YTSEJAM Digest 4137 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Awake tab book is WRONG - face it by email_address_removed 2) DTC....I promise! by "M. Dixon" 3) A guess by email_address_removed 4) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4135 by email_address_removed 5) Re: DTC....I promise! by email_address_removed.be (Tony De Laender) 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4136 by "Dr. Scott Mosher" 7) Re: A guess by "KorgX3" 8) Re: Testament by email_address_removed 9) AOI and Blind Guardian by email_address_removed (alexis1) 10) Black Light Syndrome by Bruce Duesterhoeft 11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4136 by Joshua Rasiel 12) comparative literature by "Partha Mukhopadhyay" 13) Hmm...hungarian/turkish DT page? by "Scott Sturdivant" 14) PMU vs. LitS by TEDESCO MATTHEW A 15) ABUSE MENT PARK by email_address_removed 16) African jammers by "Younis Hilal" 17) Derek by email_address_removed 18) Re: Just a quick note.... by Syrinx 19) Rush Remixes. by Syrinx 20) Best DT SHOW EVER!! by email_address_removed 21) Re: Rush Remixes. by "KorgX3" 22) Savatage,Wrestlin', and Home Cd-r's by email_address_removed 23) Conception/Kamelot, Testament/devil music, Age of Impact, Starcraft by Joe DeAngelo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:35:18 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Awake tab book is WRONG - face it Message-ID: Jogo da Pogo begged for a beating with:: > Sorry, but you still didn't convince me of the tab book being wrong. Well then - I shall have to beat you. > THe 17/16 is split up, because the drumfill is exactly 9/16 long. That would be like breaking up any measure everytime ANY instrument does a fill. That would mean the beginning measure of the Another Day solo is in 2/4 because John Petrucci comes in early? If we went by the logic of breaking up measures for fills - written music would be a mess. So I am POSITIVE this measure is in 17/16. > The last bar IS 13/8, just count it, for crying out loud! The preceding measures are in 4/4. They are in simple time. You are getting 4 notes per beat (we'll just call them sixteenth notes :o). And have you ever heard of BORROWING a beat from a measure and putting it in another? Well the 17/16th measure borrowed a 16th note from the last measure - hence it is 15/16. And I agree count IT OUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD -------Beat 1 ----------- ------------ Beat 2 ----- ------ Beat 3 ------- ----- Beat 4 --- | dat dat rest dat | dat dat rest dat | dat dat rest dat | dat dat rest | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Oh - and the tab book put it as 4/4 and 7/8 or combined as one - 15/8 NOT 13/8. So you aren't even going along with the tab book. You do realize the whole point of the intro? The instruments are keeping a constant time while Portnoy keeps changing the beat around. If Portnoy had just played the whole intro in bass/snare/bass/snare 12/8 feel - the song would sound entirely different - although the instruments (other than the kit) wouldn't change. I am done. You and the tab book are wrong. Thank you. Anyone listen to the 2nd part of the 2nd verse yet of The Mirror and find out why Mike Portnoy is so cool? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:47:05 PDT From: "M. Dixon" To: email_address_removed Subject: DTC....I promise! Message-ID: Hey all, This is a shameless attempt at starting a thread....so here goes... Anyway, I read ALOT of debate over this KevMo *vs* DerShe thing and started thinking..... In what ways do you think FII would be different if KevMo was STILL in DT?? To kinda get the ball rolling, IMO I believe that the Keys would sound ALOT better AND I don't believe AL would have been composed.....What do you have to say. Opinions? Flames? NP: Fear Factory --- Obsolete Later Days, POJ =) ********************************************* "Seize the day!" I heard him say, Life will not always be this way. Look around, Hear the sounds. Cherish your life while you're still around. ********************************************* "A Change Of Seasons" By Dream Theater Email me at Or at ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:56:13 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: A guess Message-ID: >I just wonder how many of you know where I got the idea for that last one >from. :) > >Got Scorsese? >--KorgX3 You either watch too many movies or smoke too much crack :oP ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:05:22 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4135 Message-ID: In a message dated 8/4/98 2:55:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, email_address_removed writes: > Sure, tab books > often have wrong positions, or wrong notes, etc... but time sigs? In a > book that Petrucci edited? No... unless he didn't really edit it, the > book's gotta be right. If he edited it, it is there how he played it. He > plays it right... I'm sure we at least agree on that. Plus, it sounds > right to me when played as in the book. um - he edited as in did a quick look over of some of the HARDER guitar parts. I doubt Petrucci checked