YTSEJAM Digest 3075 Today's Topics: 1) Re: forwarded message from Jocks from WHJY by "Christopher R. Merlo" 2) "Kick Me" by Lobsterback 3) Ytse family by Mark Bredius 4) fii review- continued by email_address_removed 5) JP sucks big farm animals by Über Cabe 6) Fates Warning Mailing List by email_address_removed (Mark Scudder) 7) Blackened - Time Sigs part 1 by "Neil Evans" 8) Blackened - Time Sigs part 2 by "Neil Evans" 9) genesis (ndtc) by "Partha S. Mukhopadhyay" 10) Australian Tour!!!! by "Paul Matthews" 11) Backrubs, Les amis francais and Too much TENSION!! by email_address_removed (Rick Terry) 12) tour dates,..... by Albert Balkiewicz 13) UNCLASSIFIED:-Re: genesis (ndtc) by email_address_removed.au 14) Terry Bozzio by VAIMAN 15) IDEA>..IDEA..IDEA..DT PROMO by VAIMAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:20:02 -0400 From: "Christopher R. Merlo" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: forwarded message from Jocks from WHJY Message-ID: > The show at Lupo's on the 17th is going to feature Mighty Joe Plum, Our Lady > Peace and Dream Theater. Tickets are $7.94 in advance and you can get them > at the Lupo's box office or through Ticketmaster (401)331-2211. Eight fuckin' bucks for three bands, two of which are DT and OLP? Man, is that Novemnber 17th? I may have to take an early Thanksgiving break. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ "640 K ought to be enough email_address_removed "@'/ ,. \`@" memory for everyone." -Gates email_address_removed /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maintainer of the Official Dream Theater Frequently Asked Questions List http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo/dtfaq.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:43:15 -0400 From: Lobsterback To: email_address_removed Subject: "Kick Me" Message-ID: I just got home from, well, home, for the weekend. While there, my girlfriend happened to say the words every 'Jammer loves to hear coming from their girlfriend: "I like Dream Theater." Yowza! It's that "Hollow Years", I'm telling you. Everybody, strict metalheads and diehard proggers aside perhaps, loves it. Why isn't HY the U.S. single? And no cracks either... >> gullible), there's no such thing as 1/1 time. 2/2 is the lowest it >>goes, and that's called cut-time. You only use that for slow songs, >>typically, or otherwise there'd be mad flags all over the place. We're >>talking 64th note city. >Well, actually, I've always seen 2/2 used for fast songs. If the song >is at something totally ridiculous such as 4/4 at 240 bpm, it is much >easier to just count the half notes in 2/2 at 120 bpm. All right, that's a stupid mistake there. There's no excuse for that one. Brian Kirk is right and Brian Henderson, well, he's, er, not. "Eleven years of piano lessons down the drain..." >And when you >start to approach 400 bpm, then you go to 1/1 and just count the >measures. Haven't heard this one. Suppose it's possible, though I don't know any songs faster than 400 bpm. Seems kind of 'excess' if you ask me. Bands able to play that fast should donate some of their speed to slower, less priviledged, bands. Like Pink Floyd. I'm gonna get nailed for that one! Brian Henderson email_address_removed "Get this crazy fool away from me. You ain't no real Indian. Real Indians don't look and act like a crazy fool." -- Mr. T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 20:44:52 +0100 From: Mark Bredius To: "'Ytsejam'" Subject: Ytse family Message-ID: Dr. Mosh wrote : >> That guy Chris Merlo keeps talking about family... man... I hate >> to think I'm related to him, or Syrinx... :) And I'd hate to think that I'm having Thoughts of a sexual nature about me and one of my "Ytse-sisters". >:d Gheeez ! Mark email_address_removed I feel shipwrecked, _ _____ ___ _ _ _ _ I might as well be shipwrecked [=][_===_]/==_][=\_/=][=]_[=] I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea | | [ ] ( (_ | _ | \ / (Genesis - Shipwrecked) [_/ [_/ \___][_/ \_] [__/ _________________________________________________________________________ Dream Theater online "Under A Cyber Moon" http://www.prognosis.com/dream/ Itchy's http://www.prognosis.com/itchy/ H Website http://www.a-vip.com/H ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:52:33 -0400 (EDT) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: fii review- continued Message-ID: it's pretty wild- after talking about the first 4 songs, i feel i could go back and talk even more about them. but why bother? bms- did anybody else here think of that big white zombie song? you know the part- where james comes in? i don't know the name- it was the one on mtv a few years back ("astrocreep", maybe?). and i don't know about y'all, but derek smokes on this song- i think all us kevin-philes who were bitter about derek can stop whining (this includes me, of course). hell's- ......i fail to see how this song relates in any way to the one before it. i never heard the old version, so this tune