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Dream Theater

History

Formation and early years (19851987)

Founding members (from left to right) John Myung, Mike Portnoy, and John Petrucci in 1985.

Dream Theater was formed in September 1985 when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band in their spare time while studying at Berklee College of Music. The couple came across the drummer Mike Portnoy in one of Berklee's rehearsal rooms, where he was asked to join the band. The trio started by covering Rush and Iron Maiden songs in rehearsal rooms at Berklee.

Myung, Petrucci and Portnoy settled on the name Majesty for their newly formed group. According to The Score So Far … documentaries, they waited in line for tickets to a Rush concert at Berklee Performance Center while listening to the band on a boom box. Portnoy noted to the end of the song "Bastille Day" (from the album caresses Steel) sounded "majestic." It was then decided that Majesty would be the band's name.

The trio then set out to fill the remaining positions in the group. Petrucci asked his high school band-mate Kevin Moore to play keyboards. After Having accepted the position, another friend from home, Chris Collins, was recruited as lead vocalist after band members heard him sing a cover version of "Queen of the Reich" of Queensrche. During this time, forced Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung's hectic schedules them to abandon their studies to concentrate on their music because they do not feel they could learn more in college. Moore also left his college, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate on the band.

"Another Won"

"Another Won" from The Majesty Demos.

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Early months of 1986 was filled with various concert dates in and around New York City area. During this time the band recorded a collection of demos, titled The Majesty Demos. The initial run of 1,000 sold out within six months and dubbed copies of the cassette became popular in the progressive metal scene. Majesty Demos are still in their original tape format today, despite officially released on CD, through Mike Portnoy's YtseJam Records.

In November 1986, after a few months of writing and performing together was Chris Collins fired. After a year of trying to find a replacement, Charlie Dominici, who was much older and more experienced than anyone else in the band, successfully auditioned for the group. With the stability that Dominici appointment brought to Majesty, they began to increase the number of concerts played in New York City area, have significant exposure.

Shortly after recruitment Dominici, also a Las Vegas group named Majesty threatened legal action for intellectual property rights associated with the use of their name so the band was forced to adopt a new moniker. Various options were proposed and tested, among them Glasser, Magus, and M1, which were all rejected until Portnoy's father suggested the name Dream Theater, name of a movie house in Monterey, California.

When Dream and Day Unite (19881990)

Dream Theater in 1989: John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Dominici, Kevin Moore, John Myung

With their new name and band stability, Dream Theater concentrated on writing more material while playing several concerts in New York and neighboring states. This eventually attracted the attention of Mechanic Records, a division of MCA. Dream Theater signed their first record contract with Mechanic, 23 June 1988 and set out to recording their debut album. The band recorded the album in Kajem Victory Studios in Gladwyn, Pennsylvania. Recording the basic tracks took about 10 days and the entire album was completed in approximately 3 weeks.

When Dream and Day Unite was released in 1989 to far less fanfare than the band had planned. Mechanic ended up breaking most of the financial promises they had made to Dream Theater prior to signing their contract, so the band was limited to playing around New York City. The promotional tour for the album consisted of just five concerts, all of which were relatively local. Their first show was at Sundance in Bay Shore, New York opening for the classic rock power trio Zebra.

After the fourth show, Dominici was fired because of personal and creative differences. Soon after, however, the band Marillion asked Dream Theater to open for them at a concert at the Ritz in New York, Dominici was given the opportunity to perform one last time. It would be another two years before Dream Theater had a replacement singer.

Pictures and words and Awake (19911994)

"Pull Me Under"

"Pull me Under" from pictures and words.

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Following Dominici's firing, Theater fought successfully to be released from their contract with Mechanic Dream, and started auditioning singers and writing material for their next album. In their search for a new singer they auditioned over 200 people, among them former Fates Warning front man John Arch, all were killed. In mid-1990, at a gig in New York Dream Theater introduced Steve Stone as their new singer. He performed just three songs with the band before he was fired for conduct less than satisfactory. It was five months before Dream Theater played the second show, this time entirely instrumental (under the name YtseJam). Until 1991, the band remained focused in an attempt to recruit another vocalist and writing additional music. It was during this period that they wrote most of what would become 1992's pictures and words.

In January 1991, Kevin James LaBrie, the glam metal band Winter Rose, was flown from Canada to New York for an audition. LaBrie jammed on three songs with the band, and was immediately hired to fill singer position. Once recruited, LaBrie decided to drop his first name to avoid confusion with the other Kevin in the band. For the next few months, returned the band to play live shows (still mostly around NYC) while working on the vocal parts for music written before acquiring LaBrie. Derek Shulman and Atco Records (now East West), a division of Elektra Records signed Dream Theater to a seven album contract based on a three-song demo (later made available as "The Atco Demos" by Dream Theater fan club).

The first album to be recorded under their new record deal was 1992's pictures and words. For promotion, the label released a CD single and video clip for the song "Another Day", but neither has made significant commercial consequences. The song "Pull Me Under", however, managed to assemble a high level of radio airplay without any organized promotion from the band or their record label. In response, Atco produced a video for "Pull Me Under", which saw heavy rotation on MTV. A third video clip was produced for "Take Time", but it was not nearly as successful as "Pull Me Under".

