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dtguitarfan 
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 Posted: May 04 2012 at 05:34 |
DREAM THEATER FANS!!! I KNEW there had to be more of you around here! I don't know why I didn't think to look in this section for a thread like this before....  MAN, some people around here REALLY hate DT, but I think it just comes off as jealousy. 
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zumacraig
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 09:54 |
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cool icon buddy. DT is one of my top 2 bands at the moment. currently i just cannot get enough of Best of Times > Count of Tuscany. my wife is evening enjoying it...to some extent. lately I've been thinking i need to get a DT had and wear it proudly!
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 10:05 |
I've been a DT fan for a long time. It's an (most likely unhealthy) obsession of mine. Last tour I saw them for the tenth time. Me and two buddies actually saw them at Radio City Music Hall for the show that was recorded for the Score DVD. Man, it was AWESOME hearing them with an orchestra!
So who's your other favorite?
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zumacraig
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 13:26 |
 dtguitarfan wrote:
I've been a DT fan for a long time. It's an (most likely unhealthy) obsession of mine. Last tour I saw them for the tenth time. Me and two buddies actually saw them at Radio City Music Hall for the show that was recorded for the Score DVD. Man, it was AWESOME hearing them with an orchestra!
So who's your other favorite? |
second fav is probably flower kings at this moment. dt has been my go to band since ADToE and seeing them last october. just very cool guys who happen to kick ass!
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AlexDOM
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 14:10 |
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Dream Theater got my into prog and for that i am grateful. Still remain one of my favorite bands
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 14:16 |
zumacraig wrote:
dtguitarfan wrote:
I've been a DT fan for a long time. It's an (most likely unhealthy) obsession of mine. Last tour I saw them for the tenth time. Me and two buddies actually saw them at Radio City Music Hall for the show that was recorded for the Score DVD. Man, it was AWESOME hearing them with an orchestra!
So who's your other favorite? |
second fav is probably flower kings at this moment. dt has been my go to band since ADToE and seeing them last october. just very cool guys who happen to kick ass! |
FINALLY! I'm so glad SOMEONE around here appreciates ADToE! It's a dang good album!
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darkshade
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 14:53 |
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I think a lot of DT fans on PA jumped ship a while back, but there have always been the haters. That's why I go on DTF a lot for Dream Theater discussion.
Anyway, Dream Theater are one of my favorite bands, like top 5, sometimes #1, and an important one in my explorations in
prog rock. They were the band that helped me get acquainted with prog as
a genre back in '04/'05, and they are the band that got me back into prog
rock back in '09 after a 2 year hiatus away from almost all forms of
rock music, particularly prog.
Ive probably posted in this thread before, but it's been a while since Ive seen it.
I'll post some album rankings:
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Awake
Images & Words
Octavarium
Train Of Thought
Falling Into Infinity
Systematic Chaos
When Dream and Day Unite
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zumacraig
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 19:39 |
oh i love it to death. it was the first time in a long while that i totally devoured an album. i just played the sh*t out of it. i'm not sick of it either. i love all the tracks, but favorites are backs of angels, lost not forgotten, this is the life. when i saw them last fall, they opened with Bridge across the sky. awesome opener with the chants and stuff. then myong comes out and finds his spot, then petrucci comes out waving, making eye contact with us, and give the thumbs up. oh, it was so great. i wish they were coming around my way on that KC-DT thing. oh well.
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Horizons
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 19:56 |
Awake, 6Degrees, and Falling into Infinity are my favorite albums.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Catcher10
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:29 |
I don't think people jumped ship.....there are many still here who enjoy DT a lot. I think, especially for me, the latest album was somewhat of a disappointment so I don't feel the need or desire to talk about them right now and maybe others too feel the same, of course on a dedicated fan site they always will.
I just played ADToE earlier today, I like it enough to have the vinyl version, even though they did a horrible job of mixing it for vinyl, it sounds lifeless.
I still skip tracks I just don't like.......But I listen to DT probably 4-5x a week.
Train of Thought, SDoIT and Scenes are still my favs.
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:31 |
dtguitarfan wrote:
DREAM THEATER FANS!!! I KNEW there had to be more of you around here! I don't know why I didn't think to look in this section for a thread like this before....
MAN, some people around here REALLY hate DT, but I think it just comes off as jealousy.
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.....you're new here? DT is pretty much god of PA, I'd say over half for sure. To some they may be Satan but they just yell the loudest...there's plenty like me who think DT is OK overall. 
