YTSEJAM Digest 3338 Today's Topics: 1) subscribe by Khurram Elahi 2) XMAS CD 1997 INFO WRONG! by Steffen Barabasch 3) ESCAPISM & SELF-GRANDISING PLAGIARISM by Steve.Arthur@Thameswater.CO.UK 4) RealPlayer patch! HELP by "Francesco" 5) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Bj=F6rk?= by Anna & Heike Boedeker 6) Loreena McKennitt by NGA 7) That Band and Dave Mustaine by "Todd O. Klindt" 8) Re: Mike Portnoy's whereabouts. by Albert Balkiewicz 9) HELP - Canadian Jammers / Post Office Strike by "Chung Ng" 10) Those "M" bands by Rogerio Brito 11) Re: Kaboob by Rogerio Brito 12) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3335 by Rogerio Brito 13) Mustaine and "That" band by Rogerio Brito 14) DTIFC XMas CD by Rogerio Brito 15) Fates/DT/ and crappy responses. by Jonathan Case 16) Interpretations (cool story), the M bands (again) by "Brian Hayden" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 11:34:51 +0000 From: Khurram Elahi To: dream theater Subject: subscribe Message-ID: "subscribe" please ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 13:31:42 +0000 From: Steffen Barabasch To: email_address_removed Subject: XMAS CD 1997 INFO WRONG! Message-ID: Hello everybody! Just read the mail from Andreas quoting the info from Hardradio (or whereever it was) about the XMas-CD and the single and have to say that nearly everything's total bullshit. Thanks to Andreas for sending this to the Jam so that I can clear things up a bit: >DREAM THEATER's Hollow Years has been released in Germany as a single This single was released by EW Benelux and NOT EW Germany. EW Germany will NOT release any singles yet, at least as far as I was told. Of course I hope that I am wrong or that they will change their mind. Maybe the CD says "Made in Germany", because Warner owns a big CD pressing plant in Alsdorf, Germany. The Lie-Single was also made there, but sold in the UK only... >featuring two mixes of 'Hollow Years' (Radio Edit & LP Version), 'You Or >Me' ('You Not Me' - Demo Version) and the non-album bonus track 'The Way It >Used To Be'. As well, subscribers to the band's UK-based official fanzine, Just want to mention here that "The Way..." is another demo track. Some people thought I did not tell the truth when I claimed that no extra material was recorded during the FII sessions... >Images And Words, will be receiving a special stocking stuffer this year: a >limited edition CD containing almost 75 minutes worth of unreleased music - >soundchecks, demos, messages from the band, covers songs. One track from >this CD was played at the conclusion of some of their gigs; a jazz version >of 'Under A Glass Moon'. Finally, the band plan to release the Metropolis >II EP sometime in 1998.. Well, this part of the message is totally made up and simply *wrong*. First, it is the International Fan Club, not only an official fanzine. Second, the members of *all* fan clubs (DTIFC, France, Netherlands, Italy, France, Japan, and Germany) will get this CD. Third, the CD will indeed be about 75 minutes long, but it will NOT contain soundchecks, any of the unreleased demos, covers, the lounge-UAGM, or any messages. Maybe you have to get used to it first, but it is very rare and interesting material, that's for sure! That's all I'll tell you, I just wanted to avoid any disappointments. And remember, it is still not sure that the band will release Metropolis pt. 2. Prepare another petition ;-)) Later, Steffen -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steffen Barabasch - THE MIRROR email_address_removed Official German Dream Theater Fanclub http://www.westend.com/TheMirror -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:34:13 +0000 From: Steve.Arthur@Thameswater.CO.UK To: email_address_removed Subject: ESCAPISM & SELF-GRANDISING PLAGIARISM Message-ID: <80256568.00494D17.00@ThamesWater.Co.Uk> Fellow music-lovers Just a couple of thoughts that have been spinning around my head since I re-subscribed to the jam last month. 1. Do DT fans and followers of other 'PROG' (Yuk) bands agree with me that the initial appeal of albums like I&W was the escapism value. The fact that they talked of ivory towers and beautiful women in bedrooms with shutters on the windows etc (well you get my drift..) was a great selling point for me. Don't get me wrong I really like FII (like not love yet) but I feel the angry socially-aware lyric of JLMB is something I expect from other bands. This isn;t to say I think the band should stagnate and become a parody of their former selves but progression doen't have to equal reality and it's perception.!!!!!!! OK that was point No 1, now point 2 2. I wish I could remember the band and song that talks about people desperately listening to their songs and taking lyrics to almost be their own personal message, each time they recite and feel ownership of the lyric they build themself up into something they're not. I've noticed this more and more on the Jam, people inserting snippets of lyrics almost giving the appeasrance of ownership and even creative credit taking. I'm sure this isn't always intentional and I'm not a phsychiatrist (just a humble engineer) but it is an interesting point and one that I'm aafraid is increasingly annoying. Anyway on a lighter side I would totally agree with the 'goosebump moment' nimination of the outro of Learning to Live......whooooooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh wooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh ......Indeed Steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:42:35 +0000 From: "Francesco" To: email_address_removed Subject: RealPlayer patch! HELP Message-ID: Hello everybody, please mail me privately if you can provide me the patch to record not recordable music with realplayer.... you know, 21 December gets close..... :) Thank you Francesco ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 15:05:45 +0100 From: Anna & Heike Boedeker To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Bj=F6rk?