This page is devoted to the group Dream Theater. To me, this is one of the best groups
out there and very few people have actually heard of them and it's a shame.
Dream Theater is:
Keyboards: Jordan Rudess
Guitar: John Petrucci
Bass: John Myung
vocals: James Labrie
Percussion: Mike Portnoy
Dream Theater's first album was way back in 1989 and it was called When Dream and
Day Unite. Very few people know about this album because it was there first release
and most say it wasen't there best... The first real big album for them was in
1992 and it was called Images and Words. This album features some very good songs and
is one of my favorites. The next album out was Awake (1994). This one is a real hard rockin album
and has music that everyone will like on it. The next album, called Change of Seasons (1995)
was really one song plus a few extras at the end. The Change of Seasons song itself is about 45 minutes and is split into seven subsections. The song itself is on one track
so if you want to just listen to one section of it you'll have to find it. The other songs on this album
are live recordings that are very, very good. My personal favorite live recording is the Big Medley which
has bits and pieces of songs from groups of the past all into one big song. The next album,
which I don't personally own, was Falling Into Infinity (1997). I really don't know much
about this album so I won't say anything about it. Once in a Livetime (1998) was a 2 cd
set that was all live. I consider this one of their good albums because they played so much
on it that it is incredible. The 2 cd's are full of their music live, plus solo's that
they played during the concert and is just an awesome cd that every Dream Theater fan should have.
Now we get up to what people think is one of the best cd's ever put out by Dream Theater.
In 1999, they came out with the cd Scenes From a Memory. This CD is basically one song split
into 12 total tracks. The music depicts someone going to a hypnotist and looking at their past
through his eyes. You can hear in the music if something good is happening or if something really
bad is happening. You can feel yourself pulled into the story and just can feel what's going on. It
really is an amazing album and I'm not going to say more because there is a surprise at the end which you
can see what happens if you get the DVD of their concert in New York. The DVD came out in 2001 and has the
entire Scenes from a memory front to back with no breaks in. They added video to it so you can see what exactly
is going on in the song as you listen and watch it. Of course you have the usual showing the band and all they
really interesting effects that you can do now a days, but you really find out what exactly is going on in the
song. Along with Scenes from a memory, you also get part of their second set of music, including the entire Change
of Seasons with no break at all. The really neat thing about this DVD is you can turn on the commentary part of it
and you can listen to the band critique themselves as they are playing and explaining what is going on and you really
learn about them. This is definately a DVD that is worth the money. Along with the DVD, they also released an audio
cd from the New York Show. Click here to see the 2 covers for the CD. The one was obviously never released because of
the World Trade Center disaster. The final, and newest, from the group is Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance (2002).
This is another great album by them. They have a bit of experimentalism in it that you may not like at first if you know
them, but after you listen to it a few times you realize just what it is and most people fall in love with the songs.
The first CD has the song 6 degrees of inner turbulance and that is it. It is split into 8 parts and draws you in just like
Scenes from a memory did. The second cd has the other 5 songs on it and they are very differernt from each other.
For a ton of information on the gruop, along with tour dates, ticked sales, and merchandise, go to the homepage of
Dream Theater. 
Side Projects
These are Liquid Tension Experiment (1998) and Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999) These 2 cd's are absolutely
amazing, especially when you read the liner notes and find out how little time they actually had to make
it. There is a track on both cd's that was totally improvised and when you listen to it, you would never guess
it because it just sounds so good, like they planned it, but it wasen't planned at all. Just what they played at
the time and they put it on the cd. The newest side project that I have heard is Jordan Rudess's newest solo cd
Feeding The Wheel (2001). He plays the usual incredible stuff on it and there is a multitude of different types
of songs on it. Ranging from soft to hardcore music.
For more Dream Theater links, go to my links page