the GUITAR PART for that part of The Mirror. I mean - it is a simple as it gets for guitar. ANYONE can play the intro to The Mirror on guitar. It sounds right. The notes are right - but the time sigs are not. It is like calling E# - F :o). It will sound right - but it isn't right in certain theoretical instances. This is a "was it written correctly" not "does it sound right" thing. I will agree that the guitar part is right. I did however attend a Portnoy clinic about 3 years ago in which he stated exactly 17/16 and 15/16. I remember the question vividly BECAUSE I ASKED IT :oP I also asked about the second part of the second verse of The Mirror. It is so simple yet so cool. When it comes to the transcriptions of WDADU, IAW, and Awake for ALL instruments - I take great exception because I painstakingly transcribed almost all of it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:27:04 +0200 From: email_address_removed.be (Tony De Laender) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: DTC....I promise! Message-ID: On last night's episode of the Ytsejam, M. Dixon wrote: >that the Keys would sound ALOT better AND I don't believe AL would have >been composed.....What do you have to say. AL is a very emotional song, so I think it would've been right up KevMo's alley, though the piano's would probably have sounded a little different. Just my 2 cents FiveNgroK CP: Magellan - Test of Wills Outside the soundness of your mind Tony De Laender Bathing your soul in silver tears email_address_removed.be Beneath a blackened summer sky http://members.xoom.com/fivengrok Praying for time to dissapear (Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 08:34:02 -0400 From: "Dr. Scott Mosher" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4136 Message-ID: WRCN on good ole Long Island, NY occassionally plays DT. Just thought I'd pass that along. - Scott M. By the way pt2: New Stuck Mojo kicks boffo booty. >>Whoa, my jaw dropped and smacked the keyboard, I was so surprised. Never >>thought I'd even hear a mention of DT on NY radio. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:30:02 -0600 From: "KorgX3" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Subject: Re: A guess Message-ID: <004801bdc008$34c46740$1e0d84d0@korgx3> >>I just wonder how many of you know where I got the idea for that last one >>from. :) > >You either watch too many movies or smoke too much crack :oP Um... no. Here's a hint: I've got a detachable penis... >um - he edited as in did a quick look over of some of the HARDER guitar >parts. I doubt Petrucci checked the GUITAR PART for that part of The Apples. Oranges. 17/16+15/16=Apples. 13/8+3/8=Oranges. Prog sucks. ~KorgX3 eats the apples and oranges and shits out bars of 4/4. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:43:04 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Testament Message-ID: Tom Cox wrote in YtseJam 4130: > email_address_removed wrote: > [Absolutely Nothing quoted!] Shit, that reminds me of some of my old college essay exams! :-) Laterz.... Matt T., the college graduate (somehow...) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:19:51 -0300 From: email_address_removed (alexis1) To: "Ytsejam" Subject: AOI and Blind Guardian Message-ID: <01bdc006$c3165780$d94592cc@alexis1> Hello! I recently got two CDs for which I'd like to post reviews: Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth This CD is very good. I only have IFTOS to compare it to, but I think the new one is as good as Imaginations... Very melodic songs, and heavy. Explorers Club - Age of Impact All I can say is wow. This CD just kicks ass. Event though it's divided into 5 impacts, it all sounds like one song, ala APSOG. I agree with the drums and bass thing everyone has mentioned - they're pretty hard to hear unless they're doing something flashy. But everything else just sounds great. I guess Gardner must like Petrucci's playing a lot, since John definitely has a bunch more solos than any other guitarist, keyboardist, etc. Hey, is it just me or does D.C. Cooper sound kinda like John Arch? And if you like Bozzio's drumming, then get Steve Vai's Sex and Religion. Bozzio plays really well there, especially on Touching Tongues. His drumming (at least on that song) is just so different from what almost everybody else would play... Well, that's it. Alexis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:37:07 -0400 From: Bruce Duesterhoeft To: YtseGods Subject: Black Light Syndrome Message-ID: OK. I'm not sure if someone has mentioned, if they have ignore the following. But has anyone noticed that Black Light Syndrome share the exact same initials as the participants of the album - Bozzio, Levin and Stevens? I think it's no coincidence. BTW My friends band Aslan is opening for Cinderalla in Lancaster, PA August 18t at the village. They've also opened for Blue Oyster Cult. They've had shows where Sony and Atlantic records have looked at them. Check out theire web site if you're into good prog rock w/ a woman's vocals and also a woman guitarist! http://www.aslanrocks.com CYA In Camden Jam (3rd row center) Bruce Duesterhoeft ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:47:45 -0400 From: Joshua Rasiel To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4136 Message-ID: >Whoa, my jaw dropped and smacked the keyboard, I was so surprised. Never >thought I'd even hear a mention of DT on NY radio. And I went and saw Small Shit! was it for the PNC bank arts center show? I heard a similar ad, but with no dt mention. I think it might've been 102.7, though. But I would expect 102.7 to support dt before 104.3! 