YTSEJAM Digest 4571 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Yes recommendations by Rogerio Brito 2) Re: For Gurgi by "Trent Thornton" 3) WTF by Paul Weiss 4) Something to say 'bout Levin by TEDESCO MATTHEW A 5) Re: LTE tour complaining by Isaac Sabetai 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4570 by Matt Johnston 7) derek in a jar by email_address_removed 8) No. No. It's Ni, NI! Like knee! See here? Nu... by "Korg Ecksthrey" 9) Some Symphony X MP3s by Andrew Coutermarsh 10) Re: MoneytallicA (NDTC) + Yes by Dave Ware 11) Re: Next stop, Monkey Island by "Trent Thornton" 12) Re: Some Symphony X MP3s by Rick Audet 13) Re: Something to say 'bout Levin by "Trent Thornton" 14) Re: LTE tour complaining by Syrinx 15) Re: Some Symphony X MP3s (Flame Bait) by Andrew Coutermarsh 16) Re: LTE Live by "Stomp-N-Romp" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:46:38 -0200 (EDT) From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Yes recommendations Message-ID: On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Korg Ecksthrey wrote: > I show them Close to the Edge [to my friends] and they just look at me > funny and say, "You sure do listen to some weirdass shit, man." If you think "Close to the Edge" is hard to digest, then that's because you still don't know their album "Relayer". :-) And isn't it funny that most people associate Yes with pop music when they hear the band being mentioned? :-) []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: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:49:06 PST From: "Trent Thornton" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: For Gurgi Message-ID: >>Giannotti, Nick wrote this stiff here- > I am APPALLED at someone's (Not Nick) statement that "a majority of >people buy music not because they like it, but because they don't feel like >thinking for themselves" ... that is as elitist as it gets. Maybe, but think about it; why are people like Hanson popular? Sure they've got some talent (they can sing, play drums, play guitar, do that scratch thing with vinyl and make it sound good), but they're mainly popular due to the fact that they're on MTV. Now, I don't think there's anything especially wrong with MTV, but I have nothing but contempt for pop acts like Hanson. I realize they're feel good music and that's cool with me, but there are a LOT of people out there who only bought their CD b/c that stupid song was on MTV and the radio a lot. Hell my ex-girlfriend bought Sarah McLachlan;s 'Surfacing' CD and only listens to "Building A Mystery". What's the point!? Can these people not think anything besides "Hit Machine" or what? I like a lot of popular stuff, but I have nothing but contempt for people who like popular stuff JUST BECAUSE it's popular. THEY AREN'T THINKING FOR THEMSELVES! Trent ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:57:30 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Weiss To: "Ytse 'The Jam' Ventura" Subject: WTF Message-ID: In our last nail-biting soap-operatic tension filled issue of Ytseland Comixxx, Gaz murmured: >Your people in the USA don't know you are born. ?? There is obviously some miscommunication here. I was cloned. Dolly was my maaa-maaa. To whomever didn't know a good starting point for rap: Will Smith and his earlier group [JJaFP], Run DMC [remember It's Tricky, My Adidas, or You Be Illin'?], LL [Goin' Back to Cali], Chili Peppers [Blood Sugar Sex Magik is a great album!], and Ice T. I don't listen to as much as I used to; when I was in school, I was exposed to it more since I (white half-Jew-boy) was a minority in a primarily black public school system. I had the best time and was exposed to more eye-opening revelations about human relationships than if I had stayed in Delaware. [Master, natch] P NP Lida Husik: Faith in Space Black Crowes: By Your Side (coooool) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul's musical quote for the Month: War Child/ Victim of political pride/ Plant the seed/ Territorial greed/ Mind the War Child/ We should mind the War Child ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:13:32 -0700 (MST) From: TEDESCO MATTHEW A To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Something to say 'bout Levin Message-ID: > From: "Chris Herbst" > > Hey it's great to see so much bass related discussion lately. We bassists > are usually forgotten, no one cares about us. It's very surprising to see > so many fans of Myung, I figured most don't even know who he is. Who are > everyone's favorite bassists, by the way? Mine would have to be Stu Hamm > for his abilities, Dave LaRue and Geddy Lee for their style, and of course > Tony Levin for LTE! > Had to comment here... "Tony Levin for LTE" struck me as ironic, considering we're talking about one of the most active prefessional bassists going. He's more noted for his work with King Crimson (and justifiably so), and for one of the finest bass albums I can think of, pick up Peter Gabriel's "Secret World Live." And if you're picking up bass albums, and you don't have it already, it should be prerequisite that every bassist own Jaco Pastorius' "Birthday Concert." Those two, and UZEB's "World Tour '90" with Alain Caron (most likely would need to be imported from Canada), are probably the greatest bass albums I've had the pleasure of hearing. --MATt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:32:05 -0500 From: Isaac Sabetai To: Ytsejam Subject: Re: LTE tour complaining Message-ID: Re: the length of the LTE tour. It's such a shame the tour is so short. I mean MP and JP certainly don't have anything better to in early February... It's not like DT is scheduled to go into the studio or anything unimportant like that... Isaac -- "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."