The success of "Pull Me Under" combined with relentless touring throughout the U.S. and Japan, caused Images and words to achieve gold record certification in the states and platinum status in Japan. A tour of Europe followed in 1993, which included a show at London's Marquee Club. The show was recorded and released as Live at the Marquee, Dream Theater's first official live album. Moreover, a video compilation of their Japanese concerts (mixed with documentary style footage of off-stage part of the trip) was released as pictures and words: Live in Tokyo.

"A Mind Beside Self: II – Voices

"Voices" from Awake.

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Eager to work on fresh material, Dream Theater retreated to the studio in May 1994. Awake, Dream Theater's third studio album, was released on 4 October 1994 in a hail of controversy among fans. Shortly before the album was mixed, Moore announced to the rest of the band that he was simply no longer interested in touring, does not he go into the style of music Dream Theater performed and would be quitting Dream Theater to concentrate on his own musical interests. As a result, the band had to scramble to find a replacement keyboardist before a tour can be considered. The album was received very well by both critics and fans. The album has been viewed by some as Dream Theater's darkest album mainly because of the lyrical content of many of the songs dealing with internal conflicts. For example, "The Mirror" explores the topic of alcoholism where Portnoy was recovering at the time.

Jens Johansson, who would go on to become a member of Stratovarius, were among the biggest names to audition but the band members were eager to fill the position with keyboardist Jordan Rudess. Portnoy and Petrucci had come across Rude in Keyboard Magazine, where he was recognized as "best new talent" in readers' poll. The two invited him to play a trial concert with the band on concrete foundations Forum in Burbank, California. For members by Dream Theater, the show went incredibly well, and Rude was asked to fill the keyboardist position permanently, however Rude chosen to tour with The Dixie precipitate instead, as it gave him more Personal width. Disappointed, Theater hired fellow Berklee alumnus Derek Sherinian, whose previous work included stints with Alice Cooper and Kiss, to fill the Awake promotional tour Dream. Upon conclusion of the tour, the band decided to take Sherinian on as Moore's full-time replacement.

A change of Seasons and Falling Into Infinity (19951998)

"A Change of Seasons"

"A change of Seasons" from A Change of Seasons.

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Once again find themselves with a new member, the theater did not immediately start work on new material Dream. Fans all over the world, united in YtseJam Mailing List (the most popular form of communication between Dream Theater fans at the time), had begun to put pressure on the band to officially release the song "A Change of Seasons ". It had been written in 1989 and was to be a part of images and words, but at nearly 17 minutes, it was considered too long for studio location. However, the band perform it live and again while reviewing it in years until 1995.

The petition was successful and the group came Bear Tracks Studios in New York in May 1995 to rewrite and record the 23 minutes song with Sherinian contributes significantly to the final product. To disseminate "A Change of Seasons", the band released it as an EP along with a collection of cover songs recorded live on Uncovered fan club gig.

After a short run of small concerts to promote the Changing Seasons Dream Theater took a break for a few months. To keep busy, but the band released a special Christmas CD through their official fan club, consisting of rare live songs recorded in During the band's early years. They continued releasing a new CD every Christmas until 2005. Also during break individual members sat down to write compositions for their upcoming co-writing sessions.

Meanwhile, there were several changes at East West, and Dream Theater's main contact point mark was fired. As a result, it was new teams in the company unaccustomed to the relationship Dream Theater has had with the former East West staff, and they pressed Dream Theater to write an album that was more accessible. In mid-1997, they went into the studio to write their next album. Besides pushing the band to adopt a more mainstream sound, Eastwest hired writer / producer Desmond Child to work with Petrucci in polishing the text of his song "you or me." The whole band substantially reworked the music to the song, and it appeared on the album as "You Not Me" with a chorus that was almost similar to the original. The child also had a marked influence on the album, with a shift towards compositions that were less complex and more radio-friendly.

The band wrote almost two CDs worth of material, including a 20-minute follow-up of images and words of the song "Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper. "Label, but not allow the release of a double album because it believed that a 140-minute record would not be digestible by the public. James LaBrie also felt that the CD should be a single disc. The unused songs were later published in Ytsejam Records release Falling Into Infinity Demos.

It material that made it on the album proper was released as Falling Into Infinity, which received a mixed reception from fans who were more familiar with the band's earlier sound. While the album moderately progressive-sounding tracks like "Hollow Years" and "You Not Me" prompted some to believe it was the beginning of a new, mainstream-sounding Dream Theater. Overall, the album was both a critical and commercial disappointment. Although Portnoy did not speak publicly at the time, many years later in 2004 the DVD commentary for 5 years in a Live Time, revealed that he had been so discouraged during this period, he had considered dissolving Dream Theater hero.

During the European leg of touring in the infinite world tour were two shows recorded for a live album entitled Once in a life time, in France and Holland. The album was released at around the same time as the video 5 years in a Live Time, telling time from when Kevin Moore left the band up to the Falling Into Infinity promotional tour.

