YTSEJAM Digest 5307 Today's Topics: 1) The Suffering Mark Metzger... by email_address_removed 2) Re: Secret track by Andrew Coutermarsh 3) Re: Secret track by Andrew Coutermarsh 4) re: taking the "music as entertainment" thread too far :) by "Doug Melvin" 5) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 by email_address_removed 6) let me stand next to your fire by CyberDuke 7) **SPOILERS*** Milwaukee & Minneapolis Shows **Spoilers** by "Matt Mommaerts" 8) if (art != entertainment) {return (EOF);} by Digital Man 9) Tack Andreas! by "Stefan Zell" 10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 by mikel 11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 by Linus Akesson 12) Secret Track by alex 13) Milwaukee show, bootlegs, and THE STAR PEOPLE!!!!! by email_address_removed 14) DT Xmas CD by Totikus 15) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 by email_address_removed 16) DPRP 1999 Poll by email_address_removed 17) Important Seismic Radio Information by Graham Boyle 18) Malmsteem comments in March Guitar One by email_address_removed 19) Marc Anthony on HBO by "Alexis/Axel" 20) Re: Marc Anthony on HBO by Robert Muise ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 22:37:38 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: The Suffering Mark Metzger... Message-ID: OK, I really need a big favour. ______________________________________ Hmmmmmmm. I see from your e-mail address that you are from Milwaukee !! Since we all know what a dive that place is, I am sure that you will get a lot of sympathy responses that can help you out ...... >> How do I succeed 100% in meeting the guys after the gig? It might be >> easy in USA, I guess the band/fans relationship is more close, but >> consider a European tour. How can I find them? When? Me thinks that if you are really going out of your way to see DT that a quick e-mail to MP could secure you an aftershow pass. MP always seems to have a tender place in his heart for those who travel far and wide to see them. Just dont make fun of his Yankees hat. >> The poor Milwaukeean. We suffer with you my son. Cheers, Mark Metzger email_address_removed Mark neglects to also mention another way that has worked well for him in San Francisco and Fire Island...offer to blow the security guards. :>) Warren in Oregon .where there is no DT tour thanks to DT's management, the promoters and the "tour gods". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:27:41 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Secret track Message-ID: On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, alex wrote: > I won't post the account and password on the jam for fear of spoling a > surprise, but if anyone want's it... just email me. Sure, I'll bite - send it over here :) ------------------------------------------------- Andrew Coutermarsh email_address_removed http://cout.dhs.org/ Cloak on IRC ICQ: 2513441 ------------------------------------------------- Never pet a burning dog. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:32:52 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Secret track Message-ID: On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Andrew Coutermarsh wrote: > Sure, I'll bite - send it over here :) Grr... Sometimes I'm stupid. I hate it when I do that... ------------------------------------------------- Andrew Coutermarsh email_address_removed http://cout.dhs.org/ Cloak on IRC ICQ: 2513441 ------------------------------------------------- I like to go down to the dog pound and pretend that I've found my dog. Then I tell them to kill it anyway because I already gave away all of his stuff. Dog people sure don't have a sense of humor. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:52:03 EST From: "Doug Melvin" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: re: taking the "music as entertainment" thread too far :) Message-ID: Tibor, You must'nt have been paying much attention to our dispute, that whole little bit that you sent was completely irrelevant. It had absolutely nothing to do with the arguement. We have been discussing our opinions on the topic "are musicians artists or entertainers?" Never (not even once) did anything come up where we were talking about why one listens to the music that he or she listens to. Again, that wasn't the arguement. Although, I agree with you completely on what you were getting across in that last post, you're correct. I'm just saying that that's not what we've been chatting about. ~Doug Melvin "I just wanted to work with my hands. See something go from A to B. And somehow I ended up in the Ghetto of Beautiful Things." - Kevin Gilbert ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:51:09 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 Message-ID: In a message dated 2/12/00 9:11:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << I say: I could go on and on. Sorry for being long, but my point is: aren't ALL these opinions valid? I think they are. Music - entertainment, art, relaxation, trance, a story, whatever. I think we can respect all. >> Yes you are right. All opinions are valid. But ya gotta admit, its damn fun to say that something sucks! LOL <> I think you have an excellent future as a diplomat. -Mike C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:19:09 +0100 From: CyberDuke To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: let me stand next to your fire Message-ID: > From: mikel > > While its difficult to say how true this is, remember that Hendrix > was acknowledged as the greatest