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Re: The Ask Tomislav95 Thread
« Reply #595 on: September 25, 2016, 01:59:56 AM »
Is there a Ms. Tomislav?
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« Reply #596 on: September 25, 2016, 02:15:09 AM »
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #597 on: September 26, 2016, 04:30:36 AM »
It's ask splent week?

Splent, what does your username mean?
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« Reply #598 on: October 01, 2016, 10:47:56 PM »
Splent:

What's your favorite prog band?

What's your favorite metal band?

What's your favorite classical music?

What's your favorite genre between the 3?
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #599 on: October 02, 2016, 01:22:07 AM »
Yessss

I need more questions.

Tomislav: it's my name, first part of my first name and my last name

Ludwig: favorite prog band is rush, favorite metal band is probably sonata arctica, I like power and symphonic metal; favorite classical composer is probably Bach, but I prefer Renaissance and Baroque era music for sure, and I think I like classical overall, although prog comes close since it encompasses classical methods like counterpoint
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #600 on: October 02, 2016, 04:58:01 AM »
Splent, what do you do for a living?
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #601 on: October 02, 2016, 09:06:38 AM »
Splent, what do you do for a living?

I'm a middle school music teacher. It's tough but very rewarding.
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #602 on: October 02, 2016, 09:07:36 AM »
I missed most of my week due to me being insanely busy! Catch up today! MORE QUESTIONS MUST HAVE MORE QUESTIONS
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #603 on: October 02, 2016, 09:40:49 AM »
Splent, what do you do for a living?

I'm a middle school music teacher. It's tough but very rewarding.

Awesome, it must be really nice to do something related to music for a living I think  :tup
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #604 on: October 02, 2016, 10:01:10 AM »
How did you discover DT and DTF?
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Re: The Ask splent Thread
« Reply #605 on: October 02, 2016, 10:07:44 AM »
How did you discover DT and DTF?

My first exposure to DT was in 95 or 96 when my dad got ACOS and I&W, and while I enjoyed them (they sounded like Rush!) I forgot about them until college. I started really getting into them again then, especially my junior and senior year. I continued getting into them when one of my best friends (4 years older than me, but he returned to college after serving in the navy) kind of refreshed my interest since he's a die hard fan.

We saw them during the 8vm tour and I was just blown away. This was March of 06. I joined dt.net and joined the forum and started posting all the time, and then followed the group in its various iterations since then.
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #606 on: October 04, 2016, 05:53:39 AM »
This week we ask Dr. DTVT! (sorry for delay, forgot to change thread title yesterday :blush)
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #607 on: October 04, 2016, 06:28:55 AM »
What's the VT in your username?

Is your music taste better than that of other people?

What is your favourite food?

Will you ever finish your top 50 underappreciated bands list?
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #608 on: October 04, 2016, 10:51:00 AM »
Foolish and embarrassing mistake in the lab?
How much of a distraction to your work are college girls?
I recall that you're an avid board gamer. Did Starfleet Battles ever show up in the rotation?
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #609 on: October 04, 2016, 11:31:43 AM »
What's the VT in your username?

Is your music taste better than that of other people?

What is your favourite food?

Will you ever finish your top 50 underappreciated bands list?

VT stands for Virginia Tech, where I went to grad school.

My taste is better for myself, but not for others.  I get how other people can not enjoy what I like, just I do not enjoy music I don't like.

I would say sushi.  It's price makes it a special occasion meal.  I can't imagine getting sick of it.  Of foods I make on a regular basis, I would say pork done in my smoker is one of my favorites.

I don't have the list anymore, it got lost when I moved in 2014.  However, I do remember most of the top 7 that were not complete, and I could probably figure out the rest.  Some of the remaining bands were on the list because they had not released an album in a while, but since have and gotten some discussion, so the only question is that are they underappreciated now. 

Foolish and embarrassing mistake in the lab?
How much of a distraction to your work are college girls?
I recall that you're an avid board gamer. Did Starfleet Battles ever show up in the rotation?

