Author Topic: Dream Theater entered the studio in February v. No News is Good News (Read 488004 times)

rumborak · « **Reply #2870 on:** August 09, 2015, 01:06:14 PM »

Quote from: Setlist Scotty on August 09, 2015, 09:52:53 AM

And I think it's a shame that this has happened. I mean, how many cool ideas for songs ended up on the cutting room floor just because they had 75 minutes of completed music?

I find this whole "one CD worth of music" concept rather silly anyway, especially in regard to DT who really straight-jacket themselves with that.

The Cat Of Tuscany · « **Reply #2871 on:** August 09, 2015, 01:12:59 PM »

I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

GasparXR · « **Reply #2872 on:** August 09, 2015, 01:47:34 PM »

Quote from: The Cat Of Tuscany on August 09, 2015, 01:12:59 PM

I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

I think they just mean longest disc. I think SDOIT disc 1 and 2 are playing at the same time.

TheCountOfNYC · « **Reply #2873 on:** August 09, 2015, 01:52:29 PM »

Quote from: GasparXR on August 09, 2015, 01:47:34 PM

Quote from: The Cat Of Tuscany on August 09, 2015, 01:12:59 PM
I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

I think they just mean longest disc. I think SDOIT disc 1 and 2 are playing at the same time.

But even then, Systematic Chaos is 29 seconds longer.

SystematicThought · « **Reply #2874 on:** August 09, 2015, 02:26:33 PM »

Then why did FII finish last on the mashup video? Did they start at different times or was ITPOE combined?

Train of Naught · « **Reply #2875 on:** August 09, 2015, 02:30:26 PM »

I think the uploader altered the tempo so the most part of the allbums would end at around the same time, only explanation I can come up with.

genome · « **Reply #2876 on:** August 09, 2015, 03:10:49 PM »

Don't tell anyone but there's a chance I may have accidentally left out Repentance.

SystematicThought · « **Reply #2877 on:** August 09, 2015, 03:33:03 PM »

MP might give you a call to see if you want to speak on a song about how you're sorry for omitting his deeply personal song.

Train of Naught · « **Reply #2878 on:** August 09, 2015, 03:34:14 PM »

Quote from: genome on August 09, 2015, 03:10:49 PM

Don't tell anyone but there's a chance I may have accidentally left out Repentance.

Well that explains everything, too bad because I was really looking forward to solving a mystery.

erwinrafael · « **Reply #2879 on:** August 09, 2015, 11:14:19 PM »

This interview is dated May 2015, but it also says it was done in the recent UK tour, so I do not know if Mangini is talking about the new album or the self-titled when he said this:

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Dream Theater’s keyboard player, the professorial Jordan Rudess, has said in an interview that maths and music are one complete thing in the mind of Mike Mangini – an observation that the drummer is quite happy to accept as being an accurate assessment of his approach to the science of playing drums. “Yes, that’s true, because understanding simple things like multiplication tables means I can work out how many bars to play before we come around to ‘one’ again. I practise as many permutations of this as I can with all 24 limb combinations. That means that I am prepared if the band is playing in 12/8, a standard time like that, Jordan can play 11/8, or 21/8, or 27/8 and I have the ability to keep the 12/8 beat that the band are following, but also follow the pattern that Jordan is playing at the same time. The vision is mathematical, and though I have to put the musical part in to make it sound good, the numbers are always in my head. We are now composing with these time signatures; there is a section on the new album where there is a part that sounds like the timings are all over the place, but it is actually just 4/4. We are learning to diversify our timings, and then re-sync up as and when needed.”

SystematicThought · « **Reply #2880 on:** August 10, 2015, 12:05:34 AM »

I think he may be referring to the "Bridges we build to connect" part in Illumination Theory which sounds like an odd time sig but it's not, it's 4/4. I may be wrong

genome · « **Reply #2881 on:** August 10, 2015, 07:18:34 AM »

Would interesting to know if he counts that part, I find it far easier just to count the chugs I'm playing (four lots of 2 then 1, repeat) than count the beats that go by.

I think JP said the same about TDOE, that if he tried to count it he'd go insane, so you just learn the notes and feel it. Interesting perspective though, must be different for a drummer I guess.

erwinrafael · « **Reply #2882 on:** August 10, 2015, 08:59:03 AM »

In his interviews, Mike often says that his counting is really more like seeing shapes and seeing how these shapes fit together. Which is how he gets to play with large numbers, not just combos of 3s, 4s and 2s.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #2883 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:50:16 PM »

Whats the deal with magazine articles putting a pun of the band's name as the headline for every band piece they do ?

What purpose does it serve ?

GasparXR · « **Reply #2884 on:** August 11, 2015, 10:23:42 AM »

Quote from: Kotowboy on August 10, 2015, 02:50:16 PM

Whats the deal with magazine articles putting a pun of the band's name as the headline for every band piece they do ?

What purpose does it serve ?

Because it's a very easy opportunity to make a stupid joke. I take ALL of those opportunities.

