YTSEJAM Digest 2496 Today's Topics: 1) New DT album by "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" 2) RE: YTSEJAM digest 2495 by "Blevins, Mike" 3) KISS by "Brian Hayden" 4) I must explore the genres.... by Jon Parmet 5) FW vs QR by Pat Daugherty 6) FW vs QR by Pat Daugherty 7) Mr. Tull Is DEAD! by Adam Barnhart 8) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2493 by email_address_removed (Ernesto Schnack) 9) Stuff by Soul Madness 10) Derek in YES by email_address_removed 11) fates the same band as DT? NO!! by Kevin Madden 12) Spock's by The Digital Man 13) Album reviews, NFWC... by Buck Stodgers 14) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2494 by 2112 15) Symphony X For Sale by "Graham Boyle" 16) Re: Album reviews, NFWC... by alex fraser ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Apr 97 11:01:23 -0700 From: "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" To: email_address_removed Subject: New DT album Message-ID: Jammerz- Remember when Mike Bahr mentioned that the new album would be nothing like we think it will? Well, combine that comment with the proposed 60-minute album (leaving some extra space) and what do you get...? DT multimedia.. think about it.. cheers, -Neil. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ "The price is wrong... bitch." $ $ -Adam Sandler to Bob Barker, 'Happy Gilmore' $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:31:50 -0400 From: "Blevins, Mike" To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: RE: YTSEJAM digest 2495 Message-ID: >> consider the "best" or "most favorable" cabinet speaker/head amp half >> stack for a heavy metal prog thrasher like myself? I'm kinda partial to >> Crate, Mesa Boogie, Marshall...all 'em good big 'uns...I just don't have >> any single model that piques my interest over the rest(yet). > Any cab with decent speakers will sound good. There is some >evidence to support that some of the new Mesa cabs (not the old ones with >the metal grill) are more well designed to spread sound evenly. They have >a slight slant to them that no other cab I've seen has (and I'm not >talking about slant-top cabs... I know what those are). But you will get >a great sound out of anything with good speakers. What to look for >speaker-wise: Celestion Greenbacks (25 Watt speakers) sound good, but if >you play loud consistantly, (that is, if you play live shows, and don't >mic your cabs, but make them do all of the work) you might want something >stronger. In this case I'd go with Celestion Vintage 30's if you can >afford them (I am told that these are actually 60 watt speakers). Recenly >I've heard great things from Peavey Sheffield speakers, as in the 5150 >cabs. Worth checking out. > When buying speakers (not cabs) you get what you pay for. When >buying cabs, you get the name you pay for. Yes, to a degree. I prefer Celestion 85's or 90's, personally, but only Celestions - I didn't like the Sheffields. As far as cabs go, my main one is actually a Peavey Butcher 4-12 from 1986, with 85 watt Celestions. My other guitarist just bought a Boogie Recto 4-12, with 90 watt Celestions, and it sounds great. As far as the price, if we didn't have an endorsement, he wouldn't have bought it, because they are expensive - but not much more than Marshalls, and the Boogies are built like tanks. I Like the VHT stuff I've heard, as far as heads go (I use a rack system myself), and the Boogie Dual Rectifier. Soldanos sound pretty good, too. > > >On your question about guitar eq. I don't actually prefer just a head and >a cab to get that great crunch sound. I prefer a combo of a good tube- >driven effects processor with good power amp. Both guitarists in my band >use this kind of setup. One guy has a Digitech 2101 as a preamp and a >Mesa Boogie power amp (I'm not sure of the model number, cuz he just got >it, but it is a tube power amp). He can get some great crunch out of >that setup. Every time I have plugged into a straight into a Marshall >amp I have been severely disappointed. I'm sure a Marshall would sound >great with some extra toys to tweak it, but I've never gotten close to >my ultimate sound straight into a Marshall. This same guitarist used to >have a Boogie .22 caliber amp with the eq circuit on it, and that little >fucker sounded great until it got dropped and broke all the tubes inside. >One of those would probably be a lot better if you are tight on money. >You have to make sure they have the eq on there, because some models don't. >The .22 is basically a practice amp, so it has a speaker on it, but it >sounds much better when you hook it up to a cab. Some other good effects >processors besides the 2101 are the VuduValve and the Chameleon. The >VuduValve smokes! Anyway, hope I helped you out. I like both the VooDu and the Chameleon, with the VooDu getting the edge because of the tubes. I personally use a Marshall JMP - 1 Midi preamp, a Rocktron Pro - Q, an Alesis Quadraverb, and a Tube Works MosValve power amp. I may be getting a Boogie 2:90 power amp soon, depending on how it changes the tone. I haven't found a head I like as well as my rack, but the Pro Q makes the big difference. Try everything, buy what you like, and you'll buy something different in a year - that how guitarists are! And that's my opinion on the subject. Mike DIVISION DIVISION - DC power/prog's still alive and well, just very, very tired, and hoping for lots of women in short skirts when we play with