I was in an explosion that required a few hours in the hospital, but that one wasn't my fault.  I did have a reaction run away on me and it made this black sphere that felt like a wasp nest.  Here are two pictures of it:





Surprising not a distraction.  I've had some stunning women in my classes, but I tend to see them as my kids, almost like a parent.  That includes a runner up Miss S. Carolina and another finalist.

I haven't played that game, but I do have Star Trek: Frontiers and I will be getting Star Trek Ascendancy as soon the company I order from gets more in stock.
     

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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #610 on: October 04, 2016, 01:04:54 PM »
Starfleet Battles was back from the early 80's. I ask because I've been playing a computer adaptation of it lately.
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #611 on: October 04, 2016, 01:46:58 PM »
There are a few Star Trek hobby board game products.  I have the deck building game because it was dirt cheap.  I knew it was littered with typos.  The more recent games are well received though.  I still have to try most of them.  They tend to be longer games, which I am fine with, but some people do.
     

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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #612 on: October 04, 2016, 01:52:33 PM »
I have no questions for you.  We've shared the same lead singer at a table with hamburgers and beers.
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #613 on: October 04, 2016, 03:25:34 PM »
Don't forget Ed too!

We also met Don Jameson in Worchester.
     

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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #614 on: October 04, 2016, 03:33:18 PM »
I loved talking to Ed.  It was like talking to a friend.  Don was cool too.
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #615 on: October 04, 2016, 03:43:38 PM »
We met Don Jameson in Worcester too! He was totally cool.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #616 on: October 06, 2016, 01:47:32 PM »
What was your first gaming console and video game?

What were your Saturday mornings like as a kid?
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« Reply #617 on: October 06, 2016, 07:38:55 PM »
What was your first gaming console and video game?

What were your Saturday mornings like as a kid?

First console was NES, it came with SMB/Duck Hunt, and I also got Mike Tyson's Punchout in the same Christmas.

During the school year, it was cartoons and Pee Wee Herman, summer was baseball, either little league or just the neighborhood kids taking over a playground or church parking lot.
     

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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #618 on: October 09, 2016, 04:09:44 PM »
Well, this thread died a horrible death the past two or three weeks.
     

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Re: The Ask Dr. DTVT Thread
« Reply #619 on: October 09, 2016, 06:15:02 PM »
It's 'cause it's gotten to us boring old-timers.  I'm following the thread, but when it gets to some of us, there's not much left to tell.  I kinda feel like I know Splent and the good Dr. DTVT well enough that I don't really have any questions.  We've been here long enough to hear most of the stories.  Maybe not some of the more recent ones.  Who knows?

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« Reply #620 on: October 09, 2016, 06:23:08 PM »
Results when?  :corn

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Re: The Ask Orbert Thread
« Reply #621 on: October 10, 2016, 05:48:59 AM »
Yeah, too bad this kinda died :/ but I'll continue to update this thread as long as there are people on the list :D

So, we ask Orbert this week. Where do you work?
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Re: The Ask Orbert Thread
« Reply #622 on: October 10, 2016, 05:51:15 AM »
Orbert!

1. What's your favourite food?
2. What are three things that you haven't yet done in your life that you definitely want to do before you die?
3. If you 4 weeks of time off from work and unlimited amounts of money, what would you do in that time?
4. How long have you been playing the piano?
5. Boxers or briefs?
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Re: The Ask Orbert Thread
« Reply #623 on: October 10, 2016, 07:07:55 AM »
When are you writing the definite Yes biography?
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« Reply #624 on: October 10, 2016, 07:49:30 AM »
Whoa, I guess I'm up.

Where do you work?

I work at a AbbVie Pharmaceuticals.  We spun off from Abbott Laboratories in 2013, kept half the name and took all the name-brand drugs with us, but we're still not exactly a household name.  But you've heard of Humira, Synthroid, and Biaxin.  Those are ours.

1. What's your favourite food?
2. What are three things that you haven't yet done in your life that you definitely want to do before you die?
3. If you 4 weeks of time off from work and unlimited amounts of money, what would you do in that time?
4. How long have you been playing the piano?
5. Boxers or briefs?

