You know you were a DT noob when...

[darkshade]

...I thought the demo version of Pull Me Under with Charlie Dominici was the actual studio version of the song. 

[Sketchy]

Wait...

... There's a demo version with Charlie?

[YtseJamittaja]

Wait...

... There's a demo version with Charlie?

[wasteland]

Wait...

... There's a demo version with Charlie?

There isn't. The song was written in 1991, when James LaBrie was already in the band. The only weird demo of Pull Me Under is called Oliver's Twist, is completely instrumental, and features an instrumental breakdown that would have later been removed from the song just to become Erotomania a few years later. 

(I actually cringe at the thought of CD singing Pull Me Under - as well as any other song from IAW - )

[Stonestef]

I believe OP made this thread just to tell about his misconception, but when I saw the title, I thought it was a thread where we could write stories from when we were "DT noobs". It would be funny.

[wasteland]

I believe OP made this thread just to tell about his misconception, but when I saw the title, I thought it was a thread where we could write stories from when we were "DT noobs". It would be funny.

I once downloaded what I thought were leaked snippets of TCOT, back in April/May 2009. They turned out to be some incomplete bit of progressive-techno (whatever it may mean) junk, but I believed them legitimate and discussed them with a friend of mine for weeks (until the legitimate album leaked for real), 

[Scorpion]

I looked for PMU on youtube, saw that it was 8 minutes and thought: damn, that's long. 

[Elite]

You place Metropolis at 34 in you DT top 50 

And on a serious note: I learned ACOS was about Portnoy's mother years after hearing it for the first time.

[Tomislav95]

When I started listening to DT I heard Pull Me Under studio and Budokan version and I thought that was singing two different singers

[RaiseTheKnife]

nooooobs

[nattmorker]

I thought Paradigm Shift, Universal Mind and Another Dimension were DT songs, so the first time I watched a live performance of Another Dimension (in video) I assumed Tony Levin was John Myung with no hair      It took me a while until I realized LTE =/= DT and that JM was not in LTE 

[jingle.boy]

You didn't realize that the singers on WDADU and I&W were different.

[Nekov]

You didn't realize that the singers on WDADU and I&W were different.

That's more like being deaf 

[BlobVanDam]

You didn't realize that the singers on WDADU and I&W were different.

This thread is "You know you were a DT noob when...", not "You know you're deaf when..."

edit: DAMMIT NEKOV!

[Implode]

I first listened to DT because I thought they sounded like A7X.

[Scorpion]

Completely unrelated: where the fuck does the "X" in the abbreviation A7X come from?

[theseoafs]

Completely unrelated: where the fuck does the "X" in the abbreviation A7X come from?

You know, "x", like for multiplication. Sevenfold = 7x = "times seven"

[darkshade]

Wait...

... There's a demo version with Charlie?

There isn't. The song was written in 1991, when James LaBrie was already in the band. The only weird demo of Pull Me Under is called Oliver's Twist, is completely instrumental, and features an instrumental breakdown that would have later been removed from the song just to become Erotomania a few years later. 

(I actually cringe at the thought of CD singing Pull Me Under - as well as any other song from IAW - )

I seriously used to have a downloaded version of I&W where PMU was either a different singer, or a rough demo with JLB. I don't remember as I haven't heard that version in 7 years, once I bought a hard copy of I&W and was floored by the real version of PMU.

[PROGdrummer]

Whenever I first got into the band 2 years ago, I got all of the band member's names mixed up. I would go around telling people "John Petrucci is such a great singer! Have you his high notes in LTL?!" 

Also, since the first two DT songs I ever heard were Pull Me Under and Panic Attack (thanks to guitar hero and rock band videogames), I had thought that the entire lineup of the band had changed between those two songs (since PMU and PA are completely different in terms of style). I actually thought that a group of younger teens or 20 year olds had taken over the band and turned it from a classic hard rock band into a modern metal band.

