What year did you first hear Dream Theater ?
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Topic: What year did you first hear Dream Theater ?
Posted By: Yorkie X
Subject: What year did you first hear Dream Theater ?
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 00:53
Dream Theater have been around some time now I thought it may be fun perhaps even sentimental to ask when you first heard them, what year it was for this may even be a little bit of a challenge to remember for some people, I was a little late it was when the awake album came out I remember hearing about a band that was a little heavy yet complex in the way Kansas Yes and some other prog bands were complex .. so I ordered Images and words and Awake from my local music store.. I was blown away ! .. 1994 Awake came out but I think it was early 95 I heard them first. 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 01:12
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In 2005 they spread through my group of friends. I was introduced to them through some tracks off Octavarium.
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 01:20
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2001 I think, a friend introduced me to them. I think I first heard A Change of Seasons and perhaps some Awake stuff and soon bought Images & Words. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 02:03
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1998. Hey I'm very nearly a veteran!
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Posted By: mistertorture
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 02:03
2004, I downloaded TOT and I&W simultaneusly. I think the first I heard from them was As I Am, but I didn't like it very much at first, plus the archive that I downloaded didn't sounded very well  . I&W I liked a lot more from first listen, but still didn't blew me away until the third listening or so, when it made a "click" in my head, and actually TOT is one of my fave albums from DT. I kept downloading all their stuff available then, until they released Octavarium, wich I purchased days after it came out. Then I bought all their studio albums (except WDADU) and all their official DVD's. So, I guess I'm a fan of theirs.  -------------  
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Posted By: mono
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 02:59
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2002 for me. I had just gotten to France, where I could finally buy "less popular" records and have a descent internet connection :) Plus, I was too young before that anyways  ------------- https://soundcloud.com/why-music Prog trio, from ambiant to violence https://soundcloud.com/m0n0-film Film music and production projects https://soundcloud.com/fadisaliba (almost) everything else |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 03:38
^^^^^^^^^^^ On that DVD, my dad bought as a one-off... Funny enough, I lent it to two of my friends who were into Metallica, and now they both own the DT discography - And all for 8.99$  ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 03:39
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I think it must have been 2005. ------------- 
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 03:48
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Although I have been listening to Prog Rock since 1979, I only listened to my first Dream Theater album a few months ago. It was on this website that I asked for recommendations - following the responses, I bought a copy of 'Images and Words'. I have to say that I wasn't exactly blown away at first. However, I got hold of the CD, 'Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory' a couple of weeks ago and I have listened to it about a dozen times. I love this album. It's one of the best concept albums I've ever heard.
So, inspired by this, I will definitely be buying more Dream Theater albums in the near future.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 04:00
I would have definitely recommended Scenes....you should have asked me!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Green Shield Stamp wrote:Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 04:31
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1995... A Change Of Seasons was the reason but i bought I&W first... managed to get into, many months later, though... i remember buying it together with Parallels by Fates Warning... up till now, these bands, along with Queensryche, are my fave Prog Metal bands! aaah, first love... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 04:49
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Must have been around 1992.
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 05:12
1992, I was at 15 in that year, imagine that what a surprise to discover prog music at this age  Images and words is among my fav albums ever, a status remaining from that year.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 05:45
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1994. I was 16 then, and now I'm feeling old. Old and wise. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 05:49
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2003 I think, a friend of mine lent me Images and Words and Scenes From a Memory.
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Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 06:53
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1994, I heard I&W and bought Awake (which is still my fave), was a huge fan back then... and only 15...
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 07:30
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I discovered the band with a press sheet announcing the release of Images in Words. I bought this album on a tape cassette and i was flabbergast by their music. Since then i have all their cd's and DVD's. It has replaced Rush in my heart and not to say in my life...
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 07:51
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The first album I heard was Six Degrees, so it had to be after 2001. I think it was 2003. I was deathly obsessed with them, and DT was almost a part of my life. I bought every album and listen to them 24/7. I still listen to them a lot, but I've been listening to Pain of Salvation and Opeth more lately.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 08:38
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1992. The video for Pull Me Under was playing on MTV and on my local hard rock/heavy metal radio station and I was immediately hooked and went out and bought Images and Words, and shortly thereafter When Dream and Day Unite. ------------- 
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 08:51
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2002. Vapor Trails came out and I bought it on Amazon. They said, "hey, you might like Dream Theater." So I bought Scenes and loved it, then I went with 6 degrees and remember it had just come out. Bridge Across Forever and Unfold the Future came next and I was back into prog again, never realizing it had really never left from when I got into it in the 80's. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 09:10
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)'  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 09:18
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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. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 09:25
Same here. |
Posted By: kingcrimson2003
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 10:09
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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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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:04
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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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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:06
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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. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:29
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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. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: steve j
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:55
2007 - bought Scenes in Oct 07, saw them live one month later. Sometimes, everything comes together nicely. 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 15:35
| 2008 - bought Octavarium, seemed to me pretty heavy, yet I continued buying their stuff. Now I really love Falling Into Infinity and Images & Words. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 15:47
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93 or 94- can't remember exactly
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 16:33
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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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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 16:42
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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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Posted By: Marlon
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 17:11
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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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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 18:01
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.  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. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 20:07
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. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 22:28
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  )------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 22:36
Nice. 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. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 03:01
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2007. I discovered DT pretty late, but I've been making up for lost time ever since .
