I'm here to talk to you about my first concert. Luckily it was with
Dream Theater (one of favorite and first prog band) and in there start
of the 20th aniversary tour right here in Puerto Rico.
Right before I was going to the venue a news arrived about
John Petrucci saying that he had been
food poisoned and the concert was
in danger of being cancelled.Nobody knew what really happened.
One of my friends was waiting in a record store at noon for him to
arrive ang give some autographs but he never camed and the owner of the
store told him and the other hundreds of people what happened. I was
extremly bumed out because I was waiting for them since the news came
out in January 10. I heard the news at 3:00 pm and the concert was
going to be at 8:30 pm. I was listening to the radio all day from that
moment on and after 2 hours of desperation and glued to the radio it
was clear that they where going to play no matter what.
I went to the city where they where playing and took the train (my
first ride on a train too) because of the traffic. Then I entered the
venue and It was completely full and I mean FULL. I sat down for a
little while and there was Coheed & Cambria and Porcupine Tree
playing but not for long ...
The music started to play really loud was the outro of
Train of Thought and the started the intro of
The root of all evil.
When Portnoy started to play the drums the whole venue was going nuts.
I'm not going to tell you all the songs but I will point out some of
the best parts of the concert.
When they played
Peruvian sky at the half of the song on the acoustic part they kind of changed slowly into another song and it was no other than the
solo of Wish You Where Here and then at the last part of the song they changed into a
Metallica song.
On the song
Octavarium James LaBrie actually played the piano while Jordan Rudess played the lapsteel guitar! and it was a sight to see. Plus the song was excellently played.
I walk beside you may be the
worst song in Octavarium but when you hear it live the magic of the
song comes out and you forget of the U2 influence.
The last song was
Pull me under but it really looked that
Through her eyes
was going to be the last one because at the end of Octavarium they
whent away like in the Budokan video to play the last song and they did
it too but they played two last songs. On Pull me under at almost 3/4
of the song they switched to
Metropolis pt 1 and that was when the venue was going to fall apart!
I wont tell you more because I dont want to spoil all of things that
are going to come for the people who get to see them before this show
So, what are your thoughts ?
Edited by chamberry
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Petrucci food poisoned and DT concert !
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