YTSEJAM Digest 5007 Today's Topics: 1) A new convert to Derek? by E DeSobe 2) Re: Dream Theater not being heavy? by Joe DeAngelo 3) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5006 by "indii" 4) The Greatest Songs of All Time by email_address_removed 5) keyboard-help needed (absolutely NDTC) by "Simon Long Krogh" 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5006 by Andreas Skarin - SDTS 7) Re: Dream Theater not being heavy? by Andreas Skarin - SDTS 8) I'm talking and I can't shutup... by "Al @ Switchcraft" 9) Re: Secrecy of new album . . . come on Mike P. . . tell us why? by Alan Estrada 10) LTE 2 by "Al @ Switchcraft" 11) Derek and James Reviewed by email_address_removed 12) Re: keyboard-help needed (absolutely NDTC) by Damon Fibraio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:03:02 -0400 () From: E DeSobe To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: A new convert to Derek? Message-ID: Wanted to pass this sad info along. Last evening some thugs broke into my car and stole my CD player. Sad is that is, it was more upsetting to learn Derek's Planet X was still in the player (luckily I took the new Tiles album and JJ's "Fission"). Anyway, even though my loss is painful, I hope there is one more prog fan in the world -- even if that love is sparked by a stolen cd player with Planet X inside. Eric DeSobe Interfaith Health Program The Carter Center One Copenhill Atlanta, GA 30307 Phone: 404-614-3745 Fax: 404-420-5158 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:44:44 -0400 From: Joe DeAngelo To: YTSEJAM Subject: Re: Dream Theater not being heavy? Message-ID: Concerning the new DT album not being heavy at all....... Some inside sources inform me that (as far as heaviness goes) the new album will actually make Meshuggah sound like Britney Spears. ;) Seriously though, if I had to take some wild guesses; I'm not expecting to hear Awake-type stuff, but I wouldn't be shocked to hear some fairly ballsy stuff (ala PMU, UaGM, etc.) In any event, I get the impression (especially from the JP quote somebody posted recently) that the boys really had fun making the album, which should mean it's really gonna kick ass! - Joe DeAngelo email_address_removed ICQ # 1872723 -------------------------------------- "Jordan Rudess fucking rules!" - Me -------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:18:58 -0400 From: "indii" To: Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5006 Message-ID: <001701bedad9$8660c5c0$cd83cbcf@matts> > > What's wrong with burning the WAV's on a CD and deleting them from your H= > D? > Playing songs on the computer sucks compared to playing them on your ster= > eo > anyway. > > Cheers! > > Andreas Skarin Well Andreas, that depends on your computer.. i have a 366cel with a sound blaster Live, and a set of Monsoon MM1000 speakers (flat-panel satelites and 6" sub) and MP3s sound increadible.. Much better than my stereo, Pioneer Reciver, sony cd player and Sheerwood Satellites and sub (don't flame please.. don't feel the need to upgrade yet, car stereo is MUCH better) indii IM indii 20 icq 20280371 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:04:22 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: The Greatest Songs of All Time Message-ID: This should be fun... Name, in your opinions, the greatest songs of all time. Include any and all songs that you feel are worthy of being listed as one of the greatest songs and why. Don't let who wrote it, when they wrote it, what genre it is, or even who has covered it since, influence your decision. Any more ground rules anyone would like to add? [eriC] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:06:25 +0200 From: "Simon Long Krogh" To: "The Ytsejam Mailinglist" Subject: keyboard-help needed (absolutely NDTC) Message-ID: <000201bedaed$5091f680$01dd52c3@flskesteg> Hi, there. Sorry about the NDTC, I just didn't know where else to post. The thing is that I feel that I'm growing from my old Yamaha PSR-400, which I've had since i was 12. Because of limited fundings, I've decided to find something used for, like, 1000-1500 bux. Here's a list of keyboards, that I've found, and I'd like all you keyboard-wiz's to comment on those to which you have comments. Well, here goes: -Yamaha PSR630 -Yamaha 20M -Yamaha