Dream Theater entered the studio in February v. No News is Good News

[Prog Snob]

I agree of course with Blob that if there actually were any news from the studio, we'd likely be discussing that instead. But since there isn't any, this is fair game too.

If we do the Christmas gift thing again, I hope I get you.  I'm sending you a year subscription to Glamour magazine.           I kid I kid of course. 

[rumborak]

If the band genuinely have their hair and clothes based on what each of them individually wants and likes, then that's cool. I can't dispute Rumby's point that the "metal" image stepped up a lot when they joined RR and hasn't really decreased much since.

I mean, obviously we will never know for sure, but I thought the distinct switch in looks when they signed with RR, and the fact that MM suddenly had clearly-dyed, straight hair the moment he joined DT, I think strongly suggests that DT has a specific image in mind they're trying to maintain.

[GandL]

When it comes to sounds, JP is a very meat-and-potato kind of guy. Delay and chorus, that's usually it.

It's better that way, IMO. JP has a very distinguishable sound. If the tone is processed too much, it starts to lose some of that individuality.

Speaking of tones, if I ever meet him I want to ask him about some of the equipment he's used in the past. I'd probably be the first person to ever ask him "How did you get your WDADU tone?"

EDIT: I read that he used a B.C Rich guitar and some Ibanez's, but he doesn't know what amp he used. Damn...

Doesn't remember or doesn't want to remember ? I can recall all the equipment I used ...

Anyway, I do the same, over the years I learned to remove a lot of stuff from my gear and I'm mostly left with delay, chorus and Wah.

[Fiery Winds]

Greetings from the studio-where we are busy writing this album!!

https://twitter.com/Jcrudess/status/582697284326047744

8 weeks in the studio and still writing? I wonder if they decided to postpone a US tour to devote more time to the album. IIRC most of their recent output has been written in 2 months or less.

[bl5150]

I like Jordan's taste in live Dvds 

[Prog Snob]

It could mean it's a double CD.   

[KevShmev]

For the record, I don't like JP's beard at all. It doesn't even remotely affect my opinion of their music, but personally I don't think it looks good.

That seems to be a trend in the last few years.  Guys growing their beards so thick that it looks like it hasn't been cut in years.  Pretty stupid look if you ask me, on just about anybody, but to each his own.

[Infinite Cactus]

I like Jordan's taste in live Dvds 

THIS

[sfam2112]

Speaking of tones, if I ever meet him I want to ask him about some of the equipment he's used in the past. I'd probably be the first person to ever ask him "How did you get your WDADU tone?"

EDIT: I read that he used a B.C Rich guitar and some Ibanez's, but he doesn't know what amp he used. Damn...

He says in the WDaDR commentary he used a Randall solid state amp. That's all I got.

I like Jordan's taste in live Dvds 

THIS

Is that EVH? Live Without A Net?

[Infinite Cactus]

Pretty sure it is. As a matter of fact, a screen shot of that face was my avatar for like 3 years.

[bl5150]

Yup.........the beginning of Why can't This Be Love with Ed on keys (which were piped in for most of their subsequent tours)

[Mladen]

8 weeks in the studio and still writing? I wonder if they decided to postpone a US tour to devote more time to the album. IIRC most of their recent output has been written in 2 months or less.

It could mean they're taking their time with the writing, maybe they will release the album at the beginning of 2016, which would be a welcome change from them releasing an album every two years. I'm probably saying that because I wasn't that impressed with DT12, otherwise I wouldn't mind them following the trend.

[Kotowboy]

If this next album takes them longer than usual and isn't released til Spring next year - it won't matter in the slightest if it turns out to be one of

the best they've done.

I think we've been spoiled slightly with expecting an album every other year.

Therapy? rushed out an album in 2006 and have since said that they weren't happy with it and since then have taken 3 years per album.


( and the first album they released after the 2006 one was one of their very best ).

[rumborak]

Greetings from the studio-where we are busy writing this album!!

https://twitter.com/Jcrudess/status/582697284326047744

8 weeks in the studio and still writing? I wonder if they decided to postpone a US tour to devote more time to the album. IIRC most of their recent output has been written in 2 months or less.

What is that guy on the screen doing? Operating a mixing board, or playing a key instrument?

[hefdaddy42]

That's Eddie Van Halen playing a keyboard from a concert in 1986 or so.

[bl5150]

See above rumbo - it's EVH on the Van Halen Live Without A Net DVD.

[Zydar]

Nice, we'll get a bonus cover CD with Jump and Hot For Teacher then.

[Another_Won]

Next album is Nightmare Cinema with JP on keyboards making the same silly face as EVH.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

JR's got a problem with image editing apps.

[Dream Team]

It would be cool if Roth-era Van Halen was in the inspiration corner (which may no longer exist, R.I.P. since MP's departure).

[SystematicThought]

That's Eddie Van Halen playing a keyboard from a concert in 1986 or so.

Eddie Van Halen on August 27th, 1986 in New Haven, Connecticut at the New Haven Coliseum playing Why Can't This Be Love on the Live Without A Net VHS/DVD


Thank you Good Night

[Siddhartha]

See above rumbo - it's EVH on the Van Halen Live Without A Net DVD.

