Dream Theater

 

 

 

 

 

Dream Theater has become a successful progressive metal band. Although the band has had one successful hit ("Pull Me Under" in 1992, which received extensive MTV rotation), they have remained relatively out of the mainstream.
The band is well known for the technical proficiency of its instrumentalists, who have won many awards from music instruction magazines. Dream Theater's members have collaborated with many other notable musicians. Guitarist John Petrucci has been named as the third player on the G3 tour six times, more than any other invited guitarist, following in the footsteps of Eric Johnson and Robert Fripp. Drummer Mike Portnoy has won 23 awards from Modern Drummer Magazine and is also the second youngest person (at the age of 37) to be inducted into the Rock Drummer Hall of Fame.

The band's highest selling album is the gold selling Images and Words (1992), which reached #61 on the Billboard 200 charts.[1] Both the 1994 release Awake and their 2002 release Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also entered the charts at #32 and #46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also led to Dream Theater becoming the initial band reviewed in the Music Section of Entertainment Weekly during its opening week of release, despite the magazine generally preferring more mainstream music. In 2007, Systematic Chaos entered US Billboard 200 at #19.[1] Dream Theater has sold over two million albums in the U.S., and over 8 million records worldwide.The band's tenth studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, was released on June 23, 2009. It entered the US Billboard 200 at #6 and Eurochart Hot 100 at #1, marking their highest entry on either chart. Currently the musician and writer Jose Aranda is writing a doctoral thesis book about Dream Theater and the meaning of music.

Background information
Origin	Long Island, New York, United States
Genres	Progressive metal
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Roadrunner Records, Warner Bros, Atlantic, Elektra, EastWest, Atco, Mechanic

Members
John Petrucci John Myung James LaBrie Jordan Rudess Mike Mangini
Past members
Mike Portnoy Chris Collins Charlie Dominici Derek Sherinian Kevin Moore

Studio albums

• When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
• Images and Words (1992)
• Awake (1994)
• A Change of Seasons (1995)
• Falling into Infinity (1997)
• Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
• Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
• Train of Thought (2003)
• Octavarium (2005)
• Systematic Chaos (2007)
• Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
• A Dramatic Turn of Events (September 2011)

Tours

• Majesty Shows (1986 - 1988)
• Early Dream Theater Shows (1989)
• When Dream and Tour Unite (1989)
• Pre-Images and Words Shows (1990 - 1992)
• Images and Tour (1992 - 1993)
• Music in Progress Tour (1993)
• Pre-Awake Shows (1994)
• Waking Up the World Tour (1994 - 1995)
• A Change of Seasons Tour (1995)
• Home for the Holidays (1995)
• The Fix for '96 (1996)
• An Evening of New Music (1997)
• Touring into Infinity (1997 - 1998)
• Deep Purple/ELP/Dream Theater Tour (1998)
• An Intimate Evening with Dream Theater (1998)
• Pre-Scenes From a Memory (1999)
• Scenes From a Memory Tour (1999)
• Metropolis 2000 (2000)
• World Tourbulence (2002)
• Escape From the Studio (2003)
• Train of Thought Tour (2004)
• Octavarium Tour (2005 - 2006)
• Gigantour 2005 (2005)
• Chaos in Motion Tour (2007 - 2008)
• Progressive Nation 2008 (2008)
• Black Clouds & Silver Linings Tour (2009 - 2010)
• Progressive Nation 2009 (2009)
• The Final Frontier World Tour 2010 (2010)
• TBA (2011)