YTSEJAM Digest 5586
Today's Topics:
1) JPs Rig
by DoubleJay54@aol.com
2) Re: Planet X Question.
by "Mark Bredius" <bredius@quicknet.nl>
3) Re: Re: Spiral Architect
by "Rob Pociluk" <robpociluk@dreamtheater.zzn.com>
4) RE: YTSEJAM digest 5585
by "Roberto Scheffler" <al451594@mail.mty.itesm.mx>
5) Re: Nightwish
by MTeiper@aol.com
6) Re: Nightwish
by Zack1183@aol.com
7) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585
by CeaSerin@aol.com
8) Wow... Russia vs. America
by "Christopher W. Ptacek" <someone@digitalrodent.com>
9) Nightwish
by LaxBoy329@aol.com
10) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585
by Digital Man <cmerlo@optical.mindstorm.com>
11) Savatage / TSO news
by O-P Komonen <op777@surffi.net>
12) Chaos Theory Demos
by "T.D. Smith" <tdsmith@netcomuk.co.uk>
13) EMP website great prices
by "Jan-Michael" <jmsouter@airmail.net>
14) Sub fun. NDTC
by "Awake ." <awake@buffymail.com>
15) What Billy is missing
by Pam Nazer <mnazer@pressenter.com>
16) Dream Theatre
by "phairgirl" <phairgirl@anada.net>
17) Land Of Chocolate @ Jaxx 8/24
by jOHN jENS <jjens@webzone.net>
18) Football (NDTC)
by "Ivan Navarro" <inavarro@mdo.net>
19) Re: Planet X Question
by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_N=F6jd?= <Thomas.P.Nojd@telia.se>
20) Backstage Pass
by Graham Borland <graham@picsel.com>
21) For anyone who is not yet offended by something
by "Herbert, Jason" <jherbert@biccgeneral.com>
22) Re: RE: Communists are people too
by Jens Johansson <jens@panix.com>
23) Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585
by TheMiracle9@cs.com
24) Chicago Show and Morse Interview
by "Matt Mommaerts" <mattymo@mattymo.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:01:56 EDT
From: DoubleJay54@aol.com
To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Subject: JPs Rig
Message-ID: <60.6351bf9.26d2e4b4@aol.com>
i was just thumbing through the newest guitar player and i saw this add for
the Lexicon MPX G2 and the MPX R1. at the bottom it had all thses quotes
about it by people who use it. one of them said:
"The MPX G2 and MPX R1 have emables me to condence my rig from two 22
space racks to a single 10 space rack without sacrificing any quality in
sound and processing." - John Petrucci'Dream Theater
When did he do this, last time i saw them he still had those two big sons a
bitches, is he using this on tour now or what? as a guitar player i thought
since the ibenez/music man thing is over id renew some more jp talk
JJ
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:25:50 +0200
From: "Mark Bredius" <bredius@quicknet.nl>
To: "Ytsejam" <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: Re: Planet X Question.
Message-ID: <000201c00bad$ff2c1260$0100007f@localhost>
JamesAhab@aol.com wrote:
> You bought a CD of the *other* Planet X band, the Planet X
> that came before Derek's Planet X,
...Or so they would like everyone to believe.
> who are trying to get him to drop the name Planet X because
> it's rightfully their's.
No it's not.
Mark Bredius
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:30:50 -0700
From: "Rob Pociluk" <robpociluk@dreamtheater.zzn.com>
To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Subject: Re: Re: Spiral Architect
Message-ID: <234A52C57A774D11DA5E00807CFD5BDB@robpociluk.dreamtheater.zzn.com>
It's a good CD, not great but very good. Reminds me of a more technical=
version of early
Fates.
Rob
---- Begin Original Message ----
Sent: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: Re: Spiral Architect, No Russian Sub Content
In a message dated 8/20/00 5:38:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ytsejam@torchsong.com writes:
>>Spiral Architect is THE CRAZIEST progressive metal I have EVER heard.=
=A0These
guys are like the instrumental section to Metropolis pt.1 on crack. =A0=
They
are so crazy, after 4 or 5 listens I STILL can't follow 95% of what th=
ey do.