-- Helmet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:26:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Johnston To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4570 Message-ID: Union?! UNION??? Jeezus Kryst on a crutch! That is one way to o it, but, even in opinions, that has to be the wrong way... And, dude -- Anderson Wakeman Howe Squire White isn't even the third lineup, let alone the original one. There's two main versions of Yes -- pre Drama, and post Drama. Drama is an island to istelf, as the lineup never happened again *and* it didn't have Jon Anderson, the only good lyricist for Yes. Squire had delusions of grandeur when he wrote most of his stuff. I suggest you buy Fragile -- a couple of Classic Rock radio songs on there (Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround), plus Heart of the Sunrise, which DT played the first few minutes of on their covers medely during the Awake tour (I believe). Then, make a decision. If you like the more experimental stuff, by Close To The Edge. If you like the more straight-forward stuff, buy The Yes Album. After that, buy the album you didn't buy, then think about buying Tales From Topographic Oceans, but think hard, because you may or may not like it. I like it, but then, I'm laid-back like that. My personal favorite album is Relayer -- the sound quality suffers from a lost master tape (so the CD is remastered from a 1st or 2nd gen copy) and mobile sound recording snafus, but the music is INCREDIBLE. Remember, with old Yes, bigger is in their opinions usually better. --Matt "Thinks he's the Yes-meister" Johnston On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 email_address_removed wrote: >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:05:03 EST >From: email_address_removed >To: email_address_removed >Subject: Re: Yes recomendations (very long NDTC) >Message-ID: > > >"Trent Thornton" writes and wonders: > >> I know this isn't DT content, but since Yes is a prog band and the >members of this list seem to have an admiration for them, I thought I'd >ask for a recommendation of Yes albums for a curious *potential* fan. I >can't think of very many Yes songs that I've heard, so that's why I need >recommendations. Thanks in advance > --------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." -- Rod Serling --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: derek in a jar Message-ID: > I _should_ want to meet Derek and shake his hand. I should _not_ want to > keep him in a jar in my basement. > > --From a meeting of 'The Guy Who Plays Keys In DT Fanclub' Are you going to call him Proctoon? Jason ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:46:36 -0700 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: No. No. It's Ni, NI! Like knee! See here? Nu... Message-ID: <004101be40bf$c86efa40$0201010a@chuck> >but I have nothing but contempt for people who like popular stuff JUST >BECAUSE it's popular. THEY AREN'T THINKING FOR THEMSELVES! No... People only buy what's marketed. You can only buy what you know. We have a really kickass bakery here in town that makes the best bread on earth, but do you all buy it? No. Why? Probably first of all, you don't know it's there. Second of all, it would be hard for you to even get. Hence, why prog is so undergroung. Don't blame the people. It's the buttmongers in charge of the media marketing that need the boot to the head. Although, there are alot of people who just won't like something simply because it's not popular. They need boots to the head, too. Remember RC cola? heheh. I don't think I need to explain. Adieu -- KorgX3 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:53:22 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: email_address_removed Subject: Some Symphony X MP3s Message-ID: I've got a whole bunc hof SX MP3s now (thanks God, what a great band they are), but I have a request: does anybody have a good-quality ( >=128Kbps ) MP3 of "Church of the Machine?" I have a version of it that's done at 11KHz and 24Kbps, but I'm looking for one with better quality. Anybody know where I can find one? ------------------------------------------- Andrew Coutermarsh email_address_removed http://oz.plymouth.edu/~a_couter/ ICQ: 2513441 ------------------------------------------- "In the New Year, hold your right hand out always in friendship, but never in want." -- Irish toast ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:03:04 -0600 From: Dave Ware To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Re: MoneytallicA (NDTC) + Yes Message-ID: Hey Guys, Ok, firstly I would like to say that I thought the Mett@llic@ parody was funny as fuck...sorry but I guess the sick stuff just doesn't bother me. Moving on...Yes recomendations...hmmm trickey, I would definately suggest a compilation so that you can taste the different eras. There are some people that love old Yes, some that love new Yes, some that love "Rabin" Yes, and me, well, I love it all (including Open Your Eyes). Do they ever come to the Southern States...? Dave (a UK jammer - now in Alabama). And NO... I will not be attending the KKK meet in Town this weekend thankyou very much... NP: Deep Purple Live at Knebworth 1985. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:03:00 PST From: "Trent Thornton" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Next stop, Monkey Island Message-ID: I don't think any one whole genre sucks. But the majority of rap artists that do get a lot of press suck IMHO. I mean, every so often a band like The Fugees will come up and show you what rap is all about, but generally all a person gets is Fluff Daddy. I respect a LOT of rap artists and even listen to some of them, but I wouldn't say I like rap. But even tho I don't own a 2Pac CD, I wouldn't dismiss his talent. I can't write some of the stuff he did and to even try would be absurd. He made some seriously good stuff and even tho most of it isn't to my taste, I can't and won't say it sucks. Respecting a musical form and actually liking it can be two different things. I hope I've answered your question b/c I just realized how long and rambling my post is... :o) Trent > So what does it take to make the distinction that you LIKE Prog Metal >(assuming you would say you do) and DON'T like Rap? But let's take a step >back... I'm not talking about wanting to go out and buy everything... I'm >not talking about liking and disliking something. I'm talking about >respect. What would make one say that "rap sucks." ? Do notice, there's a >difference between saying that "What I've heard, I hate" and "Rap (as a >whole genre) sucks." It seems ignorant. > Anyone can partake of this simple experiment. Write a serious rap song >that's on the level with most of what's coming out today. Can you do it? I >can't. I guess it takes more than cuss words, slang, and a drum machine, >huh? I have a pretty good handle on those things. > Your opinion, like or dislike, of any piece of music doesn't make it >good or bad. Your sampling size (no matter how large) of the music you've >heard doesn't justify making the claim that it's all bad. You could have >EASILY heard only Anna Lee and TSM and concluded that DT was "way too light >of a band for you." You could have heard only Carcass's or Death's first >album and concluded that "they have no purpose but to try and write lyrics >that disgust people... the talent's not there." You would, by that logic, >never have heard LitS, Lie, or LtL. You would never have heard how crazy >and impressive Death's Human (and most of the albums after it) or Carcass's >Heartwork get. No matter how big a sample you take, it's not absolutely >conclusive. Sure, conclusive enough to say you dislike what you've heard... >but that doesn't justify the leap to saying that the whole thing stinks as