YTSEJAM Digest 5100 Today's Topics: 1) Band Recommendations by "LONG, TIMOTHY" 2) Woah, OPEN YOUR EYES!!! An apology to Mike Portnoy by "Mark Philpot" 3) Introduction by Anil Sahal 4) NDTC: News on Lemur Voice, and MoreMetal.com... by "Jeff Storck" 5) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tiles to tour with Dream Theater! by "Syrinx" 6) Could someone reccommend a good effects pedal? by Kurt M Hampton 7) re: Helsinki Simpsons by Brian Hansen 8) musicians by email_address_removed 9) Gentle Giant (was: Progressive bands) by Fernando Rauber 10) New DT by "!Richi Copper!" 11) Re: New DT by Andrew Coutermarsh 12) Mike P. in Modern Drummer!!! by Jonathan D Willey 13) Re: progressive bands by "Matt Molite" 14) New to List - Introduction by "Adam Marler" 15) Re: Portnoys post... an apology on behalf of the 'jam. by "Matt Molite" 16) re: Helsinki Simpsons by Brad Plumb 17) Re: progressive bands by email_address_removed 18) Re: Borrowed, not stolen??? by email_address_removed 19) Re:CD-RW by "Al @ Switchcraft" 20) Re: CD-RW and ripping before burning by email_address_removed (Jason T. Breitweg) 21) why I don;t like secrecy... by Michael Burstin 22) Dead assholes and the FTP site... by "Pye, Adam" 23) several other topics... by Michael Burstin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 07:12:48 -0700 From: "LONG, TIMOTHY" To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" Subject: Band Recommendations Message-ID: --- Heikki Kemppinen wrote: > I've heard praises of the following: spock's beard, > symphony x, shadow gallery, lemur voice, vanden plas and fates > warning. can anyone recommend me a good starting point from some or > all of these bands? I don't normally have time to post to the jam but I gotta plug one of the *BEST* CD's I have purchased this year. Power of Omens. If you can find this CD entitled Eyes of the Oracle I highly recommend it. Of all the CD's I picked up from import places over the last few months (stuff like Magnitude 9, Symphorce, Superior, Ayreon and Digital Ruin) this one ends up in my CD player more often than not. The CD is 72 minutes long, one of the tracks "Test of Wills" is almost 20 minutes. Truly wonderful progressive metal. Vocalist is a bit like Geoff Tate and the guy from Digital Ruin. The band is so talented and tight sounding. For a tiny label (Elevate Records) the production is surprisingly good. While I'm on it I'll plug a few more fav's. Symphony X: I agree with all of the nice things that have been said about this band. They are very accessible with some great hard riffs, excellent vocals and so forth. Divine wings of Tragedy stands out in my mind as the best. In fact the title track is over 20 minutes long. Shadow Gallery: not such a big fan here. I don't care much for choir-like choruses. Admittedly I have not spent much time on them, as always YMMV. Vanden Plas: great rockers. The first CD was pretty commercial sounding, not in a bad way like the new Megadeth. They write incredibly catchy tunes, the second CD God Thing was excellent. Good prog-ish influences, I especially dig the tune "Rainmaker". Fates Warning: I first heard them (dating myself a bit here) in High School on one of those Metal Blade compilations. I guess I've been into them since I stumbled on Night on Brocken many years ago. I have always missed the original singer John Arch but Ray Alder is very powerful and made a good replacement. Great band here, and some may think I'm crazy but Spectre Within is my FAVORITE disc by them. But really any CD they have released is worth buying. and here are a few bands that you did not mention that bear recommendation Tiles: I only own one "Presents of Mind". They are a great Rush inspired band. Very talented bunch of guys, the singer has a very clear voice, like I said HEAVY Rush influence. Conception: I don't think I could say enough good things about these guys, they write the catchiest songs in recent memory. Weird that I got into them well after they broke up. Flow is a great place to start, good production a bit of industrial influence, and you can find it in a decent states CD shop (surprise!!). In your Multitude is probably the best CD they released IMHO. Magnitude 9: 2 guys from Psycho-drama, and one from Artension (bass). One of the better rockers out their. Progish influences but more in the power metal realm. One of those bands that knows how to compose a song with catchy riffs and clean vocals. I don't think there is a single bad song on the entire disc called Chaos to Control. Wow, I meant to just mention Power of Omens and got a bit carried away. Sorry for the long post, best of luck with your CD selections. -Crusis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:19:22 -0400 From: "Mark Philpot" To: Subject: Woah, OPEN YOUR EYES!!! An apology to Mike Portnoy Message-ID: <001101bf10d7$559c8f80$message_id_removed> Jam! Mike Portnoy HIMSELF has spoken!!! And people are still not listening!!!! The utter disrespect