YTSEJAM Digest 4082 Today's Topics: 1) Re: various things by Rogerio Brito 2) the new fates album by belhai 3) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4067 by email_address_removed 4) MTV (or something similar) in Japan by "David A. Bryan" 5) Sava live stuff? by Joe DeAngelo 6) Platypus sample. by "Ville Rassi" 7) Looking for boot stores in NYC.... by "Eric Marlett" 8) Re: the new fates album by "Vincent G. LuPone" 9) Re: A Blessing from the Gods by Digital Man 10) Re: Looking for boot stores in NYC.... by Digital Man 11) SoC by Joe DeAngelo 12) Majesty video by email_address_removed 13) okay.. just to set it straight, DT IS NOT BREAKING UP!! by email_address_removed 14) Re: New Orleans by Alan Estrada 15) Kevin Moore, Magna Carta, Progression #27 by Gary Davis 16) Re: Majesty video by email_address_removed.be (Tony De Laender) 17) Re: help requested by email_address_removed 18) Re: Majesty video by TheCowGod 19) new CD's...... by Joe DeAngelo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:23:59 -0300 (EST) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: various things Message-ID: On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Arash Ashouriha wrote: > In the new bluesy section, you can hear Savatage's (trans.. Orchestra) > "Christmas Eve". I think that the song you're refering to is "Carol of Bells", which Savatage recorded under the name "Christmas Eve". BTW, if I'm correct, I think it's obvious why the band put that bit of that song there: they started playing this version in the "Fix for 96" tour, which started on December of 1996. So, nothing more appropriate than playing that... BTW #2, I think that this song ("Carols of Bells") is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever heard. It always gives me chills... Absolutely incredible. And the Savatage rendition is very good. The first time I heard this version was when Marcelo brought me the CD "Dead Winter Dead". I almost had a heart attack. []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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:28:50 -0500 (EST) From: belhai To: Dream Theater Subject: the new fates album Message-ID: Okay, I know Dream Theater has a built up quite a srtong fan base that they can now release a double live album and not suffer from a lack of sales. But how is Fates Warning able to pull this off? Seriously, I don't see a whole lot of sales for their double live album. Brandon NP: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones "left of cool" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:39:39 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4067 Message-ID: In a message dated 98-07-15 03:57:48 EDT, you write: << All of the previous is IMHO. /me puts on flame retardent suit and throws more fuel in the flame thrower. >> Thanks Issac -- This is the stuff I was looking for when I joined ytsejammers and other prog. metal mailing lists. Real opinions on music, specifically educated opinions on prog. metal music. Nikki ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:18:07 -0400 From: "David A. Bryan" To: email_address_removed Subject: MTV (or something similar) in Japan Message-ID: Ok, we've all heard how Mr. Big, DT, and many other bands with musicians in them are popular in Japan. So out of curiosity, is there something like MTV there that plays prog metal videos? If so maybe we can all get bootleg tapes of these "gods in Japan". Or maybe they suffer with the same mindless stuff we get here. Enquiring minds want to know.... --DAve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:26:12 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: Sava live stuff? Message-ID: > - Also Savatage will release a DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM later this year along with a live video. WTF??? How the hell did this slip by me? - Joe D. /me slaps self ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:33:07 PDT From: "Ville Rassi" To: email_address_removed Subject: Platypus sample. Message-ID: Finally got to listen to that Platypus sample.What a refreshing change.I was expecting to hear prog metal in the vein of LTE or DT.Instead I got a nice song which mixes nice grooves with odd times(actually, it´s the odd times that makes it so groovy.Well... Rod Morgenstein helps too. :-) ) and even some blues.I noticed that Platypus is Kings X´s Ty Tabors project.Is all Kings X this good? -Ville- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:46:47 EDT From: "Eric Marlett" To: email_address_removed Subject: Looking for boot stores in NYC.... Message-ID: If anyone (WildKoba maybe...) knows of any good stores that sell boots in NYC, please let me know where they might be.... I'm mainly in search of DT and Tori Amos material.... Thanks..... Eric email_address_removed ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:48:20 -0600 From: "Vincent G. LuPone" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: the new fates album Message-ID: Taco Belhai wrote: >Okay, I know Dream Theater has a built up quite a srtong fan base that >they can now release a double live album and not suffer from a lack of >sales. > >But how is Fates Warning able to pull this off? Seriously, I don't see a >whole lot of sales for their double live album. neither do they. They're on a minor label, Metal Blade. That's why they can do this. You think Dream