YTSEJAM Digest 4643 Today's Topics: 1) NAMM Video by email_address_removed 2) Adam and so on! by "Scott Sturdivant" 3) My take on Bootlegs by "Christopher W. Ptacek" 4) Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) by "Trent Thornton" 5) LTE TFT Art by "Scott Sturdivant" 6) ADMIN: AOL discussion / Quoting by Ryan P Skadberg 7) New Releases Info (Correction) by Ryan P Skadberg 8) LTE new live material by Manuel 9) Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) by Edward Polzin 10) Re:aol by email_address_removed 11) Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) by email_address_removed 12) winamp by "Isaac Trumbo" 13) The 1998 Dt Quotable Awards Nominees! by Matt Johnston 14) Why does AOL suck? by email_address_removed 15) Re: NIGHTTOWN NOSTALGIA by "Tanja Sorsa" 16) AOHell....ndtc by email_address_removed 17) AOL & stuff by "Al @ Switchcraft" 18) Re: Trial of singles by "Tanja Sorsa" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:08:54 -0600 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: NAMM Video Message-ID: >3) In just 24 hours I have received SO MANY REQUESTS that I'm not sure I can >make EVERYONE a copy. And if I manage to make a copy for EVERYONE that wants >one, some people may have to wait awhile. Hey Calvin, Why don't you set up a tree? That way, you don't have to copy every tape and it might be faster. Just a thought. Later, Richard e-mail: email_address_removed www: http://home.midsouth.rr.com/rwarren ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:35:47 -0500 From: "Scott Sturdivant" To: Cc: "Adam Pye" Subject: Adam and so on! Message-ID: <000001be4e3d$c73a2240$message_id_removed> To refresh your memory, John DiBella was talking about how people trying to disperse live material among the fans and trying to put the boot sellers out of business was a bad thing. BWAHAHAH. Man, if those same boot sellers weren't so damn egotistical about which boots they have and how no one else has them, then EVERYONE could enjoy the music, not those willing to shell out the big bucks! If those people would just join in normal trades, the rare stuff would be common and all would be great! Who cares if something is rare, especially if its illegal anyway?! Its music damnit, and its meant to be heard! Kyle Semenoff was the first person I ever traded with...and I must say he really opened up my mind. I had gathered from discussions on here that some boots were hoarded by those close minded "collector/boot sellers" people and that I was just plain outta luck if I wanted one. Kyle, being the awesome guy he is, just said, "Whats the difference? Its a 74 minute CD just like all the rest, theres no difference for me in copying it!" This really made me think..."man, then how come if its just like any other CD, its supposedly so hard to get?!" The material on that CD is great (Im referring to The Dance Of Eternity) and EVERY Dream Theater fan should hear the original ACOS. So to those who choose to hoard, because they're only concerned with making a profit...try to find that "fan" within yourself which got you to bootlegs in the first place. Adam - a damn good trader - wrote about me: >In fact, Scott Sturdivant (the very Punkass I spoke of above) recently put out the >Philly LTE show on CD for -trade only-with excellent looking, full color liners and >superb sound. And he didn't have to cheat fans out of $25 for it. Firstly, thanks for the kind words, but secondly I must make a plug :) Adam, those liners I sent you were crap! Thanks to The Cow God (Dan McCormack) who's a genius at Photoshop, I now have HIGH QUALITY great looking liners to complement your LTE: Testing For Tension CDs. I'll upload them tonight to my webpage, so for everyone who's already traded with me and didn't get these new liners....I'm terribly sorry, but go download them and print them out! www.erotomania.org/scott/dtboots.html And they'll be at the bottom of the list. I guess that about does it for me. See yall later. BTW - if anyone is interested in trading with me, I got about 16 CDs and numerous tapes in the mail today, so I'll try and update my webpage soon, but I've got midterms at school tomorrow....so I probably need to study! :-( Scott. PunkAss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:03:08 -0600 From: "Christopher W. Ptacek" To: Subject: My take on Bootlegs Message-ID: <001701be4e3f$6b4d8060$message_id_removed> Most of you know my take on bootlegs, but I wanted to chime in here because of some things that were said a little while ago on this list. Bootlegs are good, if the band is cool with it. Bootlegs are recordings of events, so that people can re-live a concert or experience a band live that they might not have been able to see otherwise. Bootlegs for sale, are generally NOT cool. Some are reasonably priced... $25 for 2 cds is not highway robbery. $25 for ONE cd IS. The common response by bootleggers is "I have to pay for my equipment" or "I have to pay for my source tapes" or "I put a lot of work into this stuff... I deserve money for it." I think that's pretty shallow. If you have the gear to record a show, you have it because you wanted it. You don't buy that gear thinking "This stuff will pay for itself in 2 months!" If you do, you're a businessman anyways, and you're not doing anyone a favor. No one owes you allegiancem and hopefully EVERYONE will dub your boots. If you're paying for your source tapes, you're