YTSEJAM Digest 4320 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Yngwie... by Tom Cox 2) New Scarred Records URL / New "Stained Glass" soundclip by "Ryan Whitaker" 3) ProgMetal recommendations by "Juan Fco. Quintero" 4) Re: The Yngwie discussion by "O" 5) macedonia? by "(just) Asmodel" 6) Re: ACOS by Phil Carter 7) Queensryche's Promised Land by "Christopher J. Cerminara" 8) Ibanez - new Petrucci Model by "Gilberto Bressan Junior" 9) email_address_removed by Robert Jurado 10) Wearing the MFP ytsecrown, et al by Paul Weiss 11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4319 by email_address_removed (Jeffrey Falk) 12) Elektra & OIALT Cover Art by Paul Drapeau 13) Keyboard solo by Mark Bredius 14) Postscript Guitar Poster by "Robert O'Doherty" 15) variety by Ernesto Schnack 16) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4317 by Ernesto Schnack 17) Tony Levin says . . . by "Anderson, Brian D" 18) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4319 by "Vladimir Dourado" 19) Purchases, purchases... by "Thomas Forcier" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 01:26:03 -0500 From: Tom Cox To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Yngwie... Message-ID: Concerto Suite is amazing.... not just his playing, but the fact that he wrote the full orchestra... some friends of mine heard it, and finally realized that he *isn't* just a wank off shredder, that classical does run in his veins after all... great disc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 01:37:25 -0500 From: "Ryan Whitaker" To: Subject: New Scarred Records URL / New "Stained Glass" soundclip Message-ID: <000f01bdf0f3$d8905a20$4beb490c@dwhit> The new URL for Scarred Records is even simpler now: http://scarred.mit.edu Thanks go to Nick Bogovich for hosting me. =) Also, as of around 8:00AM CST, a new soundclip will be posted for "Stained Glass": http://scarred.mit.edu/rotsamp2.mp3 "Stained Glass" is a pristine recording of the Dutch fanclub gig DT played this past June. It would be ready for release right now if the liner were done. The pro artist James May has already commenced liner design and I'll probably be able to send the liner to Joe McCormick to be printed by the middle of next week (hopefully). Basically, with this James May / Joe McCormick combo, you get pro liner design (with tons of photos from the fan club gig additionally) and magazine-quality multi-page booklet liners. I will open for pre-orders in a week-and-a-half or so. I'm really jealous of the Dutch fan club. =) The setlist was truly fan-oriented. Mike and Derek, how about a fan club gig for each region? I'd fly anywhere in a heartbeat if you did one here. It'd be an easy sell-out... (remember HftH?) Take care, Ryan Whitaker Scarred Records http://scarred.mit.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 01:33:47 -0600 From: "Juan Fco. Quintero" To: email_address_removed Subject: ProgMetal recommendations Message-ID: Hi all! It's time to ask for some recommendations. I'm planning to buy some CD's the next month at The Laser's Edge and these are the CD's that I'm interested in. Seven Signs "Silence Of A Wish" Siam "Prayer" Time Machine "Act II: Galileo" Eidritch "Headquake" Payne's Gray "Kadath Decoded" Can someone give me more information about them and if possible a little review? Thank you for your help! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 02:50:19 -0700 From: "O" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: The Yngwie discussion Message-ID: First, to CyberDuke (I believe it was): Barriemore Barlow is the drummer on Yngwie's first album, "Rising Force". That's what I know. The evil Denis Penis with e-mail email_address_removed wrote: >Well, Mister O, the above statement sounds like a pathetic excuse of a >loser, who would give his right hand to play half as fast as Yngwie does, >but just can't get past playing pentatonic straignt eights over a 35 tempo! Well, Mister D, I'm sorry to say that I CAN play pentatonic scales, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, diminished and common minor and major ones as well. Perhaps not as fast as YM - but hey, I've played BASS for less than a year. I haven't played classic/western/electric guitar seriously at all. So, soloing is really not my stuff to practice - but I do it anyway. >Oh, and if you're such a connoisseur of neo-classical metal, name a one >single half-decent band in this genre which does not have a shredder in it >(and who doesn't sound like he salivated over "rising force" while attending >primary school). I will sure be interested to know who they are! No, I can't - and why should I bother? There's nothing wrong with shredding if it has some CONTENTS! YM's shredding is nothing more than, pure shredding. And that really makes me & my ears tired. All he wants to do is to show the world how fast he is - but the things he plays so fast, they hold no substance. It's, how could you put that... BORING! >or