Gigs attended by Moonies in 2006

[julieval]

Here's the list for PeterG and myself:

The Syn (just PeterG)
Dream Theater
Pearl Jam
Carl Palmer Band
Rick Wakeman
Bonnie Raitt
Ian Anderson with Lucia Micarelli
Chris Isaak
Asia
Alice Cooper
Trans Siberian Orchestra (Chicago)
Trans Siberian Orchestra (Worcester, MA) - still to come!

Originally Posted by julieval

Here's the list for PeterG and myself:

Dream Theater

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Could have been worse KW, I've actually suffered Dream Theater / Queensryche / Fates Warning at the Garden State Arts Center in '03.

My ears were bleeding by the end of Fates Warning and I had yet to suffer Queensryche and Dream Theater. Queensryche but at least DT actually played one or two songs below stone crushing volume. It was OK to watch DT play but the openers were just not my cup-o-tea (or pint-o-Guinness which would be more appropriate for me). How do you spell UNDERWHELMED? I did give it a go though a few times. Saw them first open for ELP and Deep Purple Again, with the aforementioned tour-de-ear-bleed-times-three, once for the 6ºs tour (unfortunately, they played little of the 6ºs) and then again as an opener for YES on the 2nd leg of the US 35th tour. They did an excellent rendition of Machine Messiah. Can't say there was much more that impressed me though.

Thanks VAX......I don't know what it is about DT that rattles my cage so much.

Actually I do.....it's that bloody singer!!!!!!

Now....back to nursing my hangover!!!!

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

Thanks VAX......I don't know what it is about DT that rattles my cage so much.

Actually I do.....it's that bloody singer!!!!!!

Now....back to nursing my hangover!!!!

When he's not trying to do the "heavy metal" thing, he's tolerable. He was the best of the vocalists at the ear-bleedX3 gig. The shaved head singer from Queensryche made LaFrenceCheese sound fantastic.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by julieval

Here's the list for PeterG and myself:

The Syn (just PeterG)
Dream Theater
Pearl Jam
Carl Palmer Band
Rick Wakeman
Bonnie Raitt
Ian Anderson with Lucia Micarelli
Chris Isaak
Asia
Alice Cooper
Trans Siberian Orchestra (Chicago)
Trans Siberian Orchestra (Worcester, MA) - still to come!

I'm not around much anymore to shoot the breeze so I didn't put 2 and 2 together that you and Peter were together. That's quite cool!

Nothing wrong with a Dream Theater show. I won't go anymore (I've seen four I think) because they're too brutally technical. The last time they played the entire Scenes of A Memory and it was just a bit too much. But I really liked Kevin Moore and John Myung on bass is a treat.

Funny about those guys. Jim Matheos from Fates Warning and Portnoy and Moore formed OSI, Petrucci and Portnoy formed Liquid Tension, Myung was with Platypus, and of course Portnoy with Neal Morse, etc. Quite an eclectic crew.

Anyone who thinks James LaBrie is just a screamer should check out the Ayreon CD he's on. He's quite good. It's just he goes too high on the DT material. That's more of the band showing off.

As for Queensryche, the November show was the entire Operation Mindcrime I and II, with actors. Incredible band. Geoff Tate was well within an acceptable range. I guess he was showing off just to hurt your ears vax but he's very good. That shaved head happens to
some when they get old. They've been around a while now.

Again, glad you liked DT.