Campaign to get DT on Conan O'Brian

[TheMadgician]

The one thing I don't like about Twitter is you can't really see what's going on as well. With the FB page, you can see more people supporting it, and the following growing. With Twitter you just kinda gotta hope.

[chrisbDTM]

the facebook pages are misleading. i doubt that half of them have done anything, even though i try to remind them to

[ishak540m]

The other question is how much it would cost to have DT play on Conan and whether Conan has the budget for it.

[chrisbDTM]

The other question is how much it would cost to have DT play on Conan and whether Conan has the budget for it.

if the campaign ever made it to that decision then we would have done our job

[jonny108]

Just hit 800! Wooohooo! 

[Lotion]

The other question is how much it would cost to have DT play on Conan and whether Conan has the budget for it.

I'm sure that's an non-issue

[TheMadgician]

Thinking I'll bump this now with everyone on. Generate some more buzz, get things off the ground, see what we can do.

[chrisbDTM]

Thinking I'll bump this now with everyone on. Generate some more buzz, get things off the ground, see what we can do.

i update the fb statuses every once in a while with news, videos, etc.

[TheMadgician]

Yeah, I've noticed. It's helped me a few times. I'll have been out for the day, get home, see the Campaign page has updated with news. I heard about the single release last night because of it, ahah.

[TheMadgician]

AWESOME UPDATE!

Got to talk to James on facebook chat and mentioned the campaign

Today
[You]
Report · 10:01pm
Greetings oh great Pirate God of Rock
Many fans have started a campaign to get DT on Conan O'Brien. I was wondering if perhaps you guys would actually be interested in that?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Campaign-For-Dream-Theater-to-Play-on-Conan/201345086569215
Thank you for your time, Mr. LaBrie
[James LaBrie]
Report · 10:07pm
for sure. you make it happen we'll show up. thanks for the support, very cool.
[You]
Report · 10:07pm
Glad to hear you guys are interested! Great to see you guys are out on tour. Hope you come upstate New York way. Good luck on the rest of it!
[James LaBrie]
Report · 10:08pm
thanks, and best of luck with the campaign. I'm sure we will do all we can to get upstate. Keep your fingers crossed.
[You]
Report · 10:09pm
Will do, and a good evening to you, good sir.

Looks like DT's would be interested. And I talked to him. This is kind of awesome.

[hefdaddy42]

[Jamesman42]

kind of awesome.

It teems of raging and nonsensical awesomeness

[chrisbDTM]

very cool

[TheGreatPretender]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

[hefdaddy42]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

He is the biggest name that is likely to actually have them on.  I don't see them ever getting on Leno or Letterman (unless they have a Top 10 hit first).  They are probably more likely to get on Fallon, but he isn't as big a name as Conan.

[TheGreatPretender]

Frankly, I like Fallon better than Conan. But there's no point of starting another campaign, I suppose. I'd love to see DT on like, the Colbert Report.

[hefdaddy42]

Frankly, I like Fallon better than Conan. But there's no point of starting another campaign, I suppose. I'd love to see DT on like, the Colbert Report.

I like Fallon better too, but I am rarely up late enough to catch his show.

I don't see DT ever appearing on Colbert.  How often does he even feature music?

[Mladen]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

Because he's the best. 

[cyberdrummer]

The Mars Volta were on Letterman, so DT wouldn't be out of the question.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

Because he's the best. 

[TheGreatPretender]

I like Fallon better too, but I am rarely up late enough to catch his show.

I don't see DT ever appearing on Colbert.  How often does he even feature music?

Not very often, but he did have Rush in there once. So clearly he's not averse to prog, hahah.

[TheMadgician]

I've kinda mostly fallen off the forum. With this being the eve of the US release, I figure I should probably bump this. Now's the time. Let's make it happen.

[TheGoodDoctor]

The Mars Volta were on Letterman, so DT wouldn't be out of the question.

Only because "The Widow" had massive radio play.

[Obfuscation]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

Because he's the best. 

[theseoafs]

The Mars Volta were on Letterman, so DT wouldn't be out of the question.

Only because "The Widow" had massive radio play.

They didn't play "The Widow", and this was on the Bedlam in Goliath supporting tour anyway, so I doubt that particular single had anything to do with it.

But I hope this thing gets off the ground. I'd love to see DT on Conan one day, and it's a great target to shoot for: not as huge and prog-averse as Leno and Letterman, but not as comparatively small as Fallon, Lopez, etc. Anyway, as for the campaign, do the people who've, say, liked the Facebook page actually support the campaign in any way? I actually liked the page a long time ago (back when I was a lurker) and forgot about it. Not much for a guy to do to personally get DT on Conan.

EDIT: Also, what would they play? DT doesn't do the late-night scene, and have they ever actually performed a radio edit of a song?

[Progmetty]

There's plenty of great talk shows out there. Why Conan? Is he the only one accepting campaigns?

Because he's the best. 

[tartarus250]

i wonder if we could get them on the jewls holland show?

[Chrissalix]

i wonder if we could get them on the jewls holland show?

That would be amazing. Metallica have done it, so why not DT?

[Progmetty]

I should ask the team coco people if they got any idea about this yet!

[TheMadgician]

If you've got a way to contact them, go for it. IT can only help the cause.