even better, just shut up and go practise those >scales you talk so much about. It will sure do you some good. I am, OK? All the fucking time! You can't become the master of an instrument overnight, can you? >To Everyone else: >"Facing the Animal" is indeed the best Yngwie album of the last 10 years. >So if you want to check out neo-classical metal's most ingenious and >effective guitarist (hell, he invented this style): FIND IT, GRAB IT, then >put it in your CD player and get a hint of what neo-classical shred is all >about. Well, perhaps you're right about that - FtA may be his best effort in the last ten years. But that only makes him WORSE!!! >P.S. And please take note that the only one I'm flaming here is O. Why? That only reveals your own stupidity. Flame my OPINIONS, not ME! >P.P.S. And O, if you think that there is one single ounce of emotion in >what Steve Vai is playing, then I strongly urge you to contact either your >shrink or an ear therapist ASAP...... No, I believe that YOU better do that. Have you ever heard the guy? Have you heard The Attitude Song? Answers? Tender Surrender? Bad Horsie? Nah, guess not - because THERE IS NO MAN WITH MORE EMOTION IN HIS GUITAR THAN Mr. STEVE VAI!!! (JP and David Gilmour are right behind him!) Just one serious question here: Are YOU a guitar player? Reply if you dare, O Get your FREE E-mail at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:04:04 +0200 (CEST) From: "(just) Asmodel" To: email_address_removed Subject: macedonia? Message-ID: Erm excuse me guys,but I'd like to make a correction.There's no Macedonia country,its actual name is FYROM.Macedonia is a part of Greece.Like New Mexico is in the US and NOT in Mexico.But the mexicans were smart enough NOT to abuse and "steal" the name.Probably becoz the americans are richer than the greeks.. Thanks,asmodel ______________________________________ In just a moment your life can slip away Wasting time by wasting chances When all that's left here is emptiness and hope It's always darkest before the dawn will show.. __________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:55:03 -0400 From: Phil Carter To: The Divine Wings of Ytse Subject: Re: ACOS Message-ID: Greetings ye 'jamanoids... "Illusion" wants to know: >Was ACOS ever played live?...if not, it'd be great they did. Preferably >at the next tour:)...cause I hopefully will be going. And maybe play >Erotomania too. Love that track. ACOS was played a number of times live earlier in DT's career. Portnoy said at a drum clinic earlier this year in Marietta that they would probably never play the whole thing again because there's so much other material that they have that playing all of ACOS would "kinda throw off the balance" and not allow for a proper representation of all the stuff they' ve done. Kinda sad; I'd like to see a special show or two where they played it all. It's my fave DT song, too. :) Ta, Phil ================================================== Phil Carter -- Usefulware Tech Support -- email_address_removed "I should never have written all those tank programs." -- Kevin Flynn, "Tron" Currently playing: Joe Satriani -- "Crystal Planet" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 10:04:11 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Cerminara" To: email_address_removed Subject: Queensryche's Promised Land Message-ID: I'm sitting here listening to Promised Land. I just remembered seeing, a few years back, interactive software or a game of some sort for the PC, that had this album as the theme. Does anyone have it or know anything about it? Thanks in advance. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:15:48 -0300 From: "Gilberto Bressan Junior" To: Subject: Ibanez - new Petrucci Model Message-ID: <002801bdf133$d238b600$4957d3c8@escritorio> For the 6 and 7 strings slingers: Check out the pic of the limited edition Ibanez 90th Aniversary John Petrucci model: www.fredsmusic.com/images/.ibanez/ibjpm90th.JPG Lucky you guys who live in US...here in Brazil that guitar should cost the same as brand new car ;-) Gilberto ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 22:21:42 +0700 From: Robert Jurado To: email_address_removed Subject: email_address_removed Message-ID: The fools have the wrong song's with the wrong titles. For instance, when I clicked CIAW, I got JLMB. Of course, it was awesome, but it was the wrong song. TAMP was most definitely not TAMP. It was more like Puppies on Acid. D'oohhh!!!! -Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Weiss To: we be ytsejamming Subject: Wearing the MFP ytsecrown, et al Message-ID: So that's the key to becoming MFP: blame AOL for posting the same message twice! If only that excuse could work for me. ;) Anyway, Korgecksthrey must have peeked into my record collection when he popped up and spake his opinion on: >Shadow Gallery "Tyranny" >Bruce Dickinson "The Chemical Wedding" Humorously enough, those two albums have been in rotation on my computer's CD player at work since I picked them up (among sundry others, of course). Marvelous taste in music, Sir K. Meanwhile, members of the ytsecommune railed against the new font on the upcoming live album. Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears. I have come to praise OFB, not to bury them. A different style of text does not a bad album make. The one thing that has been consistent is the decorated M which is what I expect. Judge them not on cover lettering, but on content. BTW, the picture itself is "killer". p yeah, i haven't gotten around to changing my quote for the new month yet. soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul's musical quote for the Month: Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you. Overkill... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:28:31 -0400 From: email_address_removed (Jeffrey Falk) To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4319 Message-ID: >Was ACOS ever played live? I assume you mean in its entirety, since they regularly play parts of it. As a matter of fact, it was played live before it the offical version was recorded and released, most notably at the Limelight in New York on March 4, 1993. (Now that I looked that up, I just remembered that I interned in a building right next to the Limelight this past summer and I had forgotten that it was the site of that infamous show.) Later, it was played in its entirety at most of their concerts from the spring of '95 through the end of that year, which add up to a little more than a dozen times. >> anyone else blown away by ticketmaster's service charges lately? >> ive bought a lot of tickets recently and i am just STUNNED at the amount of >> extra money they are getting out of me. its ridiculous. >> for every 2 tickets i buy im spending close to 20 bucks more in service >> charges. fucking THIEVES. >> >> - melissa - >> email_address_removed > >melissa, I understand what you mean about ticketmaster. I bought two >tickets and paid 10 dollars in additional charges. I think I will buy >from the outlet on campus from now on, because it will only cost an extra >dollar per ticket. While frustration at Ticketmaster is understandable as well as it is common, I feel an urge to comment on this from my pro-greed, "far-right," pro-capitalism (and pro-rationality) perspective. Ticketmaster are not thieves; they are businessmen (and -women, for PC completists). While some buisnessmen are thieves, buisness and thievery are still entirely different. If one doesn't like Ticketmaster's service charges, don't buy tickets from them. No one forces you. In some sense, Ticketmaster is convenient because they offer telephone and internet service, as well as outlets closer to you than the venue may be. Buying tickets at the venue usually does not involve any service charges; that is an option. So, go to the service-charge-free venue, buy tickets there, and boycott Ticketmaster. The problem is on the way to being solved. I gladly invite anyone to comment (privately) on anything above. (Private e-mail saves you the embarassment of being seen having anything to do with me, whom some may remember as an extremely disliked member of this mailing list.) Jeff Falk email_address_removed now playing on my stereo: Genesis _The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:29:38 -0400 From: Paul Drapeau To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Elektra & OIALT Cover Art Message-ID: > > Hey, > > Just been to the new OIALT Elektra site and I must say I like > the cover art very much, I also liked the audio clips except for the > fact that some donkey thought it would be good to talk all over it! And > that they managed to get all the names wrong. > Heh, Not to start a brutal flame war... :) I am not a fan of the "newer" Dream Theater cover art. I dunno I think the older style art (Change of Seasons and before) said "Dream Theater" a little more. For example I would condsider the old font that the band name used to be written in to be a lot more "Dream Theateresque" then the bubble letters on FII or the OIALT style lettering on the site and on the cover. The band has displayed some sonic, musical, and other changes on FII and the only change that still doesn't feel right to me is the new fonts etc... I was hoping that OIALT would go back to the old style "Dream Theater" font and more dream-like cover art... my 2 cents, Paul Drapeau email_address_removed Age of Valor Live Role Playing http://www.ageofvalor.