This is truly thinking man's metal. =A0It goes WAY beyond progressive.=
=A0All
you hardcore progressive metal types would LOVE them. =A0Check them ou=
t:<<
No way man. There is definately a limit. I heard a million shining revi=
ews
like this, so I picked it up. I guess my ears aren't equipped to take a=
ll
this.
They don't play songs, it is just a bunch of notes. It isn't anything
interesting, just lots of... stuff. If you are looking for songs, don't=
buy
this. If you want something truely masturbatory, you might want to try =
it.
It's thinking man's metal all right, I think I will sell it. Anyone wan=
t to
buy a slightly used copy?
I really really tried to like it, too. Shame.
Bitchin cover art though.
---- Zack---- End Original Message ----
"...so I've got that going for me...which is nice."---Carl the assistan= t greenskeeper Dream Theater newsletter - http://www.dreamtheater.net/uacmmail/ ____________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:56:35 -0600 From: "Roberto Scheffler" <al451594@mail.mty.itesm.mx> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: RE: YTSEJAM digest 5585 Message-ID: <000f01c00be4$96c7cf20$f0effea9@mty.itesm.mx>
Partha wrote:
<The second paragraph (!) mentioned something which I had absolutely no i= dea <about, and I'd like to ask for more detail, should anyone have <any.....something about singer bassist Geddy Lee's 1st solo album being = due <on October 24th, 2000.....like i said, anyone with a clue is advised to <share.
I didn=B4t have a clue aout this, I hope (and think) it is better tha Vic= tor. Check out www.ghostland.com for any or as it says there, check out VH-1, believe it or not!!!! http://www.vh1.com/thewire/news/article.jhtml?ID=3D801
Any ytsejamers going to DT=B4s concert in Mexico city???? See you there!!= !!
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:13:04 EDT From: MTeiper@aol.com To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Nightwish Message-ID: <f.85f2af4.26d33bb0@aol.com>
In a message dated 08/21/2000 7:05:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes:
<< I've heard so many good things about Nightwish that I have decided to give them a try. All I need now is to know which album to buy first...anyone? >>
I would definitely start with "Oceanborn". Their newest one "Wishmaster" has some mind-blowing stuff on it too, so that's a close second, but overall I think "Oceanborn" is better. If you want to give a listen to some stuff before you buy, here are a few places to check out for some Nightwish sound files. Poke around the sites and you'll find both song clips and full songs, some in MP3 and some in RA format. Enjoy!!
http://www.nightwish.com/ http://www.melodicmetal.com/ http://members.aol.com/miprogress
Laterz... Matt T.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:22:31 EDT From: Zack1183@aol.com To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: Nightwish Message-ID: <84.9cffb97.26d33de7@aol.com>
In a message dated 8/21/00 7:23:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes:
<< I've heard so many good things about Nightwish that I have decided to give them a try. >>
I have both Oceanborn and Wishmaster. They both rock, you can't go wrong with either. Of course, I just got Wishmaster today, so I will be biased and say buy Wishmaster! :-)
www.melodicmetal.com has some songs from it on real audio if you want to check it out. my personal favorite is wanderlust.
---- Zack
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:34:57 EDT From: CeaSerin@aol.com To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585 Message-ID: <48.9efb333.26d34ee1@aol.com>
In a message dated 8/21/00 6:05:37 PM Central Daylight Time, ytsejam@torchsong.com writes:
<< They don't play songs, it is just a bunch of notes. It isn't anything interesting, just lots of... stuff. If you are looking for songs, don't buy this. If you want something truely masturbatory, you might want to try it. It's thinking man's metal all right, I think I will sell it. Anyone want to buy a slightly used copy? I really really tried to like it, too. Shame. Bitchin cover art though. >>
Well, thank god someone agrees with me. For me, there is a line between throwing together a jumble of notes and creating a song. Anyone can be able to play fluently and technically well, but it takes another certain skill to be able to write a song. This subject also reminds of a scene in the film Ferinelli. The castrato was complaining to his brother (the composer of the material he would tour and sing to) that his compositions were stepping all over his words and singing. The brother wrote material that was too embellished and caused the singer to feel crowded. This is the situation with technical metal for me. It's fine to have technical stuff in the middle of the song but dammit when the verse is happening or when the chorus is going on the musicians should take a back seat to the singer.
