YTSEJAM Digest 2663 Today's Topics: 1) re: Crimson Glory by (Chung Ng) 2) Jim Matheos by Chip Alexander 3) NDTC Buying Advice? by Graeme Nicholson 4) re: card by WhiteWolf 5) Rush @ Great Woods tonight by Eric Paulhus 6) Re: CD Reviews ( FNM) by Henrik Gustafsson 7) I HAVE NO WILL POWER! by Buck Stodgers 8) RE: Stratovarious by "Blevins, Mike" 9) Parish (Crimson Glory related) by email_address_removed.ne.jp (Keiji Nishihara) 10) A favor... by "Andrew Forcier" 11) MICHAEL HARRIS - Ego Decimation Profile/Defense Mechanizms by email_address_removed (Mark Lampert) 12) Re: A favor... by email_address_removed (Edward J Wilk) 13) Re: T-Shirt update! by email_address_removed (Edward J Wilk) 14) Pesky li'l ol' me... by "Andrew Forcier" 15) Fix for 96 by "Daus Studenberg" 16) Myung and the Stick by "Daus Studenberg" 17) Re: Myung and the Stick by Rick Audet 18) Various; no Megadeth or Spice Girls Content by Pat Griffin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 10:58:27 EDT From: (Chung Ng) To: Subject: re: Crimson Glory Message-ID: | Someone wanted to know what's going on with | Crimson Glory: Well, a new album is supposed | to be in stores any day now Cool. Can't wait. It's this just a one-shot deal or are they looking to *really* re-form the band? One of the guitarists was in a band called Parish, but it didn't have that special something that CG had (probably because they didn't have Midnight...). It's too bad about Midnight, but if the new singer is even half as good, it'll still be better than most of the metal that's coming out these days. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS : Congrats to Brian Leetch - Best Defenseman in the NHL !!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:51:48 -0500 From: Chip Alexander To: email_address_removed Subject: Jim Matheos Message-ID: Hey all, Sorry if this has already been covered here, but I just got Jim Matheos' solo album "First Impressions" last week and it has completely blown me away. Accoustic guitar, violin, and cello - that's it. The entire CD is beautiful - positively brilliant. Chip ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:14:10 +0100 From: Graeme Nicholson To: email_address_removed Subject: NDTC Buying Advice? Message-ID: Some kind soul posted about three web addresses for good online places to buy CDs - would you please post them again? While we're at it, if anyone else would like to recommend this type of store, please let me know privately. Down here on the south coast it's really hard to get hold of decent CDs. Only when I'm in London for the day can I get to Tower and bring home something I've been looking for. Visits to NYC and London have kept me furnished with a great amount of cool music, but I can't do that ALL the time! And now I have to check Fates Warning (which is the newest album?) out due to all the recommendation, and of course I can't find their CD here. Same goes for the new Ron Thal, and most Shrapnel stuff. +----------------------- Graeme Nicholson | work t: 01202 299900 PLAY+ Magazine | work e: silencio@paragon.co.uk --------------------+ home e: lbgn@easynet.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:10:15 -0600 From: WhiteWolf To: email_address_removed Subject: re: card Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970623101015.0068b540@autobahn.mb.ca> >ya know, i was thinking.... wouldn't it be nice for us to make some kind of >'ytse- get well card' for Whitewolf? I figure we could all send emails to >techrat, and he could print 'em out on a card, with a big majesty symbol on >the cover... or maybe the flaming heart(more appropriate, me thinx)... >anybody up for it? > it's your call if you guys want. i guess this will have to be a secret so i'll clip this post off before he reads that digest. send to his e-mail and i'll take care of the rest. techrat btw test results back tomorrow =================================== Open your eyes...and your mind will follow. =================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:55:43 EDT From: Eric Paulhus To: email_address_removed Subject: Rush @ Great Woods tonight Message-ID: Hey fellow jammerz, I hope to see some of you guys there... if you see a short guy wearing a grey Fix shirt w/ blue Majesty hat... say hello, k?? See you there... --Eric-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:55:23 +0200 From: Henrik Gustafsson To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: CD Reviews ( FNM) Message-ID: Hi folks At 18:18 1997-06-22 -0700, you wrote: >Hey, guys, > >Faith No More - "Album of the Year" Okay, this is the first I just bought it, some hours ago, and have a question to all of you who has it. Did you as well get that 6-songs remix Bonus-CD? Well, I got that, for no extra cost. Those are remixes of Last Cup, Ashes, and She Loves, by some Techno-bands and DJs that I've never heard of. Not really my cup of tea, not buying anyway, to plain mindlessly dance it suits. Anyway to tecnosize FNM songs may get them played on dancefloors around the globe, so you might hear them somewhere, and they are quite OK!, and has some interesting touches. finally I stick with the previous, it takes some listening to understand this album. So good luck to you! