YTSEJAM Digest 7218 Today's Topics: 1) presto ballet/avenged sevenfold/Disturbed/CoCa NDTC by "Trevor Hoit" 2) new listens by Mike Shetzer 3) Re: STRIDE merch order by "JM Souter" 4) My first and only iPod "On the Go" Playlist by Dan Senko 5) mike portnoy from dream theatre by Olli Heikkinen 6) Re: mike portnoy from dream theatre by Andrew Coutermarsh 7) Re: new listens by Eduardo Ojeda 8) Re: new listens by Mike Shetzer 9) Re: new listens by Rick Audet 10) Re: new listens by Mike Shetzer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:41:23 -0700 From: "Trevor Hoit" To: "Ytsejam" Subject: presto ballet/avenged sevenfold/Disturbed/CoCa NDTC Message-ID: <002d01c5c2d2$46ff8a00$6401a8c0@c1597370a> >Has anyone else checked out the CD by Presto Ballet? It's prog rock in the >style of Transatlantic or Spocks Beard (to me at least) done by Kurt >Vanderhoof (sp?) of Metal Church. Yeah! Great cd! Not that proggy IMO but good metal! Speaking of good metal, does anyone listen to Avenged Sevenfold? I just picked up thier new cd and it KICKS ASS! Awesome mix of Metallica/System of a Down and more(Babylon A.D.? remember them?). Very BALLS-N-CHUNK! (It's been a while since I've seen that on the yjam) :) Highly recommend by me. Does anyone know if thier previous two cd are as good or in the same style or if any of the other bands on thier label are good? Also listening to new Disturbed and Coheed & Cambria. The CoCa is, as expected, another awsome release by the Nu-Prog-Emo-Metal-Whatever they are. The Disturbed won't win over any new fans, but it's as solid as thier first two plus an cool cover of Genisis' "Land of Confusion". Trevor ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:29:30 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: Ytsejam Subject: new listens Message-ID: <005301c5c2fa$89aa5060$9b00a8c0@mizz> While we're on the topic, Trevor brought it up, so here we go... Coheed and Cambria's newest disc... WOW. First of all, they must be prog-ly influenced if their album title is the super long, cheesy but hilarious Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. I haven't quite figured out what their "story" is about, but this album's theme is dark and disturbed! From great lines like "I'm waiting here / For one kiss from you / I'm waiting here / To kill all of you" to "I hope you die right now / will you drink my chemical?" , this chapter of the story is quite the journey. Fantastically rocking album, amazing vocal melodies as usual, great production (although IMO the drum sound kinda suffered on this album, haven't quite figured out why), interesting lyrics, guitar solos (I think they had one total in their last two albums, their new single has like 6!). It helps that all members of my band love the album, so it's grown on me fantastically since I first got it. I talked about these dudes briefly, but they deserve a mention again... Dredg. Holy crap... Haven't been this impressed with a new band in quite a while (actually since I discovered the band 3). I have their second and third albums, and am in the process of finding their first one. Their second, El Cielo, was hailed by most as their best, and I can see why. At first I had no idea what the lyrics were about, then I read the liner notes. It appears to be a concept album about sleep paralysis, and each song is based on a "letter" (written to the band? found? made up?) from an individual person's sleep paralysis experience. Their third album and most recent, Catch Without Arms, is definitely a bit poppier than El Cielo, but still has a lot of memorable and great tunes. Wasn't as impressed upon the first listen, but now they are almost tied. Fantastic that they are opening for Coheed on November 10, I'm pumped! Also worthy of mention, the new Opeth album Ghost Reveries is quite fantastic. Awesomely produced, even without PT's Steven Wilson, with three cool "ballads" and some fantastically brutally heavy but beautiful riffs, as usual. My only complaint is that in almost all the complete songs, there are no repeating ideas. It's usually just riff riff riff riff, with little continuity. Maybe they did it on purpose? oh well, I still love it! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:26:30 -0500 From: "JM Souter" To: Subject: Re: STRIDE merch order Message-ID: <002d01c5c30a$deba0770$210110ac@jammerxp> Thanks man !! Placed my paypal order for Music Machine. Hope IMAGINE is available soon for those of us that couldn't make the trip to ProgPower. ----- Original Message ----- From: mrnot OK.. Most previous questions now renedered moot.. Found the website, www.strideonline.com (cool design, btw) and ordered both MUSIC MACHINE & BAHHUMBUG ($10 each +$3.00 s/h via PayPal). ---------------------------------------------------------- > Stride is from Houston. they've been around for a while. Joel is a buddy of > mine - we used to hang at Texas Music Emporium in North Houston. Music Machine > is still available. > > They always were and continue to be a great band! > > Brian ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:39:01 -0400 From: Dan Senko To: "ytsejam@torchsong.com" Subject: My first and only iPod "On the Go" Playlist Message-ID: DF Mo 5-10 175 Ding! (Dan Patrick radio show reference) Anthony wrote: >> I wouldn't worry about it. It's nice to get anything on the 'jam these >> days. Feel free all, tell us what you had for breakfast today. :) OK, so here's something I was gonna post for ages but never got around to it. I loaded up about 18 GB of mp3s to my iPod months ago that I had been ripping from my CD collection and others I had been accumulating from various sources like the DT Direct Connect hub a while back. I quickly start flipping through one day to create an "On the go" playlist. I am not an every day iPodder. I use it when doing yardwork or painting or other Honey Do work or occasionally while doing "real work". Here goes: The Call of the Ktulu - Metallica - S&M 1 Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd - Pulse 1 The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X - DWoT Serves you Right to Suffer - J. Geils Band - Full House When the Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 2 Magnum Opus - Kansas - Leftoverture Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad - Caught in the Act The Thing that Never Was - OSI - OSI Still in Love with You - Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous For the Love of God - Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare She - KISS - Alive Lazy - Deep Purple - Nobody's Perfect Rock Bottom - UFO - Strangers in the Night Thunderbird - ZZ Top - Fandango Can you tell I like live CDs and/or longer jams! But Wait .. there is a bunch of tunes missing from this playlist! Son of a beeatch - my playlist is corrupt and now that I check, so are others (wife and kids lists). They say iTunes V5 is buggy and corrupting playlists and various other stuff. Damn, I installed it last week and think I've been bit. Bwaaa. In case you were wondering "hey dude, where is the DT content?" .. the answer is: I also created 2 playlists within iTunes. Yes, I personally only have a total of three playlists and think I will create more but never get around to it. Those playlists are titled "Ultimate DT Live" and "Ultimate DT Studio" and contain about 15-20 tunes in each list spanning all Live or Studio CDs up to ToT. Octavarium came out after I made those lists. Those lists may be a separate post someday. BTW: DT Song 7 by Brian Wherry for the DT Songwriting Contest is still excellent! DF Mo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:22:56 +0300 (WET) From: Olli Heikkinen To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: mike portnoy from dream theatre Message-ID: http://hytti.uku.fi/~opheikki/dt.jpg I think it's got to be a joke, because someone actually went through the trouble with photoshopping the "theater" to "theatre". This was in today's Helsingin Sanomat, a national newspaper in Finland. Sorry for the blurry photo. -- Olli ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:10:39 -0400 From: Andrew Coutermarsh To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: mike portnoy from dream theatre Message-ID: --------------050200090608090606040908 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That's not necessarily fake. Whoever did out the ad used my DT Logo Font (and used it wrong, of course), so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he just spelled it wrong. Funny, though: I think this is the first time EVER that I've seen somebody use the font to spell the band name wrong. *Andrew Coutermarsh* http://www.acvox.com/ /*andrew* at *acvox* dot *com*/ Olli Heikkinen wrote: >http://hytti.uku.fi/~opheikki/dt.jpg > >I think it's got to be a joke, because someone actually went through the >trouble with photoshopping the "theater" to "theatre". This was in today's >Helsingin Sanomat, a national newspaper in Finland. Sorry for the blurry >photo. > >-- >Olli > > > > --------------050200090608090606040908 ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:40:59 -0300 From: Eduardo Ojeda To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: new listens Message-ID: > While we're on the topic, Trevor brought it up, so here we go... > Coheed and Cambria's newest disc... WOW. First of all, they must be > prog-ly > influenced if their album title is the super long, cheesy but > hilarious Good > Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of > Madness. I'm starting to love that disc too! I always have trouble with Co&Ca discs, it took me like a dozen