Dream Theater

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Listened to the album today, early highlights were Night Terror, Machine Messiah, Dead Asleep and Turn the Clock, the latter 2 being the best for me. It isn't an amazing album, I'd put it on par with AVFTPOTW and D/T. Overall I enjoyed it.
 
Spaldy said:
The most pointless bass player is surely the guy in Meshuggah.
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I’ll be honest: I didn’t even know they had a bass player. With two 8-strings what’s the point?

Haken’s bassist does some cool stuff, though, and they often have two 8’s chugging away.

Going back to what @Mosh said (and I know he was joking), could you imagine Seventh Wonder without bass? Or with generic root note bass? Ugh.
 
Detective Beauregard said:
As a bass player I’m not a fan of them, though. Tuning any lower than a full step down on a 5-string is basically just mud, and I really don’t like being in the same octave as the guitar because the tone gets lost.
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Yeah, I've never dug 8-string guitars. 7-string/baritone is plenty low for me, leaving room for bass guitar, which just sounds meatier at the very low frequencies.

That said, Awaken the Master is pretty cool. But as Mosh pointed out, it's not that different from their 7-string material.
 
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I do joke for the most part, but didn't Periphery lose a bass player at one point and went on to continue a tour just without a bass player? In all honesty, they have three guitar players playing 8 strings and you can't really hear the bass, so I genuinely question if it's necessary. Same with DT honestly, it's commonly been pointed out over the years that it's as if Myung isn't even there for a lot of their recent material.

But yes, the bands out there that actually do make effective use of their bass players (and I actually think Haken is one) are doing this right and the 8 string chug armies are not.
 

Saw Dream Theater last night in Houston.
Wow!
Knew it would be great but I was blown away by the visuals, performance, and setlist change!

Looking forward to next tour later in the year when they play all the new lp

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terrell39 said:
Saw Dream Theater last night in Houston.
Wow!
Knew it would be great but I was blown away by the visuals, performance, and setlist change!
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Glad you liked it! I’ve never seen them disappoint.

Really cool to see they played A Rite of Passage; I hope we get that in Chicago instead of Panic Attack (Octavarium is an album I don’t care much for outside of the title track).
 
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