YTSEJAM Digest 3938 Today's Topics: 1) vocalists by "Adam Cook" 2) Re: New DT Single by Damon Fibraio 3) Philly clubs (NDTC) by "The I-Man" 4) Check out 5/28: Liquid Tension Experiment, 10pm EST by email_address_removed 5) DRE/\M THE/\TER Polls by email_address_removed 6) Late on my Fort Worth show comments by Jonathan Case 7) Fort Worth show highlight by Jonathan Case 8) King Crimson by Justin James 9) prog-o-rama, for real, this saturday! by Mats "Rydstr?m" 10) DT set list by email_address_removed 11) some thoughts of the audience makeup at the dt/elp/dp shows by Damon Fibraio 12) one more thing about S. Bach by Scotch 13) Re: Check out 5/28: Liquid Tension Experiment, 10pm EST by "KorgX3" 14) Calm music... by Haje Jan Kamps 15) DT connections by Brian Larkin 16) Re: Labrie Bashing by email_address_removed 17) Hypothetical ideas and setlists for tour w/Deep Purple. by "Syrinx" 18) Re: sequels by "earthblind, starbound" 19) Drum tabs by Haje Jan Kamps ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:55:32 -0400 From: "Adam Cook" To: Subject: vocalists Message-ID: Yo, Check out a real vocalist...Neal Morse of Spock's Beard! Now that man can sing a tune without trying to hit double high E's. Talkin bout Andre... > How 'tasteful' his vocals are arranged is a matter opinion - you state > it like fact. IMHO, the way Matos' vocals are arranged over songs like > Never Understand, Queen Of The Night and The Shaman are absolutely > superb. It wasn't until I actually sat down with the lyrics to both AC > and HL and read along with them to the music that I realised how clever > Matos' vocal arrangements were. I agree. His vocal arrangements are spectacular if you love that symphonic metal style. I can understand how his shrieking could annoy some though. It doesn't bother me though that he sounds like a woman. I don't care if he sounds male or female... I like the sound of his voice. His lack of balls works to his advantage in songs like Holy Land and Never Understand. But sometimes stuff like Carry On can get old just cause it's too much and too over the top. > Another vocalist no one seems to have mentioned yet; Russel Allen, from > Symphony X. He's my fav vocalist and first pick if KJLB ever needed to > be replaced. He's got both power and range as demonstrated in the 20 > minute DWoT. No shit. Russel is the MAN. I got Divine Wings of Tragedy and it took a few weeks for his voice to grow on me but he just has so many different weapons in his vocal arsenal. He can sound totally powerful and gritty or smooth and spine tingling. I thought this was the definitive metal vocal performance until I got Twilight In Olympus. He steps it up a notch. His growling isn't quite as cheesy metalish and he added even more different tones to his voice. Check out Through the Looking Glass. He sounds like 20 different singers on one song! Oh and Michael Tangermann of Superior is up there too. He's got tons of power and range and he doesn't always sing high. You know he's got the range but he controls himself to lay down some great melodies instead of just signing high all the time... Adam Cook ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Fibraio To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: New DT Single Message-ID: OK. I have the hy single. But, I am almost positive that other singles were released. Like BMS, or YNM. I even heard the Ps was going to be released. If BMS was released as a single, are there any bonus tracks on it? What about YNM? Was HY the only song released as a single? -- Damon Fibraio, email_address_removed Keyboardist, Vocalist, musical slut "One likes to believe in the freedom of music But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity."--Rush, 1980 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:19:39 -0400 From: "The I-Man" To: "YTSEJAM MAILING LIST (E-mail)" Subject: Philly clubs (NDTC) Message-ID: <000001bd89b5$2a6219c0$e012e7d0@default> Hey ytse-people, Sorry for NDTC but, I need some advice. I'm going to be in the Philly area (North side) on business Thursday night and am wondering if anyone knows if anything cool is going on that night as far as bands and clubs. Just looking for a cool place to hang-out, dig some music, and not get killed. Private e-mail responses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, The I-Man ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:33:18 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Check out 5/28: Liquid Tension Experiment, 10pm EST Message-ID: Click here: 5/28: Liquid Tension Experiment, 10pm EST ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:37:07 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: DRE/\M THE/\TER Polls Message-ID: Hey, everyone check out these polls I'm administering... Favorite Dream Theater Album