that has occured on this Jam during the past months before the release of this new album, has been downright shocking!! This was all culminated by the posting of they guy saying he was going to "bootleg" the official release!!! And even Mike stepped in and threw down!!! I mean COME ON PEOPLE!!!!! This band is IMO THE greatest band ever, not just in music, but in fan relations!!!! Seriously, there are MANY people who are jepordizing this! The Jam is not a place to find "advance copies" and spoil everything for everone!!! Man, I'm just so appaled! To Mike: On behalf of the Jam, (I hope I speak for the majority of jammers out there) I would like to appologize for the conduct of some of the morons who have posted here. Please don't think that we have all fallen to this dispicable level. I think that the approach to releasing this album has been the best idea ever, and I am greatly looking forward to Christmas Day (in this case Oct 26). Hopefully the person who post that has been removed. Additionally, I would like to thank you for more than a decade of INCREDIBLE music!! Mark Philpot email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:29:51 +0000 From: Anil Sahal To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Introduction Message-ID: Hello Everyone, I'm supposed to introduce myself, which is a little embarrassing, but here goes. My name is Anil Sahal. I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. I've been listening to Dream Theater for some years now and like their ability to blend technical excellence with catchy hooks and riffs. I'm a guitarist (surprise surprise) My favourite album is Images and Words Least favourite album is Falling into Infinity (I find it repetitive and a bit too "samey") I loved the Rock Disipline video by John Petrucci. He's a reasonably competent player, isn't he? :-D!!! I'm a big fan of Steve Vai (I can here his influence in JP's playing sometimes) Looking forward to the new album-oops I'm not supposed to mention that, am I? I look forward to some intelligent banter with you all. Warm Regards Anil Anil Sahal Motoneurone Research Group Neuroscience and Biomedical Systems West Medical Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ 0141 339 8855 ext.4552 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 12:49:47 EDT From: "Jeff Storck" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: NDTC: News on Lemur Voice, and MoreMetal.com... Message-ID: I just recieved word that "Divided" is due in to MoreMetal.com on Friday, and shipped out the same day, so finally we might be getting the album! Unfortunately I won't hear it until Sunday night since I'm going away for the weekend. Though, it should be fun -- it's Homecoming weekend up at Bloomsburg University. So I guess I'll get a t least a LITTLE sloshed... Jeff ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:35:08 -0400 From: "Syrinx" To: Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tiles to tour with Dream Theater! Message-ID: <014d01bf10ea$4d1114e0$message_id_removed> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10.07.99 Tiles to tour Europe with Dream Theater Detroit-based progressive act Tiles will tour Europe in November as special guests of Dream Theater. The three-week tour will cover Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and France. Tiles is touring in support of their new release, Presents Of Mind, which is available on Inside Out/SPV in Europe, King Records in Japan, Rock Brigade/NEMS in South America and Magna Carta in North America. Chris Herin added this, "This is a fantastic opportunity and we are excited to be playing in Europe for the first time. Better still, we are opening for Dream Theater and are privileged to play for their audience. Special thanks to Mike Portnoy for inviting us!" For all the latest Tiles news and tour dates, please visit Presents Of Web at http://www.tiles-music.com. Don't forget to keep up on all the Dream Theater news surrounding their new album, Scenes From A Memory, at http://www.dreamtheater.net. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:42:11 -0500 From: Kurt M Hampton To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Could someone reccommend a good effects pedal? Message-ID: Hey all, I might be getting a guitar for Xmas, could someone reccommend a good (and not too pricy) pedal for me? I will be learning through tabs,(easiest way, I guess), I already can play the beginning of Silent Lucidity, and will want to play with a good metal/hard rock sound. IE:QR,DT,Metallica, Sava you get the point. Thanks, Kurt NP-King's X Tape Head "and though it leads to nowhere, you part debris and keep on going"-Doubledrive New Dream Theater "Scenes From a Memory" out Oct 26th "I don't know how the guys in Slayer are going to past 40"-Paul Blocker Who Has Won Who Has Died (Insert Precko here) Beneath the Remains ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Hansen To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: