YTSEJAM Digest 3072 Today's Topics: 1) FYI by DaveH 2) Tell me this is true? by Jason Keily 3) Re: FYI by DaveH 4) DT LIVE IN OH by DaveH 5) SF Date? by Dave Thomas 6) Detroit Area Jammers/The other Jammers who get the door slammed in by email_address_removed 7) JP in Guitar by Steve Zebrowski 8) Pantera and Anthrax!!!!!!! by "Vincent G. LuPone" 9) RE: YTSEJAM digest 3071 by "Trevor W. Hoit" 10) Burning My Soul - What is it really about? by "Chad Allen Klunck" 11) Show listing, tour dates, who's going where, etc. by "Chad Allen Klunck" 12) Re: SF Date? by email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) 13) Enchant by "Barbara Schnepf" 14) Re: JP in Guitar by Eckie 15) DT Chat by DaveH 16) magazines by Graham Borland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:25:57 -0400 From: DaveH To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: FYI Message-ID: Jon Wrote: >In JLMB, there is a lyric that says "Just close your mind/You can find all >you need with your eyes." > >In TTT, there is the part that says "Close your eyes/You can find all you >need in your mind." > >Jon Uhh, that's pretty much on purpose Jon. One them them is Dream Theaters outlook on life so to speak, and the other is the twisted brainwashed attitude of a sellout pump your head full of crap MTV'ish mindset. Just Let me Breathe is kind of a scathing dose of reality about the way MTV and the record industry have brainwashed young music listeners promoting the same crap over and over, and what it does to the "musicians" in todays alternative bands as they get chewed up by this "machine" of an industry. (sidenote to the guy who thought Mike Portnoy was dissing Cobain and Hoon in that song - he's not really, he is using them as an example of the damage that todays sellout industry can do to young musicians and the pressure thats involved in making them "alternative icons" in exchange for a record contract and making the record label a fast buck) Take The Time on the other hand is more like what Dream Theaters mind-set is about. It's about seeing things for what they really are, taking control of your own life without letting all these outside influences destroy your ability to control your destiny. It's about doing everything from the heart and mind the way you know it should be, rather than being miseld by the bandwagon so to speak. Both songs, IMO, carry a great message. One inspirational, and the other a sad but true reality. Of course, this is only my personal speculation (disclaimer) buster http://users1.ee.net/buster http://www.dhpc.com/ryche/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:40:17 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Jason Keily To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Tell me this is true? Message-ID: Hi all, First I am extremly happy of the news that DT is touring Australia. YES YES YES!!!! Secondly, I heard a rumor that DT is working on Metropolis pt II, it is about 20+ mins long, and they are releasing it in the same style as ACOS. Has anybody else heard this? Thirdly, was The Mirror/Lie going to be originally going to be named "Puppies On Acid", or is this just a crock of shit? Thanks, from a Happy Australian Jammer, Jason. ______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ | JASON KEILY | | email_address_removed.au | --------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:49:10 -0400 From: DaveH To: Jon Kretschmer Cc: email_address_removed Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: >Uh, yeah. Of course its on purpose, Dave. They wouldnt write something so >similar by accident. I was just bringing it up cuz I thought it was neat. Hehehe, OK Jon, sorry man, I've just noticed a couple of posts like yours but the folks either thought it was just coincidence, or they didn't understand the meaning behind it. Sorry if I offended you by replying. buster http://users1.ee.net/buster/ http://www.dhpc.com/ryche/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 01:02:19 -0400 From: DaveH To: email_address_removed Subject: DT LIVE IN OH Message-ID: DREAM THEATER COMES TO COLUMBUS OHIO! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DT Will be playing LIVE at the ALROSA VILLA in COLUMBUS OHIO on TUESDAY OCTOBER 28TH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tickets are $15.00 and are available through TICKETMASTER www.ticketmaster.com or directly through the Alrosa. This is a SMALL place folks, so get your tickets SOON before there are none available. It's gonna be packed wall to wall I guarantee you that, so if you are clostrophobic then you'll want to avoid this event. Just fair warning for those of you who dont like low cielings and lines for the restroom I live in Columbus, so I can provide directions to the club if anyone needs them. Just let me know. email_address_removed http://users1.ee.net/buster http://www.dhpc.com/ryche/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:11:48 -0700 From: Dave Thomas To: "'ytsejam'" Subject: SF Date? Message-ID: >Today's LA times has a listing for >HOUSE OF BLUES: DREAM THEATER NOV 12 Is there going to be an SF date, or am I going to have to make an awfully long drive...??? If there's an SF date, please tell me it's not at Club Kaos... DT - Pixel Planet Reviews of CG software, books, programming tools, games, CDs and more! http://www.pixelplanet.