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« Reply #140 on: October 30, 2018, 07:21:45 AM »
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« Reply #141 on: October 30, 2018, 10:19:58 AM »
They could do a song called "ZRH" -- the three letter code for the airport in Zurich, Switzerland -- similar to Rush's "YYZ."

The could cover Black Sabbath's "Zero the Hero."

"Zephyr" or "Zodiac" would be an ok song title.

Maybe "Zest for Life."

Under "Q," words like "quandary," "quagmire," "quake" or "quaint" could have some potential.
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« Reply #142 on: October 31, 2018, 12:53:59 AM »
edit: didn't realize it was supposed to be starting with the letter, i can't read lol
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« Reply #143 on: October 31, 2018, 04:13:18 AM »
Zenith would be a cool song title

Q is a difficult one, but they have written a song called “Lord Nafaryus” so would “Quest for...” really out of left field?

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« Reply #144 on: October 31, 2018, 04:40:57 AM »
Well, they've come relatively close to play Quest for Fire by Iron Maiden, since MP would have preferred to cover the Piece of Mind album, but opted for The Number of the Beast since it was more popular.
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« Reply #145 on: October 31, 2018, 05:12:36 AM »
if you include the "The"s in the song titles, you can also add the letters K and X to that last. Also G depending on whether you consider Goodnight Kiss a standalone song.
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« Reply #146 on: October 31, 2018, 11:34:56 AM »
I think a song starting with Question(s) would be the way to go.  As for Z.... how about an instrumental called "Zeal"?

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« Reply #147 on: November 06, 2018, 06:34:34 PM »
Well, now that everyone's talking about that "10th song" of the new album, I remembered one very particular factoid about DT, and that is that they don't have a single album with 10 songs, which is a pretty average quantity of songs..
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« Reply #148 on: November 07, 2018, 04:07:05 AM »
Well, now that everyone's talking about that "10th song" of the new album, I remembered one very particular factoid about DT, and that is that they don't have a single album with 10 songs, which is a pretty average quantity of songs..

Wow, you're right. How did I never notice that? :o
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« Reply #149 on: November 07, 2018, 05:52:54 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #150 on: November 07, 2018, 06:10:38 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
BC/SL tour as well
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« Reply #151 on: November 07, 2018, 06:35:49 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
BC/SL tour as well

And DoT too.. :neverusethis:
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« Reply #152 on: November 07, 2018, 07:06:04 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
BC/SL tour as well

And DoT too.. :neverusethis:
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« Reply #153 on: November 07, 2018, 07:24:14 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
BC/SL tour as well
Actually there's live pro shot footage from Summer Sonic 2010 and Download Festival 2009 for BC&SL.

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« Reply #154 on: November 07, 2018, 08:53:53 AM »
The WDADU tour and TA tour are the only two DT album-supporting tours that don’t have any pro shot footage (that we know of).
BC/SL tour as well
Actually there's live pro shot footage from Summer Sonic 2010 and Download Festival 2009 for BC&SL.

Yes, the Summer Sonic footage is very good btw :tup
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #155 on: November 07, 2018, 09:30:44 AM »
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« Reply #156 on: November 07, 2018, 08:46:59 PM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..
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« Reply #157 on: November 07, 2018, 09:11:33 PM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #158 on: November 07, 2018, 09:13:28 PM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.

But he wasn't a DT member..
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« Reply #159 on: November 07, 2018, 10:02:54 PM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.

But he wasn't a DT member..
But he was a member of the band regardless of the fact that they went by a different name at the time.  :P
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« Reply #160 on: November 07, 2018, 10:06:09 PM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.

But he wasn't a DT member..
But he was a member of the band regardless of the fact that they went by a different name at the time.  :P

This. Same band, different name :P
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #161 on: November 08, 2018, 07:57:31 AM »
I'm with ToT on this one.  He did specify DT members, twice.  And one could also argue that because it was a different lineup, with a different name, that it was in fact a different band, even if it was mostly the same.

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« Reply #162 on: November 08, 2018, 08:14:00 AM »
I'm with ToT on this one.  He did specify DT members, twice.  And one could also argue that because it was a different lineup, with a different name, that it was in fact a different band, even if it was mostly the same.