102.7 always has the rush, the floyd, the genesis of old. Anyway, they'd just played an ELP song and then the DJ said something like "go see Deep Purple and Emerson Lake and Palmer august 6th at blah blah blah". I was gosh darn pissed. ............................................................... Joshua Rasiel email_address_removed Razi on IRC & ICQ Check out Another Page at http://www.j51.com/~mrasiel. Hot diggity! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 19:07:32 PDT From: "Partha Mukhopadhyay" To: email_address_removed Subject: comparative literature Message-ID: >But my point WAS, his contri. aren't as strong as kevin's! Let's say >I agree, that LitS is the best song on the album. Wanna compare it >to PMU? Didn't think so. I think most will agree with that. lessee, LinesiTSand vs. PMU.....LiTS wins hands down, much better song next comparison not to dredge up an umpteenth times told tale thread but I wasn't quite one of those "hooked by PMU" types.....took until TTT hit the airwaves to get in dead sold on DT.........and to this day, PMU is just another song on I&W, whereas LiTS is THE song on FII for me..... partha ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:04:29 -0400 From: "Scott Sturdivant" To: Subject: Hmm...hungarian/turkish DT page? Message-ID: <001001bdc01d$cdf4d0c0$message_id_removed> Hey, quick question for ya guys... About 4-5 months ago, someone put up a link to a page coming from either Turkey or Hungary (I forget which) but the main content of the pages was the MP3 section which had several complete tours, including the Fix for 96 show. If anyone still has this URL, please send it my way. Thanks a bunch. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:15:31 -0600 (MDT) From: TEDESCO MATTHEW A To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: PMU vs. LitS Message-ID: Hey all, Josh Raisel raised an interesting comparison between LitS and PMU. It's DEFINITELY all subjective, as he points out, but I'll take LitS any day. In fact, though I'm probably in the vast minority here, I'll take FII over I&W. Don't get me wrong, I&W ranks (with O:M and AJFA) as probably my most listened to albums of all time, but songs like LitS, NM, ToT, HK, etc., just capture so much for me.... Subjective, definitely. I'm curious, though... anyone else take FII over I&W? LitS over PMU? Oh, best WDADU song(s): LFAGA and "toohitsis." --MATt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:30:27 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed, email_address_removed, email_address_removed, Subject: ABUSE MENT PARK Message-ID: http://webpst.com/abuse*ment*park Now recording "The Electric Spanking Session" to be released fall 1998. Look for the current CD "I Am Not What I've Been Taught" in Zia and Sam Goody NOW!! Look for them live in September in the metro Phoenix Area, see New Times for details, or call the hotline for info. - 602-599-3879 KEEP ROCKIN'!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:49:01 +0000 From: "Younis Hilal" To: email_address_removed Subject: African jammers Message-ID: > From: "Agar, Jonathan (CAP, EURO)" > > It's great to see Indonesian and Japanese 'jammers now...any African or > Indian 'jammers out there? > > Jonathan As a matter of fact, there are. Well, African anyway. And as far as I know, I'm the only one, hehe. I know there's folks from Asia on here too (and we all know about Europe, Australia, and South America). So, yeah, strictly speaking, DT's influence reaches across all continents. Except for Antarctica. Nobody's figured out how to crack THAT market yet. Younis email_address_removed AKA "YoonDog" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:42:48 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Derek Message-ID: << I really don't see what the point is > of using guitar sounds and trying to play keyboard solos to sound as much > as possible like guitar solos. >> Anyone else think Derek phrases like Vai? Chris (the Stunt Guitarist) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:56:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Syrinx To: Damon Fibraio Subject: Re: Just a quick note.... Message-ID: > Firstly, there is the intro to New Millennium which is very counterpointed > and difficult to play, not the bass part, but the beginning. Two Words: King Crimson. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= email_address_removed / email_address_removed erotomania! - http://www.erotomania.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:57:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Syrinx To: email_address_removed Subject: Rush Remixes. Message-ID: Just so you kids know... ...i have the 2 rush remixes up (streaming real audio, of course) on my rush website. have a listen, and lemme know what you think. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= email_address_removed / email_address_removed erotomania! - http://www.erotomania.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:00:49 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Best DT SHOW EVER!! Message-ID: Well, I just got back from my 3rd DT show ever, and I have to say that besides the mix, it was the best ever. The band was tighter than a 10 year old boy's ass (not that I would know, but it's a saying used by some guy I know) Anywho, the whole thing rocked the house and I am so happy that I went. Lucky for me it was about 6 minutes away. Later, J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:38:53 -0600 From: "KorgX3" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Subject: Re: Rush Remixes. Message-ID: <001801bdc033$5b567620$1e0d84d0@korgx3> > ...i have the 2 rush remixes up (streaming real audio, of course) >on my rush website. have a listen, and lemme know what you think. OK.... Can we pull the monetary profitability bus over to the corner here? (yah, yah, blatant Denis Leary reference) I dunno. I don't get this when I think about it. Now, Dream Theater and a bunch of other die hard Rush-heads put together a tribute album on a very limited budget to praise a band that inspired them greatly only to be shit upon (metaphorically speaking, of course), but some smack-daddy ho-sweatin' "pEEp dIs yO, I's gOnnA rAkE Up dA mEgAflOw OffA dIs plAttAh" pimp gets the OK to fuck up one of their best songs with no remorse? What's The Band's official stance on this? Was it the band that gave authos or the label? I'd just kind of like to call bullshit right here. Sorry about that run-on sentence. I guess it's all money. :P --KorgX3 hates homey remixes. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:00:19 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Savatage,Wrestlin', and Home Cd-r's Message-ID: Anyone see WCW Nitro on Monday night (TNT) ? Raven was wearing a Savatage "Dead winter Dead" shirt...... Way to cool.....In other news, a friend of mine just got that Philips home stereo Cd-r unit (available at Sears).....works pretty slick, but you need Digital Audio cd-r's for it to work (the "normal" computer cd-r's won't work ) .....And duplicating a cd is real easy, especially if you have a cd-player with an optical digital cable as the source player....Just a little info for you that's not normally shared until it's bought and too late, in case anyone is interested in this unit.... August 23rd.....DT in Hinckley, Mn Tom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 02:10:40 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: Conception/Kamelot, Testament/devil music, Age of Impact, Starcraft Message-ID: Mike Patrick wrote: > Oh yeah, I second every good thing that's been said about Ray Kahn as well. > He reminds me a lot of Geoff Tate, with the exception that Kahn is never > tempted to wander outside his range. I don't know much about Conception (I've never heard 'em yet), but I can tell you that Ray Kahn (sp?) is the new singer for Kamelot. From what I've been told, their latest CD with Kahn ("Siege Perilous") is really good. Last time, on "As the Ytse Turns" FiveNgroK stated: > On last night's episode of the Ytsejam, Joe DeAngelo, after sacrificing > a live goat, wrote (in blood, me guesses): *LOL* Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell everyone my secret! :-) I previously had said: > >They didn't go "Devil music" did they? I'm just asking 'cause > >(obviously) the title of the last album, and then there's a bigass > >upside down pentagram w/ the goat head thing inside on the cover. Just > >curious. > >(/me tries to avoid devil music) :-) > > Uhm, can you get more obvious? Please, give me a break! Errrr..... okay I guess IT IS a little obvious, Dumb question, sorry. I guess I just asked because I was a little surprised....... I didn't think Testament had "Devil tendencies". And I don't think a band would do 8 albums or whatever and then just wake up one morning and say "let's do a good Satanic disc!" I'm just not into the Devil thing, and I kinda want to steer clear of it. (although please don't think I'm a paranoid hardcore religious zealot or anything- not even close) "You damn kids listening to that DEVIL MUSIC! That damn ......what're they called again?....... Dream Theater! Devil stuff I tell you! That drummer even looks like he's straight from the gates of HELL!" ;-) AOI: YES! I FINALLY GOT THIS DAMN THING! :-) (sorry for shouting) So far my early opinion (after 1 1/2 listens) is that this an awesome disc! On a totally non-music topic: I finally got Starcraft the other day: What a great game, and how very addicting! If anybody is looking to get this, Best Buy has 'em on sale for $24.99! (at least the Detroit area stores) Goodnight folks, - Joe D. NP: Explorer's Club - AOI (boys and girls..... can you say s-h-r-e-d ?) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4137 **************************