more than likely a fool. You're perpetuating the CRIME involved in bootlegging. You're helping people make money off music they have no right to. Fact: There are MANY ytsejammers who will provide copies of boots ON CD for free (or for cost). Many of these people are the same ones who put the work in to record and master the boot themselves. They do it because they love it, and because they like providing this stuff to fans of the band. The argument that this reproduction for free sends bootleggers out of business, forever losing the trading community precious soundboard boots is somewhat upsetting. That's the same thing as saying that it's cool to be greedy. I'd rather see 20 bootleg sellers go out of business altogether and lose those soundboards than send the message that this stuff is cool to sell. I don't think greed helps ANY of us. Someone who decides not to give people copies or trade copies of their boots when they realize they aren't cutting it as a businessman are ASSHOLES. Don't pity that person. Don't agree with that kind of logic. You're screwing yourself (unless of course, you're that kind of person). Listen, I don't make the rules, and I hope I'm past the point of getting in flame wars with booters.... I mean I'm good friends with at least one dude who sells... and he knows where I stand. I am not on a crusade to end boot sales, but I think this is a side of the coin that should be heard. I don't think it's cool to blame the fans for not wanting to pay for boots. That's the way many of us believe it should be. The dude with the Rush boots who went out of business and kept all his boots... that's not the fans' fault for subverting his system. That's his fault for relying on an income that he had no right to. Being a scrooge was his choice, and that says a LOT about the kind of person he is. BCDADCBGBCDADCBF# - Chris Ptacek M a d s m a n BCDADCBGBCDADCBF# ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:16:09 PST From: "Trent Thornton" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) Message-ID: >also, with aol you dont get access to newsgroups and you're stuck with their >software. later. Correction. You can access newsgroups (or you could when I was an AOL-user) it's just a real pain. *Trent ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:28:18 -0500 From: "Scott Sturdivant" To: Subject: LTE TFT Art Message-ID: <000b01be4e42$f6e407e0$message_id_removed> Just to let you all know, I've finished uploading the new artwork for Liquid Tension Experiment: Testing For Tension, Live At The TLA, the direct URL is: http://www.erotomania.org/scott/files/ltetft.zip but its 826K so I didn't lose too much quality. Go get it!!! Thanks once again Dan! You da man! Scott. PunkAss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:45:55 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan P Skadberg To: email_address_removed Subject: ADMIN: AOL discussion / Quoting Message-ID: First off, AOL sucks discussion - over now. point gotten? Second, I feel I have to mention this YET again. When you are replying to a post, _P L E A S E_ (TM Bogie 1999) do NOT quote the whole post. Quote a LINE OR TWO. Anyone reading YOUR post has probably already read the ORIGINAL post and they DO NOT need to see it again. Thankyouverymuch, Skadz Ytsejam Moderator ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:52:15 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan P Skadberg To: email_address_removed Cc: email_address_removed Subject: New Releases Info (Correction) Message-ID: Paul Weiss was goo enough to inform me that I was wrong about one of the pieces of info in my other post about new releases. ICE's site IS kept up to date, the URL on billboard is just wrong. The good URL is: http://www.icemagazine.com/html/release_dates.html Thanks Paul! Skadz Ytsejam Moderator ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 02:26:38 +0100 From: Manuel To: ytsejam Subject: LTE new live material Message-ID: hey jammers! totally blown away. i've just heard the amp-eggs of the lte phil. show and the new material is enormous good stuff. very hard indeed, yet with biaxident (which reminds me of Freedom Of Speech, as well) they again offer that orgasm like tension increasing prog stuff i love. impressive arrangement. acid rain impresses with its sheer power. what i was not so happy about is, that JP finally got introduced to the whammy pedal. i am totally crazy on this stuff and own it since the first days of the whammy II, it really gets on my nerves sometimes. listen to jennifer battens above below and whatsoever and youll know what i mean. JP doesnt use it to its limits, but, wtf, why bother... i love the new LTE stuff! Dryheat ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:11:28 -0600 From: Edward Polzin To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) Message-ID: Yeah, but you have to pay extra for an "outside" newsgroup service. Trent Thornton wrote: > Correction. You can access newsgroups (or you could when I was an > AOL-user) it's just a real pain. -- Edward Polzin Live and Rare Recordings http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~polzin/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:14:44 EST From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re:aol Message-ID: yeah, i agree with every point : aol definitely sucks with the busy signals or failed carriers..or my personal peeve " the access