YTSEJAM Digest 5636 Today's Topics: 1) Geddy Lee by "The Wizard" 2) Kyuss by Nicholas Sakkos 3) Tool/Perfect Circle by email_address_removed 4) RE: DT Online Store by "Mark Bredius" 5) car stereo results(detailed) by Joshua Rasiel 6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5635 by email_address_removed 7) Douglas Adams, part II by CyberDuke 8) EVENT - The Station RI Oct27 w/ Rush Tribute : Hemispheres by email_address_removed 9) Strings and Picks, a love story. by "Chris Ptacek" 10) Re: Shredder Strings and Picks/GuitarWar.com by email_address_removed 11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5635 by Dan Costello 12) Re: String Gauges by "James C. Shields" 13) GOV'T MULE by email_address_removed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:06:15 -0400 From: "The Wizard" To: Subject: Geddy Lee Message-ID: I was reading the jam about Geddy's latest solo, but I've lost the link to the page you had posted here for the song. Can anyone send me the link? thanks, The Wizard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:45:06 +0300 From: Nicholas Sakkos To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Kyuss Message-ID: <39E32B71.C2DF4E46@x-treme.gr> Hey guys I remember some talk about a Kyuss rare/live recordings cd. I saw one yesterday labeled best of Kyuss.Is that it? Could recognize very few of the tracks though. Then again i've only heard Sky Valley and the circus leaves town. Thanks in advance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:49:25 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Tool/Perfect Circle Message-ID: Hi everybody, This is the first time in a long time I've posted cause my damn computer's been down but I figured I'd give a quick recommendation for all you Tool and/or Perfect Circle fans out there. On the Deftones new album, White Pony, there is a great track which Maynard James Keenan lays vocals on, called "Passenger." So if ya get the chance do yourself a favor and get this song off that Napster thing. I'm pretty sure that you will dig it if you already like Tool/Perfect Circle. In fact, better yet buy the whole CD as I have done, but at least get that one track. -Mike C. NP: Parcheese! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:47:24 +0200 From: "Mark Bredius" To: Subject: RE: DT Online Store Message-ID: <000501c032d1$625a1b80$0100007f@localhost> Greg Kristianson wrote: > This sucks...finally have the $$$ to order some merch from > the site and they're sold out of virtually everything, > namely the soccer and cypress shirts. Anyone know how long > it'll be before they replenish their stock? You can contact someone at CyberMusic.net through the following link: http://cybermusic.net/contact.asp They are the ones who run the online Dream Theater store for the band, so they should know. :-) Mark Bredius ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.spocksbeard.org/ Spock's Beard - Strange World Send email to email_address_removed to receive the latest Spock's Beard and TransAtlantic news, tour dates and information. http://www.transatlanticweb.com/ Official Site ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:56:10 -0400 From: Joshua Rasiel To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: car stereo results(detailed) Message-ID: okay guys, here's what I did this weekend, and I'm going to go intor some details so all you mmmmMETAL fans as clueless as me with car audio or electronics will see that you can most likely do this stuff. first I put in a pair of alpines for the front speakers. I knew I was going to do the head unit so I figured this way it'll sound that much better when I do. But i was curious to see if the speakers would sound a whole lot different on their own. Answer: nope. But it was easy to do, even for me. I did have to splice the speaker wires to the car's wires since the connecter didn't fit even though the stocks were also alpines. so i cut off the connectors and twisted the proper wires together, put the new speakers back in the door, done. So then I went and got the head unit - one of them Sony "xplod" deals - We all know sony's rep on consumer goods, so I got the 4-year warranty with that item. but i wanted it because it had the most wattage of all the units on the wall, 50 per speaker. And, it is a really cool lookin' unit folks. red and shiny! plus, instead of a typical tape deck where you just put the tape in, the tape bay is hidden - you have to press a button and the whole face flips down, as though it were detaching - and then you put the tape in behind the face. it's damn cool and it was $140. And, the guy at best buy was a DT fan. so there you go. whoever said installing a head unit was easy is out of their mind. it was straightforward and not to complex, i'll say that. But I had to remove chunks of dashboard to get to the thing, and then there's the wiring, which