Scenes from a Memory and Metropolis 2000 (19992001)

In 1997, "invited Mike Varney Portnoy to assemble a progressive 'Magna Carta Records supergroup' to work on an album that would become the first in a long series of projects for members by Dream Theater. The lineup consisted of Portnoy on drums, Petrucci on guitar, Tony Levin on bass, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess, who had finished Dixie precipitate. The band assumed the name Liquid Tension Experiment, and would act as a medium through which Portnoy and Petrucci could once again court Rude to join Dream Theater. In 1999 he accepted an offer to becoming the third full-time Dream Theater keyboardist, replacing Sherinian.

With another new member, Dream Theater entered Bear Tracks studio again to write and record their next album. As a result of an ultimatum from Portnoy, gave the label the band complete creative control. The follow up to "Metropolis Part 1" which was written Having Falling Into Infinity sessions (but not used on the album), was taken off the shelf after machining. They decided to extend the 20-minute song into a complete concept album with a story revolving around themes such as reincarnation, murder and treason. In order to avoid stirring up fan base, a tight veil of secrecy enveloped the writing and recording process. The only thing that fans were privy to prior to its release was a track list that had been leaked against the band's wishes, and a release date. In 1999 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was released to high critical acclaim. It was hailed as Dream Theater's masterpiece by many fans and critics, despite only reaching # 73 on the U.S. album charts.

The album was mixed by David Bottrill, but only a few of his mix made it on the last album. Most of it was remixed by Kevin Shirley. The rest of the mixtures can be heard in the band's official bootleg "The Making of Scenes from a Memory."

A massive world tour followed recording the album, taking over a year to complete, by far the largest to that point. The concerts reflected the theatrical aspect of the album. They played the whole scene from a Memory album from start to finish with a video screen on the back wall of the stage shows a narrative companion to the history of the album. In addition to playing the album in its entirety, the band played a second set of Dream Theater songs, plus a few covers and improvisations of old Dream Theater material. For an extra special show at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, was cast hired to play characters in the story, and a gospel choir was enlisted to perform in some parts of the show.

This shows the last North American date for the tour, was recorded the band's first DVD release. After many technical delays, the DVD, titled Metropolis 2000, released in early 2001. Shortly after, the band announced that an audio version of the concert, with the entire four-hour set list (most of which had to be cut from the DVD to save space) will be released.

The cover of the CD version of the concert, titled Live Scenes from New York, depicts one of Dream Theater's early logos (pictures and words-era burning heart, inspired by the Sacred Heart of Christ) modified to show an apple (as in "Big Apple") in place of the heart, and the New York skyline, including the two towers of the World Trade Center, the flame over it. In an unfortunate coincidence, the album was released on the same day as the attacks on 11 September. The album was quickly withdrawn by the band and was re-released with revised artwork later.

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)

"Overture"

"Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.

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Put the whole ordeal behind them, Dream Theater once again entered Bear Tracks Studios to record their sixth studio album. Four years after the first petition Eastwest giving them to release a double album, they finally got their chance with Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. The first slice consisted of five tracks of 713 minutes in length, and the second disc was only the 42-minute title track, which is to date the longest song Dream Theater have written. Genesis this song came Rude wrote what would become the "Overture" in "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" and the band took some different melodies and ideas contained in it, and expanded them into chapters of a complete story.

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence ended up being very well received by critics and the press. It was the most talked of Dream Theater's albums since Awake, debuting on the Billboard charts at # 46 and the Billboard Internet charts at # 1 The whole next year and a half they toured world once again with an expanded live show including a select few special "album cover" gigs (see Cover songs section below), where they played Metallica's Master of Puppets and Iron Maiden's The Number Beast in their entirety.

Mindsets and Live at Budokan (20032004)

During 2003, Dream Theater into studio to write and record another album. Since Scenes from a Memory was written and recorded simultaneously in the studio, in a spirit of change, the band took a different approach by devote three weeks to write before recording. In the middle of recording the album, a special tour with two other progressive metal bands, Queensrche and Fates Warning, was made in North America. "Escape from the Studio U.S. tour" as it was referred to Dream Theater's promotional material, featured Queensrche and Dream Theater as a co-headlining acts with Fates Warning performing supporting act duties. As a finale for each concert, there was an extended encore in which both Dream Theater and Queensrche appearance together stage simultaneously, often by playing cover songs.

At the end of the tour, Dream Theater returned to the studio to finish recording their seventh album, thought. They focused more on writing a great song-oriented album, a mindset inspired by covering Master of Puppets and the number of the Beast at a previous concert tour. As a result, it seemed more straight-forward metal sound of the two albums to creep into thought. The album was a critical success factor, but it alienated a fair proportion of Dream Theater's fans [who?] who preferred the traditional progressive rock like Yes or King Crimson. Regardless, it seemed to expand Dream Theater's fan base into new territory and captured many more metal fans.

Another world tour followed, which Dream Theater performed support act duties for one of their great influence, Yes. A small North American tour was completed with the two bands, which Dream Theater continued to tour the world with their so called "An Evening with Dream Theater" show.

Their next move was to release another live CD / DVD combination, this time recorded in the famous Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan on their mindsets world tour. Live at Budokan was released on October 5, 2004, and further propelled Dream Theater's reputation as one of the premier live acts in progressive metal.

