DT15: A View From The Top Of The World (Timeline for DT15)

[Skeever]

1.) I like the artwork
2.) I can't wait to see the band in Philly

[Architeuthis]

After seeing the song titles, I'm wondering which song JP is using his eight string guitar?  My first guess would be Invisible Monster.   I could be completely wrong though.   

[Lonk]

After seeing the song titles, I'm wondering which song JP is using his eight string guitar?  My first guess would be Invisible Monster.   I could be completely wrong though.   

Yeah, that's my thought as well.

[LordJordan]

From Instagram:

[Zydar]

Just watch them drop the 20 min title track as the single

[geeeemo]

The spider has me curious. It pops up a lot. The boot, the portrait of the band, the art with the ball, with the sundial. Surprised it isn't in the scary room with the boy..but there is enough scary in there already. ...I was expanding the pictures and the scary face under the bed is Scary..looking!

[MirrorMask]

The spider has me curious. It pops up a lot. The boot, the portrait of the band, the art with the ball, with the sundial. Surprised it isn't in the scary room with the boy..but there is enough scary in there already. ...I was expanding the pictures and the scary face under the bed is Scary..looking!

Yeah, I wonder if it has a deeper connection to a song or a recurring theme, or maybe there was just a discount on spider stock images and Hugh Syme had some to use since he was at it.

[Trav]

Am I missing the spider on the boot everyone keeps talking about?? I don't see it.

[Zydar]

Am I missing the spider on the boot everyone keeps talking about?? I don't see it.

It's on this pic.

https://dreamtheater.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DT-2021-background1.jpg

[vtgrad]

A huge rendering of the spider needs to hang over the crowd ala Tommy Lee's drum-kit... bonus points if it rotates and the legs move.  If they don't do it, it's just a missed opportunity.
 

[geeeemo]

I don't do paint. But the spider needs to appear on the mic stand.

[Raise the Drum]

i think the spider is a allusive to the 8 string guitar

[NoFred]

A huge rendering of the spider needs to hang over the crowd ala Tommy Lee's drum-kit... bonus points if it rotates and the legs move.  If they don't do it, it's just a missed opportunity.

MM should appear in a spider costume for the entire show

[the_silent_man]

i think the spider is a allusive to the 8 string guitar

This is an interesting idea. Perhaps theres some truth in it!

[Plasmastrike]

Haven't posted in forever, but I've been following!!

New album and theme look amazing. Love the song titles and track lengths. Also, just scored 2 third row tickets this morning... sooo excited. Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but is anyone else getting concept album vibes from the tracklisting..?

[Stadler]

A huge rendering of the spider needs to hang over the crowd ala Tommy Lee's drum-kit... bonus points if it rotates and the legs move.  If they don't do it, it's just a missed opportunity.

I'm pretty sure the U2 stage on the 360⁰ tour was called "the spider" and the last Kiss show was too, I believe.   It'd be cool if DT did that even if on a smaller scale.

[krands85]

The spider has me curious. It pops up a lot. The boot, the portrait of the band, the art with the ball, with the sundial. Surprised it isn't in the scary room with the boy..but there is enough scary in there already. ...I was expanding the pictures and the scary face under the bed is Scary..looking!

Yeah, I wonder if it has a deeper connection to a song or a recurring theme, or maybe there was just a discount on spider stock images and Hugh Syme had some to use since he was at it.

[Trav]

Am I missing the spider on the boot everyone keeps talking about?? I don't see it.

It's on this pic.

https://dreamtheater.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DT-2021-background1.jpg

Ah, thank you!

[ZirconBlue]

I've never seen anyone mix uppercase and lowercase in abbreviations before. To me, abbreviations just look better when they're all caps, especially when they're abbreviating a title, which typically uses all caps for first letters of every word anyway. . .

Actually, title case (according to the major style guides), capitalizes first letters, except minor words such as articles or short prepositions, etc. unless they are the first or last word of the title.  The forthcoming album should be "A View from the Top of the World" according to title case conventions.   

[wideworldofmike]

i think the spider is a allusive to the 8 string guitar

This is an interesting idea. Perhaps theres some truth in it!

Doesn't Jordan also play/have a signature 8 string? Would be insane to see him playing guitar w JP. Also will be interested to see how John approaches 8 compared to Tosin Abasi and then also other more typical djenty bands. Excited to say the least!

[hefdaddy42]

Doesn't Jordan also play/have a signature 8 string? Would be insane to see him playing guitar w JP.

That will never, ever happen.

[Lonk]

Doesn't Jordan also play/have a signature 8 string? Would be insane to see him playing guitar w JP.

