DT in the studio again!

[Kotowboy]

^ Oh wait it was Les Claypool.

He said a fan jokingly shook hands really hard and so Les doesn't shake hands anymore.

[GasparXR]

That's why I only shook hands with JLB.

Your handshake to JLB could be the handshake that makes him drop his microphone onstage.

[hipodilski]

On the other hand JP shakes hands with everybody, while looking them straight in the eye, I've seen him do this on more than one occasion. You go to him for an autograph, he signs, then extends you the hand, shakes it and thanks you. I think it's very classy of him.

[wasteland]

On the other hand JP shakes hands with everybody, while looking them straight in the eye, I've seen him do this on more than one occasion. You go to him for an autograph, he signs, then extends you the hand, shakes it and thanks you. I think it's very classy of him.

He knows that no harm can come to him from mortal hand.

[TheGreatPretender]

Your handshake to JLB could be the handshake that makes him drop his microphone onstage.

But it didn't. In fact, it made him more awesome. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

[puppyonacid]

Not to mention you have a good chance of running upon one of those assholes who think you aren't a man unless you turn someones hand into roadkill when shaking it.  Uggh, could only imagine if I was a pro musician and someone did that to my hand...

Not hating on a firm shake, but you know the kind I'm talking about.  It's like they are trying to shatter every finger-bone in your hand or something.

.....something that Eddie Izzard refers to as the "small cock handshake."

[Zydar]

That's why I only shook hands with JLB.

Your handshake to JLB could be the handshake that makes him drop his microphone onstage.

Plus we don't want another food poisoning incident again.

[gentaishinigami]

Not to mention you have a good chance of running upon one of those assholes who think you aren't a man unless you turn someones hand into roadkill when shaking it.  Uggh, could only imagine if I was a pro musician and someone did that to my hand...

Not hating on a firm shake, but you know the kind I'm talking about.  It's like they are trying to shatter every finger-bone in your hand or something.

.....something that Eddie Izzard refers to as the "small cock handshake."

Thats a pretty apt description

[puppyonacid]

You might even call it the Killing Handshake.

[Cedar redaC]

You might even call it the Killing Handshake.

Maybe even the Killing Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandshake

[puppyonacid]

I'd like to be the first to suggest that this becomes the new internet craze similar to the harlem shake.

A dance called the killing hand shake performed to the killing hand by DT.

You heard it here first folks!

[TheAtliator]

I'd like to be the first to suggest that this becomes the new internet craze similar to the harlem shake.

A dance called the killing hand shake performed to the killing hand by DT.

You heard it here first folks!

Well how many of us around the world are on this forum? Man, if each one of us in all these different countries made one video of the killing hand shake, it would be an Internet sensation in two seconds!

[lyfeternl]

I'd like to be the first to suggest that this becomes the new internet craze similar to the harlem shake.

A dance called the killing hand shake performed to the killing hand by DT.

You heard it here first folks!

Well how many of us around the world are on this forum? Man, if each one of us in all these different countries made one video of the killing hand shake, it would be an Internet sensation for only two seconds!

FTFY 

[TheAtliator]

Well how many of us around the world are on this forum? Man, if each one of us in all these different countries made one video of the killing hand shake, it would be an Internet sensation for only two seconds!

FTFY 

Very very very very very true. And that's why we Dream Theater fans don't subscribe to the "make money now, do what you want later." The make money now part never really happens.

[bosk1]

That's why I only shook hands with JLB.

James hates shaking hands.  He told me that he much prefers exchanging punches to the trachea.

[TheGreatPretender]

James hates shaking hands.  He told me that he much prefers exchanging punches to the trachea.

Ah, so next time, it shall be that! A true proper greeting between two singers!

[DebraKadabra]

That's why I only shook hands with JLB.

James hates shaking hands.  He told me that he much prefers exchanging punches to the trachea.

 

[Madman Shepherd]

At the Meet & Greet in 2011, the organizers were kind of adamant we try not to shake hands with them.  It was one of the first five shows of the tour so they didn't want to spread germs.  James and JM were the last two people at the table and the two I had the most compliments for.  Both reached out their hand to shake mine.  Small gesture but still kind of cool.

When I met Derek Sherinian after a Billy Idol concert, he was signing a bunch of autographs for people that probably had no clue who he was.  I took out my FII CD and complimented him.  He paused and gave me a sincere "Thanks a lot man" and stuck out his hand for me to shake.  Only person out of the 20 or so that got a handshake.

Sometimes its the little things that leave the biggest impression. 

[TheGreatPretender]

At the Meet & Greet in 2011, the organizers were kind of adamant we try not to shake hands with them.  It was one of the first five shows of the tour so they didn't want to spread germs.  James and JM were the last two people at the table and the two I had the most compliments for.  Both reached out their hand to shake mine.  Small gesture but still kind of cool.

Yeah, that was the main reasoning at the show I went to.. But that's why I brought my "I  My Penis" hand sanitizer.

[DebraKadabra]

 

[tartarus250]

What is the longest the guys have taken to write and record an album?

[robwebster]

What is the longest the guys have taken to write and record an album?

I'd wager Falling into Infinity wins that one by a country mile. Long, long process - they actually wrote Raise the Knife for the ACoS EP, which I suppose is the start of production, on paper. More accurately, and sticking to songs that made it to the album - Take Away My Pain was written in March 1996, New Millennium was written in Feburary 1997. Full year of writing.

Don't know the recording schedule, but Feb. '97 was the month they finished the last demo.

[SomeoneLikeHim]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4RgEmH6oIc

[cyberdrummer]

Get off the fence and use it, JMX.

[VincentMDO]

He'll feel pressured about that question and will use it on the new album.

[?]

Get off the fence and use it, JMX.

This, I'd like to hear prominent use of the Stick in some actually good song (read: not New Millennium).

[The Stray Seed]

Get off the fence and use it, JMX.

This, I'd like to hear prominent use of the Stick in some actually good song (read: not New Millennium).

I love New Millennium. Anyway yes, I'd love to hear some chapman stick on the new album.

[cyberdrummer]

I'd like to hear prominent use of the Stick in a good song (read: New Millennium).

FTFY.

[?]

No, you broke it! Besides, New Millennium has been released already

[BlobVanDam]

I'd like to hear prominent use of the Stick in a good song (read: New Millennium).

FTFY.

[cyberdrummer]

No, you broke it! Besides, New Millennium has been released already

Well they should play it live again then. 

[?]

No, you broke it! Besides, New Millennium has been released already

Well they should play it live again then. 

Luckily James doesn't like that song

[ZirconBlue]

No, you broke it! Besides, New Millennium has been released already

Well they should play it live again then. 

Luckily James doesn't like that song

I believe what he actually said was that he doesn't like to play it live.

[?]

No, you broke it! Besides, New Millennium has been released already

Well they should play it live again then. 

Luckily James doesn't like that song

I believe what he actually said was that he doesn't like to play it live.

That's good enough for me

Where are all the fellow NM dislikers?

[Zydar]

Where are all the fellow NM dislikers?

You won't find 'em here, look another way.