JPB performance in San Diego (youtube clip)

[wasteland]

Some hours ago I was shown this video by DreamerTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPsS4D6T9U&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL#!

Needless to say, I was blown away by James's performance. Except for a few moments where he is slightly late, his singing is nearly as good as it can be, especially since the video shows him performing a pretty hard piece to sing by itself, let alone at the end of a 2 hours show. Yes, he's not singing like he used to back in 92-93, but what we have here is James at his best since his food poisoning event.

But this may not be that surprising, since all of us who attended some shows in the last two/three years will agree on his good shape on both tours.

What's more surprising, and pleasingly so, is that I've been noticing a steady growth of his live consistency since the beginning of the tour. He struggled quite a bit during the first half of the summer shows, you can find ton of videos where he sounds kinda thin or chickenish at time (check out UAGM from the first show in Rome, for instance), but then he only got better and better, regardless of his dense show schedule.

This, I must say, is another great and unexpected dramatic turn of events


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On a side note, I couldn't help to laugh seeing JM staring at JP as he jumped above MM platform during the instrumental section, only to join him a few seconds later.

[IJewBear]

He sounded absolutely amazing the whole night. It was really awesome to say the least, especially when it was a smaller venue.

[Mind Trail]

Great! Amazing high note, a lot higher than in the studio version also 

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Really looking forward to listen to JLB this Saturday.

[Mladen]

He sounded incredible both times I saw DT, but I still go crazy every time I find a youtube videos with him singing the hell out of those songs. 

But this UAGM video was just all kinds of awesome. 

1:18 - JLB tries to tackle JM, but changes his mind 
1:53 - Jordan having a great moment with those fans from the front row
2:24 - A great note by JLB
2:48 - Man, check those lights out, so incredible. 
3:23 - Another great note by JLB
3:48 - Another great note by JLB
4:37 - Mangini fucks up, but he's still our God. 
Then the guitar solo, obviously...
6:02 - JM climbs on the drum riser
6:43 - Another great note by JLB
6:49 - And, again, awesome vocal moment is awesome 

[chknptpie]

I really thought that JLB sounded great at the Mesa, AZ show as well. Much better than the videos I saw during their first few concerts months ago.

[TL]

That performance was fantastic!
JLB sounded phenomenal, and the part where JP and JMX jump up onto the drum riser was pretty awesome.

[slycordinator]

I can't be the only one who looked at the thread title and thought "Who's JPB and what do the have to do with this band?" lol

[wasteland]

I can't be the only one who looked at the thread title and thought "Who's JPB and what do the have to do with this band?" lol

When I started the thread I was actually going to comment John Petrucci's Bear performance, but then I got distracted by that guy's singing 

[zipporaid]

WOW he sounds frigging great. 

[krands85]

I enjoyed watching him trying to untangle the mic cable from the stand just in time for him to come back in after the solos 

[Millais]

JLB's singing is incredible, as it has been for the vast majority of this tour. huge congrats to him!

[rumborak]

JPB = Jean-Paul Belmondo?

(fully realizing that I am probably the only person here who even knows who he is)

rumborak

[rumborak]

Man, just watching the interaction between MM and the others make me smile. I don't know what it is, but they transpire a joy of playing that I can't remember seeing for a long time by them.

rumborak

[Kotowboy]

He sounded incredible both times I saw DT, but I still go crazy every time I find a youtube videos with him singing the hell out of those songs. 

But this UAGM video was just all kinds of awesome. 

1:18 - JLB tries to tackle JM, but changes his mind 
1:53 - Jordan having a great moment with those fans from the front row
2:24 - A great note by JLB
2:48 - Man, check those lights out, so incredible. 
3:23 - Another great note by JLB
3:48 - Another great note by JLB
4:37 - Mangini fucks up, but he's still our God. 
Then the guitar solo, obviously...
6:02 - JM climbs on the drum riser
6:43 - Another great note by JLB
6:49 - And, again, awesome vocal moment is awesome 

What exactly did MM do wrong ?