J. Lamm <A HREF="http://www.mp3.com/CeaSerin">www.mp3.com/CeaSerin</A>
J. Lamm <A HREF="http://www.mp3.com/CeaSerin">www.mp3.com/CeaSerin</A>
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:05:08 -0500 From: "Christopher W. Ptacek" <someone@digitalrodent.com> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Wow... Russia vs. America Message-ID: <003201c00bee$2a65a3c0$88c1fea9@madstation>
Hehehe that's a new topic for this list, but a pretty fucking old one for this planet.
Does anyone else feel sort of disenfranchised from their government or their country? It conjures a lot of immediate reactions when I read a post like the pseudo threat from that Russian jammer. I laugh, because I have the false sense of security fostered by living in the most powerful nation on earth, during the height of its power and the low-point of Russian power... but I stop laughing when I remember that technology (which ironically bridges both sides of the gap, in web communities like this) has eliminated the need for an ungodly army with devastating toys... all it's going to take is a suitcase nuke or chemical/biological weapons (which we all must believe that all global powers have) and that's the end for everyone... even our chilly jammer friends in Antarctica. I hope I get a chance to see the Great Wall before China lets loose a slew of missiles with American flags painted on them (why bother to change the outward aesthetics, when we know where they got the schematics!) It makes me angry and sad simultaneously that we're not all wise enough to recognize that none of us, free nation or not, have any immediate or direct say in what is and what has been (anyone familiar with our Constitution knows that this is why we call it a democratic REPUBLIC, and not just a "Democracy"). Read Tocqueville and see why we're fucked no matter who "we" are. :) If the American people are responsible for the state of the world, why does everyone get pissed off when we police it? And why would one assign blame to the mindless mass populace of any nation... if we Americans were in control of our country our federal government wouldn't be writing laws that our nation's defining documents expressly leave to the individual states to arbitrate. (I don't know if I should have started this post off with "I don't want to go off on a rant here, but" or if I should be working on designing my own flag and saving up for some land in Montana) The state of society in Russia is not a result of nor a responsibility of the average American Ytsejammer, and the same goes for the Russian Ytsejammer. I don't even believe that American international affairs are the responsibility of the American people anymore. That's what we have a CIA for (wait... why DO we have a CIA? Oh yeah, to unsettle Russian Ytsejammers!) The Russian anti-American sentiment is a result of ignorance and self loathing, and an unwillingness to take responsibility for oneself, just as the American complacency, ignorance, and general lack of empathy is why we look around and see a nation of egotistical idiots who care more about football or dancing or whatever than about 100 guys (our own age) who get the honor of biting it in a body of water that most of us couldn't even locate on a map (stories of a local school bus strike took precedence over the story of the Russian sub here. Priorities.) Why not point some of that Russian anti-American sentiment towards your own nation and fix whatever problem exists that let those dudes sit underwater for a week before getting help? I don't have time to really care about political threats on a Dream Theater mailing list. I think it's lunacy. Blow up the world... go ahead... someone's got to do it. But don't ask me to take responsibility for the way you feel about "my" country. And no, I'm not paying reparations for slavery either. It's never going to be a perfect world... anyone up for colonizing Mars? We could carve a giant Majesty logo on it and govern the planet based on lyrics from DT songs... it'll be great!
This post should not exist. Come and get me Skadz.
With love, - Hugh Jeego P.S. "That's just my opinion; I could be wrong."
