Replacing LaBrie - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Bottom line: No. Labrie is fine right where he is.

Let us accept it. We all love LaBrie!! Dream Theater is good as it is! Perhaps better with the return of Moore and still with Rudess, but their vocal has no replacement.

"Tis your birth and faith that wrong you...not I."

What a terrible idea!!!

James LaBrie is a cornerstone of Dream Theater, and he's the only vocalist they have ever had who has fit the mold. Does anyone remember Charlie Dominici, he used to sing for them?

James LaBrie was the first vocalist Dream Theater found who's style, ability, and attitude fit right with the band. LaBrie is an amazing singer that is willing to put is own personal agenda aside to support the band. Does anyone here really think Jorn Lande is going to sit around off stage for minutes at a time to let the other members of a band show their abilities? The same goes for Gildenlow, Bach, amd Tate.

Russell Allen? Russell Allen? That guy that sings for Symphony X? You have got to be kidding me. All of Prog Metal's vocalist would have to decline the position before he would join Dream Theater. Russell Allen hasn't put in a good performance since the Twilight in Olympus album, and he won't be doing any more any time soon. He's a flash in the pan has been.

Let's get back to James LaBrie. The man was fantastic on Images and Words and Awake. He then got food poisoning harming his vocal abilities. Rather than throw in the towel on his career, he changed his style in a way that still fit the band. I don't think many vocalists are capable of doing such a thing. Jonas Renske did so with Katatonia, but that's a very different situation.

The only possible vocalist that I believe can fill the shoes of James LaBrie from the current Progressive Metal scene is Mike Baker, most simply just do not have the ability or even the demeanor to do so.