YTSEJAM Digest 3026 Today's Topics: 1) Oh my lord, Bernd speaks! by "Syrinx" 2) by Pat Daugherty 3) Guitar settings by Eric Rodger 4) reverse psychology by "Partha S. Mukhopadhyay" 5) APSOG and FII by Brandon Elhai 6) Myung's Chapman stick and FII ramblings, cont. by Jonathan Case 7) Puppies on Acid and Status Seeker by Eric Rodger 8) sorry, I forgot some comments. by Jonathan Case 9) New cd by Hard Rock 10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3025 by not my business 11) Kevin Shirley is on the JAM?!?!?!?! by JB 12) Possibilities by Lobsterback 13) Postal delivery express :) by Jon Parmet 14) Re: APSOG and FII by Albert Balkiewicz 15) ATTN: Steven Thum & Jose Lucas Perroni by Melissa Bahr 16) BMS and stuff... by Shane Liebling 17) No, no, NO!!!!!!! by Steve Zebrowski ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:39:38 -0400 From: "Syrinx" To: "A Ytse Besides Itself" Subject: Oh my lord, Bernd speaks! Message-ID: ..and just when you thought Bernd was dead... -----Original Message----- ]From: Bernd Basmer Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive Date: Friday, September 26, 1997 5:26 AM Subject: Dream Theater Hi! I just wanted to say, that I can't understand the problems that people have with the new Dream Theater. I bought it yesterday and still cannot believe it. It's such a great music on there. It's got it all. It's got groove, feeling, kick, all you want. I love it. Bye Bernd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-mail: email_address_removed / email_address_removed erotomania! = http://www.mindspring.com/~syrinx offical lemur voice hompages: http://www.cobweb.nl/mcoenen/welcome.htm http://www.mindspring.com/~syrinx/lemur.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:55:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Daugherty To: Dream Theater Mailing List Message-ID: Da D-man wrote: >So, in Burning My Soul, that last verse there (especially lines like >"just to stay on my good side"), does anyone else think that James >sounds an awful lot like Dave Mustaine? I think musically the beginning of BMS sounds like something Megadeth woud do. >All you BU types, go volunteer for the football team this weekend, and >travel down here for the game and visit me. (Unless you don't want to >see your team lose. :) William and Mary has a football team? Go Dayton Flyers (ranked #1, non-scholarship I-AA that is...)!!!!!!!!! Al B wrote: > Anywa, FII is growing on me faster than Awake did....well > except for SpaceDyeVest, which immediately kicked my ass. I knew I > shouldn't have posted that review a while back....and I'm > sure that everyone else who has posted bad thing will do > the same in a few months.... Exactly, people should listen to FII a few times before saying "It sucks" and then selling the cd to the used cd shop. Right now I think FII has the edge on cd of the year over APSOG... |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Pat Daugherty email_address_removed | |===================================================================| | New Dream Theater-September 23, 1997 *** Washington Redskins 2-1 | | Congrats to the American League East Champion Baltimore Orioles!! | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:15:09 -0400 From: Eric Rodger To: email_address_removed Subject: Guitar settings Message-ID: > About the production, i love it.. the only gripe i have with it is >that they couldve used like 1/2 a notch of low end, and like 1 notch of >treble (this is on very lay man terms because i dont know anytying about >producion) Also being a guitarrist i find JP's new distortion sound to >have like..to much "midrange" but thats just my way of liking it.. I >always have my amp set to bass: 8 , mid: 1or 2 and high 7... kinda like >James Hetfield once had taped the midrange eq down to 0... So thats a >matter of personal opinion.. I used to set my low-mid-high like this too, when I was playing by myself on my Crate G-60. It sounded awesome then, but once I got in a band with a bassist, I realized that mids were the way to go. The George Lynch sound is very high on the midrange. I personally love the more midrange tones on FII, as in Peruvian Skies. However, on some songs like NM and YNM, I can't stand the guitar tone. It's just too low and muddy. That's just my opinion though. KAI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:44:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Partha S. Mukhopadhyay" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: reverse psychology Message-ID: new tactic in the war on the airwaves...... ok, so you called all day to get BMS played, and mother of dog, it finally got played...... call right after it finishes, and ask whoever answers "who made that song! it was awesome" or other similar "yeah, i'm 14 years old, and the radio decides what i listen to" type comments......that way, you don't even have to beg for DT to be played, and the DJ might get the impression