re: Helsinki Simpsons Message-ID: Esa Virtanen wrote: > Hi, I'm Esa Virtanen. You might remember me from such Ytsejam articles > as the review of John Petrucci's and Mike Portnoy's Helsinki clinic in March > 1998. Ha ha! The beginning of this post cracked me up! Almost like Phil Hartman was posting from the dead. (This totally reminded me of one of Hartman's characters on the Simpsons. Doug McClure?) BH __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:49:14 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: musicians Message-ID: Hello I came across your ad looking for musicians... I am a guitarist (22) Currently I live in the Boston area, but I will relocate without a second thought, for the right gig. I have studied with the best of the best (Jon Finn, Scott Henderson...) I've been from Portland, ME to Hollywood, CA and have seen nothing remotely interesting. I'm very hard working/driven! +Needed: Hard Working/Touring Band with Image+ I seek to join a group of intelligent talented musicians/artists; Creative people who strive for nothing other than expression in its truest form. Music that is; Dark, Mysterious, Mystical, Poetic, Spontaneous, Free, Metaphysical, Cynical, Intelligent, Slightly Insane, Progressive/Psychedelic, Uninhibited, Mad, Explorers of the Unknown, Defiers of Rationality. My influences: Doors, Pink Floyd, Vai, Tool, DiMeola, Dream Theater, Metheny, Hendrix, Tribal Tech..... If interested please reply via e-mail Thanks -Ben ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:48:28 -0300 From: Fernando Rauber To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Gentle Giant (was: Progressive bands) Message-ID: Janne Jokitalo wrote: > I had to add a few to my recently posted list. > > Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism > Queensr=FFche - Operation: Mindcrime, Rage For Order, Promised Land > Ice Age - Great Divide > > There, now I'm happy ;) Wait, just kidding... > > Derek Sherinian - Planet X (How could I have forgotten that one...) You forgot to add one of the best progressive bands, that released al= bums that can't be missed by any prog fan! If you have nothing against 70's pr= ogrock (ie: you hate "Yes"), I recommend you this band: Gentle Giant. Although t= he songs are short (there isn't any song with 10 minutes), it's one of the m= ost complex bands ever. Lots of counterpoints, incridible arrangements and good vocal= s. If you want to check out (you won't regret), there are two songs in Real Aud= io format on my home-page, from the album "Free Hand". The URL is: http://fast.to/f= rmp []s Fernando Rauber ICQ: 2281311 http://fast.to/frmp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:38:52 EDT From: "!Richi Copper!" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: New DT Message-ID: WWW.AMAZON.COM has the track listing for the new DT. It looks like the band has given the go-ahead to talk about the album. WWW.AMAZON.COM has the track listing for the new DT. It looks like the band has given the go-ahead to talk about the album. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:05:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: New DT Message-ID: On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, !Richi Copper! wrote: > WWW.AMAZON.COM has the track listing for the new DT. It looks like the band > has given the go-ahead to talk about the album. > (Repeated, for some reason) Or perhaps the band just didn't realize that it happened. My guess is that - just because something is posted doesn't mean that it's official. Wait for the band to release the tracklisting (which I doubt they'll do, since the tracklisting, though I haven't seen it, COULD theoretically give away the surprise to a LOT of people). ------------------------------------------------- Andrew Coutermarsh email_address_removed http://cout.dhs.org/ Cloak on IRC ICQ: 2513441 ------------------------------------------------- The only stupid question is the one that is never asked, except maybe "Don't you think it's about time you audited my tax return?" or "But officer, isn't it morally wrong to give me a warning when, in fact, I was speeding?" ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:59:25 -0500 From: Jonathan D Willey To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Mike P. in Modern Drummer!!! Message-ID: I hope every drummer out there got a chance to see the October Modern Drummer!!! There was a tiny pic of Mike accepting the readers poll award! CONGRATS MIKE from the drummers on this list! There is also a great article on the drummer from Spocks Beard in this issue! It's good to see prog music getting some respect in these mags! Also, let's do our best to let each other know who has listened to the album and who has not come the 26th. I think we all deserve the opportunity to make judgments for ourselves! Then we can discuss how much it rocks after the veil is lifted for everyone! NP: Many Deceived -Times Like These Jonathan Willey A.T.,C. Washington State Athletic Medicine Drummer, Many Deceived Many Deceived's Website http://www.netusa1.net/~benjon/manyd.