= Message-ID: >>I also finally got my first shot of Bjork while working yesterday and all >I gotta say is, >>somebody gave that whiney digital-ho a recording contract?! Pleeeease.... > >Thank GOD that someone agrees with me on this. I thought I was the only >person in the United States who thought that Bjork is why animals eat their >young. I saw her in concert with the Sugarcubes with PiL and New Order (two And I always thought like she was sooooooooooo cute... alone for the fact that she looks -- and acts! -- 30 years younger than she in fact is... :-) >GREAT bands), and they were the most inept, pathetic act that I have ever >experienced (and I've seen Fluffy). She hasn't gone anywhere since then. Ya know... her appeal fershur only lies in her weirdness... of which she's got more than enough... maybe her fame is made by her videos of which some like "Human Behavior" and "Joga" indeed can keep me from going on zapping for 3 seconds if I happen to come across them on eMpTyV, others like "Violently Happy" are nothing but sick, and "Oh So Quiet" is shallow, boring-to-death and infinitely pathetic. As for her writing, well, let me put it this way, I'd prefer it to most techno stuff which is about nothing than doing weird things to equally weird 303s and 606/707/808/909s, but... My God... if I want to listen to well-made pop music, I only can second your statement that bands like New Order are a good choice... >All her problems can be solved with a 40lb. sledgehammer in the base of the >skull. Nemo ultra posse obligatur... :-) Otherwise she's young yet, and after maturing a bit, maybe also 5 years on the couch, and trying a bit harder who knows whether she has the potential to finally become an inspired musician... maybe she's even a nicer person than she puts herself into scene... Heike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:35:33 +0100 From: NGA To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Loreena McKennitt Message-ID: Hi all good to see that Loreena is now getting the recognition that she deserves. But please do me a favour and refrain from comparing her to Enya: Enya is pseudo-new age, sugary, sticky, gooey, sweet, sickly, tacky, bland pap. For those of you who might want some more of Loreena's stuff, I can make a seasonal recommendation in the form of her mini CD 'A Winter Garden', which contains her interpretations of three well-known Christmas carols, together with two of her own songs. Very unusual arrangements give the carols a definite Middle Eastern touch. Personally, I think Christmas can go take a running jump, but this album is still very good. stay safe and happy listening Neil Gallop (nga@software-ag.de) (http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/2321) Currently playing: Skyclad - Irrational Anthems ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 08:58:28 -0600 From: "Todd O. Klindt" To: email_address_removed Subject: That Band and Dave Mustaine Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C243C48CC497B284FCD34FEC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I feel terrible for contributing to a thread about 'that band' but.... I saw a Rockumentary about 'that band' and Lars was looking back fondly on the day that they sent Dave packing. The way he described it was when they flew out to New York to record Kill 'Em All they went out and partied pretty hard the first night. They were supposed to start recording the next day. That morning Lars woke Dave up and told him he was out and that they had gotten him a train ticket home. Can you imagine getting kicked out of 'that band' and then having a train ride from New York to San Francisco to think about it? The only reason I bring out of this up was because someone had mentioned that they didn't think that Cliff and Dave were in the band at the same time so Cliff couldn't be the one that fired him. I think that they were because Cliff is the one on Kill 'em all. now back to your regularly scheduled Dream Theater mailing list tk --------------C243C48CC497B284FCD34FEC Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Klindt, Todd Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Todd Klindt n: Klindt;Todd adr;dom: ;;;Ames;Ia;; email;internet: email_address_removed x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------C243C48CC497B284FCD34FEC-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:06:03 -0500 (EST) From: Albert Balkiewicz To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Mike Portnoy's whereabouts. Message-ID: > > > Anyone know if Mike Portnoy still lives on Long Island? I am a prooud > resident and am very pompous about the company I live with. Thanks for > your help. > > I think that Mike Portnoy lives in Hackensack, NJ or somewhere around there. I remember hearing that a while back......... Thought I'm not sure......... -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, 9 Dec 97 10:51:04 EST From: "Chung Ng" To: Subject: HELP - Canadian Jammers / Post Office Strike Message-ID: I hate to use the Jam for my own selfish needs, but it seems like a good place