YTSEJAM Digest 1574
Today's Topics:
1) Mail Item Format Warning
by "RESPONSE at IBMMAIL 05/23/96 - 02:51:24" <response@ibmmail.com>
2) Metallic sounds, 1991
by Chris Oates <aspect@cats.ucsc.edu>
3) Re: Echolyn trivia
by King Semantic <ancl@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
4) Singers as Musicians
by thekid@txdirect.net (Jose Vaquera)
5) Musicians, MP, PMU, B.L.A.H.
by sw0101@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (Steffen Barabasch)
6) Re: YTSEJAM digest 1572
by ernie@mail.pananet.com (Ernesto Schnack)
7) Re: YTSEJAM digest 1573
by napkins@clandjop.com (Seth Hatlelid)
8) Awake Tour, Other Stuff
by Phillip Scott Kish <pkish@tiger.lsuiss.ocs.lsu.edu>
9) Re: YTSEJAM digest 1573
by vestal@usa.net (DUSTY VESTAL)
10) Pet peeve
by brax@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Bracken MacLeod)
11) Re: YTSEJAM digest 1571
by Cliff & Pam Wheaton <cwheaton@micron.net>
12) Death Metal and Type O, Korn, Sep
by napkins@clandjop.com (Seth Hatlelid)
13) Condolence
by nishiki@juno.com (Aaron K Silverman)
14) News from everywhere.
by Ben Laussade <laussade@enet.net>
15) Quick .02 (NDTC)
by Charles D Harrison <cdh191@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
16) I Hate AOL. Beach. Choco-Behind.
by Scotchman@aol.com
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:49:52 EDT
From: "RESPONSE at IBMMAIL 05/23/96 - 02:51:24" <response@ibmmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 19:22:37 -0700
From: Chris Oates <aspect@cats.ucsc.edu>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Metallic sounds, 1991
Message-ID: <199605230222.TAA04290@cats.ucsc.edu>
>*** Reply to note of 05/22/96 08:34
>Chris Oates....touche on the copyright date. However, I heard LOTS of Nirvana
>and Pearl Jam BEFORE Metallica's black album was released. My checkpoint is
>that I heard the Chicago "debut" of "Sandman" after I had graduated from
>college in May of 1991.
> I had heard plenty of the Nirvana and Pearl Jam well before I left school.
>If you're gonna attribute any commercial appreciation of Metallica to any
>success of Seattle, it'd be "One" being MTV's #1 video every day for four
>weeks. Heck, Chicago even had an all hard rock radio station (The Blaze). I
>don't think Metallica had ANY direct influence on the Seattle bands'
>breakthroughs. It was just a changing of the guard from mainstream hard
>rock/metal to the alternative/underground stuff. I still contend the Black
>album's influence was little to none as it came at the end of the metal wave.
>But thanks for checking the release dates. I'll have to go and check my
>copies and straighten out my facts.
Well, at least here in the Bay Area it seemed to hit the other way. Also, I
graduated from High School in 91, so I also have vivid memories of both
debuts. Perhaps grunge hit the colleges before the regular mainstream? I'll
allow that it could have happened either way.
As far as impact, the Black album started at #1 on the Billboard charts,
which was unprecedented for the time. I call that impact. I didn't hear
ANY metallica on the radio before the black album, and after I heard lots,
along with the debuts of many of the new grungy bands.
Also, around here, the popular rock style before Black album was not metal,
but bands like Yes, Aerosmith, Van Halen, etc. being the most played.
Other topics:
Van Halen I hit in 1978, so they weren't a bit thing in most of the 70s.
Damn, I'm starting to sound like I know the release date of every CD I own.
And, you know what? I probably do, at least for most of them. Sigh. A
couple years ago I could give the title and date for all 15 Queen releases
off the top of my head, and I could prolly still do it with a bunch of head
scratching in between. Why di I collec these facts and yet I cannot manage
to remember to wake up in the damn nmorning?
grunt.
