Dream Theater Should be COVERED by...

[chaossystem]

If you could pick ANYONE to cover a song by DT, who would it be? Which songs would you choose? Which version of a particular band would you pick? Would you bring in some guest musicians to make the sound just right? Don't worry about limiting your idea(s) to singes and musicians that are still with us. I don't care if you want to bring Elvis and the Beatles into it. I just want to hear as many ideas that whoever wants to participate can come up with.

MY problem is I think I might have too MANY ideas...but I'm going to give some examples here-

A Fortune in Lies-Megadeth

Instrumental version of Take the Time-Dixie Dregs

Surrounded-Asia

6:00-Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice version of Deep Purple

Lie-Metallica

A Change of Seasons-Anderson/Howe/Squire/Wakeman/White version of Yes, with Joe satriani guesting on guitar

Hollow Years-Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Trial of Tears-1974-1980 version of Kansas

Just Let Me Breathe-Guns 'N' Roses

Octavarium-Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford version of Genesis

Stream of Consciousness-Joe Satriani with his current band consisting of Mike Keneally on keyboards and Marco Minneman on drums, but also including Dave Larue on Bass

Prophets of War-Original version of Queensryche

The Count of Tuscany-Rush

I TOLD you I had a LOT of ideas! I'm sure there will be more...

[MirrorMask]

Lie-Metallica

Don't tell meeah
You wanted meeeah
Don't tell meeeah
You thought of meeeah

I won't, I swear I won't....ah
I'll try, I'll swear I'll try....eah, uh yeah!!!!!

[Prog Snob]

The David Oakes Experiment

[jjfumbly]

Lie-Metallica

It's hard to imagine Metallica using 7 strings.

[Enigmachine]

I think Haken doing Through My Words / Fatal Tragedy would be cool, as well as Circus Maximus doing Pull Me Under or Symphony X doing Under A Glass Moon.

[CDrice]

Never Enough-Muse
As I Am-Metallica
I Walk Beside You-U2
The Looking Glass-Rush
The Great Debate-Tool

[Enigmachine]

Never Enough-Muse
As I Am-Metallica
I Walk Beside You-U2
The Looking Glass-Rush
The Great Debate-Tool

tbh that should've been the first reply. 

[chaossystem]

To Live Forever-U2

[DragonGuitar]

A bunch of songs... covered by MY band! 

[Bertie_Wooster]

I would like to hear Extreme play a funky version of  "The dance of eternity"   I think Nuno could really do something with that song.
Since Mike Mangini was once in the band he can play drums.
Phish could play "the count of tuscany"
Neal Schon   "Hells kitchen"
Van Hagar    "in the name of God"
ZZ Topp  "the dark eternal night"

[kartmaze2]

Circus Maximus

Under A Glass Moon

I actually saw a mixture of Circus Maximus and Seventh Wonder do a cover of Under a Glass Moon live in a concert in Oslo some years back. It was really cool.

[IdoSC]

Would be fun to hear Iron Maiden doing some songs, maybe Pull Me Under or Endless Sacrifice. I kinda came into DT after an Iron Maiden phase a few* years ago, and those were their first "Metal" songs to click with me. Bruce Dickinson would probably be fun to listen to singing those.

*I initially wrote "a few", but it's been 8-9 years already. And I'm considered a newbie. Time goes by...

[thosava]

Does it ever happen that older bands cover songs from younger ones? It always seems like people cover those who came before them.

It would be fun to hear Iron Maiden cover some dream theater, but to be honest i don't think it would sound that good. They dont have a keyboard player, and the three guitarists are no where near the technical abilities of JP. But i do think a Dream Theater song with Bruce on vocals would be very cool to hear!

[IdoSC]

Does it ever happen that older bands cover songs from younger ones? It always seems like people cover those who came before them.

It would be fun to hear Iron Maiden cover some dream theater, but to be honest i don't think it would sound that good. They dont have a keyboard player, and the three guitarists are no where near the technical abilities of JP. But i do think a Dream Theater song with Bruce on vocals would be very cool to hear!

Barely ever does, but this is a "what if" thread so I suppose we can go wild

[Enigmachine]

Does it ever happen that older bands cover songs from younger ones? It always seems like people cover those who came before them.

Motorhead covered Metallica's Whiplash, but I can't think of any other instances.

[King Postwhore]

Um, Johnny Cash for one.  He covered NIN & U2.

