"YOU NOODLE!"
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
just an absolute banger headline, thank you Ultimate Guitar pic.twitter.com/fItjWuK6Io— domvan (@domvanford) December 13, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
lmao
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
from upthread
[Instrumental Bridge 5][Keyboard Solo 1][Guitar Solo 2][Chorus 1][Chorus 2][Instrumental Bridge 6][Hard theme alternate][Hard theme alternate variation]
[Keyboard Solo 1]
[Guitar Solo 2]
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
[Instrumental Bridge 6]
[Hard theme alternate]
[Hard theme alternate variation]
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
2022 will go down as the year when Dream Theater released a song that I like unambiguously (even if it is a straight-up pastiche of Rush): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbzrxFRCyAk
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
Oh I guess it was released in 2021.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
haha such a silly song
joyful
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
There's an even more Rush-alike song from their 2013 self-titled album. I worked for their label at the time and I remember laughing out loud the first time I heard it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cf1CF6Avvc
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
The other day someone I follow on twitter responded to a Joe Bonamassa tweet that was in turn responding to a Guitar mag prompt asking for the best guitar album of the '90s. (I don't know anything about Bonamassa, never heard a note; iirc he picked an album by The Hellecasters.) Anyway, I made the mistake of scrolling down to see what others picked, and it was the usual 16th note sci-fi flurry shit: Steve Vai, Satch (iirc someone even picked "Surfing with the Alien," and stuck to their guns when reminded it was from the '80s). But, inevitably, someone picked Dream Theater, and I realized, you know, I've never really spent much more than a couple of minutes with them. Because this person also picked a specific track which (paraphrasing) had it all, I listened to that one, and woof - why would anyone want to listen to this? Why would anyone want to *play* this? The guitar was so precise, so technical and clinical, and so souless that it might as well have been an intricately programmed synth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEKTNtmKZEw
First comment: "The solo is just perfect, I think it has almost every imaginable technique on guitar"Second comment: "It's not a solo, it's a clinic on how to make shred guitar tasteful."Third comment: "whatever"
This song is what happens when everyone in a band thinks they're the most talented member of the band, including the singer.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
This song is what happens when everyone in a band thinks they're the most talented member of the band, including the singer.If I’m not mistaken, I think every member of dream theater has been on the cover of a very bad magazine associated with their instrument (ie modern drummer) multiple times. Plus, they have tons of fans who say things like “you are the greatest guitar player of all time, man!” on a daily basis. Their lives are incredibly messed up
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
I do like this style of drumming in other contexts (metal, Greg Fox projects).
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
Their lives are incredibly messed up
Offstage they're some of the nicest people in the world. John Petrucci is just a dad from Long Island who spends most of his day practicing guitar and doing bicep curls, keyboardist Jordan Rudess is a giant dork and gearhead/inventor, bassist John Myung is incredibly chilled-out and one of the least fame-oriented artists I've ever met, and drummer Mike Mangini is, like, giddy when you talk to him. The singer, James LaBrie, I've never had any interaction with, but he's Canadian, so how bad could he be?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
Sounds like having "tons of fans who say things like 'you are the greatest guitar player of all time, man!' on a daily basis" is a sound recipe for mental health!
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
xp that doesn’t surprise me! I still tbey they must be completely messed up. There’s no way you play a 19-string bass and then do yard work
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
Somehow I always forget that portnoy left dream theater in 2010. Also somehow I missed that portnoy was with avenged sevenfold for a minute?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Look let's just be thankful that the surviving members of Rush haven't formed a supergroup with the guy
― the classic emerson lake & palmer line-up (Matt #2), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Portnoy is so insanely busy, amazing this guy has time to sleep, considering how many long ass songs he plays on. I mean, just in the last five years he has recorded albums with:
Liquid Tension ExperimentTransatlanticNeal Morse soloNeal Morse Band (x2)Flying ColorsJohn Petrucci soloSons of Apollo
not to mention associated touring with all of these acts
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I think he is just always in a room playing a solo, and every once in a while somebody walks into the room and presses record for 8 minutes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Hahaha
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
lol
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link