1997...on a train to Amsterdam I met a a DT fan on a way to a show and was blown away by his passion for music. Nothing like the windswept thumb and the sound of the rain!
What a nice cover....when you are a boy, and you hear heavy, or metal, and those band you hear do covers of different band you misunderstood what music is when you complaint because "this is just a cover". A good music piece could be heavy or soft, or romantic or whatever...a nice piece of music is just that....
Marillion is a great great band, Dream Theater is another great great band...enjoy music and do not complaint for stupid things....grow...
An amazing sound here. I love the Mother solo at the end too, always one of my faves from Gilmour - great to mix the two songs. If you like this, Have a look at videos from a band called Nineteentwelve - see what you think.
I don't understand what all the fuss is about with doing covers. I have been a Marillion fan since the early 80's, I love this particular track. I am not trying to sound flash here but I know Fish pretty well, and once I stood at the back of a club in Glasgow drinking with him whilst an excellent covers band did his songs. He described it to me as being "like an out of body experience". These guys are obviously excellent musicians doing a very good cover of a great song. Rant over!
@danny200677 Steve Rothery has been Marillion's guitarist since the early 80s. I believe you confusing him with Steve Hogarth who replaced Fish in 1989.
John Petrucci is one of those rare guitarists who can combine extreme technical ability with an ear for melody. OK, this is a cover and he's borrowing some themes but he never slips into pure "guitar wanking". It's all meaningful and communicates his feelings rather than his technique.
Not terribly familiar with this band. This is pleasant enough, but very rambling. The original has one of those typically perfect Rothery solos, every note falls into place in the most sublime way, and the solo counterpoints the poignant lyrics, which to me makes it an odd song to widdle all over. Having said that, the widdling was better than the vocals, aaargh!
Great Marillion song, from about 4:40 Petrucci plays the solo from Satriani's Always with you Always with me. Fits in great, and all credit to Petrucci for putting iti in there!
Dream Theater never do covers for the purpose of doing it better than the original, they do them because they love the music. Why would you bash a band for covering a band that obviously influences them? Are you telling me that if you started a band you would never cover your favorite band because you weren't as good as them? Enjoy the music people.
Even Rush...the greatest trio in Rock...issued an album remaking their influences...and I would bet that 80% of the audience didn't know this was Marillion...
I'm pretty sure they have said that themselves joking around. Although, if you are seriously asking that then you don't know enough to be judging do you?
They play this cover just before playing Surrounded, you can hear the first notes from Jordan and Labrie begins to sing at the very end : "Mor...[ning comes to early - and nightime falls too late]"
You're on the right track. But, that's the end of surrounded that they started playing.
Where the video starts is where they went from surrounded into Petrucci's improv solo. Then it goes into the Mother solo (Pink Floyd), then into the "Cover" of Sugar Mice. Which isn't really a cover, as much as a tribute. Seeing as they didn't play more than a minute of the song.
I saw this live (maybe not this exact show) and it was breathtaking. I hadn't heard of Marillion before, but it was still awesome.
Thanks for sharing this ..Marillion was what kept me alive in the 80ties .. And I enjoy the Dream Theatre very much too. They kick ass. Funny everyone with there mobiles filming this ... And incredable good sound on your recording.
Huge fan of Marillion and DT... I think that people may be missing the fact that DT doesn't try and make a cover copy. They cover as a tribute to influences. Sugar Mice is one of my favorites ever, with Fish on the mike. I would be very disappointed if DT's cover songs sounded like replicas. I appreciate that they are having fun and paying tribute. No one can do Mice like Fish and Rothery, but this was a great tribute. Don't hear them covering Horvath right?
I saw Marillion many times from Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws, and then Season' End with Steve on vocals. No one could carry on the Marillion legacy like he did and he worked hard to follow in the massive footsteps. It certainly was an exciting and energetic show, as different it was for their first new album to take a new direction. Sadly I lost touch with the band afterwards...though they continued to put out albums and maintain a career.
I love Dream Theater. Have been a die hard fan since '92. Also love Marillion. And I gotta say Marillion knocks this song out of the park. DT's version didn't make me go "wow" like some of their other covers have. Shame.
They probably learned it in an hour. Literally. I think it was wonderful. No one likes a carbon copy except people that can't open their minds. This was more of a tribute rather than a cover.