__ /\ __ +-------------------------------------+
__\/__\/__ | ~Chris |-+
\_||_/ | For a boring homepage, web to: | |
/__||__\ | http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/aspect/ | |
// \ | \\ +-------------------------------------+ |
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 19:09:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: King Semantic <ancl@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: Echolyn trivia
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960522190532.29522A-100000@freenet2.scri.fsu.edu>
On Wed, 22 May 1996, Larry Odneal wrote:
> Mithrandir wrote:
>
> > This is a trivia question for any Echolyn fan:
> >What is the song "My Dear Wormwood" about? Anybody know?
My Dear Wormwood is a pistache on "THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS" by Christian
writer C.S. Lewis. It is written in the form of letters sent by a
kind-of Chief Devil to his underling, who is in pursuit of a human's
soul. Check the lyrics and you'll see the story...
Andrew
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"A disused Yeti?!?"
- The Doctor - THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD - Episode 2
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:44:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: thekid@txdirect.net (Jose Vaquera)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Singers as Musicians
Message-ID: <199605230244.VAA05011@legend.txdirect.net>
I think my wife came up with a good measure of considering a singer a
musician. We were listening to one of our favorite band and she commented
that she loved the singer's voice because, "He sounds like he's making music
with his voice, rather than just singing along to the song."
Sounded good to me.
"I know what that is.......WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???????"
"I'm being oppressed here."
"I bet that never happened in Home Ec."
The one, the only, you know him you love him, you can't live without him.
JOE
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:47:17 +0200 (MESZ)
From: sw0101@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (Steffen Barabasch)
To: ytsejam@ax.com (Ytsejam - the Dream Theater mailing list)
Subject: Musicians, MP, PMU, B.L.A.H.
Message-ID: <9605230347.AA33966@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de>
Hi!
I was just reading the last jam (still about 300 to go...) and I saw this
are-vocalists-musicians-thread. Look what Mike Portnoy said some weeks ago:
Q: Is James involved in writing the music?
A. No, I don't think he ever will be, it's just because he's not a musician.
[...] He doesn't play another instrument, so I don't think he really can
contribute to the music...
Q: Wasn't he a drummer?
A: Yah... and I'm a piano player ;-)
So there you are, that's what the band thinks about that topic...
And no, your CDs are ok, the PMU ending is reminiscent of "I Want You (She's
So Heavy)" from The Beatles' Abbey Road album. Just for the effect. And I
still like the real ending they play live better!
Later,
Steffen
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:10:51 -0400
From: ernie@mail.pananet.com (Ernesto Schnack)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 1572
Message-ID: <19960523041050.AAA9406@mail.pananet.com>
>1. Is it me or is the little girl on the cover of I&W holding a miniature
> version of the mirror on the cover of Awake?
>
It seems to be so... how mighty observant of you:) BTW anybody notice how
throughout all their CD's there has been a little girl, a little boy, a
teenage boy, an old man, and a young man(the reflection)? Well then that
means that the next CD will either have a teenage girl, a young
woman(yeah!), or an old woman... waddaya think?
>2. Is it me or is JP using a talk box at about 11:54 (don't quote me on
> the time) of ACoS?
>
I believe that is a wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah pedal
Oh, and I distinctly remember Metallica playing on the MTV awards shortly
after the realeas of the black album. And who else played there? QR played
'Silent Lucidity', VH played Poundcake... Poison and EMF (You're
unbelieable..OH!) also played... I'm pretty sure that was b4 Nirvana and PJ
became famous...
"OK...great, OK...listen Bert,uh...how about this one?"(this one,this
one,this one,this one, this one, etc.)
Ernie :) AVOID THE NOID!
Levadura,levadura. Dame musculatura. DURA! DURA!
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 23:36:26 -0500
From: napkins@clandjop.com (Seth Hatlelid)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 1573
Message-ID: <v01510100adc97eb47c3f@[204.71.98.32]>
Hiya,
As to Bob Rock "ruining" Metallica, I really don't think so. I
have heard the demos done on Hetfield's 8 track ( Enter Sandman, Whever I
may Roam, Nothing Else Matters, Sad But True, Unforgiven) and they sound
pretty much as they do on the album. A major difference is that ALL of
Hammet's solos on the demos REALLY sucked! I can't believe Metallica
replaced Mustaine for Kirk "Hosehead Lots More Tapped Arpeggio Crap"
Hammet. Bob did change the guitar tone a little because the rythym guitar
was eating up all the bass frequencies which made Newsted invisible (can
you say And Justice For All?. I'm glad Bob did that because Newsted is a
much better bassist than people give him credit for. I just think that
Metallica was heading to the Balck Album and Bob didn't have anything to do
with toning Metallica down (every Metallica album is more tame than the
last). The songs would have been the same even if david Prater produced it
(except the solos may have still sucked, not that they don't now, but they
were worse). I probably won't buy LOAD because I'm really not into the
Metallica scene any more, but that doesn't mean that I think the album
sucks, just that I'm not into that particular style anymore.
