Dream Theater would to make a cover of TOMMY ?
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Topic: Dream Theater would to make a cover of TOMMY ?
Posted By: zicIy
Subject: Dream Theater would to make a cover of TOMMY ?
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 14:22
| next year will be TOMMY year (40 years!); so i´m thinking that DT should make a cover album of the rock opera by The Who. it can be just amazing stuff, imho. what you are thinking? |
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Posted By: TheGreatNothing
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 14:38
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Although I'm not really a big The Who fan I might give this a listen. I can see Portnoy having this on the list of albums to cover since he is a huge fan, but he already did do the Amazing Journey project with Paul Gilbert and I don't know if the other members of the band are really that big of fans of The Who. Plus Rudess would have nothing to do since he can't do crazy keybord runs over that type of music ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/TheGreatNothing/ - http://www.last.fm/user/TheGreatNothing/ |
Posted By: zicIy
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 14:48
i think TOMMY is the perfect stuff for DT to make a cover on their own way !
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TheGreatNothing wrote:Posted By: zicIy
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 15:00
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yea, crazy keyboard(s) runs over it, inspired by TOMMY the movie soundtrack !!!
 i´m pretty sure that DT are perfect to do it .
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 15:26
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OH GOD NO DT are my favorite band but they should stick to not doing covers ------------- 
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Posted By: TheGreatNothing
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 15:38
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I don't think that they should stop doing covers, but I do think that they should stick to their genre when doing covers. Then again, as long as what happened with Master of Puppets never happens again I'm fine!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/TheGreatNothing/ - http://www.last.fm/user/TheGreatNothing/ |
Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 15:47
Well, they're not my favourite band  , but I like a lot of their music and I definitely agree that most of their covers are not enjoyable at all.------------- "Es ist übrigens unmöglich, eine Meinung zu haben, ohne dass es unerfreuliche Überschneidungen gibt. Die Grünen sind für den deutschen Wald, die NPD ebenfalls." |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 16:05
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Tommy just isn't the best album.......
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 16:43
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Personally I think they should concentrate on writing good material for their next album after the awful "Systematic Chaos":(
To this end they should hire a producer and make up their minds what kind of band they want to be! Do they want to be a Metallica cover band(mind you with someone who can sing lol) or do they want to be a Prog band. They should try to diversify their sound more like they did on "Octavarium". IMHO the prog metal Metallica wannabe riffing is getting real tired:( Being the most talented musicians in music right now I think they are capable of recording a PROG masterpiece!!! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 17:07
Oh man, for a moment there I got scared they would actually do it!... Na, I don´t see it happening. First and foremost I think Petrucci would get SOOOOO bored just throwing power chords around all the time... I know I can get a bit bored, just imagine mr "I cant slow down my hand"!!! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 20:39
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Lets face it its so fast to slide down a hill and such a long walk back to the top at the moment where DT is at they have started their decline already one more bad move and I cant see them ever back to their former glory. Concentrate on their next album would be the best idea I think and make it about them completely no Iron Maiden , No Metallica and most certainly No The Who !!! just Dream Theater trying to remember who they are and what their original mission objectives were will more than suffice . |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 20:41
| I'm thinking DT should stop making covers of anything. Ever. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 20:53
That's the thing, they don't do covers "in their own way," they just do straight-up covers, poorly. -------------   |
Posted By: popeyethecat
Date Posted: August 17 2008 at 16:12
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If they did a cover of TOMMY I would definitely buy it. I bloody loved that film! I think the song Tina Turner sang would sound great DTized.
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: August 18 2008 at 04:02
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the y should cover ''birds of fire '' or ''2112== or ''operation crimemind'' instep of Tommy ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 18 2008 at 08:25
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I'm trying to imagine Tommy, but as a 'prog metal symphony' stripped of all feeling and originality, abridged, digitilized and dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century for the Ipod generation..
No, they probably shouldn't bother.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 18 2008 at 14:57
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And while they're at it why don't they do Quadrophenia as well. Not! |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 02:27
| Nah, they should go for The Rite of Spring or something. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 02:35
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There's a thousand rock/metal versions of Rite of Spring out there. They gotta do something a little more creative, like LTE's metal version of Rhapsody in Blue.
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