Beginning of the founding Dream Theater

Dream Theater was formed in September 1985 when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band to fill their spare time while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. They then found a drummer, Mike Portnoy, in one of the rehearsal rooms at Berklee, and after two days of negotiations, they were able to persuade Mike Portnoy to join. After that, the three of them to fill the two vacant places in the band, and Petrucci asked his band mates, Kevin Moore, to be a keyboard player. She agreed, and when Chris Collins invited to be a vocalist, the band was complete.
With five members, they decided to name the band by the name Majesty. According to the documentation DVD Score, they were lined up tickets to the Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center while listening to Rush with a boom box. Portnoy and said that the ending of the song (Bastille Day) sounds very "majestic". That's when they decided Majesty is a good name for a band, and remained good until now.
At the time - this time, Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung are still struggling with their studies, as well as the part-time work and teaching. Their schedule became tight tips so they had to decide between pursuing a career in music or end the band Majesty. But eventually Majesty wins and they all come out of Berklee to concentrate on a music career. Petrucci commented about this in the documentation DVD Score, said that while it is very difficult to ask their parents to go to music school. And harder again to convince his parents that he should get out of school.
Moore is finally out of school, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate on the band.
Their first album, When Dream And Day Unite recorded with Charlie Dominici as Kevin Moore as the lead singer and keyboards player. Dominici was much older than the other members and want to play other music, so he then came out of the group. They then look for an ideal replacement for 2 years to finally meet with James LaBrie, lead singer of Canada through the auditions.
Together they recorded LaBrie Images And Words that catapulted their name into the ranks of the international hit, "Pull Me Under" and "Another Day". Awake is their last album with Moore who was later replaced by Derek Sherinian for the album Falling Into Infinity. Sherinian also eventually replaced by Jordan Rudess and this formation still persist to this day. They have launched a concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory and a double album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. In 2003 they decided to record a non-concept album Train Of Thought, which is heavily influenced by thrash metal groups like Metallica.
Biodata Personnel Dream Theater
Mike PortnoyMike Portnoy was born on 20 April 1967 and raised in Long Beach, New York, where his interest in music started at an early age. "My dad was a DJ rock n 'roll, so I was always surrounded by music constantly. I have a large collection when I was young and loved the Beatles and Kiss. Do not be surprised if eventually I would become a musician. Although Mike taught himself how to play the drums, he took music theory classes in high school. During that time he began playing in local bands Intruder, Rising Power and Inner Sanctum, on the mike and his last band - released an album of their own comrades. Mike left the band after being awarded a scholarship at Berklee Music College in Boston.
Big JohnJohn grew up on Long Island, precisely in Kings Park, where he, John Myung & Kevin Moore attended school together. John began learning guitar at the age of 12 years (before he had learned when he was 8 years old but gave up when he saw his sister had to stay up every night, learned to play the organ. He does not plan to be like That, he learned to play guitar after school and eventually he became not interested anymore). But he started much affected By a kind guitar from guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, iron maiden, steve ray Vaughn, and a large group kind of yes, Rush, Dixie Dregs and others he began determined to reach the level of play as mereka.John live together his wife Rena, and 3 children SamiJO, Reny and Kiara in New York. When he's not playing guitar he spent much time with his wife and children with skating, cycling, exercising and watching movies.
John MyungSince the days of the 1980s (when the founding of Dream Theater), John Myung whose parents are from Korea, together with two other personnel have helped to Dream Theater through critical moments and the rise and fall times.
As a listener of classical music enthusiast, she chose the violin since the age of five years. Until now, the age of a dozen years, John Myung decided to choose a bass guitar as his favorite instrument.
While studying at the Berklee School of Music - Boston in 1986, Myung met with two friends of the school, guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy. With plus a keyboard player and a vocalist, they eventually formed a band Majesty.Pada next year they get a record deal. But the band Majesty proved short-lived due to a conflict with a band in Las Vegas who have the same name. Finally they agreed to change the name of his band into Dream Theater, taken from the name of a movie theater in California.
Myung, Petrucci and Portnoy until this is still a permanent member of Dream Theater, Dream Theater and throughout history there have been several times Removable vocalist and keyboardist.Myung seems to have been a member of Dream Theater's most mysterious. He is rarely seen comments about himself or herself in a video highlight clips and concerts Dream Theater. This fact makes many fans wonder if one of them ever saw her talking.
James LabrieKevin James LaBrie was born in Penetanguishene, a small town in Canada on May 5, 1963. since childhood, when James was 3 years old, he used to listen to the radio and sing any song that came from the radio. Inspired by his father, he then started singing and playing drums in the beginning when I was 5 years old. and at 10 years old, he ayahnnya berkuartet with her sister and uncle also sang in a barber shop.
At the age of 21 years, James practicing vocals on Rosemary Patricia Burns. After much joined several bands in Canada. James later became the lead singer in the band Winter's Rose, which was also signed with Atlantic Records, Label Dream Theater then. and Pierre Paradis, who managed the band Voi VOD, offering solo project on James in Aquarius record. then she told James that no name New York band called Dream Theater audition to find a vocalist, and James notice them and accepted, that history LaBrie joined Dream Theater in 1992, where the first album with Dream theater LaBrie was Images and Words.
Until now, Labrie has a lot to create a song for Dream Theater as Anna Lee (Falling Into Infinity), Vacant (Train Of Thought), Blind Faith (six degree of Inner turbulance), sacrified Son (Octavarium).
And he still lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife Karen, and their two children Chloe and Chance LaBrie Abraham.
Jordan RuddesJordan Rudess (born Jordan Rudes on November 4, 1956) is a progressive rock keyboard player band Dream Theater Dream Theater.Dia entry replaces Derek Sherinian.Hal began when Mike Portnoy decided to form a supergroup by Magna Carta Records.Rudess elected to fill the keyboardist in the band which consisted of Tony Levin, Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci ini.Selama recording the album Liquid Tension Experiment 2 was to convince Portnoy and Petrucci that Rudess is the keyboardist for Dream Theater.Dan suitable end they decided to invite Rudess Derek Sherinian to replace the have solo careers.