that that song is making an impression...... haven't tried it, myself, radio reception sucks in my apartment....can't hear nothing but R'n'B and country (altho i get npr just fine, which is cool) but if anyone tries it, I'd love to know if at all successful...... About the below......yeah, D, I do....i think i said that last month :) > From: "Christopher R. Merlo" > Subject: James LaMusatine? / BU folks, pay attention > So, in Burning My Soul, that last verse there (especially lines like > "just to stay on my good side"), does anyone else think that James > sounds an awful lot like Dave Mustaine? partha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:38:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Brandon Elhai To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: APSOG and FII Message-ID: On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Pat Daugherty wrote: > Right now I think FII has the edge on cd of the year over APSOG... I was thinking about this too and my conclusion so far (which will probably change after hearing FII many more times) is that APSOG is the better album as a whole while the individual songs on FII are better than the ones on APSOG. Brandon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:51:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Case To: email_address_removed Subject: Myung's Chapman stick and FII ramblings, cont. Message-ID: Hi all! I'm continuing to listen constantly to FII. You know it's a good CD when that's the only disk you want to listen to! Anyway, I would also like to know what the heck a Chapman Stick is and how to recognize those parts when he plays it on the CD. Thanks!! I'm sure there's other naive people like me who would like to know this, so go ahead and post it on the jam if someone knows..... Now, some things about this great CD: 1) I think that 16 minutes of any one day can be best spent by listening to Hell's Kitchen and Lines in the Sand back to back. As far as I'm concerned, these two 2 songs act as one, sort of like a mind beside itself. So, HK is the instrumental intro into LITS, making a single awesome 16:21 song. I realize that HK used to be part of BMS, but I think this setup is better.... 2) I LOVE Derek Sherinian's playing. I thought I'd miss Moore, but I think Derek adds some nice jazz touches to the music. Espcially Lines in the Sand, when he kicks with Portnoy! What a totally COOL effect, similar to ACoS. 3) Some other artists I hear in FII include: (among the usual) Steve Morse in a few different songs and Robert Palmer in Hollow Years. I think another thing about this CD that we're not used to is the extensive use of harmonies and accompanying vocals. It sounds like the rest of the band can sing very well also. I wonder if anyone know's of any way to distinguish who sings what on the accompanying parts (besides the obvious Doug of King's X)? Bye for now and enjoy the CD. What a change of pace, yet still incredible! FII just PROVES that DT can play anything and still is the best band out on the scene today!!!!!!!! Jon C. email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:54:42 -0400 From: Eric Rodger To: email_address_removed Subject: Puppies on Acid and Status Seeker Message-ID: Jeff wrote: > The album has more than >satisfied _me_, of all people, the same person who can't stand the James >Joyce samples (except for "6:00"), the one who doesn't (always) agree with >"balls and chunk is where it's at", the one who likes "Innocence Faded" >better than "Scarred" and the original intro to "Status Seeker" better than >the "Puppies On Acid" section of "The Mirror." > The album's unlikeliest supporter is ecstatic over it. Puppies on Acid wasn't the intro to Status Seeker, it was used as the intro to TTT. The intro they used for Status Seeker has gone on to become known as "Get Funky" due to Bahr's WDATU, although it really wasn't a new part. Rather, they omitted the old intro from the studio version, and just lengthened the second part, spicing it up a bit. It kind of bothers me that someone named that part, erroneously thinking it was a new groove. KAI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:57:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Case To: email_address_removed Subject: sorry, I forgot some comments. Message-ID: -In addition to Steve Morse and Robert Palmer, I also hear some Deep Purple, especially with Derek's keys settings. -Further, the instrumental part leading into the bridge (after key solo) on BMS sounds familiar to Caught in a Web Also, "To stay on your good side" in BMS does sound very reminiscent of Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. Also, what BITCHIN' keyboard solos, especially in Trial of Tears!!!! -Jon email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:58:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Hard Rock To: The Perfect Strangers Subject: New cd Message-ID: Hey dt lovers... I hate to sound like a