I shit my pants every time I see what Sammy did during Ain´t Talking About Love in that concert.

[SystematicThought]

One slip and the Van Halen story could have forever been changed 
He did that on every show too I think

Here's another one. Starts at 4:40 and ends at 5:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnC0tEAeH8

[hefdaddy42]

That's Eddie Van Halen playing a keyboard from a concert in 1986 or so.

Eddie Van Halen on August 27th, 1986 in New Haven, Connecticut at the New Haven Coliseum playing Why Can't This Be Love on the Live Without A Net VHS/DVD


Thank you Good Night

New HALEN

[SystematicThought]

"We are renaming this town. This is now New Halen. NEW HALEN!!!! Now dig it, every time someone up here yells 5150, all you have to do is go nuts, because 5150 is a police code for someone who is crazy, flipped out. We got 12,000 5150s here tonight. Ow! 5150!!! It's a hot summer night, Edward, c'mob baby."

[Progressive Metal Fusion]

From JR's fb account:

"Today's pic from the studio:"



Did JP cut his hair, or is just the edited photo that is playing tricks? 

[sfam2112]

From JR's fb account:

"Today's pic from the studio:"



Did JP cut his hair, or is just the edited photo that is playing tricks? 

I think he has it in a pony tail.

[BlobVanDam]

It would be cool if Roth-era Van Halen was in the inspiration corner (which may no longer exist, R.I.P. since MP's departure).

Never gonna happen, but that would be badass.

[SystematicThought]

It would be cool if Roth-era Van Halen was in the inspiration corner (which may no longer exist, R.I.P. since MP's departure).

What specifically about the Roth era? The aggressive and angry guitar tone on Fair Warning was what came to my mind

[KevShmev]

I can't wait to see JR's Jack Daniels keytar.

[Kotowboy]

I just wish JR would upload a fucking picture without some shit all over it.

[SystematicThought]

I can't wait to see JR's Jack Daniels keytar.

Myung can have the Tabasco bass

[nestcmartin]

Idk if this has been posted...

Progressive rock titans Dream Theater are currently hard at work on album number 13, which is due in September – but the groundwork for the album goes surprisingly far back. "The process started two years ago," says guitarist John Petrucci. "The seed was planted during the promo trip for the previous album, in August 2013, and it's something that we started to work on a little bit on the road from last January."

Petrucci and keyboard player Jordan Rudess began putting the songs together in November 2014, with sessions beginning this February. Petrucci is remaining tight-lipped about the direction for now. "We don't like to reveal anything this early," he says. "And the reason is because it's fun to do that! I think it makes it more interesting as it gets closer and you finally start to hear about it, as opposed to a built-up type of thing. We still write albums, as apposed to singles, with the mindset that people will listen to it like they're sitting down to watch a movie. You don't watch the first seven minutes – you sit down and watch a movie from beginning to end."

Petrucci's songwriting demos begin in a very stripped-down form, often as simply as an iPhone recording. "It could be as crude as me singing an idea, or playing my guitar amplified or unplugged – however an idea occurs," he says. "Jordan does the same. Then it's a matter of sifting through, figuring out what's usable and what's not. When we write together like that we focus more on what the vocal sections are, main themes... sometimes we'll go off into instrumental parts but we save a lot of that for when we're all together and we can jam it out."

Source: Guitar World - April 2015

[SuperTaco]

I wonder if he's putting effects on the pictures so we can't ninja search any fine details that may or may not be written on pieces of paper  The laptop looks really cool in that most recent picture. It's like a portal to another dimension. I don't really mind all the effects, really. They look cool and stuff.

[Flacracker]

Idk if this has been posted...

Progressive rock titans Dream Theater are currently hard at work on album number 13, which is due in September – but the groundwork for the album goes surprisingly far back. "The process started two years ago," says guitarist John Petrucci. "The seed was planted during the promo trip for the previous album, in August 2013, and it's something that we started to work on a little bit on the road from last January."

Petrucci and keyboard player Jordan Rudess began putting the songs together in November 2014, with sessions beginning this February. Petrucci is remaining tight-lipped about the direction for now. "We don't like to reveal anything this early," he says. "And the reason is because it's fun to do that! I think it makes it more interesting as it gets closer and you finally start to hear about it, as opposed to a built-up type of thing. We still write albums, as apposed to singles, with the mindset that people will listen to it like they're sitting down to watch a movie. You don't watch the first seven minutes – you sit down and watch a movie from beginning to end."

Petrucci's songwriting demos begin in a very stripped-down form, often as simply as an iPhone recording. "It could be as crude as me singing an idea, or playing my guitar amplified or unplugged – however an idea occurs," he says. "Jordan does the same. Then it's a matter of sifting through, figuring out what's usable and what's not. When we write together like that we focus more on what the vocal sections are, main themes... sometimes we'll go off into instrumental parts but we save a lot of that for when we're all together and we can jam it out."

Source: Guitar World - April 2015

Due in September? My lord... Also, that other info sounds amazing. I have a feeling that the easter egg at the end of IT is going to be some sort of recurring theme on the new album.