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I can't
comment too much to Neal Morse. His music is pretty abstract and odd. But
I know one thing for sure. Spock's Beard without Neal Mores later one, I
liked much more, as formerly the band with him. And this thanks to drummer
Nick Virgilio, who took over the frontman's role, when Morse had left.
Maybe because Virgilio took off the serousness and put humour in the
band's performance. It's exactly that, what I don't like on Neal Morse...
He takes himself and his band to tight in a prayer, as we say so. And the
fun gets lost.Apart from that, you need a lot of understanding and
tolerance to like these extroverted sound structures. So what's left to
say? It's not my cup of tea - how about that? But there are surely some
freaks who still feel sorry, that Neal had left Spock's Beard. The average
mood stays rather calm. No surprise, as there are 99,9% Dream Theater fans.
And that's about 2.500 people on the whole.
Like
always at a Dream Theater concert, here it's not the usual rule - first 3
songs for taking pics, but 15 minutes in complete. Because as we all know,
one piece of music of Dream Theater often lasts more than 10 or even 20
minutes. So this would be quickly up to 30 or 40 minutes, if we had 3
songs time. And let's face it, who needs that many pictures. On the other
hand, 15 minutes is relative... Because the security get's us leaving the
pit already after 8 minutes. Well, never mind.... 250 pics should be
enough. But there is one thing, I realize already while shooting pics, and
that's the fact, that the voice of singer James LaBrie, who shows off
about 5 minutes, is not hear. And you can see he ain't happy as he gives
constant signs to the soundengineer. It takes another 5 minutes or so
until the situation is back to normal and everything is absolutely perfect
lik always.
Let's get
it straight, John Petrucci (Git.), John Myung (Bass) Jordan Rudess (Keyb.),
Mike Portnoy (Drums) and James LaBrie (voc) belong to the very best
musicians in rock music. Everyone of them is an ace by himself and a
overdimensional perfectionist. For concerts of this band you need a lot of
love for details and feeling. Dream Theater music is, despite the hard
rhythm not so much music to rock along, but rather to listen carefully and
concentrated. These five artrockers get themselves into weared
improvisationen and stick out with some, almost acrobatic solos.
But it
still has to be someone special like this guy, to be able to handle this
monster. Jordan Ruddess gives us the impression that he plays his keyboard
blind, as he hardly ever look at it and keeps rather contact with the
audiance. There are also some computers, showing all the notes on the
screens. Though I ask myself - for what are they here... Mr. Myong on Bass
seems as fast as a formula one pilot. And for Petrucci's bodybuilded arm
muscles, his own fingers handling the leads are competing with them.
Despite
all the positive aspects, there is something irritating about this show,
and that's the fact, that half of the set is instrumental, because the
singer goes off quite often. Dun' know why, and whether this is a planned
thing or he ain't well or whatsoever...
No, over
all there is not much to complain about it. Our perfectionist-rockers no.1
put out once again a perfect musical performance, exept the soundproblems
in the first 5 minutes of the show.. And just between you and me, the fact,
that James La Brie ain't present all the time, - I would'nt call that
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