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Formation and early eld (19851987)

Founding members (from left to right) Evangelist Myung, Mike Portnoy, and Evangelist Petrucci in 1985.

Dream Theater was formed in September 1985 when guitarist Evangelist Petrucci and bassist Evangelist Myung decided to form a adornment in their spare time patch studying at the Berklee College of Music. The pair came across drummer Mike Portnoy in one of Berklee’s rehearsal rooms, where he was asked to join the band. The trio started off by covering Rush and Iron Maiden songs in the rehearsal rooms at Berklee.

Myung, Petrucci, and Portnoy settled on the study Majesty for their newly formed group. According to the The reason So Far… documentary, they were waiting in line for tickets to a Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center patch listening to the adornment on a boom box. Portnoy commented that the ending of the strain “Bastille Day” (from the album Caress of Steel) sounded “majestic”. It was then decided that Majesty would be the band’s name.

The trio then set out to fill the remaining positions in the group. Petrucci asked his high school band-mate Kevin Moore to play keyboards. After accepting the position, added friend from home, Chris Collins, was recruited as lead vocalist after adornment members heard him sing a cover of “Queen of the Reich” by Queensrche. During this time, Portnoy, Petrucci, and Myung’s hectic schedules forced them to abandon their studies to concentrate on their music, as they did not feel they could learn solon in college. Moore also left his college, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate on the band.

“Another Won”

“Another Won” from The Majesty Demos.

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The beginning months of 1986 were filled with various concert dates in and around the New York municipality area. During this time, the adornment recorded a collection of demos, titled The Majesty Demos. The initial run of 1,000 sold out within six months, and dubbed copies of the cassette became popular within the progressive metal scene. The Majesty Demos are still available in their original tape format today, despite being released officially on CD, finished Mike Portnoy’s YtseJam Records.

In November 1986, after a few months of writing and performing together, Chris Collins was fired. After a year of trying to find a replacement, Charlie Dominici, who was far older and solon experienced than anyone else in the band, successfully auditioned for the group. With the stability that Dominici’s appointment brought to Majesty, they began to increase the number of shows played in the New York municipality area, gaining a considerable amount of exposure.

Shortly after hiring Dominici, a Las Vegas group also named Majesty threatened legal action for intellectual property infringement related to the use of their name, so the adornment was forced to adopt a new moniker. Various possibilities were proposed and tested, among them Glasser, Magus, and M1, which were all rejected until Portnoy’s father suggested the study Dream Theater, the study of a movie house in Monterey, California.

When Dream and Day Unite (19881990)

Dream Theater in 1989: Evangelist Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Dominici, Kevin Moore, Evangelist Myung

With their new study and adornment stability, Dream Theater concentrated on writing solon material patch activity solon concerts in New York and in neighboring states. This eventually attracted the attention of Mechanic Records, a division of MCA. Dream Theater signed their first record contract with Mechanic on June 23, 1988 and set out to record their debut album. The adornment recorded the album at Kajem Victory Studios in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. Recording the basic tracks took about 10 days, and the entire album was completed in about 3 weeks.

When Dream and Day Unite was released in 1989 to far less fanfare than the adornment had anticipated. Mechanic ended up breaking the majority of the financial promises they had made to Dream Theater prior to signing their contract, so the adornment was restricted to activity around New York City. The promotional journeying for the album consisted of just five concerts, all of which were relatively local. Their first exhibit was at Sundance in Bay Shore, New York opening for the classic rock power trio Zebra.

After the fourth show, Dominici was fired because of personal and creative differences. Shortly after, however, the adornment Marillion asked Dream Theater to open for them at a gig at the Ritz in New York, so Dominici was given the opportunity to perform one last time. It would be added two eld before Dream Theater had a replacement vocalist.

Images and Words and Awake (19911994)

“Pull Me Under”

“Pull me Under” from Images and Words.

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Following Dominici’s firing, Dream Theater fought successfully to be released from their contract with Mechanic, and set about auditioning singers and writing material for their next album. In their search for a new singer, they auditioned over 200 people, among them former Fates Warning front man Evangelist Arch; all were turned down. In mid-1990, at a gig in New York, Dream Theater introduced Steve Stone as their new singer. He performed just threesome songs with the adornment before he was fired for performing less than adequately. It was five months before Dream Theater played added show, this time all-instrumental (under the study YtseJam). Until 1991, the adornment remained focused in an attempt to hire added singer and writing additional music. It was during this period that they wrote the majority of what would become the 1992′s Images and Words.

In January 1991, Kevin James LaBrie, of glam metal adornment Winter Rose, was flown from Canada to New York for an audition. LaBrie jammed on threesome songs with the band, and was immediately hired to fill the vocalist position. Once recruited, LaBrie decided to drop his first study to avoid confusion with the other Kevin in the band. For the next few months, the adornment returned to activity springy shows (still mostly around NYC), patch working on vocal parts for the penalization written before acquiring LaBrie. Derek Shulman and ATCO Records (now EastWest), a division of Elektra Records, signed Dream Theater to a seven album contract based on a threesome strain demo (later made available as “The ATCO Demos” finished the Dream Theater fan club).

The first album to be recorded low their new record contract was 1992′s Images and Words. For promotion, the adjudge released a CD Single and video clip for the strain “Another Day,” but neither made significant commercial impact. The strain “Pull Me Under”, however, managed to garner a high level of radio airplay without any organized promotion from the adornment or their label. In response, ATCO produced a video clip for “Pull Me Under”, which saw heavy rotation on MTV. A third video clip was produced for “Take the Time”, but it was not nearly as successful as “Pull Me Under”.

