Dream Theater Appreciation Thread

J-Man wrote: progkidjoel wrote: The Quiet One wrote: MaxerJ wrote: ^ That is one great thing about them - they pretty much defined the sound of progressive metal... twice!Once with Images and Words, then again with SFAM. Both of those are completely different sounds, and influenced thousands of clones.And i pretty much love every DT album. I got into them with Systematic, and i still love the awesome chunky riffs in Dark Eternal and Constant Motion. But I wasn't too happy with Black Clouds.. especially since i paid $300 for it! It just wasn't the fufilling meal every other album had been... That's insane!! I would never buy anything over $60 with very few exceptions, and even if there are exceptions they can't beat the $100 at all! $300 is a ticket to any Prog show, or even less, if I'm not mistaken.... and well, $300 in my place is like buying 12 (average price) albums! In Australian Dollars, thats about 16 albums $300 for a fairly common album? Bummer.

MaxerJ wrote: ^ Well, my friend and i split the special edition, thinking the album would change our lives with it's awesomeness... it was actually $150 each, but i gave the money to the shop, so for effect i like to refer to it as 'the album I paid $300 for'

I've still never heard a store charging anything >100 for a special edition CD release in Australia though...

I think that that was how much DT was selling it for on their website.  It came with a whole bunch of bells and whistles if I am not mistaken.

progkidjoel wrote: Ah, same... There's a store in my state which sells Japanese mini LP's of old Yes albums for 80 USD.

As far as I'm concerned I've never seen those famed Japanese mini-LP's physically yet.... though I know they're expensive as hell....

rushfan4 wrote: I believe this here maybe.  http://www.dreamtheater.net/disco_dreamtheater.php?s=black_clouds_silver_linings_boxset

Ahhhh......so that's it!

Now I see, I thought it was just the 3 CD edition...

I find the price pretty reasonable now, though I still stand that I would *almost* never buy something like that.(possible exceptions would be, I dunno, something like that by Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple or the like)

Mind you, that I would never buy such a special edition for a album that I haven't heard.

I'm just getting ready to set off to London to see Dream Theater and Opeth!!

Just thought I'd share that with you...

^^ Cheers Jeff. Had a really good night. All four bands were great. Opeth were superb and Dream Theater absolutely rocked..

J-Man wrote: ^^ All four bands? What were the other two?

Unexpect and Big Elf. Unexpect were kind of prog death metal, with some folky leanings courtesy of a violinist. Quite a starnge mix of styles. Their sound wasn't too good, so it was hard to pick out some of the musics complexities, but they were 'interesting' shall we say. Big Elf (think I've heard of them)had a hard rock and slight blues element, with plenty of hammond and some mellotron. They sounded very good.

Did Dweezil Zappa guest on the US leg of this tour??

MaxerJ wrote: All in all, I've kinda stopped listening to them as progressive... the songs are too similar for that. Instead i think of them as the greatest metal band to walk the earth... much more fufilling.

ähem.. what? too similar?

... sorry just can´t agree with that

^ I was at this gig too (hi Rob!) and he is right, DT absolutely smoked - fantastic performance, wonderful sound mix too.  Easily the best I've seen from the band live.