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Summary: A truly amazing dvd
Review: At last I can see what the musicians are doing up there on stage! Petrucci is lightening fast, Portnoy creative and enthusiastic, LeBrie hits vocal ranges no one but an opera star can hit, Rudess is absolutely incredible, and the fingers on both of John Myung's hands fly over his six-string bass. I spend most of my time watching this video saying "holy moly - how do they DO that?!?" and being totally enthralled by the music. Thank you, thank you for giving the fans this terrific video!
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Summary: Great concert, not so good DVD
Review: Ok, this really came as a disapointment to me and I really feel bad to have to write this. What do I mean? Well, the concert was great! I saw the tour in Orlando at the House of Blues and I was WOWED!!! Dream Theater is a really impressive band, with more talent behind them than any other single band today. Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory is probably one of the best pieces of work I have ever heard from Dream Theater, let alone 90% of the other bands out there. The concert was a perfect recreation of the album with nothing left out. Just a straight shot through with some minor differences here and there. Now, I'm sure you're asking "how could he be giving this DVD only three stars when he is praising the album so much"? Let me assure you it was a hard thing to decide on a three star review for one of the best concerts I have ever seen, with one of the best albums I have ever heard, and one of the most talented bands around... For starters, lets start with the disc being in pan and scan (Full Screen). In this so-called "High Definition" world that we are entering, pan and scan is a joke. Luckily this is just shots of the stage, but most of you know that a Pan & Scan disc cuts off the edges of the full picture to crop it on to a normal 4:3 television. What about those people who have a 16:9 set or plan on purchasing a Widescreen TV in the near future? I was really hoping for a widescreen release of this concert with animorphic enhancements, but that didn't happen! There goes one star... Next, 2.0 Dolby Surround sound... What went wrong here? This film was recorded in the year 2000. The same year DVD Audio was released! The same year that Super Audio Compact Discs were brought out on the market. The same year that every new film is either encoded in DTS or Dolby Digital 5.1 and the Dream Theater DVD has none of the above. I guess the folks at Elektra and whoever mastered the audio tracks on this disc found it unimportant to give all of us audiophiles out here a great sound track. I don't get it... Eric Clapton and The Eagles got DTS encodings with Clapton's Unplugged show and the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over concert. What a big upset to Dream Theater fans when all we get was a two-channel stereo source. Thank God for Pro Logic, DTS Neo 6 and the up and coming Pro Logic 2. But still, I'd appreciated a 5.1 audio encoding of some sort. There goes the other star to make it only a 3 star review. Those were the downfalls to Dream Theater's first DVD release. Sorry I had to tear it apart, but I'm sure others will be very disapointed with a lot of the aspects to this DVD. I'm looking at it from a technical view. I couldn't have been any happier with the Metropolis album, nor could I have ever been disappointed with the concert. That would have been hard to ruin ;) But, I'm glad this DVD has finally been released. I have been awaiting it since November when I first heard the news of a DVD release. I just find it odd that it had been pushed back from early Feb to late April and it was released with the most basic features. Well, I just have to say it!!! Great Concert, perfect album, but the DVD is nowhere near perfection. Overall, I would give my ultimate recommendations to purchasing this DVD. There is absolutely no reason why this disc should not be in your collection, however I do pray for an Ultimate Edition in the future with some more bonus material and better audio encoding. Widescreen would be a plus too! Do your self a favor! Buy it. Watch it. Enjoy it. Because, it is Dream Theater's first, and only DVD yet.
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Summary: Dream Theater forever.....
Review: All I have to say is that I was at this concert as well and it was the single most breathtaking experience of my life. I highly recomend this DVD to all rock fans across the world due to the pure fact that Dream Theater is the GOD of all music and I say this literally. Jordan Rudess (King of the ivorys) is my hero and I will cherish this dvd for the rest of my life. LONG LIVE DREAM THEATER.. BUY THIS DVD... IT OOZES GREATNESS!!.... seriously.. Right Matt, Steve, and Rob?
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Summary: DT ROCKS
Review: HEY LISTEN I WAS AT THIS SHOW AND IT WAS AMAZING IT WAS THE BEST CONCERT I'VE EVER BEEN TO. nOW IF YOU LIKE ROCK MUSIC YOU WILL ABSOLUTLY LOVR THIS DVD. FROM THE WAILING GUITARS OF JOHN PETRUCCI TO THE AMAZING TALENT OF JORDAN RUDESS THIS DVD IS ALL AROUND AMAZING. IF YOU WERE TO BUY ANY OTHER CONCERT VIDEO I WOULD HAVE TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND DESTROY IT BECAUSE IT IS INFERIOR TO THIS DVD.
