If YOU were writing the set list for the next DT tour...

[Chino]

1. Hells Kitchen
2. Honor Thy Father
3. Learning to Live
4. Transcending Time
5. The Best of Times
6. Another Day
7. The Silent Man (Electric)
8. The Glass Prison
9. Burning My Soul
10. Viper King (Serious. I think this would make a great live banger)

[emtee]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

The first reunion show will be very special. Enthusiasm, emotion and raw energy will be off the charts. For this reason, I hope that the band decides to record it and make it available.

A Change Of Seasons
These Walls
Trial Of Tears
At Wits End
Honor Thy Father
Home
Pale Blue Dot
The Mirror
Learning To Live
Hells Kitchen

[TAC]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

[TAC]

I honestly don't care what they play.
But I do have two requests.

Keep the Mangini Era material in the set, and
THE KILLING HAND!!!!!

[Schurftkut]

the glass prison
dissappear
octavarium
these walls
the way it used to be
space-dye vest
blind faith

pretty much doing a 6doit appreciation tour with the songs they usually leave out when it comes to playing songs from that album

[emtee]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

[TAC]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

OK, but it's not written as THE BAND WANTS TO KNOW...
That's all I'm saying.


That said, the "sending to my contacts" is quite hidden in the OP. This thread needs way more activity for it to make an impact I would think.

[crystalstars17]

Keep the Mangini Era material in the set, and
THE KILLING HAND!!!!!

💯 💯 💯 ✨✨

[emtee]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

OK, but it's not written as THE BAND WANTS TO KNOW...
That's all I'm saying.


That said, the "sending to my contacts" is quite hidden in the OP. This thread needs way more activity for it to make an impact I would think.

You're correct. I probably should have left out that sentence.

[TAC]

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

OK, but it's not written as THE BAND WANTS TO KNOW...
That's all I'm saying.


That said, the "sending to my contacts" is quite hidden in the OP. This thread needs way more activity for it to make an impact I would think.

You're correct. I probably should have left out that sentence.

Nah it me probably being a dick. 
It would be awesome if the band would do a “fan’s choice” component to the set.
I wish they were actually asking.

[Sycsa]

1. Octavarium: yeah, hearing that big Moog solo live would be a treat. They could also jam up the intro.
2. ACOS: hearing it with MP back at the helm would be special.
3. Blind Faith: A personal favorite. James could struggle with the chorus, so if they sliced out the instrumental section from the middle and put it in a medley, that'd also be A-OK.
4. The Glass Prison: another favorite. Nothing else from the 12SS for me. (edit: it's a fear of mine that they'll play the suit in its entirety)
5. Breaking All Illusions: hearing this live brought me to tears one time. It could be even more emotional given the MP-factor.
6. Trial of Tears: on of their most interesting songs with a unique vibe.
7. You or Me: just do it!
8. Lines in the Sand: could also jam it up.
9. These Walls: short and sweet, DT needs to write more songs like this.
10. Enigma Machine: I gotta see what MP does with the drum solo.

[Stadler]

1. Octavarium
2. This Dying Soul
3. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
4. Surrounded - WITH the Marillion/Floyd interlude
5. In The Name Of God - what a great vehicle for some band interplay, without trotting out something that's been played 1000 times
6. Voices
7. This Is The Life - a chance to cover multiple bases; it's a "Mangini era" song, and it would let James shine
8. Cover My Eyes - Because, why not? It's short, it's a nod to the faithful, and indicative that anything is on the table.
9.  Someone else wrote it, but surprises; I love when they drop a cover in the middle of their song.
10. I'm not a skilled enough musician to pick one song, but one of those songs that lends itself to variation, either in 'time' or scope; I like when they play with their songs and give us something different than the "rote album note-by-note version". 

[OpenYourEyes311]

1. Only a Matter of Time
2. The Killing Hand
3. Burning My Soul
4. Take Away My Pain
5. Disappear
6. The Great Debate
7. Far From Heaven
8. Behind The Veil
9. Status Seeker
10. The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun

Requesting all four tracks I haven't seen from WDaDU, an album I love. The rest are all album songs that have been played before, but I have yet to see them. I purposefully am not putting epics or songs they haven't played yet live, because I would imagine those tunes are already on the radar for potential play anyway.

SIDE NOTE: Does anyone know the last time they played two songs off of WDaDU at the same concert, other than March 6, 2004?

[hefdaddy42]

Can I use a slot or two for songs I hope they DON'T play?  Asking for a friend. 

[MirrorMask]

Can I use a slot or two for songs I hope they DON'T play?  Asking for a friend. 

