I'm now at Buenos Aires waiting for the show at Movistar Arena, are here some fans from Paraguay? Are some of u coming here?

Probably gonna get flamed here for this but I started DT with MM albums. As a drummer myself I can't understand the insane fandom for portnoy other than nostalgia. It's a social upgrade for the band and a musical talent downgrade. Mangini could go from prog to metal to even death metal type expressions. The album with the alien is a great example of just how good he is. if you grew up studying music you can just feel how insanely more connected to it he is.

Portnoy is very talented, but he's predictable, and listening to his interviews over decades his ego is massive and talks a lot about mathematical unpredictable drumming, but in action he really isn't. I just find myself enjoying MM albums a lot more.

I also think MM makes John petrucci create a lot better everything on his guitar in every way I can think of.

Nostalgia won getting portnoy back but lost heavily in every other area.

Portnoy acts like dance of the eternity made him the world's best drummer.

Am I the minority due to starting on MM albums? I've heard every DT album 100 times now and the MM albums get way way more play. JP and MM together are magic ✨

Has anyone noticed on Spotify that there are two versions of Night Terror, an original and a Night Terror - Radio Edit, does anyone know if this song is playing on any FM Radio?

Tribute band When Dream and Theater Unite are playing 18th of Dec at the Evelyn in Fitzroy in Melbourne!

Theyre playing the entire Awake album plus some extra songs! Ill be there, hope theyre good! Anyone on this sub coming along??

I’ve been seeing others post stuff along the lines of this, and I’m just curious if Wait for Sleep is regarded as a particularly hard piece for guitarists? I’m 41 and I can play it with relative ease but it’s so hard to hear Petrucci’s parts. What are your guys thoughts?

I stole this idea from another post on here btw but I'm 13 years old and just learned the entirety of learning to live on guitar. Just wondering how difficult this song is considered

Although I really love Dream Theater, I always found some of their late Portnoy albums (and Awake) to be too long and a little... exausting? I mean, i love all the songs and no song is a filler, but some Albums like Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds being over 1 hour and 10 mins feels like too much, to not talk about Six Degrees with 1 hour and a half. So I decided to rework them in smaller albums and moving some songs from one to another. Tell me what do you think about this! I tried to organize the songs as tasteful as i could, not randomly, with like a more In-Your-Face song, and then a ballad, and at the end an epic.

This is completely my opinion, obviously the way these album are intended to be listened as is how the band intended, but I find this to be a cool experiment (and from now on I will personally listen to just my reworked albums)

The order i did is as follow:

● Awake - 53 minutes

• The Mirror [6:45]
• Lie [6:34]
• Innocence Faded [5:43]
• Voices [9:54]
• Lifting Shadows Off a Dream [6:05]
• Scarred [10:59]
• Space-Dye Vest [7:30]

● A Change of Seasons - 44 minutes

• 6:00 [5:31]
• Caught in a Web [5:28]
• The Silent Man [3:48]
• Erotomania [6:44]
• A Change of Seasons [23:10]

● Prison Of The Mind - 54 minutes

• The Glass Prison [13:52]
• Blind Faith [10:22]
• Misunderstood [09:32]
• The Great Debate [13:46]
• Disappear [06:46]

● Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence - 42 minutes

• Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence [42:02]

● Systematic Chaos - 47 minutes

• The Dark Eternal Night [8:51]
• Forsaken [5:36]
• Constant Motion [6:55]
• In The Presence of Enemies (Part I & II) [25:38]

● Lost Souls - 40 minutes

• A Rite Of Passage [8:35]
• Repentance [10:43]
• Prophets of War [6:01]
• Ministry of Lost Souls [14:47]

● Black Clouds & Silver Linings - 54 minutes

• A Nightmare To Remember [16:10]
• Wither [5:25]
• The Best of Times [13:07]
• The Count of Tuscany [19:17]

Awake was split into two, reordering tracks, and putting ACOS in the second one (and naming the album after it). Six Degrees was just split into two, i really love the 42min Suite but I find people underrate it because listening to it after already 50 mins of album is pretty tirino. Systematic Chaos was split, the first album having both In The Presence Of Enemies at the end, being an entire song. Then there is an hybrid between SC and BC&SL, with Ministry of Lost Souls (one of my favorites) giving the album the name. And then BC&SL, removing The Shattered Fortress because I honestly don't like it, and see it as one of the rare DT's song to be filler. I also made these into spotify playlist, and I put fanmade artworks for the new albums.