[chaossystem]

I would like to hear Extreme play a funky version of  "The dance of eternity"   I think Nuno could really do something with that song.
Since Mike Mangini was once in the band he can play drums.
Phish could play "the count of tuscany"
Neal Schon   "Hells kitchen"
Van Hagar    "in the name of God"
ZZ Topp  "the dark eternal night"

Van Halen was named for the Van Halen BROTHERS! NOT for who the SINGER is/was! They did NOT change their name when they changed SINGERS! If that were the case, why wasn't Van Halen 3 called "VAN CHERONE???"

[Evermind]

Because all the caps-lock and three question marks in "VAN CHERONE???" wouldn't make a good band name? Seriously, I'm at loss.

[Train of Naught]

 

I can't take this guy seriously, ever

[chaossystem]

Would be fun to hear Iron Maiden doing some songs, maybe Pull Me Under or Endless Sacrifice. I kinda came into DT after an Iron Maiden phase a few* years ago, and those were their first "Metal" songs to click with me. Bruce Dickinson would probably be fun to listen to singing those.

*I initially wrote "a few", but it's been 8-9 years already. And I'm considered a newbie. Time goes by...

I've been trying to think of a song that would be perfect for Maiden, but so far I'm drawing a blank---

However, here is a list of POSSIBLE suggestions:

The Killing Hand
Under a Glass Moon
Burning My Soul
Strange Deja Vu
War Inside My Head/
The Test That Stumped Them All
Panic Attack
The Dark Eternal Night
A Rite of Passage

I don't know if ANY of these would be a fit for them, but who knows...maybe they could change the arrangement to fit their style...?...

[chaossystem]

Because all the caps-lock and three question marks in "VAN CHERONE???" wouldn't make a good band name? Seriously, I'm at loss.

I just get really ANNOYED with shit like that, and had to get it out of my system.

[OleMP]

Lie-Metallica

It's hard to imagine Metallica using 7 strings.

Lars Ulrich wouldn't get past the first 3 seconds anyway, so no need to even bother about counting strings.

[Enigmachine]

Because all the caps-lock and three question marks in "VAN CHERONE???" wouldn't make a good band name? Seriously, I'm at loss.

I just get really ANNOYED with shit like that, and had to get it out of my system.

Why? Stuff like 'Van Hagar' is just a way to quickly identify an era of the band, not to change the name of it.

[phospheneSOI]

I'd like to hear Haken do a song, Protest the Hero would be cool too.

[Kotowboy]

I'd like to hear Noel Gallagher cover The Spirit Carries On.

[Train of Naught]

I'd like to hear Haken do a song, Protest the Hero would be cool too.

Constant Motion - Protest the Hero (Dream Theater cover)  hell yeah

[chaossystem]

Because all the caps-lock and three question marks in "VAN CHERONE???" wouldn't make a good band name? Seriously, I'm at loss.

I just get really ANNOYED with shit like that, and had to get it out of my system.

Why? Stuff like 'Van Hagar' is just a way to quickly identify an era of the band, not to change the name of it.

Never thought of it that way. But you have to admit that BOTH DLR and SH have dropped in and out of VH more than once, so it's hard to define it by "eras."

[chaossystem]

I'd like to hear Noel Gallagher cover The Spirit Carries On.

Ever heard of a band called Renaissance? I would love to hear Annie Haslam singing that song!

[Kotowboy]

The David Oakes Experiment

It would have to be a piss easy one as i'm not a very good guitarist at all

[Prog Snob]

The Silent Man.... That has probably been the easiest DT song to learn on the guitar. 

[Bertie_Wooster]

Van Hagar is a common term many people use.  I did not invent it.   David Lee Roth would sound terrible singing any Dt song.

[Kotowboy]

That or The Spirit Carries On.

[Prog Snob]

Van Hagar is a common term many people use.  I did not invent it.   David Lee Roth would sound terrible singing any Dt song.

He sounds terrible singing most things.   

That or The Spirit Carries On.

The solo in that is hard...well towards the end. I never finished it.

[Kotowboy]

Yeah and I couldn't cover a DT song and do my own solo i'd get murdered.

[chaossystem]

Van Hagar is a common term many people use.  I did not invent it.   David Lee Roth would sound terrible singing any Dt song.

I like Sammy a lot better than Dave too. But I think it would be better for him to sing a song like Just Let Me Breathe, Burning My Soul, or Maybe Surrounded. But I don't know if VH could do justice to a longer, more complicated DT song like ItNoG.