Theater would be allowed to release an album that's a 52 minute song? On Electra? NO WAY. The label wouldn't let them. IMO, Fates Warning does what they know is best for the music and the fans. To me, they have the most musical intergrity of anyone out there. Laterz, Peace and love, and good happiness stuff, ~Vince =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | http://www.prognosis.com/obscure/ | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:11:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Digital Man To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: A Blessing from the Gods Message-ID: A thousand monkeys in belhai's basement typed: [regarding KX, FW, and GC touring:] > I don't think there are any set dates yet, but the Jaxx Night Club > has it listed for October 8th. I think that's the > only date set so far. Well, I picked a hell of a time to move out of Virginia, didn't I? :) OK, New Yorkers, who's up for a Thursday night road trip? :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.dreamt.org/d-man \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:16:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Digital Man To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Looking for boot stores in NYC.... Message-ID: A thousand monkeys in Eric Marlett's basement typed: > If anyone (WildKoba maybe...) knows of any good stores that sell > boots in NYC, please let me know where they might be.... I'm mainly > in search of DT and Tori Amos material.... If you have the chance to get out to LI, you must check out Music Arcade in Westbury. They have a buttload of "imports" from just about anyone you'd want to find it from, including many of the prog-types frequently mentioned here. Wantagh Pkwy, Old Country Rd. west, go about two blocks, shopping center on the right (north) side of the street. Unfortunately, I don't know any of the good places in NYC, and I'd appreciate reading anyone else's answers for Eric. -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.dreamt.org/d-man \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:58:38 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: SoC Message-ID: Anybody who has Stream of Consciousness...... Aside from the few sound dropouts that Mike Bahr mentioned in his e-mail (I counted something like 6 on disc 1) - I'm wondering if anybody else has a moderate "hiss" in the background? And yes, I realize that it's a boot, and not a studio release - but after listening to Static Progress, I noticed that had no hiss..... so it made me wonder. Also, does anybody else have a REALLY OBVIOUS sound dropout at approx. 6:44 of Voices? Right when James is singing "....lost the truth to quicksand" it jumps right into where he's belting out "voooooices!" Like I said, it's painfully obvious. Please reply, so I can know if my discs are screwed up or not. On a positive note: aside from the above, the general quality is pretty high. Also, it's a great setlist. My favorite track (after 1 1/2 listens) would have to be the killer version of Ytse Jam. I'll post a review once I give it a few more listens. Thanks, - Joe D. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:02:43 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: Majesty video Message-ID: i would have left this alone, but realized some of you dont have aol, so for those of you who dont know, here goes: ]From: Charlie Dominici: WELL.......I'm putting together a video of the early rehearsals for the first album...also lots of stuff on it with the guys and me ...well..shall we say .acting pretty crazy. some of it is hilarious! you'lll see your favorite prog-metal-men as you have never seen them before(and will never be able to see them again). this is some extremely rare stuff..from my private collection. Tapes were shot in the basement rehearsal studio in deer park(we were "MAJESTY" then). I'm curious how many of you would want to buy one....let me know by EMAIL - email_address_removed PS ...1st 50 orders will recieve a free extremely RARE majesty photo autographed by all five of us. I also have some of the original WDADU posters and autographed "album release party" tickets with MAJESTY picture on it (VERY RARE)!! :) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:39:50 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: okay.. just to set it straight, DT IS NOT BREAKING UP!! Message-ID: I just wanted all to know that this has got to be a bogus rumor. In fact, whoever read this must have seen it in the Finnish equivelant of "The Star" or "Weekly World News" because "it ain't so!". I for one, saw Mike Portnoy this past Wednesday night (which helped spawn the discussion about the live album here on the jam) and he said, after being asked what DT's plans were for next year; "Well, the live album will be out in the fall, then we'll probably take a break from it all for a little while, then start recording again!" To much applause he said this. Mike has been home from Finland for a while, so I know you have nothing to fear. Chill. J ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:38:21 -0500 From: Alan Estrada To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: New Orleans Message-ID: see ya next week guys --- MP3 of the week - "The Wizard" the Black Sabath cover played by John Tesh with Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/2025/ Alan Estrada Adler, ICQ #9267174 Monterrey, Mexico -------------------------------------------------------- TAKE NOTE OF MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:50:16 -0400 From: Gary Davis To: email_address_removed Subject: Kevin Moore, Magna Carta, Progression #27 Message-ID: Hello DT Fans! The latest Artist Shop newsletter is out and you'll find it in its entirety at . Here are some snippets from it that are of special interest to DT fans! We have some new members that I'm extremely proud to welcome to The Artist Shop and one of them is former Dream Theater keyboardist, Kevin Moore! Kevin Moore's Chroma Key album can now be found at . Chroma Key is a solo project by Kevin Moore, former keyboardist and songwriter for New York's Dream Theater. Kevin Moore left Dream Theater in June of '94 after eight years with the band in order to pursue his own musical direction. In the fall of that year, he relocated to New Mexico where he began writing and recording new material. Four of the songs on the new record, "Dead Air for Radios" ("Even the Waves", "S.O.S.", "On the Page" and "Mouse") were written during this period, all of which incorporate excerpts from interviews Moore recorded with some of the people he crossed paths with there. The following year, Moore moved to Los Angeles to begin working the songs out with drummer Mark Zonder, whom he had known since the early days of Dream Theater. Moore called on two additional musicians whom he had come to know through Zonder's rehearsal studio - bassist Joey Vera and guitarist Jason Anderson =96 to record 9 songs on modular digital gear both at the rehearsal studio and at Moore=92s house in the Angeles National Forest. The result is "Dead Air for Radios", an album that goes well with long stretches of interstate highway, or with headphones, or both. Kevin Moore formed Fight Evil Records in 1996 to handle Chroma Key and future project releases. Chroma Key's Dead Air for Radios, is the label's first release. Again, you'll find graphics and soundbites for this release at . ]From Magna Carta , the much anticipated Attention Deficit and Explorers Club CD's will be out around the end of the month. We now have graphics and soundbites up for both of these. Attention Deficit is another of Magna Carta's wild experiments in which they throw together some truly great instrumentalists, lock them in a studio for a week of wild improvisation and see what comes out. This formula yielded intriguing results with Black Light Syndrome and Liquid Tension Experiment. And with a lineup of Alex Skolnick/electric and acoustic guitars, Tim Alexander/drums and percussion, and Michael Manring/four, six and ten string basses, loops, Attention Deficit promises to generate just as much= excitement. Age of Impact from Explorers Club is a classic, Progressive rock masterpiece the likes of which haven't been heard in years. With the services of a rhythm section to die for, Terry Bozzio's drums (Zappa, UK, Missing Persons, Bozzio/Levin/Stevens) and Billy Shehan's bass (Talas, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big) lay the bed for a five part journey. Guitars are represented nobly by a core contingent led by Dream Theater's John Petrucci, fresh from the kill with Liquid Tension Experiment, and Magellan's Wayne Gardner. Other soloists lending power to the cause include none other than Yes' Steve Howe and Death's James Murphy. Keyboards are mostly composer Trent Gardner's domain while Dream Theater's Derek Sherinian and Matt Guillory of Dali's Dilemma also contribute. Explorers Club's vocal army is just as impressive. Dream Theater's James LaBrie, Royal Hunt's D. C. Cooper, Dali's Dilemma's Matt Bradley and Cairo's Bret Douglas deliver Garner's evolving, revolving tale, often underscoring the tough, progressive metal aggression of tracks that are arranged like the classics - Yes' Close to the Edge and Relayer, Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Trick of the Tale springing to= mind. Progression Magazine issue No. 27 is now available at . This is by far the biggest and best issue yet, with 148 pages, full-color cover, glossy inside page stock and square binding. Contents include the following: * In-depth interview with King Crimson bassist Tony Levin. * In-depth interview with Fates Warning, including former vocalist John= Arch. * In-depth interview with Jacob Holm-Lupo of White Willow. * In-depth interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night of Blackmore's Night. * In-depth interview with Finneus Gauge. * Comprehensive overview of Canterbury progressive music. * Analysis of contemporary neo-classical music. * Detailed review of recent Genesis concerts in England and Ireland. * Info on upcoming Progday, Strange Daze and Powermad festivals. * Coverage of Cozy Powell's death. * Concert reviews of: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, Always Almost, Discipline, ProjeKct Two, Crucible, After the Fall, Soundscape, The Annie Haslam Band, Tony Geballe, Sol. * About 100 book, video and CD reviews Progression No. 28 is slated to be published in late September and will include the following: interviews with electronic/progressive pioneer Larry Fast of Synergy fame, the California Guitar Trio, British proggers Haze, prog-metalers Royal Hunt; retrospective on Hawkwind's Robert Calvert; analysis of Polish progressive