YTSEJAM Digest 6465
Today's Topics:
1) MP thoughts
by Michael & Pamela Nazer <mnazer@pressenter.com>
2) I will be out of the office
by "Michael Mayo" <mayobusiness@attbi.com>
3) Response to what the hell is an EBow?
by "James R. McKenzie" <jimmckenzie@earthlink.net>
4) Re: MP thoughts
by Scott Hansen <schansen@cts.com>
5) Re: MP thoughts...
by "Dr. Mosh" <drkhoe@zero.corp.publichost.com>
6) Boston Area Mailing List ...
by Ryan P Skadberg <skadz@dreamt.org>
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:03:49 -0600
From: Michael & Pamela Nazer <mnazer@pressenter.com>
To: ytsejam <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: MP thoughts
Message-ID: <BA74F665.3BBD%mnazer@pressenter.com>
I have had the priviledge to meet Mike several times. Each time he was very
kind, and took some time and talked to me. The last time I saw him he was
on the bus getting ready to leave and got of the bus just to sign something
for me. In my experience he has always been great!
Pam
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:13:02 -0800
From: "Michael Mayo" <mayobusiness@attbi.com>
To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: I will be out of the office
Message-ID: <000001c2d5c5$84c7dec0$aca87f18@mayo>
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I will be out of my mind until further notice. If you have any questions
that cannot wait, and you need to speak with someone who can actually
provide you with a fanzine, or a publication that ACTUALLY DEALS WITH
DREAM THEATER or such, please DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO YTSEJAM, because it's
just a hack newsletter with superfluous unrelated info ANYWAY. Oh and
another thing, If you try to unsubscribe, GOOD LUCK!!!!!
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:30:13 -0500
From: "James R. McKenzie" <jimmckenzie@earthlink.net>
To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: Response to what the hell is an EBow?
Message-ID: <004101c2d5d0$4f0b9c30$7a20b341@yourdvxwb11yhr>
> What the hell is an eSpear?
> Is it anything like an eBow?
An EBow is a little battery powered gizmo that guitarists (can) use to make
different sound effects. You hold it in your pick-hand and either strum the
strings with therest of the hand or pop of notes with the fret hand and
depending on where and how te EBow is held you'll get amultitude of unusual
and perhaps useful sounds. I think Gibson used to carry them and still
might.
T H A N K Y O U
James R. McKenzie
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:57:17 -0800
From: Scott Hansen <schansen@cts.com>
To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
Subject: Re: MP thoughts
Message-ID: <BA7502AA.5CDF%schansen@cts.com>
In a mind-blowing e-mail sent on the extremely historic date of 2/16/03 5:47
AM, ytsejam@torchsong.com thusly spaketh:
> Now's the time for you pro-Portnoy people to come back me up when I told
> my friend that Portnoy loves the fans and is a nice guy and such. =3D)
I'll reply! ;-)
So you want some reasons why MP is kewl? First off, aside from Jordan, MP
has the most interaction online with his fans, actually posting in his
forums. He also is the one who will be responsible for the official bootleg
project (which may actually be coming abooot some time relatively soon). He
is also primarily the one responsible for the wide range of songs that we
all heard on the World Tourbulence tour, and primarily responsible for all
the extra goodies that were thrown into some songs (like the "Tool jam" in
Lie and the extended jams in The Killing Hand). Let's not also forget he was
the one behind the idea of covering entire albums during the second set of
those special shows. He was the driving force behind initiating the forming
of both LTE and TA.
As to his being personable and friendly, he has been extremely so with me.
While I think my situation is the exception (having become the maintainer of
the MP.FAQ and of the tourography, both of which need updates), almost
everytime MP meets the fans, he takes the time to say hello, sign stuff and
listen to what the fans have to say.
As for tuning his drums, no he doesn't worry abooot that. I'm sure that Neil
Peart and a host of other professional drummers don't either - that's why
they have their drum techs. Don't forget that MP is DT's leader (even more
so than JP) so he has a lot of other things to worry abooot during the day
that DT is performing a gig. MP also doesn't practice like he used to - does
that mean that he is any less of a drummer? I don't think so - he's still
got the chops.
And as to how humble MP is, yes he's still humble. If you got to know the
man as well as I have, you'd agree. I think to a limited degree he does take
in stride, but I'm sure just abooot anyone would after hearing it
continually for the last 8-10 years. I'm sure MP knows he's good at what he
does, but the one thing he's always trying to do is try and learn something
new - take for instance the fact that he actually took direction from KM
during the OSI recording sessions, which pushed him in directions he would
have never gone before.
So in conclusion, MP is a nice guy and he is humble - even if he doesn't
tune his own drums or give extended speeches after receiving a reward! :-p
Scott
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:12:26 -0800
From: "Dr. Mosh" <drkhoe@zero.corp.publichost.com>
To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Subject: Re: MP thoughts...
Message-ID: <20030216101226.A27258@zero.corp.publichost.com>
0. Mike Shetzer <echo26@videotron.ca> farted:
>
> He said while looking through posts on the Portnoy forum, that
> throughout the records DT have released and the shows they've done, that
> Portnoy doesn't tune or set up his own drum kit, that he "leaves it for
> the professionals". While I only hear Portnoy playing, I have to admit
> being able to set up and tune drums is an important part of being a
> drummer. He found that Portnoy as a highly skilled drummer should know
> something like that. That being said, he found that Portnoy's attitude
Actually, tuning drums takes considerable amount of time, that's why
Portnoy now has his "professionals" do it, believe me, before he
had any "professional" help, he tuned his drums plenty, I have known
Portnoy a long time and he can tune his drums.
> in shows and clinics (what with all the robe that he wears and such) was
> very "i'm the best", especially when reading his response (whether it
> was online or maybe it was on Modern Drummer magazine) to being voted #1
> prog drummer or clinician or whatever, he paraphrased Portnoy's response
> to "yeah, that's cool". While I myself would be utterly speechless to
> being voted any of those, my friend's problem was that most people who
> get voted any of those take the time to write a speech, but Portnoy
> didn't.
> Now's the time for you pro-Portnoy people to come back me up when I told
> my friend that Portnoy loves the fans and is a nice guy and such. =3D)
It's just not a big deal to him. Think about it, some of those magazines
are fan voted, a lot of times, Lars Ulrich has won, that's tantamount to a
joke.
>
> I hope nobody accuses me of being this "friend", i.e. having these
> feelings about MP and being afraid to say out loud that I myself think
> them....
You can think however you want, but till you talk to the man, all you can
do is think conjecture.
-The Doc
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Date: 16 Feb 2003 20:43:18 -0500 From: Ryan P Skadberg <skadz@dreamt.org> To: Ytsejam Mailing List <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Boston Area Mailing List ... Message-ID: <1045446198.4192.75.camel@codewarrior.stigmata.org>
Hi All ..
As some people know, we have a boston area jammers list. I finally got it moved over to real mailing list software. If you are in the greater Boston area (New England even), you can subscribe by going here:
http://www.stigmata.org/mailman/listinfo/bostonjam
Skadz
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