Dream Theater Postponed the rest of the Tour

[MinistroRaven]

As the global situation involving coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to unfold, many of our friends and family in the US and international music scene have already made the difficult decision to postpone any and all events currently scheduled.

In recognition of the importance and scale of this global pandemic, Dream Theater will adhere to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and governments worldwide, by postponing all currently scheduled performances.
As soon as possible, the promoters for each show will have ticketing and/or rescheduling information available.

We are deeply apologetic to our fans throughout the world who we were not yet able to reach on the current Distance Over Time – Celebrating 20 Years of Scenes From a Memory Tour. Please be assured, we have every intention of performing this show for you as soon as we’re sure that the safety of our fans will no longer be compromised. We are working right now to reschedule these dates, and will follow up with more information as soon as we have it.  Please stay tuned for further updates, as we hope to announce rescheduled tour dates soon!

Obviously, the health and safety of the band, our touring crew, and all of our fans, friends and families is of paramount importance to us. We will continue to closely monitor the global coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and truly look forward to being able to reschedule any and all postponed dates, as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience during this crisis.  We wish you — and those around you — good health!

[MinistroRaven]

I saw the news on a different thread but as it is marked as SPOILERS here only. I thought some folks are avoiding that thread for Spoilers and might not see the announcement.

[Anguyen92]

Oh, right.  I forgot that's a spoiler-heavy thread.  I didn't know where else to put it.  To reiterate my post.

Anywho, sorry guys for those that haven't seen this tour and had tickets to see it.  It was inevitable that they had to make this announcement.



https://twitter.com/dreamtheaternet/status/1239748290138251264

[MirrorMask]

Inevitabile and necessary. Sucks for those involved but it's better to be alive and without SFAM, that having SFAM as your last memory when you can't breathe in a hospital.

[ChuckSteak]

"Made the difficult decision to postpone"

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

It is not like any band out there has a choice, is there? Even if governments hadn't forbidden public events of any kind, I don't think many people would show up for concerts and it would be cancelled anyway.

[MirrorMask]

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

And I thought DT's mantra was "What would Rush do".

[Zydar]

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

And I thought DT's mantra was "What would Rush do".

I hope they don't take advice from Keith Moon.

[TAC]

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

And I thought DT's mantra was "What would Rush do".

 

I thought the same thing.

[hefdaddy42]

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

And I thought DT's mantra was "What would Rush do".

[Lonk]

"Adhere to the recommendations of the WHO"

And I thought DT's mantra was "What would Rush do".

 

I was wondering when they were going to make the announcement. Maybe JP can take the time to work on some of his solo work or new DT material.

[Dublagent66]

Only Rush knows what Rush would do.  Who's on 1st?

[wolfking]

First time I was going to see them down here since the SC tour but I fully expected this was coming.

[Cool Chris]

Spend time with your family, guys!

In your downtime, kick around some ideas, and when you are all ready, get together and write some new material!

[Setlist Scotty]

Not surprising that they've done this. It was inevitable. In fact, I'm kinda surprised it took them as long as it did for them to make the announcement. I was already thinking about it and mention of it here:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=50945.msg2634829#msg2634829

[wolfking]

Spend time with your family, guys!

In your downtime, kick around some ideas, and when you are all ready, get together and write some new material!

JP solo album!? 

[Northern Lion]

Spend time with your family, guys!

In your downtime, kick around some ideas, and when you are all ready, get together and write some new material!

This.

And who knows, maybe we'll get a new album a little earlier than initially planned?  Or maybe not if all the airline flights get canceled.

[Evai]

Maybe we can get a new 'The Great Debate'

[TAC]

It would be great if the hiatus resulted in new music. Even a cover song EP would be fine with me.

[MirrorMask]

I wonder if this will affect their DT15 plans... the world basically stopped so there's a phuckton of tours postponed or on hold, with the risk of oversaturating the market this autumn. With everyone postponing everything at the same time, the backlog of concerts, tours, and other artistical endeavors (such as shooting movies) will pile up on top of everything that was already planned for summer and autumn, this will create some logistical avalanche effects on future schedules.