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:12:33 EDT From: LaxBoy329@aol.com To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Nightwish Message-ID: <75.8a9500c.26d365c1@aol.com>
If your interested in nightwish try to pick up wishmaster, angels fall first or even oceanborn. They are all greayt albums. But from what ive heard wishmaster is the best to date...of the songs ive heard it seems to be
Andrew
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 02:37:26 -0400 From: Digital Man <cmerlo@optical.mindstorm.com> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585 Message-ID: <20000822023726.A6870@optical.mindstorm.com>
On 2000-08-21 at 13:12 -0700, ytsejam@torchsong.com <ytsejam@torchsong.com> truly believed:
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:49:28 -0400 > From: "Charlie Hamilton" <charlie@dreamtheater.zzn.com> > Subject: Re: phoenix show > > Umm yeah they also played XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:52:06 +0200 > From: "Michael Pruchnicki (DE)" <michael.pruchnicki@computec.de> > Subject: Re: Dream Theater in Phoenix...more SPOILERS than > > [entire fucking set list, without spoiler warnings, quoted verbatim > from another post that *had* the spoiler warnings, deleted] > > HOLY SHIT!! :P > > Can't wait for the upcoming European leg of the tour!
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> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:10:12 EDT > From: SixStrgRzr@aol.com > Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5584 > > Got in late last night from HOB L.A.....Whwat an AWESOME show....
[major spoilers, with absolutely no warning (not even in the subject) deleted]
> awesome....just awesome.....thanks DT.....
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Thanks, assholes. To the rest of you: If you need me between now and the Roseland show on August 30th, private e-mail, since I clearly can not trust some of the brain surgeons on this list to NOT FUCKING POST SPOILERS. ::sigh:: And they call progressive rock fans more intelligent than the average music fan. These are probably the morons that go to a DT show and start a pit.
Until next week, -d
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Man \|/ ____ \|/ "640 K ought to be enough d-man@dreamt.org "@'/ ,. \`@" memory for everyone." -Gates cmerlo@mindstorm.com /_| \__/ |_\ "He won't need a bed http://www.dreamt.org/d-man \__U_/ He's a digital man" -Peart ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:59:53 -0700 From: O-P Komonen <op777@surffi.net> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Savatage / TSO news Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000822105953.00a18100@mail.surffi.net>
I don't think this has appeared here yet...
SAVATAGE - Workaholic Madmen! According to www.savatage.com, the release of SAVATAGE's new album Poets And Madmen will be delayed, due to an emergency TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA recording session. The TSO have been asked by Universal Studios and director Ron Howard to write some new music for the November 2000 holiday movie release The Grinch starring Jim Carey. This would be new material within the framework of the band's Trans-Siberian Orchestra classical sideband, a behemoth of bombast who have created two very successful Christmas albums as well as the recent Beethoven's Last Night. These songs will be featured both in the movie and on the soundtrack. Because of this, studio time is now being split between TSO and Savatage, causing Poets to be delayed until January. The U.S. tour plans for August have now been pushed back till October. Plans are to do these shows with a new guitarist. No word on a replacement for Al Pitrelli yet, that decision will come following the recording of the new album. TSO will then be doing shows from mid-November till right around Christmas. A full scale World Tour for Savatage should kick off in late January 2001. Some songs slated to be included on Poets And Madmen are entitled 'Man in The Mirror', 'Cantations', 'Power', 'The Rumor', 'Deliver The Silence', 'Awaken', and the title track 'Poets And Madmen'. Are we looking at another concept album? "We're really not sure," says Savatage keyboardist and co-vocalist Jon Oliva, " because that's the last thing we do, place all the lyrics and stuff and we're constantly changing lyrics. So I don't know if Paul (O'Neill, producer, lyrics) is going to tie everything together in the end or not. I mean, Paul is weird like that (laughs). You never really know. But we haven't been planning it that way. We just keep writing. Like I say, we started with 15 songs, and since we've been in the studio we've come up with another ten. So we're trying to whittle it down from 25 songs. But we're really really psyched about this record. It's coming out really good. I've seen tinges of stuff where songs could possibly be tied together. His lyric writing for this is a lot darker than the last couple of albums and I think it's because the music is a lot darker and more moody and heavy. The stuff he's got so far is really, really intense (laughs). And I'm singing a lot more on this album. It's more of an even split between Zakk and myself, hence the idea of Poets (Zakk) and Madmen (myself), me being more screamy and Zakk being more melodic."