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Henrik Gustafsson H=F6gskolan Trollh=E4ttan/Uddevalla +46 (0)520 - 47 50 49 /fax -99 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:56:07 -0400 From: Buck Stodgers To: email_address_removed Subject: I HAVE NO WILL POWER! Message-ID: Hello, I spent $125 on music related stuph on Saturday alone and I don't regret it one bit. However, my financial well being is a notch lower, if that was even possible... So my friend Chris gets back from Europe and says "Let's go to the Princeton Record Exchange" which as many of you may know, is a vaccuum that sucks the money right out of your pocket. :) In looking around, I noticed zero collectible DT, Rush, Megadeth, etc. So I looked in my "lesser bands'" sections. 'Lo and behold, I got a cool two-disc INXS boot (hey, stop snickering!) that I had almost ordered from KTS and an amazing Sting boot of him and Gil Evans orchestra at a jazz festival. This is a must have for any Sting fan. I also got Abbey Lincoln, BB King, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden. Those last four were all used; discs I had been hunting for used for a while... WARNING: Long, self-indulgent concert review to follow! Then Chris (who does not play guitar, but has the utmost respect for those who do) and I decided we would never forgive ourselves if we missed the G3 show at the Garden State (fuck PNC, they're my bank and they suck) Arts Center. So we plowed down there, arriving about an hour before the show. We go to get tickets at the box office, and I ask what's available. The guy says "fourth row"! I shit you not! But the tix were $100 a pair, so we coughed up half that price for lawn. So we get to the lawn and an usher tells us if we want to, we can move down to the rear pavillion section! And we were there so early, we got our pick of seats in the section. Well, as for the show, someone had to tell us that Robert Fripp was playing. IMHO he sucked. He sat on a stool turning back and forth playing some kind of guitar synth. The silly thing was, he got up and walked away every so often and the music kept going. And it was so mind numbing I almost screamed. Worse than Chinese water torture. The only thing worse was the guy next to me yelling "Fripp's a trip!" right into my ear... Kenny Wayne Shepherd: yeah, I think I heard this guy when his name was Stevie Ray Vaughan. :P It's one thing to pay homage to a guy, it's another to rip off his solos. I could hear 6 to 8 bar sequences that were literally ripped from SRV songs. The opener was practically (if not actually and intentionally) an instrumental version of Tell Me. And his singer was so mediocre it was agonizing. It's kind of a disappointment to see a blues guitarist that doesn't sing. It's kind of anti-climactic to me. Still, almost any blues is good blues, so I happily went with the flow and tapped my foot. Steve Vai: Well I thought he was improvising last fall at the first G3 show, but apparently not. Most of the improv stuff was the same here, and the song list was identical with one exception. My friend Chris and I agreed the exception was the best: Angel Food. Kenneally is on my list of purchases to make now. Not only can Mike play a mean guitar, but he can play those keys too! And Vai may be looking for a new guitar tech at the end of this tour as his current one was obviously incompetent. My friend Chris described most of Vai's set as "wanking" with too much whammy and "hey, I can do this and you can't" stuff, and agreed that the slower stuff (Angel Food, For the Love of God) was better. Joe: ahem, awesome. AWESOME, I SAID!!!! Improvised for real, changed his set list, played Ice Nine and Mystical Potato Head... I think I'll give up the guitar, I'm obviously not this good. :) But Joe has got to dump this Stu Hamm guy. I mean every time this guy Stu does his solo, he makes Joe look bad cause he's SO FUCKIN' GOOD!!!! This time Stu threw Moonlight Sonata into his solo. My bud Chris described the feeling well:"Stu just sits at home learning this stuff to show everyone he can do whatever he wants..." Jams were good, but there was no reason to have Fripp in on them, he sat in a corner and did nothing. The songs were the same as last fall, but they threw in You Really Got Me before Red House, too. Overall, great show, glad I caught it, but the one last fall is still the best EVER. Joe and Stu were so much better than the rest of the show, I wish