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Dream Theater - Score [2006] (NTSC)

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 0603497161928
Label : Warner Music Vision
Manufacturer : Warner Music Vision
Publisher : Warner Music Vision
Release date : 2006-09-04
Title : Dream Theater - Score [2006] (NTSC)
Audience rating : Exempt
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 2006-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 252
Studio : Warner Music Vision
Theatrical releaseDate : 2006-08-29
MPN : RHID971619D

Customer reviews

review by: ~ACID RAIN~ date: 2008-08-18 rating:

DREAM THEATER RULE
This two-DVD set captures the final concert of Dream Theater's 20th Anniversary Tour - April 1, 2006 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. It includes the entire show - nearly three hours, 90 minutes performed with a full orchestra. Also included is a one-hour documentary spanning the band's entire career and featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with current and previous members, plus several bonus live performances from 1993-2005.
Just buy and you don't forget this show!
Dream Theater rockin' this world!!! I watch this show more and more...

review by: The Brilliant Dog date: 2008-06-11 rating:

Does everything I wish Metallica's S&M had done
Unlike Metallica's S&M album the orchestra backing works and sounds like someone has taken the time to compose it. If you are a Dream Theater fan it a must buy. For those not familiar with DT - if you enjoy watching 'top of their game' musicians at work and like rock/metal in general, then you will probably enjoy this - there's nothing like a 42 minute song to totally absorb you into the music! Would have got 5 stars if they had held out for decent singer and left out the cheesy songs.

review by: date: 2007-03-13 rating:

Fascinating, ever-so-slightly cheesy, but ULTIMATELY AMAZING!
Dream Theater have long been considered one of the most technically proficient bands ever seen...and on the flip side they have long been the thorn in many a rocker's side due to their flamboyant songs, crazy time signatures and high pitched, fluffy haired singer...

However if you love Dream Theater, or hate then, one thing is for sure - this DVD is MORE than impressive. Spanning the band's back catalogue over the 20 year period the band has been in existence, this DVD is everything about Dream Theater...

Eclipsing the very disappointing Live at Budokan released a couple of years back, this DVD features a simply amazing production, both visually and audio wise, with James Labrie's vocals soaring high over the lovingly crafted and sometimes hectic musicianship from John, John, Jordan and Mike...

Hey, have you ever noticed how many J's there are in the DT band names? And to think James' real name is John too....!!

Anyway back to the sweetness. This DVD features an orchestra for half of the show, and the band playing the full Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (CD2) all the way through proved to be a lot more interesting and fun than I had initially thought. Somehow the band managed to keep my attention for the whole of its 251 minute running time, from the documentary to the funny Octavarium animation, and even the bonus tracks recorded in Tokyo and various other places were professional sounding and great to watch.

A lot has to be said about James labrie being on tip top form in this performance...something not seen since the stunning LiVE AT THE MARQUEE album recorded in London on the Images and Words tour.

This DVD is truly excellent, with plenty of replay value and a great production plus some great extras to boot.

I purchased this DVD with the CD version for about 22 pounds, an excellent price for this much Dream Theater...the only problem is, I can travel to and from work TWICE and still not have finished listening to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence...!!

review by: andyjlambeth date: 2006-12-22 rating:

To be fair
The previous reviewer made a good review but I feel 1 or 2 things need to be added . He seemed to like comparing the performances to the studio albums a lot . While thats no bad thing , what a band is trying to achieve live can be very different to in the studio including limitations in the size of a gong on stage !

Sure there are 1 or 2 flaws in sound , but considering the complexity/length of the set , and the fact that there are 30-40 musicians playing at times its an amazing performance especially considering that the band and orchestra had only a day's practice together (according to Mike Portnoy) .

Buy this if you enjoyed any of their other dvd's or like superb songs and musicianship in general . Oh , and having 2 unreleased songs on the dvd is wicked , and I was happy to hear them !

review by: date: 2006-12-06 rating:

Individual Song Review
So yet another Dream Theater live album. It seems they are getting carried away with releasing live albums but since it's 20 years, I'll let them off.

Each song individually has it's flaws and flaunts so in order.

The Root Of All Evil:
An excellent intro with the the end of In The Name Of God outro. The intro has some volume issues and god knows what that sound is coming from Jordan's Korg is, infact Jordan got to me twice on this song. Whilst everything else with this song is perfect Jordan's keyboard solo offers a lot of random notes not heard on the CD and a really cheesy high trebble sound that doesn't provide the same edge as that of the CD. Otherwise the song is excellent.

