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Dream Theater Shock & Awe with The Astonishing
Dream Theater Concert Review
MAY 13, 2016
The Iron Mike Files
"Iron" Mike Savoia - www.facebook.com/SavoiaPhotographyLive
Photo album KISW.com {Here} - Full Photo Album SPL Facebook {Here}
Back on June 8, 1993 when I first shot Dream Theater in the Paramount Theatre, there was no way then I'd ever think I'd be shooting them again 23 years later on May 11, 2016! Well it happened! Here's my Top 10 (23 year span) notables:
1) Obviously with time, (if even imaginably true) even better musicians now. Putting them in the "Not of this Galaxy" I give up playing these instruments category.
2) No more funky early 90s In Living Colour inspired Ibanez for John Petrucci . {Who could forget one of the funniest videos ever made featuring this guitar ha! VIEW HERE}
3) John Petrucci has more hair now than he did back in 1993. For me the opposite! Another point to prove he's NOT from this planet ha!
4) Tonight it was digital photography and not the manual 35mm film camera.
5) I wasn't shooting in the usual front pit (boo), but from a football field away from soundboard.
6) There's no Mike Portnoy but Mike Mangini on drums.
7) There's no Kevin Moore but Jordan Rudess on keyboards.
8) No opening band tonight, Galactic Cowboys back in 1993.
9) No classic or previous album songs played. 12 songs back in 1993, 29 songs/5 tape tracks tonight!
10) Back then and even more evident today, Dream Theater are NOT from this Galaxy!
So this 2016 tour is a featured concert featuring their whole new album called "The Astonishing", a 2hr 10min opus featuring 34 tracks{Listen in Full here}! According to the bands album Wiki "The Astonishing is set in a dystopian United States and follows the Ravenskill Rebel Militia in their efforts to defy the Great Northern Empire of the Americas using the magical power of music.
It was inspired by contemporary fantasy and science fiction franchises such as Game of Thrones and Star Wars, as well as Petrucci's observations on the ubiquity of technological automation in modern-day society. In their effort to match the album's narrative, Dream Theater wrote songs in a wide variety of styles ranging from mellow ballads to their more conventional progressive metal sound."
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae4FQ4McSY
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLdx2FyNqg
So the show was Separated like the album in Act 1 and Act 2 break with the "Astonishing" track as the encore. I can't even explain how INCREDIBLE this production was with the more than a handful of LED multimedia screens and AMAZING lighting rig that all coincided with the album storyline and music.
Visually and musically the best mind, ear and visual mind f**k I've had in decades! The crowd at the Paramount (well over a couple thousand) were mesmerized in near silence at the spectacle taking place with Dream Theater, but as soon as there was a noticeable break they went CRAZY!
There was no doubt the crowd was there to rock out and with so many twist and turns musically with the new album when the band got to some of it's harder tracks like "Three Days" & "A New Beginning" & "Our New World".
Did I miss hearing some the older classics? Hell yeah, but this show/tour wasn't focused on that and I'm sure some fans backed out of it this time around (little over 2k filled the 3k venue) but did they miss out on this incredible production! The musicianship is so top notch its hard to imagine you could be any better of a player. Jordan Rudess (whom I get mistakenly get mixed up as at events) was the real highlight of this night with his over the top 'not human' keyboard playing featured throughout. Being the last show of the American tour hopefully if you missed it they'll be around around so you can see it. Truely amazing show! Stay up-to-date: www.facebook.com/dreamtheater & www.dreamtheater.net
PS: If you wondered what out of this universe playing is watch this!!!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ik9qECIWgc
Dream Theater Shock & Awe with The Astonishing
Dream Theater Concert Review
MAY 13, 2016
The Iron Mike Files
"Iron" Mike Savoia - www.facebook.com/SavoiaPhotographyLive
Photo album KISW.com {Here} - Full Photo Album SPL Facebook {Here}
Back on June 8, 1993 when I first shot Dream Theater in the Paramount Theatre, there was no way then I'd ever think I'd be shooting them again 23 years later on May 11, 2016! Well it happened! Here's my Top 10 (23 year span) notables:
1) Obviously with time, (if even imaginably true) even better musicians now. Putting them in the "Not of this Galaxy" I give up playing these instruments category.
