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“A Change of Seasons” was originally planned to be released on “Images and Words”. The track was cut on the strict understanding that the label would allow them to record and release it at a later date. The song […]

The band had talks with another label called Atco Records (now EastWest), a division of Elektra Records, before being able to get out of the Mechanic Records deal. There was an understanding that if the band was […]

While the band searched for a vocalist after firing Dominici, the band wrote most of the music that would end up on ‘Images and Words’ instrumentally from 1989 to 1992, when the album was released.

Dream Theater first approached John Arch (of Fates Warning fame – a band he’d recently quit). In fact, Arch himself thinks he might have influenced Dream Theater into firing Dominici by making remarks backstage […]

Here are some of my favorite ones:
“Watching mortality, I mow the lawn” (Wanting mortality, i’m all alone) – The Killing Hand

“Death is the first dancing turtle” (Death is the first dance eternal) – Metropolis […]

Terry Brown produced Scenes From a Memory, and also provided the voice for the hypnotherapist. But he asked for royalties for live use of his voice, which was not something Dream Theater expected at all. As Mike […]

No, not technically… since this doesn’t include JR’s or JLB’s wives. But the Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and John Myung are all married to women who used to be in the same band together.

Meanstreak were an […]

It was originally recorded by a Swede named Calle Rydberg and posted to the various DT message boards (to pretty harsh reviews!) in 2004.

This is a parody entitled “Fly Me To The Glass Moon” which was played as the after-show music to many DT shows. It was performed by Chris Santaniello and Eric Yip and was arranged by Kosaku (last name unknown), […]

It was a joke on the Metropolis 2000 DVD about Jordan’s playing poses. A DT fan and artist by the name of Andrew Saltmarsh created a fake image of the action figure packaging much to the amusement of DT forumers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpQ-RDiVPoY