Dream Theater - Prog or not? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Edit: Oops, that was a wrong link. I don't find the original anymore.

Edited by progressive - March 10 2010 at 21:29

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They're not prog metal. They're frog metal. Metal that jumps and leaps and seems to be onlh trying to find a acne-scarred princess to kiss it so it reveals its inner beauty.

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Luckily I anticipated a thread like this would be made again. Got a pistol with one bullet by my side.

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Here`s the solution that every DT fan boy want:

http://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/

JLocke wrote:

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

lucas wrote:

If Dream Theater are not prog metal, what are they ?

A Metal band with Prog leanings IMO, but probably many will disagree.

It depends on what era of the band's music you're talking about. Modern DT? Absolutely agree with you. Classic DT? Very Prog, in my opinion.

The same way, you could tell that Genesis and Yes are pop bands...

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lucas wrote:

If Dream Theater are not prog metal, what are they ?

A Metal band with Prog leanings IMO, but probably many will disagree.

I hope this is a joke T,

I don't know what's the relation between Math Rock and a metal band with some Prog leanings (Of course IMHO) or why is Math Rock so transcendental.

I woudn't join a Math Rock thread because except for Don Caballero, I know very little, but the knowledge of one sub-genre doesn't have relation with your knowledge of Prog as a whole.

Iván

EDIT: OK I read the Math Rock quote and your correct comment.

Maybe I have a problem because I don't know much or care about Math Rock. Wink

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 10 2010 at 15:47

I think you missed some of the f'd up grammar in the original quote.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

Dream Theater emerged from the (at the time) very popular neo-classical fusion movement (actually just a shredder movement, but that was what they called themselves at the time) and did something almost unheard of, tried to have all five players take equal footing. While Yngwie Malmsteen had been willing to duel with the Johansson brothers, most shredder records were a one-man (very occasionally woman) show. DT were a band straight out of the Mike Varney play book. Pertucci was (and is) a hybrid of Vai and Malmsteen, as were a host of guitarists before him.

If you're going to show off a virtuosic drummer, complex time signatures have to be involved. By the time time Kevin Moore added in his atmospheric glue, prog metal as we know it was forged.

What I'm trying to say is that DT were not born of the prog movement, they sidestepped into it. It was a fairly natural step, but they are the children of Iron Maiden, Vai, Malmsteen. Certainly to some extent Rush. They are not the children of Yes or Genesis or even Marillion.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

Poll Question: Do you regard Dream Theater as a prog band?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes, they are true prog metal and true prog rock	95	[66.90%]
Yes, they are true pog metal but not prog rock	15	[10.56%]
No, they are merely technically virtous musicians	8	[5.63%]
I'm unsure about their progressive credentials	1	[0.70%]
No, they are merely a metal act with progressive tendencies	23	[16.20%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

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