Was this available on some sort of Christmas CD released by DT...or is this something released by Kevin himself? I'd quite like to own this version...
i think kevin balanced all the technical skill of the rest of DT with his unique compositions, emotions, simple yet complex songs, his playing is just great with him on DT the band wouldnt have become progressive metal or mindless solos, it wouold have stayed DT
oh my god.... this is my favourite Dream Theater Song..
this song is pure emotions: at this time he was broken-hearted... he decided to leave the band...it was the last song he recorded with them... and when they recorded LaBrie's vocals for the song, they knew that Kevin is leaving... this is his swan song, his farewell to Dream Theater...
I think its easy to pick favourites when listening to songs. This is one of the best DT songs ever. But the composition, leads, harmonies and piano parts in Scenes From a Memory and the Liquid Tension Experiment albums really show what Rudess is capable of. He's like the Guthrie Govan of keyboards for me, master of all arts.
He formed the band Majesty with childhood friends guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung, who had recruited drummer Mike Portnoy (a fellow Long Islander) during their short enrollment at Berklee College of Music. Singer Chris Collins handled vocal duties for Majesty, but he was subsequently replaced by Charlie Dominici (and eventually James LaBrie) and the band was renamed Dream Theater.
@OpethPegeen Majesty by guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, and drummer Mike Portnoy while the three of them were attending Berklee College of Music. Straight from their documentary..
@DTxOctavariumx yeah Opeth, Kevmo didnt form the band. it was formed as Majesty by Mike Portnoy, and he, JP, and John Myung were all original members, and it was in the damn documentary. the other shit you said about other members was right, but you have the concept of DT's beginnings false.it was re-named Dream Theater by MP,after his dads suggestion because it was the name of a movie theater his dad used to go to, called Dream Theater.go learn your stuff Opeth...Me and Octavarium are right....
@Z04RD Rudess can also play with a lot of emotion, but I haven't seem any pure Rudess songs in DT except for Overture from SDOIT. But I know what you mean, never in my life have I seen a song like this. I'd really like to see DT make a song like this again. The slow songs in their recent album are really mainstream-ish, and their more complex songs end up being more emotional than the slower ones. :/
Rudess is awesome too, but he just doesn't fit in DT.
I mean, according to MY taste, as I like DT. I Miss Kevin really much from the band. And now Portnoy is gone too. But there is O.S.I., so it's fine for me. Only a new album would be greate from that project. :)
@Z04RD I think Jordan fits a lot more in DT. His solos and complex keyboard parts are part of what DT is. Though I know what you mean, the earlier albums felt magical in a way, its something I later saw in the song SDOIT. It looks like DT has now turned too comercial to go back to their older style, or at the very least, the more experimental approach of SFaM. Rudess has done several wonderful & simple keyboard parts, but is quite rare from him, he tends to complicate things most of the time.
Rudess is awesome too, but he just doesn't fit in DT. I mean, according to MY taste, as I like DT.
I miss Kevin really much from the band. And now Portnoy is gone too. But there is O.S.I., so it's fine for me. Only a new album would be greate from that project. :)
Dream theater is a band of two careers - Kevin Moore and Post-Kevin Moore. He defined the sound and style that put the band on the map. Respect to Dream Theater for continuing to grow after he left, but it always is and will be Kevin Moore! His keyboard solos are sublime. And I'm a guitarist/petrucci fan and listen to Kevins playing with excitement as much as Petruccis. Jordans are widdley and I don't get it. Sherinian, never was a fan. It's a well known fact that James Labrie ruptured his voca
@Slashe50 Derek was good as well, but he only really did FIF and changed the keyboard solos in A Change of Seasons. Unfortunately he was just about shredding. He have some great sounds, but I personally feel he isn't as technical as Rudess but he did have a little more emotion. I miss whenever Dream Theater had very emotional songs like this... the closest they came to triggering some sort of emotion after Moore left was Disappear, Vacant, and the Best of Times, and they didn't even come close.