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:42:46 +0100 From: Mark Bredius To: "'Ytsejam'" Subject: Keyboard solo Message-ID: Nikki Brooks wrote : > (2) > I cant wait to hear Lines In the Sand live! > > It rocks! Preceded by Del-Boy Shenanigan's kb solo on Once in A > Livetime double live CD. He plays around with the main melody > and shreds it up a bit No he doesnt, that's part of Platypus' "Platt Opus" which shares a melody with "Lines In The Sand"... Please stop sending your posts twice. Once is *more* than enough. ;-) Mark Bredius _______________________________________________________ Under A Cyber Moon - The Official Dream Theater Website http://www.dreamtheater.net/ E-mail: email_address_removed *** join the FREE weekly Dream Theater newsletter ! *** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:57:41 +0100 From: "Robert O'Doherty" To: "'Ytsejam'" Subject: Postscript Guitar Poster Message-ID: Alright People, A couple of weeks ago I posted a message about the availability of a Huge Guitar Poster detailing a million chords/Keys/Variations and the like. Anyway, I haven't got hold of such a poster yet but I did come accross a small postscript file consisting of 7 pages of pure chords and variations and I'd be happy to send this to whoever may be interested. I understand that such a poster isn't the be-all and end-all of guitar playing but I'm pretty much a novice on the guitar and I could definately learn something from it. It's only 70K or so. Rob. ICQ: 809343 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:17:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Schnack To: email_address_removed Subject: variety Message-ID: Calvin wrote: > The defense of FII (of which I happen to think is a great album) is that some > fans appreciate the variety. But what do you mean by variety? Variety is the > REASON I prefer I&W and Awake over FII. Variety in song structure. Not > shred. Not more/less ballads. Simply song structure. FII is DT streamlined. > I don't see how "cutting out the fat" (which I happen to like) equals variety. Cutting out the fat doent equal variety. The problem is you're talking about different kinds of variety. In I&W the variety was within the song, and had more to do with musical content (melodies, harmony, orchestration, etc.) But the style, for the most part, is the same. On FII the variety lies in the style of each individual song. Which variety you prefer has to do with your own opinion. Ernesto _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:21:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Schnack To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4317 Message-ID: > DON'T CLICK HERE unless you want to see the cover art for OIAL.. WOAH! That cover kicks ass!! Ern _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:58:27 -0400 From: "Anderson, Brian D" To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Tony Levin says . . . Message-ID: "I'll return from Nashville to record the next Liquid Tension Experiment release. Should be interesting-at least this time, I'll be more prepared to try to play as fast as humanly possible!" -Tony Levin This is for those of you who don't check his website often. I hope he doesn't mind. -Brian Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:19:47 -0300 From: "Vladimir Dourado" To: Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4319 Message-ID: <000a01bdf166$aaa5e940$76bdf6c8@vdourado> Hi... I=B4m a new Jammer here...i=B4m from Brazil...sorry for my bad english... I have a DT bootleg called " Dance of Eternity" and there is a different verison of ACOS ...the introduction is something fast...it seems to be th= e same melody played on the ACOS record...Does anyone know anything about t= he changes?? well...the song is very good in both ways... Thanx!! Vladimir Rocha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:05:05 -0400 From: "Thomas Forcier" To: Subject: Purchases, purchases... Message-ID: Hello, Nothing feels quite like coming home with a new piece of electronics equipment. I love the smell of a new VCR... :) On the CD front, I have two recent purchases to discuss, and I encourage jammers to invest in new music at all times. Open your minds: Fighting Gravity - You or Someone Else: Hmmm... A Richmond, VA band produced by John Alagia- familiar combination? Should be, as that's the combo that launched Dave Matthews to stardom. This band has a similar feel to their music, but are more grounded in pure pop-rock. I have a couple of their independent CDs and some of the songs were re-recorded for this disc. As with other times this has occurred, I like the older versions better, but on the whole, this is a great disc. Some of the production is shoddy (odd, since their last indie was beautifully done), and the horns and winds are too far back. But Bend The Light, The Promise, and Walk Into My Eyes are just great songs. DMB fans should definitely check this out. The Gathering - Mandylion: Someone recommended this to me a LONG time ago when I asked about bands similar to Type O. I just found this used and picked it up and I have to say its quite good. The vocals weren't quite what I expected, but I got used to them. I can't pick out any favorites so far (except the instrumental; very cool), but this is a disc worth fiding if you liked October Rust. Stodgers ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4320 **************************