YTSEJAM Digest 3743 Today's Topics: 1) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3742 by DrummerEsh 2) TILES NO CODA YES by email_address_removed (rob w gaul) 3) Primus by email_address_removed.au (Paul Dyer) 4) Re: Found a RUSH Boot, need help on quality (NDTC) by graham boyle 5) Re: Review of Welington Van Halen concert (fwd) by graham boyle 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3742 by Michael Bahr 7) Re: Jon Oliva is the weak link of Savatage by Calvin 6S 8) Mumblings and jumblings by Nigel Bridgeman 9) DT in Glasgow by Graham Borland 10) Re: LiveConcerts.com w/ Tony Levin by DragynLMC3 11) Liquid Tension Experiment by "J?rgen C. Bakken" 12) MBC/LE by "Trevor W. Hoit" 13) Re: by The iban 14) practicing / best album, band survey by "Tedesco, Matthew" 15) DT Show by email_address_removed 16) Ticketmaster by Dave Silva 17) Re: Found a RUSH Boot, need help on quality (NDTC) by "Christopher R. Merlo" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:11:01 EDT From: DrummerEsh To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3742 Message-ID: In a message dated 98-04-14 02:45:23 EDT, you write: << > I have a question for all the musicians on the JAM. Does any musician ever > become satisfied with the way they play? >> ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT "I WANA BE LIKE MIKE!!" ~ESH~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:14:58 -0400 From: email_address_removed (rob w gaul) To: email_address_removed Subject: TILES NO CODA YES Message-ID: >....who is Dream Theater >going to be playing with at the Vic? Should someone recruit Tiles from >Detroit? Anyone know of anything? oh no not tiles again.. if u ever heard the band coda from detroit ud know how tiles compares. they sound good dont get me wrong. just in terms of a better band coda def kicks ass.. i got a tape of their shows if anyones interested.. gonna try to convert to mp3 soon when i get time.. their version of queensryches *cant remember the song" just rocks.. too bad they split up do to troubles with the drummer and bassist leavin .. guitarist works for korg electronics.....just an all around kick ass band.. seen em twice and friends with promoter *G*.. email_address_removed _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:30:31 -0700 From: email_address_removed.au (Paul Dyer) To: email_address_removed Subject: Primus Message-ID: >>And on that topic, I have a question of my own. Do any of you bassists >>here >>know how to play Primus' "Tommy The Cat"? If so, let me know. I'm >>just >>wondering what sort of techniques (and how many strings) you have to >>use to do >>that sick shit that Les does. I mean, it simply doesn't sound possible >>to do! While not answering the question....and to make things seem all the more hopeless.... :) I saw Primus last Thursday night in Brisbane (Australia)....they were great...apart from the "too many people, too little room" factor (ie enough heat relaunch the Hindenburg) and this apparent necessity for the crowd to jump around like a Gummi Bear....but Les Claypool not only does the most amazing things on his bass...he does it with remarkable ease...the bastard... :) Cheers Paul D. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:29:59 +1000 From: graham boyle To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Found a RUSH Boot, need help on quality (NDTC) Message-ID: Christopher R. Merlo wrote: > I'll stop you right there. It is virtually impossible to find a great RTB > boot. (I would have once said that great CP boots are harder to come by, but > Critical Mass is worth the bucks.) I have (a copy of) one that's pretty good > (and I mean quality-wise, not track-listing-wise, cause Rush like never > changes their set list :), but I would hesitate to call it anything better > than pretty good. I have to correct you D, their is a great boot from the 'RTB' tour called 'Mirrors', Okaland CA, 30/01/92 OXY 003/4 which I own, the sound is near perfect, from a soundboard source and the set list is great too :) The boot is still available online, if anyone wants more info on this boot please mail me. graham ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:38:29 +1000 From: graham boyle To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Review of Welington Van Halen concert (fwd) Message-ID: email_address_removed wrote: > For those of us Jammers who like Van Halen too. How bout you put 'spoilers' in the subject ? VH are touring Australia next week and I would like to be surprised :) graham ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:18:29 -0700 From: Michael Bahr To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3742 Message-ID: email_address_removed wrote: Chris Merlo writes: > I'll stop you right there. It is virtually impossible to find a great RTB> boot. This is the unfortunate truth. In my opinion there is exactly one good RTB tour boot: "Mirrors". It's from