op777
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:06:21 +0100 From: "T.D. Smith" <tdsmith@netcomuk.co.uk> To: "Ytsejam" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Chaos Theory Demos Message-ID: <NEBBIOPHILKBECAJDLBEGEJFCBAA.tdsmith@netcomuk.co.uk>
Okay, thanks to Lisa Marie, I've finally got the Demos hosted at ftp.ytseradio.com.
username: anonymous password: email address
======================================================= In a world which your mind controls, belief is reality. tdsmith@perfectcode.net - 1491970 - www.perfectcode.net =======================================================
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:55:10 -0500 From: "Jan-Michael" <jmsouter@airmail.net> To: <jmsouter@airmail.net> Subject: EMP website great prices Message-ID: <000601c00c27$71424440$770988cf@jm>
Ok folks we got the GREEN LIGHT. EMP accepts VISA and will ship anywhere in the world. This is great. The prices for concert shirts and other merchandise (caps, vhs, etc) are very tempting. Here again is the web page: http://www.emp.de
DT concert shirts, NightWish concert shirts(!!), Metropolis 2 posters, DT caps....etc :) Big inventory of other band merchandise as well. Check it out !
]From: mailbox EMP [mailto:mailbox@emp.de] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:37 PM To: Jan-Michael Subject: Re: USA?
Hi JM,
of course we accept VISA but we have a minimum order value of 50 deutschmarks. I just wanted to inform you about that.You can find further information about our terms of payment on page 176 in the latest EMP. If you have further questions please feel free to contact us.
Your EMP Team Karen
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Date: 22 Aug 2000 11:52:57 -0000 From: "Awake ." <awake@buffymail.com> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Sub fun. NDTC Message-ID: <20000822115257.6961.qmail@whitfield.chek.com>
>From: "Korg Ecksthrey" <korgx3@safelink.net> >Subject: Re: Communists are people too > >The secrets of any military weapon: submarine, tank, SNIP!>>
I agree with Korg for a change. Shock! But what pisses me off most about this is that everyone has now decided to turn around and blame the Russian defence misnistry and the Navy. For crying out loud, for the last ten years, the MoD and Navy have been saying, "Look, we are BADLKY underfunded; if you don't give us more money, then tehre is going to be a really serious accident." Now there really HAS been a pretty serious accident, and what happens? Everyone's blaming the people who tried to WARN them that this was bound to happen. Funnily enough, the Russian space aganecy has ALSO been saying that they're underfunded and that there will be a bad accident if something's not done soon. But will anyone listen? 'Course not. They'll just blame 'em when it goes wrong.
Simple solution is that Russia should re-arm. It creates jobs and national pride, two things that Russia desparately needs right now.
~Simon
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:20:29 -0500 From: Pam Nazer <mnazer@pressenter.com> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: What Billy is missing Message-ID: <l03020900b5c81ebfb0d0@[209.224.19.177]>
> am I missing anything, >besides the first Platypus and the latest Chroma Key? >Oh well enough for now See you in the funny papers >PEACE!!! > Billy.
You did not mention Explorers Club - Age of Impact. It has LaBrie, Petrucci, and Sherinian. I like that CD alot.
Are you just looking for side projects, or do you want tribute albums too? Working Man has...LaBrie, Pertucci, and Portnoy.
Pam
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:17:20 -0500 From: "phairgirl" <phairgirl@anada.net> To: "ytsejam" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Dream Theatre Message-ID: <000701c00c3b$4d539160$c02d0b18@dubuq1.ia.home.com>
This is by far the most frightening thing I've ever had sent to my inbox in my entire life.
People who say "HEY I GOT THIS EMAIL ABOUT THAT DREAM THEATER THING YOU MENTION ALL THE TIME" should really be castrated as to prevent further spreading of the genetic flaws.