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:02:43 -0400 From: "Matt Molite" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: progressive bands Message-ID: 3 prog metal bands you HAVE to check out: 1. Angra - if it wasnt for DT, these guys may be my fav prog metal band right now. While they do have a large dose of melodic/classical metal (ala Helloween, Yngwie, etc) they do have progressive tendencies. Their singer Andre Matos is incredible. His range is just like LaBrie's only his voice is MUCH cleaner and judging by what live material I have heard, he hits every note DEAD on. Kiko Louriro and Rafael Bittencourt are one hell of a guitar team. Their most progressive album is Holy Land, but Fireworks is great too. Their 1st album, Angels Cry, has more melodic metal in it, but its great nonetheless. 2. Stratovarius - from Finland and absolutely amazing. Keyboardist and fellow Ytsejammer Jens Johansson and guitarist Timo Tolkki make an incredible guitar/keys team that totally obliterates any trade off solo that a certain Swedish guitarist may have done ;-). The drummer Jorg Michael has to have the fastest legs Ive ever heard in my life. Very classical and melodic metal oriented. Their live album Visions of Europe is killer, but their best studio album is Episode. 3. Symphony X - the most like DT out of the 3. This band is filled with incredible musicians, heavyweight guitarist Michael Romeo is one hell of a shredder, and singer Russel Allen has quite an impressive range that goes from Dio to Alder. Their best album is defniately The Divine Wings of Tragedy. Unfortunately, they are currently only on import, but they recently signed with Metal Blade, so you may want to wait until they release their new album to check them out (that is if you don't want to pay twice the amount for the CD, but IMO, its worth it). Matt +----------------------------------+ |A daily dose of eMpTyV will flush | |your mind right down the drain - | | | | Mike Portnoy | +----------------------------------+ Dream Theater newsletter - http://www.dreamtheater.net/uacmmail/ ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 17:19:22 PDT From: "Adam Marler" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: New to List - Introduction Message-ID: Well, my name is Adam Marler and I'm new to this list, and new to the whole progressive scene. Not really new to prog music, as over the years I've had CD's that only recently have discovered to be "progressive". Yeah, I've had the usuals Rush, Tull, ect... but King Diamond? Blind Guardian? Progressive? It makes sense now, in retrospect but had you told me then I probably would have looked at you quizically and walked away. Gah, and I thought regular metal had enough sub-genres. Which brings me too a point, I've found that increasingly today, genres seem to be created at the drop of a hat. It used to be, "Metal? Oh yeah, Metallica, Judas Priest ect..." Now its, "Metal? What kind? You've got Grindcore, Progressive, Thrash/Speed, Power Metal...." ad nauseum. Is this increasing fragmention a normal trend? Anyways... Dream Theatre rocks and all that stuff too. ------------------------------------------------------------ __ Adam Marler (oO) "Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio" /||\ "Illegitimis Non Carborundum" T-Minus 15.193792102158E+9 years until the universe closes! ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:19:44 -0400 From: "Matt Molite" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Portnoys post... an apology on behalf of the 'jam. Message-ID: I think the fact that someone was trying to sell a bootleg of the CD is downright horrible. I hope the fucker gets busted. He probably wasn't a DT fan anyway, probably just some scum trying to make money off of a highly anticipated CD. After reading Mike's post, I did feel inredibly shitty for getting transfered two of the tracks from the new album, and deleted them immediately, maybe I'll forget what they sound like by the time the 26th comes around...but something that amazing doesn't fade away so quickly ;-). At least I didnt go and get the entire album, I didnt want to. But I do know why the band wants the album kept secret, Ive known (in speculation) for some time (not from any "inside source" but just from the general info that had been made available). It was only recently that my speculation was affirmed as fact. So maybe I will be missing out on a huge suprise that I wouldn't have gotten had I not known anything. Nevertheless, the album will be amazing, I am sure of it. But am I any less of a DT fan? I still love the band, am incredibly inspired by their music and will continue to support them by buying their albums and seeing them live. I just think that the idea of supreme secrecy of a new album is an incredibly hard task to