listens to finally like In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3, but Good Apollo is already starting to grow on me... I just wish they didn't "steal" so much from themselves. There are parts of some songs that are way too similar to In Keeping Secrets, and that really bothers me. Still, they are probably the funnier, most upbeat band that I listen to. They are great to listen to while walking on a sunny day ;-) - Edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:18:34 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: new listens Message-ID: <001c01c5c376$ba74ef30$9b00a8c0@mizz> > I'm starting to love that disc too! I always have trouble with Co&Ca > discs, it took me like a dozen listens to finally like In Keeping > Secrets of Silent Earth:3, but Good Apollo is already starting to grow > on me... I just wish they didn't "steal" so much from themselves. There > are parts of some songs that are way too similar to In Keeping Secrets, > and that really bothers me. I think they do that on purpose. Kinda like recurring ideas on Metropolis II, and recurring ideas from part II that call back to part I. I'm pretty sure their first three albums have all been revolving around the story of the two fictional characters Coheed and Cambria. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:35:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Audet To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: new listens Message-ID: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike Shetzer wrote: > > I'm starting to love that disc too! I always have trouble with Co&Ca > > discs, it took me like a dozen listens to finally like In Keeping > > Secrets of Silent Earth:3, but Good Apollo is already starting to grow > > on me... I just wish they didn't "steal" so much from themselves. There > > are parts of some songs that are way too similar to In Keeping Secrets, > > and that really bothers me. > > I think they do that on purpose. Kinda like recurring ideas on Metropolis > II, and recurring ideas from part II that call back to part I. I'm pretty > sure their first three albums have all been revolving around the story of > the two fictional characters Coheed and Cambria. That's the idea, yes. Apparently it'll be five albums telling the story of the two characters, Coheed and Cambria. I haven't been following along with the story, just the music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coheed_and_cambria So far I find the new ablums starts off strong and then gets difficult to digest towards the end. It'll take a bunch more listens to soak up, which is pretty much what happened with "In Keeping Secrets." I haven't gotten around to checking out Shabutie yet. Rick Audet kineto.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:57:15 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: new listens Message-ID: <002a01c5c395$46c116d0$9b00a8c0@mizz> Holy crap... lots of free time on their hands to make such an elaborate sci fi penta-concept album. Here's more details on the story specifically... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bag_On_Line_Adventures ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Audet" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: new listens > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike Shetzer wrote: > >> > I'm starting to love that disc too! I always have trouble with Co&Ca >> > discs, it took me like a dozen listens to finally like In Keeping >> > Secrets of Silent Earth:3, but Good Apollo is already starting to grow >> > on me... I just wish they didn't "steal" so much from themselves. There >> > are parts of some songs that are way too similar to In Keeping Secrets, >> > and that really bothers me. >> >> I think they do that on purpose. Kinda like recurring ideas on Metropolis >> II, and recurring ideas from part II that call back to part I. I'm pretty >> sure their first three albums have all been revolving around the story of >> the two fictional characters Coheed and Cambria. > > That's the idea, yes. Apparently it'll be five albums telling the story of > the two characters, Coheed and Cambria. I haven't been following along > with the story, just the music. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coheed_and_cambria > > > So far I find the new ablums starts off strong and then gets difficult to > digest towards the end. It'll take a bunch more listens to soak up, which > is pretty much what happened with "In Keeping Secrets." > > I haven't gotten around to checking out Shabutie yet. > > > Rick Audet > kineto.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 9/26/2005 > > ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 7218 ************************** === 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 ===