Octavarium and score (20052006)

"I Walk Beside You "

"I Walk Beside You" from Octavarium.

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Dream Theater after concert in Paris (2005). From left to right: Portnoy, Petrucci, LaBrie, Myung, Rude

Upon the completion of their mindsets promotional tour Dream Theater into the Hit Factory studios in NYC to record their eighth album. As it turned out, they would be the last group ever to record at the famous studio, and after they wrapped up their last meeting, the lights were turned off in the studio forever.

Octavarium was released on 7 June 2005 and took the band's sound in yet another new direction. Among its eight songs are a continuation of Portnoy's "Twelve-Step" saga ("Root of All Evil", steps 6-7 in the 12-step plan) and the title track, a musical versatile 24 minutes epic rival "A change of Seasons." Octavarium received mixed reviews from fans and has been the subject of lively debate. Octavarium was the last album during their seven-album deal with Elektra Records, who had inherited the contract on its acquisition of East West Records.

Dream Theater toured extensively throughout 2005 and 2006 to celebrate their 20 anniversary as a band, including a headlining spot on Gigantour. During a show the second August 2005 in Dallas, the band paid tribute to Pantera's late guitarist Dimebag Darrell by performing the song "Cemetery Gates" as an encore. Addition was unexpected appearance of other musicians Russell Allen, Burton C. Bell and Dave Mustaine, who joined the band on stage to perform parts of the song.

Dream Theater later departed from Gigantour and continued on with their own series of concerts. Several concerts were recorded and released to fan clubs. 20-anniversary tour ends with a show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City the first April 2006. Although the show had minimal promotion, it was sold out days after tickets were made available. This show, recorded on a CD / DVD called Score released on 29 August 2006 through Rhino Records, the band's first concert together of an orchestra (the "Octavarium Orchestra").

Systematic Chaos, Greatest Hit and Chaos in Motion (2007-2008)

Dream Theater's next album Systematic Chaos was released on 5 June 2007. The record marked their first with new label Roadrunner Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. Roadrunner implemented increased promotion for the album, and consequently reached Systematic Chaos number 19 on Billboard 200 It also saw the release of a video for "Constant Motion", 14 July, band's first music video since Hollow Years in the 1997th An authorized book entitled Lifting Shadows on their first twenty years, was also released in 2007, with an updated and expanded edition released in 2009 Systematic Chaos contains eight tracks, but technically only seven songs. The album features an epic entitled "In the presence of enemies", book Ding album as tracks 1 and 8, Portnoy's AA saga continued with the song "Repentance" and a song of a political nature, "Prophets of War".

The 2007/2008 Chaos In Motion World Tour started in Italy. Dream Theater played the Gods of Metal concert on 3 June 2007. Dream Theater also performed at Fields Of Rock Festival in Holland, 17 June The 2007th They also played in several other European festivals, including the UK Download Festival and the French festival Hellfest Summer Open Air with other bands like Megadeth, Korn, Mastodon and Slayer.

Dream Theater returned to perform the North American leg of the tour, 24 July in San Diego, California and wrapped up the 26th August in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They played with opening acts Redemption and into eternity. The "Chaos In Motion" tour continued for the rest of the year and into 2008, playing concerts in Asia, South America and for the first time, Australia.

The first April 2008 on a two-disc compilation album Greatest Hit (… and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) was released by the band. The title jokingly references the song "Pull Me Under", the band's only major radio hit. It also includes three song again mixes from their second album, pictures and words, five edited versions of previously released songs and a track from a single B-side. Unlike most Greatest Hits compilations, Dream Theater was actively involved with the album coming up with the track list that they felt best represented their musical career.

Mike Portnoy, after the release of Greatest Hits, arranged a new tour called Progressive Nation The 2008th Unlike previous Dream Theater tours, performances were held in cities that they had not visited in the past (eg Vancouver, Canada), or cities, they had not played in several years. This trip also marked the first time since the release of pictures and words, where the band performed in small venues and performance halls.

After this tour, the band released a DVD set called Chaos in Motion 20072008, supports a collection of songs from their tour 9: e album, Systematic Chaos. There were two sets released DVDs. One was an ordinary two-disc set, while the Special Edition set containing three CDs of music that went along with DVDs. It was released on 30 September 2008.

Black Clouds & Silver Linings and God of War: Blood & Metal EP (2008resent)

Mike Portnoy announced on 2 June 2008 that the band would be entering at the studio to record a new album. On 7 October 2008, Dream Theater began work on their 10th album. The album, entitled Black Clouds & Silver Linings, was released , 23 June 2009. Besides the standard CD, the album available on vinyl LP and a 3-disc Special Edition CD includes the full album, a CD of instrumental mixes of the album and a CD with six cover songs.

The first May, spoke Mike Portnoy two Metal Hammer on the new album for their podcast saying that while 'The Shattered Fortress' was the last in a series of songs about his 12 step recovery from alcoholism, 'The Best of Times "Is a very heavy personal object of my father who passed away during the filming of the album, "adding:" He was a battle with cancer in all its decisions. "The band have also announced another Progressive Nation tour, including the Tour's first performances in Europe. Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect supported Dream Theater in Europe, while the Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale Summit played North American leg.