I love Steve Rothery's Sugar Mice. Everytime I listen to the song, I can feel kind of sorrow or loss in it. That is one of my favorite Marillion songs. I can't explain how beautiful it is to you but I know how I feel about it. Everybody knows No one can follow his style and feeling. I don't know why you guys argue about this version. I don't think JP did something bad about Rothery's song or something like that. If you don't like it, just ignore it.
Sopfa, you 're right. I like Marillion and I love this song. Steve Rothery in a good guitar player, but th way Petrucci use his giutar is really amazing. Like no one can do in this world!!
It;s great when you can feel the power of a rothery or a gilmour and see how much of an affect on JP it is having to play the notes that are so beautifully strung together instead of the normal attack. JP is amazing in his ability to capture another player's soul. He is the best. And yea, one note can be as good as 1000.
This is not a cover! They are doing improv in the vein of some marillion song. They could never do what Dt is doing lol. John is THE best. Anyone that says otherwise should have their ears ripped off because they aren't using them right!
It is not improvisation when the guy just repeat the exactly the same notes concert after concert. Also, this guitarist is good, but honestly TOO technics-dependent. Although this solo is good, there it is not as much power and feeling as in Rothery´s solo. Even more dramatic is when he made his arrangements on Comfortably Numb (original of Pink Floyd). I was shocked to hear Comfortably Numb´s solo with played with ABSOLUTELY zero feeling. A computer could soon replace players like JP
JESUS AND THE SWITCH TO PINK FLOYD'S MOTHER!!!!!!!! I just peed my pants, BLODDY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had been there I'd have died in that place... The closest thing to die on stage.
I do agree Marillion is a better band, but I don't think it's so much that DT is feeling-less, as much as they shouldn't let Portnoy & Petrucci lock themselves in a room for days listening to nothing but Pantera, to then come up with godaweful heavy stuff like the Train Of Thought CD and all their recent heavy stuff, when they have such a gifted, soulful incredible singer like James Labrie, and they could be composing more melodic, soulful music and make it their own style.
Glad to hear you agree, although I should tell that I never said: "I don't think it's so much that DT is feeling-less", but I understand I was not clear. What I really meant is that Petrucci play his solos with absolutely no feelings. Even these solos in Sugar Mice and Confortable Numb (see other videos in youtube), which you might think are impossible to be played with no feeling, he plays is "sterile mode".
I mean: Petrucci has the same style as a computer reproducing a song... too much technique and NO FEELINGS!!! If someone does not know the original song, Petrucci might sound great... but if you know how loaded of emotion are the original versions... Petrucci sounds to you as an US tv commercial.
I am a guitar player, and my absolute favorites are David Gilmour, Steve Rothery, Pat Metheny, Steve Hackett. When I play Marillion or Pink Floyd solos, besides the fact that I learn them note-by-note (I wouldn't feel as if I'm doing them justice if I didn't), I also feel each and every note I play. I know scales and music theory, but I try not to fall slave of it and I always make sure I "listen" to my solos, when I play live with my band, if you know what I mean.
I don't know what you have agaisnt this song... I didn't knew Marillion before hearding it, and now I know them for that.
I lstened to the Original soug, and they just take little excerp of it. It's not a cover, they just take the verse and some idea of the guitar solo. That song is a part of "surrounded" On the new DVD. I tell you that the song on the DVD is INCREDIBLE.
and what do you have agaisnt James Labrie?? I found that he did an excellent job in this show.
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Just...just...AWFUL. Noodling for the sake of noodling. Guitarists like that should just sit in the dressing room or tour bus and have a wank instead...and the least said about the vocals, the better
Ok, it is probably my least favourite song from my favourite Marillion album, and until the singing, I probably wouldn't have guessed which song it was. But I still think it's superbly played. DT isn't Marillion, but I love both bands.
lol you didn't actually understand much of what I said. Furthermore, how do you want to know in which way I approach music or whether I am happy or not?
I flatter myself of being a DT fan owning most of their album, saw them live 3 times and met most of them personally.
To be honest, yours seem to be nothing more than empty pathetic words. And you should be more careful with us using "godly" and "envy" in one sentence with so much neglicence.
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I'm sorry, but this freak solo completely destroys the feeling of the origianl Suger Mice by Marillion. Although JP is technically superb to most other guitarists, IMHO he lacks the emo-playing of Rothery of Gilmour.
You just cant compare those guitarists men..Gilmour & Rothery are ALL about feeling,they are more for the "Less is more" Philosophy... That doesnt mean Petrucci isn't emotional player, but he is more technically oriented than the other two guitar gods... They just make music "their own", and thats all that matters... Props to all 3 amazing guitarists!
