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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2012 at 00:26
Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:


 Anyway gotta say that mike Portnoy is the best. Peart is runner up for sure.


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Really, it depends on the joke.
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Originally posted by dennismoore dennismoore wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Yeah...knocking Satriani is uncalled for.


Three words for you mate(and some bonus commentary):

Ah Via Musicom

Get with the program.

Oh yeah, three of us saw Eric Johnson open up for Satriani in the mid 1990's.
After being blown away by Eric's lead playing, songwriting and singing, we hung in there for Satriani.
All three of us looked at each other about an hour later and shook our heads after Joe:

Endlessly noodled while the bass player thumped one note into submission & new depths of boredom.
Joe pathetically tried to be cool, wearing a motorcycle hat and singing quite horribly "I like to ride...." yet
the hoodlum biker crowd (and Village People wannabees...) in the audience ate it up anyway.
Joe tried again to sing,but failed embarassingly this time a soft ballad. Truly a tragic event coming after Eric Johnson.  You should have been there.

Admit it, you are just cross with me about what I said about the Lord Cornwallis, The Royal Mail & Queen Mum, yes???Wink



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"Factually" greatest? Does saying it that way somehow give a mere opinion more credibility?
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

dtfan likes trolling the community with his love of Dream Theater


I'm pretty sure the OP wasn't strictly meant to be taken seriously.  If it's trolling, then it must be a good side of trolling, because this thread is ridiculously funny.

Nah, I don't see how saying you love a band can possibly be trolling in any way.  Now, what Mr. Dennis Moore is doing?  That's trolling.  By the way - Eric Johnson is boring, and Joe Satriani puts on a good show....
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Originally posted by DiamondDog DiamondDog wrote:

"Factually" greatest? Does saying it that way somehow give a mere opinion more credibility?

He is the greatest in the only measurable way, and it is a fact!  Wink
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Oh, someone's hand moves faster than anyone else's? That must mean that they are the best drummer of all time.
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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

So I found out (surprised I hadn't heard of this until now) why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!  Wink  You just can't stand that they have THE (FACTUALLY) Greatest Drummer alive! Wink LOL
(Queue the "well so and so is more 'tasteful'" comment bs, heh heh)

Current record:


Former record:


And an awesome breakdown:


 
Why dont you just post : Hey listen to this its great !!
A lot more possivive than :
So I found out why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!
 
Dont know about others, but not the way to get me interested.
I dont Hate DT. Its just not my favorite genre in Prog. 
 
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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It's amazing the volatile reaction Dream Theater causes on this Archives, I love it! I totally sit on the fence with them, for a band I don't make a lot of time for, I still seem to own all their albums and enjoy them from time to time, yet I'm also kind of dismissive of them frequently too?

In the end, I think I'm like the Neutreeno aliens in Futurama - "I HAVE NO STRONG FEELINGS EITHER WAY!"
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Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

So I found out (surprised I hadn't heard of this until now) why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!  Wink  You just can't stand that they have THE (FACTUALLY) Greatest Drummer alive! Wink LOL
(Queue the "well so and so is more 'tasteful'" comment bs, heh heh)

Current record:


Former record:


And an awesome breakdown:


 
Why dont you just post : Hey listen to this its great !!
A lot more possivive than :
So I found out why people around here have all the DT hate - it's jealousy, man!
 
Dont know about others, but not the way to get me interested.
I dont Hate DT. Its just not my favorite genre in Prog. 
 
 

DT isn't a genre.......yet
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Originally posted by zeqexes zeqexes wrote:

Oh, someone's hand moves faster than anyone else's? That must mean that they are the best drummer of all time.

Oh, someone trashes Prog that sounds similar to 70's Prog, and then he himself writes music that sounds like 70's Prog...except that it has no dynamics and never really goes anywhere?  He must be the greatest musician/composer alive....

Heh heh...

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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

DT isn't a genre.......yet

Well, if you believe the DT haters, EVERYTHING that is part of the Progressive Metal sub-genre is just a Dream Theater Clone.  Most overused, ridiculous, and lazy criticism ever....  As I've said before, it's kind of like if you criticized every guitar based band as being a "Led Zeppelin clone" - DT and LZ have very widely varying styles that they have shown throughout their career, so are you saying that band sounds just like this song, or that one, this album, or that one, this era, or that?
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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

DT isn't a genre.......yet

Well, if you believe the DT haters, EVERYTHING that is part of the Progressive Metal sub-genre is just a Dream Theater Clone.  Most overused, ridiculous, and lazy criticism ever....  As I've said before, it's kind of like if you criticized every guitar based band as being a "Led Zeppelin clone" - DT and LZ have very widely varying styles that they have shown throughout their career, so are you saying that band sounds just like this song, or that one, this album, or that one, this era, or that?

I don't believe DT haters say  that. Maybe some do, I don't have any reference though.
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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2012 at 08:24
Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

dtfan likes trolling the community with his love of Dream Theater


I'm pretty sure the OP wasn't strictly meant to be taken seriously.  If it's trolling, then it must be a good side of trolling, because this thread is ridiculously funny.

Nah, I don't see how saying you love a band can possibly be trolling in any way.  Now, what Mr. Dennis Moore is doing?  That's trolling.  By the way - Eric Johnson is boring, and Joe Satriani puts on a good show....



If my impression of him is right, Dennis doesn't mean anyone to take everything he writes seriously, either.
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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

Originally posted by DiamondDog DiamondDog wrote:

"Factually" greatest? Does saying it that way somehow give a mere opinion more credibility?

He is the greatest in the only measurable way, and it is a fact!  Wink


Theoretically, you could attach sensors to several people's brains and have them listen to various drum solos, and then measure their neurological reactions to determine which drummer provokes the strongest emotional response.

That would be far too much pointless work for any scientist, though, unless it was government-funded, in which case the whole question of whether scientific research is relevant is usually ignored.
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^ absolutely - the measure of a dummer is in the emotional responses he creates in the audience, solo's aside (which unless you are a drummer can be butt-numbingly boring), it is how their drumming compliments the music that matters.
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:


That would be far too much pointless work for any scientist, though.


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

where he manages to hit everything in his kit except the gong

And when he strikes his gong
Your middle eye comes on


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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:


That would be far too much pointless work for any scientist, though.


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Yeah...I was actually just thinking about that LOL.
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