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Title: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Gromit1710 on February 06, 2016, 02:02:30 PM: Only once in over 20 years of seeing them.

Mesa, AZ. D12 tour.

Don't remember if James forgot the words to Scarred, or the band added and extra verse. Either way, was a fun and lighthearted moment that James completely laughed at.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Evermind on February 06, 2016, 02:09:34 PM: Last DT show on their festival Europe tour at 2015 at Moscow show James walked in on stage during the beginning of Afterlife, took a mic stand and swayed it a bit and the mic instantly fell down from the stand to the area between the crowd and the scene. :lol

Later this evening he said "this microphone thing... I did it on purpose". :lol
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: home on February 06, 2016, 03:20:43 PM: When I saw them on Bospop in their previous tour they made a small mistake during Metropolis. James expression was quite funny he really had that pleasantly surprised WTF look.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Progmetty on February 06, 2016, 08:02:40 PM: Yep, Austin, TX on the ADToE tour, first riff in Bridges at the very start of the show, JP forgot to turn his guitar volume up and it was silent for a moment before he quickly turned it up.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Setlist Scotty on February 06, 2016, 08:05:06 PM: Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything really significant that they screwed up - may need to go back and relisten to bootlegs of the shows I went to.

But one thing that was a super rare occasion that I did witness, which was similar to a noticeable mistake, altho caused by outside sources was the firemarshall show in LA on Feb 4, 2000. JL was held backstage, so MP fumbled the lyrics as best he could to TSCO and ultimately had the audience take over. I know a lot of fans were angry that they missed seeing the whole show, but being that I had tickets to the following night, it didn't bother me at all. And I cherished getting to see something completely bizarre and out of the norm - since when do you see police in riot gear creating a moving wall to force the audience to exit the venue?
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: BlobVanDam on February 06, 2016, 09:46:56 PM: I got to witness DT trainwreck Metropolis, and it was amazing. A lot of people thought it was intentional messing around, but JR wasn't happy about it after the show. :lol It was a hot day, the last song after a long Evening With set, so they must have been wiped out by that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP-WI7E3L0
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Grizz on February 06, 2016, 11:57:09 PM: https://youtu.be/INW0zneWv6k?t=6m31s
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: TheAtliator on February 07, 2016, 05:43:42 AM: There are definitely some cool ones on youtube. Kind of interesting to see!

I was at the LA show in 2012 when they had just a slight mess up in Metropolis, just got off for a few bars then back on in the instrumental. Also in 2014 Jordan came out with his keytar for TOT and it didn't work right and some drum loop came out of it and he went back to his keyboard to play the solo.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on February 07, 2016, 05:48:48 AM: Quote from: BlobVanDam on February 06, 2016, 09:46:56 PM
I got to witness DT trainwreck Metropolis, and it was amazing. A lot of people thought it was intentional messing around, but JR wasn't happy about it after the show. :lol It was a hot day, the last song after a long Evening With set, so they must have been wiped out by that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP-WI7E3L0
Love that one! :lol
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: serrano on February 08, 2016, 06:55:27 AM: JP dropped the acustic guitar during the silent man in Munich '95, took him some time to recover and had a nice step dance on the pedalboard ;D
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Gromit1710 on February 08, 2016, 07:15:38 AM: Quote from: serrano on February 08, 2016, 06:55:27 AM
JP dropped the acustic guitar during the silent man in Munich '95, took him some time to recover and had a nice step dance on the pedalboard ;D

:lol

When there is reason
Toniiiiiight I'm a THUNKATWANG

"Fuuuuuuu....." :facepalm:
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: serrano on February 08, 2016, 07:19:51 AM: If i remenber correctly it happened during an instrumental part, but the really funny thing was seing him dance on the pedalboard to recover on the electric. The reason why it dropped in the first place was that it was not hanging on a strap, it was attached to a stand and he had the electric behind it.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: cramx3 on February 08, 2016, 07:22:05 AM: https://youtu.be/INW0zneWv6k?t=6m30s (https://youtu.be/INW0zneWv6k?t=6m30s)