they'd go back on tour alone again. The sound was way to quiet and muddy at this show. Yes, I said QUIET. Oh, and the t-shirt was too cool to pass up. One of the best prints I've ever seen. Just hope the shirt holds up to the laundry! -- ______________________________________________________________ Andrew Forcier a.k.a. Buck Stodgers Maintainer of the List of Ytse-Traders of Repute; To submit names or request a copy, mailto:email_address_removed -------------------------------------------------------------- --List Manager-- The Peppermint Tribe, the Saigon Kick Mailing List For info, check out: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rfm5570/ for e-mail inquiries, mailto:email_address_removed ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:16:43 -0400 From: "Blevins, Mike" To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: RE: Stratovarious Message-ID: Mape wrote... > > >Greetings ye 'jamanoids! > >First of all, a big hello from Timo T., Timo K. and Jens of Stratovarius >to all jammers. > >Phillip: >> I also got the new Stratovarius "Visions" a couple of weeks back. WOW! >> This is a good one. These guys are really at the top of their game and >> I don't think they get the attention they deserve amongst DT fans. The > >They will. You and me, among others will make sure of that, won't we? I >believe that once Stratovarius finishes their South American and European >tours, Timo Kotipelto the singer will join us here in the 'jam. At least >that's what he told me yesterday. They'd get even more respect from me if I could actually SEE them here in the US. I know that's got to be a financial problem, but it would be very cool... > >> only complaint I have about them are their lyrics...but they're easy to >> look over because it's just so good. Very listenable disc. What's the >> deal with the labeling though? My CD lists "Kiss of Judas" as the first >> track but it's "Black Diamond" and they play Black Diamond again at the >> end along with a live song (both unlisted). Anyone know what's up with >> that? > >Brandon: >>I think that this is on all the CDs. My friend just got this as well and >>told me about the same problem. > >This is kinda curious. The European NOISE release of "Visions" has no live >songs on it, but there's a Windows AVI video clip of "The Kiss of Judas" on >the disc. Are you telling me that the U.S. version doesn't have this video >clip on it? Does anyone know what the unlisted live song is? Can anyone quote >me some of the chorus lyrics that I could recognize the song for you? THe live song is "Uncertainty" from Episode, and my dics has that and the demo for "Black Diamond", but no AVI clip. Noise strikes again... :) > >>Guys: Get the Stratovarius album titled "episode." It kicks major buns. > >Amen! And for the minor buns, get "Fourth Dimension"! > >>The guitarist reminds me a lot of Petrucci and sometimes Steve Morse (ala >>"tumeni notes") on the 8th track of the album. I'm reluctant to buy prog >>that I haven't heard because more than once I have been disappointed. My >>friend had this up at school and he let me borrow it. This is now one of >>my favorite prog bands. I haven't gotten "visions" yet, but plan to. Timo can definatly rip, that's for sure. > >Way to go, Brandon! Yesterday, when I was on stage taking some photos of >Stratovarius, I took a look at the foggy lake the stage was beside while the >band played the ending of "Forever". It was pretty moving stuff, it was one >of those things money can never buy. Talk about music for the occasion... > >_Mape_ > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:32:03 +0900 From: email_address_removed.ne.jp (Keiji Nishihara) To: email_address_removed Subject: Parish (Crimson Glory related) Message-ID: Hi! Domo. Chung Ng talked about Ben Jackson (guitarist of Crimson Glory)'s post & pre(?) CG band called PARISH. I got their only album released 2 years ago. Musically, very melodious disc,but there's a lack of ENERGY that CG used to have. So this one is diffinitely AOR disc, that's what I wanna classify this. The song "Racheal's Eye" (the opener) really attracted me,but the remaider on this disc are a bit soft to me,though there's good melody in them. Some kind of collector's disc. Latest 5 discs spinning in my CD player. 1.Trixter/Undercovers (Backstreet)---just for fun. 2.Smalltown Heroes/Go Your Own Way (CD-2) (E'G)---nice. melodious band. 3.Jon Bon Jovi/Destination Anywhere (Mercury Japan)---a bit dull. but he's good at songwriting. 4.Royal Hunt/Paradox (Teichiku)---rocks. prog-metal album of this year. 5.Richie Kotzen/SomethingTo Say (Polystar)---cool. forget the fact he used to play with Poison. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- -Keiji Nishihara $B!!(BDoshisha Uni. Electric/Electronic Material Lab. Semiconductor ARRAY KYOTO JAPAN email_address_removed.ne.jp email_address_removed.