http://apps2.vantagenet.com/apolls/poll.asp?id=199854115146 Favorite Member of Dream Theater http://apps2.vantagenet.com/apolls/poll.asp?id=19985494323 [eriC] THE DRE/\M THE/\TER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Case To: email_address_removed Subject: Late on my Fort Worth show comments Message-ID: I guess I needed some time to absorb the entire magnitude of this incredible show! DREAM THEATER ABSOLUTELY RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had been waiting for over 4 years to see them in concert, and finally did. By far, my best and favorite concert I've ever seen. I really like Derek S. as well. He is a jammin' maniac!! That was the most crowd interaction I've ever seen in a band. Portnoy, Petrucci, LaBrie, and Derek were so cool the way they made eye contact and such. It seems as though Myung is the steady worker of the group who doesn't really like to get into the crowd much. That cool, though. Not everybody in the band has to ham it up like Portnoy and Petrucci do! I still would like to know what the hell Portnoy did during his drum solo. He disassembled a drum and appeared to be playing with some people from the crowd. Was this planned, or did Mike randomly choose someone to do that little drum skit with? I couldn't have asked for any better vocals than James' performance SAT. He was incredible. He hit a couple notes that could've busted somebodies eardrums!!!! To top off such an unbelievable weekend, I ended up storm chasing (based out of Norman, Oklahoma) to northern OK on SUNDAY afternoon and saw the most incredible tornadoes I've ever seen! I saw 3 separate tornadoes that stayed on the ground for a total of at least 8 minutes among all of them. Truly an amazing weekend indeed!! Later, Jon Case graduate meteorology major at University of OK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:54:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Case To: email_address_removed Subject: Fort Worth show highlight Message-ID: One other thing about the Fort Worth show: the highlight for me was when Petrucci started jamming to track one of Liquid Tension Experiement. Then Portnoy hopped on the drums and jammed with Petrucci on the first two minutes of track 1. That was COMPLETELY AWESOME!!! Laters, Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:21:49 -0500 From: Justin James To: Ytsejam Digest Subject: King Crimson Message-ID: With all this talk about Crimson's use of mellotrons, it has made me listen to the one King Crimson album that I own some more. I am now thinking of buying a new album. The one that I have is Thrak, and I think it is pretty cool. Any recommendations or run downs on their albums would be greatly appreciated, please don't recommend that I buy a greatest hits album, because I hate those damn things. If I like the band then I'm gonna end up with all their albums anyway, so a greatest hits album is a waste of 20 bucks. Thanks, Lord Mutilo email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Mats "Rydstr?m" To: email_address_removed Subject: prog-o-rama, for real, this saturday! Message-ID: hi all! as some of you noticed we weren't on the air last saturday, sorry bout the fuck-up. but this saturday it will happen! studentradion in stockholm, sweden, 95,3 mhz, sat 30 may, 11-12 am. we'll play some liquid tension experiment, weather report, some new primus stuff, and feature the excellent psychedelic swedish band, qoph. tune in! .............................................................. Mats Rydström - email_address_removed.se - email_address_removed the LORD ROSSE Home Page... http://www.nada.kth.se/~d94-mry .............................................................. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:13:49 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: DT set list Message-ID: In a message dated 5/27/98 5:13:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, email_address_removed writes: << > Well - it is IMPOSSIBLE for everyone (let alone 2 people) to agree on a 1 hour > DT set list Yet 5 will before the show :) >> Probably NOT actually!!! I always write the set lists and it almost never pleases all 4 of the other guys..... (It's a dirty job, but someones got to do it!!) Mike Portnoy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:33:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Fibraio To: Dream Theater Mailing list Subject: some thoughts of the audience makeup at the dt/elp/dp shows Message-ID: Let's think of this. Examine the fans of deep purple and elp. Both bands are late 60s/early 70s fare. ELP is heavily progressive. DP really isn't. Either way, your audience is going to consist largely of people in their 30s and 40s, with some 20s mixed in such as us ytsejammers. The elp factin is going to love the prog stuff. The DP faction is going to love the harder stuff. This is the perfect venue for DT to play in. The proggy stuff will hit the elp fans while the sheer power of dt will hit the dp fans. If done right, we can win a lot fo fans over. Let's see. -- Damon Fibraio, email_address_removed Keyboardist, Vocalist, musical slut "One likes to believe in the freedom of music But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity."--Rush, 1980 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:51:16 -0500 From: Scotch To: Delirium Tremens Subject: one more thing about S. Bach Message-ID: OK, this is a little late, but: Even though Labrie should and will never leave the band unless he happens to seriously sprain his ever-extended tongue during a concert, Sebastian Bach is more than qualified to take his place based on one thing (and I'm surprised no one's mentioned this): Bach's breathtaking performance of "Take The Time" from the Live In Tokyo video. "There is something that I fee-yoo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ool To be something that is ree-yoo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ool" How the hell does he do that thing with his upper lip??? Jeez, that's amazing. Prog needs more of that. =) Scotch. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:27:54 -0600 From: "KorgX3" To: Subject: Re: Check out 5/28: Liquid Tension Experiment, 10pm EST Message-ID: <01bd89cf$74b69400$400d84d0@korgx3> > Click here: 5/28: Liquid >Tension Experiment, 10pm EST MIKE! DAMMIT! Turn that damn encrypted shit off and get a real ISP. =) --KorgX3 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 20:50:36 -0400 From: Haje Jan Kamps To: email_address_removed Subject: Calm music... Message-ID: Hey yall.. Here is a rather weird post coming up.. Someone asked me to make a setlist for a wedding, you know.. Create some athmosphere.. I'm sure you all have heard the first 1:25 of ACOS... Now what I am wondering about.. Do any of y'all know a band that has whole songs of that calibre? (i.e not particuallary progressive, can be instrumental, doesn't HAVE to be) I got Alice In Chains : Jar of Flies.. I'll probably be playing a lot from that one. If anyone has an idea, please cough it up, so I can listen to it and figure if I wanna use it. (PS: And yea I will be playing a LOAD of Dream Theater.. including ACOS, Hollow years and several others) Haje Jan +---------------------+ | Haje Jan Kamps | +-------------------+---------------------+ | http://home.sol.no/~lrovers/haje/ | +-----------------------------------------+ | Adesso che ho perso la vista, | | ci vedo meglio e di piu | +-----------------------------------------+ | Careful what you wish | | you may regret it | | Careful what you wish | | You just might get it | | -metallica : King Nothing | +-----------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:16:26 -0400 From: Brian Larkin To: email_address_removed Subject: DT connections Message-ID: > first off, I'VE PLAYED ON THE SAME STAGE AS DT!!! Just a little tidbit: I've been in a rehearsal studio believed to have been used at some point by DT. It's located in Rockville Centre, NY, on Sunrise Highway down the block from a movie theater. Any LI 'jammers out there who might be able to confirm it was once theirs? The band currently renting it is known as Sonipath. I was chatting with their guitarist one night a few years ago (yes, they've been renting it since), and he told me that back in '87-88, OFB were renting the very same room I was sitting in. I guess actually *playing* on a stage DT have played on is an even cooler experience more worthy of mention, but I thought I'd share my little connection regardless. That is all. Buh-bye! Brian +=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-+ | Brian Larkin - email_address_removed | | "Had I not known that I was already dead, | | I would have mourned my loss of life." | | -- Ota Dokan, 1498 | | | +=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-=~=-+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 22:21:25 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Labrie Bashing Message-ID: << What is going on here, this list is becoming an anti-dream theater list I think. >> Dude, you are so way off on this one, so way off . . . THE WHOLE "REPLACE JAMES" THREAD WAS HYPOTHETICAL!!! Art ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:01:15 -0400 From: "Syrinx" To: "A Ytse Besides Itself" Subject: Hypothetical ideas and setlists for tour w/Deep Purple. Message-ID: <00e301bd89e4$f4f52fe0$dccbcdcf@syrinx> I thought i'd enter in my .02 on this matter. On my way home from from class this evening, i got to thinking about different aspects of the opening act slot. first, we have to keep in mind that most of the people will get there closer to the end of the set (or wander in halfway through). we need to keep in