[ale] OT: music sites?

[Jeff Hubbs]

My ability to appreciate Dream Theater is kind of limited.  You'd think 
I'd eat it up, given all the other prog acts I listen to, but so far the 
DT stuff that I really like is really just limited to the first three 
songs on AWAKE.  The most recent studio stuff seems way too headbangy.

Oh, they PLAY really well, but it seems that through all the schooling, 
any idiosyncrasies have gotten ironed out. 

I must say that the live covers that they recorded on A CHANGE OF 
SEASONS are really good, especialy Elton John's "Funeral For A 
Friend/Love Lies Bleeding."  Perhaps it's a case of excellent musicians 
playing excellent songs that came from less schooled writers.

Fulton Green wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:49:23PM -0500, I. Herman wrote:
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>>Two words - Dream Theater :-P
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>>These guys are fringe now and were fringe when they came out 20 yrs  
>>ago (those who don't know them...think of a modern day Yes).  They  
>>have a strong underground following that has flourished partly due to  
>>the internet music scene.
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>When I was interning in San Fran this summer, one of my fellow interns
>was a late-20s grad student in bioinformatics.  Oh yeah, he was a drummer.
>And Columbian.  And a Linux fanatic.  And wore his Dream Theater tee
>at least once, if not twice, a week. ;-)
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