Warrant... (?) http://www.crosslink.net/~division - email_address_removed > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 13:39:53 -0500 From: "Brian Hayden" To: email_address_removed Subject: KISS Message-ID: > Just been announced that KISS are playing London Finsbury Park in the UK on > Saturday 5th July, & I'm getting my tix tomorrow!!!!! > > Yeeee-Haaaaa Motherfucker!! ;)))) > > > Laterz > Eddie };-)~ Oooooohhhhhhhh, you're in for a treat. Coolest thing I've ever been a part of! The solos are amazing, too - each guy takes one on his instrument, and they prove that KISS is much more than just good marketing. -Brian ***************************** Quote of the Day ********************************* "Being miserable might work for your first album, but once you get your royalties, what are you gonna sing about on your second album? Then all you can do is blow your head off and become a legend." - Paul Stanley of KISS I wanted the Best, I got the Best! ******************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 19:02:24 +0000 From: Jon Parmet To: email_address_removed Subject: I must explore the genres.... Message-ID: > From: Rip > Therefore, i propose we get all 1000 of us together, get some artillery, > masks, grenades, and go down to mtv studios and take the place over for as > long as we can hold it out. There you have it, folks. Call the SWAT teams. Rip has finally gone postal! No offense to any Ytsejammers employed by the US postal service (I mention the US only, as I don't know if this phenomenon is prevalent outside this country) or any other service-related industries known to produce such patholigies :) > From: Phillip > The prices are constantly going up! A high price used to be, what, > $15.99 for a cd? GRRR. Weren't CDs around $30 when they first appeared circa early 83-84? Then again, I didn't buy into the whole CD concept till two years ago :) > From: Chris > Inside Out is IMO, better than Awake. Just wanted to weigh in against your > opinion. :) No offense... I totally respect you hating the album. ok, I'll bite. IMO, Awake tears Inside Out's head off and shits down its neck :) An aside: My take on cia9itg is the guys have been able to take an already complex enough song and show how straightforward it was to apply the elements of industrial, alternative, whatever to it. They pretty much capture the essence of the whole scene in one song! Nothing against the genres, there are some great tunes coming out. It's just most of the stuff sounds like something I'd heard before, only now there are better effects processors to run it through. I'm must laugh, though, when I hear comparisons of Awake to Images & Words. I mean, come on, CIAW is so fucking heavy. That solo section in the middle? Hello? James' voice? Help me... John's bass on Scarred? See ya... John's guitar SOUND just seems to get meaner and meaner, as if that's a good thing :) I'd like to Ibanez make a guitar for JP that resembles a dragon's mouth and with the ability for flames to shoot of out it, at the command of a foot pedal, perhaps. Oh yeah, I think I&W is a great disc... Matter of fact, I think I'm gonna head down to Strawberries right now and pick up Awake!!! :) Ok, here's what I found out after my little lunchtime excursion into excessive extension of credit: -> The cute brunette still works there. -> They DON'T HAVE the new Fates in yet. Guess what, I'm actually able to wait. -> They DO HAVE plenty of stuff I hear people say is hard to find such as: ---> A dozen or so Savatage ---> Marillion's Brave and Six of One ---> Awake (well, 1 less :), ACOS, I&W ---> Loads of Steve Morse ---> Plenty of Fates' Warning -> Strawberries is in fact not going out of business. -> The cute brunette still works there :) This is all from memory. I'll bring a list of groups to check stock on. Ok, here's what I picked up (in case someone decides to cover my life story :): Dream Theater - Awake (14.99) Steve Morse - High Tension Wires (tough call, but this one was only 11.99) McCoy Tyner - Jazz Classics (7.99) Roland Kirk - Jazz Masters 27 (12.99) Jude Cole - A View From 3rd Street (gotta get the obligatory cuddle disc :) I have a question for the ytseGurus. On the protective plastic sheathing of the Awake disc, there's a label which says: |-------------------------------------| | The original expanded consciousness | | version contains over 75 minutes of | | Dream Theater Music. The most music | | you'll ever get on one CD. | | Featuring | | LIE 6:00 CAUGHT IN A WEB | | and SCARRED | |-------------------------------------| Were there other, commercially released, versions of Awake? Is this disc worth $4,000? :) > From: Pete > Every disc I've bought from Metal Blade was like that. Maybe their > shipping guys have too much fun... :) I'm going......DOWNTOWN :) > From: Jeff in most of jam 2493 Holy mother of god, Jeff. You go, boy :) CIAW, Jon *------------*------------------------*--------------* | Jon Parmet | email_address_removed | 617-494-2851 | *------------*------------------------*--------------* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:10:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Daugherty To: Dream Theater Mailing List Subject: FW vs QR Message-ID: QR did change, sure it isn't OM, but I feel that it is still good. I feel FW has changed on every album. If you listen to every FW album in succession there are many changes. I mean the first album to me sounds like Iron Maiden. And