puzzles me. Not the wiring itself, which was easy but time-consuming, but the thinking behind it. whenever you get a new radio for your car, you have to get a wiring harness made for your car, which on one side plugs into your car and on the other side plugs into your radio. except it doesn't plug right into the radio, I guess because there would be too many combinations if you had to select a wiring harness with your car on one side AND your radio model on the other. So you have to splice 10,000 wires on each side. Now what I want to know is, why can't they just put a little connector on the end of all those wires on the radio, and the other half of the connector on the wiring harness wires, so I wouldn't have to spend my life cutting, stripping, splicing, and crimping??? just a thought. but it wasn't a big deal, and it is color coded so anybody can do it. actually, that proves that my idea is possible! if they can make those color codes an industry standard, then what about my connectors? anyway, I put the thing back in the dash and it sounds REALLY GOOD. So thanks to everyone who advised me! I had to ask a few questions of course, including the one I asked on the jam last week but also I bought the speakers from a mom 'n' pop - NOT the mall. that way, a half-hour later when I realize I don't know what the hell i'm doing, i can call them and ask a question or two. good luck doing that at sears. so there you go. -josh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:55:12 EDT From: email_address_removed To: Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5635 Message-ID: please take me off this list. there is so much crap on this list it's rediculous. i'm sure DT would be proud of all the advertisements. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:47:15 +0200 From: CyberDuke To: Ytsejam Subject: Douglas Adams, part II Message-ID: LOL, I'm sorry, I know tons of paragraphs can be said and it won't be enough, this is last one, I promise. Geezus, my stomach aches from laughing. :)))) ------------------------------------------------ The summer sun was setting down thru the trees, like it is ... let's not waste words. Hide Park is amazing. Everything is amazing in it, except the garbage in Monday morning. Even the ducks are amazing. WHOEVER CAN PASS THRU HIDE PARK IN SUMMER EVENING AND ISN'T TOUCHED FROM IT, IS PROBABLY PASSING THRU IT IN AMBULANCE CAR WITH A BLANKET OVER HIS FACE ------------------------------------------------ ROTFL, I mean FROM WHERE does this guy pulls out his stuff? :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:59:01 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: EVENT - The Station RI Oct27 w/ Rush Tribute : Hemispheres Message-ID: EVENT will be performing at the Station in W.Warwick RI on October 27th with the Rush Tribute: Hemispheres. be there at 9pm http://www.thestationrocks.com for info http://www.eventband.com Matt EVENT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:31:22 -0500 From: "Chris Ptacek" To: Subject: Strings and Picks, a love story. Message-ID: <001701c0331a$95be0b00$8184e5cf@someone> Lo these many years the question has been beset upon us of the council of young shredi elders ("OOOH a PARADOX" - Emo); for that which is a greater string would imply greater individual mastery, and a higher degree of shredcraft. But no, for no clear answer can be made. Only can one hope, upon tallying records of past events, to gleen the true string and pick for proper wankology. With humble intentions, I shall offer my guidance, though I be only a student of the arts, and not yet a master. It has come to my attention in 12 years that .009 is the most common equipment hosted by the shred weapon of choice. It is, however, a fact that many a great shredder will stray to the heavy or the light... Becker and Helmerich for instance, opting for the .008 and Zakk Wylde and Steve Morse choosing .010 and above. What does this mean to us, the apprentices and journeymenpeople of the art? Go with whatever the fuck works, my son. Seriously though... .009 is the most versatile... you can do everything on .009. .010 sounds a bit better to my ear on strats than .009s and .008 is a bit on the super light side, but if you're just now learning legato and 8 finger tapping, it will save you a lot of pain. I recommend alternating after a couple months. Go from 009 to .010 as an exercise in strength and adaptation. When I started 8 finger stuff, I swapped over to .010 just to make it harder. And I don't use very low action (though I may go back to it). Picks are another story. It will benefit you a TON to move to heavy picks. You want to control every nuance of every note with your WRIST, and not with the assumed flexibility of a pick. You KNOW when you push a thick pick through a string. You can easily misjudge the accuracy of when a thin pick is going to give its way