YTSEJAM digest 3651

From: ytsejam@ax.com
Date: Tue Mar 17 1998 - 20:44:15 EST

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    Today's Topics:

      1) Ryan Whitaker
     by Adam <alpineone@mindspring.com>
      2) re: LTE...warning not for the faint of heart!
     by Dave Thomas <dthomas@best.com>
      3) DT in Finland, some LTE.
     by "Ville Rassi" <vilzu@hotmail.com>
      4) Dark Side of the Moon
     by Mike Pontrelli <ponte@essc.psu.edu>
      5) IRC Chat with LTE's Tony Levin!!!
     by Gary Davis <artshop@artist-shop.com>
      6) Kosher? Maybe not
     by Lobsterback <hender@wam.umd.edu>
      7) Re: DT at Waldrock festival
     by "Vincent G. LuPone" <vgl@syspac.com>
      8) LTE
     by Al Balkiewicz <balkiewi@UMDNJ.EDU>
      9) more LTE
     by Al Balkiewicz <balkiewi@UMDNJ.EDU>
     10) Skolnickryche?
     by Velasco Cisneros Manuel Bernardo <al770415@mail.mty.itesm.mx>
     11) Jordan Rudess
     by Isaac Sabetai <isabetai@bu.edu>
     12) My Thougts on LTE
     by Carlos Alfaro <calfaro@caribe.net>
     13) Rudess
     by "Adam Cook" <acook@tiac.net>
     14) LTE "Problem"
     by Mark Bredius <bredius@globalxs.nl>
     15) Re: YTSEJAM digest 3551
     by sylvain.jacques@prologue.qc.ca (Sylvain Jacques)
     16) Portnoy's IM
     by "Alex O'Connell" <auocon@maila.wm.edu>
     17) Re: LTE "Problem"
     by Rogerio Brito <rbrito@dijkstra.ime.usp.br>
     18) Re: Skolnickryche?
     by belhai <belhai@drew.edu>
     19) Re: LTE "Problem"
     by Mark Jeffrey McEuen <mceuen@owlnet.rice.edu>

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:14:53 -0500
    From: Adam <alpineone@mindspring.com>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: Ryan Whitaker
    Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980317141453.007d96f0@mindspring.com>

    Sorry to waste 'width with this...

    If Ryan Whitaker is on the 'Jam still, or if anyone knows an email address
    different from his @worldnet.att.com address (which is disabled right now),
    please let me know. I've got good news concerning his web site space
    limitations... Thanks...

    __________________________________________________
    Adam Pye
    alpineone(-at-)mindspring.com
    http://www.mindspring.com/~alpineone/tapelist.html
    ^ Above URL for bootlist w/ setlists
    __________________________________________________

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:35:48 -0800
    From: Dave Thomas <dthomas@best.com>
    To: "'ytsejam'" <ytsejam@ax.com>
    Subject: re: LTE...warning not for the faint of heart!
    Message-ID: <01BD5198.D64B9B80.dthomas@best.com>

    >From: Carol Dellinger <cdelling@mail.legato.com>

    >But Yesterday I got my very won copy of LTE. Yuppers, Lisa and I waltzed
    >our merry way into Compact Disc Warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA and
    >by golly I snatched up the very last copy they had! (as well as some
    other
    >tasty selections)

    That's funny. There were two copies left when I arrived at Compact Disc
    Warehouse on Saturday. I guess I got the next-to-last one.

    This CD is amazing. Certainly in the running for best of the year (along
    with Spock's Beard - KOS), and it's only April. I hope there's a sequel. A
    tour would probably be too much to hope for...

    Dave Thomas - Editor, Pixel Planet
    Reviews of CG software, books, games, comics, music movies and more!
    http://www.pixelplanet.com

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:39:39 PST
    From: "Ville Rassi" <vilzu@hotmail.com>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: DT in Finland, some LTE.
    Message-ID: <19980317193939.28641.qmail@hotmail.com>

    Did any of you finnish jammers tape the DT show in Finland?If anyone has
    it, IŽd REALLY like to buy a copy of it.
      I have to wait atleast a week before I get my hands on LTE.Bummer!:-(

    -Vilzu-

    ______________________________________________________
    Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:45:24 -0500 (EST)
    From: Mike Pontrelli <ponte@essc.psu.edu>
    To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@ax.com>
    Subject: Dark Side of the Moon
    Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.94.980317143953.26714B-100000@thunder>

    Dark Side of the Moon just turned 25 today!!! Many radio stations in the
    USA are going to play the albumin its entirety tonight (without
    interuptions). check out http://www.memes.com/~tristandcw/its/index.html
    for more information.

