DREAM THEATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Yes it was awesome.
and it was really loud too,
In a bad way.
I thought i could convince my ears to adapt to the loudness but apparently not.
And the mix suddenly became so nice when i had my earplugs on.
A few years ago, being brought up not knowing any rock/metal bands, I was introduced to DT by my friends. And it sounded really 'evil', 'loud', 'noisy' initially.
But many years have passed and I have since been able to appreciate that kind of music and their musicianship.
I love them now!
I'm already addicted to the odd time feels and fast passages.
They encountered a technical problem on stage last wednesday, when their IEM system broke down completely. They played a song before going into a short break to fix the problem. And they were good considering how difficult their songs are.
"that's why, you must practice practice practice" says John Petrucci.
James LaBrie is really good live, despite the all-time funny comments about DT's singer. He kinda died a little in the 3rd or 4th song, well not sure if i can blame him but it's hard for him to sustain at that level of performance.
Somehow, I wasn't very impressed by the band.
Maybe it was the mix,
there wasn't any flashy stuff I heard from them. Like, oh that fast riffing and shredding, it's normal now.
Their new drummer, Mike Mangini, IS AWESOME. HE IS DARN SOLID.
His drum solo was just mind-blowing and nuff said.
But i'm sure musicians could pick out some parts where he was a little little little sloppy or wasn't being focused, which was still good enough.. i think.
I was totally rocking out to On The Back of Angels and Breaking All Illusions.
Really, the feel is really really good.
I brought szemin to DT too.
She said she wanted to experience my first rock concert with me hahaha.
But well, she found it to be noisy and scary.
Aiya...
Well here's 2 pics from my phone.
Well yeah.. the cheapest seats with loud sound.
Did i mention,
ANDY MCKEE OPENED.
AND DAMNNN HE'S SO GOOD TOO.
But but but,
people weren't observing concert etiquette, like they wanna see dream theater and they kind of showed disrespect when he kept playing more songs.
I would agree that his songs are hard to sustain the crowd because they kinda sound the same,
his songs lose the charm and wow factor easily i would say...
the stupid thing was,
after andy's last song, he played a motif of DT's song.
Then he stopped.
And the lights in the hall turned on for a short intermission.
SERIOUSLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?
we were like getting into the mood already.
Sigh.
Then the cloth came up to reveal the drums during the break.
It was massive massive.
I have no pictures because i sit so far away and my phone lousy la =(
Hung and Ryan took some pictures yeahhhhhhhhhhh
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa DT.
Concert inspired me to start working on my guitar..
which i did this morning,
recorded the video for PERP.
But but,
it's very meh.
Like i'm camera shy or something.
I recorded myself playing to a click,
spider chromatic scale and string skipping arpeggios.
I wasn't on the beat, but I didn't stray away too.
Sigh my note picking was very uneven, even with my compressor pedal on (compression ratio not high).
DOESN'T MATTER,
speaks a lot about my playing in front of a camera and in front of a crowd.
Think i'll perform better with a crowd, heh.
Well no excuses,
work harder.
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