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KIDS & DADS of Dream Theater Autographed Concert Tees!
Added on 07-11-2008
Dream Theater Charity Auction
to benefit Camp Good Days
Presents...
A TRULY "ONE OF A KIND" ITEM...
A "Chaos in Motion" Tour Tee AUTOGRAPHED by each of the band member's children!
This package also comes with the Adult Size of the same tee, autographed by "the DAD'S" aka Dream Theater!
What is the story behind this very creative package? Well, when the members of Dream Theater were so kindly autographing shirts for the purpose of this auction series, some of the band members' children were present. The kids asked if they could also sign a shirt for the auction, wanting to do their part to help support Camp Good Days!
The shirts were chosen...those containing the cartoon images of the band members, as that particular shirt came in both adult and children's sizes. And the kids made the decisions! They decided that each child would autograph the shirt next to the image of his or her father.
On the child's autographed shirt you will find the signatures of:
Chloe and Chance LaBrie
Ari and Kayla Rudess
Melody and Max Portnoy
Brandon and Christian Myung
Sami, Kiara and Reny Petrucci
Click here for more details!
Charity Auction - Ernie Ball~Music Man "John Petrucci" Autographed Guitar
Added on 07-04-2008
For Immediate Release
July 2, 2008
Contact: Samantha Cattaneo
315-434-9477 or scattaneo@campgooddays.org
DREAM THEATER CHARITY AUCTION SERIES TO BENEFIT
CAMP GOOD DAYS & SPECIAL TIMES
presents an
Ernie Ball~Music Man "John Petrucci" Autographed Guitar
Syracuse, NY -
As part of a continuing series to benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times, the Ernie Ball/Music Man Guitar Company has generously built and donated a beautiful "John Petrucci" model guitar, currently available for auction at Ebay's "Dream Theater Charity Auction Site". John Petrucci is best known as the guitarist and founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He is also the band's producer and main lyricist as well as an original member of the acclaimed Liquid Tension Experiment with Tony Levin. John is a long standing veteran of Joe Satriani's prestigious G3 tours along with Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Paul Gilbert.
Since August 2007, Petrucci and his band mates have been donating items for their "Dream Theater Charity Auction Series to benefit Camp Good Days". Camp Good Days is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life challenges. For 29 years, Camp Good Days has been providing free residential camping programs at their Recreational Facility in Branchport, New York as well as year-round support activities. Such an accomplishment would never be possible without friends like Dream Theater and events like this charity auction.
The EBMM John Petrucci Six String Guitar is the current model and option for the Petrucci Series. The color is Desert Gold and the guitar sports a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and a basswood body. Of course, John Petrucci has autographed this guitar as well. The Ebay auction began on July 2nd and will end Wednesday, July 9th.
For additional information, photographs and to place your bid for this very special auction item, please visit Ebay's "Dream Theater Charity Auction Site" at http://stores.ebay.com/Dream-Theater-Charity-Auction-Site.
For more information about this auction series or Camp Good Days and Special Times, please contact Samantha Cattaneo - scattaneo@campgooddays.org
- 315-434-9477 http://www.campgooddays.org/.
About Camp Good Days and Dream Theater:
The Charity Auction Series is the brainchild of siblings Mike Portnoy, drummer for Dream Theater and Samantha Cattaneo, Syracuse Office Coordinator for Camp Good Days. Samantha is a pediatric cancer survivor herself, and so the mission of Camp Good Days has been one that both Mike and she appreciated. Her disease has obviously helped steer her career toward Camp Good Days. Her brother's success with Dream Theater seemed a fortuitous way to gain support for such a worthy organization.
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Samantha Cattaneo
Syracuse Office Coordinator
Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc.
DREAM THEATER'S GREATEST HIT (...and 21 other pretty cool songs) - due April 1st
Added on 01-12-2008
DREAM THEATER COLLECT THEIR GREATEST HIT
(...& 21 other pretty cool songs)
The Acclaimed Band’s First-Ever Best-Of Compilation Spans 14 Years of Progressive Hard Rock and Includes Rare Edits and B-Sides
Features Three New Remixes by Kevin Shirley of
“Pull Me Under,” “Take The Time” and “Another Day”
Two-Disc Set Available April 1 from Rhino
ORDER NOW AT CD UNIVERSE (USA) OR PLAY.COM (EUROPE).