guitarist on the planet when he > was alive. There are amazing tales of how he would blow other > guitarists away, long before you became famous. Players from John > McLaughlin to Eric Clapton had nothing but praise for him. > I hope that one day, you too will appreciate his genius instead of > spurting nonsense about the greats. Yeah, tell 'em dude. :) Now that is really low, he's what he is because he died young??? Maybe you confused him with Jim Morrison dude. Now THAT's a case of unjustified figure worshiping. Doors might be a good band, but the status of Jim is way too high (for a mortal). I heard he was a very good poet, but I wouldn't know. McLaughlin, Clapton, those are nice refference. Oh, oh, no, now someone will come out and say that Clapton was a piece of untalented trashcan, and the Messuaghahh guitarist can whipe the floor with him. Remember "Clapton is God", Mr. Slowhand. :) Someone who knows the music back in those days can really see the breakthru Clapton made with his playing. Go see a The Cream concert. This band pioneered "something" I can't describe what ... Jack Bruce might be the first brave guy to show that bass be much more than a rhythm stuff. He tores the bass apart, as well as Clapton, those were mean extended jams. Now even for those folks who hates Clapton when we come to McLaughlin he's quite a guy that you should listen to what he says, no? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:43:17 -0500 From: "Matt Mommaerts" To: Subject: **SPOILERS*** Milwaukee & Minneapolis Shows **Spoilers** Message-ID: Coming off of the Minneapolis show the night before and a theatRE, a very nice one I might add... I thought it'd be tough to top the sound and show of a General Admission event (Milwaukee) The show was to be at "The Rave" which is about a 1200 body place of course that is TOTALLY PACKED! Now, the last indoor tours that I saw DT play there was the Awake tour and FII, they played in the Rave... it was packed. When I found out the show on THIS tour was going to be there... I was suprised, as they always filled the place up. Well, the good thing about this venue is they have 4 stages including what they like to call the Eagles Ballroom or just the Ballroom. If advance ticket sales are big enough, they will move the show upstairs to a much larger, but yet more of an echoey room. This was the case tonight... A lot more room, for the suprising amount of people!! But, every show I have ever seen there has sounded bad! The Star People started at 7:30 which was 1/2 hour before the scheduled start time of the show (8pm)... I saw most of their show the night before... it was okay, they have a good sound and a good stage show, but just not really my thing, so we just kinda hung out towards the back and saved some energy. They got done (I love Star Girl!) and then the Dixie Dregs came out soon after. Once again... I saw the show the night before, they are great, I have some CDs...but I stayed towards the back and they did their thing... To me they seemed a little more "on" in Minneapolis. After they were done... it was time to find a nice spot to stand... i'm 6'3", and there were still some taller dudes in front of me... oh well... but I wasn't up front like all the crazy doods that got there in the afternoon... Laura's Theme started up, the lights went out, and the tick tock of Regression kicked off. (WOOHOO) DT Came out and ripped through ALL of SFAM with a sound that totally ruled over the night before in Minneapolis. What a pleasant suprise. A room that is known for being an echo chamber by just about any band that has ever played there, or any music fan that has seen a show (and cared about the sound) sounded so sharp, and clear... probably because it was so freakin' loud! But that was just fine. So yeah, the sound was IMHO much better than in MLPS!!! Now, the setlist: SFAM yup, the whole thing, no breaks! During TDOE, Jordan does the Keyboard Solo (WOW!!) with some LTE stuff! SFAM ends, they go away, let the video of some stuff to go along with track 13, then that ends... They came back...James said some stuff, and they went into: Peruvian Skies into Dr. Evil theme from Austin Powers In Minneapolis, they went right into Paradigm Shift at this point, but in the Brew City, they went right into EROTOMANIA!!!! (Then into Paradigm Shift) Then the medley to wrap up the show: PMU/UAGM!!!(double WOW!)/A Fortune In Lies... like the superfast version (TRIPLE WOW!!!)/Only a Matter of Time/Take The Time. This had to have been the best I have seem them yet. James was just on, John too, and the other John, Mike, and yup, Jordan. This show totally blew Minneapolis away!! Now we'll see what they can do to top this in Chicago tomorrow night. WOOHOO!! Great to see all the Jammer types in Minneapolis... I think that was the highlight of that trip... The Progtologist, Kirby, Aaron something, Matt and the other guy (i'll remember your name!) making the Mlps, Milw and Chi-town shows, and well, everyone that I saw!! Hope to see you again in Chicago if you are going, and again soon... What a weekend!!! Matt aka MattyMo P.S. Sorry for all the exclamation points, but i just can't help it!! haahaa ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: Digital Man To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: if (art != entertainment) {return (EOF);} Message-ID: art is entertainment. music is entertainment. music is art. Art is entertained. (or is he?) OK, seriously, I think we're all getting confused by similar sounding terms. Seems to me (and I could be