sKratch
08-24-2005, 10:43 AM
...at the Jones Beach ampitheater. Fucking awesome. I got to see Symphony X live for the first time, and they're hilarious. It never clicked in my head that they're so tongue-in-cheeck about what they do. Fear Factory wasn't really my cup of tea, but they put on a good show. And then there was Dream Theater. Holy shit. They played such a fucking crazy set. They opened with The Glass Prison. Unless I'm mistaken, hearing The Glass Prison live is quite a treat because it's one of the only solos Petrucci can't nail live every time. To my ear, he played it flawlessly. Here's Dream Theater's set, but I'm only sure that the first and last song are in the right order:
The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance)
Panic Attack (Octavarium)
The Mirror (Awake)
Just Let Me Breathe (Falling into Infinity)
Home (Scenes from a Memory)
Never Enough (Octavarium)
A Fortune in Lies (When Dream and Day Unite, holy shit wasn't expecting that)
Crazy Drum Shit
As I Am (Train of Thought)
Pull Me Under / Metropolis P. 1 (Images and Words)
Megadeath closed the show, but Dream Theater really made the night for me. I've never really listened to Megadeath, but that didn't stop me from enjoying their set. They had some pretty neat pyro and Mustaine busted out a dual neck guitar for two songs. It was pretty much straight music, with Mustaine rarely stopping to say anything. He actually mentioned he would try to just keep playing because there were so many songs they wanted to play in so little time.
My main disappointment with the night was that the sound on the main stage was weird... there was something amiss. When Dream Theater started playing, it sounded like a huge jumble of noise and I'm not sure if it ever got better or if my ears just got accustomed and made the best of it. I've been at much smaller venues with much better sound. And as usual, the bass players got shafted and were really low on the EQ. That always seems to happen.
ps - this probably belongs somewhere else, and most of you probably don't listen to this kind of music, but oh well.
The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance)
Panic Attack (Octavarium)
The Mirror (Awake)
Just Let Me Breathe (Falling into Infinity)
Home (Scenes from a Memory)
Never Enough (Octavarium)
A Fortune in Lies (When Dream and Day Unite, holy shit wasn't expecting that)
Crazy Drum Shit
As I Am (Train of Thought)
Pull Me Under / Metropolis P. 1 (Images and Words)
Megadeath closed the show, but Dream Theater really made the night for me. I've never really listened to Megadeath, but that didn't stop me from enjoying their set. They had some pretty neat pyro and Mustaine busted out a dual neck guitar for two songs. It was pretty much straight music, with Mustaine rarely stopping to say anything. He actually mentioned he would try to just keep playing because there were so many songs they wanted to play in so little time.
My main disappointment with the night was that the sound on the main stage was weird... there was something amiss. When Dream Theater started playing, it sounded like a huge jumble of noise and I'm not sure if it ever got better or if my ears just got accustomed and made the best of it. I've been at much smaller venues with much better sound. And as usual, the bass players got shafted and were really low on the EQ. That always seems to happen.
ps - this probably belongs somewhere else, and most of you probably don't listen to this kind of music, but oh well.