just seems like an excuse to jerk off for 4 minutes before the next song. one nifty thing- there's a section here (one of many on the album) at about 3:10 of the song where they play this long unison lick that sounds real good. in school recently, someone who noted my dt shirt replied "hey- they're a cool band- they're the master of the unison lick." i now know what he meant. lines- i like this song soooooo much that i'm willing to ignore the 80s rush overtones throughout this song (i.e., main riff). i am thrilled by this song, even though doug pinnick's appearance is little to get excited over. when i heard he was doing guest vocals, i thought they MEANT it. they could have pulled ANY hendrix-sounding guy off the street to have pulled this off. as much as i like doug, i hope he's not getting royalties for this. at 9:45 of this tune, anyone else awed by the interplay between the guys- all that slick and cute stuff going on? yeah... tamp- killer bass on this song. nice to see a song that is appropriate to the lyrics. this is simply a well done piece. jlmb- if living colour could reunite just once and do a video for a song, i'd pay a lot of money for them to do this song. this is one of those "aggressive rockers" that made the former band amazing. and personally, i think corey glover might even convey aggressiveness better than labrie can.... anna lee- speaking of bringing back old bands from the dead, i'm glad to see they cloned freddie mercury here. i believe these last 3 songs take a dt fan for a ride- is this the same band that wrote "the mirror" and "under a glass moon?" trial of tears- an incredible piece. myung just shines on this one. funny how the best songs on the last 3 major albums were written by him, and at the end (yes, i've said it before- "scarred" ends awake, for all intensive purposes). he is the one keeping everything in the solos together. notice his use of pedal tones- jp and derek's solos would sound meaningless without the bass. myung's bass makes those 2 solos (more so in jp's solo) sound pretty disssonant. and the end- this is up there with the ending to "ltl" and "acos" strength-wise. i can't wait to see this done live. to be continued. ****************************************************************************** david y. kobayashi the new york law school email_address_removed email_address_removed "and i know that where the chains of doom are kept, i find my shoes." - king's x ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:11:08 -0700 From: Über Cabe To: email_address_removed Subject: JP sucks big farm animals Message-ID: Hi everyone, > From: CLARK ABEL > Subject: JP in GW > I also thought it was hypocritical of JP to say that their old stuff > was immature, and then to say that Met II was the most insane thing they had > ever written. He said something almost exactly like "it's in the spirit of the > original Metropolis". Would that be the "immature" spirit that he's talking > about? JP said "immature" while laughing if I remember correctly. JP defined Met Part 2, as the most insane song they ever written, AND the band purposely didn't have any musical constriction. Meaning that DT now has to make themselves write something like this(I&W type music). It isn't they're first choice for song writing. Therefore the band has "matured." Meaning that their old stuff is "immature." :) > "Those People"? Would that be, as in, those people who like immature > music like DT used to make? I was a pretty put off by the whole article. Yeah, man. That's like someone calling me a mindless idiot! Whoever would say that to me, I would 'em beat down! YEAH! Then I would kill him! YEAH! Then I would hang 'em for good measure!!! "I say we kill him!" "I say we hang him!" "I say we kill him, then we hang him!" Über Cabe email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:03:12 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Mark Scudder) To: email_address_removed Subject: Fates Warning Mailing List Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971006180312.006efcc4@206.156.172.9> Attention Fates Fans! There is a brand new Fates Warning Internet Mailing List called PARALLELS that you can join -- it's as easy as joining the YtseJam! Use it to discuss anything and everything related to Fates Warning, and stop using one mailing list for every artist on their label! This will be an unmoderated list run completely by the fans. Please spread the word that there is now a place to discuss Fates Warning on the Internet. To subscribe send e-mail to email_address_removed with the following in the message body: subscribe fates [your real name] Of course, you should replace [your real name] with your real name. In a few moments you should get a confirmation reply back, then feel free to post away! Hope to see all of you Fates Warning fans there! Mark (Avogadro) PARALLELS List Admin (email_address_removed) ------------------------------ Date: 06 Oct 97 15:13:12 -0700 From: "Neil Evans" To: email_address_removed