company refused to connect to the server " . hey , there are millions of users on aol, and i know im not * inexperienced* with aol. with all the crap that el jerko steve offers to us ( that works ...for an additional 79.99 or higher added to that lovely 150.00 phone bill with aol alone ) anyway, enough of aol. i finally got my band to start working on hollow years...any keyboardists willling to post out reccomendations ? ( my teacher is asking for prospective master class teachers this spring...replies ( if any ) are due by March 1. thanks, nic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:35:06 EST From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Why does AOL suck? NDTC (sorry) Message-ID: Well, I've been an AOL user for 2 plus years now, here is the only reason I stay on AOL: My parents pay for it! My father and I are patiently awaiting the day that the cable company installs the fiber-optic cables in my neighborhood, so we can get a cable modem, and a decent ISP. Though busy signals are a rarity in my area, there are other annoyances. The 46 minute timer, the "you have been idle for a while, would you like to stay online?" message, and getting knocked offline. I could bitch for hours about forgetting to open some of my "hacker" programs, which keep me online, and trying to d/l a large file, only to get knocked offline, because I was "idle". Of course I was idle! I was downloading a huge file! AOL does suck. ~~Art Art's CD-R Boots http://members.tripod.com/cdr_boots JoeStump.com http://www.joestump.com p.s.- I actually heard someone say once, when asked why they use AOL, "well, what else is there?" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 19:54:01 PST From: "Isaac Trumbo" To: email_address_removed Subject: winamp Message-ID: a bit off topic but it's been buggin me that when tagging an mp3 in winamp "progressive metal" isn't in the genre list. i'm constantly making compilation mp3 cd's and it's good to differentiate between prog rock and prog metal.. anyways.. only reason i post this on the jam is because i thought that if enough people would write winamp the could make that addition with their next patch .. i know lotsa people on the jam use winamp and i'd like to think that most people on the jam listle to progressive metal :) e-mail email_address_removed inferno ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:17:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Johnston To: email_address_removed Subject: The 1998 Dt Quotable Awards Nominees! Message-ID: Hey, all... As promised, I have the nominees for the DT Quotable Awards -- the best quotes *by Dream Theater members* from 1998. This year, I'll be loose with the rules (because it's the first year for the awards) -- quotes said in 1997 but first made public in 1998 are legal, but, again, the quote has to be from a member of DT (in 1998). Here are the current nominees. 1) Mike: "What are you doing today Derek?" Derek: "Making history. And you?" Mike's set up is merely that). For those who don't have 5YiaLT yet, the situation is this: Mike and Derek are in the studio during the FII sessions. Mike asks the question, and Derek in a slightly feminine and non-chalant voice, says his line from above, which illicits a hearty laugh from MP. 2) James: "Derek? Derek... We're not doing it." my site: http://thanatos.uoregon.edu/~ryoga/meanstreet.mp3 Basically, Derek goes on and on about how Elton John was his idol growing up and that, since they each got to pick one cover song, he wanted to do an EJ song. Just as he's about to start, James says the above quote ("Derek... we're not doing it.") It was a good laugh. 3) James: "I truly believe Robert Plant has no nuts." end of "Since I've Been Loving You." The mp3 of this song is available at Lines in the Sand (http://dreamtheater.mite.edu) in the audio section. The quote should be self-explanitory. ^_^ 4) James: "I don't understand your language, so go the fuck away!" This is the only non-sourced quote nominated. Normally, I wouldn't accept it until it was sourced, but Jon Parmet, the nominator, is a stand-up guy, and I remember reading it in one of the jams and laughing. I'm currently looking through old jams to find it, but so far, nothing. It's worth nominating, though. 5) A fifth nomiation would be really great. Actually three more would be great. How about some Petrucci or Portnoy quotes? What I'm going to do is extend the nomination deadline one week. Send me (email_address_removed) your nomination, and where you heard/read it, and I'll stick it on this list when I send it again in a week's time. Until then, let's see some nominees! --Matt "The Ytse's!" Johnston -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Saying a band is 'progressive' because they wear pirate shirts and write songs about the discovery of tungsten, yeah, we made that up." --Brian Henderson -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:17:42 -0500 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Why does AOL suck? Message-ID: <19990202061248.PIT20938@metropolis> My personal response to that question: I had AOL several years ago, it was my first experience with the Internet. I liked some aspects of it like the chat groups and relative ease of use of their network. However, when it came to the actual internet I had nothing but trouble. I couldn't access many sites and if I'm not mistaken (this is what I've heard) AOL