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Yorkie X 
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 Posted: July 03 2009 at 11:02 |
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Always wanted to see Kings X live.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 10:18 |
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I bought Awake in 2004. A kid I used to play Starcraft with mentioned them once and I wanted to try something new so I bought the cd blind.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Roland113
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 06:51 |
 Stooge wrote:
Roland113 wrote:
Stooge wrote:
I first heard them in 2002. My brother and I got tickets to a Joe Satriani/DT co-headlining tour (King's X opened!!!). Satch was supporting his Strange Beautiful Music album, and DT 6DOIT. Before I went to the show, I had picked up a compilation CD with a bucnh of metal/rock songs on it. The cd was my introduction to DT (a radio edit of "Pull Me Under") and Kings X ("Black Flag").
At the concert, Dream Theater opened their set with "Pull Me Under", and since we never heard the full version of the song, we were blown away when the "Watch the sparrow falling" part came in. It still ranks among my favorite concert experiences.
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Heh, here's an odd coincidence, I was introduced to King's X at about the same time as I was introduced to Dream Theater by the same Bass player.
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Nice. 
Unfortunately, King's X had horrible sound as most openers get in a bigger venue (Toronto's Molson Amphitheater). I can recall them playing "Over My Head" and "We Were Born To Be Loved", but not much else stands out especially since their only song I knew at the time was "Black Flag" which I wasn't fond of at the time but it grew on me.
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I saw them in 92 (King's X) and had a somewhat similar in that I only had heard "Black Flag" prior to seeing them. Luckily, it was a small venue with them headlining and the sound was great. "Over My Head" remains one of my most memorable concert experiences ever. They're headlining my local Progressive Rock festival this year and I've really been listening to them a lot lately.
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I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 06:07 |
I've heard Dream Theater several times before, can't remember when I did though, as I really couldn't get into the music... Yesterday I decided to give it another shot, and I watched a video of A Mind beside Itself on youtube, I realized it's a fantastic song! So I guess my first REAL listen was yesterday. 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 05:58 |
anoblesoul wrote:
1989 - I was living in Scotland when I heard them on a rock compilation which had The Killing Hand on it. WOW! I had to go out and get When Dream and Day Unite which I think still has the HMV sticker on it. (One of the two big CD stores.) I was love at first listen!
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Welcome to progarchives.
My friend has that same compilation. Unlike you though, he didn't investigate further Not until about 9 years later...then he rembered itr.
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anoblesoul
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 05:53 |
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1989 - I was living in Scotland when I heard them on a rock compilation which had The Killing Hand on it. WOW! I had to go out and get When Dream and Day Unite which I think still has the HMV sticker on it. (One of the two big CD stores.) I was love at first listen!
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Roj
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Posted: July 02 2009 at 03:01 |
2007. I discovered DT pretty late, but I've been making up for lost time ever since  .
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Stooge
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 22:36 |
Roland113 wrote:
Stooge wrote:
I first heard them in 2002. My brother and I got tickets to a Joe Satriani/DT co-headlining tour (King's X opened!!!). Satch was supporting his Strange Beautiful Music album, and DT 6DOIT. Before I went to the show, I had picked up a compilation CD with a bucnh of metal/rock songs on it. The cd was my introduction to DT (a radio edit of "Pull Me Under") and Kings X ("Black Flag").
At the concert, Dream Theater opened their set with "Pull Me Under", and since we never heard the full version of the song, we were blown away when the "Watch the sparrow falling" part came in. It still ranks among my favorite concert experiences.
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Heh, here's an odd coincidence, I was introduced to King's X at about the same time as I was introduced to Dream Theater by the same Bass player.
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Nice. Unfortunately, King's X had horrible sound as most openers get in a bigger venue (Toronto's Molson Amphitheater). I can recall them playing "Over My Head" and "We Were Born To Be Loved", but not much else stands out especially since their only song I knew at the time was "Black Flag" which I wasn't fond of at the time but it grew on me.