2) No more funky early 90s In Living Colour inspired Ibanez for John Petrucci . {Who could forget one of the funniest videos ever made featuring this guitar ha! VIEW HERE}
3) John Petrucci has more hair now than he did back in 1993. For me the opposite! Another point to prove he's NOT from this planet ha!
4) Tonight it was digital photography and not the manual 35mm film camera.
5) I wasn't shooting in the usual front pit (boo), but from a football field away from soundboard.
6) There's no Mike Portnoy but Mike Mangini on drums.
7) There's no Kevin Moore but Jordan Rudess on keyboards.
8) No opening band tonight, Galactic Cowboys back in 1993.
9) No classic or previous album songs played. 12 songs back in 1993, 29 songs/5 tape tracks tonight!
10) Back then and even more evident today, Dream Theater are NOT from this Galaxy!
So this 2016 tour is a featured concert featuring their whole new album called "The Astonishing", a 2hr 10min opus featuring 34 tracks{Listen in Full here}! According to the bands album Wiki "The Astonishing is set in a dystopian United States and follows the Ravenskill Rebel Militia in their efforts to defy the Great Northern Empire of the Americas using the magical power of music.
It was inspired by contemporary fantasy and science fiction franchises such as Game of Thrones and Star Wars, as well as Petrucci's observations on the ubiquity of technological automation in modern-day society. In their effort to match the album's narrative, Dream Theater wrote songs in a wide variety of styles ranging from mellow ballads to their more conventional progressive metal sound."
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae4FQ4McSY
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLdx2FyNqg
So the show was Separated like the album in Act 1 and Act 2 break with the "Astonishing" track as the encore. I can't even explain how INCREDIBLE this production was with the more than a handful of LED multimedia screens and AMAZING lighting rig that all coincided with the album storyline and music.
Visually and musically the best mind, ear and visual mind f**k I've had in decades! The crowd at the Paramount (well over a couple thousand) were mesmerized in near silence at the spectacle taking place with Dream Theater, but as soon as there was a noticeable break they went CRAZY!
There was no doubt the crowd was there to rock out and with so many twist and turns musically with the new album when the band got to some of it's harder tracks like "Three Days" & "A New Beginning" & "Our New World".
Did I miss hearing some the older classics? Hell yeah, but this show/tour wasn't focused on that and I'm sure some fans backed out of it this time around (little over 2k filled the 3k venue) but did they miss out on this incredible production! The musicianship is so top notch its hard to imagine you could be any better of a player. Jordan Rudess (whom I get mistakenly get mixed up as at events) was the real highlight of this night with his over the top 'not human' keyboard playing featured throughout. Being the last show of the American tour hopefully if you missed it they'll be around around so you can see it. Truely amazing show! Stay up-to-date: www.facebook.com/dreamtheater & www.dreamtheater.net
PS: If you wondered what out of this universe playing is watch this!!!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ik9qECIWgc
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Toot toot. Thanks for the shoutout Selassie! Perfect fishing trip music!
OMG Primetime. You practically posted a dissertation on one of my all time favorite bands. If you people still go to concerts, catch Dream Theater when they pass through your town. Totally worth it. The bass player practices 8 hours every day. He practices after concerts! I try to get 8th row seats, dead center and sit amazed, slack jawed and in awe of the musicianship.
Okie dokie, you can win 200 ROD Dollars...How? Figure out what these 3 songs have in common and be the first to post a song with the same common element. 100 ROD dollars to the 2nd person who posts a song with common element. And 50 dollars to the third.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOim3J-jpU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKO_xNlL6w
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0gobSHgIs
OMG Primetime. You practically posted a dissertation on one of my all time favorite bands. If you people still go to concerts, catch Dream Theater when they pass through your town. Totally worth it. The bass player practices 8 hours every day. He practices after concerts! I try to get 8th row seats, dead center and sit amazed, slack jawed and in awe of the musicianship.
