Oh, I'd flip. I went nuts when they busted out Ytse Jam on A Dramatic Tour of Events, and I've caught A Fortune in Lies a few times. I'm still bummed that when I missed the Octavarium tour, I missed Afterlife.
I just really dig the album, b/c I go back (like so many others) to the I&W days when Pull Me Under debuted on Headbangers Ball. I found a random used copy of WDADU sometime in '93 when I didn't even know they'd had a previous album. So along with I&W, WDADU laid the foundation for my lifelong love for the band. That's why SFaM doesn't interest me as much: it's an amazing album and I'm glad I got to see the tour for it (my 1st DT show, actually), but I've never *not* been exposed to it in a live setting in some capacity, so it feels like a standard for me at this point. Deeper stuff from WDADU, on the other hand, is something I'd consider a treat.
I'm with you bro. I got into them back in the summer of 1989, so WDaDU was my first exposure to the band and that album will always rate very highly for me because of my history with it. But as many people have said, we are quite the minority in our feelings for that album. Have a look at any of the "rate DT's albums" threads, and you'll almost always see WDaDU at the bottom or only a couple up from the bottom.
Personally, I would be satisfied if the guys included a couple of WDaDU tracks into the setlist this time around, and not the usual suspects (A Fortune in Lies, Ytsejam or Afterlife) - besides The Killing Hand, it would be nice to see them resurrect Only a Matter of Time, or if they were really bold Light Fuse and Get Away or The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun (altho quite frankly, that will never happen since JP seems to drop anything from the set that doesn't get a great crowd reaction).
I’m surprised by how many of you are complaining that they may play what is time and again voted their greatest ever album rather than 70 min of odds and sods from other albums.
But it's nice when the band mixes it up on each tour, and brings back different songs that haven't been played in a number of years. And there's plenty of tracks in their back catalog that haven't gotten an airing in quite some time. So yes, it would be nice to have more of the "odds and sods from other albums" setlist. And keep in mind that there's plenty of people here that have seen SFaM performed in it's entirety - for some like myself, multiple times (5 for me) - so it's a been there, done that thing for us.
If they play the whole of SFAM on this tour, that will only be half the show. You will still get another set based around stuff off the new album. SFAM is a bonus set you get instead of sitting through some crappy support band.
Fair point - I'll give you that.
And also, the "celebration of where they came from" tour was the Octavarium tour. No reason to do that again.
And yet they did do it again, albeit in a shorter format and only in Europe, in 2015.
Get outta here with your facts.
Most of these nostalgia acts are not coming up with new material anymore. DT still is. I think they are just combining this with anniversaries of old albums because 1) they want the old fans to hear the new material, and 2) I think somewhere in their mind, they know that they don't really have much time left where they especially JLB can stil do the old material because of physical constraints.
But the thing is, there's been much more of a focus on anniversaries than in the past, and it's happening a lot these days. Maybe they are putting out new material (and I'm glad that they are), but when part of the promotion is about the anniversary of _____ album, it does start to smell like nostalgia.
If it was any other album, it would be different. But SFAM is up there with Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, In the Court of the Crimson King, and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. They HAVE to honor it's anniversary!
It's "Anniversary" meaning which one? Which anniversaries should they recognize? And how many? Every 10th one? 5th one?
Exactly. They could celebrate an anniversary every single tour if they wanted to. Shortly after they performed WDaDU in LA, I interviewed MP, and here's what he told me when I asked him if we could expect to see album anniversaries:
No – I mean every year we could say it’s the anniversary of something. This year is the tenth anniversary of Awake, and we already celebrated the tenth anniversary of Images and Words. That’s not to say that special things like this won’t pop up from time to time, because anything is possible. But When Dream and Day Unite was a special anniversary, because that was something that everyone had always wanted to see performed with the current line-up. So it made sense to celebrate that.
While the occasional anniversary celebration is fine, when it starts to happen regularly (as seems to be the case lately), it gets to be overkill and does seem like a nostalgia cash grab.
SFAM is a TAC Top 10 album of all time, so trust me, I love it. I have the utmost confidence that this will be done tastefully and spectacularly.
If they play the whole thing, I'd be more on board if it is performed markedly different from the way it was originally and on the album (which Bosk seems to be implying to a degree, so hopefully this is the case). The way they performed the IaW songs on the IWaB tour was great - hope they'll do something along those lines with SFaM.
I'm missing something here. I thought part of the MP lawsuits was that they could never do SFaM from start to finish ever again? Or, now they I'm typing this, maybe it was 12SS they were banned from playing all the way.
None of the above. After seeing the agreement that Geoff Tate made with his former bandmates (that they never perform all of O:M at a show), MP commented that he wished he had included such an agreement when he parted ways with DT about the 12SS. But in any case, nothing like that exists between them.