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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #70 on: June 25, 2015, 02:10:27 PM »
I mean, who really cares about those WDADU songs, they're all the same anyway, right? (No.)

It is more likely that whoever is providing the update just doesn't know the WDADU songs well enough to know which one it was, that's all.


Not to nitpick, but if I could change one song in the set list, it would be TSCO.  Not that it isn't a good song.  But it has been played to death.  I think Home is a better choice because it is almost universally liked and hasn't been played in ages.  (but I understand that the length might be a problem, given other stuff they want to play)
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« Reply #71 on: June 25, 2015, 02:11:17 PM »
I have to say that, for the first time since PN09 tour, i'm not that happy about the setlist. Hope it will have a couple of changes.
This could be the set for the festivals because of the timing. The non festival sets could be much different.

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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #73 on: June 25, 2015, 02:12:28 PM »
Looks like a pretty good festival/anniversary setlist - lots of hits, but that was to be expected. BMS and ATC are cool surprises! I can't say I like CM that much, but it probably works better live. I wonder if they used a JLB backing track for MP's parts or if JP sang them...

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« Reply #74 on: June 25, 2015, 02:12:43 PM »
If they're going chronologically, this is what I would've liked to hear, while trying to maintain the flow and not repeat too many songs:

WDADU song
Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper (well, it makes sense as the second song too)
Innocence Faded
Hollow Years (Burning My Soul is alright too)
Home
Blind Faith (or Disappear)
As I Am
Panic Attack
ITPOE pt. 1
Wither
Bridges in the Sky
The Bigger Picture

I mean, who really cares about those WDADU songs, they're all the same anyway, right? (No.)

It is more likely that whoever is providing the update just doesn't know the WDADU songs well enough to know which one it was, that's all.

Yeah, I realize that, just throwing a playful jab at it. This one made me smile, really.
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« Reply #75 on: June 25, 2015, 02:13:31 PM »
Not to nitpick, but if I could change one song in the set list, it would be TSCO.  Not that it isn't a good song.  But it has been played to death.  I think Home is a better choice because it is almost universally liked and hasn't been played in ages.  (but I understand that the length might be a problem, given other stuff they want to play)
IKR it's the most played song after many of the Images and Words songs.

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« Reply #76 on: June 25, 2015, 02:16:09 PM »
A couple of guys who are at the show have just posted (on Dream Theater's vkontakte page, that's like the Russian version of Facebook) that James said from the stage: "We hope to have the new album out in January 2016".

That's by no means some kind of concrete info, they could have misheard or whatever, but 2 separate guys wrote it within seconds of each other so...I post it here. If it proves to be wrong, I apologise.

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« Reply #77 on: June 25, 2015, 02:17:49 PM »
So anyway, no encore and no ACOS?
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« Reply #78 on: June 25, 2015, 02:18:10 PM »
I just made a playlist from the set.

Afterlife is a great opener!  :omg:  Who new?
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« Reply #79 on: June 25, 2015, 02:19:40 PM »
Probably no encores for the festival. I assume they need to get other performers on. ACOS would make a good encore at a solo outing though...IMO
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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #80 on: June 25, 2015, 02:20:11 PM »
I just made a playlist from the set.

Afterlife is a great opener!  :omg:  Who new?

I forgot that that's the WDADU song on Score too. That's strange, right?
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« Reply #81 on: June 25, 2015, 02:21:00 PM »
My changes

Afterlife - ok
Take The Time
Innocence Faded
Burning My Soul ? ok
Through Her Eyes
Blind Faith or Disappear
Vacant + Stream
Answers
PoW
Wither ? ok
LNF or TitL, never played in Europe !!!
BTV ok

Encore :

ACoS

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« Reply #82 on: June 25, 2015, 02:23:44 PM »
Well, I really hope they'll rotate BTV with TBP at least. The Bigger Picture should be a hell of a closer.
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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #83 on: June 25, 2015, 02:24:21 PM »
So anyway, no encore and no ACOS?
Maybe there wasn't enough time? I counted the song lengths together and they add up to 1 hour and 25 minutes, so maybe ACOS will be played as the encore at the headlining dates where DT gets to play for 2 hours.

Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed for a 2-hour set in Helsinki, even though it's a festival... :lucien:

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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #84 on: June 25, 2015, 02:26:25 PM »
A couple of guys who are at the show have just posted (on Dream Theater's vkontakte page, that's like the Russian version of Facebook) that James said from the stage: "We hope to have the new album out in January 2016".

That's by no means some kind of concrete info, they could have misheard or whatever, but 2 separate guys wrote it within seconds of each other so...I post it here. If it proves to be wrong, I apologise.

