progmetaldan
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John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy have been in Australia on the G3 tour (which was incredible I might add), so they're probably only just getting back into writing and stuff...
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John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy have been in Australia on the G3 tour (which was incredible I might add), so they're probably only just getting back into writing and stuff...
dt doesn't write ahead of time. they write as they record and then leave the studio in record time. Then towards the end they call myung in to play the parts they've prepared for him, then he leaves.
I believe they may be self producing this album, I think they should start their own label made for new Prog/Metal talent.
progmetaldan
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That would be cool, I would love to get signed to that... if it happened... I don't really care who releases the album as long as it contains awesome music! I still reckon they should go with 'Inside Out' though...
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If thats an implication that Dream Theater doesn't value Myung I think you're SEVERELY mistaken my friend.
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Indeed, Myung does take a major role in the writing process and they don't just "use" him to play bass.
progmetaldan
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Myung rules, he's been there since the start and is part of the core of Dream Theater with Portnoy and Petrucci when they started the band... There's no way they don't value him.
That is incorrect, sir. Portnoy has stated why Myung isn't allowed to write.
I think TOT is a masterpeice. But then, I think that about all their albums, in some way or another. 8VM is a solid album, but composition-wise, the simpler songs feel like the polar opposite of the unretrained madness in TOT. That album seemed to burn out a lot faster than their others, to me. But I still adore it.
Scenes is the best though, IMO
Dave
Scenes is the best though, IMO
Dave
I'll chime in on sknight's behalf:
Guitar One December 2006-
G1-"DO you have that same chemistry with John Myung (as you do Jordan Rudess)?
JP- "The thing that I love about John, and it's always been this way, is that he knows exactly the right thing to play. Dream Theater is about a certain musical concept, and John is the core of that concept. He might be sitting there quietly listening to us go back and forth with notes, and then he'll drop the bomb with the best riff of the record."
Clearly, based on these words directly from John Petrucci, Sknight is correct.
Oh wait..........nevermind I think this clearly stated, consise statement straight from Petrucci's mouth actually completely shoots down what Sknight said. My bad.
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