loser but I just got back to school, and over the summer break I have not heard anything about the new album. Is it out yet? Please answer me privately. Thanks a lot. Take it easy, "To be is to do" - Plato Charlie Harrison "To do is to be" - Aristotle "Hard Rock" (NYC) "Doo bee doo bee doo" - Sinatra /} *My DREAM THEATER/JOHN COLTRANE web site* / / http:\\pubweb.nwu.edu\~cdh191 / / /> "Vato" ,__________/ //{----/{________________________________ "Vato" Miami /| ==========|/\|-----/_________________________________\ Miami NYC \| ==========|\/|-----\_________________________________/ NYC '~~~~~~~~~~\ \\{----\{ "I'm never \ \ \> "Having a sensitive member of the out of my range." \ \ audience; it's like having another \} member of the band..." -PATRICK EWING, NY KNICKS -JOHN COLTRANE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: not my business To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3025 Message-ID: could someone help me unsubscribe fromthis list? thanks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:07:59 -0400 From: JB To: email_address_removed Subject: Kevin Shirley is on the JAM?!?!?!?! Message-ID: > I take it personally when people bash the production on this CD. A >big Fuck You to all of you. SHIT!!!! I didn't realize that Kevin Shirley HIMSELF was a subscriber!!!!! How the hell can you take something like this personally? You didn't have jack shit to do with the production... stop taking credit for it, you didn't contribute. >But don't clutter the jam with stupid comments like "it's not prog enough" (have you heard the CD?), or "it's grungy" (HAVE YOU HEARD THE CD?????), etc uhhh... you're once again contradicting yourself... don't post stupid replies like "HAVE YOU HEARD THE CD???" obviously they have or they wouldn't be commenting on it... I agree with you in this respect... don't post one line pieces of crap like "it's not prog enough" without backing up why you think this... I think it's plenty prog (and have posted my reasons in the past)... but I (UNLIKE MANY PEOPLE ON THIS LIST, it seems), am open to different interpretations... whoever said earlier that "opinions are like assholes... everyone has one", was pretty right on... In general, many people here need to stop being so closed minded... let people disagree with you, then voice your opinions, but BACK THEM UP, or no one will take you seriously. People aren't stupid or "dumbasses" just for having a different interpretation of something. "Be excellent to each other... and... party on dudes!!!" -Abe Lincoln (Bill&Ted's) Later, Jason ---------------------------+++--------------------------------- notes from the desk of Virginia Tech Jason Brindel Computer EngIneering (540) 961-7262 & VT a cappella email_address_removed (JUXTAPOSITION) www.vt.edu:10021/B/beamup www.vt.edu:10021/org/juxtap FM 90.7 WUVT DJ (Tuesday mornings : 2-4am -- "The Dream Vault") ---------------------------+++---------------------------------- CD currently playing, "Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity" (releases 9/23) ---------------------------+++---------------------------------- Using your words Controlling my life "Burning my Soul" Can't you see it's my words -Dream Theater That give you your life? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:08:34 -0400 From: Lobsterback To: email_address_removed Subject: Possibilities Message-ID: >Could someone please tell me where exactly JM is using the Stick on FII >(which songs and when in the song)? Also, does anyone know which Stick >he is using (Bass, 10-string, 12-string)?? These sort of questions pop up often. Sticks, 7-strings, vibraslaps, anything "atypical". Is there a possibility of this ever becomming a section in the FAQ? Hey, I'm just brimming with helpful hints. Hand me some meat tenderizer and call me Martha Stewart... Brian Henderson email_address_removed "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a naive soul who doesn't know what a six-pack is." -- Prof. Boyd ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:15:59 +0000 From: Jon Parmet To: email_address_removed Subject: Postal delivery express :) Message-ID: Paul: > First post in a while; I've been skimming Jams when possible. HI > THERE to > the usual crowd of troublemakers from IRC Hey Paul!!!! :) hehehehe, everybody's gotta be good at something, right? :) Buster: > maybe it was not the bands intention to rocket listeners out of their > seats with this recording, but rather to use their music as a way to > let The Voice Inside speak out. And whadya know, they did both to me!!! -- *------------*----------------------------*--------------* | Jon Parmet | email_address_removed | 617-494-2851 | *------------*----------------------------*--------------* "Drifting with the current This stream of life flows on" -- John Myung ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:18:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Albert Balkiewicz