That is consistent with what JP said in a recent interview.
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« Reply #85 on: June 25, 2015, 02:27:54 PM »
I'll be on 4 shows, i hope They Played ACoS....

Next stop in Katowice - my 1st stop... Only 90 minutes here, so i think They will play the same setlist.

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« Reply #86 on: June 25, 2015, 02:31:42 PM »
They only play for 60 minutes in Holland :( i'm looking for people to go to Bonn in Germany. They are headling there and Devin Townsend and Haken are the other bands playing that night.

But all my friends can't go.

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« Reply #87 on: June 25, 2015, 02:37:52 PM »
A Change of Seasons: I The Crimson Sunrise

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« Reply #88 on: June 25, 2015, 02:46:45 PM »
A Change of Seasons: I The Crimson Sunrise

What?
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« Reply #89 on: June 25, 2015, 02:47:37 PM »
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« Reply #90 on: June 25, 2015, 02:49:51 PM »
LOVE the "Chronological effort".

Not so crazy about the set though (for me! ;))

My changes (bolded)would be:

Only A Matter of Time
Take The Time
Voices

A Change of Seasons 1 "The Crimson Sunrise"
Burning My Soul
Through Her Eyes
About to Crash
Stream of Consciousness
I Walk Beside You
Constant Motion
Wither
Lost Not Forgotten
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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #91 on: June 25, 2015, 02:58:26 PM »
It's not a bad set, considering the limited time. We still don't know if it's static or not. I guess we will find out in two days.

That being said I believe there should always be an encore of some kind in a show, and closing with BTV feels a bit odd, if I remember correctly the ending is quite abrupt.
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« Reply #92 on: June 25, 2015, 03:07:12 PM »
Less than 48 hours, to my 1st DT show in this year, im really scarred (1st time) still waiting on ACoS, I'll wear a  obama mask :>

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« Reply #93 on: June 25, 2015, 03:09:01 PM »
Scared or scarred?  :lol

By the way, if ACOS-I is indeed in the main body it looks less likely than the whole song might be intended as the encore for the longer gigs.
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« Reply #94 on: June 25, 2015, 03:14:14 PM »
I approve the choice of the songs played this evening (Afterlife and Burning My Soul are really killer mode!), even if there is always something that I don't like (in this case, Constant Motion). But... no A Change of Seasons? Only the first scene? I hope there's a mistake, because Petrucci said the shows would have lasted about two hours. And the show in Minsk lasted one hour and half... just to have time for A Change of Seaons in its entire as encore...

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« Reply #95 on: June 25, 2015, 03:48:08 PM »
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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #96 on: June 25, 2015, 04:32:58 PM »
Kind of a Meh setlist.
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #97 on: June 25, 2015, 04:55:47 PM »
Kind of a Meh setlist.
I kinda feel that way when I see songs like Afterlife, TSCO, As I Am, and Within in the set.  But on the flip side, it does have 3 songs that are in my top 10, parts of 2 others, and a song that I have always thought would be a cool live song (Burning My Soul), so I would be pretty happy overall if I got that set.  And they didn't play CIAW at either of the SF shows on the ADTOE tour, so that one would be cool as well.
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« Reply #98 on: June 25, 2015, 05:12:29 PM »
Does anyone know if the Burning My Soul was the '95 or '97 version? Fingers crossed for '95 with HK

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« Reply #99 on: June 25, 2015, 05:17:46 PM »
So far, we don't know.  I am betting on the '97 version, simply because of time constraints.
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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #100 on: June 25, 2015, 05:23:05 PM »
The setlist would work better if it wasn't constrained by the order it was played in. IMO There seems to be a lot of great openers and closers all in the middle of the set. lol
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: 2015-06-25 Metropolis Fest (Minsk, Belarus) ROLL CALL & REVIEWS!
« Reply #101 on: June 25, 2015, 05:26:03 PM »
That's a very odd-looking set list.  I get the point of going completely in chronological order, but given the choices, that has to be a show with very odd pacing.  Metropolis 2nd?  Behind the Veil last? Odd.  Not excited about seeing two of their least best songs ever (Constant Motion and Burning My Soul), for sure.

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« Reply #102 on: June 25, 2015, 05:33:10 PM »
I don't think the setlist is all that great.  Could do without CM, TSCO, Wither and PA.

Seems to lack flow too.
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Re: but seriously, that performance was awesome/hilarious
« Reply #103 on: June 25, 2015, 05:34:45 PM »
Set looks pretty cool to me. Hopefully they get Devin Townsend to sing BMS again.

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« Reply #104 on: June 25, 2015, 06:21:18 PM »
Hopefully they get Devin Townsend to sing BMS again.
Yes please! That would be quite hilarious actually :lol