Dream Theater

The double live album "Once In A LIVEtime" will be accompanied by a home video entitled "5 Years In A LIVEtime".

"Once In A LIVEtime" is scheduled to be released on October 27th. Mike Portnoy is currently working on the "5 Years In A LIVEtime" home video which will hopefully be released the same day as the CD (separate packages).

Hey all,
Just spent the week in the studio with Kevin Shirley mixing the live album.
Here's the latest details I can give.....

Dream Theater - Once in a LIVEtime
scheduled release date - Oct. 1998

CD1:
A Change of Seasons Pt.1 & 2
Puppies On Acid
Just Let Me Breathe
Voices
Take The Time
Keyboard solo
Lines In The Sand
Scarred
A Change of Seasons Pt.4
Ytse Jam
Drum solo

CD2:
Trial of Tears
Hollow Years
Take Away My Pain
Caught in a Web
Lie
Peruvian Skies
Guitar solo
Pull Me Under
Metropolis Pt.1
Learning To Live
A Change of Seasons Pt.7

Can't wait for you all to hear it.....
Also, It looks as if we might have an accompanying video as well...
More details as I have them.....

Mike Portnoy

Hi all,
PPPhhhewwww!!!!!
I am still recovering from this gig!!!
I don't know how the Grateful Dead ever did it!!!
The Paris gig / live recording turned out to be over 3 and a half hours long!
Here is the official set-list to set the record straight:

Dream Theater - Le Bataclan, Paris, France - June 25th 1998:

set #1:
ACOS 1 & 2
Puppies On Acid (The Mirror intro)
Just Let Me Breathe
Burning My Soul
Voices
Under A Glass Moon
(keyboard solo)
Lines In The Sand
The Way It Used To Be
Scarred
ACOS 4
Ytse Jam
(drum solo)
Take The Time / Freebird

set #2:
Anna Lee
Hollow Years
Speak To Me
Hey You (Pink Floyd)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Cover My Eyes
Take Away My Pain
Trial of Tears
Caught In A Web
Lie
Peruvian Skies (w/ Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd & Enter Sandman by Metallica)
(guitar solo) (w/ Paradigm Shift & Flight of the Bumblebee)
Pull Me Under

encore (medley):
Metropolis pt.1
Learning To Live
ACOS 7

I've been listening to Kevin Shirley's rough mixes and they sound AMAZING!!!! You guys are in for a treat......

.....And, I am here to deliver some good news which (sorta) re-news my faith in this crazy music industry......
Today I received confirmation from East West / Elektra that they have OK'd my request for a DOUBLE CD!!!!

It's gonna be very cool!! : )

More news as I have it....

Mike Portnoy

Speak To Me
Lifting Shadows Off A Dream (with new Intro)
Hey You (Pink Floyd)
The Silent Man (Electric version)
To Live Forever (with extended jam & excerpt of Lines In The Sand)
Cover My Eyes (Acoustic version)
Another Day (only Acoustic Guitar, vocals and soprano sax)
Take Away My Pain (Acoustic band version with additional Alto sax)
Wait For Sleep (original version - piano & vocal only)
Excerpts of Mean Streets (Van Halen)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Eve
Anna Lee
Carpe Diem (with vocals by Mike & James)
Hollow Years
Excerpt of Paradigm Shift (Liquid Tension Experiment)
The Way It Used To Be
Bad (U2)

(encore - which was NOT planned)

Peruvian Skies (excerpts of Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd & Enter Sandman by Metallica)
The Silent Man (Electric Version - Take 2)
Trial of Tears

Hey all,
I am writing to you from the airplane on our way to Switzerland to kick off
another exciting European tour!!! : )

Here's the latest....(and this is all "official" and ready for public
consumption)

The Fan Club show in Rotterdam on June 22nd will be
a kinda-sorta-pseudo-acoustic-electric-casual-"unplugged" type of set.
It will be 100% different from what our show at the Dutch festival the
follwing week (and any of the other shows) will be.......
We will play songs we haven't done in a while, some new songs (NOT M2, so don't even ask!), some covers, etc....
It should be a real intimate & special night.

We will be recording the show with Kevin Shirley for part of a live album to be released in the Fall....

Also, it looks likely that we will also video tape the fan club show for inclusion in a possible new home video. (That is, if I can talk the label into
a new home video...
they seem to think nobody would be interested!!! hahahahahaha!!!)

Now, as if this weren't enough...
We will also record with Kevin Shirley the show 3 nights later in Paris, (a traditional DT show) also for the live album....

It looks very possible that the Paris show will be an EXTRA LOOONNG show (maybe 2 sets with an intermission) in order to record as much material as possible.

Between these 2 shows, we will have enough live material (and different songs & versions) to cover a very wide spectrum of our career & catalog for a live album & video.... (Don't say Uncle Mikey doesn't look after you guys!!!)

How many of you will witness both shows???? : )

Well, that's the latest and greatest for now....
We have some rehearsing to do!!!!!

C-ya real soon,
Mike Portnoy

Hi Everybody....
Well here are the confirmed dates for this year's holiday shows.......

An Intimate Evening with Dream Theater:
Up Close & Personal

Sat 26 Dec Old Bridge NJ Birch Hill 201-939-5454
Sun 27 Dec Philadelphia PA Electric Factory 215-569-9400
Mon 28 Dec New Haven CT Toad's Place 203-562-5694
Tue 29 Dec New York NY Irving Plaza 212-610-2417
Wed 30 Dec Poughkeepsie NY The Chance 914-471-2490

The shows will be "pseudo-Unplugged" (ala the fan club show in Rotterdam) In other words....Don't plan on hearing Pull Me Under!!!!!

There will be no opening act.
Instead, We will be showing excerpts of "5 Years in a LIVEtime" with additional rare video outtakes from the Portnoy Archieves.....

C-y'all then!!
Happy Holidays,

Mike Portnoy

On the morning of October 14th, Rena Petrucci gave birth to a healthy baby girl, named Kiara.