on their new one they have taken prog and technical and all that jazz to a whole new level. I just have this need to get out of work and go home and listen to APSOG again... I guess the new Dokken which I also bought yesterday will just have to wait a few weeks or months to get some airplay... I just wonder when Mike Bahr's Precious Things arrives, what will happen... |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Pat Daugherty email_address_removed | |=======================================================================| | "Every breath leaves me one less to my last" --Dream Theater | | "That is not an option, Mr. Mulder" --X-Files | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:16:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Daugherty To: Dream Theater Mailing List Subject: FW vs QR Message-ID: Al B wrote: >BTW....... http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/9280/halfnakd.html > > THE HALF NAKED WEB PAGE...... hmmm.... I now know what you look like.... heh heh heh heh |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Pat Daugherty email_address_removed | |=======================================================================| | "Every breath leaves me one less to my last" --Dream Theater | | "That is not an option, Mr. Mulder" --X-Files | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:35:36 -0700 From: Adam Barnhart To: email_address_removed Subject: Mr. Tull Is DEAD! Message-ID: Well, like seemingly most of the list, I picked up "A Pleasant Shade of Grey" yesterday. I've only listened to it once, so I haven't really fully absorbed the record, but, at first listen, I'll say this: I like "Parallels" and "Inside Out" better. I know, I'm poppy -- not progressive or whatever. I'd peg it, at the moment, about where "No Exit" is, a cut below the last two albums. It's still a good one, don't get me wrong, and subject to revision in either direction. But while everyone here is absolutely raving about the CD, I'm sitting here, thinking it's about average for a Fates Warning disc. Ah well, I'm always the weird one... Five Gratuitous CD's: ===================== 1. Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade of Grey 2. The Offspring: Ixnay on the Hombre 3. Metallica: Ride The Lightning 4. Rush: Hold Your Fire 5. Yellowjackets: Dreamland Adam D. Barnhart email_address_removed email_address_removed http://www.cfmc.com/adamb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:20:20 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Ernesto Schnack) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2493 Message-ID: >>years, but I believe it's on Sheik, there's a song where Frank >>absolutely rips the crap out of the guitar. > >That sounds like Rat Tomago. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama >wasn't on Sheik Yerbouti. > I know; MGWTKYM was a pun on the reference to FZ ripping the crap out of his guitar, you know, a joke, haha, bad one I guess... never mind You know the jam has suddenly turned into total brainwash. After I finish one I have this little voice in my head saying 'BUY NEW FATEZ'... of course there's little chance of that cuz not yet in Panama, and they never have Fatez stuff here.... I guess I'll have to order it. Kinda makes me want to be back in Germany where they even had a seperate section for Angra in some stores. Of course your avrege cd there costs $25-$30... you guys complaining about $18?! SHEESH! ;) >Scott > >"Don't Fool Yourself Girl; it's going right up your poop shoot." > AY AY AY AY AY thankyouverymuch Ernie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 16:23 EDT From: Soul Madness To: email_address_removed Subject: Stuff Message-ID: I agree totally that people should make other boots besides Dream Theater- I love hearing Dream Theater boots- no doubt but my vote goes for a Savatage or Queensryche one. Think about it- I'd love to hear early Savatage demos that were never released, Zach Stevens doing old 'Tage songs, and rare live stuff and for Queensryche, anything from them would work. Although, firstly, I'd like to see someone make a Savatage disc. Don Compton email_address_removed http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/5784 ...so many times, I tried and failed to gather my courage reach again for that nail, life's been like dragging feet through sand and never finding the promised land.... Queensryche- Promised Land ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:31:49 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Derek in YES Message-ID: Okay sorry if I am repeating this story but too good not to mention again. Supposedly (about 84% sure) Derek was asked to tour with YES as Rick Wakeman quit two days before the start of their European tour. They wanted to catch Derek before DT went back to the states but missed him, still they pleaded with him, but he said he was flattered but his obligation to DT obviously takes precedent. Pretty damn funny I thought. Take the time. -Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:40:29 -0700 From: Kevin Madden To: email_address_removed Subject: fates the same band as DT? NO!! Message-ID: I have to disagree with Mike Bahr when he says that the two bands are, in essence, the same band, with the major difference being lyrical content. In my opinion, DT is waay more wank-y than Fates. Fates are much more focused, and much less flashy. It is very rare that Fates go off on a blow-out section where everyone is whaling, where DT does this quite often. Don't get me wrong, I like DT but Fates hits a spot within me that DT could never ever come close to. I just don't hear such a similarity. Sorry. Pat, I got to Best Buy at about 10:45am, and there were several copies still there. Well, at least two or three. GO WINGS! Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:01:08 -0400 (EDT) From: The Digital Man To: A Pleasant Shade of Ytse Subject: Spock's Message-ID: Hey, folks. I know that some of you are planning on seeing Spock's in California a couple of weeks from now. With all this talk of people wanting boots from bands other than DT... ..anyone planning on capturing this one for posterity (or even prosperity)? Anyone that can offer me a tape would be rewarded handsomely. (or any other show of theirs, for that matter.) -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ Secretary & Webmaster email_address_removed "@'/ ,. \`@" UVM Comp Sci Student Assn email_address_removed /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~cmerlo \__U_/ He's a digital man" - Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maintainer of the Official Dream Theater Frequently Asked Questions List http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~cmerlo/dtfaq.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:02:57 -0700 From: Buck Stodgers To: email_address_removed Subject: Album reviews, NFWC... Message-ID: Hello, I got this really cool new album, it's got some great keyboard stuff on it and some really intense rhythms. I think you've heard of the band: INXS. hehe... The next person who posts a review of APSoG without properly marking it in the subject is going to force me to subject the jam to an INXS album review. Six days till the new Cheap Trick!!!! One month until Prunella Scales! Woo-hoo! Oh, and D-Man, I know there's more than one CD store in B-town, you're just not looking hard enough. I'm sure Pure Pop would have the new Fates, right next to the Nitzer Ebb and Sinead albums... :) Yes Swifty, the new Shining will be cool. But better than Kubrick's? That's going to be a tough one. May I remind you of Mr. Stephen King's past directorial work: Maximum Overdrive. Not exactly high quality... On a related note, does anyone know when Night Flier is due for release? Or is this gonna be straight to video? Add the Moody Blues to the extended list of the concerts I will be attending this summer. I'll be the 22 year old guy in the Megadeth t-shirt sitting with his 58 year old dad. No, I'm not kidding. We go every year. It's odd when you share a taste in music with someone thirty-five years your senior. It's even more odd when he's your father... >I'm a die-hard Habs fan and we're pretty much down and out after losing >3 to New Jersey. Count me in on this one. Two things are bred into my blood as a New Englander of Canadian descent: love the Red Sox, love the Habs. All that and I have to live in the New York metropolitan area... :P I practically cried when the Habs didn't make the playoffs last year. A truly sad sight. But I think those three goals in the first period the other night were even more sad... Sorry to add some non-Fates content, but I only own Parallels and I have never been able to listen to the whole thing. Those triggered drums are painful to my ears. Flame and die... -- ____________________________________________________ Andrew Forcier --List Manager-- The Peppermint Tribe, the Saigon Kick Mailing List For info, check out: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rfm5570/ or send e-mail inquiries to: email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:11:01 -0500 (EST) From: 2112 To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2494 Message-ID: On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Antti Nyrhinen wrote: > > there's a touch of New Yorker in there because my parents are from Long > > Island. > > That's it! You're Mike Portnoy's bastard son! > This explains how you get your hands on all the good stuff, and > being the generous chap you are, let Jammers abound enjoy it as well. The old rumor about Mr. Bahr was that some jammers thought that he WAS Portnoy. Brandon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:10:07 +1000 From: "Graham Boyle" To: Subject: Symphony X For Sale Message-ID: I have one Japanese copy of SX 'Divine Wings Of Tragedy' in mint condition that I would like to trade for a copy of 'The Silent Man' CD single. Graham Graham Boyle Sydney, Australia email_address_removed.au 'No one ever dreams and lives' Bell In The Sea M a r i l l i o n ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:18:22 -0500 (CDT) From: alex fraser To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Album reviews, NFWC... Message-ID: > Add the Moody Blues to the extended list of the concerts I will > be attending this summer. I'll be the 22 year old guy in the Megadeth > t-shirt sitting with his 58 year old dad. No, I'm not kidding. We go > every year. It's odd when you share a taste in music with someone > thirty-five years your senior. It's even more odd when he's your > father... i'd have to agree... but how about this? mid-summer, target center in minneapolis, queensryche concert, me and my dad! that's right, dad's a rycher... very weird. that reminds me... i have to call home and see if he's checked on tix yet... latah, id ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2496 **************************