Dream Theater TV ads

[PintoZ]

Not sure if this had been discussed before but I was wondering... how many TV ads were produced for the promotion of DT albums ?

Back in 2002 for the release of 6DOIT, this could be seen on French TV :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TOL_-FACKQ

This was the only time they did this, at least in France !

("Le nouvel album de Drim Si-a-teur"  )

[noxon]

There was the Greatest Hit tv ad at least, and I believe there was one for Systematic Chaos too. And I have a vague memory of there being a tour promo for BCSL as well...

[CDrice]

Man I could not stop laughing whenever he said Dream Theater 

Pronouncing ''the'' as ''si'' or ''ze'' seems to be a very french from France way to speak and I never understood why

[noxon]

It's because the "th" sound doesn't natively exist in the language. It's REALLY hard to rewire your brain to both hear and pronounce the sounds in langage that you didn't grow up with. So you appropriate the sound that to your brain sounds the most like the sound you heard, and for french people, "th" because "ts". Similarly, americans in particular have a REALLY hard time with the french R's, both the rolling r and the guttural r. And you know, the stereotypical "asian" who can't distinguish his R from L does actually have root in reality - for instance in japan, there's no L or R sound, but there's a sound that shares characteristics of both L and R and kinda sounds like an inbetween sound of them - and thats why they don't really hear the difference between an L and an R.

[PintoZ]

Yeah french-speaking people always have a hard time pronouncing "th", so it often ends up as an "s" or "z" instead !

It's just not a natural sound for us, like our "r" will always be hard to master for an english-speaking person

(That said I am french and I hate that typical french-accent  )

[Mike PornToy]

Not sure if this had been discussed before but I was wondering... how many TV ads were produced for the promotion of DT albums ?

Back in 2002 for the release of 6DOIT, this could be seen on French TV :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TOL_-FACKQ

This was the only time they did this, at least in France !

("Le nouvel album de Drim Si-a-teur"  )

No the first, in France, was for SFAM, i will try to find this video ...

[PintoZ]

Not sure if this had been discussed before but I was wondering... how many TV ads were produced for the promotion of DT albums ?

Back in 2002 for the release of 6DOIT, this could be seen on French TV :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TOL_-FACKQ

This was the only time they did this, at least in France !

("Le nouvel album de Drim Si-a-teur"  )

No the first, in France, was for SFAM, i will try to find this video ...

Oh really ? Would love to see that

[CDrice]

It's because the "th" sound doesn't natively exist in the language. It's REALLY hard to rewire your brain to both hear and pronounce the sounds in langage that you didn't grow up with. So you appropriate the sound that to your brain sounds the most like the sound you heard, and for french people, "th" because "ts".

Well that make sense. My questionning came from the fact that around here we don't really have that ''problem'' (hence why I called it a french from France way to speak). I guess that being surrounded by a bunch of english speaking provinces and an english speaking country probably helps.

[noxon]

Yes. I grew up on a country that doesn't limit access to english spoken media (we don't have dubbing, we have subtitles) and you can really hear the difference between a norwegian speaking english, and a german speaking english, for instance, even though strictly speaking we should have the same difficulty pronouncing stuff right. French canadians are living in a bilingual area anyway - the media is available in both languages, and you're constantly being exposed to both languages. Then again, French people think quebecois dialect is really ugly too

[CDrice]

Then again, French people think quebecois dialect is really ugly too

And from someone living in Quebec, I honestly can say that they are not always wrong 

[PintoZ]

Yes. I grew up on a country that doesn't limit access to english spoken media (we don't have dubbing, we have subtitles) and you can really hear the difference between a norwegian speaking english, and a german speaking english, for instance, even though strictly speaking we should have the same difficulty pronouncing stuff right. French canadians are living in a bilingual area anyway - the media is available in both languages, and you're constantly being exposed to both languages. Then again, French people think quebecois dialect is really ugly too

Not all of them, moi j'adore le quebecois ! 

But yeah you're totally right about exposure to english... everything's dubbed here and most of the time people say they're too lazy to read subtitles 

[TL]

Then again, French people think quebecois dialect is really ugly too

I mean, really, everyone else is just jealous of how nice the Acadian dialect sounds. 
(It is legitimately interesting how different the Acadian and Quebecois dialect/accents can be, given the proximity. Even with an understanding of the history of why that is).

Edit: Also, from experience, with various Canadian french dialects, the "th" more commonly becomes a "d" or "t" sound ("This thing" becomes "Dis ting"), at least when it doesn't just get pronounced as a "th".

[genome]

Six degrees of inneh turbulenz

[YtseJamittaja]

Blob's action figures are must in this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_SzoMW1Yk&list=PL1C46C375DFF8ECF1

[CDrice]

Blob's action figures are must in this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_SzoMW1Yk&list=PL1C46C375DFF8ECF1

The John one

The James figurine should be updated to include a forklift instead of a shovel though.

[PintoZ]

And so here's the one for Greatest Hit :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFoyjmRYfg8

Systematic Chaos :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2-LV3Dk_d0

[AboutToCrash]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxE2GGE6SDY

They used to play this on the DT12 Evening with your during the interlude, my favourite

[Coolcat]

Once when I was watching TV with Maria, they played a Dream Theater ad but the music in the ad was from another band, so I'm confused. That was a few years ago but I don't remember what album it was for...   

[Train of Naught]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxE2GGE6SDY

They used to play this on the DT12 Evening with your during the interlude, my favourite