    (sorry.. as much as I love DT, Pink Floyd is still my favourite band)

    BTW: Got LTE (amazingly.. with no trouble.. walked into a store, looked
    under the Dream Theater section.. and there it was! =) )

    An AWESOME album. Not for everyone though.. but if you like long jam
    sessions and improvisiont.. this is the one for you. Anyone out there
    think that parts of 3 minute warning sound a bit like Phish in concert?
    Speaking of Floyd and LTE.. if you like LTE and you like floyd.. check out
    the band "The Machine". They are a Floyd cover band, but they often go on
    30-40 minute incredible improv jam sessions between songs!

    I am still in awe at the improvisition in 3 minute warning.. blows my
    mind!

    -Ponte

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:57:56 -0500
    From: Gary Davis <artshop@artist-shop.com>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: IRC Chat with LTE's Tony Levin!!!
    Message-ID: <2.2.32.19980317195756.020925bc@artist-shop.com>

    Hello Ystejammers!

    In the department of IRC Chats The Artist Shop definitely has some big news!
    We have another killer chat lined up for Sunday, March 29th at 5pm EST.
    This is a joint chat with King Crimson & Peter Gabriel bassist Tony Levin
    and experimental guitarist/loopmaster/sonic mayhem maker David Torn. On the
    IRC page you'll find details on how to join the chat along with a cover
    graphic and soundbites from the forthcoming Bruford/Levin Upper Extremities
    album. This is not an album to miss! In April they will be hitting the
    road on the east coast to support this album. Here is the latest update on
    those gigs:

            Bruford - Levin Upper Extremities

             Bill Bruford -drums, percussion and a little keyboards
             Tony Levin -basses and stick
             Chris Botti -trumpet
             David Torn -guitars and loops

              CONFIRMED PERFORMANCE ITINERARY EAST COAST APRIL
                                        1998:

             April 13 New Haven / Toads Place
             April 14 Philly / T.L.A.
             April 15 Washington / Birchmere
             April 17 Baltimore / Orion (2 shows)
             April 18 New York / Knitting Factory (2 shows)
             April 19 Boston (Cambridge)/House of Blues/Live Internet Broadcast

    Note that April 19 will be part of a live internet broadcast! I don't have
    information yet on how to access that netcast, but that's certainly a good
    question for the chat, eh? Also you'll definitely want to ask questions
    about Tony's participation in the new Magna Carta release, Liquid Tension
    Experiment with keyboardist Jordan Rudess, guitarist John Petrucci and
    drummer Mark Portnoy. This has just been released. You'll find it at
    <http://www.artist-shop.com/magna>. This is one album I can't recommend
    highly enough (Upper Extremities being another) and from every post I've
    seen on it on Ytsejam, most of you feel the same way! Hope to see you at
    the chat!

    Gary

    **************************************************************
                              Gary Davis
    The Artist Shop The Other Road
    http://www.artist-shop.com artshop@artist-shop.com
    phone: 330-929-2056 fax:330-945-4923
                  SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENT ARTIST!!!
    **************************************************************
           Check out the latest Artist Shop newsletter at
                http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:11:37 -0500
    From: Lobsterback <hender@wam.umd.edu>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: Kosher? Maybe not
    Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980317151137.00739e18@pop.wam.umd.edu>

    [in regards to the 2 bonus bonus tracks on the Japanese version of the HY
    single]

    >I have the other version, I'm not sure 7$ is worth getting those 2 live
    >tracks.

    Which is *exactly* why these tracks should be MP3ized!