Those are my noob stories

[VioletS16]

I looked for PMU on youtube, saw that it was 8 minutes and thought: damn, that's long. 

This. Completely.

[TheGreatPretender]

I knew they had another singer before LaBrie, but I forgot after which album, so I thought it was after Images and Words, so when I listened to Metropolis for the first time, I thought, "Oh my God. Their former vocalist sounds EXACTLY like LaBrie. Maybe even better!"

[theGonz]

The first time I heard 'pull me under' I thought it was a long song. Then my friend let me borrow BCSL. I looked at the track listing with the times and I was like 

[Scorpion]

Completely unrelated: where the fuck does the "X" in the abbreviation A7X come from?

You know, "x", like for multiplication. Sevenfold = 7x = "times seven"

That makes sense. More so than the JMX abbreviation, at any rate.

[Implode]

That makes sense. More so than the JMX abbreviation, at any rate.

You know, "x", like for multiplication. Myungfold = MX = "times Myung"

[Scorpion]

There's a thread about that, here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=24618.0

[Implode]

Yes. I know where it actually comes from. I was trying to be funny. 

[Scorpion]

Yeah, I got that, but I didn't know if you knew or were just making it up on-spot because you had no other idea.

Either way, myungfold = 

[Zook]

I downloaded a torrent of Images And Words where in the description it said that Pull Me under was corrupt and it cut off at the end. So when I burned it on a CD I made it fade out at the end... It didn't sound bad, but once I was more seasoned, the ending didn't sound like it was just cut off. I still have that burned copy. 6 years old.

I HAVE BOUGHT EVERY DT ALBUM. ONLY IMAGES AND WORDS WAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT, BUT IT WAS STILL BOUGHT BY SOMEONE.

[Rattlehead]

when you thought that The Shattered Fortress was an original song...  (BC&SL was my first DT album... better late than never to get into one of the best bands of all time though  )

[darkshade]

Ive always wondered what it would be like to have heard TSF before any of the other 12Step Suite songs.

[TheGreatPretender]

Ive always wondered what it would be like to have heard TSF before any of the other 12Step Suite songs.

It was my second one. When I heard the recurring themes from Repentance, I was like, "Whoo! That's so cool!" It was awesome, but it, in turn, made all the other ones, TGP, TDS and TROAE all that much more iconic.

[Rattlehead]

Ive always wondered what it would be like to have heard TSF before any of the other 12Step Suite songs.

It seems that is why I appreciate the song/album itself more than most people on these forums. It was pretty odd actually to be like "wait a minute... this song is just a medley of a bunch of other songs...?" Then listening to the other songs and being like "ohhhhh now I see" haha. I would have preferred to hear them in order for the first time but I'm just glad I heard them to begin with. I grew up in New Jersey and no one I knew ever talked about these guys, fortunately my girlfriend's dad introduced me to them and I fell in love with them eventually. I really hope my love for DT will last for the rest of my life, I've never had this much fun obsessing over a band  they really have every element that I could ever want in a band and then some. It seems like DT's discography appeals to every aspect of my musical taste... I could go on and on about how much I love them. 

[lateralus88]

DT can do no wrong.

[ddtonfire]

...when you thought it was pronounced "Petrussi"

[MirzekDT]

you are listening to Tyranny by Shadow Gallery and you think "Wow this album Train Of Thought by DT is a lot different than IAW and Awake and it's awesome"... This happend because at the time I was getting into DT and into any real music actually I had only my brother's minidisc which my brother gave be as birthday present. I didn't have an internet connection at that time and my brother got three DT albums on minidisc IAW, Awake and TOT. Apparently he rerecorded Tyranny over TOT and forgot to change the label or whatever but the result was that I was listning to Tyranny for about a month thinking it's TOT. Then when my brother came to my room one day he asked me if I like Shadow Gallery too. I said what? That's Dream Theater and he said no that's Shadow Gallery. So that's how I got into Shadow Gallery and it became at that time my second favorite (out of two ) band after DT.