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J-Man

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Posted: November 30 2009 at 11:51

Amen, Brian

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Posted: January 12 2010 at 22:11

I can't get over how much I love the song "The Count of Tuscany"

Quickly becoming, if not already, my favorite Dream Theater song.

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 17:13

The Count...ahh yes...A brilliant song.

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 21:19

The Count of Tuscany is a very good song, and surely is bound to become a Dream Theater favourite, but it's not my favourite, nor even my favorite epic, from them. Too bad it's got such terrible lyrics.

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 21:34

They may get a bit of a sl*gging off here, but tell you what, DT are really becoming more popular these days. The last two times I went into a record store, there were kids in the hard rock section looking for Dream Theater albums! And their new album got to number six on the Billboard charts. Freaking Pete Townshend of the Who is apparently a fan. DT are doing a lot to help prog enter the mainstream. Good on them.

I think I'm becoming a bit of a DT completist, too. I have all their studio albums (which includes the 3 CD version of BC&SL), every live CD album, a few DVDs, I'm even collecting the side projects! I have Liquid Tension Experiment, the G3 album with Petrucci, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani; Transatlantic, and two OSI albums! Someone stop me. I can't get enough DT related material!

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 21:40

Dellinger wrote:

The Count of Tuscany is a very good song, and surely is bound to become a Dream Theater favourite, but it's not my favourite, nor even my favorite epic, from them. Too bad it's got such terrible lyrics.

The lyrics may be a little juvenile, but The Count is a fantastic song nevertheless. DT have done silly lyrics before and it hasn't bothered me. The Dark Eternal Night, anyone?

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 21:40

So, which of the DT related material is really worth it. I got bot Liquid Tension Experiment albums and found them really good (but then, they are almost Dream Theater instrumental albums). For what I've read of Transatlantic, they sound really cool, but don't really know. By the way, I read there was an ELP tribute album with LaBrie and Sherinian playing Tarkus (if I remember well), you might just as well want to hunt it down.

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Posted: January 13 2010 at 22:17

Dellinger wrote:

So, which of the DT related material is really worth it. I got bot Liquid Tension Experiment albums and found them really good (but then, they are almost Dream Theater instrumental albums). For what I've read of Transatlantic, they sound really cool, but don't really know. By the way, I read there was an ELP tribute album with LaBrie and Sherinian playing Tarkus (if I remember well), you might just as well want to hunt it down.

LTE is great if you love DT's instrumental stuff. But as you say, its pretty much DT minus LaBrie and Myung, and plus Tony Levin. Transatlantic are awesome if you are into old school prog, ala Yes, Genesis, etc. OSI is quite different to DT even though Portnoy is on the first two albums, and Kevin Moore is on all three of them. It sounds more electronic and post-metal-esque, like Tool or Porcupine Tree. G3 is great for guitar nuts, since it has the three shredders of our time (Petrucci, Vai, Satriani) on it. Haven't heard LaBrie or Rudess' solo albums, though. I might have to check out that ELP tribute.

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Posted: January 15 2010 at 22:16

OK, Transatalntic are old school prog stile, and do they really do a good job?
By the way, I've read some good reviws of Charli Dominici's albums (though I haven't heard them), specially the 2nd. You might want to check that one too.

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Posted: January 16 2010 at 08:12

Well... don't forget the side project of James Labrie... Dellinger, if you have not get the Elements of persuasion from him... my advise is that you stop whatever you are doing and go over a record store and buy it... it's one of the most underrated albums and it's brilliant... as well as his two MullMuzzller projects...

OSI is my favorite... just and excellent groove... and there's Planet X from Derek Sherinian... it's like Prog-Metal-Jazz fusion... don't forget about it as well... and even the last solo album of Derek, Molecular Heinosity... very metal...

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Posted: January 16 2010 at 11:17

Kashmir75 wrote:

True, but you have to consider the fact Rudess was yet to join DT, and Petrucci was kind of a last choice by Portnoy. Still, it could have turned out very differently if Dimebag accepted

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Posted: January 19 2010 at 10:34

Kashmir75 wrote:

... Freaking Pete Townshend of the Who is apparently a fan. DT are doing a lot to help prog enter the mainstream. Good on them.

Brian May of Queen was awestuck by DT when he saw them at, I think, Download 2009.

Being a DT completionist myself I'd recommend the two Platypus and two The Jelly Jam cd's to you Kashmir75. I don't think anyone has mentioned these yet.

Edited by patthemetaller - January 19 2010 at 11:06

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Posted: January 19 2010 at 21:45

I also read somewhere (I guess here in the archives) that someone from Queen (Brian May, I guess) said Dream Theater's version of Tenment Funster - etc. was the best cover of a Queen song he had heard.