Dream Theater

One topic no one has written about (not that I have seen) is James' progress as a singer. At the show in Helsinki in January, it struck me that he must be singing better than ever these days. I can remember 20 years ago when I saw DT for the first time live, there were many notes out of tune by James, and also on the live records from earlier days, up until "Once in a live time" it could sound, well, nicely said, not soo good. But "Live at the Budokan" is much better, and as I said, in Helsinki almost a month ago it was fantastic! What a power, energy, and so in tune! Very impressive. In addition, the man is running, jumping, headbanging and singing quite demanding parts at the same time, and when he's speaking between the songs, he doesn't even sound exhausted! If someone from the band (I know at least Jordan sometimes reads these topics) sees this... Please say congratulations to James. He nowadays belongs to the worlds top rock vocalists.

As everybody can see, there will be a two months break for the band between the north-american tour and the european tour. Do you think the setlist will be changed between the both tours? How did they do in earlier years?