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Key · 11-06-2013, 08:05 PM

My apologies for the delay on this section. Had a couple other things I wanted to get out of the way, but let's just get right into it shall we?

Dream Theater is up next. I'm very happy to do an entry on them since they played a very important role in the music I listened to in high school, and really opened my mind to other bands that related to them, thus opening more passages in my musical journey. I know exactly why I have the amount of plays that I do on my last.fm, and i'm sure it's increased since I took this photo, it's because, yes...I am a humongous fan of them, and I'm not going to let this forum be a reason to not express that. They are great, and they continue to get better.

When I first heard them, it was actually a close friend of mine that lent me one of their live DVD's, and I believe it was Score

I'll admit, it was very weird seeing live footage of a band that I wasn't too familiar with, because that was just it, I wasn't familiar with any of the music, nor did I know what to expect from anybody in the band, so if anything, it led me to want to check out their studio albums, and that led me to listen to Images & Words

which to this day remains to be one of my all time favorite Dream Theater studio albums, but that's only in terms of studio releases, what I really love and will cherish as a key part of my music collection is their Live at Budokan DVD, mostly because of the beautiful Petrucci solo at the end of Hollow Years:

Not only the solo, but the whole song is performed so beautifully that it's such a key part of the DVD, as is a lot of the others on the DVD.

While I have hit on the albums and DVDs that I enjoy, I don't think I've hit on why I enjoy them so much. Reason being, there really isn't much to it, I like their sound, I love the way they compose their music, and I love the chemistry you can see when they perform live, especially since i've seen them perform, which for me was a huge weight off my shoulders to finally be able to see one of my all time favorite bands.

11-06-2013, 08:05 PM	#101 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	My apologies for the delay on this section. Had a couple other things I wanted to get out of the way, but let's just get right into it shall we? Dream Theater is up next. I'm very happy to do an entry on them since they played a very important role in the music I listened to in high school, and really opened my mind to other bands that related to them, thus opening more passages in my musical journey. I know exactly why I have the amount of plays that I do on my last.fm, and i'm sure it's increased since I took this photo, it's because, yes...I am a humongous fan of them, and I'm not going to let this forum be a reason to not express that. They are great, and they continue to get better. When I first heard them, it was actually a close friend of mine that lent me one of their live DVD's, and I believe it was Score I'll admit, it was very weird seeing live footage of a band that I wasn't too familiar with, because that was just it, I wasn't familiar with any of the music, nor did I know what to expect from anybody in the band, so if anything, it led me to want to check out their studio albums, and that led me to listen to Images & Words which to this day remains to be one of my all time favorite Dream Theater studio albums, but that's only in terms of studio releases, what I really love and will cherish as a key part of my music collection is their Live at Budokan DVD, mostly because of the beautiful Petrucci solo at the end of Hollow Years: Not only the solo, but the whole song is performed so beautifully that it's such a key part of the DVD, as is a lot of the others on the DVD. While I have hit on the albums and DVDs that I enjoy, I don't think I've hit on why I enjoy them so much. Reason being, there really isn't much to it, I like their sound, I love the way they compose their music, and I love the chemistry you can see when they perform live, especially since i've seen them perform, which for me was a huge weight off my shoulders to finally be able to see one of my all time favorite bands.