From: ender@uunet.uu.net (Pete Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Subject: Images and Tour 92 - Dream Theater at the Bayou 10/6/92
Date: 7 Oct 1992 03:26:39 -0400
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Mortgage your house... sell you car...  call in dead to work... DO WHATEVER
YOU HAVE TO DO TO SEE DREAM THEATER ON THEIR "IMAGES AND TOUR 92"!!!!!!!!!!

I just got back from the Dream Theater show at the Bayou in Washington, D.C.
and the first thing I have to say is that the best album of 1992 has just
become the best live show of 1992.  Believe it.  You MUST see Dream 
Theater.  Drive 50 miles, drive 100 miles.  Does James hit all those
amazing notes live?  Yes...  and them some.  Does John P. pull off
all those amazing licks just like on the album?  No...  he does them better
(and he was sick too!)  Does John M. get riffs out of his bass that would
make Billy Sheehan cringe?  You betcha.  Every band member was extremely,
nay EXCRUTIATINGLY precise.  I was completely enraptured.  They more
than made up for the two opening acts (Final Strike & Dead, White, and
Blue.  Pray they aren't coming to your town.) who occasionally soared
to new heights in mediocrity.

I'll now give you the set list... but first a CTRL-L so those of you
who want to be suprised can bail out now.  (Let's hope this works!)




METROPOLIS - PART I "The Miracle And The Sleeper"
UNDER A GLASS MOON
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
SURROUNDED
PULL ME UNDER
YTSE JAM	(Am I the only one who didn't know this was Majesty
		 spelled backwards?  Thanx for the info Scott!)
MOON BUBBLES	(Instrumental.  Started out somewhat like THE ONES WHO
		 HELP TO SET THE SUN.  Awesome guitar work by Mr.
		 Petrucci!)
ANOTHER DAY
ANOTHER HAND	(Nifty segue between ANOTHER DAY and...)
THE KILLING HAND
(G'nite folks, etc)
PIANO		(Kevin Moore plays some sweet sound piano, then begins...)
WAIT FOR SLEEP
LEARNING TO LIVE

Yes, you can trust the titles of MOON BUBBLES and ANOTHER HAND (and
even PIANO).  I grabbed the actual set list from the stage.  =)

And if you're as lucky as we were the band might hang out for a bit after
the show, chatting and signing autographs.  Some completely useless bits
of trivia follow:

James' favourite song to sing from "When Dream And  Day Unite":
	"The Killing Hand:
James' favourite song to sing from "Images And Words":
	"Surrounded"
(He did mention that these change, these are his CURRENT faves)

John Petrucci's tip for aspiring guitarists:
	"Listen to Steve Morse.  The Dregs.  The Dregs is the shit."
=)

Kevin Moore on the D.C. crowd:
	"You guys were a great crowd."
<someone asks who was the best crowd on tour so far>
	"We've only been on tour for a week!  But out of seven days
	 you were the best crowd."
(Hype?  Who knows... =) )


Well, I'm sure some of the other attendees would like to ramble a bit
about the show as well, so I'll leave the rest up to them.

GO SEE DREAM THEATER.
You won't regret it.



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