Tour Title: Metropolis 2000
Average Rating: 5
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Tour Title: Metropolis 2000 |
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Average Rating: 5 Go to Judgment Committee Reviews of this tour |
Submitted by Versus (7/3/02, NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria):
This was the first time Dream Theater played in Bulgaria. The "kings of progressive rock/metal" played 3 hours of great music, introducing some quality moments from all of their albums. Starting with "Glass Prison", they delivered some real heavy shit, making the audience scream and shout. "6.00", "Strange Deja Vu", "Surrounded" just made a touch (an excelent one, of course) on band's different efforts. John Petrucci, fast and amazingly skillful, made very close contact with the fans through his emotional solos ("The Spirit Carries On" touched everyone that night deeply). I especially enjoyed the improvisation during "Killing Hand" and the mix of "Burning My Soul/Hell's Kitchen" (originally one song), showing Rudess as an outstanding keyboard player. Not so strange he was on "Portnoy/Petrucci" wishlist for a DT member for a long time... John Myung focused himself on his instrument as usualy, making playing bass looked like the easiest job on the planet. Great determination from a Silent Man. Kevin LaBrie proved one more time that he's got very powerful voice and great technique. His running and headbanging brought the fans to delirium during the great hits "Lie" and "Pull Me Under".The 2nd set was actually the whole Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2nd CD). Portnoy, who was absolutely brilliant this night, made art of his drumming during the powerful performance of "War Inside My Head" and "The Test That Stumped Them All". He was excellent, amazing, so skillful that made every song looked like drum lesson. One of the best, ever...
After that, the band played three more songs on the encore. "Home", one of the best songs on Scenes... put Petrucci and LaBrie in the main roles just to sit back after and did "Hollow Years". Great work from Rudess at the end of the song. "Take The Time" was the last song in the set, finished with great jamming from the whole band...
I had a feeling that the audience just can't get enough of DT music, they were constantly looking for more and more and more... Five skulls. Definitely.
Submitted by Jason P Sorens(2/23/00, Toad's Place, New Haven, CT):
This was the best metal concert I've ever attended. Of course, I can count the number of metal concerts I've attended on two hands (I dislike the paint-peeling throbbing-bass sound most bands go for live). The only problem was that the place was *packed*. Hardly room to breathe, let alone move. However, being sufficiently tall, I was able to get a pretty good view of the band members, if not always of their hands. I had thought Metropolis II was a decent enough album, but nowhere near the heights of Images and Words and Awake (my favorite). This concert changed all that. Watching it live, somehow, the music made more sense in terms of the story it was conveying: the mood changed at the right moments, and it was clear which character in the story was "speaking." These guys are not only extremely talented, but they do write good songs. Some of their best ballads are on this album (and yes, ballads are not necessarily a bad thing-- that's what got my wife to come with me after all :)). Bottom line: one of the few bands you have to see live (and needless to say, when you go it won't just be a big ear-splitting throbbing noise).As an aside, the opening band, the Dixie Dregs, are an example of technicality with absolutely NO songwriting skills. Pure jamming. Not very interesting.
Submitted by Musashi (2/26/00, Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY):
I was not a believer of the "male multiple orgasm" until seeing the Dixie Dregs open for Dream Theater. Last Saturday was a totally tantric experience!I love Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs; I have for 15 years. To see them again was a real treat. Steve Morse shreds. Rod Morgenstein kicks ass. It was hard for me to beleive that Dream Theater was going to sound good following a band like the Dregs. It takes balls to let a band that good open for you.
Surprise! Dream Theater smoked! Played the whole album from begining to end-- flawlessly!!! The mix was about as good as any I've ever heard.
The first time I saw Dream Theater they didn't sound that good. In fact, I was pretty disappointed. It's obvious they can play but when I heard them live I felt it wasn't as good as the album.
The last time I saw them they played "acoustically." I don't know what they meant by that because nothing was played acoustically: John Petrucci didn't use distortion (much) and they didn't play any of their really shredding songs. To DT, that's "acoustic." Whatever. It was a pretty weak show (comparatively) from such a shredding band.
This time, Dream Theater totally blew me away! If they keep playing shows like this, then people are going to start to like them and they could get... popular. Shudder to think.
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