What non instrumental tracks have LaBrie like this?

[Misirlou]

[Misirlou]

Since, you know, correct me if I´m wrong, but he has never played any instruments in any of their albums as far as I know, right?

[voncorn]

Not my opinion, but I'm reminded of a random friend of a friend I met once while hanging out. I brought up Dream Theater and he chimed in with something along the lines of:

"oh my god, THAT band! I saw them on the Gigantour and I remember the first song they played, it took the singer like ten minutes before he came out on stage, it was ridiculous!"

In my mind I knew he was talking The Glass Prison and that he was totally exaggerating (it's closer to three minutes) but I still get a good chuckle when I think about what he said from time to time.

[durga2112]

"A View From the Top of the World", definitely. There's like 5 minutes of singing in the whole song. 

[voncorn]

Since, you know, correct me if I´m wrong, but he has never played any instruments in any of their albums as far as I know, right?

I believe James has only ever contributed vocals to the studio albums, but he has played the tambourine on Once in a LIVEtime and Live Scenes from New York. That's all I can think of.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

Since, you know, correct me if I´m wrong, but he has never played any instruments in any of their albums as far as I know, right?

You are correct. I don't think he plays an instrument in general either.

[wolfking]

Shadow Man is going to have quite a bit of that from Labrie.

[TheCountOfNYC]

You are correct. I don't think he plays an instrument in general either.

He used to be a drummer.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

He used to be a drummer.

Yes! He does talk about that. Thanks - slipped my mind.

[MirrorMask]

Octavarium
The Count of Tuscany
The Ministry of Lost Souls
Sacrificed Sons

[Misirlou]

Octavarium
The Count of Tuscany
The Ministry of Lost Souls
Sacrificed Sons

The first 4 minutes or so of Octavarium give everyone but Jordan a pretty good break.

[Max Kuehnau]

You are correct. I don't think he plays an instrument in general either.

his first instrument was the drums, believe it or not

[three__days]

he played keyboards live on the 'octavarium' intro in '05! i only just learned this myself, you can see it on the 'romavarium' bootleg.

[Misirlou]

he played keyboards live on the 'octavarium' intro in '05! i only just learned this myself, you can see it on the 'romavarium' bootleg.

I did see that, he just presses certain keys while Jordan does his continuum solo, but curiously, I think he only did it for that tour. In every other video I see of them performing it live, Jordan plays the intro by himself, and James doesn't come on stage until it's his turn to sing. That happens in Score too.

I assume Jordan played all of the intro parts by himself in the studio recording of the song, since I don't think he needs any help there.

[three__days]

I did see that, he just presses certain keys while Jordan does his continuum solo, but curiously, I think he only did it for that tour. In every other video I see of them performing it live, Jordan plays the intro by himself, and James doesn't come on stage until it's his turn to sing. That happens in Score too.

I assume Jordan played all of the intro parts by himself in the studio recording of the song, since I don't think he needs any help there.

i'm sure jordan did it in the studio - i always just assumed it was orchestra members doing it for 'score', but it's been a long time since i heard that version. wondering how they did on this recent tour, tbh - i don't think jordan can do both?

[Misirlou]

i'm sure jordan did it in the studio - i always just assumed it was orchestra members doing it for 'score', but it's been a long time since i heard that version. wondering how they did on this recent tour, tbh - i don't think jordan can do both?

https://youtu.be/pL9pNzT6T-I?si=auv30Lqpq29MAvPG

This is them performing it in Chile. Jordan does the whole intro by himself, and he does so on every video of the song being performed nowadays. He probably has the chords programmed on the keyboard while he does the continuum solo.

James doesn't come out until 5 minutes or so to sing, no keyboard playing here.

[ZirconBlue]

I believe James has only ever contributed vocals to the studio albums, but he has played the tambourine on Once in a LIVEtime and Live Scenes from New York. That's all I can think of.

On the Six Degrees Tour, he had a rack of percussion instruments on stage to play during the instrumental bits.  

[Schurftkut]

On the Six Degrees Tour, he had a rack of percussion instruments on stage to play during the instrumental bits. 

there's video of a backstage tour where his keyboard and percussion comes by

EDIT- it was Octavarium tour, of course: https://youtu.be/KViTHGNtfZg?t=171