You're joking, but on FB I saw a band asking seriously the question in preparation for their upcoming tour: "which song you DON'T want us to play and why?".

Maybe DT should do that as well, just to see the answers 

[hefdaddy42]

That's interesting, but I was completely joking.  I don't think DT should do anything like that to a group.

Just to me lol

[bosk1]

Just wanted to say that while I appreciate ALL the feedback, to those posting in a form other than a ranked list, I cannot tally and score your choices, so they can't be included in the final list that gets sent to the band.

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

OK, but it's not written as THE BAND WANTS TO KNOW...
That's all I'm saying.


That said, the "sending to my contacts" is quite hidden in the OP. This thread needs way more activity for it to make an impact I would think.

Well, "my contacts" = actual members of the band who will be deciding what to play, so take that as you will.

Can I use a slot or two for songs I hope they DON'T play?  Asking for a friend. 

Don't worry, I'm exercising my right to not include Hollow Years or Afterlife on the final list no matter how many votes they get. 

[Ben_Jamin]

Well good thing I decided to switch out Hollow Years. 

[TAC]

Well, "my contacts" = actual members of the band who will be deciding what to play, so take that as you will.

Noted.


I was just drawing a distinction between "passing it along" and "the band is asking".

[bosk1]

And you are not wrong for picking that up and making that distinction.

[TAC]

And you are not wrong for picking that up and making that distinction.

Also noted.


Seriously though, thank you for providing a voice.

[hefdaddy42]

Can I use a slot or two for songs I hope they DON'T play?  Asking for a friend. 

Don't worry, I'm exercising my right to not include Hollow Years or Afterlife on the final list no matter how many votes they get. 

[crystalstars17]

Seriously though, thank you for providing a voice.

Seconding that! 🙏✨

[Setlist Scotty]

SIDE NOTE: Does anyone know the last time they played two songs off of WDaDU at the same concert, other than March 6, 2004?

In full? Off the top of my head, I would guess the last show of the Evening of New Music tour DT did in Europe in 1997 - 1997/04/19 Bonn, Germany. In part, it would be the last time they played the When Images and Words Unite medley (featuring parts of AFiL and OaMoT) which was on 2000/08/27 in Mexico City.
 
 

Don't worry, I'm exercising my right to not include Hollow Years or Afterlife on the final list no matter how many votes they get. 

Afterlife, no problem. But HYears - even the extended live version? 

[PMSummer]

Just wanted to say that while I appreciate ALL the feedback, to those posting in a form other than a ranked list, I cannot tally and score your choices, so they can't be included in the final list that gets sent to the band.

Thank you to the band and Bosk for caring enough to ask us!

Did Bosk say the band was asking or that he was sending the to his contacts?

He was just sending to his contacts but I think the band cares.

OK, but it's not written as THE BAND WANTS TO KNOW...
That's all I'm saying.


That said, the "sending to my contacts" is quite hidden in the OP. This thread needs way more activity for it to make an impact I would think.

Well, "my contacts" = actual members of the band who will be deciding what to play, so take that as you will.

Can I use a slot or two for songs I hope they DON'T play?  Asking for a friend. 

Don't worry, I'm exercising my right to not include Hollow Years or Afterlife on the final list no matter how many votes they get. 

Does my vote mentioning one song count, or should I throw in some more songs even though I'm really just here for that one?

[bosk1]

Don't worry, I'm exercising my right to not include Hollow Years or Afterlife on the final list no matter how many votes they get. 

Afterlife, no problem. But HYears - even the extended live version? 

I really hate to say this in connection with anything DT-releted, but Hollow Years just is not a good song.  An improved live guitar solo cannot save it.

Does my vote mentioning one song count, or should I throw in some more songs even though I'm really just here for that one?

I mean, I guess I can just count a #1 vote and that's it.

[OpenYourEyes311]

SIDE NOTE: Does anyone know the last time they played two songs off of WDaDU at the same concert, other than March 6, 2004?

In full? Off the top of my head, I would guess the last show of the Evening of New Music tour DT did in Europe in 1997 - 1997/04/19 Bonn, Germany. In part, it would be the last time they played the When Images and Words Unite medley (featuring parts of AFiL and OaMoT) which was on 2000/08/27 in Mexico City.
 

I knew I could count on you Scotty

And yeah, that's kind of what I figured, that it would be around the Falling Into Infinity tour that they stopped playing multiple tunes from it. Damn shame, I say!

[geeeemo]

Well, its an easy start.
1. Octavarium. My #1 song of any band.
Now there's more flexibility.

