Tribond - Dream Theater edition

[Elite]

Me again? Okay.. let's see:

- Caught in a Web
- The Test That Stumped Them All
- A Change of Seasons

[aprilethereal]

7 string guitars. Not sure about TTTSTA. Actually, I'm pretty sure TTTSTA is played on a six string. Oh well.

[Elite]

7 string guitars. Not sure about TTTSTA. Actually, I'm pretty sure TTTSTA is played on a six string. Oh well.

You're wrong. TTTSTA was played on a 7-string.* Which means you're right as well. Your turn!

* On the album at least, you can hear the low notes from the B-string here and there, specifically under the guitar and keyboard solos. Live Petrucci played this on a six string on Score (just watched it). I assume because there's literally no time to swap guitars after War Inside My Head.

[aprilethereal]

Alright, I'm going to post mine later today

[aprilethereal]

okay, this one might be pretty hard:

A Nightmare To Remember
Lines In The Sand
Another Day

[Elite]

- all songs have something unusual going on for DT;
      - ANTR has MP growling
      - Lines in the Sand has guest vocals from that King's X guy
      - Another Day has a saxophone solo

[aprilethereal]

nope

[Elite]

- lyrics by JP
- all contain a guitar solo
- all feature MP, who's not in the band anymore
- all start with an 'A', except LITS, it starts with an 'L'
- James LaBrie sings on every track
- John Myung plays bass on every track
- ANTR utilises blast-beats, all other songs do not
- ANTR is played in drop C, the rest isn't

[?]

Sorry for nitpicking, but ANTR is in standard C. Anyway, I have no idea what the correct answer could be

[Elite]

Sorry for nitpicking, but ANTR is in standard C. Anyway, I have no idea what the correct answer could be

Oh, I didn't know, I never tried it. As soon as I have to tune down anything more than Drop D, I won't play it.

[?]

JP has never really used drop tunings - Home and (a part of) the 6/8 section in The Great Debate are in drop D, but that's it.

[BlobVanDam]

JP has never really used drop tunings - Home and (a part of) the 6/8 section in The Great Debate are in drop D, but that's it.

And I think LNF?
And I didn't know about TGD having a drop tuning anywhere. The more you know!

[Elite]

JP has never really used drop tunings - Home and (a part of) the 6/8 section in The Great Debate are in drop D, but that's it.

And I think LNF?

LNF is in D-standard. I guess he has indeed used drop-tunings very sparingly.

[?]

And I didn't know about TGD having a drop tuning anywhere. The more you know!

Yeah, it's just a small portion of the song and obviously he plays the whole song in standard tuning live, but you can hear a low D at least in the final chord before "Harvesting existence...". Reminds me of how he used a 7-string in the instrumental section of TTTSTA (as mentioned above), although the rest of the song is played on a 6-string.

LNF is in D-standard.

Yup, JP confirmed this in the track-by-track breakdown of ADTOE at Music Radar.

[BlobVanDam]

JP has never really used drop tunings - Home and (a part of) the 6/8 section in The Great Debate are in drop D, but that's it.

And I think LNF?

LNF is in D-standard. I guess he has indeed used drop-tunings very sparingly.

Oh ok. I knew it was D, I just thought I recalled someone mentioning very recently that it was a drop tuning.

He does indeed use them rarely, especially considering how many songs DT have that are down-tuned, and involve heavy riffage.

[aprilethereal]

- lyrics by JP
- all contain a guitar solo
- all feature MP, who's not in the band anymore
- all start with an 'A', except LITS, it starts with an 'L'
- James LaBrie sings on every track
- John Myung plays bass on every track
- ANTR utilises blast-beats, all other songs do not
- ANTR is played in drop C, the rest isn't

Not sure if I should answer this post

[Elite]

Please do! I want to know if I'm right

[aprilethereal]

You're right, but none of those is what I had in mind

[aprilethereal]

come on, guys!

[Elite]

You said ' this might be pretty hard'. The lack of any correct results perhaps shows that it is.

[wasteland]

As the creator and executive producer of this thread's 1000th post I demand you post one hint. 

[aprilethereal]

Okay, master, here you go:

You need the album packaging for this one.

And yep, it's kinda hard. Sorry.

[?]

Is it related to the credits or the lyrics?

[aprilethereal]

It's related to the back cover.

[Elite]

I've been staring at the back coves for the past 5 minutes and have no idea what you mean for the record; I'm looking at three original releases; no reissues whatsoever. I'll have a go again in a couple of hours, I want to solve this one

[aprilethereal]

It's going to be pretty obvious if I post another hint, so I'm not sure

[Bolsters]

The songs lengths, if taken as individual digits, all add up to 8?

ANTR: 16:10, 1+6+1=8
LITS: 12:05, 1+2+5=8
Another Day: 4:22, 4+2+2=8

[aprilethereal]

We have a winner!

Your turn.

[Bolsters]

I can't be bothered trying to think of one. Someone else can have my turn.

[Elite]

Elite steps in with a very easy one:

- Your Majesty
- Pull Me Under
- Enigma Machine

Go!

[MoraWintersoul]

Second word starts with an M?

I consider myself a) very knowledgeable when it comes to all sorts of DT trivia b) very good at making logical connections, but whenever I look at any of these, nothing comes to mind.

[wasteland]

Well, it's either that or something related to their position in the tracklist, since we don't know anything about Enigma Machine.

[Elite]

Second word starts with an M?

Indeed

[wasteland]

Maaaaybe we should revert to tribonds that are about the song itself, rather than its title or its track number 

[Elite]

Well, the OP states it can be about anything, as long as it relates to the song. So I suppose titles count as well. However, this was just a quick step-in from me. Milena can post a better one. I like this game as it is, but I've always likes figuring things out. The fact that it can be about anything and everything only makes it more interesting I think.