Thank you. Fun.
--summer
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> > apologies to anyone who may receive this multiple times, but its > for a good > cause~~it's for your soul. > > ======================================================= > > on Sept 2nd (530pm) 3rd (7pm) and 5th (7pm) > > a Unique Theatre, DREAM THEATRE, (www.DreamTheatre.org) which has shown > it's work in London, Amsterdam, Praugue, Johannesburg, Naples, > London, and > New York is taking part in the Fringe Festival in Philadelphia > PA. I urge > everyone and anyone able to attend to please do so.... it's for your > soul.... > > Dreamtime is the ecstasy of experience. in this sense, nightmares are the > ecstasy of fear. The flood of lucid details, illuminated in the dark, > eternalises the moment. > > This creates a language of symbols ans a cosmology that reveals > the forces > of consciousness. Dreamtime is the matrix of mythology. > > > see you soon, > > with warm regards, > > the DT crew > > www.DreamTheatre.org > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:14:19 -0500 (CDT) From: jOHN jENS <jjens@webzone.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Land Of Chocolate @ Jaxx 8/24 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008220903110.21901-100000@darkhorse.webzone.net>
quick reminder that we're playing Jaxx in Springfield, VA *this thursday* promptly at 8pm, doors open at 7:30pm. showcase event, 1 hour set, $6. attendance is mandatory (except for Merlo since he and Charlie drove to Philly).
http://www.landofchocolate.net/
LOC is:
Jonn Buzby - keys/lead vox (finneus gauge) Jordan Perlson - drums/vox (echolyn) Brian O'Neill - guitars/vox (fIVE pOST fENCE) John Jens - bass/chapman stick/noises (Average Gal's Canal)
DTC: how did DT ever play at Jaxx? yikes...
-- jOHN jENS jJENS@wEBZONE.nET http://sHELL.wEBZONE.nET/~jjens
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:52:49 -0400 From: "Ivan Navarro" <inavarro@mdo.net> To: "YTSEJAM" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Football (NDTC) Message-ID: <000101c00c46$538a7200$76035a8c@noaa.gov.nws>
Hey everyone sorry for the lack of DTC. I am running an office pool, as I always do, and I wanted to see if anyone was interested. If so, please reply via private email. It's $5/wk, with spreads, and uses http://football.commissioner.com to make picks and keep track of standings. Ain't the internet great!
I-Man
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:00:10 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_N=F6jd?= <Thomas.P.Nojd@telia.se> To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Re: Planet X Question Message-ID: <778DFE9B4E3BD111A74E08002BA3DC0D01F329C9@trab-hermes.haninge.trab.se>
Billy (Billy920@webtv.net) wrote:
>am I missing anything, besides the first Platypus and the latest Chroma Key?
See http://www.dreamtheater.net/discogpr.htm for more side projects. I would definately recommend 'Explorer's Club - Age Of Impact', James LaBrie sings on a couple of songs on this fine progressive album.
/Thomas
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:15:17 +0100 From: Graham Borland <graham@picsel.com> To: Ytsejam <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Backstage Pass Message-ID: <39A29905.718D58F4@picsel.com>
On the 18th of October, I will be seeing Dream Theater at the Glasgow Barrowlands. I have decided that this will be the best concert ever; so, in order to facilitate this, I have decided to obtain a Backstage Pass for the show.
Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this. Will I have to perform some kind of "act" on a large hairy gentleman? Or do you think I should laminate my SFAM CD cover, hang it around my neck, and hope nobody notices? Or should I get a job at the venue?
Please send your suggestions to my personal assistant, Debbie. Her email address is: graham@picsel.com
Thanks.