Zydar · « **Reply #2885 on:** August 17, 2015, 05:58:32 AM »

From JLBs Twitter:

"The vocals for the next DT album are coming out amazing. Back in the studio tomorrow for some more tracking. Can't wait."

SwedishGoose · « **Reply #2886 on:** August 17, 2015, 06:22:31 AM »

Quote from: Zydar on August 17, 2015, 05:58:32 AM

From JLBs Twitter:

"The vocals for the next DT album are coming out amazing. Back in the studio tomorrow for some more tracking. Can't wait."

Sounds great.... can't wait to hear the results

goo-goo · « **Reply #2887 on:** August 17, 2015, 07:27:50 AM »

I think JLB has been two weeks in the studio..

Kotowboy · « **Reply #2888 on:** August 17, 2015, 08:40:09 AM »

I appreciate updates - but those sort of things mean absolutely nothing. He's hardly going to say " New album vocals are patchy at best rawwwwwwwwwwk !! "

Bertielee · « **Reply #2889 on:** August 17, 2015, 09:25:57 AM »

Quote from: Kotowboy on August 17, 2015, 08:40:09 AM

I appreciate updates - but those sort of things mean absolutely nothing. He's hardly going to say " New album vocals are patchy at best rawwwwwwwwwwk !! "

yeah, or "I can't sing shit but whatever...Walk the plank!"

B.Lee

Crow · « **Reply #2890 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:47:24 PM »

"i accidentally recorded my vocals on the same track as myung so we had to go with the first takes, #yolo

"

Robo4900 · « **Reply #2891 on:** August 17, 2015, 02:34:43 PM »

"I don't like singing that much, but I had a studio and a microphone, so what the fuck?"

Kotowboy · « **Reply #2892 on:** August 17, 2015, 02:53:25 PM »

" Listen up guys - I can categorically state that I recorded my absolute best vocals since Awake.

..because I don't record vocals when i'm asleep rrraaawwwwkk

"

Onno · « **Reply #2893 on:** August 18, 2015, 01:13:55 AM »

James Mypetgiress · « **Reply #2894 on:** August 18, 2015, 05:07:56 AM »

that was pretty funny

Darkstarshades · « **Reply #2895 on:** August 18, 2015, 05:16:54 AM »

"I wrote lyrics to this album... based on my observational point of view... There are stuff that I see, that I want to see in a song"

ResultsMayVary · « **Reply #2896 on:** August 18, 2015, 07:46:13 PM »

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

Rodni Demental · « **Reply #2897 on:** August 18, 2015, 08:00:53 PM »

I like singles but I hate what happens to them as a result of being out before an album. I over listen to them until the album comes out, to the point where I end up skipping that track on the album for a while until it starts to feel less familiar.

fadetoblackdude7 · « **Reply #2898 on:** August 18, 2015, 09:12:31 PM »

Quote from: ResultsMayVary on August 18, 2015, 07:46:13 PM

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

It seems way too early for that. We probably won't even get a title or anything until at least October.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #2899 on:** August 18, 2015, 10:04:37 PM »

Quote from: fadetoblackdude7 on August 18, 2015, 09:12:31 PM

Quote from: ResultsMayVary on August 18, 2015, 07:46:13 PM
Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

It seems way too early for that. We probably won't even get a title or anything until at least October.

Given that JLB is still recording vocals (and I'm not sure if they're still recording some overdubs for guitar/keys), then they have to mix it, then master it, I'm not expecting anything too soon either. If they're estimating an album release early next year, then I think at least October.

James Mypetgiress · « **Reply #2900 on:** August 19, 2015, 07:47:15 AM »

I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **Reply #2901 on:** August 19, 2015, 08:54:46 AM »

Quote from: James Mypetgiress on August 19, 2015, 07:47:15 AM

I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

Not gonna happen, I think. They already said the album is going to be released in early 2016, so I expect a single by the end of this year at most.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #2902 on:** August 19, 2015, 09:07:35 AM »

Quote from: ResultsMayVary on August 18, 2015, 07:46:13 PM

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

Not for me. 2 years is really nothing and I still feel like DT12 just came out.

When new albums come out - I listen to them a lot for a couple of weeks then almost never again so i don't get sick of them immediately.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #2903 on:** August 19, 2015, 09:08:58 AM »

Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on August 19, 2015, 08:54:46 AM

Quote from: James Mypetgiress on August 19, 2015, 07:47:15 AM
I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

Not gonna happen, I think. They already said the album is going to be released in early 2016, so I expect a single by the end of this year at most.

Yeah - LaBrie only started tracking vocals a couple of weeks ago?? If they still have keys and solos to overdub - they'd still have to finalise a tracklist and sequencing - mix and master it and then

decide a single and do a video ? Unless they rush one out with a lyric video for hype but I can't see it happening.

rumborak · « **Reply #2904 on:** August 19, 2015, 11:07:04 AM »

It doesn't have to be a single, but man, even just a small video, or even pictures, would be nice.

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Author Topic: Dream Theater entered the studio in February v. No News is Good News (Read 488004 times)