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Sejarah Dream Theater

Dream Theater adalah salah satu grup progressive metal paling terkemuka di dunia saat ini. Didirikan oleh Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci dan John Myung, mereka telah merilis delapan album studio, empat rekaman live dan satu album pendek (EP). Album pertama mereka, When Dream And Day Unite direkam dengan Charlie Dominici sebagai vokalis dan Kevin Moore sebagai pemain keyboards. Dominici berusia jauh lebih tua daripada anggota lainnya dan ingin memainkan musik yang lain, sehingga ia kemudian keluar dari grup. Mereka kemudian mencari pengganti yang ideal selama 2 tahun sampai akhirnya bertemu dengan James LaBrie, vokalis dari Kanada melalui audisi.

Bersama LaBrie mereka merekam Images And Words yang melambungkan nama mereka ke jajaran internasional dengan hit "Pull Me Under" dan "Another Day". Awake adalah album terakhir mereka dengan Moore yang kemudian digantikan oleh Derek Sherinian untuk album Falling Into Infinity. Pada akhirnya Sherinian juga digantikan oleh Jordan Rudess dan formasi ini masih bertahan sampai hari ini. Mereka telah meluncurkan album konsep Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory dan album ganda Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. Pada tahun 2003 mereka memutuskan untuk merekam album non-konsep Train Of Thought yang sangat dipengaruhi oleh grup thrash metal seperti Metallica.

Album terbaru mereka yang berjudul Octavarium dikeluarkan pada tanggal 7 Juni 2005 dan selain merupakan album studio kedelapan juga mengandung delapan lagu.

Setelah Dream Theater meluncurkan album Live mereka dalam memperingati 20 tahun Dream Theater terbentuk yang berjudul Score yang direkam pada tanggal 1 April 2006 di Radio City Music Hall,US. Mereka kembali bersiap meluncurkan album ke sembilan mereka dengan membawa bendera label record baru yaitu RoadRunner Records, mereka telah merampungkan album Systematic Chaos yang berisi 8 lagu dan akan diluncurkan pada tanggal 5 Juni 2007 di US.

