Originally published in El Paso Times · November 1994
Band lets its emotions flow free
by Rosanna Salgado · El Paso Times, November 1994
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Rock band Dream Theater maintains an unpredictable edge while keeping rock ‘n’ roll fans happy. Gustavo Lozano said he’s been listening to Dream Theater since it started in 1992. He said the band has come a long way in two years, both lyrically and rhythmically. “The sound has a definite crunch and the lyrics really make you pay attention. It has heart and it rocks,” he said.
Dream Theater’s first recording “Images and Words,” labeled the band “the alternative to the alternative” in music circles. It also produced the group’s first hit single “Pull Me Under”. The group is now promoting its second release, “Awake.” Frontman James LaBrie said it is just what the band needed. “We’ve been riding an emotional rollercoaster for the past three-and-a-half years. Between getting signed, then making ‘Images and Words,’ and then going out on the road for a year-and-a-half, life has been really crazy for us. We really had all these feelings of pain, anger, frustration, and awareness that we had to get out of us. Making this album was very theraputic because it allowed us to release all of these emotions and capture them on record,” he said.
Open bands for Dream Theater are Austin alternative rockers Push Monkey