release, and then the Freedom Call EP. You'll get the extra track on Freedom Call (Queen of the Night), plus 6 other wicked songs, including a re-make or Judas Priest' Painkiller (the musiciainship is uncanny) Then again if you have the cash, get all of them :) Mark my smartt.com account is now useless. Please email at either email_address_removed or email_address_removed -- -Check out the new Serenity's End Chat room zeek.murlin.com oprt 8888 -Check out my web site http://www.smartt.com/~jsmeets/stranger/INDEX.HTM @------>--->--- Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them to little. Others lose their faith because Heaven shows them too much. - The Prophecy -- I don't believe in coincidence @------>--->--- I guide you through the sea of nightmares called existance and lead you to the sanctuary where a haven exists only to those who have lost hope and this is called earth but to those who have hope, stand alone outside this haven guarding it alone. -M.S. @------>--->--- I stand at the promised land with Fire In my Eyes! W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:01:44 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Borzilleri To: Dream Thespians Subject: Casios, Water, Fire, Wood Message-ID: > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 23:42:28 -0500 > From: email_address_removed > Subject: Damn this is tough-stuff! (NDTC) Date: December 26th? > A Casio keyboard hooked up through an amp sounds *sweet*. Granted, > it's no synth, but it'll pass for now, until I gather up the doughage. My sentiments exactly. I usually sneak a Boss HM-2 (the Heavy Metal Pedal!) in between the amp and the keyboard to get a GRINDING distortion. Barre chords sound really chunky with the ultra-bass ampage of the HM-2. And speaking of great distortion, there's a game soundtrack which some of the older arcade-strafers may remember, circa 1987. The game was called Reactor. It had one of the baddest, meanest, chunkiest electric guitar riffs ever to grace the arcades... Tempo and feel of "Sad But True," but a little more technoish with that THUMP!THUMP!THUMP!THUMP! beat. Today it might be called an "industrial" soundtrack, as if steelsmiths can even CLAP in time... > Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there another series of toys also by > the name of "Beast Wars" several years ago? They were little rubbery > action figures standing maybe half the height of a G.I. Joe, and had > animal heads. I've got one somewhere, a tapirman missing its arms, but > no box/wrapping to check the product "name". Anyone care to shed some > light on this conundrum? Other folks have replied to this already, but yeah, Battle Beasts is what they were called. Water, Fire, and Wood were the team names. Somewhere along the line, toy companies got sick of dealing with Earth and Air (I've heard those elements were real control-freaks), so they took a slightly more Buddhist route and incorporated Wood as one of the basic elements. Keeping in mind that in this world Fire can't evaporate Water (so the Fire team didn't quite have it made), the balance of power went like this: (1) Water extinguishes Fire, (2) Fire burns Wood, and (3) Wood floats on Water. I've never understood how floating on something automatically gave something else power over it, I mean Cool Whip floats on Water, too. Howabout something that DESTROYS water, like maybe a Dry Ice team? My Christmas disc (and international fan club package! great job Neil!) just arrived. :) "Damage Inc." kicks ass, but they left off the part afterwards where Portnoy says in total exhaustion, "...that Lars is a motherfucker..." In other news, I heard from my genie-in-a-box (Jambi) that Portnoy is coming out with an instructional video that doesn't have any of the Japanese subtitles on the screen, so drummers will be able to concentrate on Portnoy's drumming without having to read at the same time. Oh yeah, John Myung's got a vid prepped for release in the States too, though in this version of the video they force him to use a microphone so people watching the tape can actually hear his voice. Did you know he did the overdubs for Jose Carreras on "The Three Tenors" live release? Who'd a thunk it... Oh yeah, Portnoy's will run about $40, Myung's about $50. Bafu Vai (note: the above offhand remark about the lack of intelligence of our drumming/percussionist brothers was not meant to offend any drummers/ percussionists on this list. the above casual hinting that John Myung speaks too softly was not meant to imply that he is incapable of speaking loudly, or incapable of singing as resonantly as Jose Carreras.) (note: the above disclaimer was not meant to offend any female drummers who may be receiving this digest and feel left out by my reference to all drummers as our "brothers." I am wrong. I am more than wrong. I am a fucking idiot. women drummers do exist and their sisterly efforts are equally as appreciated as the male drummers who receive this digest.) (note: the above disclaimer was not meant to offend any he-man woman-haters that may reside on this mailing list. I don't want to name names, but these people have just as much right to hate as I to love. Chris Ptacek.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:03:47 +0100 From: Jan van Huizen To: email_address_removed Subject: News .. news .. news Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's some news I took from the latest Aardschok (biggest metal magazine here in Holland): Galactic Cowboys ---------------- The new GC album has already been recorded. Drummer Alan Goss produced it. It's called 'The Horse That Bud Bought'. It will be released in April/May. Nevermore --------- Guitarist Pat O'Brian has left Nevermore. No word yet on who's to replace him. Thought Industry ---------------- Gitarist Christopher Lee has left TI. Exodus ------ Exodus have signed with Century Media. A live CD will be recorded in February. Divine Regale ------------- DR will release their 2nd album in March by Metal Blade. Queensryche ----------- Release date for the new Queensryche (Hear In The Now Frontier) will be 17th of March. That's all folks. Later, Aurora ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:26:08 -0800 From: email_address_removed Subject: taco bell, no dtc whatsoever Message-ID: >Just got done eating Taco Bell (as in "food from," wiseasses...) for lunch. Hmm. >Yummy. i just finished my light chicken burrito. Remember: Tasty And Cheap Oily Beef. Everybody Loves Lard. spells Taco Bell. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:37:58 +0100 From: "Rudy van IJzendoorn" To: "The Majesty Chronicle" Subject: DT Lyric Translations v2.0 and more about phonetics. Message-ID: Heya, I will tell you all the true story about the origin of the word Theater. This word, don't freak out now :), is a Dutch word. Apparently, what happened is that Dutch Colonists, centuries back, brought this word to America. A while after the Dutch people settled in America, it was invaded by the English, and thus people began to speak English. HOWEVER, some dutch words remained, so the language you all speak there in the USA is partly Dutch :), so is the word Theater. :) Chris Ptacek brought up the thread of translating DT lyrics.... I would give it a shot, but I will probably not do a good job, since I am from The Netherlands (duh! :)) However I *can* translate those lyrics into Dutch, but since you wouldn't understand a word I am saying anyway (except for the Dutch Jammers) I won't do that... OK, just a small excerpt then :) Ze staart naar het plafond, en probeert niet te denken en ziet de ketting in gedachten, die ze geprobeerd heeft weer in elkaar te zetten, Maar het gevoel is verdwenen. :) :) So much for my translation, I know you won't have a really hard time, figuring out what song this is. Or as our friend Rip, Cow Virtuoso would say: "De koe scheit meer als de kat" :) Greetinx, Rudy van IJzendoorn __________________________________________________________ | |)RE/\M THE/\TER - \/N|)ER /\ CYBER /\/\00|\| \/\/EBSITE | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ You tell me I'm wrong \\__\/__// I'm risking my life /| _ _ |\ Still, I have nothing in return //|| || ||\\ I show you my hands ||||//\\|||| You don't see the scars \\||/||\||// Maybe you'll leave me here to burn. \||\||/||/ (Dream Theater - Scarred) //ŻŻ/\ŻŻ\\ __________________________________________________________ |>>>>>email_address_removed * rudy.van.ijzendoorn@tip.nl<<<<<<| |..............http://www.prognosis.com/dream..............| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:22:32 +0100 From: Mark Bredius To: "'The YtseSpam'" Subject: I just had a great idea ! Message-ID: I just had a great idea ! If we posted *all* the off-topic stuff to a more appropriate mailinglist or newsgroup, there would be enough room on this list to actually talk about DREAM THEATER ! Yes, for real !!! That would kick some major ass, wouldn't it ? It would even "rule" ! We could discuss DT-lyrics, or how we got into their music... I think there are way too many digests a day for *anyone* to read them. A lot of people probably skip most of it. What's the point in posting something, if *no one* reads it ? Skadz is letting this list run loose, so it's up to us to moderate ourselves, and make this list better. Cutting down the size of sig's, like Tempus said, would also help a lot. And please stop quoting entire messages when replying. Only a few lines will do, most of the time. I know there are people lurking in the shadows to flame my ass off, because of this message (hi Scott), but I don't phuqing care. :-P _________________________________________ _ _____ ___ _ _ __ ____1 NAME: Mark "Itchy" Bredius |`||_```_|/``_]|`]_[`|\`\_/`/ 2 MAIL: bredius@globalxs.nl | | | | ( (_ | ___ | \_ / 3 URL : http://www.prognosis.com/itchy/ |_| [_] \___]|_] [_| [__/ 4 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 13:48:40 -0200 (EDT) From: flavio maia To: email_address_removed Message-ID: For the guy to want to know the angra cd names: the first is angels cry, with a german aproach for the musics, like helloween and blind guardian, the second is holy land, with a brazilian aproach, with some interesting brasilian themes(it's more complex, but i like the first than the second) and the third, called freedon call:it's a big ep, with 50 minutes...You should buy the 2 first cds of VIPER: andre matos was the former singer of it and they kicked ass...don't buy the others, perhaps buy the evolutin, because the turned to bullshit hardrock!!!!! It's my first time here, and i would like to see more dt discussions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:42:45 +0000 From: Gary Cleghorn To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Musings with regard to jam 2226 (NDTC) Message-ID: In article , "Kevin W. Madden" writes > >>history of North America, so lots of words were changed to give them a >>more phonetic look. > > > >>Gary Cleghorn >>Mmmmmm... donuts whoo-hoo > >I find it coincidental that a similar word should find >its way into your .sig ---> donut and doughnut. Though I can't >say phonetics had anything to do with it... Ah, but Homer Simpson is American :-) -- Gary Cleghorn Mmmmmm... donuts(doughnuts) whoo-hoo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:46:44 +0000 From: Gary Cleghorn To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Theater vs. Theatre Message-ID: In article , Quazel Schmirt writes >We actually discussed this topic in my music history class last semester. >When the first American dictionaries were being produced, the colonies (I >believe that is what we were at the time) were attempting to break away >from Europe as much as