Sejarah

Dream Theater dibentuk pada bulan September 1985, ketika gitaris John Petrucci dan bassis John Myung memutuskan untuk membentuk sebuah band untuk mengisi waktu luang mereka ketika bersekolah di Berklee College of Music di Boston. Mereka lalu bertemu seorang pemain drum, Mike Portnoy, di salah satu ruang latihan di Berklee, dan setelah dua hari negosiasi, mereka berhasil mengajak Mike Portnoy untuk bergabung. Setelah itu, mereka bertiga ingin mengisi dua tempat kosong di band tersebut, dan Petrucci bertanya kepada teman band, Kevin Moore, untuk menjadi pemain keyboard. Dia setuju, dan ketika Chris Collins diajak untuk menjadi vokalis, band tersebut sudah komplit.

Dengan lima anggota, mereka memutuskan untuk menamai band tersebut dengan nama Majesty. Menurut dokumentasi DVD Score, mereka berlima sedang mengantri tiket untuk konser Rush di Berklee Performance Center ketika mendengarkan Rush dengan boom box. Portnoy lalu berkata bahwa akhiran dari lagu tersebut (Bastille Day) terdengar sangat "majestic". Pada saat itulah mereka memutuskan Majesty adalah nama yang bagus untuk sebuah band, dan tetap bagus sampai sekarang.

Pada saat - saat tersebut, Portnoy, Petrucci dan Myung masih berkutat dengan kuliah mereka, juga dengan kerja paruh waktu dan mengajar. Jadwal mereka menjadi kiat ketat sehingga mereka harus memutuskan antara mengejar karier di bidang musik atau mengakhiri band Majesty. Namun akhirnya Majesty menang dan mereka bertiga keluar dari Berklee untuk berkonsentrasi di karier musik. Petrucci mengomentari tentang hal ini di dokumentasi DVD Score, berkata bahwa saat tersebut sangat susah untuk meminta kepada orang tuanya untuk pergi ke sekolah musik. Dan lebih susah lagi untuk menyakinkan orang tuanya agar ia boleh keluar dari sekolah.

Moore juga akhirnya keluar dari sekolahnya, SUNY Fredonia, untuk berkonsentrasi dengan band tersebut.

Karakteristik penulisan lagu

Beberapa teknik penulisan lagu yang unik telah dilakukan oleh Dream Theater, yang kebanyakan terjadi di masa - masa sekarang, ketika mereka bisa bereksperimen dengan label rekaman mereka sendiri.

Dimulai dengan Train of Thought, Dream Theater sudah memulai memasukkan elemen - elemen kecil dan tersembunyi di musik mereka, dan memuat elemen tersebut kepada peminat yang lebih fanatik. Karakteristik yang paling terkenal (yang biasa disebut "nugget") tersembunyi di "In the Name of God", yang merupakan sandi morse dari "eat my ass and balls" (makan pantatku dan penisku), yang merupakan kata - kata terkenal dari Mike Portnoy. Sejak saat itu, banyak peminat - peminat Dream Theater mulai berusaha menemukan hal - hal kecil yang biasanya tidak menarik bagi peminat biasa.

Beberapa dari teknik mereka yang terkenal termasuk:

* Suara dari fonograf di akhiran dari "Finally Free" di album Scenes from a Memory adalah suara yang sama di awalan "The Glass Prison" di album berikutnya, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Dan akhiran kunci terakhir di "As I Am" sama dengan kunci yang digunakan di album selanjutnya, Train of Thought. Juga, not piano yang dimainkan di akhiran "In the Name of God" di 'Train of Thought adalah not yang sama dengan pembukaan "The Root of All Evil" di album berikutnya, Octavarium.

