YTSEJAM Digest 5532 Today's Topics: 1) MacGyver! by Barbara Battaglia 2) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5531 by Kurt M Hampton 3) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5531 by email_address_removed 4) Re: The Ruum by "Korg Ecksthrey" 5) BTW, Diablo II players... by "Korg Ecksthrey" 6) haha Metallica download by "Jan-Michael" 7) short tv by "Partha Mukhopadhyay" 8) Re: Megadeth. by email_address_removed 9) Re: Sledgehammer by email_address_removed 10) RE: what are we missing by "Matt Molite" 11) Re: what are we missing by email_address_removed 12) Re:What are we missing? by Nicholas Sakkos 13) Re: Knight Rider by email_address_removed 14) 80's. by Matt Birskovich 15) Re: Megadeth. by "Marko Randjelovic" 16) Re: haha Metallica download by "Marko Randjelovic" 17) unsuscribe by Thierry Vajou 18) M.A.S.K. And DT. Well, sort of. by Phil Carter 19) Re: The Fate of Clockwork by Mike Patrick 20) Re: Thank God Airline Pilots don't Listen to DT by "Matthew McDaniel" 21) Friedman/Megadeth by email_address_removed 22) King's X by Graham Borland 23) Megadeth / Metal-in-Philly by WB Henderson 24) Guitar feedback Thanks by Gerardo Carstensen 25) Re: 80s Cartoons by Damon Fibraio 26) Re: Al in 'deth by email_address_removed 27) DT At Electric Factory by email_address_removed 28) Re: 80s Cartoons by "Korg Ecksthrey" 29) Broadening you horizons? by "Korg Ecksthrey" 30) Fwd: Practise FORWARD TO YTSEJAM by "Awake ." 31) Re: 80s Cartoons by Damon Fibraio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:08:45 -0400 From: Barbara Battaglia To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: MacGyver! Message-ID: I just loved that show, it was great! I tried to never miss an episode - he was my kinda guy! Matter of fact I was sitting in a hospital room watching MacGyver when I was trying to name my daughter. The original plan was to name her Rachel, but she didn't look like a Rachel. Anyways, I was watching MacGyver, and his nemisis Murdock, in an episode where Murdock's sister was kidnapped or something? Anyways, that's how my daughter got the name Ashton (which was the sisters name). BTW, wasn't Murdock played by some former rock star? I think he also did a lot of sci-fi movies as well.... Babs ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:44:31 -0500 From: Kurt M Hampton To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5531 Message-ID: Ok- woever answered the bomb question, I thought he took all three pegs out with a tennis racquet, but hey, what the hell... As for the book or whatever I have no f*ckin clue. Youve stumped the Macgyver Master. Kurt NP-DT in Roseland Met2k (email me dude maybe we can set something up) "damn I need a new signature now" me after reading ytsejam 5456 ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:38:39 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5531 Message-ID: In a message dated 7/2/00 9:16:24 PM Central Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << What about Blue Thunder? Now THERE was a chopper that could kick some ass! -mike C. >> Amen Brother!!!!!! :-) James ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 22:08:21 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: Re: The Ruum Message-ID: <004c01bfe4a4$5a2e5aa0$470d84d0@korg> > Are you referring to the small metal sphere with wheels, designed by > to roam the forest and capture mammal specimens? Yup, and the specimens had to be between something like 150 and 175 pounds in order for it to register them, and it couldn't be blown up with dyno-MITE!, a grizzly bear fucked with it and lost, and it was made out of liquid metal like the T1000. Yup. That's the Ruum, alright. Nasty little bugger. -- KorgX3 suggests running from it and living off of Power Bars[tm]. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 22:16:27 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: BTW, Diablo II players... Message-ID: <007c01bfe4a5$7ab4f6c0$470d84d0@korg> What's the link between Diablo II and Steve Vai? Take a good listen to the background music when you get to the Cellars in the desert town. "Tir Jolein" or whatever it's called. I thought it sounded familiar. They used the same sample track that Steve did for his song "The Blood and Tears" off of his new album. :) It made that level more enjoyable than most. :) -- KorgX3 doesn't some wicked wavering Indian style singing for you. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:43:24 -0500 From: "Jan-Michael" To: Subject: haha Metallica download Message-ID: <001101bfe4a9$38fbdf60$b53588cf@jammer> Finally, in other Download news, suggested by longtime reader Mark Worden (who keeps me on my toes), there's a new music album you could download, but don't bother: : Metallica's "Download This," which has a photo of a lewd, confrontational hand gesture on the cover. http://bbspot.com/News/2000/6/download_this.html Being a writer, I'm all for protecting copyrights. Until now, Metallica has been WAY ... OUT ... OF BOUNDS. The band's new 74- minute "album," called Download This, contains one 55-minute song, and a 19-minute rail against Napster from drummer Lars Ulrich. According to BBspot.com, Ulrich says: "The 'Napster Begone' track is so long and so horrible that no one in their right mind would take the time to download it." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:46:03 PDT From: "Partha Mukhopadhyay" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: short tv Message-ID: ahhh, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes....my all time favorite short story, along with "The Most Dangerous Game" (Richard something), and "A sound of thunder" (Ray Bradbury). The novel is pretty cool, but doesn't quite retain the immediacy of the original version. Still love it, though, probably among my top ten books. I'd never heard of the movie version, so I guess that'll be on the wonder if the video store has.... list. As for TV (and usually in a post like this I'd apologize for off-topicness, but hell, has DT even been mentioned on here the last two-three days?), I guess it isn't really 80s, unless it started in the latter part of the decade, but Quantum Leap still stands as my all time fave 1 hour show.....couldn't let a discussion of great TV pass by without mentioning that gem. Partha "They're not stupid, they're Japanese!" - heard on WWF smackdown :) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:17:05 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Megadeth. Message-ID: In a message dated 7/2/00 12:35:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, email_address_removed writes: > but I'm not sure if Marty was really "the problem" with Megadeth. Yes. I agree. Dave Mustaine has shit lost his mind. Opening for Motley Crue? C'mon... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:17:58 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Sledgehammer Message-ID: In a message dated 7/2/00 10:10:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes: << anybody ever watch the show Sledgehammer? that was some good shit, it didn't last too long though it was the show were at the beginning he sledge would say "trust me, i know what i'm doing" then shoot a hole in your tv screen. not necessarily a show that revolves around a car >> I loved that show! He had one of the best lines I've EVER heard when he said: "Remember. Guns don't kill people. Bullets do." -mike C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:31:54 -0400 From: "Matt Molite" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: RE: what are we missing Message-ID: What about the cop show "Jake and the Fat Man?" Or was that more early 90's? I was just a small child in the 80s so I don't reember much...oh wait, kid show related...anyone remember the Garbage Pail Kids? It was like a version of the Cabbage Patch kids, but for boys...I remember they made a movie of it (which sucked). Silverhawks was another cool one; the action figures had this really cool metallic paint on em. Of course, my favs were always He-man and Thundercats...then the Ninja Turtles came along, but I think thats early 90s too, right? Matt ============================= Now you've got your voice Your own speech Don't wait 'till Someone else agrees -Rafael Bittencourt, Angra ============================= Dream Theater newsletter - http://www.dreamtheater.net/uacmmail/ ____________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:35:36 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: what are we missing Message-ID: >< What about the cop show "Jake and the Fat Man?" Or was that more early 90's? I was just a small child in the 80s so I don't reember much...oh wait, kid show related...anyone remember the Garbage Pail Kids? It was like a version of the Cabbage Patch kids, but for boys...I remember they made a movie of it (which sucked). >< ROFL. God, I completely forgot about that movie. They had like 10 card series of the Garbage Pail Kids, then the movie with the kid from the Facts of Life. And all the little garbage pail Kids were scary looking in the movie, and I specifically remember one of them throwing up and me being all grossed out by it. Those were the days. >< Silverhawks was another cool one; the action figures had this really cool metallic paint on em. Of course, my favs were always He-man and Thundercats...then the Ninja Turtles came along, but I think thats early 90s too, right? >< If you're talking cartoons, how can you not mention two of my own personal faves, M.A.S.K. and Centurions. MASK had the best toys. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:45:16 +0300 From: Nicholas Sakkos To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re:What are we missing? Message-ID: <3960286C.901AED3B@x-treme.gr> =A0 When did the mission impossible series start?Was it the late 80s or the early 90s?(only saw it on rerun here) cass np:Man...or Astroman?-Destroy all astromen!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 02:12:11 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Knight Rider Message-ID: Hi everyone, With all this talk of Knight Rider, I just figured I'd mention that I am in the Knight Rider fanclub. I'd recommend this to any Knight Rider fan. For just 20 bucks a year, you get the fanzine "Michael's Nights" as well as the KITT kit. This includes a used Devon hairpiece, and a Michael Knight Style Members Only jacket that's 2 size too small!!! It's a great deal, folks! Buck Hamner NP: with my Devon hairpiece! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 08:20:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Matt Birskovich To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: 80's. Message-ID: And speaking of aliens, who remembers that series of Star Man that came out based on the moovie? Con queso, but I loved it as a little tike. Matt B "Cover my eyes and tell me/Am I really blind?" (Dream Theater) email_address_removed ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:08:58 +0200 From: "Marko Randjelovic" To: Subject: Re: Megadeth. Message-ID: <01bfe4ce$5329afa0$LocalHost@king> No way! You're kidding, right? Tell me that you are, PLEASE! I've never digged Megadeth too much, but I respected them, and now the only thing that's keeping me from burning my RIP is that Al's with them, cos I just loooooooooove Savatage. CYA Marko -----Original Message----- ]From: email_address_removed To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Monday, 03 July, 2000 07:22 Subject: Re: Megadeth. |Yes. I agree. Dave Mustaine has shit lost his mind. Opening for Motley |Crue? C'mon... | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:51:32 +0200 From: "Marko Randjelovic" To: Subject: Re: haha Metallica download Message-ID: <01bfe4d4$4584e440$LocalHost@king> How big is the file? -----Original Message----- ]From: Jan-Michael To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Monday, 03 July, 2000 06:39 Subject: haha Metallica download | |Finally, in other Download news, suggested by longtime reader |Mark Worden (who keeps me on my toes), there's a new music album |you could download, but don't bother: : Metallica's "Download |This," which has a photo of a lewd, confrontational hand gesture |on the cover. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:58:38 +0100 From: Thierry Vajou To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: unsuscribe Message-ID: <3960AA1E.7937D46D@crous-creteil.fr> Il s'agit d'un message multivolet au format MIME. --------------579974B3C8B0E74F86154840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------579974B3C8B0E74F86154840 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="tvajou.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Carte pour Thierry Vajou Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tvajou.vcf" begin:vcard n:Vajou;Thierry x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:CROUS de Créteil version:2.1 email;internet:tvajou@crous-creteil.fr title:Responsable du Service Informatique x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Thierry Vajou end:vcard --------------579974B3C8B0E74F86154840-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:09:51 -0400 From: Phil Carter To: A Pleasant Shade of Ytse Subject: M.A.S.K. And DT. Well, sort of. Message-ID: Greetings ye 'jamanoids... ><< last note: > anyone else here get into M.A.S.K.? > >> >Oh boy, I hate to admit that I was really into it. For some reason I enjoyed >the endless struggle between Matt Tracker and his enemy Miles Mayhem. The >coolest was that bad guy with the double bike. What was that guy's name? >Slade or Slash or something? And I'm so sad that I remember when they >introduced Miles Mayhem's twin brother, Maximus Mayhem. >hey came with the race car Buzzard. God, I can't believe I have >his knowledge! The fellow with the bike that launched a submarine-sidecar was Sly Rax. The vehicle's name was Piranha. :) I preferred Vanessa Warfield in Manta, though. Still have a pile of my old M.A.S.K. toys. Wish I had been around when my mom sold my die-cast Voltron lion set at a yard sale, though, because I wouldn't have let her do it. Incidentally (and somewhat more on topic) I saw a pile of DT shirts at this year's Dragon*Con. Lotta people have seen the Metropolis 2000 tour, evidently. :) cheers, Phil ================================================ Phil Carter -- email_address_removed http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/~artoo "Without music, life is a journey through a desert." -- Pat Conroy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 07:16:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Patrick To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: The Fate of Clockwork Message-ID: Personally, I'm glad to see these guys doing ANYTHING. 