The success of “Pull Me Under”, combined with relentless touring throughout the U.S. and Japan, caused Images and Words to achieve gold record certification in the States and platinum status in Japan. A journeying of Europe followed in 1993, which included a exhibit at London’s famed Marquee Club. The exhibit was recorded and released as springy at the Marquee, Dream Theater’s first official springy album. Additionally, a video compilation of their Japanese concerts (mixed in with documentary-style footage of the off-stage portion of the tour) was released as Images and Words: springy in Tokyo.

“A Mind Beside Itself: II – Voices”

“Voices” from Awake.

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Eager to work on fresh material, Dream Theater retreated to the studio in May 1994. Awake, Dream Theater’s third studio album, was released on October 4, 1994 in a hail of controversy among fans. Shortly before the album was mixed, Moore announced to the rest of the adornment that he was simply no longer interested in touring, nor did he favor the style of penalization Dream Theater performed and would be quitting Dream Theater to concentrate on his own musical interests. As a result, the adornment had to scramble to find a replacement keyboardist before a journeying could be considered. The album was received very well by both critics and fans. The album has been seen by some as Dream Theater’s darkest album mainly due to lyrical content with some of the songs dealing with internal conflicts. For example, “The Mirror” explores the topic of alcoholism, from which Portnoy was recovering at the time.

Jens Johansson, who would go on to become a member of Stratovarius, was among the biggest names to audition, still the adornment members were eager to fill the position with keyboardist Jordan Rudess. Portnoy and Petrucci had come across Rudess in Keyboard Magazine, where he was recognized as “best new talent” in the readers’ poll. The two invited him to play a trial gig with the adornment at the Concrete Foundations Forum in Burbank, California. For the members of Dream Theater, the exhibit went incredibly well, and Rudess was asked to fill the keyboardist position permanently, still Rudess opted to journeying with The Dixie Dregs instead, since it granted him solon personal latitude. Disappointed, Dream Theater hired fellow Berklee alumnus Derek Sherinian, whose previous work included stints with Alice Cooper and Kiss, to fill in for the Awake promotional tour. By the conclusion of the tour, the adornment decided to take Sherinian on as Moore’s full-time replacement.

A Change of Seasons and Falling Into Infinity (19951998)

“A Change of Seasons”

“A Change of Seasons” from A Change of Seasons.

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Once again finding themselves with a new member, Dream Theater did not immediately start working on new material. Fans around the world, united on the YtseJam Mailing List (the most popular form of communication between Dream Theater fans at that point), had started placing pressure on the adornment to officially release the strain “A Change of Seasons”. It had been written in 1989 and was intended to be a part of Images and Words, but at almost 17 minutes, it was deemed too long for studio placement. However, the adornment did perform it springy on occasion patch continuing to revise it in the eld leading up to 1995.

The petition was successful, and the group entered BearTracks Studios in New York in May 1995 to rewrite and record the 23 minute strain with Sherinian contributing significantly to the final product. To disseminate “A Change of Seasons”, the adornment released it as an EP along with a collection of cover songs recorded springy at the Uncovered fan edifice gig.

After a short run of small concerts to promote A Change of Seasons, Dream Theater took a break for a few months. To keep busy, however, the adornment released a primary Christmas CD finished their official fan club, consisting of rare springy tracks recorded during the band’s early years. They continued releasing a new CD each Christmas until 2005. Also during the break the individual members set out to write compositions for their upcoming collaborative writing sessions.

Meanwhile, there were several changes at EastWest, and Dream Theater’s main contact within the adjudge was fired. As a result, the new team at the company were unaccustomed to the relationship Dream Theater had with former EastWest personnel, and they pressured Dream Theater to write an album that was solon accessible. In mid-1997, they entered the studio to write their next album. In addition to pressuring the adornment to adopt a solon mainstream sound, EastWest recruited writer/producer Desmond Child to work with Petrucci on polishing the lyrics to his strain “You Or Me”. The whole adornment substantially reworked the penalization to the song, and it appeared on the album as “You Not Me” with a chorus that was barely reminiscent of the original. Child also had a noticeable impact on the album, with a shift towards compositions that were less complex and solon radio-friendly.

The adornment wrote almost two CDs worth of material, including a 20 minute long follow-up to the Images and Words strain “Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper”. The label, however, did not allow the release of a double album because it felt that a 140-minute record would not be digestible by the general public. James LaBrie also felt that the CD should be a single disc. The unused songs were after released in the Ytsejam Records release The Falling Into Infinity Demos.

The material that made it onto the album proper was released as Falling Into Infinity, which received a mixed reception from fans who were solon familiar with the band’s earlier sound. patch the album was moderately progressive-sounding, tracks such as “Hollow Years” and “You Not Me” prompted some to believe it was the dawn of a new, mainstream-sounding Dream Theater. Overall, the album was both a critical and commercial disappointment. Although Portnoy didn’t speak out publicly at the time, some eld later, in the 2004 DVD commentary for 5 eld in a Livetime, he revealed that he had been so discouraged during this period he’d considered disbanding Dream Theater altogether.

During the European leg of the Touring Into Infinity concern tour, two shows were recorded for a springy album entitled Once in a LIVEtime, in France and The Netherlands. The album was released at around the same time as the video 5 eld in a Livetime, which chronicled the time from when Kevin Moore left the adornment up to the Falling Into Infinity promotional tour.