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 01:22:29 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Detroit Area Jammers/The other Jammers who get the door slammed in Message-ID: OK, I am finding it extremely frustrating to see that other Jammers from other states are running into the same bullshit I am from radio stations. The WRIF, Detroit's "Real Rock Station" (uh-huh) has no clue. I call very frequently and finally decided to stop because every time I asked for DT, they told me they have NONE in the station. None as in ANY of their albums. I find that sad considering that in their hey-day of being an excellent station, they played the shit out of PMU and UAGM back in 1992. When Awake came out, they played CIAW for a week...nice. But alas, there is some light at the end of this tunnel. There is another station 97.1 KROCK that is so cool! I should have given these guys more of a chance to begin with! They will play pretty much anything you request that is rock related music! I called late one night and the DJ said they had no DT but he knew how much of a kick ass band they were! I told him of FII and he said that he would have to check it out. Then he gave me a fax number (248) 423-3383. He said to direct the fax to a guy named MATT SURRENA. The DJ told me that this guy Matt is looking for listeners to send them ideas for new music. By the way, their number is (313) 298-9797. So, I faxed a letter to him and told him of FII being just released(which the DJ said was a plus!) and also about APSOG (hey, why not ;)). So, I am going to call in a couple of days and see the progress. In the meantime, I urge ALL Jammers in the Detroit area to contact KROCK and raise some noise. Let's get the Rock Capitol to play some rock music! Jeff E. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Zebrowski To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: JP in Guitar Message-ID: Well, I just got the new Guitar World mag. I have a few things to say. It's great that there is an article about John Petrucci. It's great that a monthly John Petrucci column will be returning to the magazine. It's also great that the free CD of new music that comes with the CD features "Burning My Soul." However, I am still, overall, displeased by this issue. I know this magazine is shit. It's not fit to line my rabbit cage. But STILL I am displeased. I am displeased because there are like a MILLION pages on a band that SUCKS that has "reunited" with an "album and tour in the works" while Dream Theater, a band that has a NEW ALBUM and some actual musical merit and integrity, gets a scattered few pages. The band on the cover is going to record a 45-50 minute CD with a single and some other tracks that will sound very much like all the other shit they have peddled to the ignorant masses. The band given a pitiful number of pages has just put forth almost 80 minutes of new music that retains the integrity of their previous efforts and at the same time sounds like nothing they've ever done before. The music is complex and thought-provoking, and at the same time hooky and radio-friendly. I am displeased with the booklet accompanying the CD sampler. Couldn't they even get the track number right? Get a fucking proofreader! The thing with which I am the most displeased is the John Petrucci interview itself. The interviewer seems to only care about pointing out how the band's compositional style has changed, downplaying the band's collective musicianship, and even goes so far as to try to get Petrucci to say that their former style is immature. The real heartbreak in this is that Petrucci actually says it. I don't know about you, but as a musician, I felt about 1 inch tall reading that. To think that a musician's musician said, on record, that more technique = immature and less technique = mature makes me very sad. Also confusing is that the article goes on to talk about a possible future Dream Theater project is the most insane, most complicated thing they've ever done. Why go backward if you've become so "mature?" I love the new Dream Theater CD. Am I going to love the new Dream Theater? Time will tell... Steve Z ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 22:44:38 -0600 From: "Vincent G. LuPone" To: email_address_removed Subject: Pantera and Anthrax!!!!!!! Message-ID: Wow!! >PANTERA with ANTHRAX and COAL CHAMBER >at MESA AMPHITHEATER, MESA ARIZONA >Wednesday, November 12 Need I say more? :) ~Vinnie dons the "Fistful of Metal" for the "Cowboys From Hell". ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 00:21:21 -0700 From: "Trevor W. Hoit" To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: RE: YTSEJAM digest 3071 Message-ID: >Hey people, anybody know anything about this? I found this in the Steve >Morse home page. No, but I do find it quite interesting that a typically New Age label would sign SM. What's next, Yngwie on Narada? > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 02:18:46 -0500 From: "Chad Allen Klunck" To: Subject: Burning My Soul - What is it really about? Message-ID: I was listening to BMS the other day, and got this really weird sensation...I began to think that it has a theme much like Just Let Me Breathe (i.e. negative feelings toward recording companies and the music industry in its present state in general). Just a warning: My opinion (and only my opinion) follows. If you don't like my opinion, I'm glad...because I don't want little Raytheon-droids running around and posting to the list. :) Analysis of lyrics follows A thorn in my side, a chip on my shoulder Chip towards label for the shit they try to pull A lump in my throat, the size of a boulder DT is nervous to express their feelings to label The chill up my spine, can't get any colder Thinking about what might happen if they don't follow the wishes of the label And you wonder why I can't smile We're (DT) not happy with you (label) A knot in my gut, an ape on my back Nerves over the new album In the heat of the moment, I'm knocked off the track You drop the ball, I pick up the slack Label drops the ball (of promotion), DT must rely on their existing fan base to sell albums And you ask me why my hairs [sic] gray It's you, you assholes at Elektra CHORUS Twisting, turning, Anxiety losing all sense of yearning DT is no longer allowed to reach for their true musical potential, but must bow to the sacred cow of cash and sales Living and learning DT never anticipated these problems (promotion, label disfavor, etc.) when in their early years..."I guess you live and learn, huh?" The pressure keeps on burning my soul It is becoming more of a labor than a love for DT to express themselves while still pleasing their ultimate critics (label) I say it's green and then you tell me it's red DT sees the right time for an album release, but the label says to wait, or endlessly delays production Keep your thoughts and ideas locked inside of your head Label to DT: don't think, don't make music that makes people think, don't even think about thinking...just make stuff that people will buy. Nobody can understand you guys... you're too (weird, eccentric, nuts, intelligent) We've got someone who can think for you instead Desmond Child? And he sounds just like the last one If Aerosmith can sell records, so can you! Just "borrow" some of their stuff...yeah, that's it! I'm sure they won't mind. [CHORUS] Responsible thinkers throw caution to the wind Thinkers express themselves without fear of repercussions...sort of a "tenured faculty" approach to free expression But I find myself speaking from within We'll (DT) say what we want to regardless I can't live my life walking on eggshells To stay on your good side We (DT) can only please you guys (label) by writing "radio-friendly" and "popular" music for so long...just let us breathe Using your words, controlling my life Label manipulating DT via contracts, etc. Can't you see it's my words That give you your life Hey, if nobody wrote songs for you, your label wouldn't exist, and your big fat leather-chair CEO, golf-playing, alternacrap-loving, cigar- smoking, mistress-having ass would be out of a job So I hurt your feelings, well I'm really sorry It's been released, and there's no going back (You don't think anybody at the label actually _listened_ to the lyrics of JLMB before they released it? :) ) But I don't give a shit Elektra: FUCK YOU! [CHORUS], ad infinitum Chad ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 02:18:59 -0500 From: "Chad Allen Klunck" To: Subject: Show listing, tour dates, who's going where, etc. Message-ID: Just a thought for someone with a little spare time and some extra web space: How about a listing of which 'jammers will be attending which concerts in the next few months? Once we get some better idea of the tour dates (which start in just a week or two), we could have people submit their name, e-mail address, city of residence, and the shows they're attending. That way, we could find each other before/during/after the shows in selected cities of our choosing to hang out, etc. I know I am excited enough to travel at least 700 miles for shows, so I'll probably see at least 3 shows here in Texas and the area. Anyone interested? Chad ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:09:40 -0700 From: email_address_removed (Dr. Mosh) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: SF Date? Message-ID: On the Eve of Destruction, Dave Thomas said: > > >Is there going to be an SF date, or am I going to have to make an awfully long >drive...??? > You WIMP... WIMP WIMP WIMP!!!! I drove to Fremont twice to see bands play, and you think driving to LA is awfully long?? :) I'm sure they'll play in SF, and it ain't gonna be club kaos. -The Doc -- #$%*#$*@ E-MAIL: email_address_removed #$%#$#$% _+_+_+_+ Unix, Internet, Intranet Engineering _+_+_+_+ [][][][] Dr. Mosh's Progressive Feast [][][][] #$@#$#@# http://progmetal.gmsnet.com @#$@##@$ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:18:24 +0100 From: "Barbara Schnepf" To: email_address_removed Subject: Enchant Message-ID: <97Oct6.092039gmt+message_id_removed.de> Antwort an: Enchant Arash wrote: >>>I really like Enchant. But Their "A BLUEPRINT OF THE WORLD" album is much better then "Wounded" (IMO). The first time, I've heard Enchant, back in Feb 96, I didn't like them. Especially the last song which is a total clone of DT's 6:00.