@Slashe50 I don't know, have you watched Jordan's YouTube videos yet? He's pretty hilarious in the ones that show him touring with DT and doing random stuff like going into truck stops and Wendy's.
@usernamessuck58 True enough, yeah. It's always funny though watching Sherinian humping his synth onstage while playing the intro to Lines in the Sand.
@Slashe50 Absolutely, of course, I did forget to mention that Derek did have most of my favorite keyboard solos. Lines in the sand and Just Let Me Breath had some of my favorite keyboard solos of all time.
This is probably the best Dream Theater song in my opinion. Kevin was just the best guy for the band in my opinion. I love Rudess, from a technical standpoint he's the best musician I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, but from an emotional standpoint he is nothing compared to Kevin.
I miss Kevin's work with Dream Theater, but he felt it necessary to leave so I must respect that.
As a "hopeless romantic" kid learning piano, this was my favorite "contimporary" song. Back then I didn't follow the line up of bands, but noticed a huge difference in the band around the Scense Form A Memory album and I must say... I thought I waisted my 18 dollors on it. It just wasn't the same "band" to me. Now that I'm 30, JR is without a doubt a big inspiration to me. But DT just isn't what I grew up listening to. I think I respect JR's solo stuff more then DT these days. Sorry.
Well, what can I say? Yes it was a good album. The "rock-musical" vibe it has is brilliant. But when you've loved works like "Images and Words" and "Falling into Infinity", "Scense from a Memory" just seemed like too big of a change in styles of writing to come from the same band. Don't get me wrong, they've produced some really great stuff with Rudess. The wizard has brought a new intelect to the group. It just all crashed with thier previous works.
It is strage that you feel its a weaker album, as this was the first album that they had full creative control, without the label breathing down their neck and second guessing every move they had.
While Rudess is definitely the ultimate keyboardist now a days, I gotta say I prefer kevmo´s compositions, deep, emotional, yet somehow simple, smooth, and musically complex. Rudess style is great for live performances and rock/metal music, but utilmately I just prefer kevmo´s armonies and cool bass arrangements over Rudess technicall awesomeness
As much as I've heard, at this point in his life, his girlfriend broke up with him. He saw a catalogue of clothes or something, and there was a girl wearing something called a Space-Dye Vest.
I guess he fell in love with her, and wrote the whole song about it...
@nekezajebancije Kevin Moore wrote this after the recent end of a relationship. She ended it with him and he wasn't ready to end it. He had all of this love left to give, but no one to give it to. He saw the picture of the girl modeling the Space Dye Vest in a catalog he borrowed from Lisa Martens (John Myung's girlfriend at the time/hence the lyric "Falling through pages of Martens on angels"). He "fell in love" with the beautiful girl, then he realized, "I don't even know her." Beautiful song.
I just can't believe how many times i listened to this song yesterday, probably around 30 times. I seem have these bouts of space-dye-vest-ism every few weeks.
never mind vocal perfection, this version seems more heartfelt, as i'm sure mike portnoy's version of "the best of times" is
Stop to compare with Rudess....lets talk only about KEVIN! and how is able to transfer deep emotion and feelings through his songs...the melancholy...
Moore had some pretty nice calm stuff but he couldn't deliver what DT wanted for like the more heavier and progressive music! Thanks any way Moore for this great music! Thanks for Rudess for his music too!
@carlos17slb maybe not the heavier stuff, but he wrote a lot of the complicated progressive ideas for images and awake. plus i think he added something to the band the other keyboardist dont, not to say they arent talented
@ShipsAreBurned : IMHO, Moore leaving DT hurt them more lyrically than instrumentally. Rudess is a more than sufficient replacement for Moore, but Moore was DT's best lyricist.
Portnoy is consistently above-average, Petrucci is consistently inconsistent, and Myung [who is a great lyricist!] tends to write free-verse, and the other DT band members don't want to bother with the effort of putting his words to music.