through a string. I would have to say out of hundreds of professional shredders, about 95% probably use heavy picks. That's very important. All of your control is right there. Hope this helped! - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:13:27 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Shredder Strings and Picks/GuitarWar.com Message-ID: This is where I strongly believe that string gauge is 100% personal preference. I use 10's, and have zero problem playing fast. How high is your action set? I set mine fairly high, (not sure of the exact height, but compared to any other guitarist guitar I've played, it's fairly high. Almost like playing an acoustic. I like to be able to 'feel' the string underneath me, and it definitely helps with bends.) I know that when I play a guitar with lower action, I can play much faster, (Even exact same model guitars, just different set-ups). People often pick up my guitar, and I hear, "Holy shit man, your action's high!" I play a lot cleaner and smoother with high action. Here's a good example of string gauge not having anything to do with speed. Look at Stevie Ray Vaughn. Now, he's not classified as a shredder, but I tend to put him in the 'blues shred' category. He can really play some fast lines if you listen, and he was using 13's. If you want to get faster, I'd try lowering your action, just to give it a whirl, if that does nothing........get out the metronome. :-) I checked out GuitarWar.com and I absolutely loved it. I heard quite a few guitarist on there who can wipe the floor with me, and use the leftover dirty water to clean their guitars with afterwards, but I still registered and am going to be buying some software to make some Mp3's just to join in on this for the fun of it. I remember getting AOL like 4 or 5 years ago, and going into Music Chats and Guitar Chats, and there'd always be some punk-ass little shit in there, saying, "Steve Vai can suck my dick, Cobain could waste him any day....and so could I.". And I'd get so pissed off and I'd seriously try to set-up a head-cutting duel with the idiot. (I was in the 6th or 7th grade..leave me alone :-) ) And I think now with GuitarWar.com, you've got the PERFECT chance to back up your words. So now when I'm sitting in the Vai.com Vai Chat, and some idiot starts telling me how he can outshred Chris Impelliteri, or anyone for that matter...I'll direct him over to GuitrarWar.com and tell him to prove it. It's a great site. Serious or not, it's fun. I know I can't wait to get started, even if I totally suck, I'll be striving to get a little better, just so I can see all the people type in, "EvoReaper, killer Mp3 man, etc etc etc...". Another great option of being online.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:53:35 -0400 From: Dan Costello To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5635 Message-ID: >I've been playing for 5, but it still sounds like I've been playing for >2 years. :) yo, ah feel yo pain man! school sux. I'm sittin' here typing a freeckin' e-mail when I should be typing a lab when I could be playing guitar. guess I should shutup and get my work done so I can play, huh? :-) -Dan. Hey, here's a tip for you guys. Ya can't plug an Ultra ATA 100 hard drive into a 5 year old motherboard, no matter how much you paid for it. ________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:15:03 -0500 From: "James C. Shields" To: Subject: Re: String Gauges Message-ID: My $.02: anything smaller than 10's (or some light top/heavy bottom type-thing based around 10's) are for weenies. Anything smaller and your tone suffers, and the strings break EXTREMELY easily. Fatter string=phatter tone. SRV used 12's or 13's, and he had just about the best tone ever. I use D'Addario 11's, hardly ever break a string, have ballsy tone, and have no problem bending the strings and doing vibrato (and I'm not a real strong guy). Who cares how many more notes you can play with 9's if the overall sound is better with 10's? @!# @!# @!# @!# Jim guitarist, Room 213 www.room213.com "Don't let the world bring you down Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold remember why you came and while you're alive Experience the warmth before you grow old" Incubus @!# @!# @!# @!# ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:33:19 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: GOV'T MULE Message-ID: Government Mule wrote the song. Its pretty cool. The Allman Brothers also do a pretty sweet cover. Check it out if you can, let me know if you can't. Later, jj << So gotta let your soul shine, it's better than sunshine, better than moonshine, and damn sure better than rain. ...(mesa don't remember this line) it's just a waste of time, so you gotta let your soul shine, shine til the break of day. >> ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 5636 **************************