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:51:53 -0400 From: "Andrew Forcier" To: email_address_removed Subject: A favor... Message-ID: Hello, Could some kind soul in ack mode send me a note and tell me if this gets through? I want to know if I can send to the Jam from this account. Yeah, I'm a whiny pest, I know. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:23:41 -0500 From: email_address_removed (Mark Lampert) To: "Ytsejam Mailing List" Subject: MICHAEL HARRIS - Ego Decimation Profile/Defense Mechanizms Message-ID: Ahoy, Michael Harris' CD "Ego Decimation Profile" is now available at Knights of the Round CD Kingdom www.knightsoftheround.com under the H catalog. If you have never heard Harris' work and you are a guitarist, this is some serious stuff!! His previous release, "Defense Mechanizms" can be ordered through Harris himself as well as the new CD. Mail to Harris email_address_removed and ask about ordering ... He can also send you a catalog of his releases with his 2 other bands, ArchRival (80's metal style) and Surgeon (very heavy and prog metal style, excellent band!) as well. We're talking great songwriting, soloing and fretwork in general - not to be missed! · • Colonel Mustard • · ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:35:33 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Edward J Wilk) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: A favor... Message-ID: >Hello, > Could some kind soul in ack mode send me a note and tell me if >this >gets through? I want to know if I can send to the Jam from this >account. >Yeah, I'm a whiny pest, I know. ::sigh:: Whiny bastards... yes, it got through. Ed-San ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:08:49 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Edward J Wilk) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: T-Shirt update! Message-ID: >you with current orders in may (a) wait and get it then, via first >class >mail, the day they get finished, with a small surprise, or (b) get a >refund and re-order closer to shipping time. Either way is OK with us >and >we're trying to be as flexible as possible for those of you who are >supporting us so wonderfully. Damn... how close to the school year? The thing is, I am going to the Queensryche concert on Aug. 2, and have no DT shirt to be recognized by.. One question- do you know when and what other shirts with covers from your different CDs are coming out? It's just that I, and many people who I've talk to on IRC, don't like the Antiquities cover. I was wondering when the When Dream And Today Unite and Precious Things covers will be out. Have a good one, Ed ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:37:34 -0400 From: "Andrew Forcier" To: email_address_removed Subject: Pesky li'l ol' me... Message-ID: Hello, Well, I keep getting snagged at work when I use Netscape mail, so I figured I'd send from my Lotus Notes. Less obvious this way. I don't think my co-workers know this can be used for internet e-mail along with intranet. The cads... So I bet some of you are wondering why the hell I'm bothering to say this. First to apologize for the little blurb note I sent moments ago. Second, to let you all in on a piece of info. For those who don't read GFTPM, I picked it up and poked (not perused :) ) through it and saw a Satriani article. And guess what: he's got a new album due out at the end of the G3 tour! He's been recording on the tour breaks and says it has been one of the most creative times in his career. So this fall, keep an eye out in your local CD shoppe. I assume that everyone who purchased the Megadeth CD got the Cyberarmy notice on the back flap. I've been holding off on joining, but now that they're offering a CD, I figure "why not?" Question: what songs are on the CD? And is the rest of the CA package worth the investment? Any Canadian, New York, or Vermont jammers know where the Montreal Jazz festival is going to be, or who will be in the line-up? Curious. I heard it's August 2 & 3, is that correct? Well, back to the grind for now. Only two more weeks till I give my notice, five till I'm quit, and six till I head to sunny South Carolina! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:56:07 -0700 From: "Daus Studenberg" To: Subject: Fix for 96 Message-ID: > I went to a local metal store today and found: > Dream Theater: Fix for 96 on double CD for $59.99 > It contains all the songs from the a "Fix for 96" show plus > two songs from John P's clinic. > The CD cover shows James singing. > > Does anybody know about this CD? Sound quality? > It looks like a professionally done CD, not a crappy bootleg. I was wondering if the bootleg had some of the new Dream Theater songs on it? Of so, I was wondering if anyone knew were I could get it. Also, I have a few bootleg Dream Theater videos to trade with anyone that has the Fix for 96 on video, if there is one available. I never had a chance to see the show, SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO TRADE FOR THIS VIDEO. Thanx! Daus Studenberg email_address_removed "I am just a stranger in the strangest land." - Mark King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:09:12 -0700 From: "Daus Studenberg" To: Subject: Myung and the Stick Message-ID: Hey Jammers!! I have been on the "Stickwire"(List devoted to the Chapman stick instrument) mailing list for quite some time. I heard from Scott Malone (bassist for Cynic) and a few others that John Myung has purchased a Chapman Stick. Does anyone know if he is going to be playing it in the new album? That would be really cool if he would because it would add a different perspective to some songs. For all of you who don't know what a Chapman stick is, it is pretty much a ten string tapping board with no body split in tuning to accommodate a guitar and bass range. Daus Studenberg email_address_removed "I am just a stranger in the strangest land." - Mark King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:19:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Audet To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Myung and the Stick Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Daus Studenberg wrote: > I have been on the "Stickwire"(List devoted to the Chapman stick > instrument) mailing list for quite some time. I heard from Scott Malone > (bassist for Cynic) and a few others that John Myung has purchased a > Chapman Stick. That would be *Sean* Malone, not Scott. Rick Audet Dolby Labs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:34:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Pat Griffin To: ThE NuGgeTjAm Subject: Various; no Megadeth or Spice Girls Content Message-ID: Pat D. said: >I only have 8 days until I get married. Anyone have any last words for >me? Yes, congratulations to you and Al for finally patching things up! :) [On Altura] A few jams back people were talking about Altura. I believe someone was defending them saying that they were no more a DT clone than Shadow Gallery and the like... I have to disagree here. I have Altura's debut Mercy, as well as SG's second CD, Carved in Stone. The Shadow Gallery CD to me sounds very original. There was nothing that jumped out to me and said 'that sounds just like DT'. The music and vox are great, and even if they have a DT feel to them, it's not glaringly obvious or overdone. Altura, on the otherhand, seems to have had DT in the CD player between breaks in the studio. I'm not saying it to be cruel or anything, there is a lot of good stuff on that disk, but there is a song where it goes into a completely out of place abbriviated version of the middle section of Metropolis. I don't mean it reminds me of Met., I mean that musically it sounds like it's the same thing, only shorter. And it doesn't fit in the song at all. People who disliked Metropolis for that reason would hate Altura. Not only that, but there are other places in the CD where I have been able to spot the opening drum beat from Pull Me Under, and an almost exact copy of the bass and drum lines from Lie. Altura doesn't just 'sound like DT' to me, in places they 'sound like they *copied* DT.' I know this sounds pretty harsh, but Altura actually is pretty good. I agree with Chris that the CD could have been a lot better than it is, though. There's good parts and bad parts, but the things that stand out the most to me are the obvious DT ripoffs (or continual amazing coincidences, depending on which side of the fence you stand), and the distracting and out of place musical segues. Of all the bands I have heard described as DT clones, Altura is the only one I've heard that clones DT's *music* itself, and not DT's *style*. [On the new CD] For those of you who are getting your hopes up for a July release, don't. The band has been saying for quite some time now that the new CD won't be out until Fall, say Sept/Oct. I'd love it next month, just like the rest of you, but it's not going to happen. As for the rest of the Ronnie Scotts' stuff being released, there will be 1 more track from that show on this year's Fan Club Christmas CD, along with the studio version of the instrumental jam from the Awake tour and the notorious 'Nightmare Cinema' incident from the Euro Fix shows. The rest of the tracks won't be out until next Feb. on the Metropolis II EP. [On fishing] Hook, line, and sinker. h t t p : / / w w w . m i s s o u r i . e d u / ~ c 6 7 5 3 1 1 / | Pat Griffin Reality2 Design | | email_address_removed email_address_removed | h t t p : / / w w w . m i s s o u r i . e d u / ~ c 6 7 5 3 1 1 / ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2663 **************************