Scenes from a Memory and municipality 2000 (19992001)

In 1997, Magna Carta Records’ Mike Varney invited Portnoy to assemble a progressive ‘supergroup’ to work on an album, which would become the first in a long string of side-projects for the members of Dream Theater. The lineup consisted of Portnoy on drums, Petrucci on guitar, Tony Levin on bass, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess, who had finished with the Dixie Dregs. The adornment assumed the study Liquid Tension Experiment, and would act as a medium finished which Portnoy and Petrucci could once again court Rudess to join Dream Theater. In 1999, he accepted an offer to become the third full-time Dream Theater keyboardist, replacing Sherinian.

With yet added new member, Dream Theater entered BearTracks Studio once again to write and record their next album. As a result of an ultimatum from Portnoy, the adjudge gave the adornment complete creative control. The follow-up to “Metropolis Part 1″, which was written during the Falling Into Infinity sessions (but not used on that album), was taken off the shelf for reworking. They decided to expand the 20-minute strain into a complete concept album, with a story revolving around themes such as reincarnation, murder and betrayal. To avoid stirring up the fan base, a tight veil of secrecy enveloped the writing and recording process. The only things fans were privy to prior to its release were a track list that had been leaked against the band’s wishes, and a release date. In 1999, municipality Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was released to high critical acclaim. It was hailed as Dream Theater’s masterpiece by some fans and critics alike, despite only reaching #73 on the US album chart.

The album was mixed by David Bottrill, but only a few of his mixes made it on the final album. The bulk was remixed by Kevin Shirley. The rest of the mixes can be heard in the band’s official bootleg “The Making of Scenes from a Memory”.

A massive concern journeying followed recording the album, taking over a year to complete, by far their largest to that point. The concerts reflected the theatrical aspect of the album. They played the entire Scenes From a Memory album from start to finish, with a video screen on the back wall of the stage showing a narrative companion to the story of the album. In addition to activity the album in its entirety, the adornment also played a ordinal set of Dream Theater songs, as well as a few covers and improvisations of old Dream Theater material. For one extra primary show, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, actors were hired to play characters in the story, and a gospel choir was enlisted to perform in some sections of the performance.

This show, the last North dweller date of the tour, was recorded for the band’s first DVD release. After some technical delays, the DVD, titled municipality 2000, was released in early 2001. Shortly after, the adornment announced that an audio version of the concert, with the entire four-hour long set-list (most of which had to be cut from the DVD to save space), would be released.

The cover for the CD version of the concert, titled springy Scenes from New York, depicted one of Dream Theater’s early logos (the Images and Words-era burning heart, modeled on the Sacred Heart of Christ) modified to exhibit an apple (as in “Big Apple”) instead of the heart, and the New York skyline, including the twin towers of the concern Trade Center, in the flame above it. In an unfortunate coincidence, the album was released on the same date as the September 11 attacks. The album was quickly recalled by the adornment and was re-released with revised artwork later.

Six Degrees of intrinsic disorder (2002)

“Overture”

“Six Degrees Of intrinsic Turbulence” from Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence.

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Putting the whole ordeal behind them, Dream Theater once again entered BearTracks Studios to record their sixth studio album. Four eld after they first petitioned EastWest to allow them to release a double album, they finally got their chance with Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence. The first disc consisted of five tracks of 713 minutes in length, and the ordinal disc was devoted entirely to the 42-minute title track, which is to date the longest strain Dream Theater has written. The genesis of that strain came when Rudess wrote what would become the “Overture” section of “Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence”, and the adornment took some different melodies and ideas contained within it and expanded them into chapters of a complete story.

Six Degrees of intrinsic disorder ended up being received very well by critics and the press. It was the most publicized of Dream Theater’s albums since Awake, debuting on the Billboard charts at #46 and the Billboard Internet charts at #1. Throughout the next year and a half they toured the concern once more, with an expanded springy exhibit including a select few primary “album cover” gigs (see Cover songs section, below), in which they played Metallica’s Master of Puppets and Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast in their entirety.

Train of intellection and springy at Budokan (20032004)

During 2003, Dream Theater entered the studio to write and record added album. Since Scenes from a Memory was written and recorded simultaneously in the studio, in the spirit of change, the adornment took a different approach by setting aside threesome weeks for writing prior to recording. In the middle of the recording sessions for the album, a primary journeying with two other progressive metal bands, Queensrche and Fates Warning, was undertaken in North America. The “Escape from the Studio dweller tour”, as it was referred to in Dream Theater’s promotional material, featured Queensrche and Dream Theater as co-headlining acts with Fates Warning performing supporting act duties. As a finale for each concert there was an extended encore in which both Dream Theater and Queensrche performed together on stage simultaneously, often activity cover songs.

At the completion of the tour, Dream Theater returned to the studio to finish the recording of their seventh album, Train of Thought. They concentrated solon on writing a great song-oriented album, a mindset inspired by covering Master of Puppets and Number of the Beast on a previous concert tour. As a result, the solon straight-forward metal sound of those two albums seemed to creep into Train of Thought. The album was a critical success, but it alienated a fair proportion of Dream Theater’s fans[who?] who preferred traditional progressive rock, such as Yes or King Crimson. Regardless, it seemed to expand Dream Theater’s fan base into new territory, capturing some solon metal fans.

Another concern journeying followed, during which Dream Theater performed support act duties for one of their major influences, Yes. A modest North dweller journeying was completed by the two bands, after which Dream Theater continued to journeying the concern with their so-called “An Evening With Dream Theater” shows.

Their next move was to release added springy CD/DVD combination, this time recorded at the famous Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan on their Train of intellection concern tour. springy at Budokan was released on October 5, 2004, and further propelled Dream Theater’s reputation as one of the premier springy acts in progressive metal.