Marillion! Even the Dream Theater know how much this song is poetic! One of my favourite songs of my favourite band played by my second favourite band :) could I ask more! Superb
they did that in buenos aires too, one of the highlights of the show, marillion is incredible, DT should incorporate marillion's emotion in their songs... (i love dt, don't get me wrong)
At 5:20, it's the solo from "mother" off Pink Floyd's The Wall. Most consider Comfortably numb as being Dave Gilmour's finest solo, but for me it's this! Absolutely beautiful and John Patucci does a fine job in recreating the tone! Brilliant!
It's Not sugar mice, it's not mother, is only a improvisation...
djm2bass 2 weeks ago
What solo? Sugar mice? Are you stupid or wat? It's obviously Floyd's Mother at 5:20
Progike 3 weeks ago
@Progike it's sugar mice, definitely.
rossenrotten 13 hours ago
Disagree mate -- have a listen to the original marillion guitar solo. its note for note perfect
Ridders1690 1 month ago
5:20 is the moment in which Pink Floyd - Mother solo begins... GOOSEBUMPSSSSSSSS
Progike 2 months ago
@Progike Wrong mate -- original Marillion solo, not floyd
Ridders1690 1 month ago
@Ridders1690 Nope. It is Pink Floyd's Mother solo at 5:20.
Progike 1 month ago
Wonderful!! Drove me to tears...
debyk1 2 months ago
Two top bands who respect each other and have worked together, see Easter, I love both bands, they really are the best !
broes1966 2 months ago
1997...on a train to Amsterdam I met a a DT fan on a way to a show and was blown away by his passion for music. Nothing like the windswept thumb and the sound of the rain!
margrave42 2 months ago
Nice with vocals in the end to cap it off. Classy! LIKE!
wealthmaster71 2 months ago
My God what absolutely monster chops!
mpsandal 3 months ago
What a nice cover....when you are a boy, and you hear heavy, or metal, and those band you hear do covers of different band you misunderstood what music is when you complaint because "this is just a cover". A good music piece could be heavy or soft, or romantic or whatever...a nice piece of music is just that....
Marillion is a great great band, Dream Theater is another great great band...enjoy music and do not complaint for stupid things....grow...
gazpachon 3 months ago
That wasn't Pink Floyd. That was Steve Rothery's solo in Sugar Mice. They are a bit similar, but not the same.
Thurmalblast 3 months ago
Pink Floyd Mother solo
mmgameiro 3 months ago
An amazing sound here. I love the Mother solo at the end too, always one of my faves from Gilmour - great to mix the two songs. If you like this, Have a look at videos from a band called Nineteentwelve - see what you think.
1912Gavin 3 months ago
Bloody good!!!!!!!!! what a band.
kenotram 4 months ago
Bloody good!!!!!!!!! what band.
kenotram 4 months ago
I'm a big big fan of Marillion since the eighties and I really think this is a great version of Sugar Mice , Dream Theater is TOP !!
broes1966 7 months ago
Great sound of the recording! What kind of camera is that?
kotarak1 7 months ago
I don't understand what all the fuss is about with doing covers. I have been a Marillion fan since the early 80's, I love this particular track. I am not trying to sound flash here but I know Fish pretty well, and once I stood at the back of a club in Glasgow drinking with him whilst an excellent covers band did his songs. He described it to me as being "like an out of body experience". These guys are obviously excellent musicians doing a very good cover of a great song. Rant over!
Fergyguitar 7 months ago 3
@danny200677 Steve Rothery has been Marillion's guitarist since the early 80s. I believe you confusing him with Steve Hogarth who replaced Fish in 1989.
dickie8009 9 months ago
John Petrucci is one of those rare guitarists who can combine extreme technical ability with an ear for melody. OK, this is a cover and he's borrowing some themes but he never slips into pure "guitar wanking". It's all meaningful and communicates his feelings rather than his technique.
Tapiola2007 9 months ago
I wouldnt have ever heard of this band and alot of other realy good bands if it wasnt for dream theater
livintex 10 months ago
its only ever cover that betters original, and we talking Marillion r beeing covered here..
progresman 10 months ago
A beautiful song, and a great version - true to the spirit of the original, but has it's own space as an instrumental - well played!
