first things first… thank God, the metal poseurs hate Dream Theater….
secondly, I aint no purist or d ignited one to b commnting abt d sheer brilliance of DT, but its just dat since i’ve hooked off to DT , i hvnt virtually looked to any othr stuff for inspiration, bliss, calm n peace. (apart from mustaine’s sessions for drawin first blood)
Honestly, i hvnt always been an invariant fan of DT. I hooked off to listening and checking out their albums following a guitar video by petrucci. From the opening blast of the song “Overture 1928″, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into.. U also cant really figure out the technicality in their opus in a few sessions. Unlike hard rock and thrash, progressive acts like DT do require a bit of more attentive span to understand their music, u simply got to do a bit of extra-research what its all about, d lyrics and evry other possible info dats available abt dat song. This is a fact. There’s no other way around.
These DT folks may be hav been around in d circuit for quite a long time now, but they sure know a thing or two thousand about playin their instruments with style, and substance. Lots of substance. Each member is so individually brilliant at what they do, its a sheer pleasure to enjoy DT’s music. U don’t often come across a band, where each member has his own time signatures in their songs that simply stands out. The only other such band i can think of right now is d great “Mr Big”.
the inspiration behind every DT song…and the contribution of each member in his own way…the complex time signatured-riffs… the wicked drum rolls and amazing keyboards…lap stell guitar and the awesome base combined with james Labrie’s amazing vocals makes them a complete musical package.. they seem to be like the mixture…a perfect blend of the Gods like led zeppelin…pink floyd…they are Gods…mere words cannot describe DT…. Every DT album has those high moments that grabs me by the gut and don’t let go, even after the disc stops and takes the atmosphere to an altogether diffrnt level of pure bliss. This is wht DT is all about.
anothr intrstin fact is the actual storyline & d mystery behind each of their songs. U can almost make a life dwelling about it . none would know only listening to the song, “Honor Thy Father” that Mike Portnoy penned it on his relationship with his step father. DT is one of a kind, who writes stuff… rather used to write, about their personal lives and relationships before venturing into demons and vampires. “Pull me under” is another mysterious one… the song ends vry abruptly and initially i thought my record had a problem, until i figured out why does d song actually end dat way.
My all-time personal fav, album has to “Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory”. It’s a typical progressive album like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. And since this is a concept album, you will find a plot and some melodies recurring throughout the record. The concept is hard to explain: d plot unfolds both in the past and in d present (1928 and 1999). The story of the concept is quite in-depth, tactical and psychological. To portray such practical hardheaded intelligent imagery through a disc such as this is complete genius. It is basically one 77 minute song broken into diffrnt scenes or rather plots.
I was watchin a DT live video record of this album a couple of days back and after listening to two non-stop scenes(songs), I was tempted to figure out how many scenes can they actually play live and that too, at one go… and can u imagine … they actually played all d twelve scenes or songs of d album … non-stop… it was a moment of pure disbelief and thought the video was ripped off… only later googled to find dat they actually did it… I know.. playing over an hour non-stop aint a great thing but i would call a bunch of musicians as extremely gifted ones, who can even play only scene of the record with dat amount of tightness.
Mere Gods cant play The Majestic “Dream Theater”. U either need to be a Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung, Labrie or Rudess.
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