Octavarium and reason (20052006)

“I Walk Beside You”

“I Walk Beside You” from Octavarium.

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Dream Theater after concert in Paris (2005). Left to right: Portnoy, Petrucci, LaBrie, Myung, Rudess

Upon the completion of their Train of intellection promotional tour, Dream Theater entered the Hit Factory studios in NYC to record their eighth album. As it turned out, they would be the last group ever to record in that famous studio, and after they wrapped up their final session, the lights were turned off at the studio forever.

Octavarium was released on June 7, 2005, and took the band’s sound in yet added new direction. Among its eight songs is a continuation of Portnoy’s “Twelve-step” saga (“The Root of All Evil”, steps 6-7 in the 12-step plan), as well as the title track, a musically versatile 24 minute epic rivaling “A Change of Seasons”. Octavarium received mixed reviews from fans and has been the subject of spirited debate. Octavarium was the last album low their seven-album deal with Elektra Records, which had inherited the contract upon its absorption of EastWest Records.

Dream Theater toured extensively throughout 2005 and 2006 to celebrate their 20th Anniversary as a band, including a headlining spot on Gigantour. During a exhibit on August 2, 2005 in Dallas, the adornment paid tribute to Pantera’s late guitarist Dimebag Darrell by performing the strain “Cemetery Gates” as an encore. In addition was the unexpected appearance of fellow musicians Russell Allen, Burton C. Bell and Dave Mustaine, who joined the adornment on stage to perform parts of the song.

Dream Theater after departed from Gigantour and continued on with their own series of concerts. Several concerts were recorded and released for the Fanclubs. The 20th anniversary journeying concluded with a exhibit at Radio municipality penalization Hall in New York municipality on April 1, 2006. Though the exhibit had minimal promotion, it was sold out days after tickets were made available. This show, which was recorded for a CD/DVD called reason released on August 29, 2006 finished Rhino Records, was the band’s first concert accompanied by an orchestra (the “Octavarium Orchestra”).

Systematic Chaos, Greatest Hit and Chaos in Motion (2007-2008)

Dream Theater’s next album Systematic Chaos was released on June 5, 2007. The record marked their first with new adjudge Roadrunner Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. Roadrunner implemented increased promotion for the album, and as a result, Systematic Chaos reached number 19 on the Billboard 200. It also saw the release of a video for “Constant Motion” on July 14, the band’s first penalization video since Hollow eld in 1997. An authorized book entitled Lifting Shadows, detailing their first twenty years, was also released in 2007, with an updated and expanded edition released in 2009 Systematic Chaos contains eight tracks, but technically only seven songs. The album contains an epic titled “In the Presence of Enemies”, bookending the album as tracks 1 and 8, Portnoy’s continuing AA Saga with the strain “Repentance”, and a strain of political nature, “Prophets of War”.

The 2007/2008 Chaos In Motion concern journeying started off in Italy. Dream Theater played in the Gods of metal concert on June 3, 2007. Dream Theater also appeared at the Fields Of Rock Festival in the Netherlands on June 17, 2007. They also played at various other European festivals including the UK’s Download Festival and the French festival Hellfest Summer Open Air with other bands such as Megadeth, Korn, Mastodon and Slayer.

Dream Theater returned to perform the North dweller leg of the journeying on July 24 in San Diego, California and wrapped up on August 26 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They played with opening acts Redemption and Into Eternity. The “Chaos In Motion” journeying continued for the rest of the year and into 2008, activity shows in Asia, South America and, for the first time, Australia.

On April 1, 2008, a two-disc compilation album entitled Greatest Hit (…and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) was released by the band. The title jokingly references the strain “Pull Me Under”, the band’s only significant radio hit. It also includes threesome strain re-mixes from their ordinal album, Images and Words, five edited versions of previously released songs, and a track from a single B-side. Unlike most Greatest Hits compilations, Dream Theater was actively involved with the album, coming up with the tracklisting that they felt best represented their musical careers.

Mike Portnoy, after the release of Greatest Hit, organized a new journeying called Progressive Nation 2008. Unlike previous Dream Theater tours, performances were held in cities that they had not visited before in the past (such as Vancouver, Canada) or cities they hadn’t played in for several years. This journeying also marked the first time, since the release of Images and Words, where the group performed in small venues and performance halls.

After this tour, the adornment released a DVD set called Chaos in Motion 20072008, a compilation of songs from the journeying supporting their 9th album, Systematic Chaos. There were two sets of DVDs released. One was a regular two disk set patch the primary Edition set contained threesome CDs of penalization that went along with the DVDs. It was released on September 30, 2008.

Black Clouds & Silver Linings and God of War: Blood & metal EP (2008resent)

Mike Portnoy announced on June 2, 2008 that the adornment would be entering the studio to record a new album. On October 7, 2008, Dream Theater began work on their 10th album. The album, which is titled Black Clouds & Silver Linings, was released on June 23, 2009. In addition to the standard CD, the album is available on vinyl LP, as well as a 3-disc primary Edition CD that includes the full album, a CD of instrumental mixes of the album and a CD of six cover songs.

On May 1, Mike Portnoy spoke to metal Hammer about the new album for their podcast saying that patch ‘The Shattered Fortress’ was the last in a series of songs about his 12 Steps recovery from alcoholism, ‘The Best of Times’ “is a real heavy personal subject about my dad who passed away during the making of the album,” adding, “He was battling cancer throughout its making.” The adornment has also announced a ordinal Progressive Nation tour, including the tour’s first performances in Europe. Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect supported Dream Theater in Europe, patch Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit played the North dweller leg.