CanuckMarillionFan 10 months ago
Mindblowing version of Sugar Mice!! This is the kind of tributes that I always talk about!
mpower5000 11 months ago
Wow... thanks for sharing this. A very classy version.
Ceeeeez 1 year ago
Pink Floyd's 'Mother' solo is played at 5:20
zkap 1 year ago 3
@zkap Wow I never realized Steve Rothery's Sugar Mice solo was so close to Gilmour's Mother Solo !!!
1981rael 11 months ago
@1981rael
I also realized exactly when I heard this cover
kaligon 6 months ago
Fantastic, thanks for sharing this!
Umanh 1 year ago
hard to tell its sugar mice, so much has been changed hardly anything of the original remains which kinda defeats the point
runrigtam 1 year ago
@runrigtam is it karoke?? NO!
ians2cool2 1 year ago
Not terribly familiar with this band. This is pleasant enough, but very rambling. The original has one of those typically perfect Rothery solos, every note falls into place in the most sublime way, and the solo counterpoints the poignant lyrics, which to me makes it an odd song to widdle all over. Having said that, the widdling was better than the vocals, aaargh!
paganuspaul 1 year ago
Great Marillion song, from about 4:40 Petrucci plays the solo from Satriani's Always with you Always with me. Fits in great, and all credit to Petrucci for putting iti in there!
danny200677 1 year ago 2
Usually i don't like Petrucci, here is good.
LorisEmanuelCianni 1 year ago
jp is a god.superb cover.d t will not be the same tho without. portnoys drums.
sheffwed39 1 year ago
I like when John Petrucci sneaked in part of the "Always WIth Me Always With You" Joe Satriani solo. :-)
OZRIC1985 1 year ago 2
@OZRIC1985 only noticed you'd spotted it after I'd written my post, Great minds think alike ;)
danny200677 1 year ago
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HIDEOUS....JUST HIDEOUS.
And to cap it all, shite attempt at the vox at the end.
GIVE IT UP BOYS, YOU SUCK!
16addam 1 year ago
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HIDEOUS....JUST HIDEOUS.
16addam 1 year ago
very inspired... like it a lot, especially pink floyd part)))
olegshadsky 1 year ago
I really really really love this version of the song, they play it marvellous .
I'm a Marillion fan for over 22 years now and proud to see that a band as Dream Theater tributes Marillion likes this !
broes1966 1 year ago
Find me a Marillion member who has a negative word to say of this, and I'll eat my hat.
SoulMedicine 1 year ago
One of my favourite Marillion tracks - so much more original than just a straight cover
Bohochic72 1 year ago
As a big fan of Marillion not bad at all Steve would be proud
Chaderzz 1 year ago 2
To me, this song belongs to my "musics of my life playlist".
Everyime I listen this song, my skin changes to a kind of palm trees in the desert.
sergiocnc 1 year ago
Sugar Mice + Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (tapping) + Pink Floyd - Mother (solo) + Sugar Mice again
MadGriffith 1 year ago
i saw their LIVE ! two times in Bangkok ! Thailand .... God of Rock !!!
coolmanThai 1 year ago
Love Marrilion love Dream Theatre, really enjoyed.
22ndnov 1 year ago
very nice feel here
good work guys
tim
yea78861 1 year ago
@Dekemc thanks for sharing, great cover of a Marillion song.
rockchick80s 1 year ago
where i can get this song ?? i just love it!!! love it!!!!
tiago422 2 years ago
you can find it on marillion's clutching at straws
Thats the original version
rubendrakkar 1 year ago
forgive me my french.
one motherfucking piece of a cover this is.
i hate DT 4 their recent 'work' but this makes me wisiting my bedroom wall
time and time again
best ever cover by not so good band
fuck me, this bloke knows his gear, and my e-motions ??
progresman 2 years ago
I don't care what that's called. that's the most amazing medley of my all time faourites in the world, just beautiful.
jhibbs999 2 years ago
one of the best songs ever......so much feeling in it....but I prefer the original....nice thing here though from DT
Edge60606 2 years ago 3
How is this Sugar Mice? I don't see it as a 'tribute' to Marillion, sorry.
bosporgiz 2 years ago 3
its there cover/improv of it. they do it whenever they do surrounded. they ususaly just solo to sugar mice's rhythm.
huntrayisabeast16 2 years ago
the solo is from pink floyd's mother that, if i'm not wrong, was once used in a marillion's performance of sugar mice.
