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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2016, 02:10:03 PM »
Will bosk1 link his fake Myung interview? :lol
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2016, 02:26:47 PM »
Will bosk1 link his fake Myung interview? :lol

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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2016, 02:28:34 PM »
Says JM's home studio on LI. I thought he lived near MP. Did he move?
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2016, 03:08:43 PM »
Will bosk1 link his fake Myung interview? :lol

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Or was it you with the Twitter account?  I thought it was funny.
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2016, 03:33:43 PM »
" John Myung, Dream Theater has been a band for over 30 years now and you've just released a double concept album. Could you take a few words to sum up your career with the group and also your

new album ? :) "



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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2016, 06:07:00 PM »
Fascinating interview! 

Interesting to hear his thoughts on the benefit of collaboration.  Makes me think he wasn't all that satisfied with the way the writing of The Astonishing went down.  I'm sure he didn't hate it but I also bet he'll be glad when they go back to writing the way they used to. 

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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2016, 03:34:52 AM »
The most interesting part of this interview is when he says, "if I bring an idea to the guys in DT and they're not into it, I'll use it for my solo projects." 

Makes you wonder how many awesome ideas JM has for DT that are disregarded that could be DT classics if they were turned into songs....
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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2016, 05:20:50 AM »
The most interesting part of this interview is when he says, "if I bring an idea to the guys in DT and they're not into it, I'll use it for my solo projects." 

Makes you wonder how many awesome ideas JM has for DT that are disregarded that could be DT classics if they were turned into songs....

How do you know his ideas are awesome?

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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2016, 06:57:30 AM »
Learning to Live and Lifting Shadows off a Dream.  I would guess, and this is just a theory, that if JM were of the primary songwriters in DT, we'd have a lot more classics.  Just a hunch.
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2016, 07:49:56 AM »
I think he also wrote Trial of Tears and Breaking All Illusions.

You know which is my favorite JM bass line? On The Jelly Jam's album Shall We Descend, the song Stay Together...listen to that bass line. Grooving all the way and complex at the same time. 

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« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2016, 08:19:31 AM »
Guys, he wrote the LYRICS for all of those songs mentioned.  He didn't write all of the music for each song (which is what his quote in this interview is all about).

Apples and oranges.

BTW, nice interview.
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« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2016, 03:48:08 PM »
The most interesting part of this interview is when he says, "if I bring an idea to the guys in DT and they're not into it, I'll use it for my solo projects." 

Makes you wonder how many awesome ideas JM has for DT that are disregarded that could be DT classics if they were turned into songs....

How do you know his ideas are awesome?

Because he's John Myung.

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« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2016, 07:45:51 PM »
Thanks for this! Some more insight into the least known member.
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2016, 08:19:40 PM »
I wouldn't be surprised if the extent of his ideas are four bar riffs. I'd be surprised if he comes in with entire songs that get rejected, we know DT jams out their songs anyway.
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2016, 10:23:05 PM »
Guys, he wrote the LYRICS for all of those songs mentioned.  He didn't write all of the music for each song (which is what his quote in this interview is all about).

Apples and oranges.

BTW, nice interview.

Didn't they have some rule that whoever brought in a song idea had to have a melody and chords all put together, too?  Or, did that come later?  Either way, you don't write a song like Lifting Shadows off a Dream and have SOME idea of a melody or a chord progression.  Something.....
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2016, 01:20:32 AM »
Guys, he wrote the LYRICS for all of those songs mentioned.  He didn't write all of the music for each song (which is what his quote in this interview is all about).

Apples and oranges.

BTW, nice interview.

Didn't they have some rule that whoever brought in a song idea had to have a melody and chords all put together, too?  Or, did that come later?  Either way, you don't write a song like Lifting Shadows off a Dream and have SOME idea of a melody or a chord progression.  Something.....

That was just for lyrics.  The music is always written first. They would then split up who got to write lyrics for what songs.  John would present lyrics in sort of a poem format without any ideas for vocal melodies.  They would need to rearrange them and come up with the melodies and then the end result was things like Trial of Tears.  Might have been an inconvenient way of doing things but the end result speaks for itself. 

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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2016, 06:45:19 AM »
Guys, he wrote the LYRICS for all of those songs mentioned.  He didn't write all of the music for each song (which is what his quote in this interview is all about).

Apples and oranges.

BTW, nice interview.

I'm pretty sure Trial of Tears evolved from a guitar, bass and drum demo he presented to the other guys - I read that in an old interview somewhere.

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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2016, 09:01:46 AM »
Guys, he wrote the LYRICS for all of those songs mentioned.  He didn't write all of the music for each song (which is what his quote in this interview is all about).

Apples and oranges.

BTW, nice interview.

Didn't they have some rule that whoever brought in a song idea had to have a melody and chords all put together, too?  Or, did that come later? 
They wrote all of the music compositions for all of the songs together first.  Then they divided up the songs to various members to write lyrics.  The rule you are referencing was that whomever wrote the lyrics had to present them in actual lyric form with some idea of the VOCAL melody.  That's when Myung quit writing lyrics for the band, because he always brought in poetry, that JP had to work with him to craft into actual lyrics.
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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2016, 10:11:33 AM »
I think Home originated from a JM bass line he brought in.

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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2016, 10:41:38 AM »
I think Home originated from a JM bass line he brought in.
Yeah, he brought in a Tool album.  :tup
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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2016, 01:49:48 PM »
The most interesting part of this interview is when he says, "if I bring an idea to the guys in DT and they're not into it, I'll use it for my solo projects." 

Makes you wonder how many awesome ideas JM has for DT that are disregarded that could be DT classics if they were turned into songs....

i wonder how many times that happen!?

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« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2016, 07:09:49 AM »
John Myung did sort of write Lifting Shadows at first -- apparently, he came into the studio with two chords and a poem. The band worked on it for two days to make it the song we know today.

In any case, haven't read the whole interview yet, but so far a pretty good read. A shame JM doesn't do interviews much, he's very interesting.
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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2016, 04:38:34 PM »
I think Home originated from a JM bass line he brought in.
Yeah, he brought in a Tool album.  :tup

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Re: John Myung Interview
« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2016, 07:45:08 AM »
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« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2016, 07:51:04 AM »
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« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2016, 08:09:23 AM »
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