On June 22, 2009, Mike Portnoy announced, on his forum, that there was a lineup change for the Progressive Nation 2009 journeying in North America. Pain of Salvation and Beardfish were unable to journeying with Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa due to financial troubles within their respective record labels. He also announced two bands that will be filling the vacated slots for the Progressive Nation 2009 journeying in North America, Bigelf and Scale The Summit. On this journeying Dream Theater has often done an extended jam on Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulance’s “Solitary Shell,” making it around thirteen minutes in length. Similarly, they also did an extended jam on “Surrounded” during the Chaos In Motion tour.

On July 1, 2009, the album debuted at #6 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, with first week sales totalling 40,285. On November 12, 2009, Mike Portnoy announced that Dream Theater would enter the studio right after New Year’s to write and record a brand new instrumental track for inclusion on the upcoming PS3 game God of War III soundtrack. Titled “Raw Dog” (an anagram of “War God”), the instrumental was sent to Roadrunner Records January 8, 2010. This marked the first time that the adornment has written and recorded an exclusive track for an outside project.

In Dec 2009, during their Black Clouds & Silver Linings journeying whilst visiting Australia Dream Theater appeared with one support act, Pain of Salvation, who apparently sorted out enough of their financial difficulties with their record label. In March 2010, they will journeying South America with Bigelf.

On February 17, 2010, Avenged Sevenfold stated that they had entered the studio, along with Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, to drum for the record, in place of The Rev.

Logo and imagery

Dream Theater wordmark and “Majesty” symbol

Despite the adornment being forced to change their name, Dream Theater adopted a custom logo (known as the Majesty symbol) and wordmark which has appeared on the vast majority of their promotional material and on the front cover of every Dream Theater studio album. The Majesty symbol is derived from Mary, Queen of Scots’ mark, which was re-worked by Charlie Dominici for use on the album artwork for When Dream and Day Unite. It consists of a capital Phi, a capital Mu, and a capital Lambda.

springy performances

Throughout their career, Dream Theater’s springy shows have gradually become bigger, longer, and solon diverse. The most obvious example of this is their rotational set list policy. That is, every single period of every journeying has its set list devised by Portnoy using a meticulous process that ensures its uniqueness. Factors such as set lists from previous cities are taken into account to ensure that people who see Dream Theater multiple times within the same area will not see the same songs performed twice, and even the set list from the last time the adornment was in a particular municipality is taken into account for the benefit of fans who see the adornment on successive tours.

Rudess and Petrucci dueling in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008).

For this to be possible, the adornment prepares to play the majority of its catalogue at any performance, depending on what Portnoy decides to program for that night. This process also requires the employment of a complex lighting system to load pre-configured lighting cues based on the individual songs.

Some of Dream Theater’s solon notable touring partners include Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Iron Maiden, Joe Satriani, King’s X, Marillion, Megadeth, In Flames, Pain of Salvation, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Queensrche, Riverside, Spock’s Beard, Fear Factory, Enchant, Symphony X, and Yes. In 2005, Dream Theater toured North America with the Gigantour festival, co-headlining with Megadeth, and have played with Megadeth and Iron Maiden physically on stage.

The band’s full concern tours, since Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence, have predominantly been so-called “Evening with…” tours, in which the adornment performs for at least threesome hours with an intermission and no opening act. The exhibit that was recorded for springy Scenes From New York was nearly four hours in length, and resulted in Portnoy almost being hospitalized after acquiring severe food poisoning from the food he ate before the show.

“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, springy at Nagoya, Japan.

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There is also a significant amount of humor, casualness, and improvisation attached to a Dream Theater concert. In the midst of “A Change of Seasons” it is quite common for themes such as those for Major League Baseball and The Simpsons to be quoted, and Rudess routinely modifies his solo section in the strain and others, often activity the ragtime section of “When the Water Breaks” from Liquid Tension Experiment 2. Several songs included on Once in a LIVETime include snippets of others’ pieces, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Other quotations include “Mary Had a Little Lamb” during “Endless Sacrifice” on the Gigantour, a calliope-inspired break between verses of “Under a Glass Moon”, a quote of “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”‘s main melody played by Petrucci patch performing the intro solo of “Through Her Eyes” in Buenos Aires, the Turkish March at a concert in Istanbul, and the opening riff of Rush’s “A Passage to Bangkok” at a exhibit in Bangkok, Thailand. On the most recent “20th Anniversary concern Tour” Rudess has even thrown in a short “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” theme in a break during “Endless Sacrifice”, and during a concert in Israel he started a spontaneous “Hava-Nagilla” after accompanied by the rest of the band.

Occasionally, a member of the audience is picked at random to perform on stage, an example of which can be seen during Portnoy’s drum solo on the springy at Budokan DVD. There have also been some impromptu renditions of “Happy Birthday” when a member of the adornment or crew has a birthday corresponding to a journeying date, which normally results in a birthday cake being thrown at the subject.

Perhaps the best example of Dream Theater’s unpredictable concert structure is that during Derek Sherinian’s time with the band. At selected shows the adornment members all swapped instruments and performed an encore as the fictitious adornment dubbed Nightmare Cinema. They usually performed a cover of Deep Purple’s “Perfect Strangers”, and, on one occasion, Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution”. At some shows, Sherinian, Petrucci and Portnoy would take the stage together low the study “Nicky Lemons and the Migraine Brothers”. Sherinian, wearing a feather boa and novelty sunglasses, would perform a pop-punk strain entitled “I Don’t Like You” with Petrucci and Portnoy backing. In Chaos in Motion tour, in several concerts before “Trial of Tears”, Portnoy and Petrucci would change positions and play Van Halen’s “Eruption”.

