Jarick
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I liked his rig best (and he looked coolest) with hair and no beard/goatee?
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I'm imaging Fred rapping "Pull Me Unda...Pull Me Unda..Pull Me Unda I'm Not Afriad, Y'all!"I liked his rig best (and he looked coolest) with hair and no beard/goatee?
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I BET FRED'S RAP COACH TOLD HIM HE SHOULD BE A BASSIST, TOOHaha! They just pulling a standard JT manuveur. You should be honoured.![]()
Best DT albums can be found under “Liquid Tension Experiment”. IMOSame although I'm an older one at nearly 40.
I'm listening to the last track on I&W right now and it sounds like video game music. I keep thinking "oh this sounds like something from a Final Fantasy game I haven't played".
Planning to keep running through their albums to see what sticks. I will say the first five minutes of Metropolis I were pretty cool.
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I think he went to Mark V's after the RK's.his live "Train of Thought" and his "Suspended Animation" rigs sounded killer, I think those were both RoadKing II based rigs before he switched back to using Mark IV's?
Yeah there's a clip where both JP and MP both give him like 4 critiques in a row, and you can tell from his response that he's a little pissed.For being a dude who was told what, how and when to sing for more than half his career, he’s done quite a good job. I can’t sing other people’s lyrics, I feel stupid doing it and I can’t immerse myself in them. The times I have done it, it feels like someone else is singing. It was the most miserable aspect of being a singer in a band for me, I couldn’t imagine being locked into doing it as a career. Apparently he’s had the biggest beef with Portnoy over the years and I’m assuming a lot of it stems from exactly that.
Rush'dFor being a dude who was told what, how and when to sing for more than half his career, he’s done quite a good job. I can’t sing other people’s lyrics, I feel stupid doing it and I can’t immerse myself in them. The times I have done it, it feels like someone else is singing. It was the most miserable aspect of being a singer in a band for me, I couldn’t imagine being locked into doing it as a career.
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This is where I stick up for LaBrie. You won't see this oftenI was able to really get into LaBrie’s voice because I instantly heard it from the “That dude is a technical giant with his voice, I need to learn that” more than “Ew, he kinda sounds like a wimp”. I can absolutely understand his placement in the band and I LOVE his vocals on I&W. Even Awake, despite not really digging his gritty voice.
What’s funny is I never thought the whole food poisoning thing was a legit reason of why his vocals started changing. LaBrie himself didn’t mention that for about 20 years and then he came out and said his voice was never the same after throwing up and f*cking up a vocal chord, but I have to wonder if he just decided to rest on that ‘excuse’ because he just can’t do the early 90’s kind of vocals like he used to night after night and it’s easier to dispel it with one “I just can’t do it anymore since that food poisoning” than it is to explain how delicate the voice is, aging and those notes are REALLY f*cking high.
For being a dude who was told what, how and when to sing for more than half his career, he’s done quite a good job. I can’t sing other people’s lyrics, I feel stupid doing it and I can’t immerse myself in them. The times I have done it, it feels like someone else is singing. It was the most miserable aspect of being a singer in a band for me, I couldn’t imagine being locked into doing it as a career. Apparently he’s had the biggest beef with Portnoy over the years and I’m assuming a lot of it stems from exactly that.
This is where I stick up for LaBrie. You won't see this often
That time period where he (and oddly enough, different subgenre but 100% SAME vibe from my POV) and John Turturro in Sevendust did that thing where they think they're heavy with the godawful shouting backing vocals just needed to STAHP already. If I was LaBrie; that whole tell me what to do thing would be in the rearview really quickly. It took Portnoy getting dumped, I mean quitting, I mean not asked to join Avenged Sevenfold to seem to be humble. Though now he's in a band with a bunch of Rush heads releasing songs called Xanadu and another one that's one letter away from a Mr. Big song title and seemingly oblivious to howthat is
I had an opposite experience. Took a really hot GF to SFAM tour 2000, she LOVED it. Granted she got the hots for JP, but whatever. We hit both legs of the tour and then I hit both her legs after. Win win!I was a Dream Theater fan for a few months in high school before I realized DT is female repellent. I like John, I enjoyed Mike when he was still in it, not really into James. I like the idea of DT, just not the execution.
Little known fact: Guy Fieri tone is holy grail.TOAN IS IN THE FROSTED TIPS!
I tried turning a gf onto one of DT's live DVD's, and it had barely started and she's like, "It's all dudes!"I had an opposite experience. Took a really hot GF to SFAM tour 2000, she LOVED it. Granted she got the hots for JP, but whatever. We hit both legs of the tour and then I hit both her legs after. Win win!
Dating my now wife, wasnt into DT, but we saw JP in G3 and she now likes a few DT tunes.