YTSEJAM Digest 5519 Today's Topics: 1) Re: tour dates by Amanda Rosenblum 2) Smoke On the Water? by "Sasha C." 3) Re: DT DVD by email_address_removed 4) tickets on sale - when? by "Lyric" 5) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5517 by email_address_removed 6) Various Posts by "Ricardo Testa" 7) Re: Springsteen by email_address_removed 8) Re: Springsteen again by email_address_removed 9) Re: Def Leppard by email_address_removed 10) Berkley Seminar by Pam Nazer 11) maintaining dexterity by email_address_removed 12) Freenet & hope by email_address_removed 13) this may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to by "TheCowGod" 14) Dream Theater "THE" CD single / Transatlantic Review by "Metzger, Mark" 15) Re: Various Posts by "Korg Ecksthrey" 16) Steely Dan by email_address_removed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:41:50 -0700 From: Amanda Rosenblum To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: tour dates Message-ID: > Dream Theater > Special Guests: Spock's Beard >> > > No Pittsburgh or Cleveland?! Looks like I'll never see SFAM live :-( > Say it aint so, Mike :-( > Hmm, at least there are a few things about not getting to transfer to the college of my choice and being stuck in LA. Get to see DT two more times and Transatlantic :) ~~Amanda ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:17:08 +0200 From: "Sasha C." To: "Ytsejam Mailing List" Subject: Smoke On the Water? Message-ID: <000d01bfddc5$608fdd00$44f51dc3@sasha> hello! I downloaded Smoke On The Water (with Napster, shoot me :-) which is supposedly performed by (get this) Bruce Dickinson and Dream Theater... if you do a search on Napster (artist: dickinson, song: smoke) this is the exact same result you'll get... It doesn't sound as DT to tell you the truth although i can be wrong... I think i hear Dickinson singing the 2nd verse but I'm not positive. So, can anyone clear this up for me? Oh, yea, I definately hear 2 guitars here... By the way, there are a few complete videos by Spock's Beard among others available for download at http://www.throttlebox.com . So far I've downloaded "Mirror, Mirror" by Blind Guardian, "Liberty Bell" by The Gathering, Arch Enemy etc... there is some Steve Morse and Dixie Dregs stuff... just take a look. Oh... would someone be kind enough to send me the lyrics to We All Need Some Light by Transatlantic? I couldn't find the cd anywhere here, so I had to order it from States and it'll take some time until it arrives. I have an mp3 of WANSL (as i said earlier, go ahead and shoot me :-)) the alternative mix version with Roine on vocals and I can't figure out what's he singing half of the time... and I searched all over the Web but I couldn't find it. So, please? :-) NP: guess what... Bruce Dickinson & Dream Theater - Smoke On the Water.mp3 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 06:15:48 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: DT DVD Message-ID: YES! Do It! This is such a good idea. Especially the suggestion of putting the whole Paris, Rotterdam and Ronnie Scotts shows on there. These shows and the additional footage from 5YIALT from the 'Director's Cut' would make this an attractive package. Is there any more studio footage from the Awake sessions that could be added though because there was hardly anything from this era on the original video. I can't see the record company going for this release because DVD isn't widely used enough yet, well not here in England anyway. Maybe it is time for the ytsejam to take some action with Elektra in the form of a petition? It worked before..................... Tom White ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:48:47 -0400 From: "Lyric" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: tickets on sale - when? Message-ID: Anyone know when tickets for, say, the DC show (and any others) are going on sale? Ticketmaster has up the 8/4 Philly show, the 8/7 Cincinnati show, and the 8/10 Chicago show, but NOT the 8/5 DC show. Any ideas what's up? - L ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:54:02 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5517 Message-ID: In a message dated 6/23/00 3:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << what do you think I should do to maintain my speed and accuracy, whilst still allowing time for practising a few other things and playing for pleasure. >> ive got the same problem...so what i do is practiCCCCCe :) with a metronome for the speed and accuracy. it also helps to just learn some of JP's (GOD'S) stuff, thus helping you with speed and accuracy, but its also fun. check out JP's instructional video "rock dicipline." there are some really cool exercises on it that will really help you. i hope this bit of info helped! ROSE ALAIMO email_address_removed "Our deeds have traveled far, what we have been is what we are." -John Petrucci (God), Dream Theater "She screams for me, not at me." -Stevie Ray Vaughan about his guitar. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 19:01:38 CEST From: "Ricardo Testa" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Various Posts Message-ID: > > no bass player (except Steele.........and Kip Winger) gets to > > be a sex symybol. > >Well, there's McCartney, and Nikki Sixx, and Frank Bello (the bass player >from Anthrax who gets all the chicks), and Janos Hegedüs (that huge amount >of stage presence is scary!). :-) You forgot Ricardo Testa. (Just joking... do not go chewing my head off for joking, again) >whenever I hear that song title, i think of QR's "surgical strike". >now, there's a man's song. Great song!! "Surgical Strike" that is. ><< Who? Who is Devin? >> > >The guy on knight rider... Is that that old guy? >Top 5 Musicians Who Have the Most Talent to Bore Me. > >5) Rod Stewart (He was last interesting in the 1970s with the infamous >horse >incident) >4) Willie Nelson (Brian, it's true, he is talented) >3) Mellisa Ethridge (don't want to be discriminatory and leave women off >the >list) >2) John Cougar Mellencamp (He sings about pink houses for you and me. >That's talent.) >1) Bruce Springsteen This HAS to be a joke, right? PLEASE tell me this IS a joke! >What? No Barry Manilow? I am NOT a fan of Barry, but he is very talented. >KorgX3 thinks you're confusing Bruce Springsteen with Rick Springfield. This is too funny, but probably true! >you put it perfectly "AY YEAH BEEYOTCH!!!!" Please excuse my ignorance, but what is "BEEYOTCH"? Is this in english? Or what language is it? Ciao, Ricardo Testa PS: 16 July Rome, Italy - Dream Theater headlining shows, opening Act: Quango (Carl Palmer & John Wetton). Who else is going to this?? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:56:51 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Springsteen Message-ID: In a message dated 6/23/00 3:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << Springsteen is the most talented musician in rock music, IMO. I would put him above greats like John Cougar Mellencamp, Brian Adams, Rod Stewart.........well actually I formed a list of who >> This is a very interesting list of "greats." LOL! Are you sure you are on the right mailing list? :) Oh well though, to each his own..... -mike C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:58:28 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Springsteen again Message-ID: In a message dated 6/23/00 3:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << Top 5 Musicians Who Have the Most Talent to Bore Me. 5) Rod Stewart (He was last interesting in the 1970s with the infamous horse incident) 4) Willie Nelson (Brian, it's true, he is talented) 3) Mellisa Ethridge (don't want to be discriminatory and leave women off the list) 2) John Cougar Mellencamp (He sings about pink houses for you and me. That's talent.) 1) Bruce Springsteen -Dr. Dave >> Ooop, I'll remember to read the entiore post next time before replying! Great list! LOL -mike C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:00:42 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Def Leppard Message-ID: In a message dated 6/23/00 3:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm! Okay Josh, here is why everyone thinks that poor little one armed drummer is so cool. He uses electic drums, and if he is using an acoustic setup, they have electric triggers in them so that when a faster part comes up in a tune, he can just turn on the auto-roll feature of any basic electric drum kit and boom, one fill done. He is a drummer who uses more electonic shortcuts and backdrops in the music than you can imagine. Don't get me wrong, it is pretty cool that he still can play, but only with one arm, I am just saying that it is not necessarily the coolest thing I have seen in the drumworld. He takes a lot out of the playing. >> Actually though, on the Slang CD Rick Allen went to playing an actual real kit instead of that electronic thing. A lot of people don't realize this. However, he went back to the electronic one on the Euphoria CD due to the band trying to do a Hysteria-like album again. -mike C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:18:27 -0500 From: Pam Nazer To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Berkley Seminar Message-ID: Does anyone have info on the band: Berkley Seminar? I saw the name on the marquee of a bar, and wondered if it was something I should check out. I thought the name was intriquing, didn't sound like your average Bar Band. _____ >Top 5 Musicians Who Have the Most Talent to Bore Me. > >5) Rod Stewart (He was last interesting in the 1970s with the infamous horse >incident) >4) Willie Nelson (Brian, it's true, he is talented) >3) Mellisa Ethridge (don't want to be discriminatory and leave women off the >list) >2) John Cougar Mellencamp (He sings about pink houses for you and me. >That's talent.) >1) Bruce Springsteen > >-Dr. Dave > How about that! Dr. Dave's Top 5 Musicians who have the most talent to Bore Me , has my number one from - TOP 5 MUSICIANS THAT MAKE ME PHYSICALLY ILL 1. ROD STEWART 2. JEWELL ________ PAM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:58:07 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: maintaining dexterity Message-ID: > From: mikel > Subject: a question for shredders "Impossible! The Shreddi are extinct!" > heya, > I've been practising guitar now for a good few years now, playing > 2 to 6 hours a day. > However the time has come when I can no longer maintain this amount > of practise. D-Man sez: "Sell ya guitar." > Obviously, being a DT fan, a large portion of this goes into technical > excercises. > Now I know some of you here have been through similar amounts of > practising, and my question is - what do you think I should do to maintain > my speed and accuracy, whilst still allowing time for practising a few other > things and playing for pleasure. Air-guitar is actually more strenuous on the forearm and hand muscles than playing an actual guitar. Do more air-guitar. Practice your techniques without a guitar. You'll look silly but it will keep your arm and brain primed for action! Sort of like how you can throw your shoulder out of whack by swinging a machete through the air really hard, but striking actual plants and small puppy dogs can be done for hours without pulling a muscle. The path of least resistance is harder to maintain, but the benefits are almost the same. There's another technique good for maintaining speed, but I'll leave the descriptions to the master, KorgX3, and his apprentice, Pee-Wee Herman. Typing on a computer keyboard works the tendons, plus your fingers are moving across objects almost the same size as frets. Both guitar playing and typing can give you nasty carpal tunnel syndrome, which means those activities center around the same muscle groups. Typing won't make you a faster guitar player overall, because you still have PICKING to worry about, but as a daily activity it will keep your fingers moving and flexable. Conclusion: become a computer nerd who does lots of air guitar and