Dream Theater, the excellent band noone knows

Dream Theater is a great band, hailing from all around the world. These band players almost all spent some time at the Berklee College of Music getting classically trained before meeting up and starting to perform their prog rock style. These musicians have been playing together since the late 80s, and are one of the most successful prog rock bands, and yet they stayed completely underground. Most of the time when I introduce Dream Theater to someone they have never heard of them. And yet, if you're into harder or prog rock in general, you'll love their style. Their musicianship and quality of performance is one of the best I've seen. They use interesting computer synths and sounds considering that their keyboardist, Jordan Rudess is usually a lead part of the songs.

I'm going to see them live with my friend, after taking about a 13 hour road trip once finals are over. We should have a blast :D.

Here's some various youtube videos of them live, you can see how impressively together the entire ensemble can be.
Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu
Instrumedley
Octavarium (just part 1, the song gets cool as the whole band joins in later, although i absolutely love that Continuum Fingerboard)
and for anyone who doesn't like the crazy sounds or loudness of Dream Theater should check out their softer songs like:
Wait for Sleep

Messing around with my current favorite Dream Theater member's website I found Jordan Rudess's Online Conservatory. Supposedly it will help any level of musician. He designed it to teach high technology instruments and rudimentary skills for aspiring musicians. I heard his demo explanation, and knowing how much technology he uses to make the coolest sounds (see the octavarium video above) I'm certain this could be beneficial at some level.

anyway that'd be it for this post. Hope you checked out DT, at least you can say you tried them out.
Here's some other prog rock bands music videos:
Rush - Limelight
Yes - Changes
Valient Thorr - Fall of Pangea (only audio)


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