YTSEJAM Digest 2665 Today's Topics: 1) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2661 by "The Evil Midnight Bomber" 2) new Tourniquet by "The Evil Midnight Bomber" 3) oh yeah by "The Evil Midnight Bomber" 4) first impressions / finneus by "Andrew Miller" 5) Re: whitewolf's condition by WhiteWolf 6) Album review, NDTC by "The Notorious B.I.G. S.W.I.F.T.Y." 7) "Counterparts" - Rush (NDTC) by "Paul Matthews" 8) Review:Blackmore's Night by "Ollila Marko" 9) HDCD/Megadeth (NDTC) by cronos@worldaccess.nl (Richard Karsmakers) 10) Spock's Beard by nga@software-ag.de (Neil Gallop) 11) The boys by Jason Breitweg 12) FATEZ gig review - Ludwigsburg by email_address_removed.ch 13) Sfumato by email_address_removed.de 14) I&W Video location and date? by Jason Breitweg 15) hello? by Carlos Alfaro 16) Re: NDTC: Magna Carta by email_address_removed.ne.jp (Keiji Nishihara) 17) Shadow Gallery news by (Chung Ng) 18) Fuck a what? by email_address_removed (Mike Potvin) 19) Last Decade by Soul Madness 20) Paddywagon by Adam Barnhart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:46:30 +0000 From: "The Evil Midnight Bomber" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2661 Message-ID: > More prog than prog. Good band, but like coffee, it's an aquired taste. Yeah, but once you acquire that taste, you're addicted big time (well, maybe that's just me :). Of course, there's really good coffee, and there's really nasty coffee :). Dale R. Newberry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:08:00 +0000 From: "The Evil Midnight Bomber" To: email_address_removed Subject: new Tourniquet Message-ID: Hey, I just heard another new Tourniquet song. The title track form the forthcoming CD, "Crawl to China." Some really interesting guitar effects at the beginning. Slow and HEAVY. This one's a tad simpler than the other two newer tracks "Perfect Night for a Hanging" and "The Hand Trembler," but it's just as heavy. I'm looking forward to this album :). Oh, by the way, I saw a release date of August for it. Oh yeah, and I'll be seeing them in concert in a week :). Dale R. Newberry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:08:54 +0000 From: "The Evil Midnight Bomber" To: email_address_removed Subject: oh yeah Message-ID: Oh yeah, I'll also be seeing Saviour Machine the same day as Tourniquet, on the same stage :). Dale R> Newberry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:56:33 +0000 From: "Andrew Miller" To: email_address_removed Subject: first impressions / finneus Message-ID: On 23 Jun 97 at 11:44, some dumbass by the name of email_address_removed spewed this crap: > 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. you know what *really* sucks? thinking you've got a decent name for your album only to find out soon after that someone else used the same title... d'oh! DTC- nada. but a bit of prog content... i ordered a finneus gauge cd, and being the impatient person that i am, i downloaded the sound clips from http://www.ghostland.com/finneus.html. all i can say is... AAH!!!! KICK ASS!!!! i'm very much looking forward to this disc. (for anyone that may be lost right now, finneus gauge is the new project by Chris Buzby, echolyn's former keyboardist) later. -Andrew --------------------------------------------------------- | Andrew Miller - keyboardist/vocalist - subtlerage | | http://www.subtlerage.com - email_address_removed | | "first impressions" released. cassettes available | | an 8/97 release is planned for sr2 | --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:14:47 -0600 From: WhiteWolf To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: whitewolf's condition Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624001447.0068aa5c@autobahn.mb.ca> the test results are back and it looks good. besides the previously mentioned injuries there is some paralysis of his left arm probably temporary. if things progress as they are he should be resting at home by this weekend or early next week. l8tr techrat ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:38:59 -0500 From: "The Notorious B.I.G. S.W.I.F.T.Y." To: email_address_removed Subject: Album review, NDTC Message-ID: I picked up 4 CDs today at Silver Rocket Records for the total sum of $20. Images & Words, for my girlfriend. The Judgment Night soundtrack, because my brother stole my copy. Absolutely Free, by Frank Zappa, because I wanted it. And finally, the disc that is the subject of this post: "The Simpsons - Songs In The Key Of Springfield." This disc is a must-have for Simpsons fans. It has 39 tracks, and only 8 are versions of the theme song. "The Amendment Song," "Senor Burns," "Boy Scoutz N The Hood," "TV Sucks!" and "It Was A Very Good Beer" are just a few of the gems on this disc. Mark Peters email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:47:45 +1000 From: "Paul Matthews" To: email_address_removed Subject: "Counterparts" - Rush (NDTC) Message-ID: Hey ppls, I bought my first rush CD the other day. It was "Counterparts". Can anybody compare/contrast this from other Rush CD's at all??? I'd like to know which