LOS ANGELES - After recently celebrating the band’s 20-year anniversary, Dream Theater returns with its first-ever best-of collection. Spanning 1991-2005, the two-disc set contains rare single edits, B-sides and a trio of new remixes that spotlight that band’s nonpareil musicianship, complex arrangements and amazing songwriting. Dream Theater’s GREATEST HIT (...& 21 other pretty cool songs) will be available from Rhino on April 1 at all physical retail outlets and www.rhino.com for a suggested retail price of $19.98 and at all digital retail outlets for a suggested retail price of $12.99.
Referring to Dream Theater’s first and only major radio hit, “Pull Me Under,” the compilation’s tongue-in-cheek title is a testament not only to the band’s sense of humor but also highlights the acclaimed New York-based quintet’s ability to make music and cultivate a legion of fans on its own terms, without help from radio or MTV. The collection features more than two hours of progressive hard rock from James LaBrie (vocals), John Myung (bass), John Petrucci (guitar/vocals), Mike Portnoy (drums/vocals) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards).
The collection contains three newly remixed versions of tracks from Dream Theater’s breakout 1992 album, Images And Words: the aforementioned “Pull Me Under” as well as “Take The Time” and “Another Day.” Portnoy says this album presented the perfect opportunity to give the songs a bit of a facelift. “The original mixes always sounded a bit ’80s’ to me, so we had our good friend and longtime mixer Kevin Shirley give the tracks a bit of an update to sound more like the rest of the Dream Theater catalog. The songs remain the same (no pun intended-Kevin just mixed that album as well), but there are little nuances in the tracks that I forgot were originally there, and it’s very cool to hear them again.”
The collection’s 22 songs are split evenly between two discs, which are divided into “The Dark Side” (the metallic) and “The Light Side” (the melodic). Filled with some of the band’s most sinister sounds, the first disc lives up to the billing of “The Dark Side.” Longtime fans will appreciate the abundance of alternative versions of classic tracks, including single edits of “Lie,” “Home,” and “Misunderstood.” Disc One concludes with two tracks from the band’s 2005 album Octavarium: “The Root Of All Evil” and “Sacrificed Sons.”
The second disc, “The Light Side,” spotlights the band’s melodic side and features an alternate mix of “Through Her Eyes,” a single edit of “Solitary Shell” and “To Live Forever,” a 1994 B-side from the U.K.-only single of “Lie.”
A grassroots phenomenon for 20 years, Dream Theater continues to record studio albums acclaimed for award-winning musicianship as well as artistic vision. To meet the demands of a demanding global fan base, the band also maintains an active touring schedule that regularly includes sold-out performances around the world.
Dream Theater has currently been on the road since June 2007, traveling the globe in support of their latest studio album Systematic Chaos. Their world tour will conclude with a final run throughout North America in May as they premiere their “Progressive Nation” package tour with Opeth, Between The Buried And Me, and 3 supporting.
DREAM THEATER’S GREATEST HIT
(...& 21 other pretty cool songs)
Track Listing
Disc 1: (The Dark Side)
- “Pull Me Under” (2007 Remix)
- “Take The Time” (2007 Remix)
- “Lie” (Single Edit)
- “Peruvian Skies”
- “Home” (Single Edit)
- “Misunderstood” (Single Edit)
- “The Test That Stumped Them All”
- “As I Am”
- “Endless Sacrifice”
- “The Root Of All Evil”
- “Sacrificed Sons”
Disc 2: (The Light Side)
- “Another Day” (2007 Remix)
- “To Live Forever”
- “Lifting Shadows Off A Dream”
- “The Silent Man”
- “Hollow Years”
- “Through Her Eyes” (Alternate Album Mix)
- “The Spirit Carries On”
- “Solitary Shell” (Single Edit)
- “I Walk Beside You”
- “The Answer Lies Within”
- “Disappear”
Dream Theater at iTunes
Added on 04-01-2008
"Well, three DT items were added to iTunes today....
And iTunes f*cked up 2 of the 3!! (ugh....why us???????)
- Forsaken EP (with 2 live tracks) - this one seems to be correct...(however because of some ridiculous iTunes EP rule, we weren't allowed to include the live version of TDEN because it was "too long"....)
- Greatest Hit (and 21 other pretty cool songs) - Disc 2 seems to be labelled incorrectly on this....so you have to relabel it yourself or wait a day or two for them to correct it.
- Greatest Hit (and 5 other pretty cool videos) - that's right! The first 6 DT promo videos are now available on iTunes - unfortunately the actual "greatest hit" itself (Pull Me Under) is currently missing from the bundle....once again, this should be fixed in the coming days....
Don't get me wrong, I love and support iTunes and find it an incredibly convenient way of shopping for music....but it isn't exactly DT-friendly!!!
