Regarding MP and setlists - do you think he'll consider all the pre-Mangini songs they've played live in the past 13 years when constructing the next tour's setlists? He's gone to the past couple tours so it's not like he doesn't know what they played.
Will he also consider DT songs HE has played with other groups in the past 13 years, and maybe avoid them, or perhaps bring them back? Of course this includes his Shattered Fortress shows, and those PSMS shows where they did some DT music as well.
Either way, it'll be neat to see how he handles the setlists, which is one of the things I'm looking forward to most given his past involvement with them.
-Marc.
Coming back to this just to share here the list of DT songs MP played with other bands during his time as the former drummer of Dream Theater. I had made and posted the list on the MP thread a couple years ago but didn't have the will to properly search for it, so I decided to make it again. Here are the songs in chronological order (from their original DT release) and the band(s) he played them with:
1. Take the Time (Noturnall)
2. Under a Glass Moon (Noturnall)
3. The Mirror (Haken, Shattered Fortress)
4. A Change of Seasons: I. The Crimson Sunrise (Metal Masters, PSMS)
5. Burning My Soul (PSMS)
6. Hell's Kitchen (PSMS, Sons of Apollo)
7. Lines in the Sand (PSMS, Sons of Apollo)
8. Just Let Me Breathe (Sons of Apollo)
9. Anna Lee (PSMS)
10. Overture 1928 (Shattered Fortress)
11. Strange Deja Vu (Shattered Fortress)
12. Home (Shattered Fortress)
13. The Dance of Eternity (Shattered Fortress)
14. Finally Free (Shattered Fortress)
15. The Glass Prison (Shattered Fortress)
16. As I Am (Noturnall)
17. This Dying Soul (Shattered Fortress)
18. The Root of All Evil (Shattered Fortress)
19. Repentance (Flying Colors, Shattered Fortress)
20. The Shattered Fortress (Shattered Fortress)
He also played Instrumedley with Jordan, Eric Gillette and Conner Green, but that's not really a "proper" DT song. He basically played something from every one of his DT albums except WDADU.