Dream Theater’s largest audience as a headlining act was 20,000 in Santiago, Chile on Dec 6, 2005. This was during their first journeying of South dweller countries other than Brazil (which they had visited in 1997 and 1998). The exhibit was released on DVD finished Portnoy’s YtseJam Records.

In the reason and Chaos in Motion DVDs, an animation has accompanied certain parts of the songs, showing the adornment activity along to the penalization as cartoon characters. On the reason DVD, during the strain Octavarium, the adornment is seen performing in an octagonal shaped maze. As the animation continues Jordan Rudess spontaneously turns into Santa Claus and Evangelist Petrucci catches fire. In “The Dark Eternal Night” from the Chaos in Motion DVD, the adornment battles against a monster by shooting fireballs from guitars, throwing drum sticks, and screaming.

In 2008 Dream Theater started the “Progressive Nation ’08″ tour, along with Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, and 3. The journeying is the brainchild of Mike Portnoy, who stated, “I’ve been wanting to assemble a package journeying like this for some eld now. With all of the festivals and package tours that go finished America, I’ve been talking with our manager and agent for over 10 eld now about doing something that focuses on the solon progressive, musician-oriented side of hard rock and metal. I decided it was time to stop talking the talk, lace up and finally walk the walk.”

On February 13, 2009, Dream Theater announced the official line up for their Progressive Nation 2009 tour. The journeying was originally set to feature bands including Swedish bands Beardfish and Pain of Salvation, as well as Zappa plays Zappa. On June 22, 2009, Mike Portnoy announced that Pain of Salvation and Beardfish would not be touring the North dweller leg of the Progressive Nation 2009 journeying due to record adjudge complications. In the same announcement, Portnoy stated that the bands Scale the Summit and Bigelf would replace Pain of Salvation and Beardfish on the tour. This lineup change has put Bigelf on both the North dweller and European legs of the Progressive Nation 2009 tour. The tour’s North dweller leg ran throughout July and August 2009. On March 26, 2009 it was announced that Dream Theater would take the Progressive Nation journeying to Europe for the first time alongside Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect. The journeying ran throughout September and October 2009.

Bootleg culture

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Mike Portnoy started an official bootlegs series in response to Dream Theater fans’ affinity for springy versions of their concerts. Dream Theater is one of the most actively bootlegged bands in the progressive metal genre. Since their very first shows in New York as Majesty, fans have recorded almost every single exhibit that Dream Theater have played (occasionally there are threesome or four versions of a single concert), and some very elaborate and professional recordings have been released.

However, not every member in the adornment condones the release of Dream Theater bootlegs. Portnoy is the most pro-bootlegging member, since he was an avid collector of some bootlegs in his younger days and keeps his own personal archive of Dream Theater material in his basement. Petrucci and LaBrie have voiced opposition to people recording their concerts. Petrucci takes issue with bootleggers because he prefers audience members to concentrate on the musicians on stage, and not the level adjustments on their recording device. LaBrie, on the other hand, argues that bootlegging takes ownership and control over Dream Theater’s performances away from the adornment themselves and into the hands of the public. Myung has expressed mild opposition to bootlegging, but in some interviews has mentioned that he does not particularly take great issue with it.

Dream Theater have released a series of official bootlegs, demos and other rarities finished YtseJam Records, headed by Portnoy. They include demos the adornment put out before official albums, as well as some springy shows, including shows where the adornment has covered a particular album. Albums covered include The Dark Side of the Moon, Made in Japan, Master of Puppets, and Number of the Beast.

Cover songs

Dream Theater has been known for covering other artists’ work throughout their career. They took this practice to a new level during the promotional journeying for Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence. At threesome primary gigs, one each in Barcelona, Chicago and New York City, they covered Metallica’s Master of Puppets album in its entirety after a full set of Dream Theater material. This came as a surprise to fans, as there was no sign that this was to occur, other than it being announced that the gigs involved, which were on the ordinal period of a two-night stand in each city, would be “extra special”. This tradition can most likely be traced back to one of Mike Portnoy’s favorite bands, Phish, who began a series of performing “musical costumes” of entire albums from other artists each Halloween beginning in 1994. Portnoy devised this “album cover” as the first in a series of gigs to be played as tributes to bands that had been influential in the formation and development of Dream Theater. The covers set divided some fans who attended the shows, with some people saying that they went to a Dream Theater concert to see original penalization and not added artist’s work. Others, however, said that it was a bonus and not a replacement for a normal Dream Theater concert, since an ordinary gig had been played the period before.

On the next leg of the journeying they covered Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast and received a similar reaction to Master of Puppets, although it was already known that a cover was to be performed that period because the journeying itinerary included two successive gigs in a single city. On October 11, 2005, Dream Theater covered Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Dream Theater’s official webpage stated that the ordinal sets of the ordinal nights in Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires, So Paulo and Tokyo (October 11, October 25, Dec 4, Dec 11 and January 13 respectively), and also the ordinal set of the January 15 exhibit in Osaka, would be a classic album covered in its entirety. The Dark Side of the Moon was played again on October 25 in London. However, in Buenos Aires (December 4) and So Paulo (December 11) the ‘classic album’ played was Dream Theater’s own municipality Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, to make up for not having visited Argentina and Brazil in their municipality 2000 tour. On January 13, 2006 (Tokyo) and on the 15th (Osaka), Dream Theater covered Deep Purple’s springy album Made in Japan. Portnoy says that he has one solon cover exhibit planned, but refuses to reveal when it will occur, or what album will be covered.