MP"
You can buy "Greatest Hit (and 5 other pretty cool videos)" at iTunes through these links:
Charity Auction Series Wraps Up with BIG Items
Added on 06-23-2008
For Immediate Release
June 23, 2008
Contact: Samantha Cattaneo
315-434-9477 or scattaneo@campgooddays.org
CHARITY AUCTION SERIES TO BENEFIT
CAMP GOOD DAYS & SPECIAL TIMES
Charity Auction Series Wraps Up with BIG Items
Syracuse, NY - Since August 2007, the progressive rock band Dream Theater has been donating items for a charity auction to benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times. Camp Good Days is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life challenges. For 29 years, Camp Good Days has been providing free residential camping programs at their Recreational Facility in Branchport, New York as well as year-round support activities. Such an accomplishment would never be possible without friends like Dream Theater and events like this charity auction.
The Dream Theater Charity Auction Series was intended to coincide with the band's "Chaos in Motion" tour schedule; as the tour has just ended, the auction will be ending as well. There are smaller auction items that will be added to the Ebay site daily over the next two weeks (band autographed t-shirts, cd's, dvd's and posters) and two significant items at the auction's end. The first, a "Music Man" John Petrucci-model guitar, which Ernie Ball has generously built and donated for this cause, will be added to the auction on Wednesday, July 2nd and will be available for 7 days. The second item is a truly unique, one-of-a-kind shirt. Dream Theater offers a concert t-shirt with their likeness in cartoon animation. We have available one of these shirts, signed by all members of the band. However, with that will also be a child's size version of the shirt, signed by each of the band member's children (ranging in age from 2 to 12)! Both shirts will be put up for auction on July 9th and will be available for 7 days. The child-autographed shirt is the result of the band member's children wanting to do their part to help raise money for Camp Good Days and so seemed like the perfect way to end the Charity Auction Series.
To bid on the guitar, shirts or any of the other items, please visit Ebay's "Dream Theater Charity Auction Site" at http://stores.ebay.com/Dream-Theater-Charity-Auction-Site
For more information about this auction series or Camp Good Days and Special Times, please contact Samantha Cattaneo - scattaneo@campgooddays.org - 315-434-9477 or visit http://www.campgooddays.org/
About Camp Good Days and Dream Theater:
The Charity Auction Series is the brainchild of siblings Mike Portnoy, drummer for Dream Theater and Samantha Cattaneo, Syracuse Office Coordinator for Camp Good Days. Samantha is a pediatric cancer survivor herself, and so the mission of Camp Good Days has been one that both Mike and she appreciated. Her disease has obviously helped steer her career toward Camp Good Days. Her brother's success with Dream Theater seemed a fortuitous way to gain support for such a worthy organization.
Samantha Cattaneo
Syracuse Office Coordinator
Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc.
356 North Midler Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13206
Office: 315-434-9477
Fax: 315-434-9590
Cell: 315-882-2180
www.campgooddays.org
Dream Theater / "Percussive Nation 2008" in NYC
Added on 05-26-2008
Some great shots of "Percussive Nation 2008" from NYC show #1 can be found here:
http://gallery.christopherpetro.com/gallery/5006090_zBJLs/#300256403_ZYCrQ
And a cool fan shot video posted on YouTube of Mikael Akerfeldt joining Dream Theater for the very first live performance of "Repentance" at NYC show #2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3VWf3yS020
Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci interview on Headbanger's Blog
Added on 05-13-2008
Video Interview: Dream Theater Discuss History of Progressive Nation, Bands Chosen For Tour, Progressive Rock.
Dream Theater Charity Auction Series
Added on 06-09-2008
"Hi All!
Dream Theater's "Chaos in Motion Tour" has ended, but the Dream Theater Charity Auction Series is still going strong!
We have a bunch of DT goodies to auction off!! Starting immediately, there will be new "bundle packs" that will include
some combination of tee shirts, tour programs, cd's and/or dvd's added each day until I run out! I will be sprinkling our BIG items
as well (nothing bigger than the beautiful Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci guitar!).
The first "bundle pack" contains a DT concert tee and program, autographed of course, by the band! Check it out here.
Things are going to speed up quite a bit on the auction scene, so check the Ebay store often for updates!
PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH ABSOLUTELY ANYONE YOU THINK MIGHT BE INTERESTED!!! And don't forget... 100% of the proceeds of the
Dream Theater Charity Auction Series will be donated to our beloved Camp Good Days, where families who have been touched by cancer
can spend some fun, quality time with their peers in a safe environment. Camp is FREE OF CHARGE for all, which we would not be able
to do without the benefit of events like this Charity Auction.