accomplish in this day and age. If it were ten years ago, I would have thought it was possible, but today with the internet and the speed of communications, theres no way it would have been kept completely secret anyway, though I do think DT has done a very good job so far. Matt +----------------------------------+ |A daily dose of eMpTyV will flush | |your mind right down the drain - | | | | Mike Portnoy | +----------------------------------+ Dream Theater newsletter - http://www.dreamtheater.net/uacmmail/ ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:34:24 -0500 From: Brad Plumb To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: re: Helsinki Simpsons Message-ID: At 10:54 AM 10/7/99 -0700, you wrote: > > >Esa Virtanen wrote: > >> Hi, I'm Esa Virtanen. You might remember me from >such Ytsejam articles >> as the review of John Petrucci's and Mike Portnoy's >Helsinki clinic in March >> 1998. > >Ha ha! The beginning of this post cracked me up! >Almost like Phil Hartman was posting from the dead. >(This totally reminded me of one of Hartman's >characters on the Simpsons. Doug McClure?) TROY McClure. ;) Palpatine Co Founder of NARF: The North Houston Anime Resistance Force, and Historian of Anime-no-kai "Thank God I'm an atheist" -Luis Bunel "What an incredible smell you've discovered" -Han Solo, Star Wars: A New Hope "He said I was crazy, and it's not true! Although I did try to burn his house down once..." - Werner Herzog regarding Klaus Kinski ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:13:05 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: progressive bands Message-ID: >< I've been thinking for a while to start to listen to other progressive bands than Dream Theater. I've heard praises of the following: spock's beard, symphony x, shadow gallery, lemur voice, vanden plas and fates warning. can anyone recommend me a good starting point from some or all of these bands? I'd be really grateful. >< Spock's Beard: can't go wrong with any of their 4 albums. my personal favorite is their first, The Light. Combination of Pink Floyd and the Beatles' White Album I'd say. After that album, they added a hammond organ/mellotron player. Symphony X: The Divine Wings if Tragedy, without a doubt. One if the best progressive albums of the 90s. Shadow Gallery: have two of their albums, Carved In Stone and Tryanny. don't really care for either. Tryanny is probably the better of the two Lemur Voice: have heard clips from both albums, but havent been able to get my hands on either album. I saw Insights in a major store once, but was gone when I went back to get it. A good sign, I guess Vanden Plas: don't like them, so I dont know what a good starting point would be fates warning: hard to say. a pleasant shade of gray is my favorite, but its their least accessable album. their most accessable is probably Parallels I would also suggest "Holy Land" by Angra, "Vovin" by Therion, and any Hogarth-era Marillion. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:20:19 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Borrowed, not stolen??? Message-ID: >< I was listening to I Mother Earth's "Scenery and fish" and couldn't help but notice that there's a part of the song "Like a girl" that sounds exactly like part of "New Millennium" by Dream Theater. Both are goofy little musical grooves right in the middle of the song ...anyone else noticed this? Just wondering, and BTW IME released their CD like a year before FII...hmmmm >< FII was filled with, well, blatant stolen riffs, but let me point out a few things: yes, IME released that album before FII, but DT was using parts from New Millenium during previous tours. Eg CIANITG had parts of New Millenium. And IME opened for DT during one of the Awake or ACoS tours. So who knows. Could be a complete coincidence. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 03:37:27 -0500 From: "Al @ Switchcraft" To: retaehT maerD Subject: Re:CD-RW Message-ID: Brian Lundy wrote: > Also, the CD-RW allows you to convert a cd track to .wav file first, if you >want to. Why would I? Is there a sound quality difference between converting to >wav first, then recording it to cd, as opposed to just transfering the track to >the CD-RW? Anyone? (AL?) Do a disc copy. The monkey-motion of transferring it to a .wav file serves no purpose other than potential audio degradation. -- Al - The Ytse-ProGtologist ^ Switchcraft Microsystems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you live in the land of 10,000 lakes, it's nice to know that all men are created equal in cold water. ------------------------------ Date: 08 Oct 1999 11:44:30 +0200 From: email_address_removed (Jason T. Breitweg) To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: CD-RW and ripping before burning Message-ID: Hi all, Al> Do a disc copy. The monkey-motion of transferring it to a .wav Al> file serves no purpose other than potential audio degradation. Other people told me this as well but I saw yet other people disagreeing with disc to disc copies. Check out the following page: http://ephobia.interspeed.net/dae/ There is a link there as to why d-to-d is bad (the page seems to be down right now but I know it was working last night)...check it out though. And then there is a great postcardware (yep you read it right) program that does "perfect" audio extraction. You can find it at: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de Jason P.S. Rumour has it that the DT show on November 8th here in Hamburg is already sold out. Glad I have my tickets *grin*. -- +-------------------+------------------------------+ | Jason T. Breitweg | Home: +49 (0)40 23 80 90 98 | | Muenzstr. 