a >rule. That's all I wanted to say. > >- Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:07:06 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Audet To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Some Symphony X MP3s Message-ID: Andrew Coutermarsh wrote: > I've got a whole bunc hof SX MP3s now (thanks God, what a great band they > are), but I have a request: does anybody have a good-quality ( >=128Kbps ) > MP3 of "Church of the Machine?" I have a version of it that's done at > 11KHz and 24Kbps, but I'm looking for one with better quality. Anybody > know where I can find one? I hear there's a great sounding verion of that tune on the album "Twilight In Olympus". Have you considered picking it up? Rick Audet San Francisco ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:09:03 PST From: "Trent Thornton" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Something to say 'bout Levin Message-ID: Being that I'm a huge Zeppelin fan, I feel I have to say that John Paul Jones is the best bassist ever IMHO. Bust out your copy (if you have one) of Led Zeppelin II and listen to "The Lemon Song". Some excellent bass work. Another great example is the live version of "Whole Lotta Love" featured on The Song Remains The Same film soundtrack. During Jimmy Page's theremin solo, Jones is throwing in all kinds of funk bass rhythms and whatnot. Everything, including the kitchen sink. Very impressive. Back to DT. Trent > >> From: "Chris Herbst" >> >> Hey it's great to see so much bass related discussion lately. We bassists >> are usually forgotten, no one cares about us. It's very surprising to see >> so many fans of Myung, I figured most don't even know who he is. Who are >> everyone's favorite bassists, by the way? Mine would have to be Stu Hamm >> for his abilities, Dave LaRue and Geddy Lee for their style, and of course >> Tony Levin for LTE! >> > >Had to comment here... "Tony Levin for LTE" struck me as ironic, >considering we're talking about one of the most active prefessional >bassists going. He's more noted for his work with King Crimson (and >justifiably so), and for one of the finest bass albums I can think of, >pick up Peter Gabriel's "Secret World Live." > >And if you're picking up bass albums, and you don't have it already, it >should be prerequisite that every bassist own Jaco Pastorius' "Birthday >Concert." Those two, and UZEB's "World Tour '90" with Alain Caron (most >likely would need to be imported from Canada), are probably the greatest >bass albums I've had the pleasure of hearing. > >--MATt > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:26:11 -0500 (EST) From: Syrinx To: Isaac Sabetai Subject: Re: LTE tour complaining Message-ID: > It's such a shame the tour is so short. I mean MP and JP certainly don't > have anything better to in early February... It's not like DT is > scheduled to go into the studio or anything unimportant like that... they *are* going into the studio in February. :) - m. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= erotomania! - http://www.erotomania.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:31:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Some Symphony X MP3s (Flame Bait) Message-ID: On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Rick Audet wrote: > > 11KHz and 24Kbps, but I'm looking for one with better quality. Anybody > > know where I can find one? > > I hear there's a great sounding verion of that tune on the album "Twilight > In Olympus". Have you considered picking it up? > Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I have. However, being as short on funds as I am, I don't have the opportunity to buy it just yet. And I would like to be able to listen to them now. That doesn't mean that just because I have an MP3 of a band I'm not going to buy their CD. On the contrary, I have quite a few MP3s of music that I have on CD. But I don't see a problem with having a digitized copy of it either. Maybe I should have specified that I wasn't looking for a replacement to the purchased copy... But until I can afford the CD (they ARE imports, and thus more expensive, although CDNow has really dropped their prices recently), I'd like to be able to listen to them. The version of it that I have now is so poor in quality I can't even understand what words they're singing. Is it wrong for me to want that? Anybody else think so? I don't. Flame away on the morals of owning MP3s of released material. ------------------------------------------- Andrew Coutermarsh email_address_removed http://oz.plymouth.edu/~a_couter/ ICQ: 2513441 ------------------------------------------- "In the New Year, hold your right hand out always in friendship, but never in want." -- Irish toast ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:49:58 -0500 From: "Stomp-N-Romp" To: Subject: Re: LTE Live Message-ID: <003401be40c8$a07c7360$f769fea9@stevepii400> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01BE409E.B3EB3820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable email_address_removed wrote: >> DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT no LTE in Chicago??!! >> Come on Santa Mike Chicago is inbetween New York and LA can't ya just = swing in >> and play a show? >> >> Please for the sake of humanity play Chicago, >> Juli >> > Ok, im tired of everyone going "please mike this or that" , hey , = its good >enought LTE is playing a couple of dates, we all know 4 busy people = with crazy >shedules are hard to find time to do this, didnt all of you read the = liners for >LTE 1??! I mean the guy must feel pretty pissed off when he finds = available dates >to tour, and then having people ask him to tour whatever city=20 Yea, I'd be pissed if I had fans wanting to hear my music in city's all = around the world. >....im pretty sure >that if the schedules wouldve fit they wouldve had more dates...i mean = i feel we >should be thankful for the ones they have, and happy for the people who = get to see >them.. and hopefull that good recordings will come out of the shows... = not >pestering Mp for more dates when im sure thats all they can do... I don't find anything wrong with people being vocal about what they = like. (Thats kinda what this list is=20 about? no?) Anyway, its all a product of the upward spiral, if you = will, that DT has produced. Make=20 great music, get fans, fans show appreciation and a desire to see the = band, band gets this feedback and goes out of way to take care of fans above and beyond the call of = duty (Christmas CD's and such), fans realize their appreciation grows and so on and so on.... I'm = pretty sure if Mike read Juli's comment it did not piss him off. ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01BE409E.B3EB3820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