rock; all regular columnists and tons of reviews. Much more to be announced later! Gary ************************************************************** Gary Davis The Artist Shop The Other Road http://www.artist-shop.com email_address_removed phone: 330-929-2056 fax:330-945-4923 SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENT ARTIST!!! ************************************************************** Check out the latest Artist Shop newsletter at http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:54:19 +0200 From: email_address_removed.be (Tony De Laender) To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Majesty video Message-ID: email_address_removed wrote: >i would have left this alone, but realized some of you dont have aol, so for >those of you who dont know, here goes: > >]From: Charlie Dominici: >WELL.......I'm putting together a video of the early rehearsals for the first >album...also lots of stuff on it with the guys and me ...well..shall we say >.acting pretty crazy. some of it is hilarious! you'lll see your favorite >prog-metal-men as you have never seen them before(and will never be able to >see them again). this is some extremely rare stuff..from my private >collection. Tapes were shot in the basement rehearsal studio in deer park(we >were "MAJESTY" then). I'm curious how many of you would want to buy one....let >me know by EMAIL - email_address_removed PS ...1st 50 orders will recieve a >free extremely RARE majesty photo autographed by all five of us. I also have >some of the original WDADU posters and autographed "album release party" >tickets with MAJESTY picture on it (VERY RARE)!! :) I don't know, sounds like a crock of shit to me. I mean, the man was fired, why would he want to put together a video from the Majesty days? It just doesn't make any sense. Also, check out the email address, email_address_removed? Please, give me a break ! It's all too cheesy to be true. ("you'll see your favorite PROG-METAL-MEN(?!?) as...") Just a word of caution... FiveNgroK CP: with myself ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:10:53 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Subject: Re: help requested Message-ID: << Hi, I have the opportunity to go to the US for a year: Au-pair and have some questions . Music and computer technics and living of course. Anybody who volunteers?? Mail me privately and sorry for NDTC schnipp >> I have a bit of advice: Stay away from Massachusetts, first they find an au pair cut in half in a dumpster in Boston, and then the Louise Woodward thing! :-) Art ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:13:57 -0400 From: TheCowGod To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Majesty video Message-ID: >I don't know, sounds like a crock of shit to me. I mean, the man was fired, >why would >he want to put together a video from the Majesty days? It just doesn't make >any sense. >Also, check out the email address, email_address_removed? Please, give me a break ! >It's all too cheesy to be true. ("you'll see your favorite >PROG-METAL-MEN(?!?) as...") >Just a word of caution... as far as that being charlie d, it's old news. someone came across his e-mail address a while ago and posted some of his messages, and we pretty much decided that it was him (at least i did). the majesty video, on the other hand, is news to me and sounds very cool. i can see why someone would do that. i have plenty of footage of me with my old band, and a lot of it is funny as hell. i'd release it if i thought people would enjoy watching it. sure. in fact, i've already made a few small releases for friends and the like. Moo. *** END OF TRANSMISSION *** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:46:51 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: new CD's...... Message-ID: Got some new CD's ........ "Steinway to Heaven" - For anybody unfamiliar with this Magna Carta release, it has Rick Wakeman, Jordan Rudess, Keith Emerson, Chris Ingles, Mark Robertson (Cairo) and a whole slew of great keyboardists playing classical songs, like "Moonlight Sonata". In a word: "It kicks ass!" Wait a minute, that was three words. Oh well. Go pick this disc up! Gamma Ray - "Somewhere Out In Space" - I haven't listened to this in it's entirety yet, but so far - so good. Anybody who's into the Stratovarius/ Helloween type thing should like it (and correct me if I'm wrong, but Kai Hansen (vocs./guitar) used to be in Helloween). One cool thing is that they have little notes from the band describing each song, what a cool idea! Probably the one thing I DON'T like about this kinda stuff is those big, rapid-fire double bass runs they do (am I using the correct terminology?), which (to me) usually sound pretty shitty. Is it just because I don't have some mega-awesome sound system? Cairo (self titled) - One again, I haven't heard the whole thing yet (I have yet to tackle the big 22 minute "Ruins at Avalon's Gate"). So far I really like my first exposure to Cairo. Good vocals and great keys abound on this disc! Okay, what's up with this,? It just struck me that of these three discs I ordered from CDNOW, two out of three have Egyptian themed artwork (plus obviously, the name Cairo). Plus I just listened to Sym. X's "Pharaoh". What's goin' on here? Later, - Joe D. ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4082 **************************