11 | Work: +49 (0)40 89 98 31 57 | | D-20097 Hamburg | FAX: +49 (0)40 23 80 90 81 | | GERMANY | Mobil: +49 (0)171 176 79 37 | +-------------------+------------------------------+ | E-mail: email_address_removed | | http://www-zeus.desy.de/~breitweg | +--------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:33:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Burstin To: ytsejam@torchsong.com (Ytsejam Mailing List) Subject: why I don;t like secrecy... Message-ID: Well, just came up with another case last night why I don';t like this no information policy... so I was talking to one of my old friends from back home, who has similar musical taastes... he has most of the other DT CDs, so we were talking music last night... anyway, I asked him if he wanted to know anything about the new CD... so he was like, well ... I probably won;'t get it, or at least, not for quite a while... so I mention one bit of info from the new CD... and now, he is upset that he is working when stores open on release day... so one little piece of information about the new CD caused someone, who is not a die-hard DT fan, to immediatly want the new CD... I realize that non letting out info might be "neat" for people on this list -- the die-hard fans who will get the new CD right away, no matter what they know about it... but for those who are not hard-core fans... well... they have no real reason to go out and buy the CD, because they don't have reason to get excited... (This also worked for someone out here at work... someone who knows LTE, and owns both LTE CDs, but doesn;t' own any DT CDs... I let him listen to some of the material that I have found, and he also plans on buying the new CD as well...) Anyway, thats my take on everything... -- +--------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | In the stream of consciousness | Lines In The Sand, taken from | | There is a river crying | Dream Theater's | | Living comes much easier | Falling Into Infinity | | Once we admit We're dying | | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------+ Michael Burstin: email_address_removed http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mikeb/ Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email: http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 07:36:12 -0500 From: "Pye, Adam" To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" Subject: Dead assholes and the FTP site... Message-ID: At 06:13 AM 10/7/1999 -0700, you wrote: > >I'm sorry I have even tried to create a "surprise" for you all.... > >Next time I will know better... > >or maybe I won't even allow ANY advance CD's at all.... > >now, this is the part where i wished that the asshole selling copies was >dead... :-). But, unfortunately i`m not such a mean person, so i only wish >he would become deaf by some strange accident... biaxident :-) Hehe. You're right, killing a person over this is a bit extreme. That being said, however... It is kind of sad to see how many people are going against the band's wishes on this. I purposely stayed away from the 'Jam, IRC, and the stinkin' newsgroup to avoid getting any news on the new album. Then, to my surprise, THREE people uploaded the entire album to my FTP site in mp3 format. I didn't realize what it was at first until I saw "Home" in there. Yikes... So you can see my obvious dilema - I had a copy (three, actually) of the new album through no effort of my own. Do I listen to it? Do I keep it? Do I delete it? What I settled on is just listening to "Home" since it's the first single and is on radio now. Great stuff - I can't wait 'till the 26th. As far as the FTP server goes, there's been another update thanks to the generosity of my users. Here's the new stuff: Queensryche - Amsterdam 1990 (With a full Operation: Mindcrime) Metallica - BCD (This was uploaded to me and I don't have a date or venue. Can anyone enlighten me?) Dream Theater - Boston (12-17-97), Guitar Talking ELP - 7-26-74 Full information on connecting can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~alpine I'm in the process of building a new machine for the FTP site with more space (the current one has about 2.5 gigs of mp3s available on the site, but I'm about out of room on the temporary laptop). That should be ready this