That will never, ever happen.

I asked Jordan during a meet and greet for in 2019 about his 8 string, and he said something along the lines of not playing it anymore because it hurts/bothers his left arm, and he doesn't want to risk damaging something and not being able to play keyboard.

I saw him playing it earlier that year (NAMM 2019) and he did some simple rhythm and lead stuff. I think for experimenting it would be fine, but nothing to put out on a DT record.

[darkshade]

Didn't they already do the spider thing on Systematic Chaos? Does this mean their new album is Systematic Chaos 2.0,? Like ADTOE was kind of IaW 2.0?

[RodrigoAltaf]

Didn't they already do the spider thing on Systematic Chaos? Does this mean their new album is Systematic Chaos 2.0,? Like ADTOE was kind of IaW 2.0?

Ants

[wideworldofmike]

Doesn't Jordan also play/have a signature 8 string? Would be insane to see him playing guitar w JP.

That will never, ever happen.

I asked Jordan during a meet and greet for in 2019 about his 8 string, and he said something along the lines of not playing it anymore because it hurts/bothers his left arm, and he doesn't want to risk damaging something and not being able to play keyboard.

I saw him playing it earlier that year (NAMM 2019) and he did some simple rhythm and lead stuff. I think for experimenting it would be fine, but nothing to put out on a DT record.

Doesn't Jordan also play/have a signature 8 string? Would be insane to see him playing guitar w JP.

That will never, ever happen.

Super bummer, his slide guitar on Octavarium is classic!

[darkshade]

Didn't they already do the spider thing on Systematic Chaos? Does this mean their new album is Systematic Chaos 2.0,? Like ADTOE was kind of IaW 2.0?

Ants

of course, duh

Still, though, with the insects. Let's give other creatures some attention.

[Dedalus]

Spiders are not insects.

[The Letter M]

Didn't they already do the spider thing on Systematic Chaos? Does this mean their new album is Systematic Chaos 2.0,? Like ADTOE was kind of IaW 2.0?

Ants

of course, duh

Still, though, with the insects. Let's give other creatures some attention.

Right, like birds! There are lots of birds in the artwork shown on the website, presumably for the booklet. We've *never* seen birds on DT artwork before!

-Marc.

[darkshade]

Didn't they already do the spider thing on Systematic Chaos? Does this mean their new album is Systematic Chaos 2.0,? Like ADTOE was kind of IaW 2.0?

Ants

of course, duh

Still, though, with the insects. Let's give other creatures some attention.

Right, like birds! There are lots of birds in the artwork shown on the website, presumably for the booklet. We've *never* seen birds on DT artwork before!

-Marc.

I want to see some penguins and kinkajous on DT's album covers!

[pg1067]

DT16:  Headless Penguins!!!

[RaiseTheKnife]

Anticipate that the DTF website will be upgrading its skins soon.  Looking forward to seeing the new artwork here.

[Lonk]

I want to see some penguins...

[The Letter M]

I've never seen anyone mix uppercase and lowercase in abbreviations before. To me, abbreviations just look better when they're all caps, especially when they're abbreviating a title, which typically uses all caps for first letters of every word anyway. . .

Actually, title case (according to the major style guides), capitalizes first letters, except minor words such as articles or short prepositions, etc. unless they are the first or last word of the title.  The forthcoming album should be "A View from the Top of the World" according to title case conventions.   

That may be the proper to do it, if you're writing a college paper, but most bands and companies/labels/promoters will capitalize every word in an album title. I went back and looked at most of the posts on the DT FB page, and even some on Inside Out, and I think the majority of them had typed it out as "A View From The Top Of The World" rather than "A View from the Top of the World", which I think I maybe saw once among a couple dozen different posts. Then again, a few of them typed it out in ALL caps as "A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD" but I think that was just to be eye-catching and noticed.

But going back to abbreviations, we could just abbreviate all the words that aren't articles and prepositions and go with VTW, or if you want to throw in the A, make it AVTW. I'm fine with VTW, it's easy to type on a keyboard with all three keys being under the left hand. Maybe I should start a poll here...

-Marc.

[Buddyhunter1]

I always capitalize every single word in a title because I can't be trusted with consistency otherwise.

[Kyo]

Actually, title case (according to the major style guides), capitalizes first letters, except minor words such as articles or short prepositions, etc. unless they are the first or last word of the title.  The forthcoming album should be "A View from the Top of the World" according to title case conventions.   

Thank you! The sadly popular "consistent capitalization" approach is only consistent in its wrongness. And it's even worse when applied to just about any other language that isn't English.