<<<< According to an interview Enchant gave to a German Fanzine quite a while ago this "cloning" wasn't on purpose. In this interview one of the Enchant-guys (I think it was Doug Ott) told the story of how one fine day some Enchant guy stumbled in the rehersal room with the brand new "Awake" in his hands, telling the others to listen imediately to 6:00, because it sounded just like one of their own songs they'd just recorded.... I believe this story, because I know that DT has never been an influence to them. Whenever you ask them about their influences they always name Rush and Marillion, and in fact "A Blueprint..." was produced by Marillion's guitarist Steve Rothery who actually played some guitar parts (if you know Steve R.'s playing you can easily tell which ones). Barbara ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 01:34:21 -0700 From: Eckie To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: JP in Guitar Message-ID: > Well, I just got the new Guitar World mag. I have a few things to say. > Oh shit man, you know reading those mags can cause brain tumors! > I am displeased because there are like a MILLION pages to mention the cover> on a band that SUCKS that has "reunited" with an > "album and tour in the works" while Dream Theater, a band that has a NEW > ALBUM and some actual musical merit and integrity, gets a scattered few > pages. Nobody cares about that! :P All the teeny-boppers in popular-land want to see Dave Navarrio and his pierced nipples!Let them eat their cake, and choke on it too! > The band on the cover is going to record a 45-50 minute > CD with a single and some other tracks that will sound very much like all > the other shit they have peddled to the ignorant masses. Pierced nipples, tattoos, and dyed-black hair. That's where the fame and fortune's at baby. Guitars are only accessories. > The thing with which I am the most displeased is the John Petrucci > interview itself. Oh, this was the funniest thing I've read in a long time.... > The interviewer seems to only care about pointing out > how the band's compositional style has changed, downplaying the band's > collective musicianship, and even goes so far as to try to get Petrucci to > say that their former style is immature. Re-read your article man, the interview's hilarious! The shmuck doin' the interview with Petrucci doesn't know shit about music, and it shows! My favorite quote?"You use Mesa Boogies, which aren't known for their distortion." "Well, I don't know, it's what Metallica uses, isn't it?" ALSO, "So, why didn't you put Metropolis part 2 on this CD? Because of the difference between its feel and the feel of the rest of the CD?" "No, Metropolis Pt. 2 is 25 MINUTES LONG! If we put that on the album, we would've had to cut all this other material." If Petrucci's admitting anything, he's admitting that he loves the music he's making, AND that this guy's an absolute moron (in his own subtle Petrucci-esque kinda way)! (mind you, I read the issue in the grocery store across the street, I don't own a copy, so I'm givin' yall the gist) Anyhoo, if you can't trust Guitar World to provide good interviews, who can you trust? 8^P ~Eckie and his three-headed monkey nipple ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 04:49:04 -0400 From: DaveH To: email_address_removed Subject: DT Chat Message-ID: Just wanted to let you all know I've setup a DT Chat page. It may come in handy for people who don't know how to use IRC or when IRC is down etc... If you have some time to waste, check it out at http://www.dhpc.com/chat.htm I realize it will probably never become popular like IRC, but the setup was free and I wanted to have a place to meet friends that don't use IRC, but are in other states. Maybe I'll see some of you in there from time to time. buster http://users1.ee.net/buster http://www.dhpc.com/ryche/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 10:43:06 +0100 (BST) From: Graham Borland To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: magazines Message-ID: > From: Andrew Berry > Subject: Re: WDADU Review Kerr > > Somehow I can't see the Kerrap of today giving anything as unpopular as > DT a good review; they're trying so hard to sell magazines that it seems > only the trendy bands (such as Korn, Marilyn Manson etc) get the best > reviews. Remember RAW magazine? Dave Ling loved Dream Theater, and when Awake was released he wrote a nice big feature article giving a rundown of all the new songs. He also gave the album a very good review. I agree that Kerrang will completely ignore FII, but as Dave Ling seems to do a bit of writing for Metal Hammer these days, I'm hopeful. Graham -- Graham Borland Email : gborland@apsoft.co.uk WWW : http://www.apsoft.co.uk Alternative Publishing Ltd Tel : 0141 418 0881 30 Clyde Place, Glasgow G5 8AQ Fax : 0141 418 0889 ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3072 **************************