email_address_removed=20 wrote:

>> DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT no LTE in = Chicago??!!
>>=20 Come on Santa Mike Chicago is inbetween New York and LA can't ya just = swing=20 in
>> and play a=20 show?
>>
>>      Please for = the sake=20 of humanity play=20 Chicago,
>>         = ;       =20 Juli
>>

>    Ok, im tired of everyone=20 going  "please mike  this or that" , hey , its=20 good
>enought LTE is playing a couple of dates,  we all know = 4 busy=20 people with crazy
>shedules are hard to find time to do this, = didnt all of=20 you read the liners for
>LTE 1??! I mean the guy must feel pretty = pissed=20 off when he finds available dates
>to tour, and then having people = ask him=20 to tour whatever city
 
Yea, I'd be pissed if I had fans = wanting to hear=20 my music in city's all around the world.
 
>....im pretty sure
>that if the schedules wouldve fit = they=20 wouldve had more dates...i mean i feel we
>should be thankful for = the ones=20 they have, and happy for the people who get to see
>them.. and = hopefull=20 that good recordings will come out of the shows... not
>pestering = Mp for=20 more dates when im sure thats all they can do...
 
I don't find anything wrong with = people being=20 vocal about what they like.  (Thats kinda what this list is =
about? no?)  Anyway, its all a = product of=20 the upward spiral, if you will, that DT has produced. =20 Make 
great music, get fans, fans show = appreciation=20 and a desire to see the band, band gets this feedback
and goes out of way to take care of = fans above=20 and beyond the call of duty (Christmas CD's and such),
fans realize=20 their appreciation grows and so on and so on....  I'm pretty sure = if Mike=20 read Juli's comment
it did not = piss him=20 off.
 
 
 
 
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