    Ooh, put that flamethrower down, and hear me out yet. Now I'm no expert on
    how much profits bands make off merchandize -- in fact, these topics
    frighten and startle me. After all, I'm just a caveman... Er, not going
    there. Anyhow, I reckon DT makes about as much money off a purchase of the
    European single as the Japanese single, given all the crazy overseas
    shipping and whatnot. So, if that extra $7 is just going to pay some
    drunken sea-captain anyway, what's the point in arguing the morality of
    MP3izing these songs? Who's with me, eh? Yeah! Yeah! The man's always
    takin' my stuff...

    Oy. Nevermind my bollocks.

    Brian "The Goader" Henderson

    ===========================
    Name:
     W. Brian Henderson, Esq.
    Contact:
     hender@wam.umd.edu
    ROBOT-CENTRAL:
     http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hender/
    ===========================

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:19:51 -0700
    From: "Vincent G. LuPone" <vgl@syspac.com>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: Re: DT at Waldrock festival
    Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980317131949.006e1f58@postoffice.syspac.com>

    At 10:24 AM 3/17/98 -0800, Mark Bredius wrote:
    > I have just been informed (literally seconds ago) that
    > Dummu Borgir and Savatage have been added to the bill.

            (Vinnie's jaw drops to the floor)
            You Euro-jammers have got it made, man! Dream Theater AND Savatage at the
    same gig....wow! We can only hope for a concert like that in America (hint
    hint Portnoy :).

          Peace and love, and good happiness stuff, ~Vince

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:34:57 -0500 (EST)
    From: Al Balkiewicz <balkiewi@UMDNJ.EDU>
    To: TheListFromTheDepthsOfHell <ytsejam@ax.com>
    Subject: LTE
    Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980317152945.1668A-100000@njmsa.UMDNJ.EDU>

            Well I have to have the worst LTE experience of all....

            <nyahh nyahh ne nyahh nyahh>

            I walk into my favorite CD shop (Tunes in Hoboken) and go to
            the "L" section.

            Lo and behold - one copy of it for $12.99........

            I picked it up, went home and listened to it.....whew, tough one!

            </nyahh nyahh ne nyahh nyahh>

            Anyway, there's one track on there, later on in the disc, where
            Petrucci plays some chords....the chords sound exactly like those
            that he plays over the Chapman Stick in the beginning of "New
            Millenium".......don't know the times off-hand, but I will post
            them later on......

            In general, the CD does kick much ass. I am not a guitarist,
            drummer, keyboardist, or bassist - just a music appreciator -
            and I lie the album a lot. Dunno if its going to have any
            permanent stay in the CD player, but definitely a great piece
            of musicianship.......and can Portnoy play that goddamn
            double bass or what........on the one track, he rattles those
            kicks like crazy!!!!

                                                    -Al

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            Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses
                    A burst of raw animal definition
                            For a few moments I was mortal.........
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    balkiewi@njmsa.umdnj.edu OR sigma982@yahoo.com OR theprof@bigfoot.com
    HOMEPAGE:http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/9280/index.html
      

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:38:05 -0500 (EST)
    From: Al Balkiewicz <balkiewi@UMDNJ.EDU>
    To: TheListFromTheDepthsOfHell <ytsejam@ax.com>
    Subject: more LTE
    Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980317153501.1668B-100000@njmsa.UMDNJ.EDU>

            When I was reading the liners for LTE, I noticed that Portnoy
            was possibly considering Dimebag (Diamond) Darrell as the
            guitarist for LTE.

            MY question is : How many 'Jammers think that Dimebag would
            have been able to "fit in"....and what guitarists do you think
            WOULD have been able to "fit in" or just plain handle LTE as
            well as Petrucci did?

            The only guitarist I could think of (am my scope is kinda limited)
            would be Steve Vai. I'm not sure Satriani would be in the "fit
            in" category of my question.....

                                    -Al

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            Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses
                    A burst of raw animal definition
                            For a few moments I was mortal.........
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    balkiewi@njmsa.umdnj.edu OR sigma982@yahoo.com OR theprof@bigfoot.com
    HOMEPAGE:http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/9280/index.html
      

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:04:28 -0600 (CST)
    From: Velasco Cisneros Manuel Bernardo <al770415@mail.mty.itesm.mx>
    To: ytsejam@ax.com
    Subject: Skolnickryche?
    Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.980317150028.62942B-100000@afs04.mty.itesm.mx>

    Anyone knows what's the story about Alex Skolnick joining Queensryche????