one to get next. Which stuff is best for a *dream theater* fan. Does rush do anything hugely complicated like DT?? My impression is that there isn't anything too complicated on the counterparts CD. Thanks heaps, Paul ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 97 10:35:09 +0200 From: "Ollila Marko" To: Ytse Jam (Dream Theater Mailing List) Subject: Review:Blackmore's Night Message-ID: Greetings ye 'jamanoids... More from the neverending warehouse of Mape's reviews... :P Blackmore's Night:Shadow of the Moon Imagine it, you're sitting under an old oak on the patio of a mediaeval castle, looking out to sea through one of the crenels of the castle's outer wall. There's a magnificent galleass sailing across the dead calm bay. There's a pretty blonde with a beautiful voice singing airs beside the wall, accompanied by a minstrel playing an acoustic guitar. That singing lady is Candice Night and Ritchie Blackmore is her minstrel spouse. This is definitely the sort of music that can part you from time and space and take you into an another, ancient world. It's pure magic, this CD's atmosphere is just enchanting. I felt I could drown in Candice Night's smooth singing and Blackmore's stylistically perfect accompaniment. Ritchie Blackmore has apparently grown out of his heavy metal pants, but this is nevertheless some of the best stuff he has composed in his whole life. As pioneering a band as Deep Purple has been, I'd select this over any of the Purple records eight days a week. It's not too easy to find a CD with appeasing mediaeval music. For me this is something I have been hunting high and low for a looong time. Candice Night's voice is like honey, it's crystal clear, it resembles Maggie Reilly a lot, Night's range isn't just as high as Reilly's but other than that the resemblance is uncanny. Blackmore's guitarwork is basic and stylish, his shredding days are over (save on one totally off-the-wall eighties disco (!) song on this disc, which IMO is way off the overall mood of this cd anyway.) and his sense of style is astonishing. Now, If I only could hear them in the surroundings I imagined. Rating: * * * * * * * * * _Mape_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 10:28:52 GMT From: cronos@worldaccess.nl (Richard Karsmakers) To: email_address_removed (Ytsejam Mailing List) Subject: HDCD/Megadeth (NDTC) Message-ID: Just a small question for the techno people out there: On Megadeth's "Trust" CD single it says stuff like "HDCD", High Definition Compatible Digital. What's all this about? Don't go *too* technical on me, please. If this is not the stuff that's supposed to be done on the 'Jam, please email me privately. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | 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" Gwar FUQ & Atari ST Emulation FAQ maintainer P.O. Box 67, 3500 AB, Utrecht, Netherlands /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue." | \--------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 12:54:31 +0200 From: nga@software-ag.de (Neil Gallop) To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed.de Subject: Spock's Beard Message-ID: Hi all For those of you thirsting for (more) information about Spock's Beard, try pointing your browsers to the following address: http://www.altura.com/jordanz/spocks_beard/ It's all there - samples, band info, pictures, reviews, e-mail addresses, how to order the albums (at reduced prices, too). The most recent update (21st June) says that they have finished recording their 3rd studio album and are now in the process of mixing it down. Precaution: listening to this band can induced rigidity in flaccid members. Don't say I didn't warn you... stay safe and happy listening Neil Gallop (nga@software-ag.de) Currently playing: The Sisters Of Mercy - A Slight Case Of Overbombing ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 12:56:21 +0200 From: Jason Breitweg To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed.de Subject: The boys Message-ID: I just scanned in a new picture from Burnn! magazine of the guys. Check it out at: http://www-zeus.desy.de/~breitweg/gif/dtgroup.gif Just a public service announcement *grin*. Jason -- Jason Breitweg, email_address_removed.de, http://www-zeus.desy.de/~breitweg "The time long forgotten will soon come again, prepare for the meeting, the Gods of Metal reign" - HammerFall ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:29:03 +0200 From: email_address_removed.ch To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: FATEZ gig review - Ludwigsburg Message-ID: Hiya'll jamanutz, After having been to the very disappointing Augsburg show last week, I travelled another 300+ miles to the FW Ludwigsburg gig. Being the last gig of their Euro tour, my hopes were this time high to live something special, not only from the band, but mostly from the audience who was basically asleep in Augsburg. With the proximity of Stuttgart, the place was more or less twice as filled as Augsburg with roughly 500 people. So it was quite hot from the start. Scanner played to a warm audience, but it was really