But every major DT anniversary (20 and 30 years) has been celebrated considering 1985 as the starting point, and that’s when Majesty was created. It’s not like they disbanded and formed a new band with a different name, they were forced to change their name due to legal issues with other band.

Their first “full” lineup had Petrucci, Myung, Portnoy, Moore and Collins, which is almost the same as the first “DT” lineup, just with a different vocalist.
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #163 on: November 08, 2018, 08:34:42 AM »
Also, they recorded WDaDU under the Majesty name, and only changed it in the months before it got released. Same band, different name.

However, I also don't really count Chris Collins, just because he only did demos with the band and never performed on an album. Kind of like how Dave Mustaine was not inducted into the RnRHoF with Metallica for the same reasons.

So I see both arguments, kind of.
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« Reply #164 on: November 08, 2018, 08:51:33 AM »
Also, they recorded WDaDU under the Majesty name, and only changed it in the months before it got released. Same band, different name.

However, I also don't really count Chris Collins, just because he only did demos with the band and never performed on an album. Kind of like how Dave Mustaine was not inducted into the RnRHoF with Metallica for the same reasons.

So I see both arguments, kind of.

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« Reply #165 on: November 08, 2018, 09:29:16 AM »
Also, they recorded WDaDU under the Majesty name, and only changed it in the months before it got released. Same band, different name.

However, I also don't really count Chris Collins, just because he only did demos with the band and never performed on an album. Kind of like how Dave Mustaine was not inducted into the RnRHoF with Metallica for the same reasons.

So I see both arguments, kind of.

But we shouldn’t forget that


(I know he didn’t but it’s funny anyway :lol)
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« Reply #166 on: November 08, 2018, 11:04:58 AM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.

But he wasn't a DT member..
But he was a member of the band regardless of the fact that they went by a different name at the time.  :P

True, but Collins never performed on any official band releases, so he can be excluded for the same reason that most folks would exclude Jeff Jones as a former member of Rush and Ron McGovney as a former member of Metallica.  Also, and while this isn't anything official, one of the 5/8 references that came up when 8VA was released was that the band had five current members and 8 total members (including both current and former members).  That wouldn't have worked if you included Collins.
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« Reply #167 on: November 08, 2018, 11:15:30 AM »
Counting current and former members, Charlie Dominici, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess are the only DT members that don't have the same name of another DT member..

And Chris Collins.

But he wasn't a DT member..
But he was a member of the band regardless of the fact that they went by a different name at the time.  :P

True, but Collins never performed on any official band releases, so he can be excluded for the same reason that most folks would exclude Jeff Jones as a former member of Rush and Ron McGovney as a former member of Metallica.  Also, and while this isn't anything official, one of the 5/8 references that came up when 8VA was released was that the band had five current members and 8 total members (including both current and former members).  That wouldn't have worked if you included Collins.

He was listed as a former member of the band on The Score so Far... documentary, though.
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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« Reply #168 on: November 08, 2018, 11:48:39 AM »
I guess we're all right on this one.. :lol

Anyways, semantic issues aside, my point was that six!!! members of the same band share names.. You don't see that very often..
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« Reply #169 on: November 08, 2018, 11:55:32 AM »
Anyways, semantic issues aside, my point was that six!!! members of the same band share names.. You don't see that very often..

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« Reply #170 on: November 08, 2018, 12:28:05 PM »
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« Reply #171 on: November 08, 2018, 12:51:00 PM »
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« Reply #172 on: November 08, 2018, 01:10:19 PM »
 :lol

But they're five, not six.. :loser:
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« Reply #173 on: November 08, 2018, 03:19:38 PM »
Youngest brother Randy Jackson later joined the group and with the return of Jermaine Jackson, they released Victory, the only album with all six Jackson brothers.

It's actually a pretty good album.  It's like The Jackson Five updated for the 80's.
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« Reply #174 on: November 08, 2018, 04:00:11 PM »
Youngest brother Randy Jackson joined the group and they released one official album as The Jacksons, titled Victory.  It is the only album with all six Jackson brothers.

It's actually a pretty good album.  It's like The Jackson Five updated for the 80's.

That tour was HUGE.  Allowed the whole family to capitalize on the success of Thriller.
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