RE: Dream Theater - A Choose Your Own Adventure - musical tour
I LOVE you for featuring Dream Theater. As a musician I've always been completely fascinated with their signature "where's the beat???" style of music composition. And as a VERY heavy prog fan (seriously, you cannot be a metal head and musician without loving prog, am I right? :p), but never being able to pull it off myself (I'm simply terrible at off-beat time signatures, I would sadly disappoint my fellow drummers out there), I'm always striving to improve at my craft. It does prove difficult though, considering I'm the vocalist in Dawn of End now, rather than the drummer. But I digress....
Dream Theater have always been a huge influence on where I strive to be someday.... even if I never fully reach that goal, it would still feel good to at least try. And I've always been obsessed with their song "The Root of All Evil". I was so stoked when they released that live 3 disc album with the Octavarium Orchestra and they played TROAE WITH the symphony behind it! Completely EPIC, for lack of a better term. Anyways, kudos my friend. \m/
Hahaha... they'd likely tell you "What do you mean offbeat?" All I know is they are doing some crazy counting while playing. Changing times signatures and keys 5 or six times (maybe more) per song. Pretty crazy stuff. I find it amusing that the core song is more of a solo than many other bands' solo break... then the solos which are not really solos because everyone get's involved show up and they melt your mind.