The 22. June 2009, announced Mike Portnoy, on his forum that there was a lineup change for the Progressive Nation 2009 Tour in North America. Pain of Salvation and Beard Fish was unable to touring with Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa because of financial problems within their respective record labels. He also announced two bands that will fill the available slots for the Progressive Nation 2009 Tour in North America, Bigelf and scale the summit. On this tour, Dream Theater has often made one of its kind in Six Degrees of Inner turbulence's "Solitary Shell," making it about thirteen minutes in length. Similarly, they also did an extended jam on "Surrounded" in the course of Chaos In Motion tour.

The first July, 2009, the album debuted at # 6 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart with first week sales totaling 40,285. On 12 November 2009, Mike Portnoy, Dream Theater that would come into the studio just after New Year to write and record a brand new instrumental tracks for inclusion on the upcoming PS3 games Good of War III soundtrack. The title "Raw Dog" (an anagram of "War God"), the instrumentals were sent to Roadrunner Record 8 January 2010. This marked the first time that the band has written and recorded an exclusive track for an external project.

In December 2009, under their black clouds & Silver Linings trip while visiting Australia Dream Theater performing with a support act Pain of Salvation, which apparently sorted out enough of their financial difficulties with their record label. In March 2010, they will tour South America with Bigelf.

On 17 February 2010, said Avenged Sevenfold, that they had come into the studio together with Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, the notion of the record, instead of Rev

Logo and Images

Dream Theater wordmark and "Majesty" symbol

Despite the band being forced to change their name, Dream Theater adopted a custom logo (known as the Majesty symbol) and the word which has appeared on the vast majority of their promotional material and on front of every Dream Theater album. Majesty symbol comes from Mary, Queen of Scots' trademark, which was reformulated by Charlie Dominici for use on the album artwork for When Dream and Day Unite. It consists of a capital Phi, a capital Mu, and a capital Lambda.

Live performances

Throughout their career, Dream Theater's live shows have become bigger, longer and more diverse. The most obvious example of this is their rotational list policy. That is, every night of every tour has its set list devised by Portnoy through a meticulous process that ensures its uniqueness. Factors such as the setlist from previous cities are taken into account to ensure that people who see Dream Theater multiple times within the same area will not see the same songs performed twice, and even set list from last time the band was in a particular city are taken into account for the benefit of fans who see the band on successive tours.

Rude and Petrucci dueling in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008).

For this to be possible, the band prepares to play most of its catalog of any benefit, depending on what Portnoy decides that the program for the night. This process also requires recruitment of a complex lighting load pre-configured lighting signals based on the individual songs.

Some of Dream Theater's more notable touring partners include Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Iron Maiden, Joe Satriani, King's X, Marillion, Megadeth, In Flames, Pain of Salvation, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Queensrche, Riverside, Spock's Beard, Fear Factory, Enchant, Symphony X, Yes. In 2005, Theater toured North America with the Gigantour festival Dream, co-headlining with Megadeth and played with Megadeth and Iron Maiden physically on stage.

The band's full World Tours as Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, has mainly been through "Evening with …" tours where the band performs for at least three hours with a break and no opening act. The show, which was recorded for Live scenes from New York was almost four hours, and resulted in Portnoy almost being hospitalized after having acquired severe food poisoning from the food he ate before the show.

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star "

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" live in Nagoya, Japan.

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There is also a significant amount of humor, carelessness, and improvisation attached to a Dream Theater concert. In the midst of "A Change of Seasons" it is quite common for themes such as Major League Baseball and The Simpsons to be quoted, and Rude routinely modifies his solo section in the song and others often play ragtime section "When the water Breaks" from Liquid Tension Experiment second More songs listed again in a live hour include excerpts from works of others, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." Other quotations include "Mary had a Little Lamb" during "Endless Sacrifice "On the Gigantour, a Calliope-inspired break between verses of" Under a Glass Moon ", a quote of" Do not Cry for Me, Argentina "'s main melody played by Petrucci while performing the intro solo of "Through her eyes" in Buenos Aires, the Turkish March at a concert in Istanbul, and the opening riff from Rush's "A Passage to Bangkok" on an exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand. About the recent "20 year anniversary World Tour" Rude has even thrown in a short "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" theme in a break during "Endless Sacrifice" and during a concert in Israel, he began a spontaneous "Hava-Nagilla" later accompanied by the rest of the band.

Occasionally, a member of the audience picked at random to perform on stage, an example that can be seen in Portnoy's drum solo on the Live at Budokan DVD. There have also been many impromptu renditions of "Happy Birthday" when a member of the band or crew have a birthday corresponding to a tour date, which normally results in a birthday cake thrown on the subject.

Perhaps the best example of Dream Theater's unpredictable concert structure is that during Derek Sherinian time with the band. On selected shows the band members all swapped instruments and performed an encore as the fictitious band named Nightmare Cinema. The usually performed a cover of Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" and on one occasion, Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution". At some shows, would Sherinian, Petrucci and Portnoy take the stage together under the name "Nicky Lemons and the Migraine Brothers." Sherinian, wearing a feather boa and novelty sunglasses would perform a pop-punk with the title song "I Do not Like You" with Petrucci and Portnoy backing. In Chaos in Motion tour in several concerts before "Trial of Tears "would Portnoy and Petrucci change attitudes and playing Van Halen's" Eruption ".