During Gigantour 2005, Dream Theater did a cover of Pantera’s “Cemetery Gates” as a tribute to “Dimebag” Darrel Lance Abbott. As an added bonus, they had Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, and Russell Allen of Symphony X do guest vocals and Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, do the main solo for the song.

In March 2006, Dream Theater played the rare Rush strain “Jacob’s Ladder” at a exhibit in Toronto. Evangelist Petrucci said a few days after in Asbury Park, New Jersey, prior to the night’s show, that “Rush wouldn’t play it, so we intellection we’d play it for them.”

In addition, Dream Theater released several springy cover songs on their EP A Change of Seasons, including songs from Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Journey, Kansas, and Dixie Dregs.

In 2008, they recorded a version of Iron Maiden’s “To Tame a Land” for a Kerrang magazine compilation entitled Maiden Heaven. This strain was after included on the primary edition of Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Dream Theater also recorded a number of cover songs for their 2009 album Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The songs came as a bonus disc in the primary editions version of the album.

Dream Theater played “Hava Nagila”, the traditional Jewish song, during “Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper” at a sold-out concert in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 16, 2009.

On August 14, 2009 during a Toronto show, Dream Theater played the Rush strain “The Camera Eye”, which was originally released on Rush’s Moving Pictures album.

Discography

Main article: Dream Theater discography

When Dream and Day Unite (1989)

Images and Words (1992)

Awake (1994)

A Change Of Seasons (1995)

Falling into Infinity (1997)

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)

Six Degrees of intrinsic disorder (2002)

Train of intellection (2003)

Octavarium (2005)

Systematic Chaos (2007)

Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)

In addition to the above official albums, the members of Dream Theater, past and present, have contributed to hundreds of bootleg albums, both official and unofficial, side projects, collaborations with other artists, and guest appearances.

adornment members

Main article: List of Dream Theater adornment members

Current members

James LaBrie – Lead vocals, Percussion (1991-present)

John Myung – Bass guitar, Chapman stick (1985-present)

John Petrucci – Guitars, Backing vocals (1985-present)

Mike Portnoy – Drums, Percussion, Backing vocals (1985-present)

Jordan Rudess – Keyboards, Continuum, Lap steel bass (1999-present)

Former members

Chris Collins – Lead vocals (1986)

Charlie Dominici – Lead vocals (1987-1989)

Kevin Moore – Keyboards (1986-1994)

Derek Sherinian – Keyboards, Backing vocals (1994-1998)

Awards and certificates

RIAA gold and platinum certification

Images and Words (Gold) – February 2, 1995

Metropolis 2000: springy Scenes From New York (Gold) – November 8, 2002

Live at Budokan (DVD) (Platinum) – January 26, 2005

Live in Tokyo/5 eld in a Livetime (Platinum) – March 22, 2006

Score (DVD) (Platinum) – October 11, 2006

Keyboard Magazine

Jordan Rudess was awarded the following Keyboard Magazine Reader’s Poll award’:

Best New Talent (1994)

Burrn magazine’s best keyboards player of the year (2007)

Modern Drummer

Mike Portnoy won the following Modern Drummer magazine Reader’s Poll awards:

Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)

Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995-2006)

Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons, 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence, and 2007 for Score)

Best Clinician (2000, 2002)

Best Educational Video/DVD (2000, 2002)

Hall of Fame Inductee (2004)

Guitar World

The album municipality Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked #95 on the magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest bass Albums of All Time.

Total Guitar

John Petrucci won Guitarist of the year award (2007).

Other recognitions

At Dream Theater’s Salt Lake municipality show, Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed a proclamation making July 30, 2007 “Dream Theater Day”.

In Dec 2007, Dream Theater was chosen as Xbox Live’s artist of the month.

Dream Theater’s penalization video “Constant Motion” was voted ordinal in the Headbanger’s Ball 2007 competition.

Dream Theater’s penalization video “Forsaken” was voted fifth in the Headbanger’s Ball 2008 competition.

Dream Theater’s strain “Panic Attack” off of their album Octavarium is featured in the video game Rock adornment 2. Additionally, the strain “Constant Motion” is downloadable content for the Rock adornment series.

The strain “Pull Me Under” from the album Images and Words is also featured on bass Hero: concern Tour.

Since August 12, 2008 (Xbox 360) and August 14, 2008 (PS3), Dream Theater’s strain “Constant Motion” has been available for download for Rock Band. For the first month, it was available for a promotional price equivalent to $0.99 USD, but after reverted to a normal $1.99 cost for Rock adornment downloadable content.

Dream Theater played twice on Xbox 360s Game With Fame event. They played Halo 3 in Dec 2007 and Call of Duty: concern at War in June 2009.

Notes

^ a b c d Billboard Chart history for Dream Theater can be seen at Billboard.com.

^ “February 9, 2007″. Nielsen Soundscan News. 2007. http://www.marketingtomenconference.com/marketingtomen/bb_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544204. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 

^ “When Dream Theater and Roadrunner Records Unite!”. dreamtheater.net. 2007. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/DreamTheater/video.aspx. Retrieved 2007-02-12. 

^ a b c d e This was referenced in the documentary “The reason so Far”, on the ordinal disc of the reason DVD.

^ Portnoy, Mike (2003). “The Majesty Demos 1985-1986″ [CD Liner Notes]. New York: Ytsejam Records.

^ “The Dream Theater FAQ – Graphic Version”. Gabbo.net. http://www.gabbo.net/dt/faq/. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 

^ a b Portnoy, Mike (2004). And Nathan Edmonds help produce “When Dream and Day Unite Demos” 1987-1989 [CD Liner Notes]. New York: YtseJam Records.