MadGriffith 1 year ago
@MadGriffith so, u r wrong. M never used any1's theme, or if u like, solo/
thtas y its, i reckon, best band.... since floyd'd gone looking 4 pink and whatsnot :D
this is pure 'Sugar Mice' + Mother as its fucking great...
and btw, take a raincheck on next M tour.......... )
US !!!!!!!!!!!
progresman 1 year ago
@progresman I remember seeing a marillion live here in Youtube with Mother's solo in "Sugar Mice". That was a one time only occasion.
MadGriffith 1 year ago
@MadGriffith when or where i thnk you are not right
marillionfan65 1 year ago
respect. they did not sing cos they love marillion so much, and by not singing they showed their respect.
toskup 2 years ago
Great vid and great version of the song. And very good to know that Marillion gets the respect and acknowledgement from co-musicians :-)
brie45 2 years ago 8
SIMPLY AWESOME!
artcellbd 2 years ago
This is Sugar mice by my beloved marillion but also a solo of mother of the pinks floyd ...sec.5.21 no?I publish a video answered!
LOTHIAN1970 2 years ago 3
You are correct! Wow what a great tribute to mix both of those. Big fan of all 3 bands.
deanernet 2 years ago 2
This isn't Sugar Mice. This is Petrucci noodling over the chords to Sugar Mice.
avvidezzi 2 years ago 2
Dream Theater never do covers for the purpose of doing it better than the original, they do them because they love the music. Why would you bash a band for covering a band that obviously influences them? Are you telling me that if you started a band you would never cover your favorite band because you weren't as good as them? Enjoy the music people.
guitardixon 2 years ago 35
Even Rush...the greatest trio in Rock...issued an album remaking their influences...and I would bet that 80% of the audience didn't know this was Marillion...
SolarTiger 2 years ago
i agree... fekk up, shut up, ... and enjoy the music
cptsecular 2 years ago
@guitardixon i am with you brother.... two tumbs up!!!
andrieslaya 1 year ago
@guitardixon Perfect.
guarib 2 months ago
all great seperate artists.....but don't sound as one...
jojanneke85g 2 years ago
what bollocks, best left to fish and marillion don't you think!
humejames10 2 years ago
Agreed ..although it sounds good i think if i didnt know it was this Marrilion track i wouldnt of guessed ...to much fret wanking
wedgie481 2 years ago
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why dont they ever do their own songs or havnt they got any
seanseventy 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure they have said that themselves joking around. Although, if you are seriously asking that then you don't know enough to be judging do you?
Manny1222 2 years ago
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I blame Portnoy and his Uber-Ego.
SynthSorcery 2 years ago
It sounds like a set of broken bagpipes either trying to fight a wounded dog or to fuck it too death.
Blongers1 2 years ago
Beaucoup de Frime dommage
NoteNoire 2 years ago
Works for me
olarocks77 2 years ago
with fish it would be perfect
MrDerbycountyfc 2 years ago
When I heard "Surrounded" go into this on a boot I have...I was like, why is this theme so familiar?
Portnoy (and the other guys) are such prog heads...they totally do this stuff for the prog lovers (like me) that like all prog, from every decade.
I got into Marillion a couple years before DT. I like both Fish and Hogarth, as they're two excellent but very different bands.
AragornIsStrider 2 years ago 3
love Marillion but found this a little boring though they sound good an all.
jmdetom 2 years ago
I see this as a tribute to a fantastic band called Marillion
Marillionair 2 years ago 26
They play this cover just before playing Surrounded, you can hear the first notes from Jordan and Labrie begins to sing at the very end : "Mor...[ning comes to early - and nightime falls too late]"
MattHellwing 2 years ago
You're on the right track. But, that's the end of surrounded that they started playing.
Where the video starts is where they went from surrounded into Petrucci's improv solo. Then it goes into the Mother solo (Pink Floyd), then into the "Cover" of Sugar Mice. Which isn't really a cover, as much as a tribute. Seeing as they didn't play more than a minute of the song.
I saw this live (maybe not this exact show) and it was breathtaking. I hadn't heard of Marillion before, but it was still awesome.
PorcupineFloyd68 2 years ago 3
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wedgie481 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this ..Marillion was what kept me alive in the 80ties .. And I enjoy the Dream Theatre very much too. They kick ass. Funny everyone with there mobiles filming this ... And incredable good sound on your recording.
sirspuij 2 years ago 2
MISTER JOHN PETRUCCI !! ...yyyyeeeaaaAAAAHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!