Dream Theatre's largest audience as a headlining act was 20,000 in Santiago, Chile, 6 December 2005. It was during their first tour in South American countries except Brazil (which they had visited in 1997 and 1998). The show was released on DVD through Portnoy's YtseJam Records.

The Score and Chaos in Motion DVDs, has an animation accompanied by some parts of songs that shows the band playing along to music as cartoon characters. Scores on DVD, during the song Octavarium, the band is seen as an octagonal-shaped maze. As animation continues Jordan Rudess spontaneously becomes Santa Claus and John Petrucci fire. In "The Dark Eternal Night" from Chaos in Motion DVD, the band battles against a monster by shooting fireballs from guitars, throwing sticks, and screaming.

In 2008 Dream Theater started the "Progressive Nation '08" tour with Opeth, Between the buried and me, and third The journey is the brainchild of Mike Portnoy, who said: "I've been wanting to assemble a package tour like this for many years now. With all the festivals and package tours that go through America, I have spoken to our manager and agent for over 10 years now about doing something that focuses on the more progressive, musician-oriented side of hard rock and metal. I decided it was time to stop talking the talk, lace up and finally walk. "

On 13 February 2009, Dream Theater announced the official line up for their Progressive Nation 2009 Tour. The trip was originally set to feature bands including Swedish bands Beard Fish and Pain of Salvation, and Zappa plays Zappa. On 22 June 2009, Mike Portnoy, the Pain Of Salvation Beard and Fish would not be touring the North American leg of the Progressive Nation 2009 Tour because of record company complications. In the same communication Portnoy stated that bands Scale Summit and would replace Bigelf Pain of Salvation and Beard Fish on the trip. This lineup change has set Bigelf in both North American and European legs of the Progressive 2009 Nationwide Tour. The tour's North American leg ran throughout July and August 2009. On 26 March 2009 it was announced that Dream Theater would take the Progressive Nation tour to Europe for the first time since Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect. The tour ran throughout September and October 2009.

Bootleg culture

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Mike Portnoy started an official bootlegs series in response to Dream Theater fans' affinity for live versions of their concerts. Dream Theater is one of the most actively bootlegged bands in the progressive metal genre. Since their first show in New York as Majesty, fans have recorded almost every show that Dream Theater have played (occasionally there are three or four versions of a single concert), and some very comprehensive and professional recordings have been released.

But not all members of the band approves the release of Dream Theater bootlegs. Portnoy is the most pro-piracy member since he was an avid collector of many bootlegs in his younger days and keeps his own personal archive of Dream Theater material in his basement. Petrucci and LaBrie has voiced opposition to people recording their concerts. Petrucci criticize bootlegs because he prefers the audience to concentrate on the musicians on stage, and not the level adjustments on their recording device. LaBrie, on the other hand, claim that piracy takes ownership and control of Dream Theater's performances away from the band themselves and into the hands of the public. Myung has expressed mild opposition to piracy in some interviews, but has mentioned that he was not very much out the problem with it.

Dream Theater has released a series of official bootlegs, demos and other rarities through YtseJam Records, headed by Portnoy. They include demos band put out before the official albums, as well as many live shows, including shows where the band has covered a particular album. Albums covered include The Dark Side of the Moon, Made in Japan, Master of Puppets and Number of the Beast.

Cover songs

Dream Theater have been known to cover other artists' work throughout their career. The took this practice to a new level during the campaign period tour for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. On three special concerts, one in Barcelona, Chicago and New York City, the tire Metallica Master of Puppets album in its entirety after a full set of Dream Theater material. This came as a surprise to fans as there were no indications that this was to occur; except that it is reported that involved concerts that were on the second night of a two-night stand in each city will be "extra special". This tradition can probably due to one of Mike Portnoy's favorite bands, Phish, who began a series of performing "musical costumes" of entire albums from other artists each Halloween beginning in 1994. Portnoy devised this "album cover" as the first in a series of concerts to be played as a tribute to bands that were influential in the formation and development of Dream Theater. The covers set divided many fans who attended the show with some people saying that they went to a Dream Theater concert to see original music and not another artist's work. Others, however, said it was a bonus and not a substitute for a normal Dream Theater concert, since an ordinary gig had been played the night before.

On the next leg of the tour they covered Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast and received a similar response to Master of Puppets, although it was already known that coverage should be done at night because the tour route included two consecutive concerts in a single city. On 11 October 2005, Dream Theater covered Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. Dream Theater's official website that the second set of the second nights in Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires, so Paulo and Tokyo (October 11 October 25 December 4 December 11 and January 13) and also the second set of January 15 show in Osaka would be a classic album covered in its entirety. The Dark Side of the Moon was played again on 25 October in London. But in Buenos Aires (December 4) and then Paulo (December 11) 'classic album' played was Dream Theater's own Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, to make up for not having visited Argentina and Brazil in their Metropolis 2000 tour. On 13 January 2006 (Tokyo) and 15 (Osaka) Dream Theater covered Deep Purple's live album Made in Japan. Portnoy says he has one more cover show planned, but refuses to reveal when it will happen or what the album will be covered.

