Dream Theater

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JudasMyGuide said:
Okay, this made me actually think I'm glad they did not do that. It's, like 1000x sappier. There are female singers who could pull this song off (I'm thinking Kate Bush, Floor, the usual), but this is too much. Where's Anette when you need her? Cool they tried to do it, but no for me. The "music pl/rayer" part is so much worse - I actually didn't mind the original that much (at least not as much as Bug)
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Oh, I very much agree that this is not an ideal version and the singer's English certainly affects the quality, but I'd rather hear a female voice doing a female song than JLB doing it. In my opinion DT's arrangement is better, but the story is sappy and corny as fuck no matter who is singing, so I'd rather have it cast as an actual play.
 
The upcoming US tour is shaping up to be a disaster. Very low ticket sales and now they are cancelling dates. I know they worked hard on this album, but it's baffling that their most extensive US tour in years is for an album that received a tepid response. A tour like this should be with a career spanning setlist. Even just a 30 minute encore would help a ton.

Unfortunately the commercial failure of this tour is going to make large scale US tours even more unlikely going forward. This has to be the most bizarre business move in the band's history.
 
Overconfidence for sure.

I personally wouldn't pay to see DT play the last album live, honestly. I would however, see them live if they did a normal setlist that mixed new material with the old.
 
Would you see them do a 3 hour show where the first set is just Astonishing stuff? Even that would be worth seeing IMO.

I get overconfidence from the band, but how is their management approving this?
 
Absolutely a terrible idea, and I like the album and saw the first leg of the tour. The problem is, a lot of the places they're playing on this second leg are not that far from the first leg - some within less than 2 hours drive. I get why they would want to do that, but not for this album presentation. JP is screwing up big time.
 
There are also a ton of frustrated people who bought tickets in a city a few hours away only to find that their city was announced a few weeks later.

I consider myself a hardcore fan and I wasn't even sure if I'd see it the first time, let alone twice. It's not coming anywhere near me this time though so I'm not concerned about it.
 
After this crap, their next album needs to be dark. Not Black Clouds dark with phony tuf guy vocals or Systematic Chaos dark with pharaohs and vampires, but creepy dark, like Opeth. They need a new direction, stat.
 
I don't think that's going to happen, and I'm fine with it. Portnoy was obviously the darkest guy in the band, well, after Kevin Moore, of course, and the other guys are far too old and mellow to be playing dark stuff anymore. I would like something heavier, proggier, and groovier. If you mash up the last three albums, that's what I'd like to hear:

Progginess and I&W worship of ADTOE + straight-forwardness and drum heaviness of DT12 + beautiful melodies and vocal performance from Astonishing
 
Yea I'd like that. Before The Astonishing came out I was hoping for a hybrid of the two Mangini albums. They both represent two different sides of the band the same way I&W and Awake did.
 
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