I Walk Beside You:
Perfect, nothing more to add.

Another Won:
Here's were thing's take a turn. It's a good idea to play a song that hardly anybody knows. Especially a song of this length and style a good choice but unreleased songs aren't always a good idea...

Afterlife:
I enjoy when Dream Theater don't forget when they started back with Dream and Day. And the song is excellent all round and they probably couldn't have played a better song from the album.

Under A Glass Moon:
Again hardly any flaws and personally I believe the ending was better than that of Images & Words's version. But there was no need for the little cheesy bit in the middle so cut you're vibraphones out Jordan. James's voice was also an excellent improvement to any other live edition on this song.

Innocence Faded:
What an excellent performance (whilst it was missing John and Mike's "ahhhhhs" during the chorus) The song was great and LaBrie's voice was ... Phenomenal... superb during the second verse, still sends chills everytime I listen to it.

Raise The Knife:
Now remember what I said about unreleased songs...
As good as the song is, us fans love to see released songs old and new live for the first time on film, but instead of doing Falling Into Infinity any justice whatsoever we have to take on another unreleased song which is over 10 minutes and half way through this you begin to hope it will end and you'll see a song you know. But a good perfomance never the less.

The Spirit Carries On:
Sometimes it's a good idea to lead people into thinking you're going to play a mediocre/poor snog like Through Her Eyes and then change to a Classic like Spirit... and this time it worked! Watching it I thought oh god here we go and then a smile rose as that D major was played. I believe the song was short of the gospel choir who were great in Live Scenes from New York, but Theresa Thomason wasn't missed dearly as James voice was again excellent and this time not OTT.

Uh oh here comes the "Octavarium Orchestra"...

Without a shadow of a doubt the worst part about this concert (in some cases) is this terribly out of tune orchestra and sounds like my old school brass band trying to play the A-Team theme tune. Although it would have been worse without the orchestra they could have done better with the likes of the San Francisco Symphony that played with Metallica for S&M who were fantastic with a band that didn't suit as much as DT did.

Six Degrees Of Innerturbulence:
Overture:
The song is ok and has a few timing and tuning issues. But over does the song justice.

About To Crash:
Very well played, nothing bad about the song.

War Inside My Head:
Again the Orchestra bring it down a bit but overall very nice.

The Test That Stumped Them All:
A big improvement for this song and WIMH compared to that of Live In Budokan. Also the lack of Orchestra in this song is good as it's pure DT hard rock.

Goodnight Kiss:
God only knows how James managed to perform the songs intro in key with that orchestra and he also kicked Budokan out the window with that terrible intro performance with this flawless version. Yet another improvement from Budokan.

Solitary Shell:
Very nicely done, I've seen a few bootlegs of this song where John Petrucci is lazy enough to just keep a 6 string throughout, but here he decides to break out the 18 string double neck once again. Very Very happy that James said "Let's see the hands" again. Very good song again and another improvment.

About To Crash (Reprise):
Probably the weakest song on the whole DVD where James just can't hit the notes exact but again not bad to watch as it's quite short.

Losing Time:
This grande finalé isn't quite as good as the CD although it is excellent right up until the last few seconds. James ends that last "Mind" way to quickly. And Mike's gong is obviously WAY to small and it sounds like he's just smacking a china symbol.

Overall the song is good and enjoyable to listen to though.

Vacant:
Well short and sweet does Train of Thought little justice but an ok song.

The Answer Lies within:
Like IWBY this song is perfect with no flaws.

Sacrificed Sons:
This song was probably the strong point of the Orchestra but one of the weakest of JOhn Petrucci's as this solo is the kind of solo that you can't help noticing all the flaws with and there are a few, but it's a difficult one so we can let him off. Excellent performance altogether.

Octavarium:
Well here it is unlike a Change of Seasons we only had to wait a year to see it in all its glory and it really is fantastic and the orchestra do a decent job also.

Metropolis:
Well finally, we wait 12 years to see a full uninterupted live version of this song and it all pays off. The intro and everything. Only flaw is the bass solo isn't as clear as on Budokan's Instrumedley but overall just brilliant and not a better way to top off 20 years than with this fanatic classic.

Overall 4.5/5 mainly for that mediocre orchestra which almost ruined the show. Thankfully they did just enough to call it a fantastic show.

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