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Posted By: anoblesoul
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 05:53
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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! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 05:58
Welcome to progarchives. My friend has that same compilation. Unlike you though, he didn't investigate further Not until about 9 years later...then he rembered itr. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 06:07
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I've heard Dream Theater several times before, can't remember when I did though, as I really couldn't get into the music... Yesterday I decided to give it another shot, and I watched a video of A Mind beside Itself on youtube, I realized it's a fantastic song! So I guess my first REAL listen was yesterday.
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 06:51
I saw them in 92 (King's X) and had a somewhat similar in that I only had heard "Black Flag" prior to seeing them. Luckily, it was a small venue with them headlining and the sound was great. "Over My Head" remains one of my most memorable concert experiences ever. They're headlining my local Progressive Rock festival this year and I've really been listening to them a lot lately. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 10:18
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I bought Awake in 2004. A kid I used to play Starcraft with mentioned them once and I wanted to try something new so I bought the cd blind. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: July 03 2009 at 11:02
| Always wanted to see Kings X live. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: July 03 2009 at 20:30
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I believe it was 2007, when Octavarium came out. I was over at a friend's house and we started watching the "Live at Budokan" DVD. He lent me a copy of Octavarium and I really enjoyed them.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 03 2009 at 20:39
| woulda been about 2002, first listen was Awake, I wasn't thrilled |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: July 03 2009 at 23:42
| I should also add that after seeing Dream Theater in concert in 2002, the first album I picked up of theirs was Awake. It is still one of my favorite DT albums. If I recall correctly they played "The Mirror", "6:00", and possibly another song or 2 from Awke that evening. I used to have a copy of the setlist for the show, but I can't find it or the website I retrieved it. |
Posted By: Diaby
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 07:44
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In 2007, but before SC came out. The first song I've heard by them was Six Degrees' Overture and the first full album was Octavarium. Now I'm a fan who owns every DVD of them and two studio albums, + the DSotM bootleg and watched them this week live
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Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 00:11
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2007. I got a demo CD with a rock mag, which had Porcupine Tree, Megadeth, Opeth, and DT on it. I enjoyed their song, so I bought an album of theirs. Octavarium. I loved it immediately, and over the last two years, i have bought their entire discography.
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Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 00:55
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2004 I believe? Long before I was into Metal or Prog, or even Rock extensively. I was very young, and only listened to a couple of songs. I thought it was really friggin heavy. I was such a fool... They were recomended to me by my Warhammer 40k freind. Most people in that community listened to prog: The fantasy guys liked classic stuff like Rush and the sci-fi guys liked prog/power metal like Dream Theater...
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 11:09
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2003. i had a burnt mix cd with The Glass Prison on it, and immediately loved it. Bought Train of Thought when it came out and worked my way backwards chronologically. Octavarium was the first album to come out while being an actual fan and knowing their material, and that album changed my life. been a fan ever since.
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Posted By: -Radioswim-
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 16:54
aha! a Prog veteran! Images and Words is garbage... (in my opinion) Scenes however, I share the same opinion as you. It's the only real DT album, and a true masterpeice of Progressive concept music. It still hasn't gotten old for me, I've heard it maybe a hundred times, at least. Since I've gotten this new computer of mine about 5 months ago, the album has 29 plays on my WMP. Just imagine the last 6 years I've had the album.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Badabing666
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 09:35
| 2007 for me as well. I heard them when we were visiting family in Cananda and we got to sleep in my nephew's room. There in a stack of CDs was SDOS and upon playing the first track I was hooked. Since then I have since bought pretty much everything they have done and seen them on both their UK tours since then. |
Posted By: thought-house
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 19:34
| I think it was January 2006 when I heard 6DoIT. |
Posted By: Proggy Pogo
Date Posted: July 07 2009 at 07:52
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It was Christmas 2008, when my brother (Roj M30 on here) bought me Scenes From A Memory as a gift. It took me a few listens but one day it "clicked" and I absolutely love it now. DT are one of my fave bands now and I'm gradually collecting all their albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: July 12 2009 at 07:39
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I first heard dream theater in year 2007 when I get curious about the melody and the lyrics of Spirit Carries On and it's the first time I also heard progressive music.
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 08:23
| I was very enthusiastic when I first heard dream theater I still like them only not as much .. their later releases seem to lack something... not Keyboard driven enough I think |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 08:26
| I first heard Dream Theatre back in '94, right after Awake came out. From day one I hated LaBrie's vocal style, but I persisted in listening on account of the phenomenal musicianship ...then I lost interest around '95. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 17:21
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1998--a bloke introduced me to LTE 2. Then checked out DT, shrugged, went back to LTE. Where I happily remain. For me, I guess Levin is the difference maker. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 17:39
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1994 - a friend of mine gave me the Images and Words album on cassette . So I've been enjoying DT in big or small doses since then.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 17:53
 You're Roger's sister!!! WOW!!! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 18:23
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2003... and my life hasn't been the same since...
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Posted By: Michelle1PA
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 21:18
| I don't remember the exact year I heard them, but it would have been early or mid 90s. My sister had several of their albums. It was often on in the background. I liked Caught in a Web and Pull Me under but didn't give it much thought. I heard Space Dye Vest and fell in love with the song. I bought Awake and liked it. But I really became a fan when I picked of Scenes From a Memory. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 13 2009 at 21:27
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2003-2004. I remember being retrospectively pissed that I didn't catch them with Yes when they toured in my city (no one prog ever comes here, let alone non-prog), and Octavarium was the first album I got on its release day.
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