ONCE IN A LIVETIME

Recorded during the "Touring Into Infinity" tour and released the year after. This is a very solid live album with overall good song selections from both "Falling Into Infinity" and Dream Theater's earlier releases. Here we also get to hear Derek Sherinian live with the band for the first (but last) time, and they work really well together here, and while this tour in particular was difficult for band due to circumstances, the performance is great throughout. Sadly, vocalist LaBrie suffered food poisoning a few years prior to this and it really deteriorated his voice over the years and the signs are really starting to show here sometimes, his job is difficult enough as it is singing these songs, but at least he's there performing with great energy. Overall a nice live document, especially for fans of the 'Change of Seasons' / FII stuff from the band. Newcomers should check out 'Marquee' from 93 or Live at Budokan first.