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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #350 on: September 24, 2013, 04:02:38 PM »
That was definitely a great time. Should definitely do another in the future!

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #351 on: September 24, 2013, 04:07:03 PM »
Thank you guys so much for doing this. Its a very cool event and a great way to get the entire band involved with the fans.  :tup
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #352 on: September 24, 2013, 04:16:51 PM »
An off-air moment... attempting to get James to laugh.

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #353 on: September 24, 2013, 04:22:01 PM »
Did he collapse in a fit of laugher or what?  :rollin
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #354 on: September 24, 2013, 05:08:15 PM »
WATCHING :caffeine:
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #355 on: September 24, 2013, 06:29:30 PM »
This was great!
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #356 on: September 24, 2013, 06:30:53 PM »
Awesome stuff, thanks for organising it! Glad one of my questions got answered, and it seemed to provoke plenty of discussion.

They seemed pretty evasive about the whole orchestral section of IT - perhaps they're taking a small orchestra out with them on tour?

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #357 on: September 24, 2013, 06:31:52 PM »
Finally finished. Really awesome job from everyone who organized it! :clap:

I found it really interesting that they didn't like medleys at all.

Yea I laughed when I heard JP say "I hate medleys" I do agree with him though.

Thanks to everyone who organized this, truly awesome.

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #358 on: September 24, 2013, 06:43:01 PM »
this is the most fun I've had in a while

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #359 on: September 24, 2013, 06:47:39 PM »
I also hate medleys.
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #360 on: September 24, 2013, 06:56:38 PM »
this is the most fun I've had in a while

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #361 on: September 24, 2013, 08:05:44 PM »
Got my question answered.... yay!

That was great.

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #362 on: September 24, 2013, 08:49:48 PM »
"I like to rub my chicken before I pull it" enters JP quotations hall of fame instantly hehe
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #363 on: September 24, 2013, 09:00:26 PM »
That was as close as we'll get to becoming friends with the members of our favorite band.

Can we make this a semiweekly thing?

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #364 on: September 24, 2013, 09:02:24 PM »
If only, that was a lot of fun!

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« Reply #365 on: September 24, 2013, 09:42:04 PM »
Awesome.

Great job to everyone involved!

Although I didn't get my questions answered, it felt like the guys were talking with me (all of us), which is a thousand times better.

Funny stuff and now time to listen to the new album which arrived a few hours ago!  :biggrin:

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #366 on: September 24, 2013, 09:52:51 PM »
That was the coolest.

Thing.

Ever.

Also, I lost it at the chicken part. Still giggling

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #367 on: September 24, 2013, 10:14:51 PM »
Just started watching it now! I wish I could have been around to see it live.
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #368 on: September 24, 2013, 10:22:05 PM »
Just wanted to thank everyone involved again for this awesome opportunity. It was a really great experience, one that I hope we might be able to do again.

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #369 on: September 24, 2013, 10:27:43 PM »
The narrator guy obviously never read LOTR before :lol

That's where you'd be wrong, Bombadillo - he has. ;)

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #370 on: September 24, 2013, 11:10:41 PM »
I'll watch this when I get back from school :caffeine:

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #371 on: September 24, 2013, 11:11:00 PM »
I just finished watching the entire thing. Great video! I wish I could have seen it live, but those pesky timezone differences are always a problem. :(

I'm glad MM digs the drumming for TDEN, as I think the drumming for that song is great. No surprise that JP was cooking animals. :metal

Great questions from everyone here. Thanks to everyone from DTF that made this happen! Hopefully we can do this for the next album too.
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #372 on: September 25, 2013, 12:42:02 AM »
The narrator guy obviously never read LOTR before :lol

That's where you'd be wrong, Bombadillo - he has. ;)
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #373 on: September 25, 2013, 03:41:53 AM »
You couldn't see it, James had another Google window open, so every 10 minutes or so another James LaBrie would join the conversation and it would appear at the bottom window visible to us. The first time it happened JP said it looked like a Christmas ornament and I was calling it the backing vocalist.


Oh, that's funny.  :lol It was also great to see the guys cracking jokes during the chat, I just watched some of the funny bits again.  ;D

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #374 on: September 25, 2013, 04:25:06 AM »
Just watched the video, thanks to everyone who made this happen! :tup Of course a lot of questions (including mine) didn't get asked, but the guys would've had to spend a whole day in order to answer all of them. Hopefully there'll be another live chat at some point!

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #375 on: September 25, 2013, 04:40:22 AM »
Nice Job Wey! Great to put a face to the name, and Bosk...awesome. A proud day for DTF for sure.
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #376 on: September 25, 2013, 08:57:17 AM »
Wow, I'm reading the comments and catching the first bits of the video, and I have to say I think this was fantastic.  I am really glad this was able to happen.  I wish I could have been on when it was going live, but duty unfortunately called.  I also should tell all of you that I have heard from the band, and they also were really happy with it.  This was a great opportunity for fans and band to connect, and I am honored to have been part of it.


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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #377 on: September 25, 2013, 09:26:07 AM »
Well you work in mysterious ways.

Great that the band enjoyed it too. Hopefully this will happen again some time.
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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #378 on: September 25, 2013, 09:39:18 AM »
Wow, I'm reading the comments and catching the first bits of the video, and I have to say I think this was fantastic.  I am really glad this was able to happen.  I wish I could have been on when it was going live, but duty unfortunately called.  I also should tell all of you that I have heard from the band, and they also were really happy with it.  This was a great opportunity for fans and band to connect, and I am honored to have been part of it.


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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #379 on: September 25, 2013, 09:51:57 AM »
I feel I bad I chuckled when the moderator (Weymolith?) said his name was Beardsly. Looking at him, I thought for a second that was just an alias.  :lol

Awesome of the band to do this. They've been taking a few hits from people for not being as communciative with the fans lately. I hope things like this put that to bed.
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« Reply #380 on: September 25, 2013, 09:53:41 AM »
Jsut finished watching the beginning that i missed.  Great stuff.  Yes, the whole chicken thing was hilarious!  Although, even during that i never saw JMX crack a smile!  But i did hear him speak, so that's something...
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« Reply #381 on: September 25, 2013, 09:58:12 AM »
Great Q&A! The band seemed to enjoy it and it made things extra special to hear our names called out attached to the questions. Hopefully something like this can be done again in the future. Huge Kudos to DTF for pulling this off.  :tup

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« Reply #382 on: September 25, 2013, 09:58:51 AM »
I feel I bad I chuckled when the moderator (Weymolith?) said his name was Beardsly. Looking at him, I thought for a second that was just an alias.  :lol

Awesome of the band to do this. They've been taking a few hits from people for not being as communciative with the fans lately. I hope things like this put that to bed.

Weymolith?  Never heard of him.  ;)

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Re: Chat with the members of Dream Theater September 24, 2013! (WITH URL)
« Reply #383 on: September 25, 2013, 10:00:53 AM »
Besides their music, this is the best thing the band has done in a while. Felt very interactive and a lot of cool questions were asked and answered. Still some questions were left out, but I guess those will be answered some time in the future.

Hopefully this can be done again on an annual or every six-month basis

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« Reply #384 on: September 25, 2013, 10:07:56 AM »
They seemed very engaged and open. It was great to have JM in such a setting.
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