To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: APSOG and FII Message-ID: > > > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Pat Daugherty wrote: > > > Right now I think FII has the edge on cd of the year over APSOG... > > I was thinking about this too and my conclusion so far (which will > probably change after hearing FII many more times) is that APSOG is the > better album as a whole while the individual songs on FII are better than > the ones on APSOG. > > > Brandon > > I tend to agree with this as well.....FII doesn't seem to flow as well as APSoG (duh, that's cuz it's one song), but it doesn't flow as well (for now) as I&W FOR ME, and definitely not like Awake does either........not a criticism, just an observation... -Al -- ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ I inhale the sun...........I exhale the absence of light I am the number One..........burning. ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ email: email_address_removed email_address_removed HOMEPAGE:http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/9280/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:37:31 -0700 (MST) From: Melissa Bahr To: email_address_removed Subject: ATTN: Steven Thum & Jose Lucas Perroni Message-ID: I received two orders; one from Syeven Thum and one from Jose Lucas Perroni and I have no idea what they are for. If you two could please email me at:email_address_removed and let me know what you order within the last week and can get them into the books and sent. Thanks! -Melissa email_address_removed://www.goodnet.com/~durnik/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:40:24 -0700 From: Shane Liebling To: email_address_removed Subject: BMS and stuff... Message-ID: Hey y'all I just wanted to put in a quick comment. I must look like a complete wierdo walking around campus with my headphones on when BMS comes on. I must be smiling from ear to ear. Is it just me but is the part where Mike slowly comes into the music with that PHAT beat (double bass man!) just one of the ultimate highlights of this album? All I can say is that all the guys are kicking my ass on this album, but Mike is doing it with steel toes! I don't think I am going to be able to sit down till the New Millenium (I know, bad joke, just had to get it in...) Laterz and "rock on!" -Shane ____________________________________________________________________________ Shane Liebling R "All of us get lost in the darkness, email_address_removed U dreamers learn to steer by the stars CAA Layman and Ytsejammer S All of us do time in the gutter, Member of a.m.m.o. since 1997 H dreamers turn to look at the cars." -------------------------------- The Sites --------------------------------- The Short Me - http://www.hotwired.com/members/profile/demolitionman/ The Long Me - http://www.earthlink.net/~mariachi Cal's RC5 Mirror Site - http://www.earthlink.net/~mariachi/rc5/ Deutsch Hall's Webpage - http://www.reshall.berkeley.edu/unit1/deutsch/ ---------------------------------- by Me ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Zebrowski To: email_address_removed Subject: No, no, NO!!!!!!! Message-ID: > which reminds me, where's Bafu been?????? If I know Bafu he has locked himself in his room with his FII and is listening to it nonstop. You can say what youwant about Bafu, but he's pretty tasteful in his musical likes and dislikes . :P Actually, he's probably usubscribed until the traffic dies down. :) > > I can't really pick a song off FII that I like the best. After every > > listen to the cd I have a new favorite FII song... > > > > Current FII favorite:Hollow Years (something about those vocals...) > > > > I'm tellin' y'all, it's the lack of vibrato in his voice...... It actually hurts me to hear him sing on most of this album. I listen to him sing and I can hear him suppress the NATURAL VIBRATO in his voice. Read carefully: vibrato is a characteristic of a healthy, supported tone. That is a fact. It totally burns me up to hear him sing with no vibrato on practically the whole CD. Not to mention the fact that his pitch suffers because of it. In order to sing a healthy straight-tone, you need to push SOOOOOOO much air that it's almost unbelieveable. That is the right way. The wrong way is the easier way: to put the tone in your throat. and THAT is what James is doing. This just brings us back to the whole argument of "feel" over technique. Some people are put off by technique because they feel that the player is no longer just a person "playing from the heart" on his instrument, but that he is merely a technician hiding behind a skill, and /or a technician "showing off" which makes those who can't jealous. Now this is my opinion, but it is something in which I FIRMLY believe and a look at the bands that are the most popular right now can serve as evidence to support it. No flamage intended, Al. Steve Z ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3026 **************************