Dream Theater Show

[Ultima Ibanez Overlord]

Yes! :hotjump:

I just got confirmation that I am now the proud owner of tickets to see Dream Theater twice in one week!

I'm going to the London Astoria 20th and 21st of October shows

I can't wait for the second night's show. They'll be covering a classic album like they did with Master of Puppets in Barcelona.

Awesome. I'm so pumped!

 

[metropolis2k X]

Sweet mate, I'm going too!

I live about an hour's drive south of London and the best thing is, the week afterwards is my 18th birthday

 

[Ultima Ibanez Overlord]

Are you going to both shows?

 

[shredguitarman]

Now I'm real jealous........

Can't see any of the 2 shows coz of work commitments..... just thankfull I got to see them in January... they rocked big time..

esp Petrucci with his silver sparkle JP 7 string!!

 

[NITRO666]

Wish i could go too!
I saw them a few years ago,different times but i guess the best gig i went to was in.. hmm..lemme think guess it was in '98! It was an unplugged session, especially for the members of the dutch fanclub.... Portnoy even took Melody on stage, and she wore those big earprotectors..it was a cool sight.
Labrie was complaining about the lights, they were frying his brains out!

 

[Dangerman]

I'm going to the show on the 20th. I don't wanna turn up on the 21st and have to sit through a Pink Floyd or Genesis album.

Man, Mondays suck enough without having to endure that!!!

 

[Ultima Ibanez Overlord]

Did you see them in London, Shred? I saw them there in January. I wasn't too impressed with them that night, but Pain of Salvation were absolutely amazing.
But Dream Theater is like sex and pizza, even when it's bad, it's pretty damn good.

Nitro: I've seen some footage of that show on the 5 Years in a Livetime video. It looked like a great show, but that show has puzzled me:
Sherinian had his usual 60 keyboards and Hammonds, Myung played electric bass and Petrucci played his Ibanez electrics a lot, and Portnoy's kit was mic-ed (since the others were all amplified, I presume not just for the recording).
With that in mind, it seems odd to have called it an "unplugged" show

Dangerman, read the part about sex and pizza again, heretic!

 

[Fee]

I was there in January too....I got some funny looks from ppl tho as i appeared in my SyX tshirt *grin*

Ill be there in October too mateee...dunno whether to go to both nights or not, someone decide for me please. If only i knew what album they will be covering i could make my decision easily but poo, unfortunately not.

 

[Heidi]

I'm waiting them to play in Finland... But now news, no news at all...

 

[shredguitarman]

Ultima,

Saw them up here in Manchester at the Apollo. It was the first gig of their European tour.

They rocked bigggggg time, definately the best gig I've been to.

It was so good I can't even remember which songs I though they played best!

Would have gone down to see them at the Astoria but it's my busiest period in work then (I'm a Manager so have some responsability, doh...) so can't go...

 

[Dangerman]

Hey ShredGM,

Ultima I O and I were at the gig subsequent to the Manchester date in London. The set list was a ropey at best. Far too much stuff from B sides and Falling Into Infinity.

Anyway, there's a review of that gig at my site. Check it, it's on the review page

www.dangermanmetal.com

 

[metropolis2k X]

I was at the Manchester and London shows and then the two Barcelona shows at the end of the tour (where they played MoP) and the Barcelona shows were aweseme. They just played so much better and the cover album was just incredible (I used to love metallica so it brought back memories ).

Anyway, I'm going to both shows and am hoping for a cover of Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime although I'm not hopefull. I bet the album will be Radiohead or Tool or some other band I cannot stand. I'll probably go and stand at the back and drink beer if it comes to that.

 

[Fee]

i cant quite see DT covering Radiohead...MP might be happy to do so but definitely not JP lol

 

[metropolis2k X]

Well Mike would have the final say and I know that Mike, James and Jordan are all huge Radiohead fans. I don't think it would stretch the band at all and I could see it getting very boring.

 

[Ultima Ibanez Overlord]

I hope they don't play a Radiohead album!! I like two of Radiohead's albums, but only to listen to at home. I don't want to see a band like DT playing music like that. It's just a little too noise-oriented for my liking.

I'm hoping for something that's a little more "classic", rather than just an album that the band members like.

@Fee: go to both shows! But hurry, tickets are selling out fast. I think TicketMaster have already sold out :O

 

[Thorns of Sorrow]

Im guessing they wont cover Master of Puppets, they already did that on the last tour...expect a classic Rush album if anything...

 

[cutlas7]

I just came back from seeing Dream Theater with Joe Satriani at the Chronicle Pavilion in Concord, Ca. I drove 800 miles to San Francisco from Seattle to see this show. It was worth every minute and every penny to see DT and JS. They didn't play the enormous sets they do when headlining, but the shred the house down. I'll drive that far anytime to see them, no question.

 

[Annie]

damn you lucky ppl

DT will never come to South America..

 

[metropolis2k X]

Actually, I think DT are planning on heading out to South America after the European tour that is happening in October/November (it may be before that. I can't remember). I think Jordan said that.

 

[Annie]

naah..
they have been saying that since SFAM tour and never came..