Originally published in Kerrang magazine 532 · February 1995
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Dream Theater’s gig at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club was a star-studded affair. Well, there were some studs and a couple of stars, if you count Napalm Death’s gruntin’ goon Barney, Steve Howe of Yes and a couple of boring Marillions who jammed with them onstage. But the man the OTT team wanted to see – Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest – didn’t show up. Claimed he missed his flight from the Costa Del Sol. Which is funny, since our spies told us he’d pulled out two days earlier!
Someone who almost did miss her flight was a Japanese Dream Theater fan who came all the way from Tokyo to see them, showed up 20 minutes before the end and couldn’t get in! After some serious weeping on the doorstep (at the thought of still having to sit through 20 minutes of Dream Theater?), the bouncers relented!