Electriccastle 2 years ago 2
I LOVE MARILLION
tobleruno 2 years ago
5:20 thats solo from Pink Floyd-Mother.
i wouldnt say this is a cover.its rather DT's own interpretation of this music theme.
kubarally2 2 years ago 2
Huge fan of Marillion and DT... I think that people may be missing the fact that DT doesn't try and make a cover copy. They cover as a tribute to influences. Sugar Mice is one of my favorites ever, with Fish on the mike. I would be very disappointed if DT's cover songs sounded like replicas. I appreciate that they are having fun and paying tribute. No one can do Mice like Fish and Rothery, but this was a great tribute. Don't hear them covering Horvath right?
snyds67 2 years ago 5
I saw Marillion many times from Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws, and then Season' End with Steve on vocals. No one could carry on the Marillion legacy like he did and he worked hard to follow in the massive footsteps. It certainly was an exciting and energetic show, as different it was for their first new album to take a new direction. Sadly I lost touch with the band afterwards...though they continued to put out albums and maintain a career.
riproar11 2 years ago
ouch, I like very much Marillion & Dream Theater, I like very muche the original version of this beautiful song but i don't like that ....
LoneFloyd 2 years ago
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one of the worst cover versions ever :(
chix0r 2 years ago
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Totally agreed.
Only people who can honestly think that this is remotely good compared to the original are DT fans who've never heard it.
progkidjoel 2 years ago
I wouldn't say it's one of the worst though
monkeylemur 2 years ago
I love Dream Theater. Have been a die hard fan since '92. Also love Marillion. And I gotta say Marillion knocks this song out of the park. DT's version didn't make me go "wow" like some of their other covers have. Shame.
danimal97520 2 years ago
They probably learned it in an hour. Literally. I think it was wonderful. No one likes a carbon copy except people that can't open their minds. This was more of a tribute rather than a cover.
fingerboy18 2 years ago
I love Steve Rothery's Sugar Mice. Everytime I listen to the song, I can feel kind of sorrow or loss in it. That is one of my favorite Marillion songs. I can't explain how beautiful it is to you but I know how I feel about it. Everybody knows No one can follow his style and feeling. I don't know why you guys argue about this version. I don't think JP did something bad about Rothery's song or something like that. If you don't like it, just ignore it.
sopfa20 2 years ago 8
Sopfa, you 're right. I like Marillion and I love this song. Steve Rothery in a good guitar player, but th way Petrucci use his giutar is really amazing. Like no one can do in this world!!
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danny200677 1 year ago
@sopfa20
Almost no Petrucci in it. You moron... What da hell did you understand from the whole it?
MonoDexterminator 1 year ago
@sopfa20
Oh if yoy only have been aware who's playing the guitar... Not the Bass... you concert ticket payer...
And it's also a Pink Floyd cover in it, heh? Naah, you really would know...
MonoDexterminator 10 months ago
IDENTICO A QUELLO DI ROMA, E VAI!!!!!
leccate 2 years ago
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Just listen to the music guys and stop wasting your time on comments...
manolisworld 2 years ago
This sounds more like a local college band jamming at a marillion song, rather than the band that they are
Ridders1690 2 years ago
Rothery please.
Dannymusic1999 3 years ago
I agree... Rothery PLEASE!!!
Ametrida 3 years ago
It;s great when you can feel the power of a rothery or a gilmour and see how much of an affect on JP it is having to play the notes that are so beautifully strung together instead of the normal attack. JP is amazing in his ability to capture another player's soul. He is the best. And yea, one note can be as good as 1000.
StewieFavre 3 years ago
Thank you Dream Theater, you're the ones
Rhasen 3 years ago
Dream Theatre doing Sugar Mice (Marillion)... I'm in there like swimwear!...Mega-Props...I might have to stumble and cry...
SolarTiger 3 years ago
This is not a cover! They are doing improv in the vein of some marillion song. They could never do what Dt is doing lol. John is THE best. Anyone that says otherwise should have their ears ripped off because they aren't using them right!