    I heard a rumor.

    M=F6tlo

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:24:53 -0500
    From: Isaac Sabetai <isabetai@bu.edu>
    To: Ytsejam <ytsejam@ax.com>
    Subject: Jordan Rudess
    Message-ID: <350EEA24.4CE21F3C@bu.edu>

    > On the note about Jordan's capabilities, although he might be better/faster
    > than other DT keyboardists, you can't really tell from just this one show.
    > Jordan does some cool stuff, but you have to take into consideration that I
    > think he did this show with less than a week of preparation, and was
    > actually sightreading much of the music on stage. Someone needs to confirm
    > this, because I wasn't there. Anyway, there's no way he'd be able to
    > showcase his enitre talents under these circumstances, so don't expect to
    > be blown off your feet.
    >
    At the John Petrucci guitar clinic last August, some asked about Jordan
    and his audition with DT. JP responded by saying something to the extent
    of the Rudess is a prodigy and did sightread the songs at the
    Foundations Forum gig.
    Isaac

    --
    "Your 15 minutes of lameness are up-- let the Klugman revolution begin"
     -- Zorak
    

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:33:38 -0500 From: Carlos Alfaro <calfaro@caribe.net> To: Ytse Jam Mailing List <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: My Thougts on LTE Message-ID: <350EFA42.A2C60298@caribe.net>

    Hi, like most of the ppl on this list...i got LTE....i got it a week ago to be exact...and im already tired of it... i dont know why.. but i think only paradigm shift, kindred spirits, freedom of speech and universal mind are the only tracks with any replay value ( specially freedom of speech..GOD!!) the other tracks...(and its not because theyre more bass oriented because i think the same of the ruddess/petrucci duo ) are very cool to hear for 2, 3 times..but after a while i dont know if im the only one.. but i skip tracks every time osmosis, or chris and kevins' comes on... and about 3 minute warning.. well... its a great piece..but ...it only seems to work when you have 28 minutes to actually sit down and listen to it...

    Aside from that.. . the playing is incredible!! Mike is at his best with what i think its his best drum sound to date... and Jp is really shaping up his own sound.. as someone said before... Levin is equally awesome too...even thou i missed him during the unison parts..but his playing is amazing... Im not too crazy about Rudess thou...i just dont like his keyboard sounds..hes a great player.technically.. but as a matter of opinion i really dislike the sounds he chooses.. especially for rythim parts....dunno why... Still this is a great album and I hope i can find more replay value later..

    --

    In the stream of consciousness There is a river crying Living comes much easier Once we admit , We're dying. Dream Theater: Lines in the Sand http://premium.caribe.net/~calfaro mailto:calfaro@caribe.net mailto:progboy@mindless.com Universal Internet Number (ICQ) 1254229

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:36:39 -0500 From: "Adam Cook" <acook@tiac.net> To: <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Rudess Message-ID: <199803172137.QAA02473@mailnfs0.tiac.net>

    > BTW, how many gigs did Jordan play with Dream Theater? Only one? > Three? I'd really love to have these shows, since people (Adam) told us > that he is faster than Kevin Moore on the keys. I'm really curious. > > []s, Roger...

    Faster than Kevin Moore he is, but that's not what I feel is so great about Rudess. First of all, when comparing keyboardists one must realize that Rudess was a child prodigy who was accepted to Juilliard (one of the most famous classical music schools in the world) at age 9. This is also partly due to his perfect pitch (which is evident when he EXACTLY duplicates stuff that JP plays on 3 Minute Warning). Rudess has the speed on the keys of a classical pianist. However, he goes even beyond that. He uses the best Keyboard in the universe (Kurzweil K2000) to stretch to the limits and programs all his own sounds and truly turns just the aspect of sound programming on the keyboard into its own artform. His keyboard lines are rarely just duplications of the guitar line, except on those superfast dualing lines. Listen to the guitar keyboard dual on Universal Mind. I just find it so classy and refreshing when he slams down those bebop piano lines mixed in with the traditional driving synth lead....

