YTSEJAM Digest 4876 Today's Topics: 1) Re: Dark Piano! by trent 2) Re: YTSEJAM digest 4874 by email_address_removed 3) New Markus Steffen Interview (ex-SIEGES EVEN) by "fateswarm _" 4) Attention Drummers {NDTC} by Frank Benenati 5) Gap Commercials Online by Jon Kretschmer 6) Re:Dark Piano! by email_address_removed 7) Re: LTE video by "Ernesto Lotitto" 8) Power of Omens shirt (NDTC) by Jax 9) Selling out, JLB, World Tour by Niall Connaughton 10) ok, ok by email_address_removed 11) Hot-headed audio gear by "Al @ Switchcraft" 12) Bahr/Bogie ;-) by Steffen Barabasch 13) sell-out/G3 by email_address_removed 14) Re: Dark piano music by Dale R Newberry 15) Re: sell-out/G3 by trent 16) FW: Beaumont YtseJammer by "Pete Davis" 17) The selling out thread (was: Re: Selling out, JLB, World Tour) by Rogerio Brito 18) Re: Dark piano music by "Korg Ecksthrey" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:25:42 -0700 (PDT) From: trent To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Dark Piano! Message-ID: --- email_address_removed wrote: > > Ok I hope there is someone out there that can help > me. I love dark piano > music like Kevin Moore's Autumn Moon and the piano > solo in the song Ghost > Ship by Shadow Gallery. So if there is anyone out > there that knows of a > pianist or a band with this type of piano in it > please let me know. > > Thanx, and rock on jammers! I'm not sure how many songs are like this, but on The Doors' first album, "The Crystal Ship" features a kinda spooky piano. Also, Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" contains a similar spooky piano (seek out live versions from '73 if possible) interludes, plus a cool guitar/drum/piano jam. I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, but you might like it if you haven't already heard it. === *Trent "I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down. Hand on my face, pushed to the ground. Enmity gauged, united by fear. Forced to endure what I could not forgive." * Eddie Vedder, a man amongst men _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 18:27:39 -0400 From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 4874 Message-ID: > Note that because I defend her, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with > her style of music. I'm not a huge fan of mainstream music, but I'm not > as against it as some jammers are. I agree with your position here, but only because I don't think it's the artists' fault (for the most part), because it's not about the music. Let's be honest: if "pop music" was about the music, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because DT clearly has the music thing down. What it's *really* about is marketing. The music is simply the fuel. That fuel gets them on the radio, which gets them on TV, which sells out tours, which allows the powers-that-be to sell everything form T-shirts to watches to whatever. They target these sales at a very vulnerable demographic: teens and pre-teens. These are the kids that desperately want to be accepted, and buying all this crap gets them accepted. That's why these pop stars have such short "lifespans"; once the kids have bought all the stuff, the only way to make more money is to create/select a new cool artist to put on the stuff. And thus the cycle continues. I don't expect this to change; heck, it's been around longer than I have. I was watching the Behind The Music episode on David Cassidy today, and the whole scenario I just described happened to him 25+ years ago. But just because I accept it doesn't mean I have to like it. And knowing that my kid is going to be in that target demographic in a few years makes me even *less* happy about it. ___Pat Sullivan___________________________ Email: email_address_removed WWW: http://home.ici.net/~psull/psull.html ICQ: 23499229 AIM: TOWHTSTS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:50:05 GMT From: "fateswarm _" To: email_address_removed Subject: New Markus Steffen Interview (ex-SIEGES EVEN) Message-ID: There's a new Markus Steffen interview (ex-Sieges Even) added on 'Epigram for the last straw'. If you are interested the address is: http://homex.s-one.net.sg/member/progmetal OR http://listen.to/progmetal Seeyaround, michael m. ps. To join epigram's progmetal/progrock DISCUSSION mailing list visit http://fly.to/epigram ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:04:51 -0400 From: Frank Benenati To: YtseeJam Subject: Attention Drummers {NDTC} Message-ID: Hey everyone, I just wanted to cover the basses by emailing the Jam as well. My band, Frontiers, which is a Journey Tribute band, needs a new drummer. We're based out of New York City and we pretty much intend on playing the entire catalog. If you're at all interested, please email me at email_address_removed -Frank Benenati ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:32:20 -0700 From: Jon Kretschmer To: email_address_removed Subject: Gap