'Surface Tension', to me anyway, is one of the truely great albums in progmetal. Adventurous vocals, great playing, solid writing. Whatever flavor their new stuff takes, I'm sure it'll be worth it. In the meantime, I URGE everyone here who hasn't to check out 'Surtace Tension'. There's soooo much good stuff out there that goes virtually ignored... Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:28:01 EDT From: "Matthew McDaniel" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Thank God Airline Pilots don't Listen to DT Message-ID: Oh, but they do! Well, at least some do. I'm an airline pilot and I (of course) love DT. I have a few pilot friends that do too. I've never listened to DT while flying my airliner, but I have while flying small private aircraft on several occassions. I have a nifty intercom that has a music input jack that pipes DT directly into my stereo headset. A friend of mine has a plane that he installed a CD player in which plays through the intercom system and automatically lowers the music volume when Air Traffic Control radio calls come in. That way we can rock the wings in time with DT and still not crash because of missed radio instructions. DT: Don't leave home without it! ~Just another Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:40:37 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Friedman/Megadeth Message-ID: This is a response to this post and the rather venomous one above it. Marty said in a "Guitar World Inquirer" article from a little while ago that he didn't want to play in Megadeth anymore because he only felt nostalgia when playing the songs and didn't like the band's death and metal image anymore. He also stated that "Megadeth never made the commitment I wanted to being more mainstream" and that "They'll be able to make better Megadeth music without me." Interestingly enough, when asked who he thought was creating inspiring music, his answer was "Goo Goo Dolls, Garbage, and Fastball." I think we can safely arrive at the answer that yes, Marty was responsible for Megadeth's style changing (Although probably not solely him) and yes, Megadeth will now make a heavier album... As for Pitrelli, since I've never heard Savatage I can't comment on him, but I will say I've always really liked Marty's solos, so it kinda sucks that he's gone. But, to quote Dee Snider, "If it ain't metal, it's CRAP!!" (You should listen to his House Of Hair show, this guy's funny as hell) << Bah. Bite your tongue ... er, your fingers, since you typed it. ;) Pitrelli is good, and it will be interesting to see what he does with the band, but I'm not sure if Marty was really "the problem" with Megadeth. If there are any better-informed Megadeth fans on this list who follow what goes on in the band more closely and know differently, please enlighten me. = =20 >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 16:11:53 +0100 From: Graham Borland To: Ytsejam Subject: King's X Message-ID: How do you pronounce King's X? Is the X pronounced "ecks"? I overheard someone saying "King's Cross", referring to the band, and I wondered if they were right. -- Graham Borland Picsel Technologies Ltd email_address_removed Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:15:25 -0400 From: WB Henderson To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Megadeth / Metal-in-Philly Message-ID: >Yes. I agree. Dave Mustaine has shit lost his mind. Opening for Motley >Crue? C'mon... Hey, so's Anthrax, and they sure as hell never turned nonmetal. I see both bands more as a co-headliners than openers. It's not called the Motley Crue show in most of the advertisements I've seen, it's the Maximum Rock 2000 tour or something along those lines. If the new Megadeth album is as heavier as rumor would have it, do you suppose Megadeth could be considered a "sell-in"? Speaking of metal, I caught the Division / Single Bullet Theory / Hades show the other night at the Trocadero's Upstairs. Great concert, and only $8. Division's new material is outstanding -- I'm really looking forward to their new album ("Trilogy" I believe?). They covered Savatage's "Power of the Night" as the closer to their all-too-short set. Single Bullet Theory, a local Philly act, is a band to look out for. They're releasing an EP next month. Good stuff, heavy and