[rumborak]

That wasn't MM who fucked up, I think it's JM actually. JP comes in correctly.

rumborak

[Resonate]

I can't be the only one who looked at the thread title and thought "Who's JPB and what do the have to do with this band?" lol

LOL!  Maybe the "P" stands for "Pirate". 

[Flacracker]

That wasn't MM who fucked up, I think it's JM actually. JP comes in correctly.

rumborak

No. MM's last three drum hits are in sync with JP. It sounds like he comes in a beat late and plays the last drum hit a beat after JP is done. You can hear him hit the drum with no light.

[Bertielee]

(fully realizing that I am probably the only person here who even knows who Jean-Paul Belmondo is)

rumborak

The only person? No way! I'm French, I know him!

B.Lee

[Mladen]

That wasn't MM who fucked up, I think it's JM actually. JP comes in correctly.

rumborak

I thought MM was one fourth late with his snare drum. You can hear the third hit where it shouldn't be, at the very beginning of JM's little bass lick. JP comes in the right time, but MM is once again one fourth late - but then they just followed him, no big deal. That's how the masters do it. 

[Kotowboy]

Yeah - professionals make mistakes and can adjust so you barely notice - if at all.

Not like some bands where they make a mistake and just keep playing the rest of the song completely out of time with each other.

And they *know* that's what they're doing 

[rumborak]

That's btw what all of my band members' previous attempts at DT tributes have failed at. We would have a bunch of reasonably capable musicians, and they all had learned their parts, but what they couldn't do was recover from mistakes. You would get 30 seconds into a song and a single hiccup would destroy the whole thing. The usual reason was that they weren't completely comfortable in playing odd meters, so they had a hard time getting back in (once watched a bass player wait a whopping 10 seconds before he reentered)

rumborak

[cramx3]

Definitely thought the closest thing to JPB was the John Petrucci Band and thought this would be a clip of som secret show of just Petrucci going nuts... oh well, still an awesome video of JLB.

[RaiseTheKnife]

At 6:17 James unwinds the microphone from the stand, working it fast like a teamster, and gets it free just in time to hit his cue.  love it. 

[chknptpie]

At 6:17 James unwinds the microphone from the stand, working it fast like a teamster, and gets it free just in time to hit his cue.  love it.

He did the exact same thing at the Mesa, AZ show, hilarious.

[emindead]

Nah, he didn't sound that good, to be honest.

[Zydar]

Great clip, thanks for the link

[MajorMatt]

Freakin' awesome performance!

[tristl]

Some hours ago I was shown this video by DreamerTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPsS4D6T9U&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL#!

Needless to say, I was blown away by James's performance. Except for a few moments where he is slightly late, his singing is nearly as good as it can be, especially since the video shows him performing a pretty hard piece to sing by itself, let alone at the end of a 2 hours show. Yes, he's not singing like he used to back in 92-93, but what we have here is James at his best since his food poisoning event.

But this may not be that surprising, since all of us who attended some shows in the last two/three years will agree on his good shape on both tours.

What's more surprising, and pleasingly so, is that I've been noticing a steady growth of his live consistency since the beginning of the tour. He struggled quite a bit during the first half of the summer shows, you can find ton of videos where he sounds kinda thin or chickenish at time (check out UAGM from the first show in Rome, for instance), but then he only got better and better, regardless of his dense show schedule.

This, I must say, is another great and unexpected dramatic turn of events


--


On a side note, I couldn't help to laugh seeing JM staring at JP as he jumped above MM platform during the instrumental section, only to join him a few seconds later.

i was in rome, he didn't sound chikenish, maybe you just listened to very bad quality material, if i record you with an iphone you sound chikenish too.
i see so many comments in this forum refering to shit material from youtube, this can't sound good-
in my eyes JLB was brilliant in rome(for beeing the first concert)

[namgalsipsclar]

Definitely the best he's been for a long while. Its great to hear that he has some of the 'bite' back that he had in Awake