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Points: 421 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2005 at 08:51
Mikael likes to joke and most of Opeth's fans anyways, are nuts!! They are hypnotized by his voice in song and out I swear. A warm, and funny Swedish man though.

The only time I could really see DT not concentrating so much on their instruments, is on the more rockier parts of Metropolis Pt. II and even then it becomes quite concentrated and complex. I enjoy their DVD, fascinating instrumentally.
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It's funny to see how everytime the simple association of two quite ordinary words, "Dream" and "Theater" is mentioned, there starts an endless dispute ala PC versus MAC. The same occur with model trains (my other hobby), by the way, when fans of the Märklin brand oppose the other modellers.
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DT rule!

I can't believe that people here are criticising their choice of what type of music they want to play????? less solos and cut out material???? I suppose that you'd like all bands to operate via phone in poll. Don't like it don't buy it. Don't like the shows don't go. I've seen DT 6 times and they are my favourite band live. There are many bands I don't like but I don't feel the need to go and post negative comments about them, I focus on what is good in music and what I like.

DT will always get slated by certain types because of their success. They have enjoyed great success within their genre because people LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

Nuff said.
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Wow, where to start....

Dream Theater ABSOLUTELY interacts with the audience and haves fun during their concerts. Of course their music is pretty complex so they have to be concentrating a lot of the time, but when I saw them on GIGANTOUR, they were anything but stiff. Labrie was all over the stage, Portnoy threw his sticks out during the songs, and was tossing them to Labrie back and forth while playing, Petrucci definetly had some rocking headbanging going on, they sing "To those who understand I extend my hand, to the doubtful I demand EAT MY ASS AND BALLS" instead of "TAKE ME AS I AM".....that doesn't sound too stiff to me.
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Originally posted by MysticDream MysticDream wrote:

Wow, where to start....

Dream Theater ABSOLUTELY interacts with the audience and haves fun during their concerts. Of course their music is pretty complex so they have to be concentrating a lot of the time, but when I saw them on GIGANTOUR, they were anything but stiff. Labrie was all over the stage, Portnoy threw his sticks out during the songs, and was tossing them to Labrie back and forth while playing, Petrucci definetly had some rocking headbanging going on, they sing "To those who understand I extend my hand, to the doubtful I demand EAT MY ASS AND BALLS" instead of "TAKE ME AS I AM".....that doesn't sound too stiff to me.

I can only go on the DVD's that ive got of them as i havnt had the opertunity to see them live yet but they really seem to try and work up the crowd through their music more than telling anecdotes. And at the end of the day arnt you going their to watch them perform some of the most complex music out their, not to see some bloke stand around on stage talking to you wilst three or four others stand around tuning up instruments.
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Their music is far from the quality of the bands they try to sound like(okay, they do beat Muse, I give you that), and it seems that they have a pretty bad sense of humour too.
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I saw them for the first time in Toronto on Gigantour during the summer, and they were absolutlely fantastic. I can't wait until the "Evening With..." shows (apparently they'll be doing a North American tour in February-March :D). James LaBrie in particular sounded fantastic, which was somewhat surprising considering his bad live reputation.

BTW, has anyone else heard the "Eat my ass and balls" edition of Fatal Tragedy? Anyone who thinks they're "stiff" or humourless should listen to that.
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Dream Theater needn't any additional stage performance IMO. What really got on my nerves though were those "C'mons" and "Yeah!s" LaBrie always screams. They sort of give me the feeling like I'm on a real metal concert, which is the last I want the band to go back to. ToT was enough :( although it is a masterpiece. What would be really suitable is sth like performance art during the shows or installations. This is very rare. I think those cheap WinAMP like effects on the Metropolis 2000 DVD really sucked.
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I can only go on the DVD's that ive got of them as i havnt had the opertunity to see them live yet but they really seem to try and work up the crowd through their music more than telling anecdotes. And at the end of the day arnt you going their to watch them perform some of the most complex music out their, not to see some bloke stand around on stage talking to you wilst three or four others stand around tuning up instruments.

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+1, my exact thoughts.

If you're going to a Dream Theater concert to listen to the frontman tell stories and talk with the crowd and say "f**k" every other word to be badass, you obviously aren't a DT fan anyways.
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I actually appreciate when LaBrie walks off stage in the middle of the song
so that you can really focus on the rest of the band while they do amazing
things with their instruments. Thats why I will continue to go to their
shows, my third one will be in April hopefully!
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they arent very sexciting to watch, petrucci is basically sitting down staring at his strings and like a tiny bit of headbanging once every ten minutes, but the music is more important than the show, imo, and dt are sick.

after seeing the fall of troy live, not much else is impressive
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