possible, specifically Britain. Webster took it >upon himself to alter the language slowly but hoped to eventually create a >language that was totally different. In his first edition, he changed the >spelling of all 'tre' words to 'ter' and the word colour to color. There were >some other changes but I can't remember what they were. Obviously, the >language didn't change all that much but there are some changes evident. >Either way, Theater is the same word, it is just a matter of which >country's spelling is used. That sounds like a very good explanation to me, i knew it had something to do with American history. -- Gary Cleghorn Mmmmmm... donuts whoo-hoo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:57:02 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Power of Omens Message-ID: An excellent band, I've had their demo for about a year and love it everytime I listen to it. I've kept in pretty good contact with their guitarist and some new information on them is they have a full time keyboardist and are to still trying to put out an album, but money has been a problem. Anyway, quite an amazing band, the singer is a dead ringer for early Geoff Tate. Take the time. -Eric ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:46:03 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: JLB on ACOS Message-ID: JLB's voice defintely had alot of FX on Awake, but it was mostly delay and reverb. It wasn't so compressed. It still sounds natural, and the emotion comes thru better. On ACOS , it's overcompressed...it distorts a lot of times. ACOS was just horribly produced and mixed as has been mentioned b4(i.e. the snare). Has anybody noticed that you can actually hear the clic track at 19:25? It's not that obvious, I only heard it w/ headphones, but still... it's there. Ernie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:54:58 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Daedalus To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Ayayayayayayay. Message-ID: Nintendo? X-Files? What are we coming to? As for a song, here goes. Once upon a time, I was totally in love with the world. Natural things impressed me no end. I had so many plans and dreams. I feel like I can take on the world. Then everything changed. Just like that. It all seems so temporary now. Now, I cling to that young man I was. Now I see the world is not the place it was and it exhausts me. I can remember every last detail of that time. He kept telling me to get back to that innocence from before and enjoy what I saw and heard because I might be dead tomorrow. I thought I really might be able to listen, but it would be hard. She died and no amount of preparation was enough. I'm gonna stop there. If you can't tell, then I haven't been obvious enough. Be well. Matt "The dead are rarely violent." (Shawn Rosenheim, Asst. Prof. Williams College) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:03:10 +0200 From: "Raivo Hool" To: email_address_removed Subject: 220 volt Message-ID: > Speaking of Sweeden, does anyone else remember a Sweedish metal band > from about '89 called 220 Volt? I remember them from 1993 when they performed here in Tallinn. I don't know about the music, simply don't care to remember, but the show was stunnin' and my neck ached 2 weeks afterwards. R. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:28:38 -0500 From: Glover To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Power of Omens Message-ID: >Hey there all, > I've gotten into a lot of bands in the last year just because >the jam was oversaturated with their names. I just got my demo copy of "Power of Omens" and I want to make >damn >sure that the Jam gets oversaturated with their name. This is something that we should all hear. >Adios, >Allen K. I agree. I've had the "Power of Omens" demo for a while now and those songs are incredible. It has superb musicianship. I haven't heard much talk about this band on the Ytsejam. As Allen K. said, everybody needs to hear this and these musicians deserve a lot of credit. For information about the tape, contact David Gallegos at email_address_removed. -C. Glover ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:11:42 +0100 From: email_address_removed.de (Roger Klambauer (T. Froehlich)) To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed.de Subject: Payne's Gray Message-ID: Hi folks ! I wanna lead your attention to a very talented and gifted German Progressive Ba nd: Payne's Gray (http://www.inka.de/sites/peacock/). "Kadath decoded" is an Interpretation of H.P. Lovecrafts "The Dreamquest for th e unknown Kadath". The Music can be compared with ? Only some Inspirations can be identified: Classic elements, old Genesis, some DT, but I've never really heard a band like Payne's Gray before ! So try to get in touch with them ! Roger. And, of course here is my special DT-Cover-Band: voc. : Warrel Dane (ex-Sanctuary, Nevermore) git. : Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) bass : Steve DiGiorgio (Sadus, Death) keys : Jon Oliva (ex-Savatage, Dr. Butcher) drums : Paul Craddick (Enchant) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |_|_|_|_| Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung | |__|__|_|_|_|_| Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) | | | |_|_|_|_| | |__|__|_|_|_|_| Roger Klambauer | Tel. : +49 (0) 6151/155-101 | | . _ _ | Wilhelminenstr. 7 | Fax : +49 (0) 6151/155-199 | | | / _ | \ | D-64283 Darmstadt | email: email_address_removed.de | | | \_/ |_/ | Germany | http://www.igd.fhg.de/~klambau | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Net boy, net girl - Send your signal 'round the world Let your fingers walk and talk - And set you free Net boy, net girl - Send your heartbeat round the world" (Rush'96, "Virtuality") ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2229 **************************