James messes up the lyrics in Lie :lol this was very funny live
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: DarkLord_Lalinc on February 09, 2016, 11:39:10 PM: Yeah! JR came in too early in the second verse in Bridges in the Sky during their show in 2011 in Mexico City. Also, I saw a Metropolis instrumental MM screw-up in a LA show from their third leg of the ADTOE tour.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: OpenYourEyes311 on February 10, 2016, 09:46:02 AM: I saw James forget the words to Home in Wallingford, CT, 2006. Went into one of the choruses and started singing jibberish. Then he was like, "I forgot the fuckin' words!" And then MP started singing them to get him back on track. It was pretty funny!
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Evermind on February 10, 2016, 10:28:08 AM: Oh, right, there's also this from the Russian shows from AFTR tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiW2GYfSwqw&feature=youtu.be&t=31m55s
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: DragonAttack on February 12, 2016, 03:55:02 PM: Tower Theater in Upper Darby (Philly): not a band mistake, but at the beginning of ANTR, only half the curtain dropped. Probably seemed like an eternity to the band and crew (10-15 seconds) before they pulled the remainder down. Worked fine the next night in Columbia MD.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: cramx3 on February 12, 2016, 03:58:04 PM: Quote from: DragonAttack on February 12, 2016, 03:55:02 PM
Tower Theater in Upper Darby (Philly): not a band mistake, but at the beginning of ANTR, only half the curtain dropped. Probably seemed like an eternity to the band and crew (10-15 seconds) before they pulled the remainder down. Worked fine the next night in Columbia MD.

The video of this is great :lol
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: YtseJamittaja on February 13, 2016, 02:36:38 AM: I remember one Jordan mistake from 2007 Finland show where he started ITNOG solo one bar too early. I immediately notized it but it was just a little thing at the first show of the tour. :)
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: DragonAttack on February 13, 2016, 06:14:39 AM: Well, here's a combo of fun ones that was posted on this forum a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWD8Us5qSqQ (pull my finger+canadian rap)

btw, did I read correctly that Jordan mimed much of Budokan because of a technical glitch?

Always thought that Jordan was off key at the beginning of 'Losing Time'.

As to the curtain in Upper Darby, is there a link? All I could think of was 'how embarrassing' as well as 'someone's gonna get ripped after the show'. My wife and I caught a couple of Queen+AL shows a couple of years ago, and they used the same prop. It just seems a bit too much, as well as an accident waiting to happen.

Should point out that DT seems 'on' 99.9999% of the time on stage.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: MirrorMask on February 13, 2016, 06:19:32 AM: Incidentally I think the curtain covering the stage could work well for the new tour.

All is hidden, with Descent of the Nomacs you hear those buzzing, loud and adrenaline-inspiring noises at the end and then.... WHAAMMMM Dystopian Overture begins and you see the band right in front of you.

Even though theaters' curtains usually slide on the sides rather than falling down... that could be a problem, hehe!
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: BlobVanDam on February 13, 2016, 07:28:40 AM: Quote from: DragonAttack on February 13, 2016, 06:14:39 AM
btw, did I read correctly that Jordan mimed much of Budokan because of a technical glitch?

Only As I Am. The rest was fine as far as I'm aware. Still, I would have never known had I not been told, and I even used the video of Budokan to help work out the entire keyboard part for that song!
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Ultimetalhead on February 13, 2016, 02:07:53 PM: Detroit, 2 tours ago during The Dark Eternal Night. Just a silly little timing thing that got immediately resolved at the start of the next measure. I think JP jumped the gun a little bit on a riff change.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Lax on February 14, 2016, 04:22:15 AM: Sdoit tour, Thought I'm not sure if Labrie did cross the stage on his little scooter (it was 14 years ago), but I remember JP on the back to the ground playing the lie solo nearly perfect while portnoy was throwing him drum sticks, I love them :D
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Post by: genome on February 16, 2016, 03:04:41 AM: The only thing I've seen was either Wembley '14 or Wolverhampton '14 (I went to both, I forget which it was) but Petrucci forgot to switch to the clean channel on his amp at the start of Finally Free, so the opening arpeggio was momentarily played with full-on distortion :rollin

The first date of that tour (Porto) also had a classic in Trial of Tears, where JP played his guitar part in the second verse one fret too high. It sounded horrendous :P
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Prog Snob on February 16, 2016, 05:46:07 AM: Quote from: Setlist Scotty on February 06, 2016, 08:05:06 PM
Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything really significant that they screwed up - may need to go back and relisten to bootlegs of the shows I went to.

But one thing that was a super rare occasion that I did witness, which was similar to a noticeable mistake, altho caused by outside sources was the firemarshall show in LA on Feb 4, 2000. JL was held backstage, so MP fumbled the lyrics as best he could to TSCO and ultimately had the audience take over. I know a lot of fans were angry that they missed seeing the whole show, but being that I had tickets to the following night, it didn't bother me at all. And I cherished getting to see something completely bizarre and out of the norm - since when do you see police in riot gear creating a moving wall to force the audience to exit the venue?