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The Truth
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 22:28 |
I was an old-school prog boy until like 2005 and didn't listen to Dream Theater until Octavarium was released. (I was impressed with it... and people site it as one of their worst works of music  )
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Roland113
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 20:07 |
Stooge wrote:
I first heard them in 2002. My brother and I got tickets to a Joe Satriani/DT co-headlining tour (King's X opened!!!). Satch was supporting his Strange Beautiful Music album, and DT 6DOIT. Before I went to the show, I had picked up a compilation CD with a bucnh of metal/rock songs on it. The cd was my introduction to DT (a radio edit of "Pull Me Under") and Kings X ("Black Flag").
At the concert, Dream Theater opened their set with "Pull Me Under", and since we never heard the full version of the song, we were blown away when the "Watch the sparrow falling" part came in. It still ranks among my favorite concert experiences.
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Heh, here's an odd coincidence, I was introduced to King's X at about the same time as I was introduced to Dream Theater by the same Bass player.
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-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------
I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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Progosopher
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 18:01 |
I think it was 1994. A friend of mine gave me a cassette tape of Images and Words. I liked it okay at first, but after a couple of years, where it sat shelved most of the time, I started to appreciate what they were doing. I began listening to it regularly, and then the tape got munched.  It took a few more years for me to get around to replacing it. Perhaps seeing them open for Deep Purple helped me appreciate them more.
Warning: Nostalgia trip ahead.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Marlon
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 17:11 |
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2007 and so far the only CD I don't have is theis first one.
Love their sound.
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crimson87
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 16:42 |
2006 , although I didn't like the band back then. I was into power metal at the time , and I bought an MP3 expecting to hear something like Angra , Stratovarius or Sonata Artica.
I was really dissapointed: I couldn't understand the music , Stratovarius had much more energy and Kotipelto had a better voice. Besides , they weren't fast enough.
Two years later , I had heard much more exprimental music but still couldn't dig DT. Slowly I began to appreciate the band and recognoise their prog credentials.
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Logan
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 16:33 |
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I think that 2005 was when I first heard Dream Theater. I checked out the mp3s at PA. I don't know that I'd heard of them before 2005 -- same with most of the bands included here at the time.
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Drew
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 15:47 |
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93 or 94- can't remember exactly
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 15:35 |
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2008 - bought Octavarium, seemed to me pretty heavy, yet I continued buying their stuff. Now I really love Falling Into Infinity and Images & Words.
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steve j
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:55 |
2007 - bought Scenes in Oct 07, saw them live one month later. Sometimes, everything comes together nicely. 
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Roland113
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:29 |
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1992.
My band had a gig at a local high school one night, so we set up everything that afternoon. After we did the sound check, my bass player pulled this tape out and threw it into the PA system. The whole band and sound crew sat there for the next hour listening to all of Images and Words through the big speakers. I was blown away. Sadly, I seem to have lost track of the bass player, but Dream Theater has had a special place in my heard since then.
Incidentally, I first saw them on my 21st birthday in January of 1993. . . goodness, where has the time gone.
Edited by Roland113 - July 01 2009 at 20:08
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I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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Stooge
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:06 |
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I first heard them in 2002. My brother and I got tickets to a Joe Satriani/DT co-headlining tour (King's X opened!!!). Satch was supporting his Strange Beautiful Music album, and DT 6DOIT. Before I went to the show, I had picked up a compilation CD with a bucnh of metal/rock songs on it. The cd was my introduction to DT (a radio edit of "Pull Me Under") and Kings X ("Black Flag").
At the concert, Dream Theater opened their set with "Pull Me Under", and since we never heard the full version of the song, we were blown away when the "Watch the sparrow falling" part came in. It still ranks among my favorite concert experiences.
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The T
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:04 |
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1995, watching "headbanger''s" in MTV LATINO in my country.... The video for "Pull Me Under"... Incredibly, ironically, that day I hated it, because Labrie commited the "crime of wearing a Napalm Death shirt while singing like a lady"... (my words back THEN)... In 1997 I finally fully embraced Images and Words and everything changed.
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