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Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« on: February 10, 2015, 11:46:11 AM »
My brother (who went with me) just reminded me. Crazy!

The show:
https://www.mikeportnoy.com/dates/tourography/?show=278

Setlist:
Little Green Bag/Wake Up! (intro tape)
1.  Pull Me Under
2.  6:00
3.  Take the Time (w/ extended keyboard solo)
4.  Caught in a Web (w/ drum solo including samples)
5.  Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
6.  guitar solo (For Rena/Lost Without You)
7.  keyboard solo
8.  A Crack in the Mirror/
9.  The Mirror/
10.  Lie
11.  Another Day
12.  Damage Inc. (instrumental edit) (Metallica)
A Mind Beside Itself:
13.  I Erotomania
14.  II Voices
15.  III The Silent Man
~~~1st encore~~~
16.  Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)
~~~2nd encore~~~
17.  Metropolis Part I
Eve (outro tape)
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2015, 11:52:37 AM »
That's a pretty sick setlist!  :metal
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2015, 12:03:02 PM »
Indeed it is!  I am pretty sure I have a boot of that show.

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2015, 12:04:54 PM »
You do?! Dude, PM me!
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2015, 12:17:18 PM »
Holy shit, what a set list! Happy anniversary, man.  :tup

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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2015, 12:21:59 PM »
Hard to believe time flies that fast, but I know the feeling rumby. Back on June 29, 2013 I experienced the same thing (being 20 years since my first DT show). What's great about that show is that it happened to be broadcast on the radio that night and so is a widely available bootleg in great quality. Hope you get to relive your first show again like I have!   :)
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2015, 12:38:41 PM »
In your homeland no less.  Fantastic.
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2015, 12:42:15 PM »
That's awesome man!  Congratulations!  As others have said, I hope you get to re-live it!

I had my 10-year anniversary last year... almost 10-years to the day and in the same city no less!  1st show was 3-29-04 @ 9:30 Club in DC; last show was 4-1-14 at the Lincoln Theater in DC.  I prefer the Lincoln Theater personally.
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2015, 12:59:50 PM »
Also, Fates Warning opening for that show. Didn't care much for them though IIRC. The opener I remember from the same venue was Spock's Beard; I had never heard of them, and my jaw dropped to the floor when they started playing.
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2015, 01:03:25 PM »
Holy crap, the second show I saw, 1997 at the Biskuithalle in Bonn, was the first time "Nightmare Cinema" performed!!
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2015, 02:07:28 PM »
Awesome setlist!

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2015, 04:24:17 PM »
Today actually marks 19 years since my very first concert (which was Ozzy).  I'm celebrating the anniversary by seeing Blue Man Group. 

August 11th will be 15 years since my first DT concert.


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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2015, 05:52:45 PM »
Pretty weird ending the show with Silent Man. :lol

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2015, 05:58:27 PM »
Pretty weird ending the show with Silent Man. :lol

It ended with Metropolis

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2015, 06:03:24 PM »
Yesterday marks the 24th anniversary of seeing Slayer and Testament at the Orpheum in Boston. It's DT related because for the ADTOE show, we had the same EXACT seats.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2015, 06:03:36 PM »
Pretty weird ending the show with Silent Man. :lol

It ended with Metropolis

Yeah, but it was an encore. I am just used to shows ending with a bang, before an encore.

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2015, 06:04:54 PM »
That's how they ended those shows. I thought it was great.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2015, 06:08:05 PM »
What was the Little Green Bag/Wake Up! Intro tape?
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2015, 06:25:41 PM »
What was the Little Green Bag/Wake Up! Intro tape?

I believe that was taken from Reservoir Dogs

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2015, 08:50:42 PM »
Pretty weird ending the show with Silent Man. :lol
It ended with Metropolis
Yeah, but it was an encore. I am just used to shows ending with a bang, before an encore.
I completely understand what you're saying, but as TAC mentioned, that's how MP wrote those setlists. And if you consider TSM to just be part of AMBI (being an "epic"), then it makes more sense.

As it stands tho, there have been other times that the main show has ended on a quieter note - I know there's been a number of times that MP used TSCO to close a show (or at least the first set), so it has happened at other times, but it is unusual.
 
