Wilma

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

The following was posted in JR’s tour diary on October 31st 2002:

In this band you NEVER know what is gonna happen. It is a group made up of very unusual, unpredictable characters! Tonight we played in Fuerth […]

According to the band, the correct pronunciation is ‘yit-say-jam’.

The story is losely based on the movie “Dead Again” with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, directed by Kenneth Branagh.

This is Mike Portnoys brief summary:
MP: It’s a story about a person in the modern day, 199 […]