2. Surrender to Reason or Behind the Veil - I like BtV more but I would be happy with the never-played-live StR

3. The Glass Prision - what a high energy rocker that would be!

4. Something from FII. Peruvian Skies, although played many times, is a top song for me I'd love see . Trial of Tears or Just Let Me Breathe I'd also dig.

5. Disappear. My heart moves every time

6. While we're there, The Best of Times. My heart will be tender for this, perfect time to see it.

7. Breaking All Illusions. Because this just has to be played more and I havent seen it. 

7. The Mirror/Lie. I know they played it fairly recently but its a great pair. (Or 1 song )

8. Surrounded

9. Sacrificed Sons. It's such a cool and epic song.

10. A Rite of Passage. I want to see that middle part.

And...room in the songs for JP to do some extra Fire Guitar! They seemed to do that more in the early days.

I decided to amend it, since some of my numbers have more than one choice. Per Bosk.

2. Surrender to Reason
4. Peruvian Skies.

[Architeuthis]

Octavarium
Behind the Veil
S2N
ITPOE 2
The Bigger Picture
Moment of Betrayal
Viper King
The Path that Divides
This is The Life
Hell's Kitchen

[nobloodyname]

Basically, bosk, ask 'em, nay!, tell 'em to play Octavarium. The rest is gravy

[Mladen]

Octavarium.

That's it.

Okay, I read through this thread more carefully and realized that singling out one single song isn't going to do anything.  So here's my top ten:

1. Octavarium
2. Stream of consciousness
3. Breaking all illusions
4. Surrender to reason
5. Only a matter of time
6. Peruvian skies
7. Innocence faded
8. The Silent man
9. Beyond this life
10. The Ministry of lost souls 

[crystalstars17]

Basically, bosk, ask 'em, nay!, tell 'em to play Octavarium. The rest is gravy

Haha, truer words....... ✨

[BRGM]

1. Octavarium (!!) - Probably my favorite DT song
2. The Glass Prison - They've almost entirely ignored SDOIT disc 1 since Portnoy left with the exception of playing TGD for half the ADTOE tour. And it's some of my favorite material by the band.
3. The Great Debate - -"-
4. Misunderstood - -"-
5. Blind Faith - -"-
6. Honor Thy Father - One of my favorites from TOT with a killer intro by Portnoy
7. Lines In the Sand - Great song that hasn't been played since 2008
8. Voices - Great song that hasn't been played since 2010
9. S2N - Fun song of Mangini era to yet have been played
10. Surrender To Reason - Fun song of Mangini era to yet have been played

And of course, their upcoming album in its entirety!

[hefdaddy42]

1. The Glass Prison
2. Lines in the Sand
3. Blind Faith
4. Octavarium
5. Speak to Me
6. Raise the Knife
7. Disappear
8. In the Presence of Enemies
9. The Way It Used To Be
10. At Wit's End

[wasteland]

1. Learning To Live - It's my favourite DT song, and a top candidate for an epic setlist closer. Plenty of instrumental breaks to allow James some rest at the end of the set.

2. Stream Of Consciousness - Possibly the band's finest instrumental, and one that has not been played in two decades. That's just not right. Could be a great metaphor to emphasise the musical chemistry, the togetherness of the four instrumentalists.

3. Lines In The Sand - Another song that did not see any stage action in the Mangini years, and one I would definitely love to see sooner rather than later. Just be sure to bring back the "Baptised" pre-chorus!

4. Metropolis - As much as this song has been played to death in the past, it IS the quintessential DT piece. It belongs to any setlist that aspires to represent what the band has been, is and wishes to be in the future.

5. Goodnight Kiss - My favourite from SDOIT, has not seen the light since the Octavarium tour. It can play the role of the emotional centrepiece of the main set.

6. Breaking All Illusions - According to many the best song from its era, can be used to acknowledge MM's contribution to the history of the band.

7. These Walls/Panic Attack - Direct, catchy, great to pump the audience near the beginning of the show. Two songs for for all seasons.

8. Space-Dye Vest - As I said elsewhere, for me the greatest live revelation of the last decade. It's a song that had no business working so well as it did live, but somehow, it exceeded everyone's expectations, probably within the band as well.

9. To Live Forever - A great song in its own right, the perfect choice to pay tribute to the memory of Charlie Dominici.

10. Octavarium - An ideal candidate to close the set for a tour that promotes the band itself, rather than an album which may have its own embedded epic or closer. We haven't seen this live in its entirety in almost 20 years, it's time.

BONUS: The Root Of All Evil - An extremely strong set opener, could also serve as a nod to the 12 Steps Suite without having to play the whole thing.