Today I've been finally able to play Octavarium in his entirety. I'm 14 Years Old But i have been playing Guitar since i am 9. Is Octavarium considerd hard to play? Cause I know that many sections Are pretty easy But they also slap sometimes.

I know a lot of people are talking about Dream Theater recycling ideas, being repetitive, not being creative enough, not being as interesting as LTE and that good stuff you read here on the daily. I have a suggestion since you guys are such creative powerhouses - why don't you start your own band and share you glorious musical aptitudes with the world instead of criticizing the guys who have essentially created a whole muscial genre and have one of the most interesting/intricate/diverse musical catalogs of all metal? Go start a band, go learn an instrument. Then you might start appreciating the fact that they're 40 years strong as a band and still rocking amazing music with incredible consistency.

Hi! Can anyone share how VIP has been on the South American leg of the tour? I bought VIP for Chile, and I mainly want to know if when everything's done they make you exit the venue to enter the concert (meaning you loose your spot on the waiting row and the opportunity to be up front), or you have like an special entrance or something. Thanks in advance!

Hello, idk this kind of question is suit to here but I cannot find the acoustic guitar JP used during inside & out era and 'Another Day' MV. If anyone knows, can you write comment please? I will really appreciate it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29pdFce1g0&ab_channel=MatteoBertozzi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYtiDCXLAcQ&ab_channel=DreamTheater

Idk does two acoustic guitars are same tho...

Sorry for my bad english btw

Lukas Irmler. From @unique_travel_explore IG account

So, SFAM is based on Metropolis pt.1 (lyrically and musically) What song (not Metropolis pt.1) do you think would be suitable as the basis of a concept album?

I just came out of the São Paulo show and I was prepared for the worst, based on some of the stuff I read here. I have been going to DT concerts for 10+ years and I can easily say this is one of the best they sounded by far.

Mike, Jordan, both Johns sounded their usual selves, only slightly better. James sounded insane, honestly. Of course he didn’t attempt the ultra high notes, but he crushed the entire setlist. Don’t want to spoil ir for those who haven’t seen it, but there are a couple of songs in particular that he brought the house down with his voice and emotions.

This was probably now in my top 3 DT concerts ever

It’s been a while since I’ve given this album some love but really been listening to it the last few days. The Glass Prison drum work has really stood out to me as being very creative. The double kick at the 3min mark and 6:48min mark blew me away. I’m a guitarist so I drool over the solos but MPs drum work was exceptional and very creative on this album and this song.

The powerful playing by Petrucci the whole song really brings the sadness of the song to a whole new level for me.

Your thoughts?

I saw the comment "Myung just write the bass lines after the other guys write the whole structure."

Is that true?

I've loved Six Degrees (title track) ever since I first heard it, from the beautiful melodies, and solos to the very sensitive lyrical topics.

As I've grown older, though, I've really been able to empathize with the lyrics to another level and it has completely changed the impact of this epic for me.

There was a period of time where I just hadn't listened to it, probably years in a row, as I go through phases of giving songs I love a time to refresh themselves and then I come back to them. In the time I'd spent away from 6DoIT, I have met people and have been able to be introspective about myself.

I've since met people who suffer from mania/are bipolar, I've discovered that I exhibit classic signs of autism (no diagnosis, just noticeable and relatable parallels), and even recently, met someone with D.I.D.

For Solitary Shell, so much of the lyrics hit so close to home now when I look back on my childhood and where I am right now. I was always a quiet kid, always distant but for all intents and purpose, normal. Lots of feelings I had that I couldn't explain that are summarized so well.

A friend with mania/bipolar symptoms who has told me about the soaring highs and the plummeting lows, doing uncharacteristic things just while in each phase.

And lastly, D.I.D. is actually a fairly divisive topic in the psychology/mental health community as there are a lot of people who don't believe it exists as it's hard to prove definitively. As such, it's very difficult for people who suffer from it to get proper care. This person I met displays common symptoms/signs of someone with D.I.D. and I've also learned about where they believe it originated from. After learning that, and listening to James sing what he says in Losing Time, its gone from my least favorite to being a very moving experience, particularly where he says "She had created a way to survive. She learned to detach, a behavior that kept her alive"

Anyway, I just wanted to share this rediscovery as it hit like a ton of bricks recently and nobody I know IRL would be able to appreciate it (they aren't going to listen to a 43 minute suite).

https://preview.redd.it/uvynonxbzv6e1.png?width=558&format=png&auto=webp&s=babc1cb5f00f746b4d964ffb350bf8bb00690a02

My buddy 3D printed this for me