the Oakland '92 show, and it was taken from a master DAT that didn't have the flaws that the "Rush N Roulette 92" boot of the same show had (sound problems). As boots go, Mirrors is actually fairly common, so rather than advertising that I can provide CDRs of it, I encourage people to go out there and get themselves an original while they're still around. I wish I had bought Mystic Dreams when it first came out, because now you can't find that fuckin' thing ANYWHERE. Don't make the same mistake. If you can't find a Mirrors original, though, I can always provide the next best thing of course. (I would have once said that great CP boots are harder to come by, but > Critical Mass is worth the bucks.) I have (a copy of) one that's You're too kind. :) > > So now I'm going to do what nobody on the Jam probably expects: I'm > > going to make Prism better than it was in the early days. > > My hat is off to you. This is what I've been hoping to see for a long time.> And I do truly hope that you succeed on this mission. > > Good luck, Mike. I, for one, shall be silenced for a while. Thanks for the wishes of good luck, here's hoping all goes well. (well, I've already put the routine in place by which I'll accomplish all this, so from here on it's just as simple as how many hours I put in. Here's to the midnight oil.) The iban writes: > << It's a sad day on the Jam when Mike Bahr is talked about more than Mike > Portnoy! Can we bring back the days of DTC and not MBC???? >> > > hell, i must actually say i agree with her.. Yes, please!! I really worry because I know Mike reads the Jams and he must thing I'm one unreliable motherfucker by now... I can't wait til the May 20th show because both he and Derek have discs coming to them (Stream for both and a couple other titles for Derek) and I can make damned good and sure they get delivered. :) -- - Mike Bahr - Prism Records - d u r n i k @ g o o d n e t . c o m - http://www.goodnet.com/~durnik/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:19:14 EDT From: Calvin 6S To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Jon Oliva is the weak link of Savatage Message-ID: In a message dated 98-04-13 12:12:11 EDT, JEFFREY T CLINE belched: << In my opinion the best album they did was Edge of Thorns which was free from Jon Oliva's control. He is another reason that I mark them as an almost awesome band. The parts that he has sung on on the past two albums have been the weakest parts. All of this is of course my opinion and subject to flaming if someone so desires. >> I have no problem flaming this one. JON OLIVA is Savatage. And Johnny Lee Middleton is the last of the CORE of Savatage. Jon is a genius. Savatage is no Dream Theater when it comes to being masters of their instruments. I think most people would agree that Jon is Savatage because the majority of the posts have been that they like HOR, DWD, and TWoM - all written AFTER the death of Criss Oliva. So there is no question that Jon is the MAN. As far as his voice, I think his voice is great. I love The Hall of the Mountain King, Gutter Ballet, and Streets. In fact, when I saw the Edge of Thorns video with Zak I said "Who the fuck is this guy?" I immediately hated him. I have since come to appreciate his voice, but I can actually say I like Jon's voice better. Maybe it is because I have listened to Savatage for a very long time (Damn I am an old fart - I'm 24). I do think that Edge of Thorns is a great album however. Degrees of Sanity is great. I can handle just about any rag on Savatage members - but when you touch one of the Oliva's - thems fightin' words. And I don't care if Paragons of Innocence is Humpin' Around. I think it is a great song. I don't even get annoyed that it is Humpin' Around. In fact, I am going to enter my fantasy world and ignore time and just tell myself Humpin' Around is a copy of Paragons of Innocence :o) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:47:27 +1000 From: Nigel Bridgeman To: email_address_removed Subject: Mumblings and jumblings Message-ID: Hi Mr Jeff Cline wrote: >In my opinion the best album they did was Edge of >Thorns which was free from Jon Oliva's control. He is another reason >that I mark them as an almost awesome band. The parts that he has >sung on on the past two albums have been the weakest parts. All of >this is of course my opinion and subject to flaming if someone so >desires. How can you say that EoT was free of Jon's control? He co-produced the album, co-wrote every song and played keyboards on it. Maybe he wasn't in charge of the whole thing but I'm positive he would have had a say in what happened. For what it's worth, I think that The Wake of Magellan is Savatage's weakest album since Fight for the Rock. I still love it, though, after however many months I've had it for. Just have to get the US version now. Damn bonus tracks... --- Mr Merlo wrote: >I'll stop you right there. It is