1. Chicken.  I love me some ribs, and I won't turn down a good steak, but I grew up eating chicken any of the thousands of ways Chinese people make it, and maybe a few made-up ways as well.  My mom grew up in a Chinese restaurant owned and run by my grandparents, so I grew up eating authentic Chinese food.  For us kids, McDonald's and Burger King were a "treat".
2. (a) Make love to a drop-dead beautiful woman.  This will probably never happen. (b) Play a grand piano in a nice concert hall for a huge, appreciative crowd. This is still possible, though becoming less likely as time goes on. (c) Sit at the controls and drive a real freight train. I've always loved trains.
3. Grab my wife, hop in a car, and visit the 48 contiguous United States. If time permits, fly to Hawaii and Alaska as well.
4. Since I was ten years old, so 44 years this year.
5. Briefs, or nothing.

When are you writing the definite Yes biography?

There are too many out there already.  I love writing about music, especially my favorite bands, but there's not enough time to do everything you want to do in life, so you have to prioritize, and this one's down the list a ways.  What you get here on DTF is the music writer in me finding his outlet.

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Re: The Ask Orbert Thread
« Reply #625 on: October 11, 2016, 09:26:39 AM »
Hey Orbert:

1. What are your top 5 prog bands?  I'm gonna take a not-so-wild guess and say: Yes/Genesis/ELP/Gentle Giant/Kansas.

2. What are your top 5 NON-prog bands?

3. How did you get into DT and do you still listen to them?

4. Following on Scorp's bucket-list question, if you could choose one celebrity to make love to, who would that be?

5. Old-fogey question: do you have any specific plans for retirement?
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Re: The Ask Orbert Thread
« Reply #626 on: October 11, 2016, 10:20:19 AM »
What was the hardest piece of music you ever got under control?

What piece of music is still beyond your grasp but you still harbor illusions of mastering some day?

What does your wife think of your answer to Question 2a (I'm kidding, you don't have to answer that). 

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« Reply #627 on: October 11, 2016, 10:34:03 AM »
Wait, you work in North Chicago/Lake Bluff area? I teach in North Chicago just up the road from the Naval base. We should grab lunch sometime or something.

What is your favorite non-music thing to do?
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« Reply #628 on: October 11, 2016, 10:49:43 AM »
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1. What are your top 5 prog bands?  I'm gonna take a not-so-wild guess and say: Yes/Genesis/ELP/Gentle Giant/Kansas.

Pretty close.  Yes is definitely #1, with Genesis a close second.  After that, it often depends upon mood.  ELP is good for Prog excess at its most ridiculous, and is a good contender for third, but Pink Floyd gives them a run for the money and goes completely the opposite direction.  Kansas is up there.  As much as I love Gentle Giant, my love for them is mostly focused on a couple of albums which really resonate with me and take me back to a very important period in my life.  They're farther down the list.  I think Frank Zappa and/or The Mothers would round out the Top 5.

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2. What are your top 5 NON-prog bands?

Ooh, this is actually much tougher.  Chicago would be #1.  Their early stuff was so complex that it was Prog in some ways, but I'm pretty sure most people just consider them Rock or even Pop.  Robert Lamm has always considered them "Pop music with horns".  Stone Temple Pilots rock me; I love those guys.  Deep Purple for similar reasons.  Good, heavy Rock and Roll with great vocals.  Black Sabbath.  And now for something completely different: CSN and sometimes Y.  Best vocal group ever in the history of the universe.

That's all within the Rock/Pop area, though.  I also listen to a lot of Motown and R&B type stuff.  Earth, Wind & Fire blow me away.  The Spinners, The Temptations, The Four Tops, them classic "well choreographed black groups".  Then there's the Jazz/Fusion.  Return to Forever, Brand X, Weather Report.  Killer chops, killer compositions.  Gotta have 'em.

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3. How did you get into DT and do you still listen to them?