Omen who got the place hot. Just like in Augsburg. Omen guys are really cool and energetic, but IMO their music lacks originality and suffered from the muddy sound. Anyway, after a very fast line check (the sound was obviously by the end of the tour, well rehearsed), FW took the stage. I immediately noticed that Ray was dressed much better and less than a hippie. Overall the band looked tired (this was the 5th gig of a series) but were having much more fun between themselves and with the audience. The audience responded this time splendidly, the band played the same shit as in Augsburg, but the crowd encored so much the band came back on stage to salute us one more time, although they did not play anymore. The set sounded much better rehearsed, Mark again ticking like a clock although the band doesn't play to a metronome. This guy is just awesome. Someone from the jam asked who the keyboard player was. Well I dunno if he's Ed Roth or not, but he either looks very Italian or much like Jim's brother. Who knows. In fact his reproductions of Aresti's solos are ok, but his sound was too muffled and sucked. Joey Vera up to it as usual, he also added some personal touch to Monument. Jim always as inward but this time much less worried about the others being with him in the song. The crowd listened very respectuously, if not ceremoniously APSOG, then really let go on the older songs. I dunno if APSOG got good distribution there, but it seems not since the anticipation of the crowd during the song was weak. To sum up, a very good gig, a very good band and a very good crowd, just like back in 1995. Now, FW have ended their Euro tour, however, they will play in the mega Eindhoven festival alongside Megadeth, Kiss, Flotsam, Testament, Skinlab, Foo Fuckers, Quorthon, Saxon, Iced Earth etc.... Cheers for now, ________________________________ "I had so much time on my hands then suddenly, it washed away" --------------------------------------------- "These are my wings to fly These are the winds to sail So let as time goes by Mind over matter prevail" ________________________________ D A V E K I N G b a s s & h a r m o n y M T 2 0 p r o g r e s s i v e m e t a l http://websites.maxess.ch/mt20 IRC : DaveKing ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 15:19:21 +0200 From: email_address_removed.de To: email_address_removed Subject: Sfumato Message-ID: <9706241519.ZM3188@giotto> Hey, you guys ! There's a new site of a Progressive-Rock-Band namend Sfumato. If you go to http://www.igd.fhg.de/~klambau/sfumato you can listen to some wav-files ! CU, Roger. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |_|_|_|_| Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung | |__|__|_|_|_|_| Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD-A4) | | | |_|_|_|_| | |__|__|_|_|_|_| Roger Klambauer | Tel. : +49 (0) 6151/155- | | . _ _ | Rundeturmstr. 6 | Fax : +49 (0) 6151/155-196 | | | / _ | \ | 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") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 15:20:03 +0200 From: Jason Breitweg To: email_address_removed Subject: I&W Video location and date? Message-ID: Hi all, For the "Images and Words: Live in Tokyo" Video which date was that on and which venue? It could be one of the following three: 08/23/93 Tokyo, Japan (Koseinenkin Hall) 08/25/93 Tokyo, Japan (Sun Plaza) 08/26/93 Tokyo, Japan (Sun Plaza) So which one was it, or was it a combination of all the shows? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Adios. Jason -- Jason Breitweg, email_address_removed.de, http://www-zeus.desy.de/~breitweg "The time long forgotten will soon come again, prepare for the meeting, the Gods of Metal reign" - HammerFall ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:48:39 -0400 From: Carlos Alfaro To: El Jam Subject: hello? Message-ID: Can you hear me??? Am i getting thruuuuuuuu??! :) -- "At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe." Ian Malcolm http://premium.caribe.net/~calfaro mailto:email_address_removed mailto:email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:20:26 +0900 From: email_address_removed.ne.jp (Keiji Nishihara) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: NDTC: Magna Carta Message-ID: Alright! I can help you out. It's "Black Light Syndrome" by BOZZIO LEVINS STEVENS. And the last one you can't remember is the bassist of King Crimson,Peter Gabriel etc.... And here's full track list (there's no possiblity of bonus track here in Japan.) 1. The Sun Road 2. Dark Corners 3. Duende 4. Black Light Syndrome 5. Falling In Circles 6. Book Of Hours 7. Chaos/Control According to the ad by Roadrunner (Jpn), it seems this is so-called jazz/fusion album. 5th/July OUT. At 2:08 PM 97.6.23 -0700, email_address_removed wrote: > I got the first Shadow Gallery CD from MC about a week ago (pretty cool >disc!), > and they included a catalog which has a CD by Terry Bozzio/Steve > Stevens/???(can't remember his name right now).... Anybody heard this yet? > > ~Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- -Keiji Nishihara 　Doshisha Uni. Electric/Electronic Material Lab. Semiconductor ARRAY KYOTO JAPAN email_address_removed.ne.jp email_address_removed.