to get help. Can any of the Canadian Jammers give me a status of the Post Office strike? I've gotten several letters returned recently and I'm getting nervous about send Xmas gifts... Any help would be appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:07:50 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Those "M" bands Message-ID: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Hayden wrote: > No, Dave Mustaine was the musical wizard to begin with. I'm not sure of some of the things you say in this e-mail. If Mustaine was the wizard, then why the band continued to release interesting material for four albums after Dave was fired?? If you have "Live Shit: Binge & Purge", you'll notice that the band members (I don't remember who, but I get a strong feeling that it is K___) are saying that with "Master of Puppets" they showed the world that they were a band that could do more than just noise. He also mentions that Cliff was the person who taught them some music theory and that had deep understanding of music. > In My Darkest Hour has nothing to do with a hex. It's just his feelings > about Burton's death, who was a friend. Hetfield more or less kicked > Dave out of the band, and then stole all of Mustaine's songs to put on > the first Metallica album. I don't know if he "stole" all of Dave's songs. He gave the credits. Also, Dave released the riff to "The Call of Ktulu" (which has his credits on "Ride the Lightning") on "Hangar 18". And he also put his own version of "The Mechanix" on "Killing is My Business". > Burton wasn't even in the band when Dave was kicked out, it was still > Ron McGovney, original bassist and founding member. Again, I think you are wrong. I there were some demos of their early songs with both Dave and Cliff. And, if I'm not mistaken, when Dave was playing with James on "Cliff'em All", the band had already Cliff on their line-up. I won't check this now because I still have some projects due to Thursday, but this will be the first thing I'll check on Friday. > -Brian []s, the Metallifan, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html "Life is ours, we live it our way (...) / And nothing else matters" James Hetfield (Metallica), Nothing Else Matters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:14:29 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Kaboob Message-ID: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Carlo D'Angelo wrote: > > the area where you will find out where John Petrucci played the solo of > > Metropolis on his shoelaces and this is the place where you will find out > > whether or not Myung finally said Hi. > > Yes, and I need to read this ten times in one digest because?????????? Because this is the list where people care about Myung saying Hi. :-) In fact, he talked a lot with me and other two 'jammers when they came here to the South America. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html "Life is ours, we live it our way (...) / And nothing else matters" James Hetfield (Metallica), Nothing Else Matters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:26:23 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3335 Message-ID: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Richard A. Rivera wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 email_address_removed wrote: > > > >The studio version of Another Day is the best I've heard. > > > I'm with ya. But the Acoustic Dreams version is a close second. Oh, I find that version simply terrible. I can't stand the vocals. The studio version is indeed the best of all versions that I've heard (with the version of the Marquee being the close second). []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html "Life is ours, we live it our way (...) / And nothing else matters" James Hetfield (Metallica), Nothing Else Matters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:47:35 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: email_address_removed Subject: Mustaine and "That" band Message-ID: Well, to the guy that told us that Cliff wasn't part of Metallica together with James, now I think I remember one thing from the "Cliff 'em All" video: the time when a reporter asks the band members their roles in the band. All four members are there: James, Lars, Dave and Cliff (and this is the order on the screen of your TV set too, from left to right). The interviewer even asks: "When have you been joined as Metallica" (or something to this effect) and James answers "Huh... Since we started!" :-) Lars, to avoid this commentary turning the interview in a pile of silly remarks :-), complements "Which was when? 1981?" []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html "Life is ours, we live it our way (...) / And nothing else matters" James Hetfield (Metallica), Nothing Else Matters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:51:38 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: DTIFC XMas CD Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Neil Elliott wrote: [message saying the new DTIFC CD will have soundchecks, messages, covers, demos and lounge version of "Under a Glass Moon"] > Well, what I will tell you is that he got most of the above WRONG. There > is NO soundcheck, message from the band, or the lounge version of > Glass Moon. So, we will have covers and demos. :-) > Neil Elliott - DTIFC []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html "Life is ours, we live it our way (...) / And nothing else matters" James Hetfield (Metallica), Nothing Else