What does Dream Theater need ?

ProgBagel wrote: I think Rudess needs the boot. Brilliant keyboard player, but has gone to far in chops. Not saying I want Petrucci to have the spotlight...but having an insane guitar then keyboard solo is getting old. I prefer a symphonic one like Kevin Moore.

 

don't just stop with Rudess... they all need the boot (but Myung perhaps.. he has the good sense to remain..errrr.. silent hhahahha) .....  a little less soloing.. and a bit more playing together as a band.. not a vehicle for insane guitar...and insane keyboard solos..  it has to get tiring after awhile for even the most acne-scarred of DT fans...

I think Rudess needs the boot. Brilliant keyboard player, but has gone to far in chops. Not saying I want Petrucci to have the spotlight...but having an insane guitar then keyboard solo is getting old. I prefer a symphonic one like Kevin Moore.

rileydog22 wrote: I think they should add more GUITAR SOLOS!  Petrucci is liek god so I don't get why they dont just put out albums of him soloing cause hes the best guitarist evr or mabye an album of drum soloz cause dude portnoy is amazing.

I doubt whether sarcasm will help ... and fortunately the typical DT fan isn't like you describe it.

/\ oh come on, it's been a little while 


as for me, I like all their output for the most part, except when they're trying to be "overly metal"....Train of Thought is an example of this gone awry. I did like the new album though and felt it was a step in the right direction, despite some missteps along the way (Constant Motion and Forsaken come to mind, neither of which is horrendous but could've been left off the album and I would have been fine)

I wouldn't be devastated if Labrie left as I don't think he's in the same class as the rest of the band and a stronger vocalist could make all the difference.

They need to do something new- ie take a risk. They need to be Dream Theater, not a band that makes albums filled with songs that could be picked out as having a certain influence as their last album was.

I think they need a few years off to really think about making an album in less than a month. They need emotion. They need to blend their many, many obvious influences into something fresh. New music comes from the combination other music and styles, not from making a bunch of songs in which every song has an obvious influence. They need to blend.

Frankly, I think they've passed their peak and I'm not expecting anything fantastic out of them for the rest of their career if they continue in the manner they've been going.

They need to be owned by Steve Hackett, so they can finally loose their manly urges and create something with true beauty inside instead of empty technique.

fandango wrote: aapatsos wrote: Emotion   good grief...I think they have bucket loads....maybe you should go and listen to some Spiral Architect, then re-evaluate...

I get your point (Spiral Architect rule anyway)
actually I don't mean this 'cheesy' emotion that they produce sometimes

they need deeper emotion when they get 'cheesy'
and they need deeper emotion when they confuse recording with jamming...

and a bit more inspiration after Metropolis pt.2 would not have been bad...


Edited by aapatsos - November 24 2007 at 09:02

^ they could do all those things, but they wouldn't be Dream Theater any more, so what is the point?

I think they somehow lost their inspiration after SDoiT. I love Train of Thought and enjoy listening to Octavarium and Systematic Chaos, but they're definitely lacking in the songwriting department. Of course they're free to do whatever they want to do, but my suggestion would be for them to try something completely different ... and *not* trying to fuse their sound with that of other artists. I mean, influences are ok and it's better to steal than to imitate, but I'm sick of listening to their albums and thinking "ok, that's the Muse song of the album, here they're sounding like Opeth ... that track has Linkin Park written all over it etc. etc.".