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 9:18:02 EDT From: (Chung Ng) To: Subject: Shadow Gallery news Message-ID: I don't know if someone already mentioned this, but I found this on their website: Shadow Gallery has been rehearsing wih Joe Novollo, an outstanding drummer who has played with the likes of Greg Howe, and Jens Johannson. The band is within weeks of recording material for their third release, which is tentatively titled "Tyranny". I've been told by Chris Ingles that Tyranny, "will deliver a heavy punch with a progressive feel." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:49:21 EDT From: email_address_removed (Mike Potvin) To: email_address_removed Subject: Fuck a what? Message-ID: >Fuckin' _A_ did Megadeth put on a GREAT show!!! No, Fuck a _B_ It has more holes and angles. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 12:54 EDT From: Soul Madness To: email_address_removed Subject: Last Decade Message-ID: Yeah, I could never figure out why a lot of their songs never made it past the demo stage such as I Just Wanna (off the Love Is The Drug single), Gimmie Some Of This and If You Think Your Bad. Just as a side note, all of Warrior Soul's releases (Last Decade, Drugs, Salutations, and Chill) have been re-released by Geffen. You can order them through CDNow directly through my WS page at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/5784 Other NDTC stuff: I just graduated from high school, finally. Anyone else on the list graduating soon or has everyone been done with school for a long ass time. Heard the new Bruce Dickinson CD in K-Mart and might end up buying it sooner or later. Also heard the new Dokken (which did nothing for me). Also, can anyone help me out figuring out those fonts on the Flotsam And Jetsam CD "High". I can figure out the Metallica one (Monster), High (AC/DC), Your Hands (Van Halen) and High Noon (Green Jello- I think). Don Compton >Subject: Last Decade Dead Century > > Truly one >of the greatest tunes I've heard from this band bassline>, which I just got into as a result of taking a chance picking >up their first CD from the $5 bin at Record Exchange. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:54:47 -0700 From: Adam Barnhart To: email_address_removed Subject: Paddywagon Message-ID: >From: "S. Borzilleri" > >> I don't think anyone who knows what they're talking about would say that >> Satch was better than Vai in cold hard technical terms, I agree. I also >> tend to listen to Vai much more now than Satriani, although it was the >> other way around when I was but a baby shredder. > >Me2. "Surfing With The Alien" did a lot more for me than "Passion & >Warfare" for about the first six months. But then... I guess my problem is that I play bas, not guitar. I mean, I'm consistently more amazed by Satriani's playing than Vai's. Then again, they're both awfully good, so perhaps I'm nitpicking a bit....and I've always admired Vai's ability to go for it on a slow tune ("Call It Sleep," for example). For what it's worth, I think I like "Passion and Warfare" a little more than "Surfing with the Alien." But I like "Flying in a Blue Dream" more than either of them...I think it's Satriani's best work. >> My only gripe is: doesn't it really suck that Steve has seen fit to put >> vocals down on Fire Garden? > >I'm not sure that whatever Steve Vai "sees fit" to do with his musical >genius is not really for me to determine as "a good move" or "completely >unnecessary." But personally I like his voice and simultaneously hope he >doesn't do any singing on his next album. An artist is entitled to make >whatever changes within his art that he "sees fit" to make, and shouldn't >have to ask anyone's permission to do so. Just as The Artist himself. (aka >PRINCE) I was actually surprised to just to find out that the guy CAN sing, but that he can sing WELL. He gave himself some moderately difficult melodies to sing and I thought he was actually pretty convincing. It's like Satriani on "Flying," though -- because he's just a good guitarist, there's a significant population out there that doesn't want to hear him put the guitar away in lieu of a vocal. And Satriani isn't exactly Geoff Tate or anything up there -- he's got a simple, straightforward method of delivery. But on "I Believe," for example, I don't think there was a better way to communicate what he was doing. Plus, if that melody HAD been carried by the guitar, the solo that he does in there would have sounded a bit strange, not as gripping. I like people who are willing to pull anything out of their arsenal, so I've got no problem with Satriani or Vai singing. Five Gratuitous CD's: ===================== 1. Dream Theater: Awake 2. White Lion: Pride 3. Rush: A Farewell to Kings 4. Jethro Tull: Aqualung 5. Tony MacAlpine: Edge of Insanity Adam D. Barnhart email_address_removed email_address_removed http://www.cfmc.com/adamb ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 2665 **************************