I'm listening to Savatage's "Handful of Rain" for the 1,987,324
since I bought it yesterday. WOWOWOWOW!!!!! Was Skolnick this good in
Testament? I heard him play Jazz/metal on Michael Manring's "Thonk" and
thought he was good, but he is incredible on this disk. I can see why they
had to get TWO guitarists to replace him. (I wasn't all that impressed
with the guitars on Dead Winter Dead, although I still think that DWD is a
fantastic disk). Is HOR the only Skolnick/Savatage disk? I'd like to pick
up some more Sava stuff but I'd like to stear clear of Jon Oliva's vocals
(he is a lousy singer although I LOVE his keys)
I love the vocal harmonies in "Chance". Zach is a INCREDIBLE
vocalist! What band was he in before he joined Savatage? His vocal
technique is stunning and his counterpoint is perfect (very operatic on
Chance). He can also add an edge to his voice that makes the heavier songs
just rock out hardcore. I think Savatage just knocked out older Megadeth
(Circa Rust in Piece) as my second fav band.
I need some help with a band situation. I just put a band together
with some VERY good players. We are trying to write some prog metal but
the problemn is the keyboard player. He is a VERY talented soloist, but he
has never played in a duet much less a band. The net result is his timing
is atrocious. He will actively ignore the drummer/bass(me)/metronome. We
have tried for some time to teach him to feel the kick drum, but he can't
grasp the concept of tempo. I need help! Do any of you know of a way to
teach a person to understand basic rythym? I've never seen our drummer get
so angry! I don't want to replace the keyboard player because he is a good
friend, but if he can't get the beat I'll have to drop him. It makes it
VERY difficult to write a song when a band member can't synchronize his
tempo with the rest of the band, even in common time! We can't get past
the opening riffs! Somebody please help!!!
Cheers!
napkins@clandjop.com
Seth Hatlelid
"I have to do a research paper on teen suicide. Now all I have to do is
decide wether I'm for it or against it!"
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 23:49:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Phillip Scott Kish <pkish@tiger.lsuiss.ocs.lsu.edu>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Awake Tour, Other Stuff
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960522233949.42152B-100000@tiger4.ocs.lsu.edu>
What songs has DT played live since Awake came out and how did the Awake
songs sound live?
About a week ago someone had an update on Midnight from Crimson Glory,
what is the current status of the project he mentioned and what are his
sources?
Ivanhoe is cool. Symbols of Time is a very good CD. I ordered
"Vison...and Reality" and Threshold "Pyschedelichetessan" from Avalanche
but got another "symbols of Time" so I had to send it back and am wating
for V..R. Threshold is cool too.
All this discussion about not putting IMHO and IMo is stupid. Of course
what you write is your opinion. I don't waste my time putting that crap up.
Anyone got any current news on Vicious Rumors and their new singer?
Thanks
Phillip
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:55:53 -0600 (MDT)
From: vestal@usa.net (DUSTY VESTAL)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 1573
Message-ID: <199605230455.WAA23351@mail.usa.net>
>Hiya,
> As to Bob Rock "ruining" Metallica, I really don't think so. I
>have heard the demos done on Hetfield's 8 track ( Enter Sandman, Whever I
>may Roam, Nothing Else Matters, Sad But True, Unforgiven) and they sound
>pretty much as they do on the album. A major difference is that ALL of
>Hammet's solos on the demos REALLY sucked! I can't believe Metallica
>replaced Mustaine for Kirk "Hosehead Lots More Tapped Arpeggio Crap"
>Hammet. Bob did change the guitar tone a little because the rythym guitar
>was eating up all the bass frequencies which made Newsted invisible (can
>you say And Justice For All?. I'm glad Bob did that because Newsted is a
>much better bassist than people give him credit for. I just think that
>Metallica was heading to the Balck Album and Bob didn't have anything to do
>with toning Metallica down (every Metallica album is more tame than the
>last). The songs would have been the same even if david Prater produced it
>(except the solos may have still sucked, not that they don't now, but they
>were worse). I probably won't buy LOAD because I'm really not into the
>Metallica scene any more, but that doesn't mean that I think the album
>sucks, just that I'm not into that particular style anymore.
