I watched about 45 minutes of this in someone's dorm nearby where I heard the music blasting, and I must say, this was pretty freaking neat. The only Dream Theater listening experience I had prior to watching it was just hearing "A Change of Seasons," and this was rather entertaining. A good big sound, and the keyboard-player was intense, especially with the finger board.

I gotta say, Dream Theater are absolute BEASTS live. Something almost hypnotic about the way Myung rocks back and forth, although Petrucci is slightly disappointing. Mike's a great live performer, and LaBrie's vocals are fantastic here. The keyboards almost scare me with their speed, and this may well be my favourite live performance of all time, along with NINs And All That Could Have Been.

More like Snore.

Album Rating: 4.0

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The only DT live album I have is the Budokan one. I really want to see them live.

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Album Rating: 4.5

I'd say this is better than the Budokan. I saw Dream Theater live at Progressive Nation last year, it was amazing. Then I saw Liquid Tension Experiment at their 25th Anniversary tour, which was the most incredible display of musicianship I've seen live.

Album Rating: 4.0

Raise the Knife and Another Won are so awesome on this.

"a behavior that kept her aliiiiiiiiiiiive"

that was so epic.

Album Rating: 4.5

Raise The Knife is definitely one of the highlights, along with Sacrificed Sons, my favorite performance off of the whole DVD, that song absolutely slays with the orchestra.

Album Rating: 5.0

Raise the Knife blew me away and now i cant find it anywhere!

are the vocals overdubbed on this? doesnt sound live to me

Album Rating: 3.5

oh its live, i had front row seats..

Album Rating: 3.5

That fucking out of tune violin ruins the whole album

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

This is a must for any fan, surely. Prolly not the album to get into DT with mostly because of the many deep cuts. Man, I love the idea of going through every album from their history. Would absolutely love to have the same thing for the 40th anniversary too. Dream setlist for that:



1. The Killing Hand/Ytse Jam

2. Metropolis Pt. 1/Learning to Live/Under a Glass Moon/Take the Time

3. Erotomania/Lie/Caught in a Web/Scarred/6:00

4. ACOS

5. Burning My Soul/Lines in the Sand

6. DotE/Beyond this Life

7. The Glass Prison/The Great Debate

8. Stream of Consciousness/Honor Thy Father

9. Panic Attack/Octavarium/Root of all Evil

10. The Dark Eternal Night/In the Presence of Enemies

11. A Nightmare to Remember/The Count of Tuscany

12. Breaking All Illusions

13. Illumination Theory/Enemy Inside

14. N/A

15. Pale Blue Dot/At Wit's End



Haven't really listened enough to s/t and The Astonishing to be very familiar with the tracks, but holy shit what an epic setlist!

Album Rating: 4.0

Bought the DVD of this years ago, haven't watched it on years but I remember it being a really great live album.