Originally published in One Louder Mag.com · March 2012
Terry Date interview (excerpt)
Interview1 min read
OLM: And to finish things off... I may be a little biased, but I believe I’m saving the best questions for last! One of my all-time favorite bands is Dream Theater. I am a total DT nut, love those guys! What can you tell me about the When Dream and Day Unite sessions? Were the guys easy to work with? Would you consider them to be passionate or clinical (or both)? What do you remember most from those sessions?
TD: We all stayed in a 2-bedroom apartment near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The studio was called Kajem/Victory and was an old gun factory. I was told it was the factory that made the gun that killed Abraham Lincoln.
We made the record in three weeks and the guys were very much fun to work with! They were very dedicated, but also very human. The singer on that record was a little different than the rest of them and I don’t think he made any more records with them. [Ed note: Charlie Dominici was the vocalist on When Dream and Day Unite. This was the only Dream Theater album he appeared on; James LaBrie has been DT’s vocalist ever since].
Rehearsals for the record were in the basement of a beauty salon. We rehearsed after business hours and entered the basement through a trap door under one of the barber chairs.