April 3rd, 2004, NYC, Dream Theater. (Concert Review)

[Per Ardua Ad Astra]

Taking Craigmac's idea of Concert reviews, here's the review of Dream Theaters April 3rd, 2004 show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The last show of the the U.S. tour dates, plus the hometown of Dream Theater.

Setlist
('Psycho' intro tape)
As I Am
This Dying Soul
Beyond This Life w/ Zappa jam
Hollow Years
Another Day
Endless Sacrifice
Trial Of Tears

(intermission)
A Change Of Seasons!!
Caught In A Web.. with MP drum solo and audience participation
Honor Thy Father
Vacant (cello)
Stream Of Consciousness (cello)
Disappear (cello)
Pull Me Under

Encore:
In The Name of God

Songs that stick out:
As I am
ACoS
Caught in a Web
Vacant, Stream of Consciousness, Disappear (all with the cello)
Jordan Rudess's keyboard solo spot.

The performance was absolutely flawless. Even the solo spots there were no mistakes. An absolutely brilliant performance, they played full of energy and had the whole theater full of excitement. Easily the best concert i've ever been to.
5/5

[el doctor]

Incredible show. The Zappa jam, the drum solo... but it was the keyboard solo that amazed me. Rudess is just amazing. To think that he played a number of it with one hand too if I remember right. I liked the ripoff of Trent Reznor's rotating keyboard. ;) The cello was such a great addition. I gained a new appreciation for Stream of Consciousness and seeing Disappear live for the first time ever was extremely special. Pull Me Under was so hard rocking and In the Name of God was the perfect encore. Words can honestly not describe this show. I highly reccommend getting a bootleg of this show on STG.

[Per Ardua Ad Astra]

Incredible show. The Zappa jam, the drum solo... but it was the keyboard solo that amazed me. Rudess is just amazing. To think that he played a number of it with one hand too if I remember right. I liked the ripoff of Trent Reznor's rotating keyboard. The cello was such a great addition. I gained a new appreciation for Stream of Consciousness and seeing Disappear live for the first time ever was extremely special. Pull Me Under was so hard rocking and In the Name of God was the perfect encore. Words can honestly not describe this show. I highly reccommend getting a bootleg of this show on STG.

Do you have the bootleg? STG?

[el doctor]

I downloaded the bootleg like the day after the concert. :p I'll get some links for you. I think you have to register for the site though.

http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55576

You will need to:
register with the site
download Bit torent

Assuming you have broadband, if you start your download and it isn't moving at all, tell me, and I'll try and figure out how to seed with Bit Torrent.

edit: I'm retarded when it comes to this so tell me when you have a lot of time to download this and I'll set up my own torrent file, although it may take a long time. :(

[Per Ardua Ad Astra]

Alright, sounds good. Do you have AIM?

If so, contact me at PrArdua.

[el doctor]

Yeah, I have AIM. screen name = exo489

Too late to start sending tonight as I've had a long day and am tired, but I don't have work or anything tomorrow so I'll contact you to send it. It's like 1 GB. :eek:

[sensitiveorgan00]

ARGH. I wish I had my new hard drive right now. Sh.it, Disappear live was so incredible. And it was my first time hearing Pull Me Under. That was some great shi.t. :thumb: Man, I wish they would come to Manhattan again with Yes.

[Bartender]

A Change Of Seasons!!

I'm not a huge DT fan, but that makes me jealous. So very jealous :(

[mexicanfloydian]

They didnt play metropolis, space dye vest, learning to live.
Don't they play those anymore?

[The JoZ]

el doctor, I want the concert too...and neither you nor PerArdua are on AIM...gr

[el doctor]

This thing takes for ever to send... I'll see if I can figure out how to set up a torrent, it'll probably be much easier. Although if it's only two fo you that want it, I can send it from two computers. Meh, I'll figure something out.

[sensitiveorgan00]

How big is teh bootleg? And is it just audio?

[Bartender]

It's like 1 GB. :eek:

:-/

[sensitiveorgan00]

Oh snap. Whoops, didn't see that. Fvck, looks like I won't be getting teh bootleg.

[The JoZ]

I have decent speed cable internet, and my AIM is like always on, so...

[el doctor]

I tried sending to Per Ardua through AIM. The file transfer basically crashed after a few songs I think, which right there took like 2 hours maybe. =/ I hope this doesn't go against advertising rules, but I'm seeing if I can reseed the show on the link I posted before so it's up for download on bit torrent. I pretty nub when it comes to BT though...

[sensitiveorgan00]

I should get my friend to download that. He's all into Bit Torrent.

[el doctor]

ok guys, I'll definitely try and work on getting a fast way to download it, as it is a lot of stuff. I'm going out soon though so I won't be able to start working on this for a few hours.