Commercials Online Message-ID: Anyone that is infatuated with that black-spikey-haired chick, OR the music, from that new Khaki Soul commercial, might enjoy this link. http://www.gap.com/onlinestore/gap/advertising/khakiFrames.asp?sid=XV6V8LRM2 XSH2KHB00GPBKFLVEV9CGSA Jon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:37:14 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed, email_address_removed Subject: Re:Dark Piano! Message-ID: <<>> I hate to burst your bubble, but "Autumn Moon" isn't Kevin Moore. Mike Bahr included it on "Scenes From A Memory" by accident. It's George Winston playing. ~~Art ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:36:47 VET From: "Ernesto Lotitto" To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: LTE video Message-ID: Please apologize my ignorance, but I've been out of the list for quite a while... What's this LTE video everybody's talkin' about? Please mail me privately. Keep jammin' -E# ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:56:51 -0400 From: Jax To: "'email_address_removed'" Subject: Power of Omens shirt (NDTC) Message-ID: RaY wrote: > << Cool, Joe, so you were one of the dozens of guys there in IE > shirts..wonder > which one was you! I was the redhead in the Power of Omens shirt, down > front headbanging with the best of em! What a great show! I got an > autograph and a hug/kiss on the cheek from James Rivera of Destiny's > End..that was cool :) > Jax, Lady of the Oracle > "..though life has scarred my heart, a piece of me still burns bright > inside.." > Power of Omens - Test of Wills >> > AHHHHHHHHHH, where did you get that shirt?:> I'd love to get one!! I fell in > love with Power of Omens the firs time I heard the CD:> Such an awesome CD! > RaY > -Through different eyes we seek . . . - Hey RaY, Yeah, I've noticed you using their lyrics now and then as your "sig".. I'm their webmistress, so I got my Power of Omens t-shirt for free..hehe..but you can e-mail Dave (email_address_removed) and ask him for one, I think they cost somewhere around $12 or $15..he'll ship one out to you :) We'll have a link for selling them on the website soon as well. Of related interest, they have started writing the new cd, and Dave describes it as "intense"..should be another good one!! Jax, Lady of the Oracle NP: Magnitude 9 - Chaos to Control ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:59:06 +1000 (EST) From: Niall Connaughton To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Selling out, JLB, World Tour Message-ID: I have been reading with interest everyone's comments on the selling out thread. I would have to agree that it's very hard to succesfully force DT upon people. I have converted one friend to DT, out of about 3 or 4 attempts, and I wouldn't say that he didn't already have a head start - he was into Vai. I was converted to DT by a friend who just gave me some tapes and left me with them. I discovered them about 6 months later. I can accept everyone's statements about how and why they still like mainstream music, but I still find it hard to listen to straight out mainstream. I do like Dire Straits, and Days of the New. Does anyone else here share these tastes? I guess it's hard for anything to really stack up against DT, since I've been listening to them for about 5 or 6 years now... I would agree with this statement in general. Definitely on the studio albums his voice is terrific. However, I think that his voice gets a little weak when it gets a good workout on tour. I'm sure everyone's noticed him straining a little on OIALT. Also, I didn't like some of his singing on LATM, as someone mentioned a while ago, the screaming puts me off. I think that his best live singing is on the live tracks on ACoS... I often find that JLB's style of vocals is one of the things that my friends don't like about DT, and I remember questioning his style myself when I first heard DT. Now, on the topic of the world tour that is supposed to happen after the release of the new albulm. Can anyone please tell me the unlikely good news that the definition of "world" includes Australia? Keep on jammin' Niall ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:23:05 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: ok, ok Message-ID: I now know that autumn moon is not kevin moore, but my original question still stands. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:49:17 -0500 From: "Al @ Switchcraft" To: retaehT maerD Subject: Hot-headed audio gear Message-ID: Andrew Coutermarsh wrote: >Anyway, I'm using a Teac AG-V8060 Audio/Video Surround Receiver, which up >until now hasn't given me any problems whatsoever (I've had it since >Christmas). That's only 6 months! I certainly hope it's not given you any trouble. >unit doesn't feel hot. When I was in school, though, it almost always had >a fan running near it - would it be a good idea to keep it by a window or >near my box fan so it could keep cool? Are there any other ideas as to >why it could be doing this? I just like to listen to my music at a more >than whisper level. First off... Don't place anything on top of it, or near any of the vents. I wouldn't recommend fan cooling it either, the electronics may have some objections to the inevitable dust accumulation. Plus, the dust can act like a blanket and hinder cooling even more. It sounds to me like the amp can't deal with the low impedance of two speaker pairs. Try disconnecting one pair, then crank on it for awhile, see if the problem disappears. Let me know how that suggestion pans out. If it's impedance related, I may have some ideas to remedy that condition. I will need more info on your receiver and speakers before I can be of any real help. -- Al - The Ytse-ProGtologist ^ Switchcraft Microsystems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It's supposed to pack an awesome buzz" --Butthead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 02:50:22 +0200 From: Steffen Barabasch To: Ytsejam Subject: Bahr/Bogie ;-) Message-ID: >But, with Bahr's track record, I wouldn't be surprised if he was aware it >was Winston's piece and stuck it on Antiquities to pass it off as a "Dream >Theater rarity". After all, he's tried doing that before... Hey Bogie, you must not tell anybody about it... ;-)) Steffen -- Steffen Barabasch (mailto:email_address_removed) THE MIRROR - German Dream Theater Fan Club (http://www.westend.com/TheMirror) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:00:17 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: sell-out/G3 Message-ID: >< Now, to pin the blame on the people that buy the music is completely unfair. Firstly, they actually >do< enjoy the music they buy and listen to, or they wouldn't buy it in the first place. >< Most of them do, but plenty of them really are mind-controlled by MTV, the radio, and popularity. These are the people that will buy a CD and only listen to the 1, 2, or 3 singles from the album, while they skip past the other songs. My brother was flipping through the TV and there was a concert on MTV. I don't remember who was playing, but they were playing one of their singles, and he kept it on. When the song ended, the band went to the next song and my brother said "I never heard this song. It must not be good." and he changed the channel. And I know one too many people like that who will buy an album abnd only listen to the single(s). These are the real idiots. And they're not all kids. I saw a 45-year old woman wearing a backstreet boys shirt. *shudder* >< Satch stated that Eric Johnson just isn`t "the material for G3". >< Yeah, he's too good for them. Jim NP - Galactic Cowboys: s/t Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes The Bangles: Greatest Hits ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:09:15 -0500 From: Dale R Newberry To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Dark piano music Message-ID: Somebody asked last jam about bands with dark piano music. My suggestion is to try some Saviour Machine, particularly their album Saviour Machine II, or Live in Deutschland. SM II is more piano based than the other albums, though there is a lot of piano in the others, too. The live album has a decent sample of songs from the first two. Legend and Legend II have a good mix of piano and guitar, though aren't quite as easily accessible as SM and SM II. Anyway, that's my suggestion. Dale R. Newberry ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT) From: trent To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: sell-out/G3 Message-ID: --- email_address_removed wrote: > Most of them do, but plenty of them really are > mind-controlled by MTV, the > radio, and popularity. These are the people that > will buy a CD and only > listen to the 1, 2, or 3 singles from the album, > while they skip past the > other songs. YES! That's what I was getting at. You articulated that a hell of a lot better than I did. It's really sick that someone would do that, but it does happen. A lot of preppy kids at my school do that. Okay, here comes a tangent. The band Sugar Ray play Metal-Lite, but all of their radio songs are softer songs, geared for the pre-pubescent female fourteen year old in all of us. I wonder if Sugar Ray concert goers are put off by what constitutes (I would think) 90% of the band's catalog of music. > My brother was flipping through the TV > and there was a concert > on MTV. I don't remember who was playing, but they > were playing one of their > singles, and he kept it on. When the song ended, the > band went to the next > song and my brother said "I never heard this song. > It must not be good." and > he changed the channel. And I know one too many > people like that who will buy > an album abnd only listen to the single(s). These > are the real idiots. And > they're not all kids. I saw a 45-year old woman > wearing a backstreet boys > shirt. *shudder* Yeah, the Backporch Boys make me shudder too. You are not alone. === *Trent "I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down. Hand on my face, pushed to the ground. Enmity gauged, united by fear. Forced to endure what I could not forgive." * Eddie Vedder, a man amongst men _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:18:00 -0500 From: "Pete Davis" To: "Dream Theater Mailing List" Subject: FW: Beaumont YtseJammer Message-ID: <000101beabdd$5a782d20$message_id_removed> -----Original Message----- ]From: Pete Davis [mailto:email_address_removed Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 10:15 PM To: email_address_removed Subject: Beaumont YtseJammer Hi, I currently live in Houston but I am originally from Nederland. Finally, someone else who listens to DT from my home area. What other bands are you into? I've bee listening to DT since '92. I have several friends in the Golden Triangle that share my musical taste. I agree that DT need to play Houston on the next tour. Last year, DT was going to play at the Aerial Theater but the show was never scheduled due to the Aerial believing it would not sell enough tickets.... what a crock! My friend and I drove to Ft. Worth and San Antonio to see the shows. We also went to New York in 95 and 96 to see the "Holiday" shows since there was no tour at that time. I usually come home on the weekends so we could hook up sometime if you'd like. Hope to hear from you soon, Pete Davis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:12:11 -0300 From: Rogerio Brito To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: The selling out thread (was: Re: Selling out, JLB, World Tour) Message-ID: On May 31 1999, Niall Connaughton wrote: > I have been reading with interest everyone's comments on the > selling out thread. (...) Why do people actually take some of their time to comment on the the "selling out" threads? It's a thread that appears on music mailing lists in a cyclic fashion, *especially* when some album/video/DVD/whatever is going to get released. And no matter how much times it appear (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Dream Theater -- any band), the arguments are almost always the same. Just stay subscribed for a while in a music mailing list. You'll see the same arguments over and over. []s, Roger... P.S.: The outline is almost always like this: part of the fans will say that the band has "matured", trying to expose evidences for why they think that way, and part of the fans will argue that the band is now more commercially oriented, leaving the "old, true, loyal fans, those who supported the band since their beginnings" nothing but the older albums. If you like the band, just continue to listen to it, and ignore the other fans opinions... You'll be happier. And the Internet will be faster. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - email_address_removed - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ (still an) Ugrad. Comp. Science student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/opeth/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:37:00 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: Re: Dark piano music Message-ID: <003201beabe0$07753b60$750d84d0@korgx3> >Somebody asked last jam about bands with dark piano music. My suggestion >is to try some Saviour Machine, particularly their album Saviour Machine Oooh. I second that wholeheartedly. Another bunch of dark piano type of stuff I like to listen to is fellow jammer (I think he still reads this) Andrew Miller's Subtlerage stuff. Do yourself a favor and go to http://www.subtlerage.com/ and order Vicious Cycle. if you like that, get his First Impressions CD, too. :) Great shit. Mostly instrumental, but a couple of vocal tracks. Actually, the title track to Vicious Cycle is almost 33 minutes long and is a damn great mix of instumental vocal parts. It's almost all keyboard driven, but there are a couple of tracks with guitar on his stuff. :) Love it. Just listened to it today .:) More dark piano stuff I like is Type O Negative's October Rust album. I wouldn't really call any of Savatage's stuff "dark piano" but they have some really damn good piano driven songs. It seems like almost all of their stuff is written in a major key for that optimistic attitude. One of these days, I'll get off of my ass and write some solid stuff instead of constantly noodling looking for that perfect song. Basically, no one I know likes to sit and listen to me play. They suggest I go work for a mortuary playing dirges and shit all day. :) Ah, well. I'm damn good at it! :) I can never get enough minor and diminished chords into my stuff. :P It's really sad. Anyway.... I think I'll go noodle a bit. -- KorgX3 showers himself with Carb Cleaner. Ooooh. NP: Schubert - Serenade (on classical guitar) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 4876 **************************