wrong) that we're mixing up "that which entertains someone" with "that which is performed". Given that distinction, I think it is less nasty sounding to refer to (visual) art and music as entertainment, while remembering that music is (meant to be) a performance art, while, say, painting is not. Dream Theater performs, and I am entertained. Ayn Rand sat down and wrote books, and I am entertained. Yes, both forms of art have something deep and meaningful to say about the world, and I, for one, have been enriched after carefully absorbing both. But I can't ignore the fact that both make my commute seem shorter, too. I look at it from the other side of the fence, as well. I hope, as a musician and composer, that what I play changes somebody's day. I take a lot of care and pride in every note and every word I place in a song. I write very deliberately, and I'll throw out my favorite lyric or riff if it detracts from the overall quality I'm hoping the song will achieve. I really want my audience to take something away from all this hard work I've done. But, if they smile while I play and cheer at the end, that's awesome too. "Thanks, I'm rather proud of that one. It was very fulfilling to me to get the C# locrian riff sounding the way I wanted it to. It's a key part of the... Sure! I'll have a Guinness. Me? No, I'm single." There's no such thing as architect groupies. And yet, everyone seems to be entertained the first time they come to NY and see the Guggenheim. Go figure. Art as expression Not as market campaigns Will still capture our imaginations -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ "640 K ought to be enough email_address_removed "@'/ ,. \`@" memory for everyone." -Gates email_address_removed /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.dreamt.org/d-man \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:46:18 CET From: "Stefan Zell" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Tack Andreas! Message-ID: Ville bara säga tack till dig Andreas. Jag ska kolla upp detta med killen jag fick adressen till. All hjälp är välkommen så än en gång: TACK!! Vill dessutom gå med i Svenska Dream Theater Sällskapet men när jag väl lämnat intresseanmälan på hemsidan glömde jag bort hur jag valt att betala (om jag minns rätt hade man ett par alternativ). Spelar det någon roll om jag inte betalar på det viset jag sagt i mailet? Lev väl! /Stefan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:04:20 +1100 From: mikel To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 Message-ID: > Rick Wakeman - Myths and Legends of King Arthur, Return to the Center of > the Earth (Patrick Stewart narrating on the second one; it's so cool!) And with Ozzy on guest vocals too! You gotta love this Rick, even if he (possibly along with Phil Collins) are responsible for sending prog rock straight to the For Nerds slot of most radio stations. > I say: I could go on and on. Sorry for being long, but my point > is: aren't ALL these opinions valid? I think they are. Music - > entertainment, art, relaxation, trance, a story, whatever. > I think we can respect all. But then what can we argue about? I've had this "musician/composer/performer" discussion > The funny thing is, the difference between composer > and performer was taken for granted before rock music. In fact it was only when Beethoven came along (quite some time after the beginnings of 'serious' western music with bach or whoever) that composers and musicians were regarded as anything more than cheap entertainers. There is a story of Beethoven refusing to play at a wealthy house after being told to go in the servant's door. > 10. Alex Lifeson might not play the fastest guitar > solos or anything that flashy, but damn, he plays with > such emotion and he writes some badass songs and > stuff. yeah he is a very under rated guitarists. the chordal sort of rhythms he does are unique and he can play some surprisingly tricky passages. I have yet to meet anybody who makes art for art's sake. Well, no one would admit to that, but there are people like Yoko Ono, John Cage and all that, where you have to question there motives. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:00:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Linus Akesson To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 Message-ID: In accordance with the prophecy, email_address_removed uttered: > Personally, I don't think Picasso was an "entertainer," I think that label > applies to those arts which involve change over time (like dance, music, > smashing watermelons with mallets, etc.) and has to be "redone" or > "reperformable." Dream Theater can replay Met. 2 over and over and over, and > recreate the composition as it was recorded in the studio. Architects, > taggers, and sculptors (unless they're flinging wet mud around the studio and > covering people in clay) can't be considered entertainers, can they? > > Maybe they can. :) Yes, I think they can. The architect who designed the central library building in my town was praised a lot, for various reasons. One of them was that the building was designed to make use of the change of sunlight over time. Nothing technically spectacular or anything like that; merely that the architecture would appear a bit different during different parts of the day, and therefore was, in a way, dynamic. Linus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- prog metal, n.: To call life from a cold metal frame. -- Linus Akesson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- email_address_removed, visit http://linusworld.cjb.net (PGP key available). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:03:02 -0500 From: alex To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Secret Track Message-ID: I have decided to post the secret track information because I can't reply to all the emails I am getting. Go to www.onceinalivetime.com, hit the secret track thing on the top: Username: nicholas Password: victoria I hope this doesn't it spoil it for anyone, but then again, it's not reallly something that can be spoiled... you can either choose to hear it or not. a. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:26:58 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Milwaukee show, bootlegs, and THE STAR PEOPLE!!!!! Message-ID: I was at the show in Milwaukee, and it really something! i'm sure they do that every night, but still, i loved it a bunch and I wanted to know if anyone got a recording of it and is willing to trade it cause i'd love to have that. Also, if there's no Milwaukee show on recording (or even if there is) if anyone has any recordings of Metropolis 2000 where they played the whole thing straight through, let me know in private e-mail. Second of all, and maybe most importantly, were the star people. I was thinking, oh here we go when I saw em first come out, but they did this little intro thing and i was like "THESE PEOPLE RULE." If anyone knows what they sound like on album, let me know. I'm sure it's not as great as the whole show they put on. Talk about an unexpected, and completely entertaining spectacle! TonyC ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:06:49 +0100 From: Totikus To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: DT Xmas CD Message-ID: Could someone personally email me the tracklisting for this year's Xmas CD or post it on a web page, please? Thanks in advance. Totikus ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:06:37 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5306 Message-ID: Cancel Please ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:39:53 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: DPRP 1999 Poll Message-ID: The Dutch Progressive Rock Page held their annual poll for 1999. Among the categories were Best Album, Best Track, Best Concert, Biggest Disappointment, etc... Over 500 people responded and can you guess what was voted the Best Album of 1999? What a surprise, Scenes From A Memory!!! Check out the results of all the categories at: http://www.dprp.vuurwerk.nl/poll99/index.html And where is my Christmas CD??? Still waiting. I'm in upstate NY, has anybody in my area gotten theirs yet? I'm starting to get frustrated. The KREWZMAN ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:25:21 +1100 From: Graham Boyle To: The Dream Theater Mailing List Subject: Important Seismic Radio Information Message-ID: The new url, effective now, for tuning into the internets best metal radio station is: http://pub.snac.net:8080/ramgen/live/seismicradio.ra gaz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:56:26 EST From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Malmsteem comments in March Guitar One Message-ID: Here I am reading yet another interview with Yngwie Malnsteen and it had the usual questions and answers. Then Dale Turner, the interviewer, asks him "Do you have any opinion at all of some of the 90's shredders like John Petrucci and Buckethead"? His answer surprised me. He replied "I haven't heard of Buckethead. But John Petrucci I've heard. I think that Dream Theater is a great band." This was a cool thing to see since this magazine hasn't even mentioned DT in many months. And it still SUCKS being in Portland...land of "NO DT concerts this year"! Warren in Oregon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:06:53 -0400 From: "Alexis/Axel" To: "ytsejam" Subject: Marc Anthony on HBO Message-ID: <000d01bf767f$66a6e100$message_id_removed> Hey people! I just wanted to drop a quick post to say that if any of you had the chance (or has the chance in case they re-broadcast it) to see the Marc Anthony concert on HBO and didn't, you missed out on one of the best vocalists out there. I don't know if any of you likes salsa music or pop, but his vocal performance was just incredible. At the end of the concert his voice was just like he was starting the night. This guy is just amazing. Check him out if you can. Alexis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:30:40 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Muise To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Marc Anthony on HBO Message-ID: Wasn't he married to Cleopatra? i didn't know Burt Lancaster had such a good voice... On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Alexis/Axel wrote: > > Hey people! I just wanted to drop a quick post to say that if any of you > had the chance (or has the chance in case they re-broadcast it) to see the > Marc Anthony concert on HBO and didn't, you missed out on one of the best > vocalists out there. I don't know if any of you likes salsa music or pop, > but his vocal performance was just incredible. At the end of the concert > his voice was just like he was starting the night. This guy is just > amazing. Check him out if you can. > > Alexis > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robb Muise "An it harm none, do as ye will" Network Operations Email:email_address_removed Phone:781-593-3110 ext181 Cell Phone: 978-590-5499 ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5307 **************************