After a mini-tour of the States and Japan, Long Island natives Dream Theater returned to New York to do a one-off at L’Amours in Brooklyn. The crowd for Dream Theater was a frenzied one, air-guitaring, screaming and flicking their Bics as DT tore through the material from their latest album (and one or two old numbers) Images And Words. A review of the show? What can you say? This band is flawless. For those people who thought this band’s style of progressive metal would go over the consumers head, check the numbers folks. Last week the band debuted on SoundScan’s Top 200 at number 196, this week they jump to number 159. They’re currently the number one most requested AOR band in the country as the video for single ‘Pull Me Under’ is in stress rotation at MTV. And they’re not even from Seattle. Jeez. By the next album, these guys will be huge. Openers Plato’s Retreat held their own, playing a set that was somewhere between Skid Row and Pantera. A&R folk, check ‘em out.