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Summary: Be fat
Review: I was at this show and it was good. Because Roseland was general admission I kept rubbing up againest some foreign girl. It was good. Dream Theater was good too. Scenes From Memory from start to finish, then they took a break and showed a video of weird stuff ( Willy Wonka, some naked guy giving himself oral, scarface, reservoir dogs, etc. , Metroplois Part 1, Change Of Seasons, Learning to live, Some LTE stuff, Erotomania, Voices, Silent Man, other stuff I don't remember. DT is the best band ever as well as Tool. Buy this DVD and be fat forever......................................................................................................................FAT!!!!
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Summary: Dream Theater does it again
Review: If I were to name the top Progressive Rock bands in the world, I could have thought of Dream Theater as one of the best, followed closely by Queensryche in their good times, and the master of all, Pink Floyd. As far as the group in question, DT is currently kicking hard with their last CD, "Scenes from a memory". The disk, a concept album, has a story about a murder, viewed from several angles, throughout the album. Storyline is quite interesting, music is amazing, and vocals are terrific!. Here you see 5 masters of their instruments, playing at top notch, working in a unison not regularly seen, at blazing speeds, and always keeping consistency and stability. As a studio album, it makes me fly every single time I hear it...as a live set? WOW, WOW, WOW!! I know that sounds too little a description, but, when there are no words to describe the amazement, it's the only thing that I could write! As a fan of high quality music, I find DT to be one of those few groups who actually do master their music. As a rock fan, damn, this guys kick some serious booty! If you fall into any of the 2 cathegories, buy this DVD! DT will not turn you down. The image quality and sound is truly amazing, worth the piece of art that the album represents. If you can, you should also try to buy the actual CD "Scenes", as it is considered by most Prog Rock fans a definite MUST HAVE.
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Summary: Dream Theater : "Metropolis 200"
Review: This was a major disappointment. This has to be the most amaturistic pile of steaming dung I've ever seen. I have lost all respect for DT after veiwing just 10 minutes of this DVD.... The whole set up is laughable. Their are about maybe 500 fans, and their is no stage scenery at all. It looks like it was filmed in someone's warehouse. The muscianship is solid, but not that impressive IMO. Everyone here raves about how great these guys are live, but there really isn't anything here to convince me these guys are for real. It's just plain cheesy. I expected much much more than this. A big crowd, and big stage, and a big sound. I got none of the above. It's weak and very amaturistic for a band that's been around as long as DT has.... UP THE IRONS!!!
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Summary: bla
Review:
I feel that the corny effects is annoying. Most people who buy this dvd will be watching it over and over and over again simply for the music. but guess what, everytime you watch it over, you're gonna have to see the damn story line played out everytime! It takes away the rawness of the show.
Yes the sound is too low, but you can still enjoy it. I mean come on, most of us either watches it from a computer or their living rooms. the sound is fine for what it's worth!
This is the first time i've seen dream theater, first time hearing them, and first time for me to really listen to "progressive" rock.
With that said, I feel that dream theater made their music so complicated and difficult it's almost impossible to play along! Most of the songs are choppy (as if there were 20 songs put into 1 song). The song has no particular pattern, it seems like the singer is just coming up with melody right at the spot.
Again, the little movies in between songs just annoys the hell out of you when you watch the dvd. It's KINDA cool when you watch it the first time, but after that, who cares?????
Along with this dvd, i also ordered john petrucci "rock discipline." I feel that Petrucci is less of a player compared to satriani and vai. His solos just arn't as wild and sometimes they're boring.
So far, the only DVD that is by the far the best, would be "cunning stunt" metallica. but then again, metallica has similiar songs, so that's a yawner.
every dvd concert out there has their flaws! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! "cunning stunt" is prob. the best! too bad it's metallica and not steve vai or satriani.
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Summary: GREAT SHOW - HORRIBLE SOUND
Review: No need to comment on the performances. These guys rock, period. The DVD production isn't good. All those effects are annoying and although I can understand where Portnoy is comming from on deciding on those effects, I think they're very amateur looking and completely unecessary.
The sound is another shame in this DVD. Something as simple as compression -- yes, it's simple -- was overused and abused. I am a recording engineer and I can't believe they did such a crappy job on mixing this concert. It may have been captured wrong, maybe Kevin Shirley was drunk, who knows...
I watched this DVD two times just for the sake of it but the sound quality won't let me play it a trird time.
Hopefully the next DVD live in Tokio will be mixed by japanese engineers.
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Summary: Great.....But
Review: Like other reviews here, I had to take away a star for the cheesy effects. The musicianship and sound quality is great though. I hope they haven't made the same mistake with their forthcoming DVD.
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