Okie dokie, you can win 200 ROD Dollars...How? Figure out what these 3 songs have in common and be the first to post a song with the same common element. 100 ROD dollars to the 2nd person who posts a song with common element. And 50 dollars to the third.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOim3J-jpU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKO_xNlL6w
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0gobSHgIs
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Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool album review: 'You'll love it more with every listen'
Radiohead have always had a way with a lullaby. Now they have produced an entire album of the kind of songs that could lull you into sleep but may give you nightmares.
The driving momentum of first single Burn the Witch may have implied something more full blooded but it turns out their ninth album takes its cues from the moody drift of second track Daydreaming, a somnabulant stumble through half-waking dreamscapes where sounds and images collide but never quite come into focus.
A Moon Shaped Pool turns out to be Radiohead's most melodically accessible collection, almost meditative in its ethereal mid-tempo loveliness, yet shot through with the kind of edgy details that never quite let a listener relax. It is chill-out music to put your nerves on edge.
The quintet have a knack for locating a particular dreamy tension in the sweetness of a beautifully crafted melody, the spooky nocturnal edges evoked by off kilter atmospheric arrangements and the psychic disturbance inherent in the weirdness of Thom Yorke'svoice. He is among the most distinctive vocalists in rock, with a voice as high and lovely as a choir boy but so loose of consonant and slack of vowel he sounds like he's singing to himself in a dark room.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke
By the time you work out what he is actually mumbling, the dreaminess of his ballads often turns out to express fear, loathing and paranoia (how about “In any old life there comes a darkness / There's a spacecraft blocking out the sky / And there's now way out / You look back and you cover your ears / But its the loudest sound you've ever heard / We are helpless to resist / In our darkest hour” which it turns out is what he is singing on the overwhelmingly beautiful Decks Dark).
Usually, however, Radiohead's dark ballads (think Exit Music, No Surprises, Fake Plastic Trees) provide temporary (if often illusory) respite from the even darker and more full blooded dramas offered by the band at full tilt.
On A Moon Shaped Pool they give ballads full sway, closing the album with the exquisitely gorgeous True Love Waits, a song that has featured in their sets since 1995 and was previously released as a live solo acoustic version on an EP in 2001.
Here, Yorke's guitar has been replaced by echoing, ambient keyboard figures but the essential brooding beauty of the original remains, a love song that sounds like a threat.
Guitars haven't been entirely abandoned. Indeed, it is a pleasure to report that, after the glitchy electro experiments and tense percussive rhythms of 2011's King of Limbs, both acoustic and electric guitars feature prominently in dense, detailed arrangements, weaving, riffing and rippling through the grooves of Decks Dark, Identikit and Present Tense. But there is none of the overdriven distortion that gave Nineties Radiohead so much visceral power. They remain a rock band who don't want to rock.
On the mournful Desert Island Disk, the delicate acoustic figure is suggestive of the folky introspection of Nick Drake, albeit if the tragic singer-songwriter were marooned on an asteroid in outer space.
Folk is a key reference. Listeners of a certain vintage may detect hints of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span in the tricky depths of The Numbers, a song that channels the prog-folk of the Seventies through the mad sonic adventure and disregard for formal structure of Paranoid Android.
There is a richness of detail in its beautifully chaotic collision of jazzy piano, Bert Jansch-style guitar figures, exuberant cinematic strings and warped stacks of backing vocals to keep springing surprises with each hearing, suggesting this is a song to unveil slowly.
Penultimate track Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief proves a slow-burning epic, built on a snail-paced electro bass that gathers power with each round of the chord sequence, as it is swallowed up in echoing guitars and Jonny Greenwoods wild cinematic strings (as lustrous as anything Jack Nitzsche or John Barry could come up with).
Closing with a song that has been knocking around for over 20 years may imply a lack of inspiration but actually I suspect Radiohead are a band with the vision and patience to wait for the right framework for this little masterpiece.
The melodic sweetness and sometimes gentle ambience of Moon Shaped Pool may represent Radiohead at their least bloodthirsty and most accessible, but there are depths and riches here to suggest a work of total self-assurance.
It is an album you could grow to love more with every listen.
A Moon Shaped Pool - tracklist
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool album review: 'You'll love it more with every listen'
- By Neil McCormick, music critic
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k
Radiohead have always had a way with a lullaby. Now they have produced an entire album of the kind of songs that could lull you into sleep but may give you nightmares.