 
What was the Little Green Bag/Wake Up! Intro tape?
I believe that was taken from Reservoir Dogs
Little Green Bag was a track from Reservoir Dogs, followed by some guy (probably from a movie) mumbling something to himself before Jim Morrison (of the Doors) screams "WAKE UP!"
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2015, 10:02:38 PM »
Time flies
My first show was Feb 12 1993

My first show was supposed to be 11/13/1992, but I believe it was a 21+ yo (alcohol) show.  My older friends went to the show and delighted in telling me what I missed (even though they were only casual fans).

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2015, 10:25:03 PM »
Since we're on the topic of first DT shows...

Mine was June 9, 1995 at Birch Hill Night Club which some of the older fans and hardcore fans will know as the Mercy Fuck show where Dream Theater played the new version of ACOS for the first time. 

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2015, 04:12:31 AM »
Holy crap, the second show I saw, 1997 at the Biskuithalle in Bonn, was the first time "Nightmare Cinema" performed!!
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2015, 04:58:07 AM »
Also, Fates Warning opening for that show. Didn't care much for them though IIRC. The opener I remember from the same venue was Spock's Beard; I had never heard of them, and my jaw dropped to the floor when they started playing.
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2015, 06:47:17 AM »
As much as I love Dream Theater, I could not have less interest in Nightmare Cinema. Just play another tune and stop wasting time!
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2015, 08:58:13 AM »
I dunno. I miss the days where a little fun and banter happened on stage with DT.
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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2015, 09:18:23 AM »
I dunno. I miss the days where a little fun and banter happened on stage with DT.

Of course. They're a prog band.  How could one not expect something completely unorthodox?

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2015, 09:37:08 AM »
Time does fly, indeed. I can't believe it's been 20 years since my first DT show as well. I was at the in-store they did the same day, too. Got my Images & Words CD signed and got to see them play 2 songs acoustically.

Other than that, same setlist as Rumborak's show.

Waking Up the World Tour - 1st European Leg
2/4/1995  Munich, Germany
 
Venue:  Terminal 1
Other Act(s):  Fates Warning opened
 
Set List: 
      Little Green Bag/Wake Up! (intro tape)
1.  Pull Me Under
2.  6:00
3.  Take the Time (w/ extended keyboard solo)
4.  Caught in a Web (w/ drum solo including samples)
5.  Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
6.  guitar solo (For Rena/Lost Without You)
7.  keyboard solo
8.  A Crack in the Mirror/
9.  The Mirror/
10.  Lie
11.  Another Day
12.  Damage Inc. (instrumental edit) (Metallica)
A Mind Beside Itself:
13.  I Erotomania
14.  II Voices
15.  III The Silent Man
~~~1st encore~~~
16.  Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)
~~~2nd encore~~~
17.  Metropolis Part I
Eve (outro tape)
 

Notes:   During this day, DT does an in-store at World of Music where they perform acoustic versions of Lifting Shadows Off a Dream and The Silent Man. The next day, they do the video shoot for The Silent Man.

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2015, 11:05:46 AM »
Tomorrow is also the 20th Anniversary of me having never seen DT !  :metal

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2015, 11:15:28 AM »
Tomorrow is also the 20th Anniversary of me having never seen DT !  :metal

I thought that was yesterday.

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2015, 11:30:08 AM »
I dunno. I miss the days where a little fun and banter happened on stage with DT.

Oh, gosh. Amen to that!

You're a lucky man to have been at that show.

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Re: Tomorrow marks the 20-year anniversary of my first DT concert!
« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2015, 05:52:10 PM »
My first gig:


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Images and Tour - 1st European Leg
4/12/1993  Bonn, Germany
 
(previous show)  (return to list of shows)  (next show)
 
Venue:  Biskuithalle
Other Act(s):  Heaven's Gate opened
 
Set List: 
      1.  Metropolis Part I/
2.  A Fortune In Lies
3.  Under a Glass Moon
4.  Surrounded
5.  Ytsejam (w/ drum solo)
6.  Bombay Vindaloo
7.  Another Day
8.  Pull Me Under
9.  A Change of Seasons (original version)
10.  Take the Time
~~~encore~~~
11.  Wait For Sleep
12.  Learning to Live
Twin Peaks (outro tape)
 
Vocals: James LaBrie
Guitar: John Petrucci
Keyboards: Kevin Moore
Bass: John Myung
Drums: Mike Portnoy
 
Notes:   Part of this show is available on the Live in Long Island II boot CD.
 
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« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2015, 05:57:57 PM »
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« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2015, 11:15:11 AM »
The time sure does fly.

My first show was 11/14/89 when they opened for Marillion.

That's a bit frightening, actually.