weekend and I'll celebrate with another big update, so keep watching the 'Jam. Enjoy! Adam _________________________________________________ Adam Pye alpine1(-at-)mindspring.com ICQ: 41032734 http://www.mindspring.com/~alpine1 ^^ Above URL for tapelist and FTP site info __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:02:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Burstin To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: several other topics... Message-ID: > Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:19:27 -0700 (PDT) > From: Janne Jokitalo > Subject: Re: progressive bands > > Spock's Beard - Just about anything. They're absolutely GREAT in > every album they've put out. I would have to agree here... although I think that each CD, between the first and Kindness of Strangers have gotten progressivly better... I think Day For Night and KoS are both amazing... I am still anxiously awaiting the live CD set (and live video) to arrive in my mailbox.. ordered them through their web site (www.spocksbeard.com) 2 Saturdays ago, and still nothung... > Lemur Voice I really like the first... very prog, very cool.. I have not heard the new one... however, I am sorta afraid about it, from what I have heard (much heavier -- after all, I;m a prog fan, and like more of the Spock's Beard side of prog...) > ------------------------------ > > From: "Christopher W. Ptacek" > Subject: Blah Blah Blah > > This is really simple. I don't know why some people are playing it > into a big game of "censorship" or whatever. The majority of the > jammers I speak to, who haven't already heard a promo or something > (which is in itself a flawed representation of the album due to > technical restraints) are getting pissed off by people typing up > lyrics in places without posting spoilers, and discussing albums in > terms of comparisons, which will inevitably color your first listen > (If they use a progression out of a Rush song, for example, is it > better to know that ahead of time, or is it better to listen and > enjoy and find out for yourself?) One thing to note, from my last post, is, I don't think that discussion about the songs themselves is necessary to get all non die-hards into the CD... its more that I think that some general information about the CD would make for more suspense within the general DT potential listeners... > There are a lot of people on the list who have already heard the > album. Most of them can hold back, and are holding back, even > though it's pretty fuckin' obvious that by now we have a lot to say > about the new album. This I agree on... I'd love to discuss what I've heard... but I am holding back... > ------------------------------ > > From: Brian Lundy > Subject: Recording CD's (NDTC) > > I just picked up a CD-RW drive. I was wondering if anyone knows of > any other software out there (besides what it came with), that would > be the best for making my own copies of cds. That is, taking one > track from this cd, this track from that one, etc. Are there any > programs that offer better sound quality than others? Or offer more > control as far as level and eq goes? Also, the CD-RW allows you to > convert a cd track to .wav file first, if you want to. Why would I? > Is there a sound quality difference between converting to wav first, > then recording it to cd, as opposed to just transfering the track to > the CD-RW? Anyone? (AL?) Well, more importantly, what software did your drive come with, that you want to replace... I personally have always liked Easy CD Creator, especailly now that the 4.0 version allows you to create audio CDs from MP3s without converting to WAVs first... > ------------------------------ Oh... one other note that I have not seen mentioned here... I just got the new issue of the DTIFC fanzine in the mail 2 days ago... another interrsting read... I must say that I will be sorry to see the old DTIFC go away, but am anxiously waiting to see the "new" version, based off of the Holland digest (I forget the name)... (For those who don;t know, this is the last digest from the current club... but subscriptions will be passed on to the digest run out of HOlland). I know with my last subscription, I got a notice when my subscription was about to run out, so I hope that the new one continues this practice (for whoever was aking how to know when their subscriptn was about to run out).... -- +--------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | In the stream of consciousness | Lines In The Sand, taken from | | There is a river crying | Dream Theater's | | Living comes much easier | Falling Into Infinity | | Once we admit We're dying | | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------+ Michael Burstin: email_address_removed http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mikeb/ Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email: http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5100 **************************