Doesn't necessarily need to be a bad one. It could be a track with crazy instrumentals which might not make sense at all on first listen.
I haven’t heard a lot of people talk about this cover so I’d like to discuss it. On the 40th anniversary edition of A Farewell to Kings, a whole disc of the album is taken up by covers, one of them being Xanadu (one of my favorite songs) covered by Dream Theater (one of my favorite bands). I thought the instrumental was basically perfect, one of the most accurate covers I’ve ever heard. James LaBrie’s vocals weren’t great, but I can forgive it. What do you guys think?
Let's restart reading this.
Already started last year but I stopped.
My native tongue is not English. Got some problems understanding first 15 pages 🤣
I became interested in the band about a year ago after hearing Metropolis Part 1 in Rock Band 4.
Hey! I pulled this guitar out because I wanted to play Rocksmith and ended up realizing it might be worth quite a bit more than I thought 😂
It’s a 1998 Ibanez RG7620, made in Japan at FujiGen, serial F9829010.
I bought it used around 2003, already modified with an EMG at the bridge. I still have the original pickup and some of the original electronics.
Years later I got it signed by the full Dream Theater lineup from the Mangini era: Petrucci, LaBrie, Myung, Rudess and Mangini.
The guitar is definitely not mint. I’ve actually used it, it has some wear, and obviously the pickup mod hurts originality a bit.
I always assumed it was maybe a €400-500 guitar because I remember paying pretty little for it back then, but looking around now it seems RG7620s have gone up quite a lot.
Any idea what something like this would realistically be worth today?
Also curious whether the Dream Theater signatures actually add much value, or if collectors would rather have a clean unsigned example.
Not really planning to sell it, I’m just amused that I apparently had this sitting around for 20+ years without thinking much about it 🤣
I started listening to DT towards the turn of the century, back when the current album was SFAM. I listened to the albums that came after increasingly less and never got into the Mangini era (though I think Barstool Warrior is a gem). Wondering what people that became fans at later periods (2000's and 2010's) think of their 90's catalog. My favorite Petrucci era is around FII (Rock Discipline, LTE, Once in a LIVEtime), is it mostly nostalgia?
Concerts hit totally different when you see a band full of GOAT level musicians play a full 1:30 album that just came out in its' entirety and not miss. And it was in a small venue where you really get to see them up close and personal.
Neal seems like he's one of the most chill musicians on the planet. Portnoy actually has a pretty good sense of humor. And I have to say that Mac Arthur Park actually kind of rules as a prog song!
What's your favorite instrumental from DT, and why is it Dance of Eternity?
Don't get me wrong, nearly every intstrumental since Ytse Jam is incredible but that one... dang.
Discuss.
Here’s my symphonic rendition of Breaking All Illusions! I had a fun time making this one!
and now I'm wondering what I’d enjoy from them I was looking for more progressive metal that’s similar to Meshuggah and Gojira. I happen to be a big fucking geek sometimes, and having a case of the tism plus a love for diving into detailed things like understanding complex music is kinda my shit.
Are there any Dream Theater songs/albums that would be a good starting point for me? If it helps, I’m analytical as hell and really enjoy picking apart complex music and figuring out how everything works together.
Among the driving riffs and progressive momentum of Pull Me Under, there is a quiet, devastating line hidden in plain sight: "Watch the sparrow falling, gives new meaning to it all." While the track is universally celebrated as a prog-metal masterpiece, Kevin Moore’s lyrics carry a haunting literary depth that transforms the song into a profound meditation on mortality, destiny, and perspective.
This singular image of a falling sparrow is not merely an evocative metaphor; it is a direct echo of two timeless texts that grapple with human frailty.
The original thread leads back to scripture in Matthew 10:29: "Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will." Here, the sparrow represents the smallest, most fragile element of creation. Even a creature so seemingly insignificant does not perish in isolation or outside the scope of cosmic awareness.
Centuries later, William Shakespeare picked up this exact thread in Hamlet (Act V, Scene II), right before the prince steps into his fatal duel. Resigning himself to the inevitability of his fate, Hamlet observes: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."
When Dream Theater brings this imagery into Pull Me Under, it connects our modern noise to that ancient realization. In the middle of our chaotic ambitions, the sudden, quiet collapse of something as delicate as a sparrow shatters the illusion of control. Witnessing that ultimate frailty strips away the superficial noise of daily life, forcing an abrupt shift in consciousness; literally giving "new meaning to it all."
This makes the track’s infamous, jarring ending all the more brilliant. The music doesn't fade out; it simply ceases, cutting off mid-riff like a thread suddenly snapped. The fallen sparrow reminds us of our own impermanence, and the song leaves us standing in the heavy silence that inevitably follows.
How does this line, and the abrupt silence at the end, hit you when you listen to the track today?
Was portnoy an alcoholic?
Bonjour,
La question doit être sûrement posée souvent ici mais je me demandais par quel album je devrais commencer à écouter Dream Theater ?
Si cela peut vous guider sur mes goûts, je suis absolument fan de Pink Floyd. Je ne m'y connais que très peu en metal mais j'aime bien SOAD, Iron Maiden et Megadeth 🤷🤷
Now that Mike is back in the fold, would anyone here want to see another Dream Theater & Opeth tour? To me, I couldn't ask for a better bill than that, given that DT & Opeth are my two favorite bands (in that order).
Could do 1 leg in North America & 1 leg in Europe.
Been going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out roughly what the DT members might be earning/worth after 40 years in the band, and honestly there's way less hard data out there than I expected for a band this legendary.
So genuine question for people who follow the business side of this stuff more than I do: realistically, are guys like Petrucci and Myung sitting on generational wealth at this point, or is prog metal - even at the top of the genre - just... not that lucrative compared to what people assume? Curious if anyone has better sources than the usual net-worth-calculator garbage.