    Adam

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:32:58 +0100 From: Mark Bredius <bredius@globalxs.nl> To: "'Ytsejam'" <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: LTE "Problem" Message-ID: <01BD51FA.403F3540@Excelsior.startrek.GlobalXS.nl>

    S. Quack wrote :

    > between all the tracks there are two second gaps. two seconds of > silence, wish is ok, but NOT in 3 min warning: the music just stops > for two seconds when the track changes. ive run the CD on three > diferent players and my computer and its the same thing everywhere. > ANYBODY ELSE have this problem? i cant imagine this was intended.

    Yup, everyone has that "problem". It's all explained by Mike Portnoy in the booklet (Mon. Sept. 22nd, 1997).

    Mark Bredius ____________________________________________________________ Dream Theater - Under A Cyber Moon E-mail: itchy@dreamt.org * http://www.prognosis.com/dream * Last updated: Today

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:00:13 GMT From: sylvain.jacques@prologue.qc.ca (Sylvain Jacques) To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 3551 Message-ID: <3279224831.5588667@prologue.qc.ca>

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:11:03 -0500 From: "Alex O'Connell" <auocon@maila.wm.edu> To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Portnoy's IM Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980317181102.006e0aa4@maila.wm.edu>

    >Other than getting tons and tons of e-mail, Portnoy won't be able to make a >move on AOL without getting a dozen instant messages every time he logs on. I >wonder if there's a way to turn that function off...

    Hellz yeah. Just go to IM, and in the section where you type in the screenname, type this instead: $IM_ .. at least I think that's what it is. Blocks everyone.

    the wise one (haha)

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:55:36 -0300 (EST) From: Rogerio Brito <rbrito@dijkstra.ime.usp.br> To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Re: LTE "Problem" Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980317205113.4434A-100000@dijkstra.linux.ime.usp.br>

    On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Mark Bredius wrote:

    [3 Min Warning being split] > Yup, everyone has that "problem". It's all explained by Mike > Portnoy in the booklet (Mon. Sept. 22nd, 1997).

    Can anybody please post here to the 'jam the liner notes. I still don't have Liquid Tension Experiment (it sucks to be in a place where I can hardly buy discs asking at the stores -- if I ask if they have the new side project from Dream Theater members, called "Liquid Tension Experiment", the only response I get is: "What?!?").

    So, I'll have to order it from some on-line stores (it's good that computers don't have the same reaction to what I type than some humans have) and the curiosity to know about this "problem" is really killing me. I would be very grateful to know about these problems before I get the CD.

    Thanks for any help, Roger...

    P.S.: Back to the damn compiler... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - rbrito@ime.usp.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Undergraduate Computer Science Student - "Windows? Linux and X!" Bootleg/trade page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/bootleg.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:23:08 -0500 (EST) From: belhai <belhai@drew.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Re: Skolnickryche? Message-ID: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.980317192218.555768529I-100000@drew.edu>

    > Anyone knows what's the story about Alex Skolnick joining Queensryche????

    Kelly Gray is (most likely) the new guitarist for Queensryche. Just check www.scream.org under "news" for more info.

    Brandon

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    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:25:10 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Jeffrey McEuen <mceuen@owlnet.rice.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Re: LTE "Problem" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980317191705.16943A-100000@short-eared.owlnet.rice.edu>

    On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Rogerio Brito wrote:

    > [3 Min Warning being split] > > Yup, everyone has that "problem". It's all explained by Mike > > Portnoy in the booklet (Mon. Sept. 22nd, 1997).

    > have) and the curiosity to know about this "problem" is really killing me. > I would be very grateful to know about these problems before I get the CD.

    Well, the entire liner is a little longer than I feel like typing right now, but the "problem" that is being referred to here is that they jammed for so long on "Three Minute Warning" that the multitrack tape they were recording to ran out. Fortunately, MP had his personal 2-track DAT running, so the last minute or two was still recorded, although the sound quality isn't quite as good, and the sound drops out for a fraction of a second where the switch occurs. It does kind of break up the flow, but there really isn't anything they could do about it.

    > Thanks for any help, Roger...

    Mark McEuen mceuen@owlnet.rice.edu

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