YTSEJAM Digest 4127 Today's Topics: 1) Re: MY Girlfriend by "earthblind, starbound" 2) Girlfriends by "Jan-Michael" 3) bad jewel cases by "Jan-Michael" 4) fave WDADU song by "Jan-Michael" 5) Re: Shred factor by email_address_removed 6) Odd time fun stuff / very important question - right.... by "Scott Sturdivant" 7) oh...one last question by "Scott Sturdivant" 8) Re: 4/4 vs. 12/8 by email_address_removed 9) WDADU fave song by "M. Dixon" 10) Re:Portnoys from Hell. Sorry, I'm bored. (NDTC)/Spock's by "Dick" 11) re: DT sucks by email_address_removed 12) re: DT sucks by TheCowGod 13) 14 days...... by Joe DeAngelo 14) they are out there! (was: FII) by email_address_removed 15) Dimebag Darrel in LTE? by "Younis Hilal" 16) Chuck D., Satch, OFB, Murphy/Skolnick, Therion by Phil Carter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 20:51:11 -0400 From: "earthblind, starbound" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: MY Girlfriend Message-ID: >Does anyone except me know what it is like to have your girfriend like >DT? She actually went to a concert with me back in May. >She thinks Mike Porntoy is an animal...and he is. > >Who else shares in my experience? Fuck, I don't even know what it's like to have a girl like me, much less a girlfriend who likes DT. Thank you so much for gloating. You know what, I think I'm going to have to lock you BOTH in separate rooms, with "Spice Up Your Life" on infinite repeat in your room and "Achy Breaky Heart" in hers. And one day one of you will start humming your song, and the other person will hear, and he or she will KILL the other. Hehe. That'll learn ya. - "Trust no one. Kill everyone" (Milluminati Psycho). http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4664 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 20:02:37 -0500 From: "Jan-Michael" To: "Ytsejam" Subject: Girlfriends Message-ID: <000001bdbdb1$3dfd1860$c43088cf@jammer> Quoting Glen Brooks: >Does anyone except me know what it is like to have your girlfriend like >DT? She actually went to a concert with me back in May. >She thinks Mike Portnoy is an animal...and he is. > >Who else shares in my experience? > >Glen Glen I hear ya! My girlfriend lives out in El Paso, TX and she flew in to Dallas to go see DT play in Fort Worth at the Caravan of Dreams. A couple of months into our relationship I made copies of Images & Words and Falling Into Infinity onto tapes and mailed them to her and she loved them. She had mentioned hearing Pull Me Under on the radio in the past and recognized it but hadn't heard much else from DT. So I am glad to say that my girlfriend is a Dream Theater freak just as I am!! JM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 20:05:43 -0500 From: "Jan-Michael" To: "Ytsejam" Subject: bad jewel cases Message-ID: <000101bdbdb1$ac8b18e0$c43088cf@jammer> Anyone can buy spare jewel cases at computer stores or even some used CD stores will sell you some spare ones. You can replace the bad ones in your collection and throw them away so that none of your CDs will get scratched or fugged up. Visit your local computer store or a used CD shop. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 20:09:48 -0500 From: "Jan-Michael" To: "Ytsejam" Subject: fave WDADU song Message-ID: <000201bdbdb2$3ea6f780$c43088cf@jammer> Quoting Mark Philpot: >Well, > >I was wondering, what is everyone's favorite song on WDADU? It doesn't >necessarily have to be off the album, (so with either Charlie or James >singing)... AFTERLIFE !!!! I wish they would bring back Afterlife on some tours. But the original is awesome. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:18:23 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Shred factor Message-ID: Chris Ptacek started with: >It has been my experience that the majority of people >who talk about hating people's music "because there's > too much shred," are as closed minded as 100% agree. I was on IRC listening to the impact that Explorer's Club was having on the jammers. I heard way too much "too much wanking". I couldn't believe it. To me, this is some of Petrucci's best playing ever and others were dismissing it as a wankfest. I don't expect everyone to love it (that is a personal call), but to dismiss it as a wank fest ........ blech. If it isn't speaking to you - fine, but don't just get turned off because there is some "shredding" on there. You can't chart the relationship between shredding and emotion. More shredding doesn't mean less emotion. It depends on the individual musician; just as it depends on the individual listener as to whether they enjoy it. Chris Ptacek then pondered: >When I first heard Perpetual Burn, I recall not >remembering hearing any fast guitar stuff on it (that was about 9 years >ago... I was 11 or 12). I am not sure if it was Chris P's point, but this meant a lot to me. I can't tell you how many CDs I fall in love with only later realize just how technical (or not) something is. I had Dream Theater's Images and Words CD and was trying to get my other friends into it. Before I even hit play they would always ask "so do these guys shred?" My response was "yes and no. They are proficient, but I wouldn't say they are they are the going to amaze you with their chops." The reason I said this because I was listening to the music, not really the chops of the album. After I was asked this question a couple of times, I began to listen to the CD from a chops perspective. It was then I REALLY understood just how much each and every member was SHREDDING. Point is - I didn't decide if I liked the album because of the shred factor, why should anyone? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:40:37 -0400 From: "Scott Sturdivant" To: Subject: Odd time fun stuff / very important question - right.... Message-ID: <001301bdbdb6$8f744060$message_id_removed> Sorry to nitpick calvin, but when you wrote this: "It's 4/4 with an extra eighth note tacked on". In other words: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 you were wrong. Hehehe. You added 1.5 beats instead of .5. The correct way would be counted allowed like this: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 1 We dont want to confuse the nonmusicians so I just thought that I'd set the record straight. (okokok, so i've just been watching my portnoy video 24-7 and felt the urge to apply that information!) The stuff up top was just to get to my main point. I was wondering, when the dude brought up the original question about time sigs and how to count the pulse, how many other non musicians are there on the jam? I had always assumed that 99% of Dream Theater fans were musicians or at least had some musical background. I know for myself that its what I first found so damn appealing about the band; they could play the shit out their instruments and make damn good songs too! Mind you, FII was the first DT album I heard, but the others came in quick succession. I loved New Millenium right from the start and the whole album eventually blew me away...with the exception of ToT. (I still don't like that song...heheh) But for me, Dream Theater is a mirror image of what I would like to be able to do, and to become in life. I fiddle around on the skins occasionally but don't put too much time towards it. (yeah, so I lack motivation...) I admire this band for their musicality and ability to blow away virtually any other band out there in the talent area. So, I guess I was taking a holier-than-thou attitude that only musicians knew of Dream Theater. I've always felt that were something special to me...and to the other musicians out there. I've spurned the commoners on the outside and will never look back. But, after the time sig question, I guess my bubble was shattered. This makes me quite curious, how many people out there have NO musical background? And what is your absolute favorite thing about DT? Catchy song righting? Their guitarist is cute? Anything. I want to hear it. Thanks, I'm done for the night. Scott. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:44:05 -0400 From: "Scott Sturdivant" To: Subject: oh...one last question Message-ID: <001501bdbdb7$0a18bc60$message_id_removed> HEY attention everyone, Is there ANYONE out there with a copy of a Dream Theater show performed on December 14th, 1997 at the Theater Of Living Arts in Philadelphia, PA? Any media type is wanted...tape....CD...video....4 track...well, not a 4 track, but I'm desperate. Anyway, if anyone does have this, please write me privately and perhaps we can set up a trade. (This was my first DT show so it would mean a lot, thanks guys. and oh, gals too!) Scott - yeah....again...geez... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:41:11 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: 4/4 vs. 12/8 Message-ID: Trevin Wagner chimed in to the time sig thingy with: > If you've got Enchant's 'Wounded', listen to BZ. The opening is a pattern > of 8th note triplets in 4/4 Actually, it isn't in 4/4. I absolutely HATE when a transcription shows "4/4 with a swing feel" to imply 12/8. It makes it so much easier to break away from that fucking swing feel. This song begins in 12/8. The dotted quarter note gets the beat/pulse. So every third eighth note gets the beat. 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a Four total pulses - divided into three eighth notes. This is what I mean when I say COMPOUND TIME. This intro is in compound time as opposed to simple time. 4/4 is simple time. Sorry to nitpick, but I think the comprehension of simple/compound time is very important in the development of feeling sigs not in 4/4. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:53:04 PDT From: "M. Dixon" To: email_address_removed Subject: WDADU fave song Message-ID: Riding that fave WDADU song thread.... My fave on the WDADU album would have to be "Another Hand/The Killing Hand" On I&W, my absolute favorite is Met Pt 1. On Awake, it's a tie between "Mirror/Lie" and SDV. On ACOS, well....ummm....ACOS On FII, Hell's Kitchen/LiTS. Just $.02+ on this thread Later, POJ =) ******************************************************************** 'Thank You, Thank You Very Much! That was an original composition!' "Country Music (A Night in Hell)" by Stu Hamm ******************************************************************** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 09:03:13 +0700 From: "Dick" To: Subject: Re:Portnoys from Hell. Sorry, I'm bored. (NDTC)/Spock's Message-ID: <00d001bdbdb9$d0757540$96fd92ca@buzz> A thousand gods (feel like feeding the flame!) in Korg's basement typed : >> >Dick >Indonesian Jammer This will place an all new meaning to the ytse-altruism issued on terms o= f self-indulgence and closed-mindedness in reference to a current debate. Thus the phrase once uttered among the many tribes of the ytse, "You're being a Dick" shall no longer hold precedence as the aforementioned Dick seems to be an honest, open, and likable person from his previous post rather than a floppy, gangly extremity of the male human body. Therefore,= I move that we change our ytse-cool-down to "Shut the fuck up, you're makin= g my urethra itch." Do I hear a second? >> Man, the people in the Jam are cool or what? Korg, ~eckie, D-man, The Cowgod, The Doc, and []Roger to mention some, and, oh, Mr. MP too! You're damn cool, man. Ytsejam Rules! And now, can I get my Jam T-shirt or Fans club CD or something? ;-) And to Lisa Marie, bout Spocks: I have Spocks The Light and Beware_oD, both released here in my country o= n 'April!' (on cassette, licensed from Japan..). Both sold out right now (at least at th= e record stores in my town. My country is cool, isn't it 8^D). Still can't find The Kindness_oS, though. Hoping they released it here too. And LTE, and AoI, and anything that cool too. Oh, sometimes I think I should unsubcribed from the Jam. It's just make m= e an envy guy bitting his nail. :-( That=92s all for now. Pardon my English. Dick, hoping that economy get better here..soon.. Indonesian jammer ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:58:56 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: re: DT sucks Message-ID: Glen Brooks called out for help with: > John Petrucci....great guy, great player....but he suck as a guitar > player. Is John Petrucci the BEST guitarist out there? Probably not. But does he suck? Only if you take away his chops, sense of melody, and precise timing. Otherwise, he is on a very high level in my book. > John Myung.......quiet guy, great player....but he sucks as a bass > player..he's a typical bass player. Typical? So bass players typically tap ala Metropolis, hit harmonics ala Lifting Shadows, play dual lines ala Scarred, and venture out of simple lines for that matter? I do think Myung has a couple of problems though. 1) He produces a disgusting pop noise when he plays fast 2) His timing could be stronger (listen to The Mirror). That is just nitpicking though. I don't know if it is possible to play that fast on bass with a clear tone and not produce a popping sound (I'm not a bass player) and the timing problems are small (still well above the TYPICAL player by far) > James Labrie....great guy, dope head........but he sucks as a > vocalist...Mary Jane don't help that singing voice. I used to think DT could do better, but when I really think about it - he fits the band perfectly. And when people put him down for his live performances, just remember instrumentalist can "tune up" their instruments with new strings etc. A vocalist IS the instrument and can't go into the shop for some new vocal cords to change out the overplayed ones. > Derek Sherinian...great guy, GREAT PLAYER....if DT hadn't asked him to > come into the band they would probably have disbanded...he really adds > a lot to the band. Derek has added a new dimension to DT (and it isn't the commercial one every jammer is trying to pin on him and Shirley). However, to say that DT would have disbanded without him is a very strong statement. One which I do not agree with. >Mike Portnoy...GREAT GUY, GREAY PLAYER...all round awesome >dude...without him..there is no DT. I agree. Although I would go so far to say Petrucci and Portnoy are the core of DT. If either left, then it just wouldn't be DT anymore. As a couple of albums are produced with Sherinian, Derek may achieve DT core status - although it will be a new-era DT. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 22:38:00 -0400 From: TheCowGod To: email_address_removed Subject: re: DT sucks Message-ID: >Derek has added a new dimension to DT (and it isn't the commercial one every >jammer is trying to pin on him and Shirley). However, to say that DT would >have disbanded without him is a very strong statement. One which I do not >agree with. yeah, i mean, moore left, so they looked for a new keys player... tried rudess, tried derek, liked derek, hired derek. If they hadn't liked derek they'd probly have kept on looking. Heh, it happenned with both DT and Megadeth - a temporary replacement became an official bandmember. So remember that kiddies, if you're ever hired as a temporary rpelacement for a band who's lost a member, keep in mind that it's probably a really long job interview. :) Moo. -- Dan McCormack (email_address_removed) http://people.clemson.edu/~demccor/index.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 22:56:24 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: 14 days...... Message-ID: Grrrrrrr. (eager growl) Only two weeks 'til the big DT concert (with special guests Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer). Uh........ okay, so that's how it would be in a perfect world, eh? :-) Later, - Joe D. p.s. Detroit 'jammers mail me. Maybe we can meet at the 'Knob. **** Hey! That's PINE KNOB Music Theater for you folks with your heads in the gutter. ;-D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:44:04 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: they are out there! (was: FII) Message-ID: John Parks scribbled: >>Call me crazy but the day I picked it up, I listened to it all the way through and loved every single song on there. Is there anyone else that simply fell in love with the entire cd from beginning to end or am I all by myself with this feeling.>> You are not alone! I absolutely loved this album from the get-go. I had no preconceptions about it or anything, at the time I was not a member of this list, so I was completely uninformed, I mean, not even hints of rumors of flames, here. For me, it was just the next album from DT, and I thought, wow, it's been a while, I wanna hear this. And it floored me. In its little case, it's just another album. In the stereo, it grabs my attention. The tape has been in the car for weeks. No matter what mood I'm in, whether I'm ready to rock, need some metal, or am in a more mellow mood (most rare occassions), no matter what song comes up on the tape, it always works out. I must say, the more I listen to Falling into Infinity, the more I love it. And that is all a resounding IMO. Alex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:05:11 +0000 From: "Younis Hilal" To: email_address_removed Subject: Dimebag Darrel in LTE? Message-ID: > From: email_address_removed > Subject: Different LTE members > Last week I managed to get my hands on LTE.Which was difficult in the UK. > Anyway I was reading the inner sleeve and read the bit about Mike Portnoy > choosing a guitarist and thinking about using Dimebag Darrell. No don't get me > wrong because I like Pantera, but could you imagine how different LTE would > have been with DD instead of JP. For a start the songs would probably be > heavier and not have as much jazz influence. Perhaps a country side to it (in > the solos). Obviously the material doesn't depend entirely on the guitarist > (even though us guitarists would like to think so) but the album would have > been interesting. Yeah, I tend to kind of agree with you. The reason I dig Pantera is that I think they have some of the most wicked riffs around. I mean, usually they only use no more than 2 riffs per song, but from a rhythmical point of view, these riffs just create some very fertile ground for a drummer. That explains my interest in them. Often, Vinnie Paul has some pretty neat ideas for his drum parts during these riffs, but sometimes I can come up with something which I think is more interesting (I'm not a drummer, mind you, just a wanna-be at the moment; I just like thinking about this stuff). Now, I've always ASSUMED it's Dimebag who writes most (if not all) of these riffs. It would have been interesting to see how LTE would have turned out if he had been involved. This reminds me of something else. I've always wondered about MP's interest in Pantera (ever since I heard that little thing in the middle of his solo on LiT). I mean, this guy was pretty much raised on old-school prog (Rush, Yes, Kansas, etc.). What in the