-- Graham Borland Picsel Technologies Ltd graham@picsel.com Glasgow, Scotland
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:31:27 -0400 From: "Herbert, Jason" <jherbert@biccgeneral.com> To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: For anyone who is not yet offended by something Message-ID: <6D70903196D4D11190680008C728A61D04094192@HQEXS01>
I know this is not DT-related, but it is loosely tied to the recent discussion's of "offensive" and "bad taste"
]From www.thespark.com
Freezing Eskimos Have 47 Words for "This Sucks" by Christian Rudder
Um-waka-waka, Canada A group of Harvard linguists studying the Eskimos of northern Canada have discovered that in addition to 34 words for snow, the arctic culture has over 47 words meaning "this sucks." Dr. Trisha Dean, who led the team said, "Language, like other social constructs, is environmentally influenced. For instance, there are ten Russian words for 'starving' and twelve for 'mono-brow'. Naturally, the vocabulary of the Inuits reflects that living on frigid, barren glaciers and eating only fish heads for generation after generation is very sucky."
[image missing] An Eskimo beside his igloo or "suck-hut".
She maintains that the many words allow the Inuits to convey rich nuances of suckiness that go unnoticed by English-speakers. Said Dean, "If an American woke up smelling like rotten tuna, he would say 'this sucks', the same thing he would say if he smelled like rotten herring instead. However, an Eskimo would say 'massak' about a tuna-stench, while the latter situation would require the harsh 'eraput.'"
Dr. Dean supplied this list of common Eskimo words for suck and their English translations.
tingenek - This sucks. massalerauvok - Long ago, my son, it did not suck, but that's not really true at this time. mauja - For many moons, it has sucked. Now is no different. akkilokipok - It is as if the great-snowtiger of suckiness has raped my sister.
-Zircon the Blue "I wouldn't be at all surprised if Wimpy were to snap like a store-brand pretzel and mow down the entire Popeye cast, shouting "It's Tuesday, people! Payback time!'" - The Brunching Shuttlecocks
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:55:20 -0400 From: Jens Johansson <jens@panix.com> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: RE: Communists are people too Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000822135520.00897e60@localhost>
On 09:58 AM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
> I think a major issue here why they didn't want the > United States involved > is because they don't want the U.S. to find out what kind > of Nuclear payload they have. Think about it. > They must value their equipment and secrets > more than human life. Sad.
Of course (or perhaps off course :) this is very offtopic.. but ISTR the weather conditions being quite bad right after the accident. That fact seems to have been largely forgotten now...
(BTW I thought it was only the propulsion system that was nuclear, the weapons were conventional??)
I think the only thing that can be concluded from this affair is that if you repeatedly and systematically put a bunch of guys in a steel tubes full of explosives some of them will perish.
I don't think the 'secrets' aspect had so much to do with it as red tape and pride.
Sad story in any case.. :\
> The same people who > preach compassion, kindness, and love are the same people who create the > most cruel instruments of war to protect everything they claim to > "love." [...] And if there's >any< > nation on this planet who fits this shoe the best, it's us cocksucking > Americans.
Say what you want about the US, I'm still happy the two hot wars and the cold one of the last century ended the way they did... :)
--- Jens. <jens@panix.com> (http://www.panix.com/~jens/)
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:13:47 EDT From: TheMiracle9@cs.com To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 5585 Message-ID: <2b.9d37d70.26d47f4b@cs.com>
someone tell me again how to stop getting this, thanks.
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:15:15 -0500 From: "Matt Mommaerts" <mattymo@mattymo.com> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Chicago Show and Morse Interview Message-ID: <013801c00cc1$203157e0$d2c7f018@mattymo>
Howdy...
Matt here... I had a chance to talk with Neal Morse before the Chicago show on Aug. 10th... Check it out on my lame ass radio show site: http://www.moshpitradio.com
Also... as you've all seen... the show was great! And for the lucky 13th time of seeing OFB (4th this year), I snagged Portnoy's drum head as he threw it out into the crowd... From the front row of the balcony even! Something like this belongs in a jammer's hands right?! I got everyone else but Myung to sign it the next night in Milwaukee... a pic off my webcam of it is here: http://mattymo.com/images/portnoydrumhead.jpg
Well enough of tooting my own horn I guess...
Back to lurk mode. :-)
MattyMo mattymo@mattymo.com www.mattymo.com
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