* Tiga bagian dari "The Glass Prison" di Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, dua bagian dari "This Dying Soul" di Train of Thought dan dua bagian dari "The Root of All Evil" di Octavarium menunjukkan tujuh poin pertama dari dua belas poin - poin di program Alcoholics Anonymous oleh Bill Wilson, yang mana program itu diikuti oleh Mike Portnoy. Ia juga berkata bahwa ia akan membuat lagu - lagu lain yang memuat lima program lainnya, yang akan ditujukan untuk Wilson

* Dream Theater kadang menggunakan teknik penulisan lagu dimana bagian - bagian dari sebuah lagu dikembangkan tiap kali mereka dimainkan. Contohnya, lagu "6:00" dari Awake. Setelah awalan lagu, mereka hampir memainkan chorus, tapi mengulang lagu tersebut dari awalan lagi (di menit 1:33). Dan ketika chorus sudah seharusnya dimainkan pada saat berikutnya, mereka mengulang lagi dari awalan, di menit 2:11. Teknik ini bisa juga ditemukan di "Peruvian Skies", "Blind Faith" dan "Endless Sacrifice"

* Penggunaan notasi yang berulang - ulang juga digunakan, yang sudah dikenal dari lagu - lagu Charles Ives, contohnya:
o Tema lagu "Wait for Sleep" muncul di "Learning to Live" (menit 8:11) dan juga muncul dua kali di "Just Let Me Breath" (menit 3:39 dan 5:21)
o Tema lagu "Learning to Live" muncul di "Another Day" (menit 2:53)
o Tema lagu "Space-Dye Vest" digunakan beberapa kali di album Awake.
o Tema pembukaan dari "Erotomania" digunakan di "Voices" di Awake (menit 4:51).
o Satu dari melodi - melodi di "Metropolis Pt 1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper)" diulang di chorus kedua di "Home" dari Metropolis Pt 2 (Scenes From A Memory), dengan cuma pengubahan satu kata. Beberapa lirik dari "Metropolis Pt 1" just digunakan di "Home". Pada dasarnya, keseluruhan album "Scenes From A Memory" penuh dengan musikal/lirikal/konseptual variasi dari elemen - elemen musikal dari "Metropolis Pt 1" dan "The Dance of Eternity" sebenarnya dibangun dari variasi - variasi elemen musik di lagu - lagu dalam album tersebut.
o Bagian - baguan dari tiap lagu di album "Octavarium" telah digunakan di bagian kelima dari lagu berjudul sama, "Octavarium".

* Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, studio album ke enam mereka, memuat enam lagu dan mempunyai karakter - karakter angka enam di judul - judul lagunya. Train of Thought, studio album ke tujuh mereka, memuat tujuh lagu. Octavarium, studio album ke delapan mereka memuat delapan lagu dan judul albumnya diambil dari kata octo, yang merupakan kata Latin yang berarti delapan, berarti satu oktaf dari istilah musik, yang mana merupakan jarak dari satu not ke not lain adalah delapan not di tangga nada diatonik. Judul lagi dari CD ini adalah 24 menit, kelipatan dari 8. Halaman depan albumnya juga memuat karakter - karakter yang berhubungan dengan 5 dan 8. Contohnya, satu set dari kotak - kotak putih dan kotak - kotak hitam, mempunyai arti satu oktaf dari piano.

* Lagu "Octavarium" dulunya ingin diakhiri dengan seruling yang bergema serupa dengan awalan lagu tersebut. Namun diganti dengan not piano yang sama dari awalan album Octavarium. Mike Portnoy telah mengatakan bahwa seri awalan - akhiran album akan berhenti disini, karena album ke sembilan mendatang tidak akan diawali dengan akhiran "Octavarium"

* Analisis detil tentang "nugget" di "Octavarium" (disebut oleh Mike Portnoy sebagai "sebuah nugget raksasa") telah dipublikasikan di sebuah situs independen.

Diskografi

* When Dream and Day Unite(1989)
* Images and Words(1992)
* Live at Marquee(1993)
* Awake(1994)
* A Change of Season(1995)
* Falling into Infinity(1997)
* Once in a Live Time(1998)
* Scene from Memory(1999)
* Live Scene from New York(2001)
* Six Degree of Inner Turbulance(2002)
* Train of Thought(2003)
* Live at Budokan(2004)
* Octavarium(2005)
* Score(2006)
* Systematic Chaos(2007)
* Black Clouds and Silver Linings (2009)
* A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
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