Matters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:52:11 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Case To: email_address_removed Subject: Fates/DT/ and crappy responses. Message-ID: Apparently I started a whole barrage of ridiculous posts relating to Fates. I have been trying very hard to defend the integrity of Fates Warning, since I think they put a lot of effort and poured out on their latest CD. And it shows, since I LOVE APSoG!! I'm also about the BIGGEST DT FAN anyone can find. True, I've never seen them in concert, but I totally respect their musicianship and efforts. However, I cannot emphasize enough that there are many IDIOTS out there who are totally blind to others opinions and interpretations. It's making both the DT and FATES fans (and those who go both ways) look bad, because of the flames flying around. I think it's rather disappointing that many DT fans won't give APSoG a really good fair shake, but I can't do anything about it. However, that is not a valid reason for me to say that you certain fans who can't appreciate APSoG are ass holes. CUT THE SHIT WITH A KNIFE FOLKS!!! Or maybe it's gone stale and can't be cut??!! Whatever! And the fact that I don't like the new ballads by DT, i.e. Hollow Years and Anna Lee. (TAMP is OK). And I don't like the sound production. OH WELL! So I think that APSoG is way better than FII. Oh well. That still doesn't change the fact that DT is my fav. band. STOP all the flames, and try to be more flexible about others criticisms. It may actually allow us to see "eye to eye", rather than leaving us "scarred" by others flames. (whoa, what a lame attempt...) Anyway, I'll wrap up this post now. It's gone from bad to worse..... -Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Jonathan Case, graduate student Mailing Address: -School of Meteorology: (405)-325-6561 942 Deonne Circle -University of Oklahoma at Norman Norman, OK 73071 -Dept. Fax #: (405)-325-7689 (405)-364-7075 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 1518 in Sarkey's Energy center; Norman, OK -73069- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: email_address_removed || URL: http://rossby.ou.edu/~jcase ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 97 11:00:49 -0600 From: "Brian Hayden" To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Subject: Interpretations (cool story), the M bands (again) Message-ID: Responding to the message of <80256568.00494D17.00@ThamesWater.Co.Uk> from email_address_removed: > 2. I wish I could remember the band and song that talks about people > desperately listening to their songs and taking lyrics to almost be their > own personal message [etc] I don't know about this band, but here's a cool little story in the same vein: "I am reminded of Frost visiting a school and reading his famous poem about watching snow in a field. Afterwards, the instructor then told the class his interpretation. I won't bore you with all the details but it had to do with light and dark, good and evil... that sort of thing. The instructor then asked Frost about his interpretation. Frost said it was lovely, but completely wrong. He said the poem is about stopping next to a field and watching the snow fall! " I don't remember where I found this, but it's a second-hand story. In response to the people talking about Mustaine's departure from Megadeth, etc., I have an excerpt from an interview with Ron McGovney where it's clear that he was the bass player at the time of Mustaine's firing, and that Hetfield officially kicked him out. If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll send it to you. I'm not going to waste space here with it. Responding to the message of from email_address_removed: > > > On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Hayden wrote: > > > No, Dave Mustaine was the musical wizard to begin with. > > I'm not sure of some of the things you say in this e-mail. Well, a few of them were just me being a dumbass (I prefer 'Deth to Metallica any day), so don't worry about it. :) > I don't know if he "stole" all of Dave's songs. He gave the > credits. You're right, stole is a bad choice of words, as they did give credit. Let's just say that they should have had the decency to come up with their own material if they wanted Mustaine out of the band. > > Burton wasn't even in the band when Dave was kicked out, it was still > > Ron McGovney, original bassist and founding member. > > Again, I think you are wrong. People have mentioned the "Cliff 'Em All" video a few times. I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but as I said in a previous post, McGovney (who was their original bassist) claims to have been at the scene when Mustaine was booted and his talking about his equipment and such, so it sounded to me like Mustaine left before Burton came. I could be wrong. If so, McGovney must've been in and out a couple times. Just for everyone's knowledge, the original members were: Vox - Hetfield Drums - Lars Ulrich Bass - Ron McGovney Guitar - Lloyd somebody, Mustaine That's according to two sources. Who knows, maybe it's wrong. -Brian ******************************************************************************** "So understand, don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years. Face up, make your stand, and realize you're living in the golden years." -Adrian Smith ******************************************************************************** Coleridge on IRC ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3338 **************************