^ Dominici, Charlie. When Dream And Day Unite liner notes (2004 re-release).

^ a b c d Please see MikePortnoy.com tourography for solon information on this tourdate.

^ Portnoy’s tourography: June 9, 1990 journeying date

^ EastWest Records Press Release.

^ Nine Christmas CDs were released finished Dream Theater’s fan edifice before it was closed down in 2005. See DTIFC on Dream Theater.net.

^ LaBrie, James. (Summer ’97) Images & Words No. 14, pg. 5

^ Falling Into Infinity Demos

^ Portnoy, Mike (1998). “Liquid Tension Experiment” [CD Liner Notes]. New York: Magna Carta Records.

^ “Mike Portnoy FAQ”. http://www.mikeportnoy.com/aboutmike/faq/answers/12.aspx#213. 

^ DreamTheater.net reported that Six Degrees of intrinsic disorder had reached #1 on the Billboard Internet Charts.

^ Mike Portnoy (2007) “In Constant Motion” Instructional DVD, Train of intellection album analysis.

^ http://digitalprosound.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=45690

^ “Lifting Shadows – The Authorised Story Of Dream Theater”. Dreamtheaterbook.com. http://www.dreamtheaterbook.com/. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 

^ Gods of metal official website

^ “DREAM THEATER Begins Recording New Album, Seeks New adjudge Home”. Blabbermouth.net

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^ http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/dream-theater’s-mike-portnoy-pens-tribute-to-late-father/

^ Holy Shit, Dream Theater debut’s at 6 on Billboard Top 200, The Gauntlet

^ http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/m2443312.aspx

^ http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php#dtnzaustralia

^ The mark used by Mary, Queen of Scots, is available on DreamTheater.net.

^ An embroidery showing the Mary, Queen of Scots, symbol in use

^ Dixon, Brad et al. “What is the ‘symbol’ DT use?”.

^ Campbell, Courtney. “Mike Portnoy – Dream Theater”. Earplugs Required.

^ See the municipality 2000: Scenes From New York DVD

^ Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. “What this I hear about Mike being really sick after the Roseland (DVD) show? What happened?”. MP FAQ.

^ Voices UK: Dream Theater Fan edifice “Dream Theater News: Record crowd”

^ Octavarium animation

^ NADS Animation By: Mika Tyyska

^ “Progressive Nation 2008 – Press Release”. dreamtheater.net (Dream Theater). 2007-11-05. http://www.dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php#prognation. Retrieved 2008-05-11. 

^ http://www.dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php#pnlineup

^ http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php Progressive Nation journeying Dates

^ “YtseJam Records – The Official Dream Theater Bootlegs”. Ytsejamrecords.com. http://www.ytsejamrecords.com. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 

^ Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. “What are all the aspects involved in covering an entire album by added band? What does Mike take into consideration when picking an album?”. MP FAQ.

^ http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/06/maiden_heaven_track_listing_re.html

^ http://whiplash.net/materias/news_874/091017-dreamtheater.html

^ http://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/discography/page4.html

^ “RIAA”. Riaa.com. http://www.riaa.com. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 

^ Jordan Rudess biography

^ http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Boggs1027/guitar_worlds_100_greatest_guitar_albums_of_all_time

References

Bredius, Mark. Dream Theater – The Official Site. (Retrieved February-April, 2005.)

Dixon, Brad et al. Official Dream Theater FAQ. (Retrieved February-April, 2005, moved c. 2007.)

Hansen, Scott & Portnoy, Mike. Dream Theater Tourography. (Retrieved February-April, 2005.)

King, Brian. (2003). “JaM Progductions! Interview with Evangelist Petrucci and Mike Portnoy”. Theater of Dreams 29, pp. 1420.

Hansen, Scott. (2003). “James LaBrie: As this man thinks”. Theater of Dreams 27/28, pp. 2630.

Hale, Mark (1993). “1731 Majesty”. Headbangers (First edition, ordinal printing ed.). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Popular Culture, Ink. ISBN 1-56075-029-4. 

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Dream Theater

James LaBrie  Evangelist Petrucci  Evangelist Myung  Jordan Rudess  Mike Portnoy

Chris Collins  Charlie Dominici  Kevin Moore  Derek Sherinian

Studio albums

When Dream and Day Unite  Images and Words  Awake  Falling into Infinity  municipality Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory  Six Degrees of intrinsic Turbulence  Train of Thought  Octavarium  Systematic Chaos  Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Live releases

Live at the Marquee  Once in a LIVEtime  springy Scenes from New York  springy at Budokan  Score  Chaos in Motion 20072008

Compilations

Greatest Hit (…and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)

EPs

A Change of Seasons  Wither

Videos

Images and Words: springy in Tokyo  5 eld in a Livetime  municipality 2000: Scenes from New York  springy at Budokan  Score  Chaos in Motion 20072008

Singles

“Another Day”  “Pull Me Under”  “Take the Time”  “Caught in a Web”  “Lie”  “The Silent Man”  “Hollow Years”  “Through Her Eyes”  “Home”  “As I Am”  “Constant Motion”  “Forsaken”  “A Rite of Passage”  “Wither”

Suites

A Mind Beside Itself  Twelve-step Suite

Associated acts

Dominici  Explorers Club  The Jelly Jam  Liquid Tension Experiment  MullMuzzler  Nightmare Cinema  OSI  Platypus  Transatlantic  True Symphonic Rockestra  Winterspell  Chroma Key

Related articles

Discography  adornment members  Songs by lyricist  Majesty Demos  Lifting Shadows  G3  Gigantour  Roadrunner Records  YtseJam Records

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