>
> I'm listening to Savatage's "Handful of Rain" for the 1,987,324
>since I bought it yesterday. WOWOWOWOW!!!!! Was Skolnick this good in
>Testament? I heard him play Jazz/metal on Michael Manring's "Thonk" and
>thought he was good, but he is incredible on this disk. I can see why they
>had to get TWO guitarists to replace him. (I wasn't all that impressed
>with the guitars on Dead Winter Dead, although I still think that DWD is a
>fantastic disk). Is HOR the only Skolnick/Savatage disk? I'd like to pick
>up some more Sava stuff but I'd like to stear clear of Jon Oliva's vocals
>(he is a lousy singer although I LOVE his keys)
Seth, I'm a HUGH savatage fan, and I agree with ya that Zach is a much better
singer than Jon. Another great disk I love is "Edge of Thorns"...Do you have
that one??? If not, pick it up. Alot of people don't like it as much as "Handful
but other people(like me) love it... Skolnick isn't on the disk, but Chris is.
It's such a shame he had to die...Anyway, Zach has some great vocal moments on
"Thorns" as well....Take care and if you get it, write about what ya think....
DAMIEN
|__________________________________________________________|
|"Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep and at odds with|
| our senses we'll climb. But if faith is the answer, we've|
| already reached it, and if spirit's a sign, then it's |
| only a matter of time" ---- DREAM THEATER |
| |
| ( : |
|__________________________________________________________|
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:58:07 -0600 (MDT)
From: brax@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Bracken MacLeod)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Pet peeve
Message-ID: <9605230458.AA71738@lamar.ColoState.EDU>
Okay Jammers,
I know not everyone on this list has this problem, so I'll not
address my comments to everyone. However, if this is your problem you
know who you are.
There (as in "over there")
Their (as in "their second album")
They're (as in They're over there")
Get it right (not write or rite, by the way). If English is your native
tongue, you have no excuse for not being able to write (not right or
rite) a coherent sentence in it. If English is a second language for you,
and if you didn't already know, now you do.
Sorry for the outburst,
Bracken
"...Without music, life would be an error."
Nietzsche -Twilight of the Idols-
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 23:00:26 -0600
From: Cliff & Pam Wheaton <cwheaton@micron.net>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 1571
Message-ID: <31A3F0EA.1458@micron.net>
Hey Babs-
I didn't think to ask!!
Speaking of the IRC page, Hey Steve-howcome I'm not there yet?
Just curious!:)
Heard the new Soundgarden the other evening-Album Network Premier-I wish
I'dve known it was gonna be on-I would've recorded it-sounds pretty good
to me. Please bear in mind that the only Soundgarden I've heard is a
couple off of Superunknown-is the rest of their stuff as good?
Hey Anna: Guess what-we're not alone here!!! DT ROCKS!! I too wish there
were more female DT fans nearby!!!
Well, time to jump on IRC for a bit-
Keep rockin!!
Pam
"Rockin' Cabbie" "Taking the road to adventure!!"
E-mail: cwheaton@micron.net
URL: http://netnow.micron.net/~cwheaton
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:03:29 -0500
From: napkins@clandjop.com (Seth Hatlelid)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Death Metal and Type O, Korn, Sep
Message-ID: <v01510102adc99c3b6c05@[204.71.98.50]>
Hiya,
I know that Korn, Type O, and Sepultura are not death metal which
is why I called Cannibal corpse, Death, Morbid Angel "pure" death metal.
