YTSEJAM Digest 6898 Today's Topics: 1) Modern Drummer Festival 2003 by email_address_removed 2) Re: Modern Drummer Festival 2003 by Eric George 3) New Neal/Portnoy Project by "Souter, Jan-Michael" 4) Re: New Neal/Portnoy Project by Mike Shetzer 5) RE: New Neal/Portnoy Project by "Souter, Jan-Michael" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:50:16 EDT From: email_address_removed To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Modern Drummer Festival 2003 Message-ID: -------------------------------1086670216 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I was watching the Modern Drummer Festival DVD and noticed that Mike Portnoy's back is facing the audiance when he played with Dream Theater. Does anyone know why this is? A friend suggested that it was simply for easy access in the dark to his drum throne. Art -------------------------------1086670216 ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:58:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric George To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Modern Drummer Festival 2003 Message-ID: On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 email_address_removed wrote: > I was watching the Modern Drummer Festival DVD and noticed that Mike > Portnoy's back is facing the audiance when he played with Dream Theater. Does anyone > know why this is? w/ such a huge setup like portnoy's, that's the best way the audience (full of drummers, ironically) can really see ALL the stuff that he's playing. very good idea, imo. -- Best Regards, Independent Computer Consultant, Eric George -Tech Guru's "The least important things in life get the most appreciation. The most important things in life don't seem to get enough." -me Proud "Trillian" user http://www.ceruleanstudios.com AIM screename: Ryften13 ICQ #: 163843613 email_address_removed (text-based email) email_address_removed -or- email_address_removed (HTML-based email) SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Progressive Musician's Forum - http://www0.org/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi#general ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:59:42 -0500 From: "Souter, Jan-Michael" Subject: New Neal/Portnoy Project Message-ID: Old news now, but here it is anyway in case some missed it. From NealMorse.com June 3rd, 2004 New Prog Album I'm starting recording a new prog album with Mike Portnoy and Randy George on Sunday. It kinda just came up. I really feel the hand of God because I knew Mike was booked up for the year, but I felt he was the right guy for this project. I'd put out some other feelers and thought about some other folks but nothing was panning out. The piece needed some work done on it and I felt Mike was the right guy to help sort it out as well as Randy. Then suddenly Mike's schedule opened up ! Dream Theater are going to be opening for Yes, I think it starts in August, and before then they're taking some time off. Mike has other projects but he had a hole in his schedule this coming week (June 6-13) and if it wasn't then it would have to be the end of July. I prayed about it and thought, come on ! So say a prayer for us that God will be working his magic on this project ! I'm still considering using other musicians - I've got a call out to Phil Keaggy and I'm thinking of others - but I'll leave that as a surprise for now ! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:37:21 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: New Neal/Portnoy Project Message-ID: <000c01c44d7f$409cf4f0$9b00a8c0@mizz> --Boundary_(ID_kPCUeD91pBM2BpC7fMBxjw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT As Simpsons superintendent said, "take it outside, God boy!". I loved Testimony, not so much the gospel-ish parts, but still a good disc, this should be interesting. I just hope Neal isn't trying to make MP a devout christian or something :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Souter, Jan-Michael To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:58 PM Subject: New Neal/Portnoy Project Old news now, but here it is anyway in case some missed it. From NealMorse.com June 3rd, 2004 New Prog Album I'm starting recording a new prog album with Mike Portnoy and Randy George on Sunday. It kinda just came up. I really feel the hand of God because I knew Mike was booked up for the year, but I felt he was the right guy for this project. I'd put out some other feelers and thought about some other folks but nothing was panning out. The piece needed some work done on it and I felt Mike was the right guy to help sort it out as well as Randy. Then suddenly Mike's schedule opened up ! Dream Theater are going to be opening for Yes, I think it starts in August, and before then they're taking some time off. Mike has other projects but he had a hole in his schedule this coming week (June 6-13) and if it wasn't then it would have to be the end of July. I prayed about it and thought, come on ! So say a prayer for us that God will be working his magic on this project ! I'm still considering using other musicians - I've got a call out to Phil Keaggy and I'm thinking of others - but I'll leave that as a surprise for now ! --Boundary_(ID_kPCUeD91pBM2BpC7fMBxjw) ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:59:04 -0500 From: "Souter, Jan-Michael" To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" Subject: RE: New Neal/Portnoy Project Message-ID: I don't see that happening. Was reading the fanclub issue that I just got recently and he touches a little on Neal's situation. Mike's got a good head on his shoulders and isn't going to convert to anything even as good as a friend that Neal is. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Shetzer [mailto:email_address_removed --Boundary_(ID_kPCUeD91pBM2BpC7fMBxjw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT As Simpsons superintendent said, "take it outside, God boy!". I loved Testimony, not so much the gospel-ish parts, but still a good disc, this should be interesting. I just hope Neal isn't trying to make MP a devout christian or something :) ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 6898 ************************** === Contributions to ytsejam: ytsejam@torchsong.com === === Send requests to: ytsejam-request@torchsong.com === === More information at: http://www.dreamt.org/local/ytsejam.php === === Brought by the ghost of ytsejam@arastar.coms past === === Reach the owner of this list at: ytsejam-owner@torchsong.com ===