During Gigantour 2005, Dream Theater has a cover of Pantera's "Cemetery Gates" as a tribute to "Dimebag" Darrel Lance Abbott. As an added bonus, they had Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, and Russell Allen of Symphony X do guest vocals and Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, makes the biggest solo to the song.

In March 2006, Dream Theater played the rare Rush song "Jacob's Ladder" on a show in Toronto. John Petrucci said a few days later in Asbury Park, New Jersey, before the night's show that "Rush would not play it so we thought we'd play it for them."

In addition, Dream Theater released several live cover songs on their EP A Change of Seasons, including songs from Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Journey, Kansas, and Dixie dregs.

In 2008 they recorded a version of Iron Maiden's "To tame a Land" for a Kerrang magazine collection titled Maiden Heaven. This song was later included on the special edition of the Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Dream Theater also recorded several cover songs for their 2009 album Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The songs came as a bonus disc special editions of the album version.

Dream Theater played "Hava Nagila", the traditional Jewish song in "Metropolis Pt 1:. The Miracle and the Sleeper" at a sold out concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, 16 June 2009.

On August 14, 2009 under a Toronto show, Dream Theater played the Rush song "The Camera Eye", originally released on Rush's Moving Pictures album.

Discography

Main article: Dream Theater discography

When Dream and Day Unite (1989)

Pictures and words (1992)

Awake (1994)

A Change of Seasons (1995)

Falls under Infinity (1997)

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)

Thinking (2003)

Octavarium (2005)

Systematic Chaos (2007)

Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)

In addition to the above official album, Dream Theater members, past and present, has helped hundreds of bootleg albums, both official and unofficial, side projects collaborate with other artists, and guest appearances.

Band Members

Main article: List of Dream Theater band members

Current Members

James LaBrie – vocals, percussion (1991-present)

John Myung – Bass guitar, Chapman stick (1985-present)

John Petrucci – Guitar, Backing vocals (1985-present)

Mike Portnoy – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1985-present)

Jordan Rudess – Keyboards, Continuum, lap steel guitar (1999-now)

Former members

Chris Collins – Lead Vocals (1986)

Charlie Dominici – Lead vocals (1987-1989)

Kevin Moore – Keyboards (1986-1994)

Derek Sherinian – Keyboards, backing vocals (1994-1998)

Awards and Certificates

RIAA gold and platinum certification

Pictures and words (Gold) – February 2, 1995

Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes From New York (Gold) – November 8, 2002

Live at Budokan (DVD) (Platinum) – January 26, 2005

Living in Tokyo / 5 years in a Live Time (Platinum) – March 22, 2006

Score (DVD) (Platinum) – October 11, 2006

Keyboard Magazine

Jordan Rudess was awarded following Keyboard Magazine Reader's Poll award ':

Best New Talent (1994)

Burrn magazine's best keyboard player of the year (2007)

Modern Drummer

Mike Portnoy stole the following Modern Drummer Magazine Reader's Poll Awards:

Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)

Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995-2006)

Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons. 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis, Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, and 2007 for Score)

Best Clinics (2000, 2002)

Best educational video / DVD (2000, 2002)

Hall of Fame inductee (2004)

Guitar World

The album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked # 95 in magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time.

Total Guitar

John Petrucci won Guitarist of the Year (2007).

Other Accolades

On Dream Theater's Salt Lake City show, Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed a proclamation making July 30, 2007 "Dream Theater Day".

In December 2007, Dream Theater was chosen as Xbox Live's Artist of the month.

Dream Theatre's music video "Constant Motion" was voted in second place in Headbanger's Ball 2007 competitions.

Dream Theater's music video "Forsaken" was voted fifth in the Headbanger's Ball 2008 competition.

Dream Theater's song "Panic Attack" from their album Octavarium is featured in the video game Rock Band 2 In addition, the song "Constant Motion" is downloadable content Rock Band series.

The song "Pull Me Under" from the album Images and words are also featured on Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Since August 12, 2008 (Xbox 360) and August 14, 2008 (PS3), Dream Theater's song "Constant Motion" has been available for download for Rock Band. For the first month it was available for a promotional price equal to $ 0.99 USD, but later returned to a normal $ 1.99 cost of Rock Band downloadable content.

Dream Theater played twice on Xbox 360s Game with Fame event. They played Halo 3 in December 2007 and Call of Duty: World at War in June 2009.

Notes

^ Abcd Billboard chart history to Dream Theater can be found at Billboard.com.

^ "February 9, 2007". Nielsen SoundScan News. The 2007th http://www.marketingtomenconference.com/marketingtomen/bb_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544204. Retrieved 02/11/2007.

^ "When Dream Theater and Roadrunner Records Unite!". dreamtheater.net. The 2007th http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/DreamTheater/video.aspx. Retrieved 02/12/2007.

^ Abcde This was referenced in the documentary film "The Score So Far", on the second disc of the score DVD.

^ Portnoy, Mike (2003). "The Majesty Demos 1985-1986" [CD liner notes]. New York: Ytsejam Records.