your hands will never realize they've left a fretboard. And if all else fails, fear not, for no matter how little you practice your solos will never reach the depths of Kirk Hammett's. Sincerely, Bafu Vai ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:09:15 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Freenet & hope Message-ID: > History Repeats Itself Take a look at the the above three groups and see > who's getting the short end of the stick -- the musicians! Funny isn't it, > they always seem to get the worst deal. The greatest hope for musicians is > that new online distribution methods will allow them to reach a mass > audience without the commercial restrictions of record labels. Let's hope > so. The greatest hope for musicians is that they all read "Atlas Shrugged," pack up their instruments, and disappear from society. Lars Ulrich can play Ragnar. :) Bafu Vai ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 18:22:09 -0500 From: "TheCowGod" To: Subject: this may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to Message-ID: <00a301bfde33$0643fac0$a1242ac4@mukau> > From: email_address_removed > Subject: maintaining dexterity haha my first bafu post in over a year and its just as funny as i remember. its good to be back :) moo. *** END OF TRANSMISSION *** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 18:22:20 -0400 From: "Metzger, Mark" To: "'Epigram'" , Subject: Dream Theater "THE" CD single / Transatlantic Review Message-ID: Having recently "upgraded" to the Jap version of the "Through Her Syes" CD single, I have the original Euro version in excess to my needs. It is for sale for $US 12, postpaid via Priority. First come, first served. I am reliable as I am old, feeble-minded and too confused and disoriented to fuck anyone over. For what it matters, I suckered for the Jap version when I saw that it was in the normal jewel box instead of the slimmer CD single box as well as the promise for a lot of live pictures. Of course, there had to be a bonus 20-page booklet of pictures to warrant the normal CD jewel box, right ?? Well, to be blunt, I am underwhelmed as the extra pictures aren't significant at all and even fit onto a single page. And the radio edit of "Home" (the extra Jap song) is a useless yet humorous attempt to hack a brilliant song into a radio-friendly piece of crap. In short, dont waste your money on the Jap version of this CD single. Quick review of the Transatlantic show in Boston. Really cool to see 3/4 of the band having a lot of fun. This was the first time that I ever saw Neil play live and I was truly impressed at both his professionalism as well as his voice. (As an aside, kind of nice in a concert not having to wonder if James will hurt the ears of small animals with his screeches.) The fact that Neil seemed to be a sincere individual was not lost. And, it is cool that really TITS musicians can look like appliance salesmen (Mark now prepares for hell in return .....) !! Too bad that the keys were searching for their life in the mix too frequently. Pete really seemed into things kind of like at the Fish-era shows of Marrilion, although a bit nervous. Of course, I am a true fan of MP both as a musician and as a person and while he clearly needs to lose that propeller hat, he was still cool although I could sense that playing "within the context" of the rest of this thing seemed to make him itch, he was able to let loose a bit on the final medley. For the life of me, I could not figure out what Ronnie was doing though. Seemed really in the ozone. Possibly still jet-lagged or something. Maybe I am just not a fan of the "noodling aimlessly" style of guitar playing. Me wonders why Jim wasn't part of TA. So sorry. Highlights indeed were Firth of Fifth and the fact that they didn't suffer through the cover on the CD (forget the name). Although the purist in me didn't appreciate the "Watcher" intro teaser to FoF. Cool to see MP in a more relaxed environment than DT, even at the expense of a less tight sounding group, overall. And, they deserved better sound. Funny item = I almost blurted out "I buried Sherinian" at the end of Strawberry Fields. Dont know why, but it was tempting. Probably would have become a cult hero on those bootlegs, eh ?? But, alas, no balls, no glory. Mark Metzger email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:19:14 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: Re: Various Posts Message-ID: <004601bfde5c$90e382d0$880d84d0@korg> > I am NOT a fan of Barry, but he is very talented. I have to agree. I'm one of those people who is a closet fan of Cocacabana or however the hell you spell it even if he is a stooge. They've been advertising his PPV on Direct TV this month and his stage antics remind me WAY too much of Martin Short trying to act cool. Ever see Innerspace? I rest my case. > There's another technique good for maintaining speed, but I'll leave the > descriptions to the master, KorgX3, and his apprentice, Pee-Wee Herman. You betcha, baby! ;) People are often astonished at my ambidexterity, though. I give both arms a good workout nightly. I love playing with my instrument. There's nothing like when the nuts actually do their job when you're cranking hard on your whammy bar. -- KorgX3, fretted, for her pleasure. NP: Ocean Machine - Biomech ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:26:59 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Steely Dan Message-ID: I just got back from the Steely Dan show in Chicago (it was great if you like that kind of music) and they had three female back up singers. When they indroduced the band, the very first back up lady introduced was a young girl named Victoria Paige... good night JJ ps if any other jammers are going to see them i would really like a t-shirt, i forgot to bring extra money and was really bummed i didn't. e-mial me preivately before and maby we can work something out. thanks ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5519 **************************