was/is very censored and it actually wouldn't allow you to access some sites. I may be wrong about that, but I did have trouble finding LEGIT sites. They're easy when it comes to accessing their network stuff (anything from their graphic links all over) but World Wide Web was a different story. The thing that finally got me to quit AOL, and the biggest reason I wouldn't recommend it to anyone (besides the busy signals) is that they started sending me stuff I didn't order and charging up my credit card. I know it was them cause I was getting "AOL Store" on my Visa statement! When I questioned them about it they denied it of course, saying that I or someone using the account pressed the wrong button, however they had a security measure that you can only order from the MAIN account. Not even I used that one, I used a second user ID I'd set up. So once I got a refund I cancelled them and never went back. Like others have said, stick to a real ISP. You can find all the same info you would on AOL on the Internet with less hassle. I finally chose Ameritech cause they're the phone company here, they own all the lines, they seem to be dedicated to good service and therefore I've had VERY reliable service. No ISP is perfect, but AOL has been the overall worst for me. Irene ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 08:42:28 EET From: "Tanja Sorsa" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: NIGHTTOWN NOSTALGIA Message-ID: [Alexandro wrote] Last week someone posted something about the bootleg called "Nighttown Nostalgia", from the Rotterdam fan-club show. I've found it but when I checked the set list out , I realised that "Goodbye yellow brick road" (Elton John cover) was missing. Does anybody can tell me if it really does not make part of that boot? As it was sealed I couldn't check its sound quality. I'd like to hear something related as well. -------------------------------- Actually, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" *IS* on the boot eventho' it doesn't say so on the set list. It comes after "... Mean Streets" ... maybe the "bootmaker" didn't recognize the song to be "GYBR" and thought it was just "Mean Streets". The boot is of FINE sound quality... just honey for your ears... :-) Tanja [Tenze] http://members.tripod.com/Tenze/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:54:12 EST From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: AOHell....ndtc Message-ID: In a message dated 99-02-01 18:07:24 EST, you write: << also, with aol you dont get access to newsgroups and you're stuck with their software. later. >> Hmm. I've never had any trouble accessing newsgroups with AOL. Plus you're not limited to using its crappy default browser.....Netscape and MIRC work just fine with my AOL ISP. Not that I endorse "AOHell", because indeed signing on can be a real ugly bitch sometimes, but a lot of people generalize AOL'ers as naive or computer-illiterate. That's true for the majority maybe, but let's keep a stereotype a stereotype. Please let this not become a common thread. :-) Drew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 01:53:52 -0600 From: "Al @ Switchcraft" To: retaehT maerD Subject: AOL & stuff Message-ID: MaxArbot wrote: >I was curious...why is it that everyone who isn't on AOL hates AOL, but >everyone who is on AOL loves AOL? Is there something I'm missing? Is there a >service for which I need to ditch AOL? Help me to understand... Ooh! Here my chance to use a useless automotive metaphor... Imagine you and your friends had only owned and driven 1976 Ford Pintos. After driving a Lexus LS-400 for a day, your views and loving thoughts of the old faithful Pinto may undergo some reexamination. It's easy to like something when you've never been exposed to something better. I will admit that AOL is easier to learn for people with a limited amount of computer exposure. Finding a local ISP, setting up your dialer properties, installing a browser and other net goodies can be a overwhelming task for the computer illiterate. That's why AOL is so popular. Then again... So is Hanson. :) That was below the belt. P.S. I have several customers and friends that are AOL escapees, they are much happier with other providers. Some of them simply matured as computer users and ditched AOL in favor of a less bells & whistles and more versatility. -- Al - The Ytse-ProGtologist ^ Switchcraft Microsystems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It's supposed to pack an awesome buzz" --Butthead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:55:26 EET From: "Tanja Sorsa" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Trial of singles Message-ID: [Bobby wrote] Hey all. Someone mentioned a "Trial of Singles" CD...I'm wondering what's on it, and where I can get it... --------------- Trial of Singles includes: - To live forever - Another day (live) - Take the time (demo) - Eve - You or me (demo) - The way it used to be - Burning my soul ("old" 8 min live version) - Another hand (live) - Take away my pain (demo) - Speak to me (demo) - Tears (live) - The silent man (acoustic) i got mine (or my boyfriend got his... ) from a local CD store that carries several boots from different bands. normal price CD FIM 130. looks like a real promo with lyrics and cool design. Tanja [Tenze] http://members.tripod.com/Tenze/ ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4643 **************************