January 19, 2002 at B.B. Kings
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: MirrorMask on February 16, 2016, 01:17:12 PM: Quote from: Ultimetalhead on February 13, 2016, 02:07:53 PM
Detroit, 2 tours ago during The Dark Eternal Night. Just a silly little timing thing that got immediately resolved at the start of the next measure. I think JP jumped the gun a little bit on a riff change.

I can't think of any other big mistake in the shows I witnessed aside from putting The Dark Eternal Night in the setlist.

:rollin
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: El Barto on February 16, 2016, 06:54:58 PM: I just remembered one, but Metty beat me to it. I was in the front row when this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nAfGbbz_9NI#t=100

There was some debate as to whether or not that was on JP or his tech. People in the know say it was an offstage A/B switch. At the same time I saw him crank the volume knob on his guitar and I would have sworn it turned a good ways. According to the video I was only about 10' away when it happened, so I certainly had a good view of it.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: arvizu9618 on February 17, 2016, 02:32:02 AM: Does the new CD count???
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: home on February 17, 2016, 02:42:24 AM: Quote from: arvizu9618 on February 17, 2016, 02:32:02 AM
Does the new CD count???
No, we just don't have the tiiime for music anymore
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: McNugg on February 17, 2016, 03:03:57 AM: Quote from: genome on February 16, 2016, 03:04:41 AM
The only thing I've seen was either Wembley '14 or Wolverhampton '14 (I went to both, I forget which it was) but Petrucci forgot to switch to the clean channel on his amp at the start of Finally Free, so the opening arpeggio was momentarily played with full-on distortion :rollin

He did that at the Manchester show too :D
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: Zook on February 17, 2016, 05:54:45 PM: Quote from: Gromit1710 on February 06, 2016, 02:02:30 PM
Only once in over 20 years of seeing them.

Mesa, AZ. D12 tour.

Don't remember if James forgot the words to Scarred, or the band added and extra verse. Either way, was a fun and lighthearted moment that James completely laughed at.

He definitely forgot the lyrics, because I happened to forget the same section :lol
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: nattmorker on February 18, 2016, 10:03:49 AM: The Mexico city show, during the ADTOE tour, was a funny show:

1) A little earthquake happened like 30 minutes before the show.
2) JR played almost the whole show with the keyboard tilted (the keyboard stand broke during the solo in Ytse Jam),
https://youtu.be/1C49X6GjTis?t=186 (https://youtu.be/1C49X6GjTis?t=186)
3) During the second verse of BiTS somebody played something wrong (you can hear the whole section sounding off)
https://youtu.be/WHEsijaLMOs?t=444 (https://youtu.be/WHEsijaLMOs?t=444)
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Post by: dparrott on February 20, 2016, 09:31:21 AM: L.A. a few years ago, James messed up some lyrics I think to Scarred. He smiled, did a quick walk in a circle, then continued.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: (nothing) on February 21, 2016, 01:40:31 PM: Quote from: Grizz on February 06, 2016, 11:57:09 PM
https://youtu.be/INW0zneWv6k?t=6m31s

Haha I was there, had already started singing the verse in my head...
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: genome on February 21, 2016, 01:42:26 PM: I guess I should add the end of The Walking Shadow from Thursday night to this thread - no video though.
Title: Re: Have you ever witnessed the rare occasion where DT makes a noticable mistake?
Post by: tnphelps on March 13, 2016, 09:16:12 PM: Quote from: Progmetty on February 06, 2016, 08:02:40 PM
Yep, Austin, TX on the ADToE tour, first riff in Bridges at the very start of the show, JP forgot to turn his guitar volume up and it was silent for a moment before he quickly turned it up.

LOL... The Tampa show about 4 days earlier something similar happened. JP either forgot to turn his guitar volume or I think what happened was his guitar chord came out or wasn't working (had a short). First riff of the 1st song Bridges in the sky. He just laughed it off.

Although it wasn't a mistake During the Progressive nation tour I was front row in Tampa so I saw everything including much of what was going on off stage during the show. Portnoy's wife and kids were standing side stage and the kids were having a grand ole time running around. They were not listening to Mommy so after a few songs Portnoy gave them a stern stare and between songs had to go over and give them a little talking too. They beaved the rest of the night.