BillyJimmyBobbyTimmy 3 years ago
It is not improvisation when the guy just repeat the exactly the same notes concert after concert. Also, this guitarist is good, but honestly TOO technics-dependent. Although this solo is good, there it is not as much power and feeling as in Rothery´s solo. Even more dramatic is when he made his arrangements on Comfortably Numb (original of Pink Floyd). I was shocked to hear Comfortably Numb´s solo with played with ABSOLUTELY zero feeling. A computer could soon replace players like JP
Ametrida 3 years ago
It warms my heart to see that DT can still play something different than the scale-mincing they seem to love so much nowadays.
cristianothelock 3 years ago
Until 4:00 at least... GG Petrucci, gg.
cristianothelock 3 years ago
JESUS AND THE SWITCH TO PINK FLOYD'S MOTHER!!!!!!!! I just peed my pants, BLODDY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had been there I'd have died in that place... The closest thing to die on stage.
Hayacafrita 3 years ago 2
fuck why aren't you filming JP what are you retarded he's soloing
germ923 3 years ago 3
The best thing about DT covering this song is it exposes DT's audience to a great band - Marillion.
fkappreciative 3 years ago
The best thing is that this kind of feeling-less cover is that some wise kids might discover a much better band, Marillion. True!
Ametrida 3 years ago
bad
tatomachado 3 years ago
boring.
tatomachado 3 years ago
I do agree Marillion is a better band, but I don't think it's so much that DT is feeling-less, as much as they shouldn't let Portnoy & Petrucci lock themselves in a room for days listening to nothing but Pantera, to then come up with godaweful heavy stuff like the Train Of Thought CD and all their recent heavy stuff, when they have such a gifted, soulful incredible singer like James Labrie, and they could be composing more melodic, soulful music and make it their own style.
vampiroangelico 3 years ago
Glad to hear you agree, although I should tell that I never said: "I don't think it's so much that DT is feeling-less", but I understand I was not clear. What I really meant is that Petrucci play his solos with absolutely no feelings. Even these solos in Sugar Mice and Confortable Numb (see other videos in youtube), which you might think are impossible to be played with no feeling, he plays is "sterile mode".
Ametrida 3 years ago
I mean: Petrucci has the same style as a computer reproducing a song... too much technique and NO FEELINGS!!! If someone does not know the original song, Petrucci might sound great... but if you know how loaded of emotion are the original versions... Petrucci sounds to you as an US tv commercial.
Ametrida 3 years ago
I completely agree with you.
I am a guitar player, and my absolute favorites are David Gilmour, Steve Rothery, Pat Metheny, Steve Hackett. When I play Marillion or Pink Floyd solos, besides the fact that I learn them note-by-note (I wouldn't feel as if I'm doing them justice if I didn't), I also feel each and every note I play. I know scales and music theory, but I try not to fall slave of it and I always make sure I "listen" to my solos, when I play live with my band, if you know what I mean.
vampiroangelico 3 years ago
I don't know what you have agaisnt this song... I didn't knew Marillion before hearding it, and now I know them for that.
I lstened to the Original soug, and they just take little excerp of it. It's not a cover, they just take the verse and some idea of the guitar solo. That song is a part of "surrounded" On the new DVD. I tell you that the song on the DVD is INCREDIBLE.
and what do you have agaisnt James Labrie?? I found that he did an excellent job in this show.
raph266 3 years ago
I love the original, I like this take on it, and I'm real thankful to 'em for paying tribute to the great Marillion.
intuantu 3 years ago 2
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Just...just...AWFUL. Noodling for the sake of noodling. Guitarists like that should just sit in the dressing room or tour bus and have a wank instead...and the least said about the vocals, the better
MGBOMAR 3 years ago
see it again m8.. it aint marillion, sure fuck they aint :D
listen to da fooking music, forget that sorrow vocal ... :D
i recon' its greatest cover by another :) heh band from u of fooking state
its great, and i think its fooking great
not that vocal os, but the cover ... fooking great
best ever
progresman 3 years ago
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THIS IS THE WORST COVER I HAVE HEARD OF ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING SONGS I HAVE HEARD. (guitar: not feeling at all; voice: horrible)
Ametrida 3 years ago
It's not a cover,it's an "improvisation during Surrounded song...petrucci style
gioelefazzeri 3 years ago
Ok, it is probably my least favourite song from my favourite Marillion album, and until the singing, I probably wouldn't have guessed which song it was. But I still think it's superbly played. DT isn't Marillion, but I love both bands.
kaols72 3 years ago 2
deffo them and Fates Warning (:
maddearth 3 years ago
amazing!!! sugar mice with the solo of "Mother" of Pink Floyd
BlueCooper 3 years ago
now, all of'ya just shut it :)
JP makes a fooking great job here, as do rest of this DT band :O
Never been a fan, and never will be, but THIS really leaves me speechless...
make sure u notice that P's guitar covers both guitar and vocal of the oryginal song....
sweet, i doubt Marillion will ever have another 'cover' band like this...
progresman 3 years ago
This actually a part of Surrounded!!It will appear on their new Dvd,too
Hannes1Porombka 3 years ago
Sad that DT now have to cover Songs to finally play good music again, after more than 5 years of playing songs you can hear also from other bands...