mind also that most of the people are deep purple fans first and foremost (and, let's be honest, most of them haven't even heard of dt) - and the amount of prog that OFB could throw at them could put them into shock. I think the last thing DT wants to do is upstage Deep Purple. Keeping all this and yet putting on a show that would make your average Deep Purple fan go out and buy a DT disc is a hard task, but one that I think that can be done. Here's a hypothetical 45 minute set list (and reasons for my choices): 1) New Millenium (8.20) Why this as an opener? Well, listing to FII, this seems to be a perfect opener - both in lyric matter and song structure. it's not "balls off the wall prog" and it's not just another song in 4/4 either. those who take the song as it is won't think anything of it, but it *is* a catchy tune. those who dive deeper (with your ears, not your eyes) find the true progressiveness in a song that doesn't appear so. the chapman stick would raise some eyebrows as well. 2) Caught In A Web (5.26) Our first chance to go into DT's back catalogue, and their first real chance to show the "balls 'n' chunk" that Awake is known for. It's a chance for the Deep Purple fans to get their first real chance to hear Progressive Metal at its finest. The interaction between Derek and JohnP during the bridge is bound to raise some eyebrows. 3) Peruvian Skies (6.43) Going headfirst our 2nd of FII tunes (remember - this isn't supposed to be a DT greatest hits, but rather an idea for DP fans to buy DT's records), this shows the clever way that DT can mix their influences (Kansas and Metallica off the top of my head) in a way that is pure DT. The mix of soft/heavy parts will again get people into it - and would be a crowd pleaser, i think. 4) Burning My Soul (5.29) Our 3rd FII track (and this being the first single), many people who have heard DT on the radio would know this song pretty well. Here's another chance to show some progressiveness to those who might not be so openminded - well hidden in a great rock tune. Again, those who just take it at face value will just think "that's a good tune" where others who look to turn deeper will see the tune for the genius that it is. 5) Voices (9.53) Along with being one of the greatest DT tracks ever made, it's more virtoustic than the others. True, it's a bit long, but it's not so much wandering that will bore the Deep Purple crowd - actually, i think they'd *really* dig Petrucci's solo. The 2nd of 3 tracks in DT's back catalogue, this rounds out the Awake album fairly well. 6) Pull Me Under (8.11) This being DT's only real US radio "hit" - is the obvious ending of the show. Yes, i know that this is the only track from I&W being played. Even so, this is the one song that i think most of the people in the crowd will know - and the chance for the interplay during the chourses will be good here - a great way to end the show. Roughly, it's about 44 minutes (the times are from the studio versions). There is a nice balance of old to new material (3 new, 3 old) - and we show off not only DT's more "commercial" side but the progressive side as well. Comments, as always, are welcome. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= email_address_removed / email_address_removed erotomania! - http://www.erotomania.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:02:46 -0400 From: "earthblind, starbound" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: sequels Message-ID: >First person to identify the *non*-'tage riff in it wins a prize [*]. Well besides the New Millennium at the end, the riff it starts out with is surprisingly like Tubular Bells. Having not heard the Savatage song, I can't label it as from them or not, but it probably counts more as a Mike Oldfield riff. Hey, anyone out there know of any net samples from Amarok or the other big long non-Tubular Bells pieces? I've never been able to find anything beyond TB and some commercial albums by Oldfield. "So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out. You should have known better after all this time. You're going to pay in blood for all your vicious slander.... Let the blood flow." -- Fish -O- http://www.afn.org/~afn39111/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 22:58:13 -0400 From: Haje Jan Kamps To: email_address_removed Subject: Drum tabs Message-ID: Hey everyone Please forgive me for non-DT content, but I have no clue where else to go. I need drum tabs. If anyone knows of a large set / collection of drum tabs, pretty please email the URL to email_address_removed or the list (preferrably private) . In particular I am looking for the accent pattern / BPM rate of "Wipeout". Haje jan ---------------- .==. __/-^-^\ (' )^-^-^\) `^UU^^UU^ ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 3938 **************************