In 1994, I was living in Maryland and visited my best friend John who was living in Tennessee at the time.  After burning a few, he played a CD for me called Images and Words.  It fucking blew me away.  Progressive Metal did not exist yet as a genre, but here it was.  The crunch of Metal guitars, the vocals, but with Prog sensibilities and attitude.  Keyboards?  No way!  Yep, keyboards, too.  I had no idea such music existed.  It was like Metallica and Yes had a baby and named it Dream Theater.  "Metropolis, Pt 1" was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard in my life (and I mean that in a good way).  10 minutes!  Ha ha, remember when that was the longest DT song?  Then he played Awake.  As far as we knew, those we the only two albums they'd made (he didn't know about When Dream and Day Unite, and of course neither did I), but as soon as I got home, I bought both of them, and they were my new favorite band.  They stayed that way for a long time.

I still listen to them, but they've rather lost me lately.  At some point, they seem to have decided (1) if a long song is cool, then even longer songs must be even better, and (2) we have established our sound, and cannot really stray from that, as much as we'd like to.  This changed with The Astonishing, which is definitely a departure from their core sound, but honestly, not in a way that I would prefer.  The Astonishing lived in my car CD player for two or three weeks after I got it, and it's all very nice, but I can't say that I like it, not really at all.  The ballads bore me, the Metal is too sparse and too far between, and the Nomacs sounds distract and annoy me more than anything else.  As a concept and artistic statement, it's pretty cool, but the execution just doesn't work for me.

But Images and Words, Awake, A Change of Seasons, Falling Into Infinity, and Scenes from a Memory still get regular play from me.  To me, this was their prime.  The 90's for Dream Theater and Prog Metal in general were like the 70's for Classic Prog.  After that, it seemed to become a contest to see who could play the most notes per second and who could write the longest songs.  Those are both impressive within context, but are meaningless to me if I don't like the songs, and very little since around 2000 has really grabbed me.

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4. Following on Scorp's bucket-list question, if you could choose one celebrity to make love to, who would that be?

Diane Lane.  She's still a stunning woman, but since we're already outside of reality here, I would go back in time to when she absolutely smoked and give her the best 30 seconds of my life.

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5. Old-fogey question: do you have any specific plans for retirement?

None.  When I was younger, I honestly did not expect to live to retirement, plus I was an idiot, and therefore never saved anything.  I got married, and wised up a bit, but before we could stabilize ourselves financially, we started having kids, one of whom has special needs, and the doctor bills combined with my lousy teacher's salary put us deep into debt.  We're still a financial mess.  I still therefore do not expect to retire, though for completely different reasons.  The job I have now has a 401(k) which I've been dumping as much into as I can, but we started late and there's maybe a couple of years' worth of living in there now.

My "real" retirement plan is totally morbid.  My dad is much, much better at investments and if/when he goes, my sisters and I each stand to inherit quite a chunk, enough to pay off our house, our credit cards, our daughter's college, and then some.  The later that happens, the closer we'll be to paying off the house (seven years to go right now) and the less debt there will be, so the balance of that will be our retirement.  A totally shitty plan, but from what I understand, not particularly unique these days.

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What was the hardest piece of music you ever got under control?

Fantaisie-Impromptu by Chopin.  Sixteenth notes in the right hand against eighth-note triplets in the left, with the whole damned thing in C# minor.  One of the most ridiculous pieces of music I've ever attempted.  At one time, I reached a point where I could play it passably, from memory, and even impress people who don't know any better.  Not bad for a punk with only three months of piano lessons.

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What piece of music is still beyond your grasp but you still harbor illusions of mastering some day?

Someday I would love to actually be able to play that piece properly.  In the second strain of each verse, the second sixteenth note in each group of four is accented; it is actually the melody.  I've never been able to really do justice to that concept.  As I said, I can fool most people, but I know I'm not doing it right.

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What does your wife think of your answer to Question 2a (I'm kidding, you don't have to answer that). 

Hey, I'm Asian.  We are practical and literal to a fault.  I love my wife, and I would never jeopardize our marriage, nor would I ever want to.  But she too is practical and knows that she is very few people's idea of physical perfection, including mine.