DSR1000 -Yamaha YC-30 -Yamaha DX7 -Yamha AN1X -GEM PK7 -GEM G70 -Good SP95 -Orla (?) -Roland G600 -Roland JB80 -Roland XP-10 -Roland D20 -Roland SH-2000 (from 1979!) -Roland JD800 -Technics KN900 -Technics KN2000 -Alesis QS-8 -Korg Trident -Korg M1 Unless there's something really interesting in your answers, please keep 'em private! Take care now, bye-bye then Simon Long Krogh NP: LTE - Three min. warning ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 05:36:27 +0200 From: Andreas Skarin - SDTS To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5006 Message-ID: indii wrote: > Well Andreas, that depends on your computer.. i have a 366cel with a so= und > blaster Live, and a set of Monsoon MM1000 speakers (flat-panel satelite= s and > 6" sub) and MP3s sound increadible.. Much better than my stereo, Pionee= r > Reciver, sony cd player and Sheerwood Satellites and sub (don't flame > please.. don't feel the need to upgrade yet, car stereo is MUCH better) It's not only the sound quality I'm having trouble accepting. I don't lik= e the idea of booting up my computer every time I want to listen to some music.= But I guess that will change when they start making mp3 compatible stereo syste= ms. Cheers! Andreas Skarin Svenska Dream Theater S=E4llskapet http://sdts.cjb.net - mailto:email_address_removed.se ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 05:36:44 +0200 From: Andreas Skarin - SDTS To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: Dream Theater not being heavy? Message-ID: Joe DeAngelo wrote: > Some inside sources inform me that (as far as heaviness goes) the new > album will actually make Meshuggah sound like Britney Spears. ;) Trust me, NO ONE can make Meshuggah sound like Britney Spears! Especially not Dream Theater. Andreas Skarin Svenska Dream Theater S=E4llskapet http://sdts.cjb.net - mailto:email_address_removed.se ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 04:26:23 -0500 From: "Al @ Switchcraft" To: retaehT maerD Subject: I'm talking and I can't shutup... Message-ID: Brian Hansen wrote: >What WILL change everything is going to be the move >back to analog. It will probably happen. All they need >to do is develop a recording/storage medium that is >truly analog. Something with no signal loss or >interference. Possibly laser based, with no physical >contacts that will wear or add noise. Truly analog will be quite difficult because of our uncontrollable desire to look for the path of least resistance. Some asshole will certainly try and digitize it somewhere along the way in an effort to save time and $$$. >We'll have to ask Al "the Ytseprogtologist" how close >we are to this. I'm sure he'll be buying the first one >on the market. ;o) Don't hold you breath on that assumption, you'll have more than blue balls. I always wait a few years before jumping on ANY new technology, I didn't buy my first CD player until 1987, three years after the media was readily available to the general public; I still never really took the format seriously until some of the hi-end companies did some serious refining. The hard work of those companies have surfaced in the form of "trickle down technology" within the consumer players of today... In a striped down, simplified, easy to mass produce version with little or no attention to maintaining signal purity. (As the original circuits dictated) To make things worse... They use a butter-metal and cardboard chassis with some of the most gruesome sounding power supplies imaginable. Nothing like powering Op Amps and D-to-A converters with dirty DC. And don't you just love those plastic front panels? As long as the consumer at large continues to buy this shit, they'll just keep lowering the standards and raising the profits. If more people would buy mid-fi and hi-end gear, you'd see a huge change in the marketing strategies of the large manufacturers. Wouldn't it be nice to see Sony, JVC, Pioneer, etc... competing to build the BEST, rather than the most economically competitive? What if the medical industry started applying the same kind of logic that the consumer electronics industry does? Oh wait... They already are. My point: Raise your standards! Because they never will without public motivation in the form of SALES. Or lack of. Oh shit! I'm preaching again. :) Doh! -- Al - The Ytse-ProGtologist ^ Switchcraft Microsystems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you live in the land of 10,000.00 lakes, it's nice to know that all men are created equal in cold water. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 04:35:04 -0500 From: Alan Estrada To: email_address_removed Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Secrecy of new album . . . come on Mike P. . . tell us why? Message-ID: what video are you talking about? is there a new video? --- Alan Estrada Adler, ICQ #9267174 Monterrey, Mexico -------------------------------------------------------- http://welcome.to/thenetdom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 06:29:41 -0500 From: "Al @ Switchcraft" To: retaehT maerD Subject: LTE 2 Message-ID: For those of you that are interested, I found a few more reviews of LTE 2. http://www.eatmag.com/reviews/rev1257.html http://www.zaks.com/magnacarta/magcar18.htm -- Al - The Ytse-ProGtologist ^ Switchcraft Microsystems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you live in the land of 10,000.00 lakes, it's nice to know that all men are created equal in cold water. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:59:51 EDT From: email_address_removed To: email_address_removed Subject: Derek and James Reviewed Message-ID: Music Street Journal 17 is online now. The progressive rock reviews for the month are Derek Sherinian`s Planet X, Mullmuzzler-Keep It To Yourself (James Labrie`s solo album, due out mid August), and as flashback Starcastle`s self titled disc. Progressive metal albums reviewed this month are Dali`s Dilemma`s Manifesto For Futurism and Godsmack-Godsmack. The Non-prog reviews are Enuff Z`Nuff`s Paraphernalia and Blondie`s No Exit. Harmony Riley`s release Time is the Indie Mania selection for the month. A question and answer session with Dali`s Dilemma is also featured, as are reviews of Godsmack and Puya at Ozzfest. Check out Music Street Journal at www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/9250/ -- Gary Hill Music Street Journal www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/9250/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:14:25 -0400 From: Damon Fibraio To: email_address_removed Subject: Re: keyboard-help needed (absolutely NDTC) Message-ID: OK, here's what I think. The roland jd800 may be something you'd like to try, along with the d20, Korg m1, and maybe the dx7. It all depends on what you are looking for. void the psr models, they aren't going to do much more, in my mind, than you already have. Some of those keyboards are rather decent. Let me give you another option, though. Look into the Roland XP30. It costs under $1500, and does quite a lot. The xp10 may be another good one. Don't buy a keyboad at all until you can hear it. A lot of those models are discontinued. Try going to a music store, or go to a few online places like kraft music, http://www.kraftmusic.com, sweetwater sound, http://www.sweetwater.com, or look at some musician web sites like synthsite, which I forgot the url for, harmony central, http://www.harmonycentral.com, hyperreal, http://www.hyperreel.com, or hyperreal.com, one of those work, or synth zone, http://www.synthzone.com. Hope all this helps. At 08:48 PM 7/30/99 , you wrote: >Hi, there. >Sorry about the NDTC, I just didn't know where else to post. >The thing is that I feel that I'm growing from my old Yamaha PSR-400, which >I've had since i was 12. Because of limited fundings, I've decided to find >something used for, like, 1000-1500 bux. Here's a list of keyboards, that >I've found, and I'd like all you keyboard-wiz's to comment on those to which >you have comments. Well, here goes: > >-Yamaha PSR630 >-Yamaha 20M >-Yamaha DSR1000 >-Yamaha YC-30 >-Yamaha DX7 >-Yamha AN1X >-GEM PK7 >-GEM G70 >-Good SP95 >-Orla (?) >-Roland G600 >-Roland JB80 >-Roland XP-10 >-Roland D20 >-Roland SH-2000 (from 1979!) >-Roland JD800 >-Technics KN900 >-Technics KN2000 >-Alesis QS-8 >-Korg Trident >-Korg M1 > >Unless there's something really interesting in your answers, please keep 'em >private! > >Take care now, bye-bye then > >Simon Long Krogh > >NP: LTE - Three min. warning ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5007 **************************