Dream Theater North American Tour Dates (Feb-Mar, 2025)

[TAC]

HAHA, I'm watching the updates and my heart is beating. It's like watching overtime of a game, or waiting for election results to come in!!  Haha.

There ya go, Stads!
This Is The Life

[Cavalry of Despair]

Looks like TDEN replacing constant motion and Midnight replacing As I Am?

Still holding out hope for something for Sdoit

Same, honestly I'd trade some of SFAM tracks for SDOIT material, even though I love that album. It's just been way overrepresented in recent sets (which I get, considering it's neck-and-neck w I&W as their most popular release). Especially TSCO.

I know the chances of this are unlikely, but if they swapped PMU in the encore for Learning To Live...     

[EvantheMotel6Owmer]

I think most people would be fine with PMU being swapped out. Home needs to stay, though.

[Shadow2222]

Change out the whole encore for The Glass Prison - would be incredible.

As far as the current set, so glad they are keeping Stream. Really wanted to see that

[ReaperKK]

Change out the whole encore for The Glass Prison - would be incredible.

As far as the current set, so glad they are keeping Stream. Really wanted to see that

Same, I was hoping SOC wasn't going to get the boot

[TAC]

Vacant must've been the song that MP referred to as having not been performed in 20 years.

[ReaperKK]

They performed it last leg

[TAC]

They performed it last leg

I'm doing great tonight aren't I?

[Dedalus]

They performed it last leg

I thought "but I saw them playing Vacant last December"... how time flies.

[Stadler]

There ya go, Stads!
This Is The Life

And Octavarium.  Add UAGM and I'm pretty stoked for March.

Dammit, I haven't looked forward to a concert like this in a LONG time.

[Laughingplace56]

Kinda surprised they decided to do a second Parasomnia song during the 40th anniversary tour when they intend to play the whole album in full later this year. Would've preferred another older DT song to see a different album represented. But if it technically replaced As I Am, ToT is still obviously fully represented so I guess that's an even swap.

Curious about ARoP showing up in the leak then. Maybe they'll alternate Midnight and ARoP? Because if so, I take it back keep Midnight on the set please

[TAC]

Dammit, I haven't looked forward to a concert like this in a LONG time.

It's an excellent setlist for sure, and 8V is my most anticipated song to see. IMO, they replaced the two worst songs of the set and I'm glad there's two new Parasomnia songs instead just the one.

It still has that overarching "Anniversary" tour stink to me, but I'm going anyway.

Curious about ARoP showing up in the leak then. Maybe they'll alternate Midnight and ARoP?

Maybe swapping that and TDEN..

[TAC]

Some video..

Overture 1928/SDV

[faizoff]

Man what a setlist this tour has been. I'm not that big of a fan of TDEN, I'd rather have Constant Motion. But the rest has been killer.

[brakkum]

These are the kinds of changes I wanted with the set having seen the London show, glad I'm seeing two shows on this leg!

[Shadow2222]

With A Rite of Passage and "Into the Lite/Life" (which could be Fall into the Light or This is the Life) on that screenshot in the tour video, I'm wondering if they may do a very minimal rotation. I'll be curious to see if the next setlist stays the same.

[EvantheMotel6Owmer]

Some video..

Overture 1928/SDV

Dang, James does sound really good here.

[Cool Chris]

I still hate TDEN, but that is an A level setlist.

[Deadeye21]

So much for "haven't played in 20 years" then? And no Passage either

[EvantheMotel6Owmer]

So much for "haven't played in 20 years" then? And no Passage either

I'm certainly not complaining about the last part... 

[faizoff]

I'm quite sure MP said they'll rotate the new songs here and there. So they rehearsed the song they hadn't played in 20 years but doesn't mean it would be played every night.

[sfam2112]

With A Rite of Passage and "Into the Lite/Life" (which could be Fall into the Light or This is the Life) on that screenshot in the tour video, I'm wondering if they may do a very minimal rotation. I'll be curious to see if the next setlist stays the same.

Tour video? What did I miss?

[Skeever]

This was only my sixth time seeing the band, at least with my own eyes, but it was the best. Best setlist, best on stage energy, best crowd reaction, and best James. I feel the way about the band that I felt when I was a teenager!

[Trav]

Tour video? What did I miss?

There was a social media video put out earlier this week with clips from rehearsals. Some did a freeze frame and saw notes the Lighting director made that had stuff for TDEN and A Rite of Passage on there.

[frogprog]

What a show! The light/video show was one of the best I've ever seen. Band was on fire. Sound was fantastic. The Met was sold out. Philly went apeshit for DT
Unbelievable....

[jimgolf]

Seeing lots of people on Reddit saying this is the best they've heard James in a while.

It absolutely was. He was night and day better than the Dream Sonic show I saw in Philly.

Not only that, the vibe in Philly was just off the charts. When you compare what the show felt like tonight vs the Dream Sonic show, it was unreal. The crowd was into it and the band was having a blast.

It's been a while (2009) since I saw MP live with the band(the other time in 2007), but I almost forgot just how awesome the band is live with him. I've always been a big Mangini fan, but DT together live with Portnoy is something special.

Oh, and Dark Eternal Night was a blast live. Me and the couple guys in my section were totally psyched when that riff kicked it. Also, the lasers were kickass.

[EvantheMotel6Owmer]

March 8th can't get here quick enough!

[cramx3]

Dream Theater - Midnight Messiah LIVE Debut @ SOLD OUT The Met Philadelphia PA 2/7/2025

  

Dream Theater - Barstool Warrior LIVE @ SOLD OUT The Met Philadelphia PA 2/7/2025

[Cavalry of Despair]

Dream Theater - Midnight Messiah LIVE Debut @ SOLD OUT The Met Philadelphia PA 2/7/2025

  

Dream Theater - Barstool Warrior LIVE @ SOLD OUT The Met Philadelphia PA 2/7/2025

LaBrie sounding pretty awesome! It's been well over a decade before this tour that he was performing with this much consistency in clarity and tone.

[jimgolf]

Here's some pictures I took of tonight's show in Philly.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/rVFCyKH

[DTiwbwMP]

BEST DT show I've seen in MANY YEARS! Simply INCREDIBLE!    

[nobloodyname]

Delighted you're all having the same reaction as most of us did in Europe and South America!

[jimgolf]

Delighted you're all having the same reaction as most of us did in Europe and South America!

BEST DT show I've seen in MANY YEARS! Simply INCREDIBLE!    

Not to keep reiterating the show tonight was great - it was  - but the show was off the charts good. It was a fantastic crowd(sold out) and the band was energetic and in a great mood. There was just so many good vibes going on, I had a smile the whole time.


Also, I need to point out the light show. They have really outdone themselves with the light show. The addition of the lasers was incredible. It especially shined during Stream of Consciousness - my god was that beautiful. During the long/epic song at the end(I forget if set list spoilers are allowed) I was just fully taking in the moment and felt like I was on a musical journey.

I would say tonight was easily one of the best DT concerts I've ever been to, and one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen in a while.

[nobloodyname]

That's lovely to read.

Some of the lasers looked like they might have been dropped in South America. Were they shooting at the backdrop last night as the intro to Metropolis rang out?

[jimgolf]

That's lovely to read.

Some of the lasers looked like they might have been dropped in South America. Were they shooting at the backdrop last night as the intro to Metropolis rang out?

I think so. When the intro tape was playing either the lasers or various lights were shining across the backdrop (and it looked really cool).