Edited by JJLehto - May 04 2012 at 20:32
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:33 |
zumacraig wrote:
i wish they were coming around my way on that KC-DT thing. oh well. |
You and me both. Oh well...I HAVE seen them 10 times after all.
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:34 |
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:35 |
DT is like a revolving door for me. My favorites will always be: Train of Thought, Awake, Six Degrees. Those are, IMO, their solid albums. My least favorites will always be: Falling to Infinity and Black Clouds. Those are just not very good The rest all rise and fall, or are mixed bags. Add that all up: Overall, DT is OK IMO
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 20:36 |
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Horizons
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 21:15 |
Agreed with JJ, to me, they are only ok. I've said it before - i can only listen to them rarely and in small dosages.
I prefer Riverside, Isis, Mastodon, Ancestors, Alcest, and Russian Circles. Those are my favorite Metal acts right now.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 06:34 |
JJLehto wrote:
Well...to be fair the fanboys are not much better, and they also plague YT (like most other fanboys)
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Haha, you got me there, I am DEFINITELY a fanboy. But you know what? I'm a fanboy of a lot of bands! And Dream Theater is simply the best! If you're gonna be a fanboy, be a fanboy of the best. And even as a fanboy, I can admit there are weaknesses in some of their latest albums (not A Dramatic Turn of Events though, that album is amazing). But I take them as they are. I mean, take Systematic Chaos as an example - we were talking about it above, and yes, overall I admit that is a weak album. But you know what, it's still better than 99.99999 % of albums that are available to the public because of In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 1 and 2.
Horizons wrote:
Agreed with JJ, to me, they are only ok. I've said it
before - i can only listen to them rarely and in small dosages.
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Yes, we all know your feelings - how you think DT paints with one color on their palette. You never replied to the youtube videos I posted, by the way - explain to me how that's a band with one color on their palette? Why are you here in this thread? This is the Dream Theater APPRECIATION thread, not the "let's talk about how I personally don't think they're worthy compared to this band and that band and..." thread.
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rogerthat
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 06:41 |
dtguitarfan wrote:
This is the Dream Theater APPRECIATION thread, not the "let's talk about how I personally don't think they're worthy compared to this band and that band and..." thread.
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It is not, though it is in the appreciation section. It is really about Portnoy's departure from the band and its impact on them, at least based on what I can make out from the OP. There was a separate DT appreciation thread, and it's probably still active.
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Gerinski
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 07:16 |
Loved them when I discovered them with Images and Words at the time it came out, it was a revolution and derserved all the hype. Never fancied much When Dream and Day Unite even if it contained the seeds of what it was to come.
Then I loved Awake and A Change of Seasons, much less Falling Into Infinity, and with Metropolis Pt 2 they became again on my top and that stayed with Six Degrees.
After that it has been a bit of a mixed feeling, I have all their albums but none later than Six Degrees has really ticked all the right boxes. Possibly it is also because I lost a bit interest in prog-metal as such.
Anyway I respect them a lot and I still went to see them live in the Black Clouds tour, but they did not convince me anymore.
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 07:24 |
Gerinski wrote:
Loved them when I discovered them with Images and Words at the time it came out, it was a revolution and derserved all the hype. Never fancied much When Dream and Day Unite even if it contained the seeds of what it was to come.
Then I loved Awake and A Change of Seasons, much less Falling Into Infinity, and with Metropolis Pt 2 they became again on my top and that stayed with Six Degrees.
After that it has been a bit of a mixed feeling, I have all their albums but none later than Six Degrees has really ticked all the right boxes. Possibly it is also because I lost a bit interest in prog-metal as such.
Anyway I respect them a lot and I still went to see them live in the Black Clouds tour, but they did not convince me anymore.
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Hey, I understand where you're coming from, man. I'm sorry they haven't kept your attention. To me, they won me over before that, and because I was won over I stuck it out with them, and was able to take each album as it is and say "well, I absolutely LOVE these tracks, and even though I don't appreciate the other tracks on this album, just the fact that I LOVE these other tracks makes it a better album than a LOT of other ones in my collection." I'm the same way with a lot of bands - take Rush for example. I have all their albums, but I wish they were making albums like in the days of Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, etc. But even though each album hasn't lived up to those, they still have plenty of tracks on each album they've made since that I love, so...yep, fanboy here. But you know what, it's more fun to be a fanboy than dissatisfied all the time.
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