Korn, Type O, and Sep utilize charactaristics of death metal. I've come to
the conclusion that I really don't like "pure" death metal, because it is
just stagnant as a genre-(IMHO!!) Stylistically it just hasn't changed
enough to be a viable form of expression for me. I do, however, REALLY
like the death metal charactaristics of Korn, Sepultura, etc. I bought the
first Sepultura disk Morbid Thoughts/Beastial Visions (or something like
that) after hearing Dead Embroyonic Cells on MTV. Morbid was only listened
to three times before I burned the CD. CD's turn all sorts of really neat
colors when they are incinerated! It was pure death metal, and crappy
death metal at that, mostly due to the first lead guitar being so dull as a
player and Max's command of English wasn't all that spiffer. I swore never
to buy another Sepultura album as long as I live. Broken Promise. I bought
Chaos AD after hearing Territory on MTV (in a hotel, because I don't have
cable). I was blown away! No death metal here! I loved it. "Roots" is
even better, I play it all the time. Same with Korn and Fear Factory.
They are not pure death metal, they are new death metal; industrial death
metal perhaps, but it's not nearly as banal as Morbid Angel. I then bought
Arise and was less than impressed. It's OK as far as thrash goes, but it
never came close to the masterpiece of Rust in Peace. As to the person who
said that most death metal is easy to play, I believe that he is correct.
MOST death metal is very easy to play. Cannibal corpse, Morbid Angel,
Obituary are fairly simple riff oriented slop. I do agree that Death is
more complex than most death metal, and displays some moments of great
musicianship-it's just not that complex compared to what I listen to (DT,
Megadeth, any classical pieces, I mother Earth, Elliot Fisk, Paco De Lucia,
Damn the Machine are all more complex than Symbolic) Death is the musical
exception in death metal (I'm still not fond of them, I'm trying to give
symbolic away but after hearing it 7 people won't take it, but I can
respect their playing ability (I'm not at all impressed with the bass
player from Symbolic, but the drummer is excellent, the guitars are decent
in solos, pretty good at rythyms, terrible songwriting, horrible vocals,
and IMHO substandard lyrics). If anyone wants my copy of Symbolic and is
willing to trade something for it, or simply pay all the postage, it's
yours. My whole point is that I never meant that Korn, and Sep were death
metal (if they were I wouldn't listen to them), but they do share some
aspects of death metal which adds a huge measure of creativity to a dying
genre.
Cheers!!
napkins@clandjop.com
Seth Hatlelid
"I have to do a research paper on teen suicide. Now all I have to do is
decide wether I'm for it or against it!"
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 23:30:36 PST
From: nishiki@juno.com (Aaron K Silverman)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Condolence
Message-ID: <19960522.235920.7951.7.nishiki@juno.com>
Hello,
My condolences to those who knew the late Kevin Gilbert. I am
also wondering, was this the same Kevin Gilbert from Toy Matinee? (He
wasn't involved with 3rd Matinee; that was Patrick Leonard and Richard
Page, who I think was the guy from Mister Mister.)
DJKA
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:51:01 -0700
From: Ben Laussade <laussade@enet.net>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: News from everywhere.
Message-ID: <199605230551.WAA13913@maple.enet.net>
Yoyoyo!
Congratulations to Mr. Mike Portnoy! If any of you have seen the
latest issude of Modern Drummer, MP one a buttload of stuff. First place in
the progressive rock category....3rd or something in hard rock, but he got
1st place for best recorder performance for ACoS! That's the second year in
a row he's won that category. Does anybody know of any recordings that are
good examples of Vinnie Coaluita's playing? I'm very interested in him.
Nothing, NOTHING, beats Ants Marching live.
I'll reply to the waiting Jams later. Buhbye.
I say my hell is this closet I'm stuck inside.
Can't see the light.
And my heaven is a nice house in the sky.
Got central heating and I'm all right...
Big "Little Feet" Ben "Little Hands" Laussade
Little baybay!
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:41:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Charles D Harrison <cdh191@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
To: Dream Theater Listserve <ytsejam@ax.com>
Subject: Quick .02 (NDTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9605230103.A15963-0100000@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
To Whom It May Concern:
Korn and Type O Negative are NOT Death Metal and should never be
considered as such. It takes more than an occassional hard riff and a
little double bass to be a death metal act. Hell, then we could classify
DT as Death Metal! =)
Charlie
(The Ytse-Rook)
P.S. Curious question: What exactly makes a band (or song) progressive?
