DREAM THEATER - SCORE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR LIVE WITH THE OCTAVARIUM ORCHESTRA

No, the band will keep playing, but with Octavarium, many things have finished. Now, they've capitalized that into this DVD, Score.

Basically, it's consists on 2 DVDs, one with the show in the famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City in 1st April, 2006, and the other with extra features, like the story of Score and Dream Theater, and some adittional tracks (Another Day, Honor thy Father and The Great Debate) from other shows.

But, let's talk about the show indeed.

Opening with the ending theme from "In the Name of God", the Score starts with "The Root of all Evil" (Opening track from Octavarium). Nice way to start a show, a track with a lot of violence and potence, and a nice show off for Petrucci and Rudess as an Introduction.

After this, "I walk Beside You" starts..nice track, very nice played, even better than the CD's one, I really enjoyed this track.

And then...the regression starts. In this tour, and conmemorating the 20 years of Dream Theater, the band was playing a lot of tracks not only of their last CDs, but also of the first ones..and this starts with Majesty, and Another Won. If you didn't heard this before, you must notice that the guys have their potential since the first days of Dream Theater...excellent track!

And now we're into the first Long Play from them, "When Dream and Day Unite" with "Afterlife".
Very nice track, and the live quality is really good.

After this, we have the first "epic moment" of the DVD, "Under a Glass Moon" (from "Images & Words") it's simply a masterpiece. This track resumes the roots from Dream Theater...and it's simply incredible. The "mini solo" from Mike Portnoy is amazing!

Images and Words have passed, and now, in the timeline, we have "Awake" with "Innocence Faded". My personal opinion is that this tracks maybe it isn't the most "Awake Like", tracks like "The Mirror / Lie" or "Caught in a Web" maybe could be better, but, in fact, I really enjoyed this. The Instrumental part was very interesting, as always, and, it's good to see "new faces" on the DVDs and not only the popular tracks.

When "Falling into Infinity" comes, we have the first surprise of the night, "Raise the Knife" (Available only in the Fan Club's CD - Cleaning Out the closet) comes to the stage. Another epic moment. This track is just amazing, from the beggining to end.

And to close the first part, we have from "Scenes from a Memory", "The Spirit Carries on", with a nice solo from Petrucci.

Closing the first act, the second act starts...and with the second surprise (if we can call it in that way).

Six Deegrees of Inner Turbulence started with "Overture" (The first part from this track) played only by the orchestra.
Really nice adaptation, another great moment from the DVD.

The track "Six Deegrees of Inner Turbulence" was played from start to end, with all the tracks it have, and with an excellent performance. Just some things to point out. First, it's a bit accelerated in tempo due to the Orchestra. The low part was (in my opinion) "Goodnight Kiss" due to the Orchestra Introduction (It's not so good) and the Drum sound. But, withouth this, this part is just a big "kick-ass!"...what a potential, what a band..this is Dream Theater! Third epic moment.

From "Train of Thought" all we were waiting for ones of the "hard ones"...but they surprised us again with "Vacant"..only Orchestra, Rudess and Labrie.
I just have one word: Amazing.

And then the last part from "Octavarium" starts with "The Answer Lies within". I really like Dream Theater's balads, and this is not the exception.

And now we have the end, and this is the best part of the DVD in my opinion.

It starts with "Sacrificed Sons". This track is just awesome... The Instrumental section (with another "mini solo" from Portnoy which is just amazing) is simply excellent.

And now, we have "Octavarium" with a nice Continuum Solo from Jordan Rudess. I really can't talk about this, I don't have any words to describe this...you have to see this to believe this.

And the big end..."Metropolis Pt. 1".
If you like the CD Version, then you gonna love this one. Is just incredible.

The Sound and Image quality are outstanding, the camera distribution is really nice.

I don't have any low point for this DVD...just a 10.
Thanks Dream Theater again for this masterpiece, and keep on with the work!

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