The driving momentum of first single Burn the Witch may have implied something more full blooded but it turns out their ninth album takes its cues from the moody drift of second track Daydreaming, a somnabulant stumble through half-waking dreamscapes where sounds and images collide but never quite come into focus.
A Moon Shaped Pool turns out to be Radiohead's most melodically accessible collection, almost meditative in its ethereal mid-tempo loveliness, yet shot through with the kind of edgy details that never quite let a listener relax. It is chill-out music to put your nerves on edge.
The quintet have a knack for locating a particular dreamy tension in the sweetness of a beautifully crafted melody, the spooky nocturnal edges evoked by off kilter atmospheric arrangements and the psychic disturbance inherent in the weirdness of Thom Yorke'svoice. He is among the most distinctive vocalists in rock, with a voice as high and lovely as a choir boy but so loose of consonant and slack of vowel he sounds like he's singing to himself in a dark room.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke
By the time you work out what he is actually mumbling, the dreaminess of his ballads often turns out to express fear, loathing and paranoia (how about “In any old life there comes a darkness / There's a spacecraft blocking out the sky / And there's now way out / You look back and you cover your ears / But its the loudest sound you've ever heard / We are helpless to resist / In our darkest hour” which it turns out is what he is singing on the overwhelmingly beautiful Decks Dark).
Usually, however, Radiohead's dark ballads (think Exit Music, No Surprises, Fake Plastic Trees) provide temporary (if often illusory) respite from the even darker and more full blooded dramas offered by the band at full tilt.
On A Moon Shaped Pool they give ballads full sway, closing the album with the exquisitely gorgeous True Love Waits, a song that has featured in their sets since 1995 and was previously released as a live solo acoustic version on an EP in 2001.
Here, Yorke's guitar has been replaced by echoing, ambient keyboard figures but the essential brooding beauty of the original remains, a love song that sounds like a threat.
Guitars haven't been entirely abandoned. Indeed, it is a pleasure to report that, after the glitchy electro experiments and tense percussive rhythms of 2011's King of Limbs, both acoustic and electric guitars feature prominently in dense, detailed arrangements, weaving, riffing and rippling through the grooves of Decks Dark, Identikit and Present Tense. But there is none of the overdriven distortion that gave Nineties Radiohead so much visceral power. They remain a rock band who don't want to rock.
On the mournful Desert Island Disk, the delicate acoustic figure is suggestive of the folky introspection of Nick Drake, albeit if the tragic singer-songwriter were marooned on an asteroid in outer space.
Folk is a key reference. Listeners of a certain vintage may detect hints of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span in the tricky depths of The Numbers, a song that channels the prog-folk of the Seventies through the mad sonic adventure and disregard for formal structure of Paranoid Android.
There is a richness of detail in its beautifully chaotic collision of jazzy piano, Bert Jansch-style guitar figures, exuberant cinematic strings and warped stacks of backing vocals to keep springing surprises with each hearing, suggesting this is a song to unveil slowly.
Penultimate track Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief proves a slow-burning epic, built on a snail-paced electro bass that gathers power with each round of the chord sequence, as it is swallowed up in echoing guitars and Jonny Greenwoods wild cinematic strings (as lustrous as anything Jack Nitzsche or John Barry could come up with).
Closing with a song that has been knocking around for over 20 years may imply a lack of inspiration but actually I suspect Radiohead are a band with the vision and patience to wait for the right framework for this little masterpiece.
The melodic sweetness and sometimes gentle ambience of Moon Shaped Pool may represent Radiohead at their least bloodthirsty and most accessible, but there are depths and riches here to suggest a work of total self-assurance.
It is an album you could grow to love more with every listen.
A Moon Shaped Pool - tracklist
- Burn The Witch
- Daydreaming
- Decks Dark
- Desert Island Disk
- Full Stop
- Glass Eyes
- Identikit
- The Numbers
- Present Tense
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
- True Love Waits
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I dedicate this song to Frank "Dubs" Dubozy, fellow Ram fan, and TST writer. We lost him the other day. I pray the message of this song is received by his family and loved ones.
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SUPER psyched to see Mr. Richard Patrick and company headlining tonight in support of their new album, Crazy Eyes. :rockon:
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