For those that don't watch, the auditions are about 90-120 seconds long so it's not a whole song, usually a bit condensed with the most well-known or biggest vocal parts.

Mods, if this question not belongs here, I'll not mind to have it removed.

So, I've been following the tour and is pretty insane they play everyday in different cities, on different countries. I'm intrigued by how they accomplish this? Do they have two sets of their gear? Or assemblying and disassembling the stage is not as complicated as it looks? If anyone know how is done, I'm curious to know.

I've always been curious about this. The EP was released in September 1995 whereas the injury was December 1994. However, I understand that it was actually recorded during the Images and Words days before getting re-recorded for the EP. But when you listen to James on the EP, he seems quite good, and more similar tonally to Images and Words than he does to Falling Into Infinity. He's not necessarily soaring, but his voice has this young crisp melodic quality to it. Contrast that with the sort of timbre he has on Falling Into Infinity, where he's got this deeper, raspier, more alternative-inspired everyman tone. Or did the impact of his injury not yet take full effect?

So I'm wondering if anyone has any intel on this.

Seriously. Among the giant epics, A change of seasons and octavarium is generally lifted up. Maybe also SDOIT. But man

In the presence of enemies was on the first album I experienced as a new listener to the band.

The song was just everything I hoped for. What I hoped for was my mind to be blown. The first slow guitar theme is one of my very favourites. The whole thing, and with the demonic touch to it “dark master” was just so chilling for me as a 17yo but still is. I want them to play this again but it might never be. The ending reprise of the main melody, whof! Masterpiece

I'm taking Higher Music and you need to have two pieces per instrument, so I'm doing under a glass moon, but the examiners don't accept only tab (annoying) and most of the notation is either wrong or costs money (very annoying) I was wondering if any guitarists in this sub might happen to have tab with notation? Any help would be greatly appreciated as my prelim is next week 🙏

https://youtu.be/mSiNpUnUy1w

at 1:20 Portnoy plays 16th notes on a cymbal right before “Up there”. anyone know what it’s called?

I was just browsing Dream Theater's music as an normal fan does when I noticed the "Music Videos" option and came across that A Rite of Passage has a music video which was the last song I expected to have a music video out of Black Clouds and Silver Linings. I know some other official music videos do exist like the recent Night Terror. So I'm wondering, which do you guys think is Dream Theater's best music video, not by music, but just by the music video itself?

My Personal favorite that I know of is On the Back of Angels, my least favorite being Lie, and I love both those songs.

Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, but im not a native english speaker, and so i looked at space dye vests lyrics and the first line says "falling through pages of Martens on angels", and ive never seen the word Martens before. I tried to look it up but all i get is a shoe brand. Can someone please tell me what it means???

I have an extra ticket in orc3 because I ended up grabbing seats closer to the stage. Already sold 2 of them to a member here, and have one more left.

Will sell for $160 ($153 price + paypal fee) with paypal transfer.

What's your guys opinion of this performance I honestly would like to see a studio version of this https://youtu.be/4A4UaEhF1ko?si=pgLKo7SYZvjIod88

Like the Clowny music bit In Under a glass moon Live version, It always caugh me by surprise.

Do you have more examples of this? on dream theater music or other prog bands?

Got home from college for Thanksgiving and these were boxed up on my bed from the summer pre-order. Glad to finally have the earlier albums on vinyl and hope to get Vol2 when Rino releases it next year 😊.

Also got the Scenes from a Memory novel because my Astonishing book was lonely.

It's confirmed that they're gonna play the whole new album, so there's that. But what else would you like them to play?

Since they haven't played anything from SDOIT on this tour so far, I'd love the second set to be the whole song, just like they did in Score, and then close with Pull Me Under just because, you know, they need a closer.

So basically:

All of Parasomnia (71:15) SDOIT (42:02) Pull Me Under (8:14)

A total of 121:31 (a bit more than two hours per show, which would stretch to roughly two and a half hours considering breaks between songs and sets).

It's probably a bit too long, but one can dream.

I don't like / dislike the song that much, and I don't mind the audio clips of news reporters, etc., in the beginning. But the Middle Eastern chatter (no idea what language, sorry), combined with the sort of deserty melodic hook, I don't know, it just borders as Islamophobic and I've always really been uncomfortable with it. Al-Quaeda are not representative of Islam, but at the time I think Americans were more likely to equate Muslims with terrorists, and this song just reminds me of that. Anyone else?

EDIT: I’m clearly in the wrong about this. My bad.

I was listening to Count of Tuscany just now and there are some lines that, translated to my native language, sound pretty goofy to me.

I wonder if that’s the case to you. Tell me which songs have weirdest, goofiest, cringiest lyrics.

As no new dates for the UK have been added yet , I thought I’d be adventurous and book for Bulgaria looks a nice place and I’ve never seen a concert in an amphitheater so looking forward to it