Subject: Blackened - Time Sigs part 1 Message-ID: It looks like my earlier post concerning time sigs in Blackened didn't go through, so I've broken it into two parts.. First part - text. Second part - time sigs! Here goes: Well, since the discussion of time sigs in "Blackened" has continued, and since people still say "it's mostly in ___", I've written out the sigs for the whole damn song. Keep in mind that this is an interpretation, as is all written music. However, I am positive that I have not missed a beat or counted wrong - the only thing that is subjective is how you decide to divide the perceived beats into measures. I chose to do it a certain way based on emphasis and phrasing in the song. However, I assure you that you will have to make *many* time sig changes regardless of how you notate it. Note: I included CD times as a reference. Also, I have grouped repeated phrases in parentheses with a x3 (or some other number) afterwards to indicate the number of repetitions. As a final note, I took a look at the "official" Wolf Marshall transcription after I finished - he missed a few of the changes. Some of what he does is merely a different interpretation of the grouping by measures - he groups many of my 4/4 3/4 combinations as 7/4 - and there's nothing wrong with that. However, in at least 3 parts he missed a subtle dropping of half a beat (an insertion of 5/8 or the like). This is a very rhythmically complex tune, and the syncopation and rhythmic misdirection evident even in the 4/4 parts is extremely cool. Enjoy! (to be continued)... ------------------------------ Date: 06 Oct 97 15:13:53 -0700 From: "Neil Evans" To: email_address_removed Subject: Blackened - Time Sigs part 2 Message-ID: Blackened - Metallica Performance Note: During the chorus there is a triplet figure (usually occurs in the 6th measure of the chorus) at which the beat slows slightly. This is still 4/4 time, it is just temporarily "streched out". 0:00 Fade in - 4/4 time, played freely. 0:36 5/4 0:38 (4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4) x3 0:51 4/4 7/8 4/4 4/4 0:56 (4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4) x4 1:13 VERSE 6/4 x12 1:36 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 4/4 5/4 1:43 CHORUS 4/4 x8 1:54 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 1:59 VERSE 6/4 x8 2:14 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 4/4 5/4 2:21 CHORUS 4/4 x9 2/4 2:34 (slower tempo) MIDDLE SECTION 4/4 x50 4:07 (6/4 7/4) x4 4:31 (guitar solo) 4/4 x13 4:55 Either: 11/8 Or: 4/4 3/8 (choose one way of counting, not both!) 4:58 (faster tempo) 4/4 slight pause 4/4 slight pause 2/4 slight pause (This could be notated in a rather complex way - however, I feel that Metallica was really thinking 4/4 4/4 2/4 and used visual communication to navigate the pauses which occur in between the phrases) 5:02 4/4 x16 5:22 5/8 5:23 4/4 x7 5:31 9/8 5:33 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 5:37 4/4 3/4 4/4 5/8 (this part is VERY tricky) 5:42 (4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4) x2 5:51 VERSE 6/4 x8 6:06 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 4/4 5/4 6:13 CHORUS 4/4 x7 5/8 6:23 CHORUS 4/4 x7 3/4 4/4 2/4 6:36 4/4 3/4 That's it! -Neil. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:51:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Partha S. Mukhopadhyay" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: genesis (ndtc) Message-ID: who's heard "Calling All Stations"? me, i think it's pretty good, they haven't moved totally past Phil COllins yet, and there are some duds on this disc (wtf is Alien Afternoon about?), but overall, it's cool......"The Dividing Line" is so awesome it's unbelieveable.....tony banks should do this kind of stuff on EVERY song.....and ray wilson's voice is pretty cool, too some parts sound like Marillion, take that as you will.....one song, i can't remember right now which one, I kept wanting to start singing "afraid of sunlight".....itchy, you hear this yet? but anyway, trying to throw a little review of it together....can I get anyone to tell me what the song "small talk" sounds like? I can't quite figure out what it reminds me of, in terms of a band or a song..... sorry for the non-OFB talk, needed a little help on the side....... partha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:04:35 +1000 From: "Paul Matthews" To: email_address_removed Subject: Australian Tour!!!! Message-ID: > Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:10:29 -0700 (PDT) > From: email_address_removed > Reply-to: email_address_removed > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: YTSEJAM digest 3071 > > -They will be touring Australia this time, but I dunno when. > > > How do you know? How can I find out more? Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 23:03:18 GMT From: email_address_removed (Rick Terry) To: email_address_removed Subject: Backrubs, Les amis francais and Too much TENSION!! Message-ID: Boo! >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:15:14 -0500 (CDT) >From: Dave Peterson >To: DT Mailing list >Subject: Diary of a man's frustration... >Isn't it true that a few among us know how to get in contact with the >band? Isn't it true that a few among us regularly talk to 'Da boyz? = And >isn't it true that one among us is in fact MIKE PORTNOY'S PERSONAL >MASSEUSE????? (It could happen.) Actually, I used to be, but he stopped tipping me in whips with the Cat-O-Nine-Tails so it had to end. (Coldfire reference intentional - Consult #ytsejam - irc.dreamt.org Port 2112) ;-) >Note: The above Minneapolis tour date is fictional. Any relationship = to >a real date is purely coincidental. As is my existence as a 4 dimensional hologram flooding the plains of the space time continuum. 8-) >Thank you for your time. You're quite welcome. >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:24:42 -0400 >From: Nicolas Drouin >To: email_address_removed >Subject: Who wants to trade???? &&& When is DT coming to CANADA??? >Message-ID: >When the f... is DT coming to CANADA (lots of fans here too ...) Hey Nic!! Salut mon copain!! Vous etes etudiant a Laval? Hehehehe Good question...... I asked Portnoy that directly in March when I met him and he felt that they would be here in late October or Early November. However, it is now looking more like the new year. They have plans to play Toronto, but he didn't mention anywhere else to me. Keep watch this space for further info!!! >Has anyone heard of a band called Artension (are they good, DT style)? I've heard them and was not impressed at all. The singer has a voice very similar to that of Graham Bonnet (Rainbow/Alcatrazz) which is gravelly and not particularly melodic. If you are looking for something with some crunch and melody, Check out some Threshold stuff. I REALLY like Psychedelicatessan and Wounded Land is supposed to be an exceptional listen as well. They have a new release but I'm not certain of the title? Anyone have any info on this? AS for Artension, save your money and watch for it in the delete bins....it'll be there soon. The songs lack originality and come across as a really lame version of FII. Cheers, Rick (a.k.a. Pine-o-Phile) Toronto ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:05:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Albert Balkiewicz To: email_address_removed Subject: tour dates,..... Message-ID: Well all this discussion about tour dates is great. It's definitely shitty that DT is playing even smaller venues now, in places that basically seem to suck to see a band in (according to what's been said). As for the dates, don't we have contacts with the band on here? Don't we have a DT OFFICIAL web site? It's surprising that we have to hear from Ticketmaster and posters on the walls of venues to find out where these guys are playing... Definitely disappointing.......... -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: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:22:08 +1000 From: email_address_removed.au To: email_address_removed Subject: UNCLASSIFIED:-Re: genesis (ndtc) Message-ID: Yep got the album last week (thanks Ryan), Ray's voice is great, pretty powerful and melodic, on the most part all the songs are great. The big let down for me is the mix. It is so dull and boring, on some of the songs the drums are so lame they sound like they could be programmed. I'd go see 'em live, that's if they ever bother to tour Australia, no one else does. PS. Any Italian jammers tell us about two bands that I have heard great things about, SKYLARK and RHAPSODY ? gRaham_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:29:08 -0400 From: VAIMAN To: email_address_removed Subject: Terry Bozzio Message-ID: )At 09:0 Terry Bozzio is also possibly the best drummer in I first heard about Terry Bozzio via FRANK ZAPPAS video "BABYSNAKES". What a GREAT DRUMMER! If you haven't seen this 'trippy' video...it's a must for Zappa and Bozzio fans. Does anyone know how old Terry Bozzio was in this video. I believe the video was recorded in 1976. (not 100% sure). Anyone looking for a copy of BABYSNAKES? Anyone up for a trade? see ya Todd S Vaiman/hatman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:30:08 -0400 From: VAIMAN To: email_address_removed Subject: IDEA>..IDEA..IDEA..DT PROMO Message-ID: We are all talking about the somewhat "NON-promotion" Dream Theater from their label. IF THE RECORD/marketing people won't do it, WHY don't we? We should pick shows like: DAVID LETTERMAN/MTV/LATE NIGHT/VH1..etc..etc.. and target them for faxes and letters giving some type of press release on the NEW CD and ask them to have them on the show. Like I said...target and bombard the media. WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!! Ok Ytsejamers...LEt's pick about 5 media groups and go after it! see ya Todd S vaiman/hatman www.dreamt.org (cool DT merchandise!) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3075 **************************