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Dream Theater Biography
The technically proficient guitar playing of John Petrucci elevated
Dream Theater to the upper echelons of contemporary heavy metal. While
its lineup has continuously evolved, the Long Island-based quintet has
consistently delivered sharp-edged music. Dream Theater is known for
its high-energy concert performances. While they've released several
live albums -- Live at the Marquee, recorded at the London club; Live
in Japan, recorded during the Music in Progress tour in 1993; and a
triple CD and DVD, Live Scenes from New York -- they remain one of
heavy metal's most bootlegged bands.
Originally named Majesty by Berklee College of Music students Petrucci,
bassist John Myung, and drummer Mike Portnoy, the band soon expanded
with the addition of keyboard player Kevin Moore and vocalist Chris
Collins. Releasing an eight-tune demo, Majesty Demo, as Majesty, the
group sold 1,000 copies within six months. The departure of Collins in
late 1986 left Majesty without a vocalist, and after a long period of
auditioning possible replacements, the group settled on Charlie
Dominici in November 1987. Changing its name, the group agreed on
Dream Theater, inspired by a now-demolished California movie theater.
Signing with Mechanic Records, the group began working on its first
full-length album. Delays caused by label mismanagement limited the
group to performing at small clubs and bars. Frustrated by its
experiences with the label, Dream Theater finally severed its ties with
Mechanic.
This was only one drastic change in the band's course of action. Firing
Dominici, the group spent the next couple years searching for a
vocalist. The search ended in late 1991 when a demo tape from Canadian
vocalist James LaBrie, formerly of Winter Rose, arrived. After flying
to New York to audition, LaBrie was invited to join the band. Signing
with Atco Atlantic (which came to be known as East West), Dream Theater
released its second album, Images & Words, in 1992. One of three
videos based on songs from the album, Pull Me Under, became an MTV
hit. Although Theater showed considerable growth with their third
studio album, Awake, recorded between May and July 1994, the group
continued to be hampered by personnel changes. Before the album was
mixed, keyboardist Moore left the group to focus on his solo career.
Hired as a temporary replacement for the band's Waking Up the World
tour, Derek Sherinian later became a permanent member. His first
recording with Dream Theater was a 23-minute epic, A Change of
Seasons, written in 1989 and released in September 1995 on the album
of the same name.
Following a mini tour, Fix for '96, the members of Dream Theater
separated for several months and became involved with a variety of
outside projects. Petrucci was the busiest. In addition to joining
Portnoy and keyboard player Jordan Rudess in the Liquid Tension
Experiment -- a group that included influential bassist/stick player
Tony Levin -- Petrucci played guitar with Trent Gardner's Explorers
Club and made a guest appearance on Shadow Gallery's Tyranny album.
Myung and Sherinian collaborated with King's X vocalist Ty Tabor in the
band Platypus. LaBrie worked with Mull Muzzler, a group formed with
Matt Guillory and Mike Mangini.
Dream Theater experienced yet another change when Rudess was tapped to
replace Sherinian, who had been fired in 1999. The band released the
progressive rock-heavy Scenes from a Memory that year, a conceptual
piece that followed the story of a 1928 murder of a young woman and how
a modern man is haunted by the crime. It was followed by Live Scenes
from New York in 2001, which suffered from an unintentional bout with
controversy when its original cover featuring the city of New York in
flames was pulled due to the events of September 11. The group
continued in the progressive metal vein in 2002 with Six Degrees of
Inner Turbulence, followed by the leaner Train of Thought in 2003 and
Octavarium in 2005. The live album Score: XOX was released in 2006 and
featured the band backed by a 29-piece orchestra. It was followed a
year later by the new studio album Systematic Chaos.
Sherinian went on to record as a soloist and to play with a prog and
jazz fusion band, Planet X. Petrucci released an eponymously titled
solo album in 2003, featuring accompaniment by Dave LaRue of the Dixie
Dregs and Boston-based drummer Dave DeCenso. ~ Craig Harris, All Music
Guide