J2112YYZ Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Oh good, I get to break the news on here about the North American tour dates: http://www.dreamthea...ride-tour-85531 MARCH 20 Toronto, ON Massey Hall21 Montreal, QC Bell Center25 Boston, MA Opera House27 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre28 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom APRIL 1 Washington, DC Lincoln Theater2 Pittsburgh, PA The Palace4 Detroit, MI Fillmore5 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre6 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater8 Minneapolis, MN Burnsville Performing Arts Center9 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater10 Denver, CO Paramount12 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre15 Salem, OR Elsinore Theatre17 San Francisco, CA The Warfield18 Riverside, CA Fox PAC19 Los Angeles, CA The Orpheum23 Mexico City, MX Arena Ciudad De Mexico25 Monterrey, MX Arena Monterrey26 Guadalajara, MX Auditorio Telmex Toronto is the closest one to me, so I'll be there on opening night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaked Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 CRAP! They're playing Detroit the same night ReVamp is playing Grand Rapids!Guess I'm going to have to look at the Toronto show instead. Sonovabitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikenrooster Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 No southern US dates. I might never see these guys. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikenrooster Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 April 5 is on a Saturday. Maybe I can get my company to give me a run going that way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 No southern US dates. I might never see these guys. Ugh. Well, they did two North American legs last tour. Maybe they'll do two on this tour as well. It does seem odd that a city like Atlanta would get skipped over and there's nothing in Texas or Florida. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I´m sure they´ll be in Rio at some point - South America is usually where they end their tours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 28 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom It's awesome that they'll be playing in NYC 8 days after my birthday. This will definitely be an awesome birthday present for myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdFireYYZ Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Not sure if I'll see them on this tour. I would go to the Boston show but I don't know any other Dream Theater fans around here who have cars (apparently the trains stop running in Boston at around 11 pm, so that option's out). Hopefully I'll find a way to get to NYC, as it would be great to see them play a full "evening with" show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 They have confirmed the Evening With format, but has anyone heard anything about multiple setlists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) They have confirmed the Evening With format, but has anyone heard anything about multiple setlists? I wouldn't be surprised if they rotated a handful of songs every other show like Rush did on their last tour. I don't see them changing it completely up every night. That was Portnoy's thing to make the sets random as hell for every show. I think it's better if they keep a similar set for the whole tour. James sounded better than he had in a long time on their last tour and I think a big reason for that was because he was singing the same songs each night. It's much easier to keep your voice sounding good when you know what songs you'll be doing each night. Petrucci did say something about playing some songs they've never done before. From what I read on the Dream Theater message board, Space Dye Vest, The Shattered Fortress and The Best Of Times are the only songs that they've released on albums that haven't been done. Obviously, The Best Of Times is out because it's about Portnoy's dad dying, so why would they bother with it? I would love to hear Space Dye Vest and Fortress would be cool to. Edited December 18, 2013 by J2112YYZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 they'll do 2 legs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shail Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Sweet. Will catch the upper Darby show. My first DT concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Bought my pre-sale ticket for the NYC show today. Considering that this is going to be a GA Floor show, and knowing that DT tickets are far more expensive then say an Opeth or a Steven Wilson show, $66 for a GA Floor ticket isn't so bad (at least for me IMO). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Got my tickets for the Toronto show. Row 'E' balcony on Petrruci's side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Well this is a wonderful, surprise Christmas present for all of us fans from Dream Theater! http://www.dreamtheater.net/news/happy-holidays-dream-theater-88331 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 That was announced at "six o´clock on a Christmas morning". Classy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Labrie definitely hit some rather unexpected........high notes during Under A Glass Moon. And if memory serves me right, we finally got an official (I don't count the Fan Club 2007 CD of the entire Images and Words live in its entirety) live version of Learning To Live that has James hitting the F# (or at least somewhat of an F#). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 I've only listened to this version of Learning to Live once...what's going on when he hits that note? It sounded like "the CD skipped" or the file was corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 (edited) I've only listened to this version of Learning to Live once...what's going on when he hits that note? It sounded like "the CD skipped" or the file was corrupted.I listened to the audio from this bootleg video of the song from that show, and the "mastered" version back to back, and it seems to me that there is no fault with the file. The F# moment happens at the 7:18 mark. As much as it still puzzles me, Labrie really sang the F# like that during the show. Sounds like his voice cracked for a split second in the middle of hitting that note. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a voice crack cause there's a video circulating of James' voice cracking during Under A Glass Moon from the same tour and that weird note sounded similar to that weird note in LTL. Edited December 26, 2013 by PolarizeMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 And here's an interesting fact...between the Holiday 2013 CD and Live at Luna Park, the total run time for all of the songs performed during the A Dramatic Tour of Events (not counting the 21st Century Schizoid Man and Paradigm Shift covers) is a WHOPPING 5 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Yeah, and this was also their longest tour in a long time. About the 5 hours you mentioned, they might also have rehearsed a bunch of songs that didn't make the final cut into the setlist. Rumour has it that they'll bring Octavarium back to the set on the next tour. Can you imagine hearing Octavarium and Illumination Theory on the same show? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Octavarium and Illumination Theory on the same show? The rest of the setlist don't matter to me, but having BOTH Octavarium and Illumination Theory in any of their set lists is already an awesome show IMO! Nevertheless, I can totally see that rumor turning into a reality. There are many ways they can incorporate the two songs in the set. Either they have Illumination Theory close the main set with Octvavarium as the encore, or have Octavarium close the 1st half of the show before intermission and Illumination Theory closes out the 2nd half of the show. Since next year is the 20th anniversary of Awake, I can totally see them bringing out a couple of songs from the album. I think Lifting Shadows Off A Dream and Scarred are two songs that have a good chance of making it this tour since 1. Scarred is James' favorite DT song and 2. It's been 12 years since LSOAD was last played. Next year is also the 15th anniversary of Scenes, and I can totally picture the band opening the 2nd half of the show with Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandDesigner Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I have a feeling we'll see Space-Dye Vest on this tour, as the band mentioned some "never-played" songs making an appearance. The only ones the band has never done live are SDV, Don't Look Past Me, You Or Me, The Shattered Fortress, and The Best of Times (neither of which I see being played). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I may be wrong, but I seem to remember Petrucci saying they will bring out "some songs" that were never played live. To me this means more than one, right? I'd be REALLY happy if they played more obscure stuff from Awake. In less than 20 days I'll catch them live, and cannot wait! I have really high hopes for the Pamplona show- ir's a small venue in a VERY small city, so I'm expecting it to have an intimate atmosphere. And I'll do the meet & greet there as well, which should be awesome. I'll post the setlist here a few hours after these shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 The live christmas present from Dream Theater is pretty cool. You don't see too many bands doing stuff like that. Overall, it's another good live recording except for Under A Glass Moon. Vocally, James was all over the place and just hitting the strangest notes. Everything else was fine but his performance on that song definitely felt off to me. It's sounds like he was trying too hard and just failed miserably pulling off the song. I think it's really something rare when a band says they will play songs they've never done before and there are only a handful of tunes to pick from. Not many bands that have been going for as long as Dream Theater has can say they've played just about every song in their discography. They're one of the top bands ever when it comes to making sure all their recorded material gets played live. With the 20th anniversary of Awake next year, I can see them finally playing Space Dye Vest. Not sure why the song never made the cut before but it would be great to see it done live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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