virtually impossible to find a great RTB >boot. (I would have once said that great CP boots are harder to come by, but >Critical Mass is worth the bucks.) I have (a copy of) one that's pretty good >(and I mean quality-wise, not track-listing-wise, cause Rush like never >changes their set list :), but I would hesitate to call it anything better >than pretty good. Well, I don't own all that many boots, but of those that I have, "Mirrors", from the RTB tour, is the best I have ever heard. Brilliant stuff. Great, even. Awaiting the "Never Stand Still" boot from the TFE tour, which should be arriving in the next fortnight or so. The only other Rush boot I have is a piece of crap, also from the RTB tour, called "One", or something. Hey, I was surprised to actually see a Rush boot in a store here and I overreacted, OK? --- Obligatory Mike Bahr comment: "Take the Time" on TDoW is really good. --- Miscellaneous comments: Enchant officially rock. And so do Jethro Tull. And so do Opeth. Spiff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:04:28 +0100 (BST) From: Graham Borland To: YtseJam Subject: DT in Glasgow Message-ID: I won't bore anyone with yet another gig report; suffice to say that the concert in Glasgow was great. Good things that happened: - Meeting a very drunk Mike Portnoy outside his hotel the night before the gig. Quote: "Man, I gotta call my wife . . ." - Bumping into Jordan Rudess and Rod Morgenstein three times just wandering around town. They're both incredibly friendly guys, and were happy to hang around and chat. In fact, we were browsing through the Dream Theater section in an HMV store when Jordan walked up to us and asked "Are you going to their concert tonight? We're opening for them!" - Talking to Dream Theater outside the venue, seeing recent photos of young Miss Portnoy, and witnessing John Myung's heroic struggle to open the door of the hotel minibus . . . - Dream Theater playing Voices again. - The incredible end-of-show jam, consisting of One, War Pigs, Smoke on the Water, The Trooper, Yyz, and a couple of others I can't remember. Mike and Derek seemed to be totally pumped up, and every time we thought they'd finally finished for good, they started off again . . . wonderful! - Being handed a drumstick by Mike. - Walking into HMV this lunchtime to discover that as well as having FII in the normal Dream Theater section, they'd also put it in the "Best Sellers" stand by the door. Cool. - Hanging out with Adrian, Jeremy, Chloe, Matthias and Tony, and encountering ex-ytsejammer Edd Ballinger . . . Dream Theater fans are probably the nicest bunch of people on the planet. :-) 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 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 08:22:09 EDT From: DragynLMC3 To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: LiveConcerts.com w/ Tony Levin Message-ID: Hey all! Just thought some of u might be interested.... > -- For the Week of April 13 - April 19, 1998 -- > > ----------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------- > LiveConcerts.com Schedule Of Events > http://www.liveconcerts.com > ----------------------------------------------------- > APRIL 16 @ 4:00 PM PT - A conversation with Tony Levin > ----------------------------------------------------- > THIS WEEK'S DETAILS: > http://www.liveconcerts.com/event/ > ----------------------------------------------------- > ** A conversation with Tony Levin > The man Peter Gabriel called "one of the best bass players in the > world, if not THE best" - joins LiveConcerts.com for a live > discussion of groundbreaking music, past, present and future. ~Lisa email_address_removed http://members.aol.com/dragynlmc3/DragynsLair.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:25:58 PDT From: "J?rgen C. Bakken" To: email_address_removed Subject: Liquid Tension Experiment Message-ID: Good day, morning, evening, night, and so on. What is LTF, I'm pretty new to this list, and been DT fan for about 6 months, I even got When dream ... Please! Anyway, answer me. Log off from Jørgen C. Bakken 91 74 77 98 email_address_removed www.angelfire.com/az/jazz4 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:30:01 -0700 From: "Trevor W. Hoit" To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: MBC/LE Message-ID: > but for those who spend $40+ on something, shouldn't accept > receiving things so late...oh well...maybe it's worth it for them...if > they're serious collectors...i guess the wait is worth it...but i > don't > think anybody should wait if they don't have to... Tell me about it. I just waited EIGHT weeks for an order from Laser's Edge. Sure, they have great prices and selection, but if I was them and got an order for $350, I'd have it out the next day. Plus some things were out of stock that I can't help but think must have been in eight weeks ago. Trevor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:31:13 