[Max Kuehnau]

I wonder if this will affect their DT15 plans... the world basically stopped so there's a phuckton of tours postponed or on hold, with the risk of oversaturating the market this autumn. With everyone postponing everything at the same time, the backlog of concerts, tours, and other artistical endeavors (such as shooting movies) will pile up on top of everything that was already planned for summer and autumn, this will create some logistical avalanche effects on future schedules.

as Scotty mentioned very briefly, his guess was that work on DT15 may start earlier than what was planned.

[Renzo]

It would be great if the hiatus resulted in new music. Even a cover song EP would be fine with me.

This. Imagine a 30min long EP, one song only (SDOIT-ACoS like) with multiple sections, maybe regarding the Coronavirus crisis.

[Zydar]

One Degree of Global Turbulence

[gzarruk]

It would be great if the hiatus resulted in new music. Even a cover song EP would be fine with me.

This. Imagine a 30min long EP, one song only (SDOIT-ACoS like) with multiple sections, maybe regarding the Coronavirus crisis.

I'd love that.

[Northern Lion]

I remember a few years back that JR had done that online live concert thing.  I don't know how well he did, but if he did well then maybe the band could do a few shows like that to maybe help make up for lost revenue.  I'd certainly pay to see that.

And, as others have said, a 30 min EP would be killer 

[Dream Team]

When I was young my favorite bands would release a killer album EVERY FRICKIN YEAR, so yeah, no excuse for a bunch of bands not to take advantage of this and crank out some good tunes.

[TAC]

When I was young my favorite bands would release a killer album EVERY FRICKIN YEAR,

No kidding, man. WTF is this 3 years between album?. And it's every band.

[Setlist Scotty]

When I was young my favorite bands would release a killer album EVERY FRICKIN YEAR,

No kidding, man. WTF is this 3 years between album?. And it's every band.

As much as it would be nice to have a new album every year from all my favorite artists, I can see why that's not feasible today for a number of reasons:

1. Touring brings in the revenue these days, not album sales. So if a band records a new album, it's so that they have an excuse to go on tour, not for them to promote the new album.

2. Most bands I'm into are slowing down - they are not young single guys with no strings attached that have boundless energy and are just hungry to play to as many people as possible. These days, they would rather pace themselves so that they can enjoy their personal/private lives more, as well as other things that interest them.

3. Albums these days are (on average) much longer than they were back in the 80s and before, which means more time/effort needed to write/records that material than 30+ years ago. Somewhat related - recording probably didn't take as much time, whether due to technology and/or the expense of professional studios. These days, a band can tinker in their home studio (or wherever really) forever without worrying about running up costs.

I'm sure there's other reasons, but I'm too tired to try to think of them right now. Time to hit the sack...

[Dream Team]

You know what? Then bring the families into the studio with you. The kids aren’t in school anyway.

[Indiscipline]

At 20 you're the arsonist, at 50 you're the fire-fighter.

The middle-aged rock artist is a whole new game we still have to completely embrace. How many old guys were pumping out albums when we were young?

[emtee]

Would be a great time to work on some official bootleg releases.

[Dublagent66]

One Degree of Global Turbulence

Six Feet of Social Distance Over Time. 

[Dream Team]

Would be a great time to work on some official bootleg releases.

Yes! But I suppose they’re “too old” for that  .

[Setlist Scotty]

Would be a great time to work on some official bootleg releases.

Yes! But I suppose they’re “too old” for that  .

Not exactly the phrase I would use, but yeah, not happening. No reason why there couldn't be, given that there's no official live release from their brief 30th anniversary tour in 2015, TA 2016 tour, 2017 IWaB tour, and even some of the shows from early in Dramatic tour (especially from 2011) and maybe a show from the "festival" shows they did last year that have songs they're not doing during the Evening With tour. Nonetheless, I think at this point in time, a snowball has a better chance in hell than there being any more Ytsejam releases, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

[TAC]

Scotty, they got off to a great start with the Happy Holidays 2013 release, but I have to say, the lack of Ytsejam releases has really taken a chunk out of my fandom. Shure we got a couple of live albums, but ...how live are they? they certainly don't sound it. I love the rougher mixes the Ytsejam boots gave us. Much more real than what they are putting out as "live" recordings.

[Dream Team]

WWMPD? What would MP do? Too soon?