^ "The Dream Theater FAQ – Graphic Version". Gabbo.net. http://www.gabbo.net/dt/faq/. Retrieved 02/01/2009.

^ Ab Portnoy, Mike (2004). And Nathan Edmonds helping to create "When Dream and Day Unite Demos "1987-1989 [CD liner notes]. New York: YtseJam Records.

^ Dominici, Charlie. When Dream And Day Unite liner notes (2004 reissue).

^ Abcd See MikePortnoy.com tourography for more information on this tour date.

^ Portnoy's tourography: June 9, 1990 tour date

^ East West Records press release.

^ Nine Christmas CDs were released by Dream Theater's fan club, before it was shut down in 2005. See DTIFC at Dream Theater.net.

^ LaBrie, James. (Summer '97) Pictures & Words No. 14, pg. 5

^ Falling Into Infinity Demos

^ Portnoy, Mike (1998). "Liquid Tension Experimentation "[CD liner notes] New York. Magna Carta Records.

^ "Mike Portnoy FAQ". http://www.mikeportnoy.com/aboutmike/faq/answers/12.aspx # 213th

^ DreamTheater.net reported that Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence reached # 1 on the Billboard Internet Charts.

^ Mike Portnoy (2007) "In Constant Motion" Instructional DVD, mindsets album analysis.

^ Http: / / digitalprosound.digitalmedianet.com / articles / viewarticle.jsp? Id = 45690

^ "Lifting Shadows – The Authorized Story Of Dream Theater" Dreamtheaterbook.com http://www.dreamtheaterbook.com/ Retrieved 01/02/2009 ….

^ Gods of Metal Official website

^ "Dream Theater begins recording new album, looking for new label home." Blabbermouth.net

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^ Http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/dream-theater 's-Mike Portnoy-pen-tribute-to-late-father /

^ Holy Shit, Dream Theater's debut at 6 on the Billboard Top 200, gauntlet

^ Http: / / www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/m2443312.aspx

^ Http: / / www.dreamtheater.net / tourdates.php # dtnzaustralia

^ The mark used by Mary, Queen of Scots, is available at DreamTheater.net.

^ An embroidery showing Mary, Queen of Scots, symbol in use

^ Dixon, Brad et al. "What is the 'symbol' DT use?".

^ Campbell, Courtney. "Mike Portnoy – Dream Theater". Earplugs Required.

^ See Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York DVD

^ Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. "What will I hear about Mike is really sick after Roseland (DVD) show? What happened? ". MP FAQ.

^ Voices UK: Dream Theater Fan Club "Dream Theater News: Record crowd"

^ Octavarium Animation

^ Nads Animation By: Mika Tyyskä

^ "Progressive Nation 2008 – Press release ". Dreamtheater.net (Dream Theater). 11/05/2007. Http://www.dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php # prog nation. Retrieved 5/11/2008.

^ Http: / / www.dreamtheater.net / news_dreamtheater.php # pnlineup

^ Http: / / www.dreamtheater.net / tourdates.php Progressive Nation Tour Dates

^ "YtseJam Records – The Official Dream Theater Bootlegs ". Ytsejamrecords.com. Http://www.ytsejamrecords.com. Retrieved 2/1/2009.

^ Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. "What are all the aspects involved in covering an entire album by another band? What Mike takes into consideration when picking an album?". MP FAQ.

^ Http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/06/maiden_heaven_track_listing_re.html

^ Http: / / whiplash.net/materias/news_874/091017-dreamtheater.html

^ http://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/discography/page4.html

^ "RIAA". Riaa.com. http://www.riaa.com. Retrieved 02/01/2009.

^ Jordan Rude biography

^ Http: / / rateyourmusic.com/list/Boggs1027/guitar_worlds_100_greatest_guitar_albums_of_all_time

References

Bredius, Mark. Dream Theater – the official site. (Retrieved February-April, 2005.)

Dixon, Brad et al. Official Dream Theater FAQ. (Retrieved February-April 2005, moved c. 2007.)

Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. Dream Theater Tourography. (Retrieved February-April, 2005.)

King, Brian. (2003). "Jam Progductions! Interview with John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy. "Theater of Dreams 29, p. 1420th

Hansen, Scott. (2003). "James LaBrie: As this man thinks." Theater of Dreams 27/28, p. 2630.

Hale, Mark (1993). "1731 Majesty". Headbangers (First edition, second printing ed.). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Popular Culture, Ink. ISBN 1-56075-029-4.

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Dream Theater

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Studio albums

When Dream and Day Unite Images and words Awake fall into Infinity Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Octavarium Systematic Chaos Thinking Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Live releases

Lives at the Marquee Once alive hours Live Scenes from New York Live at Budokan Score Chaos in Motion 20072008

Compilations

Greatest Hit (… and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)

EPs

A change of Seasons Wither

Videos

Pictures and words: Live in Tokyo 5 years in a Live Time Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York Live at Budokan Score Chaos in Motion 20,072,008

Singles

"Another Day" "Pull me under" Take Time "" caught in a web " "Lie" The Silent Man "" Hollow Years "Through Her Eyes" "Home" As I Am, "" Constant Motion "" Forsaken " "A Rite of Passage" Wither "

Suites

A Mind beside himself Twelve-step Suite

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