catchy. They came on after Hades for some reason (maybe so people could get home at an earlier hour, I dunno), and did a collaboration on Sabbath's "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" with Hades' singer, Alan Tecchio, which even had a couple vocal lines chipped in from a couple of the Division guys at the base of the stage. Hades, I'm not fully familiar with, but they totally deserve their underground-legend reputation. The non-musical highlight of the evening: when the insane guy, a moshpit of one, who had smashed Scott Stewart's (Division) beer, had been shouting "white power!" to the crowd, and had knocked a few women into the walls as he wildly thrashed around in a room not made for that sort of thing (it's tiny) got dragged out by the bouncers. He was still smiling and waving when they did. Funny, if you think about it... Brian [NP...Le Orme -- Felona e Sorona] ============================================== WB Henderson email_address_removed Automaton Hit Parade (prog-radio): http://ahp.musicpage.com/ WIXQ ON-LINE: http://www.wixq.com ============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerardo Carstensen To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Guitar feedback Thanks Message-ID: So many thanks to you for your tips, I´ll try them today, I´ve also noticed that reverb helps a lot. I´ve seen also (I don´t know exactly if it´s real or if it´s my imagination) in the G3 video (Satch, Vai, Johnson), that Vai and Satch, make some feedbacks by doing some kind of tap harmonic. Maybe the compressor (and maybe some light vibrato)serves as well to get some feedback. I have Digitech´s RP20 and an Ibanez RG570 With V7/S1/V8 Pickups. By the way I JUST CAN¨T BELIEVE THAT DREAM THEATER IS COMING TO MEXICO CITY!!!!!!! I´d better start earning money if I want to be there!!!!. Gerardo Carstensen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:10:29 -0400 From: Damon Fibraio To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: 80s Cartoons Message-ID: > >Peter David was a god on that comic. You should read it now. Paul Jenkins is doing some awesome work. -- Damon Fibraio: email: email_address_removed computer consultant, musician, radio broadcaster, and public nuisance Listen to No Holds Barred Radio. Live show on Tuesdays from 8 to 11 p.m. eastern time go to http://www.nhbradio.com for more details or point winamp to 216.32.166.89:21944. "I can see much clearer, now I'm blind."--Dream Theater, Take the Time, Images and Words ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:22:09 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Al in 'deth Message-ID: > Lastly, it's just plain SILLY to say "If he can play what he > played with Savatage, that RIP stuff will be a breeze." There isn't a > difficult Savatage song. It doesn't exist. Pitrelli is a good That's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. I can understand if you'd sat that about never Savatage stuff, but what about the old stuff with Criss Oliva? one of the best metal guitarists ever! His solos were incredible! So don't say a difficult Savatage song "doesn't exist". > player... I've been listening to him since the CPR collaboration on Guitar > for the Practicing Musician's label... but he doesn't have a SPARK of what That's also nonsense. Al may not be as good a player technically as Marty yet... but he's not far off. I doubt he'd have much trouble learning the techniques since Marty himself showed Al how. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge Al fan, but you're making Marty out to be a god and he ain't. > for the Practicing Musician's label... but he doesn't have a SPARK of what > Marty had... until Marty Friedman got on the $$$ bandwagon and started > playing pop music in a band named after a genocide-like million person That's BS. It's not like the band got all pop and he didn't like it so he left. I read an interview with him about his current tastes of music, and it was all POP CRAP... I mean MADONNA was on the list!!! C'mon! HoJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:23:49 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: DT At Electric Factory Message-ID: > DTC: I will definitely be at the Electric Factory on the 4th! Oh yeah!!! DT here we go again! I wonder what the set list will be? Wow... I'll be seing them on opening night of the Summer Tour... AWESOME!!!! :D ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:42:10 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: Re: 80s Cartoons Message-ID: <001601bfe51e$67ba5eb0$6c0d84d0@korg> > You should read it now. Paul Jenkins is doing some awesome work. Now you've gone and done it, Damon. You've piqued my curiosity. Considering you're only begging the question, I'll bite. How does a blind person read a comic book? :) -- KorgX3 used to love the Incredible Hulk comics, too. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:48:19 -0600 From: "Korg Ecksthrey" To: Subject: Broadening you horizons? Message-ID: <001001bfe51f$4ec2a830$6c0d84d0@korg> > was all POP CRAP... I mean MADONNA was on the list!!! C'mon! Um... It's sounds like you're cookin' up a serious case of "FUCK YOU!" There's nothing wrong with Madonna. There's something called "broadening the spectrum" which you might look into. Your first step would be to go pick up a Pet Shop Boys CD, turn it sideways, and ram it right up your candyass, jabroni. Oh, wait, that's "broadening the rectum," my bad. Instead, try listening to said CD, yeah, that's it. ;) -- KorgX3 usually doesn't make stupid mistakes like that. ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jul 2000 19:16:28 -0000 From: "Awake ." To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Fwd: Practise FORWARD TO YTSEJAM Message-ID: I know this thread was a week ago, but here's my take on the practise thing. 'Course, how seriously you take it might be informed by what you think about me ranking JP and Steve Lukather a few hundred places above Vai on the "groovy musicians" list! ;) >----Original Message Follows---- >From: "Paul Dodd" >To: "Simon Dodd" >Subject: Practise FORWARD TO YTSEJAM >Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:54:10 +0100 > >How one goes about it will ultimately depend upon what one views the purpose >of practise as. Perhaps I'm lucky, but I always find time to do an hour of >practise every day; and in that hour, all I concentrate on is technical >stuff. That is - ultimately - the purpose of practise, to my mind. I hear >and agree with all the stuff said by Chris and Matt (and many others) >recently; but in my experience, the issue of improv. and jamming is a moot >point. You'll find that quite aside from the actual "official" practise, >it's impossible to walk past a guitar without picking it up, and just >mucking about. I can't put P.U.L.S.E. on without grabbing a guitar and >playing along. This stuff will deal with the theory in practise aspects of >playing guitar. Plus, there should always be regular jam sessions going down >somewhere nearby (if there isn't, go set one up!), so visit them! > >So what I'd suggest is that in addition to whatever playing you're doing, >one should always set aside at least half an hour a day to knuckle down and >actually *practise*. > >My own practise regimen is (and I wish I could honestly claim to stick to it >religiously, but it's close): >WITH the metronome: >*5 min warm-ups (VERY important this - if you learn absolutely > nothing else from JP, learn this!!) >*5 min speed arpeggios (basic arpeggios covered in the warmups >*10 min major scales, all positions >*10 min minor scales, all positions >*5 min random unusual "scale of the week" >*10 min legato excercises >*10 min picking excercises >Then a half-hour jam / muck-about WITHOUT the metronome. If you do all your >practise with the metronome, you won't be able to groove, which is very >important. The above should maintain your chops nicely while still >ddeveloping it further; and you can adapt it to include stuff like tapping >(although please try not to do tapping until you've figured out something to >do with it than EVH and a billion others haven't already). > >I cycle through bass, acoustic and electric guitar, one each day. Seems to >work, especially since the extra effort and stretches respectively for >acoustic and bass helps you get quite limber. > >~Simon Sign-up for free Buffy the Vampire Slayer e-mail at http://www.buffymail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 16:12:01 -0400 From: Damon Fibraio To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: 80s Cartoons Message-ID: Well, I don't exactly read it, I have it read to me, and I follow what is going on through web sies that talk about the character when nobody is around. At 02:43 PM 7/3/00 , you wrote: > > You should read it now. Paul Jenkins is doing some awesome work. > >Now you've gone and done it, Damon. You've piqued my curiosity. >Considering you're only begging the question, I'll bite. How does a blind >person read a comic book? :) >-- >KorgX3 used to love the Incredible Hulk comics, too. -- Damon Fibraio: email: email_address_removed computer consultant, musician, radio broadcaster, and public nuisance Listen to No Holds Barred Radio. Live show on Tuesdays from 8 to 11 p.m. eastern time go to http://www.nhbradio.com for more details or point winamp to 216.32.166.89:21944. "I can see much clearer, now I'm blind."--Dream Theater, Take the Time, Images and Words ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5532 **************************