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Poll Question: What year did you first hear Dream Theater ?
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

1992.  The video for Pull Me Under was playing on MTV .
 
very similar to me, Scott... 1992, and my sister (of all people) lent me a metal compilation tape of new stuff... she said 'here, there's a track on this, which I think you'll like.. (PMU)' Wink


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Holy moly, it's frankly hard to imagine younger people liking Dream Theater when they are so enmeshed in the 80's metal tradition. Myself, being a metal head in the late 80's, was moderately interested in 92 when Pull Me Under came out. Frankly, there were dozens if not hundreds of guys with Pertucci's chops at that point. In 1993 I joined a band where all the other members worshipped DT (including the guy who opened up the rest of prog for me) and so I bought I&W and then Awake. We went to the Awake tour, which was a lot of fun. He lent me Scenes from a Memory and I just couldn't get into it. Lot of fond memories because that band was some of the most fun I had.
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Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:

Must have been around 1992.


Same here.
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2002. I read a very favourable review of Six Degrees... in Classic Rock Magazine and seeing as I was in the market for new prog I purchased it. It was the first metal album of any type that I purchased and having not listened to much metal before, The Glass Prison was quite a baptism of fire!
I'm glad I persevered however because now I thoroughly enjoy a good bit of metal/hard rock!
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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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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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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.


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2007 - bought Scenes in Oct 07, saw them live one month later.  Sometimes, everything comes together nicely.  Thumbs Up
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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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93 or 94- can't remember exactly



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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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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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2007 and so far the only CD I don't have is theis first one.

Love their sound.
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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.  Cry 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.
 
I had been listening to Deep Purple for more than 30 years before I got a chance to see them live, and I really enjoyed their performance.  Dream Theater opened the show and played for close to an hour.  They were scheduled for only 30 minutes, I think.  LaBrie kept apologizing for playing too long - and then they'd go into another ten minute extrvaganza.  I didn't mind, but it delayed the end of the concert enough that we (my girlfriend at the time and my buddy who turned me on to DT in the first place) could not take the mass transit out of town.  So we paid $40 for a cab.  It was worth it.  Did I mention there was another band?  Emerson Lake and Palmer.  How's that for a show?  Dream Theater, ELP, and Deep Purple. Thumbs UpThumbs UpThumbs Up
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Originally posted by Stooge 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.


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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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 Confused)
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Points: 1003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2009 at 22:36
Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by Stooge 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.


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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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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2007.  I discovered DT pretty late, but I've been making up for lost time ever since Wink.
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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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Originally posted by anoblesoul 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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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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