2012-08-19/20 - Luna Park - Buenos Aires, ARG (being filmed for DVD)

[senecadawg2]

PORTNOY CONFIRMED DEAD

 

[Adami]

I say the end the show with Undaunted. That would be one hell of a surprise.

[chaotic_ripper]

Dream Theater goes... PSYCHOSANE!!

[YtseCullen]

I say the end the show with Undaunted. That would be one hell of a surprise.

Oh god imagining James' vocals on that 

[nestcmartin]

Well, it's been 50 minutes more or less since the last report... I'm assuming they've played ACOS and Octavrium.

[bosk1]

Nope.  Just BITS extended dance mix.

[Zephyr]

Wishful thinking

[LCArenas]

Dream Theater goes... PSYCHOSANE!!

She turned for one last look
She looked me in the eye
She said "I love you"...












































LET THIS RIVER FLOW OUT OF CONTROL

[Peter Griffin]

 

[nestcmartin]

The show has been stopped. Petrucci has left the stage. It seems he had something very important to do in Isengard...

[hefdaddy42]

[nestcmartin]

Eyup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8aPAvrEA2U

[goo-goo]

Eyup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8aPAvrEA2U

Ha! Hilarious!

[Adami]

So no updates so far. This can mean only one of two things.


1. Nekov decided to just enjoy the show and update us after it.

or

2. Petrucci ate the entire audience.




RIP Nekov.

[nestcmartin]

Here's some info: LaBrie destroyed all the electronic devices in the area with a F#.

Someone is updating the setlist in setlist.fm, I don't know if it's real but seems legit...

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dream-theater/2012/estadio-luna-park-buenos-aires-argentina-2bdc0c7a.html

[VincentMDO]

A wild information appears!

[LCArenas]

Or 3: They seem to have begun the DTverse experiment.

Luna Park is now part of another universe in which space-time functions only as the DT members command them to; which is the perfect opportunity to play their entire discography in a show. The theater still looks normal to the people who pass by in this universe but works a-la-Bermuda Triangle when someone passes above or tries to get inside it (Hence Nekov hasn't reported anything yet) and the universe is made of nothingness except for the theater. The project was in development since Jordan joined the band (Kevin wasn't into it because the universe would be open again after the first usage and Derek said the lack of Feather boas was simply unethical) but constant delays including JP complaining there were no fish to hunt before the show made Portnoy question if DT was the right band to do the experiment with. Myung also said the universe was not quiet enough.
When he tried to explain the experiment to Avenged Sevenfold DT and him argued, and that explains his departure from the band. They eventually followed up with the experiment and they're doing it right now. 5 DVDs confirmed. That's why there's no reports.

[nestcmartin]

I love all this random shit guys 
Much more funny than yesterday night

[Adami]

We forgot about the fourth option.

Petrucci played so fast that the audience was transported back in time. Nekov (and the rest of the audience) has been dead for nearly 200 years now.

[nestcmartin]

So the setlist up til now is...

Bridges in the Sky
These Walls
Build Me Up, Break Me Down
This is the Life
Caught in a Web
Lost Not Forgotten
Drum Solo
A Fortune in Lies
Wait for Sleep (w/ string quartet)
Far from Heaven  (w/ string quartet)
Outcry
Surrounded

Adami, let the bashing begin

[Plasmastrike]

Man, there's gotta be a "one more thing" moment. I'm stoked for the DVD regardless, but ya know.

[Adami]

HERE COMES THE BASHING




Very cool that These Walls was played.

[nestcmartin]

Even the bashing is disappointing...

[Adami]

Well unlike these setlists, I am trying to not be overly predictable.

[Perpetual Change]

Hey, having a live Caught in a Web is cool.

You guys forgot option five, where the exits of Luna Park are barred and Petrucci looses caged bears on the audience. Again.

[DTFan0789]

Did anybody stop to think that even though these setlists are "predictable", that perhaps, just maybe the band was AMAZING when they played them? I can't wait for this Blu-ray.

[Adami]

Did anybody stop to think that even though these setlists are "predictable", that perhaps, just maybe the band was AMAZING when they played them? I can't wait for this Blu-ray.

I'm sure they sound lovely.

Well except for the one thing I'm not allowed to mention.

[nestcmartin]

BLIIIIIIND faith we have in theeeeeem (predictable)

[Perpetual Change]

Did anybody stop to think that even though these setlists are "predictable", that perhaps, just maybe the band was AMAZING when they played them? I can't wait for this Blu-ray.

As someone who follows the live performances and even listens to a few bootlegs, I can testify that these two things are definitely related. The band is playing and sounding so good because they're so well rehearsed.

Take a song like "Surrounded", for example, which pushes James' range to its absolute limits. When they started playing it more frequently, James was kinda everywhere during those high parts, especially the lines directly before and after the solo. Sure, sometimes he'd nail it. But other times he'd get up to those passages and suddenly realize he wasn't going to be able to do it, and then he'd suddenly switch to singing a different melody, without really knowing where he was going with it.

But what I've noticed on recent performances, especially those on this leg, is that James has "settled in" to a standard way of singing it that he seems to be able to pull-off every night. Even though it's a compromise with the album version in some ways, it's still a damn good performance, because it sounds like it's rehearsed and it's supposed to be that way, and it doesn't have that feeling of being a "lukewarm improvisation" that the less well-rehearsed performances from previous tours have been affected by. 

[DTFan0789]

Adami, just make this your new avatar already.

[Adami]

Adami, just make this your new avatar already.

Why? I didn't even watch the olympics.

[Progmetty]

Nekov are they wearing the same exact shirts from last night?

[Adami]

Nekov are they wearing the same exact shirts from last night?

That's SUCH a stupid question.


Nekov, ignore his stupid question and answer this; are they wearing the same underwear from last night?

[Peter Griffin]

did it ended?

[nestcmartin]

Nekov are they wearing the same exact shirts from last night?

That's SUCH a stupid question.


Nekov, ignore his stupid question and answer this; are they wearing the same underwear from last night?

That's SUCH a stupid question.


Nekov, ignore his stupid question and answer this; are they naked on stage?