Thanks & Happy Bidding!
~ Samantha
Syracuse Office Coordinator
Camp Good Days and Special Times"
Dream Theater on MTV2's Headbangers Ball on 5/31
Added on 05-23-2008
MTV2's Headbanger's Ball will air interviews with Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci on Sat May 31st.
Dream Theater Charity Auction Press Release
Added on 05-01-2008
For Immediate Release
April 30, 2008
Contact: Samantha Cattaneo
315-434-9477 or scattaneo@campgooddays.org
CHARITY AUCTION SERIES TO BENEFIT
CAMP GOOD DAYS & SPECIAL TIMES
Charity Auction Series to Begin May 5th
Syracuse, NY - An Ebay auction beginning on Monday, May 5th will kick off the second wave of the Dream Theater Charity Auction Series to benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times. Camp Good Days is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life threatening challenges. For 29 years, Camp Good Days has been providing free residential camping programs at their Recreational Facility in Branchport, New York as well as year-round support activities. Such an accomplishment would never be possible without friends like Dream Theater and events like this charity auction.
Since August 2007, Dream Theater has been donating band-related memorabilia to Camp Good Days in an effort to raise funds and awareness for Camp via a series of Ebay auctions. The Dream Theater Charity Auction Series generally runs in conjunction with the band's tour dates and so will begin May 5th, as the band reconvenes it's "Chaos in Motion" Tour.
The items being auctioned in the coming weeks will include (but not be limited to) an autographed copy of Dream Theater's newest CD, "Greatest Hit (and 21 other pretty cool songs)", compliments of Rhino Records and a band- and author-autographed copy of Rich Wilson's Dream Theater biography, "Lifting Shadows". Perhaps the pinnacle of the auction series will be a "Music Man" John Petrucci-model guitar, which Ernie Ball has generously built and donated for this cause. Autographed tour shirts and tour books will be auctioned intermittently as well; hopefully creating different price levels for potential bidders.
New items will enter the auction approximately every 10 days, beginning May 5th. Samples of the auction items can be viewed via the Dream Theater Charity Auction "Ebay store" http://stores.ebay.com/Dream-Theater-Charity-Auction-Site.
For more information about this auction series or Camp Good Days and Special Times, please contact Samantha Cattaneo - scattaneo@campgooddays.org - 315-434-9477 or visit http://www.campgooddays.org/
Dream Theater is currently on the road with "Progressive Nation 2008" with opening acts Opeth, Between The Buried And Me & Three. For more information about the Dream Theater, visit www.dreamtheater.net.
For Rhino Records information, please contact:
Jason Elzy - jason.elzy@rhino.com - (818) 238-6220
About Rhino Entertainment
Based in Burbank, California, Warner Music Group's Rhino Entertainment was formed 29 years ago and is the world's leading pop culture label. Emphasizing flawless sound quality, bonus tracks, informative liner notes, award-winning creative packaging, an offbeat sense of humor and a strong social conscience, Rhino continues to set the standard for excellence in the reissue business it pioneered in both the physical and digital worlds. Rhino is also expanding the definition of what a catalog music company is as evidenced by the label's recent name and likeness representation deal with legendary band Grateful Dead. The vast Rhino catalog of more than 5,000 CDs, videos, and digital exclusive albums features material by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Doors, Chicago, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Yes, Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones, The Monkees, Carly Simon, Curtis Mayfield, among many others.
Win autographed Forsaken animation cells!
Added on 04-04-2008
Enter to win an autographed "Forsaken" video animation cell from Dream Theater, The End Records and Roadrunner Records!
Click here for details.
Autographed copies of DT's Greatest Hit
Updated on 03-27-2008
"For a limited time, order the new "Greatest Hit (...and 21 other cool songs)" collection from Dream Theater from our old friends
at Newbury Comics and have it shipped to your door autographed by the band. Hurry before they are gone!"
Please note that the autographed copies are now sold out.
Click here for all the details!
Dream Theater's Greatest Hit - Listening Party
Added on 03-20-2008
"The first-ever best-of compilation from Dream Theater is a 2-CD, twenty-two track set spanning 1991-2005 that
spotlights the band's virtuoso musicianship, elaborate orchestration and spectacular songwriting.
Greatest Hit (...and 21 other pretty cool songs) features rare single edits,
B-sides and three awe-inspiring new remixes by Kevin Shirley, recently celebrated for his work remixing Led Zeppelin.
Join us as we stream some tracks from the album."
Order now at CD Universe (USA) or Play.com (Europe).
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