Cybraxas 3 years ago
Sad that your understanding can't reach DT's supreme quality. So long as you approach music in your sense, you won't be happier than you are now.
Every godly act needs envious criticism. =D
So much respect for this tribute!
Cheers mate
JoaoLuisOliveira 3 years ago 3
lol you didn't actually understand much of what I said. Furthermore, how do you want to know in which way I approach music or whether I am happy or not?
I flatter myself of being a DT fan owning most of their album, saw them live 3 times and met most of them personally.
To be honest, yours seem to be nothing more than empty pathetic words. And you should be more careful with us using "godly" and "envy" in one sentence with so much neglicence.
Cheers back anyway...
Cybraxas 3 years ago
You sounded like you don't like them.
But if you do, of course my words are empty for your case.
(Nevertheless, don't be so harsh about their late discography...)
Cheers
JoaoLuisOliveira 3 years ago
Marillion forever!!!!!
Charlievoyeur 3 years ago 3
Antigoon78 you have absolutely right. "Even Richard Dawkins thinks Steve Rothery is God" :)
noneknonek 3 years ago
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I'm sorry, but this freak solo completely destroys the feeling of the origianl Suger Mice by Marillion. Although JP is technically superb to most other guitarists, IMHO he lacks the emo-playing of Rothery of Gilmour.
antigoon78 3 years ago
Shush now you fkn idiot.
urtalkingcrapagain 3 years ago
You just cant compare those guitarists men..Gilmour & Rothery are ALL about feeling,they are more for the "Less is more" Philosophy... That doesnt mean Petrucci isn't emotional player, but he is more technically oriented than the other two guitar gods... They just make music "their own", and thats all that matters... Props to all 3 amazing guitarists!
Great Cover!
UNGETABLE7 3 years ago 3
that song is surrounded '07.
NolesPsych 3 years ago
the solo concept Medley with Mother of Pink Floyd....
Lucagrendel 3 years ago
I am very moved.
MIAMI1967 3 years ago
This is so F amazing
hercopulus 3 years ago
They are very special.
edmarlarios 3 years ago 2
Marillion! Even the Dream Theater know how much this song is poetic! One of my favourite songs of my favourite band played by my second favourite band :) could I ask more! Superb
Cocciadimorto 3 years ago
they did that in buenos aires too, one of the highlights of the show, marillion is incredible, DT should incorporate marillion's emotion in their songs... (i love dt, don't get me wrong)
chowchis 3 years ago
yeah, my bad... I spelt his name wrong. John Petrucci... sorry!!!
steevidrums 3 years ago
Thats why I didnt recognize this song when they played it...I thought it was just a Dream Theater song
Marklar3 3 years ago
JP's way of soloing is the most touching I've ever seen!
Scottmaster84 3 years ago 3
Cause I know what I feel, know what I want I know what I am
Daddy took a raincheck
Cos I know what I want, know what I feel I know what I need
Daddy took a raincheck, your daddy took a raincheck
Aint no one in here thats left to blame but me
Blame it on me, blame it on me
Tirdfish 3 years ago
...... can't find the right words!!! Incredible!
doedeltom 3 years ago
At 5:20, it's the solo from "mother" off Pink Floyd's The Wall. Most consider Comfortably numb as being Dave Gilmour's finest solo, but for me it's this! Absolutely beautiful and John Patucci does a fine job in recreating the tone! Brilliant!
steevidrums 3 years ago
Yes they played Floyd's Mother too.
sopfa20 3 years ago
john did a little floyd at the end of that! awesome... from the wall i think
chainsaw201 4 years ago
The ultimate cover band=) So beautiful.
JoaoLuisOliveira 4 years ago
just awesome!
arne85k 4 years ago
Very mice (-:
Chen904 4 years ago 2
Marillion is awesome!!!
desquiv1 4 years ago 2
very nice
8fingerfrenzy 4 years ago
thank you very much for the video
FallingPT 4 years ago