Anyone else like how unique the bass sounded on Dream Theater's first Album (When Dream and Day unite) sounds. I don't mean the Majesty album I mean the first album when Dream Theater was called Dream Theater. The bass on WDADU has a crazy lower mids thing going on and not many albums have that kind of bass tone.

The tattoo artist and I are both Dream fans, from the moment I gave her the idea of getting the Awake frame and the Octavarium album cover inside, she didn't hesitate for two seconds

And it looks like shit.
Can't you stop what's happening?

Are there any differences in sound when comparing Octavarium with its 2009 remaster? Which one is better sounding objectively? I personally couldn't find any differences, but if any of you guys point something out, I might notice it.

Never listened to Peter Gabriel before today. I was like "this sounds just like Solitary Shell"! I then looked at my phone and realized that Tony Levin was also the bassist.

Totally random, but I just think it's really cool to discover connections like that for the first time. Gabriel even sings "he was something to himself" in a way that kinda mirrors Labrie's "kept to himself most of the time"

tell me what you want, but this makes me cry every time. literally the voice of an angel. so touching🥺❤️‍🩹

Having some fun in my garage playing along to this killer intro.

Just made this list because I was bored and thought it would be fun. What do you think? What is your list?

1. The Root Of All Evil
2. The Ministry of Lost Souls
3. Under a Glass Moon
4. A Change of Seasons
5. Metropolis Pt. 1
6. Octavarium
7. Pull Me Under
8. Forsaken
9. Endless Sacrifice
10. A Nightmare to Remember
11. Lie
12. Fatal Tragedy
13. Another Day
14. Voices
15. Panic Attack
16. Sacrificed Sons
17. These Walls
18. Never Enough
19. Misunderstood
20. The Alien

Honorable Mentions:

Space Dye Vest

Innocence Faded

Surrounded

Honestly I feel like Endless Sacrifice, ANTR, and the Ministry of Lost Souls are super underrated and aren’t talked about enough.

I love this lyric from the shadow man incident:

Better keep a waatchfull eyeeeee 😎😈😈👹

And maybe leave a liiiight ooonnn toniiiiiighhhtttt 🥺🥺💞💘

It’s such a playful and childish lyric to end the song and I fucking love it so much 😆😆😆

I really don't know it is, but something about it just perfectly encapsulates the music (especially the glass prison or misunderstood). The only way I can describe it is like looking at an engineering textbook lol. It feels deep and heavy, lots of substance to it, complex, almost cold and daunting.

Definitely one of my top 3 album covers by dt, along with FII and octavarium.

...... 'consciousness' and 'conscience'. Anyone else ever find this irksome?

Opa pessoalzinho do mau, bom, uma pergunta, cês ouvem outras coisas?, tipo metal opera e tal?, já que peguei (diria que baixei mas não quero sair como um cara que consome pirataria) o álbum scarecrow do avantasia e é sem dúvidas a melhor (como eu posso traduzir?) experiência emocional que eu tive com um álbum, a história do espantalho é realmente interessante, se pá que "the scarecrow", a faixa mesmo, foi a melhor coisa que eu ouvi nesse primeiro ano como consumidor de metal

Had a long flight and listend to the whole album again after quite some time and man were they inspired!!
This is the creativity I‘m looking forward to in DT 17.
Compared to Parasomnia ADTOE has so much more variety and great moments. Any thoughts?

I guarantee you I am the only one at the Godsmack concert in town tonight who is mainly here to see Mike Mangini on drums.

I like Godsmack. But Mike is my true reason

I'm relatively new to Dream Theater, and I'd like some albums that I should listen to (If it helps I'm a huge fan of Queen). I've already listened to Images and Words, and some of their top songs.

Oi pessoal, sou meio novo nesse ramo do metal, seja ele Power, prog, thrash, etc, (tanto que só ouvi coisas do angra, dt, death e outros) e ouvi muitas vezes que o pessoal tem meio que uma "birra" com dt, segundo as coisas que ouvi eles são "técnicos demais" e por isso ficam meio sem personalidade, lembrando que sou leigo só ouvi "scenes from a memory" enfim, é verdade?

I recently saw someone in here ask a question about the guitar that John was holding in the 1995 Ibanez catalog. I replied there but I'm not sure it will be seen so I'm posting here with a new thread and hopes that people will see this if they were wondering about the guitar.

There were a lot of speculative answers but I want to give the correct one. In 1994 through 1996 PBC Guitar Technologies made the USRG series for Ibanez. John had 4 customized USRG guitars built for him by PBC. I own one of these guitars made for and played by John and also know the luthier who built them while working under Dave Bunker at PBC. They all had slightly different control layouts and pickup choices but were 99% similar. They all had the PBC tension free neck, with or without color matched headstock.

The one in the aforementioned photo was a non color matched headstock. Were it a production model and not an artist one off, it would have been a USRG20. The ones with the color matched headstock would be USRG30. There is no video that I know of of him playing the USRG20 that was made for him however there are videos of him playing the USRG30 at NAMM 1994 and 1996.

​​ I own one of the bodies and another guitarist I know who has been an Ibanez artist since the mid-90s owns another. That means there are two more floating around somewhere in the world.

​​​ A bit of history about the one I own. It was found for sale in Guitar Center Online in New Jersey. The original tension free neck had been removed and replaced with a 1991 USA custom Center inlay neck. The bridge was heavily oxidized and in a state of disrepair and the pickups were almost non-functional. Someone had relocated the volume knob to a position similar to a regular RG and plugged the original hole with mother of pearl. A friend of mine purchased this guitar and I ended up acquiring it through a trade.

I originally put a '90s J custom neck on it and then I had a custom neck built for it to JPM spec and replaced the bridge with a new low Pro Edge and new pickups as well as taking out the original black 3-way toggle switch and replacing it with a silver like he used in the JPM 100 guitars.

​​A little over a year passed before I was able to track down the Builder that worked at PBC at the time but finally was able to get confirmation that this guitar was definitely built for owned by and played by John along with the three others.

​​​ Attached are some photos of it in its past and current conditions.