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 02:54:53 -0400
From: Scotchman@aol.com
To: Muses and Mages <ytsejam@ax.com>
Subject: I Hate AOL. Beach. Choco-Behind.
Message-ID: <960523025453_202408482@emout14.mail.aol.com>
Hey, it's Scott, wearily machete-ing my way through AOL's hackneyed shit
service. Man, I miss my high-speed Ethernet direct net connection. Man, I
miss Netscape and Eudora and IRC and all that groovy internet stuff. Man, I
miss intelligently-designed interfaces. This damn service is a PIECE.
Whenever I see that AOL commercial on TV, I get the urge to reach through
the screen and brutally throttle that smiling fucker and shove all those
freakin' free AOL disks up his shitter. Like I want help on my golf swing,
you BITCH. (I have been SUCKING down the crack lately... can you tell?)
But all you fellow Ytse-AOL'ers, I salute you. We shall overcome. They may
try their damndest, but not even their mindmanglingly imbecilic excuse for an
online service will keep me from my Ytsejams. THIS I SWEAR, ON YOUR MOMMA.
And just for the record: "Me too"
So I'm back from the Beach. Quite the experience. Aside from living off of
Hot Pockets (and Lean ones), Cool Ranch Doritos (they're actually "Cooler"
now, and the bag is appetizingly emblazoned with David Robinson's armpits),
and Froot Loops (including the new Smurf-Blue ones), and being totally waxed
6 nights in a row, there were a few other points o' interest that actually
show a glimmer of relevance to Today's Topics.
1. A chilling number of upperclassmen and pep-band alums who wholeheartedly
dig Rush. Almost every night, while we were all sitting outside drinking,
playing Asshole, and just chilling, roaring out of the nearby ghetto blaster
were various Rush albums, legit releases and not. An outstanding atmosphere.
(Not to mention that Rush was the driving music of choice on the way down to
Myrtle with my ride, nor that alum Mike Fuchs played Broon's Bane while we
traded strums on the old acoustic.)
2. While sitting around with the posse listening to some good old Black
album (oops, I mentioned them), a frantic Wade "Mr. Face" Craig runs from his
car, flips on the radio, spins the dial, and what emerges from the speakers
but the strains of Bohemian Rhapsody from The Big Medley by none other than
Dream Theater!! Yeah, on the radio! It was a truly triumphant Jammer
moment. I drank on all of your behalves. Wade himself is an AD-owning
ex-jammer of the arastar era, and there were a couple of other non-jam DT
fans lurking about (oh no, I just used an internet word to describe real
life, argh). They do walk amongst us. Like that movie, They Live.
3. Four words: Gwar on the beach. 'Nuff said. (Ultimate Frisbee doesn't
get much more surreal. "Well, that was fun! Let's eat!")
4. Got drunk, watched Tori Amos on the Conan O'Brien show with this girl
from Colorado (don't ask) who's also a Tori-worshipper like myself. Saw
Twister the next night, grooved to the Tori tune, feasted my eyes on Helen
Hunt.
5. Heard that Woo-hah tune WAY too much. Where is Koba when you need
him...?
But all this is why we must, someday, have Ytse-Beach Week. It'll be like
the MTV Beach House, only better. I'm sure Trey Allen can get some
Ytse-Speedos made...
I must also jump on the bandwagon and join the BBAKA (the Bernd Basmer
Ass-Kissing Association). My copy of Superior's behind [beaten-to-death joke
omitted] was waiting for me when I got home to funky old Texas, and it is
excellent. Get it. Joe Kruger mentioned the musical precision and clean,
tight production-- yes. All there. Guitars, heavy and crisp. Snare drum,
high-pitched and cutting. Piano, woohoo! Proving that piano and metal
guitar can actually go together. Nicely done, Bernd, it's a very cool
fuckin' album. And now I know what you look like... well, just the left side
of your face, anyway.
Jason Skewes, thanks for the distribution. I especially enjoyed sucking the
chocolate coating off the CD-- I think you guys may have stumbled upon a
groundbreaking new marketing ploy! Mmmm-mmmm.
And that's it.
Scott.
More Waffles, Please.
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