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Epignosis

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 15:46

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/5/51/Dream_theater_in_1985.jpg

HAI GUYS. WE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays

CCVP

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 15:48

Epignosis wrote:

HAI GUYS. WE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

OK, I gotta admit that this is just F*CKING HILARIOUS LOL

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 15:48

Epignosis wrote:

HAI GUYS. WE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

Heard of LOL CATZ? We need LOL DTz?

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 15:52

Epignosis wrote:

Evolver wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Dream Theater is moving up in the world!

Next, they'll be opening up for Hannah Montana!

Oh please no!

I have tickets to see them in Boston this August!

No, no...they're not quite cool enough. This year it's the Jonas Brothers.

hmm, so the total time of the gig will be something around 3 hours and 30 minutes. DT playing their usual 3 hour set and then the main act: Jonas Brothers playing all their songs 3 times.

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 16:24

Scanning down the Billboard chart, I see that the new Mars Volta has come in at Number 12

Suggests that prog is doing well generally.... Smile

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 16:30

Epignosis wrote:

HAI GUYS. WE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

Thank you for bringing a smile to my face

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 17:17

Epignosis wrote:

HAI GUYS. WE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS.

Rob, this is officially your best post ever.

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 17:20

paulwalker71 wrote:

Scanning down the Billboard chart, I see that the new Mars Volta has come in at Number 12

Suggests that prog is doing well generally.... Smile

Yeah..but i'll take a shot and say that most people who are buying these albums don't have a clue that they are into progressive rock,if they know what the genre IS anyway.

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 18:39

^ How many of us knew what prog was when we first entered PA searching for information about one or two bands rock/metal bands that we liked? Smile

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 18:39

Gustavo Froes wrote:

Yeah..but i'll take a shot and say that most people who are buying these albums don't have a clue that they are into progressive rock,if they know what the genre IS anyway.

Sure.

Perhaps I´ll buy the album, even I finished a bit tired of so much technical ecstasy in DT. I have 4 originals, but their last works seemed too repetitive and boring to me...but people talks very well about this BC&SL.

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 19:15

So, THAT'S why BC & SL sucks....

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 19:59

Gustavo Froes wrote:

paulwalker71 wrote:

Scanning down the Billboard chart, I see that the new Mars Volta has come in at Number 12

Suggests that prog is doing well generally.... Smile

Yeah..but i'll take a shot and say that most people who are buying these albums don't have a clue that they are into progressive rock,if they know what the genre IS anyway.

which is often the case with prog, i.e. Jethro Tull, Rush, Pink Floyd

I'm impressed, congrats DT, a shot in the arm for thoughtful and complex rock music

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 00:10

DT is getting the national recognition in the US that they have been getting for years in Sweeden and Japan. Its about damn time

DT = Greatness

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 00:49

paulwalker71 wrote:

Scanning down the Billboard chart, I see that the new Mars Volta has come in at Number 12

Suggests that prog is doing well generally.... Smile

Indeed!

I seriously think prog will be one of the top genres within 5 years. Either that or i want it so bad I'm delusional.

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 00:56

Isn't it weird that these days you can enter the billboard top 10 with 40k albums sold?

Maybe illegal downloads are bad for music after all ... I couldn't care less about billboard charts, but if album sales continue to decline, less albums will be produced. As much as I think that music is art, the musicians have to finance their lives somehow, so it will always also be an industry.

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 01:41

Mr ProgFreak wrote:

Isn't it weird that these days you can enter the billboard top 10 with 40k albums sold?

Maybe illegal downloads are bad for music after all ... I couldn't care less about billboard charts, but if album sales continue to decline, less albums will be produced. As much as I think that music is art, the musicians have to finance their lives somehow, so it will always also be an industry.

I think it's good for 'em. Musicians get to stay closer to their fans and don't go aloof by being insanely rich. And come on, you sell 40k records and go on tour, your not going to starve

However, I do think dl's can be a bad thing. There is this really good band from my town, Newmarket, that had to stop making music because their stuff got so heavily downloaded. Now they work at the local music store.

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 10:14

Originally posted by hitting_singularity2

hitting_singularity2 wrote:

Kind of the same thing happened to Maudlin of the Well. Their albums were only released in limited numbers and would sold out relatively quick. Now their latest album can be downloaded for free in their web site and you can decide if you want to donate something to them.

I wish I could donate something, but i don't have any credit card and, in this case, I would need an international one.

Edited by CCVP - July 03 2009 at 10:14

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 10:29

Logan wrote:

I haven't heard their newest, and am far from a DT expert, but can the success be attributed in part to the latest being a more mainstream metal album? Or because progressive music (and particularly progressive metal) has gained popularity, and more people can absorb it now? And because DT has managed to gain so many fans that are both hardcore proggers and non-hardcore proggers since it has a wider range of appeal than many of the more experimental acts. It's a likely a combination of factors, of course. Of course DT has a hardcore fan-base already, and is gaining many new fans. DT's idols, Rush, did very well with their latest as well.

I'd say the biggest factor is that now they're on Roadrunner Records they actually have a label thats willing to promote them, and promote them quite a bit too, which is far more than Warner ever did.

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 10:31

sleeper wrote:

Touché

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Posted: July 03 2009 at 12:16

JJLehto wrote:

So, THAT'S why BC & SL sucks....

Yeah, I agree. I only liked the album before it became famous.

In all seriousness, while I have yet to hear DT's latest I do think it's very cool to see a prog band making it into the top 10. I do believe that the period we're in now is the genre's finest hour since the 70s, and it's nice to see some evidence of that.