EDT From: The iban To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Message-ID: In a message dated 98-04-13 23:58:49 EDT, you write: << id love to see the lurkers come out and say hi *S* cuz honestly i know there out there. but in real life i dont see too many women who even KNOW who DT is.. >> dude, i have dated 2 women who knew who DT was and liked them.... trust me.... find yourself a nice pop/rock, alternative, R&B, whatever listening girl.. they are much more level headed and believe it or not, 10000 times less psychotic! present company accepted ofcourse =] Rocky (please don't gang up on me ytsegirls.. i'm not sayin your all psycho) (hmm maybe that aint such a bad idea) =Þ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:20:00 -0400 From: "Tedesco, Matthew" To: email_address_removed Subject: practicing / best album, band survey Message-ID: from d-man: >Personally, if I ever become satisfied with the way I play, I'll stop playing. i'm in that boat too. still, i can imagine someone wanting to learn the piano or guitar or something just well enough to plat sing-along tunes at a party, or something.... >And on that topic, I have a question of my own. Do any of you bassists here >know how to play Primus' "Tommy The Cat"? dammit, i KNOW i've seen it transcribed somewhere. i'll look through my boxes of music, see if i have it, but don't hold your breath.... ok, for you (and all the bassists out there), i've got something everyone should get. it's an instructional book called "standing in the shadows of motown," and it's about the music of james jamerson. he was one of the founding fathers of the electric bass, and pretty much played on all of the famous motown tracks in its heyday. comes with two cds and all the music transcribed (no tab). the cds are brilliant, because they're the tracks (like "heard it through the grapevine", for example) with novox, just instrumental (and the bass prominent in the mix, of course). the players on it are an all-star collection, including will lee, chuck rainey, billy sheehan, geddy lee, and dozens of others. i guarantee, this book will help everyon'e bass playing. i'm not saying people are gonna run out and do prog covers of "gettin' ready" or "i'll be there," but this will totally improve your groove and pocket playing. from some over-exuberant VH fan: >Burly Michael Anthony (the All Blacks jersey went down well) on bass and >Alex Van Halen on drums showed they were still a rhythm section to be >reckoned, mixing rough-and-tumble with effortless virtuosity. virtuosity? michael anthony? ok, file this review under "disregard." from chris dixon: >The first Prog-Net survey has ended and the results are in for Best Prog CD > >DT did very well! The number one album is by DT, and they finished second >for total votes by band. All the details are on the web site. i seem to recall the prog newsgroup doing this at some point. as i recall, genesis' "selling england by the pound" came out the number one album. i guess it depends on what crowd you poll, eh? --MATt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:11:41 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: DT Show Message-ID: --- Received from HQ02MEMO.TC6NSMM MCCURDY, SHAWN 04-14-98 11:05 Would someone be kind enough to post the phone number of the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA? My group and I are starting to plan a road trip for the May 9th show and I need ticket info. and directions. Thanks Jammers!!! See-ya, Shawn ---- 04-14-98 11:05 ---- Sent to ------------------------------------ -> IBMMAIL.I1739025 Advantis IBM Mail Exchange ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:51:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Silva To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Ticketmaster Message-ID: I just bought some tickets to the Philly show. Is this new, or have they been adding $7 in service charges for a while now? I mean, I'm aware that they have been sticking it to everybody for awhile now, but a $20 ticket that becomes $27? Come on! Mike Portnoy - Are you aware how much they're making off you. It makes me absolutely sick! Just wanted to rant a little. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:04:11 -0400 From: "Christopher R. Merlo" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Found a RUSH Boot, need help on quality (NDTC) Message-ID: Graham writes: > I have to correct you D, their is a great boot from the 'RTB' tour > called > 'Mirrors', Okaland CA, 30/01/92 OXY 003/4 which I own, the sound is near > perfect, > from a soundboard source and the set list is great too :) I stand corrected. (I had forgotten which tour this was from. :) -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Spirit of Radio" Saturday 2:00pm-4:00pm 90.7 WCWM-FM http://www.cs.wm.edu/~cmerlo/tsor ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3743 **************************