hell got him into Pantera? BTW, since the recent time-sigs discussion has sparked a side-threads on polyrhythms, check out the band Meshuggah, folks. If the soundclips (and the 2 full tracks) I have from this band are any indication, these guys THRIVE on polyrhythms. Truly wicked shit. Heavy-as-lead guitar riffs laid over wacked-out drumming. Must be heard. Younis email_address_removed AKA "YoonDog" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:05:00 -0400 From: Phil Carter To: A Pleasant Shade of Ytse Subject: Chuck D., Satch, OFB, Murphy/Skolnick, Therion Message-ID: Greetings ye 'jamanoids.... Carlos A. wants to know: >sorry to clutter the jam with this but, was chuck d's email : >email_address_removed or email_address_removed?? Neither, it was email_address_removed. :) Hey, it's got DT content -- "HEAH THE DRUMMER GET WICK-ED!!!" Buck Stodgers remarked: > But then again, I think the best produced Satch album is the self-titled >one, and I get routinely slammed for that belief. That is because this is an incorrect belief, Stodge. :) The correct answer is "Flying in a Blue Dream" with "Crystal Planet" being right behind it. I would put "Joe Satriani" just above "Not of This Earth", which makes it the second worst-sounding Satch album. And "Not of This Earth" can be excused for sounding raw; it was Joe's first album and released in '86. "Joe Satriani" came out three short years ago, and I *still* think there is no excuse for what Glyn Johns did to Satch's trademark sound. Since my discussions about Satch tend to get *long*, if you wanna take this up with me, do it via private email. I'm sure the 'jam will thank you. :) Glen R. remarked: >I just wanted to say a few things about OFB...Dream Theater.... [snip snip snip] >What do y'all think? I think you ought to buy yourself a flameproof suit. :) I also think that if you really believe John M., John P., and James L. "suck" at their respective instruments (yes, I consider the voice to be an instrument) that you are sadly misguided. Joe D. inquired: >Just curious: Is James Murphy the guy who used to be in Testament? (I'm >pretty sure) Yes. Personally I always felt he didn't belong there; his musical ideas and influences didn't match Testament's straight-ahead thrash style (which, by the way, is the same reason Alex Skolnick left the band). >On a related Testament note, I really like Alex Skolnick's playing on >Savatage's "Handful of Rain", and I know he was with Testament for a >while. Christian Kremo recommended "The Ritual" and "Practice What You >Preach" to me as being good Skolnick discs. However, I'm a little >curious as to what they sound like, in particular the VOCALS. I haven't listened to "The Ritual" in years but "Souls of Black" and "Practice What You Preach" are both worthwhile discs. No growling vocals; although Chuck Billy does have an unremarkable voice, he sings rather than screams or growls. Skolnick's tasteful solos inject a healthy shot of real melody into the chunka-chunka-chunka of the thrash playing. >On yet another related note (and a POSITIVE one, at that) when I went to >Media Play today to see if they had AOI yet (which was a NO, of course) >I saw Therion's "Vovin". Great stuff! Really amazing and eerie music. I have to second this one. "Vovin" has been in my player nearly constantly since I received it yesterday, only swapping out with AOI, which I also received yesterday. It isn't quite on the same level as "Therion" goes, guitar- and bass-wise, but the orchestrations and choirs sound *much* better, cleaner, and superbly layered. The wall of guitar and bass sound that was so powerful on "Theli" has lost some of its elemental strength, but this is still a VERY good disc. >I like that this CD doesn't have the death metal growls of "Theli" >(although I might be speaking too soon, since I haven't listened to all >of Vovin yet). No death-metal growls, exactly, but Ralf Scheepers (ex-Gamma Ray) takes lead vocals for one song, and IMHO is totally unsuited for it. His voice just grates on my ears, sounding completely raw and unmusical (and I don't mind death-metal growling sometimes -- this just sounds *bad*). Maybe he was mixed poorly, but if he sounds like that on all the Gamma Ray discs, I may have to reconsider picking their stuff up. Ta, Phil ========================================================= Phil Carter -- email_address_removed http://www.negia.net/~carter "Music brings peace to the restless, and comforts the sorrowful. They who no longer know where to turn find new ways. And those who have despaired, gain new confidence and love." -- Pablo Casals Currently playing: Therion -- "Vovin" ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4127 **************************