I'd say Petrucci was pretty decent during Images, Under a Glass Moon was a pretty well written song, I'd say more towards Train of Thought was when his writing went downhill, Black Clouds has some moments but it's all pretty bad.
@thygodofrock190 I love Black Clouds don't get me wrong. It just seems like DT is losing their inspiration, it seemed like Petrucci was picking straws when he came up with the lyrics. Rite of Passage probably had the best lyrics and the most meaning. Count though musically fantastic had some pretty bad lyrics, and no offense to Portnoy but Best of Times was kind of cheesy especially when one considers Change of Seasons. Musically Black Clouds kills lyrically it's pretty bland.
@DMCMaster550 Yeah, i see what you mean. You look at their earlier stuff and most of it is really deep, their newer songs seem to just have a 1 dimensional thing going on don't really know how to explain it
@thygodofrock190 Yeah it's all straight-forward and there's nothing wrong with it but comparing the grandiose meaningful songs like Under a Glass Moon, Learning to Live and Voices to Nightmare to Remember there's a big difference. Personally I thought Systematic Chaos was a return to form, In the Presence of Enemies had deeper sub-text than just the main story, same with Ministry of Lost Souls. Six Degrees was the last album that had the abstract multi-meaning lyrics like Blind Faith.
@BrandonDeep Oh don't get me wrong the album is in fact amazing, I'm just really disappointed at the lyrical downfall of DT. Hopefuly Petrucci isn't gonna be grasping at straws for song ideas.
@carlos17slb you're full of it. Awake is one of their heaviest albums, and after Kevin left it was followed up by Falling Into Infinity which is one of their lightest....!
@ElPayasete ... soooo true! according to me, dream theater lost it a few years after kevin left. i mean, the era with derek is ok but after that it's been a long way down to some "we really want to do more liquid tension insane albums"-attitude. dream theater will always be good to listen to and study when learning to play an instrument. but to just listen to? ... nah, not for me.
It drives me insane, when people like you say lol without giving it any meaning, or maybe without knowing the meanings of it, i think you just want to show that you have your own opinion too and are relly important, but actually it is less of intelligence
dont know why people say dt died after "X" album...They've gone downhill a bit but in every album theres at least one song that blows everyones minds. Take the new one for instance and tell me that the count of tuscany isnt fucking epic. Or Octavarium, or In the Name of God.
I like most of the stuff DT's done, even their new stuff. It's not as good as the old, but better than a lot of the other stuff that's coming out, and enjoyable.
I wonder whether if DT more recent albums had been their first albums and their first albums there more recent albums, would their be a reverse of opinion regarding which albums are the best? The first time a heard SFAM and IAW it blew my mind, as Id never heard anything like it- maybe the later albums seem less injoyable not because they are less so intrinsically, but because DT's style isnt completely novel anymore?
I used to like DT but now I just can´t stand their music. For me DT died after SDOIT. It´s just my opinion and I respect if someone thinks that I´m wrong, but for me DT doesn´t deserve to play this song live, this song it´s too beatiful for them, although I prefer Jame´s voice than Moore´s.
I can understand a half of your post. Yeah, I can see how people think DT died after SDOIT (some say after SFaM), but if DT "deserved" playing The Dark Side of the Moon, Comfortably Numb etc, they "deserve" playing a fairly nice song they're copyrighted for. It's quite sad they don't IMO, even sadder they haven't played the album the song's at because of this reason, but I'd deal with it XD
@eatyourmumshead Unfortunately it wasn't them. Kevin wanted to do something different so he left. But you should check out the Chroma Key albums he did. "Dead Air For Radios" is easily one of the best albums I've ever heard. Easily.
@eatyourmumshead Actually, when he was in DT his lyrics were amazing but if you listen to his post DT work like Chroma Key and OSI...his lyrics are rather lame for lack of a better term
This song is in Kevin Moore's solo work album "Music meant to be heard" without any other instrument than voice or piano, the reason why DT don't play this live is because this song is mostly Kevin's he worte the whole piano melody, he wrote the lyrics, maybe the others helped a bit, but it's like 75% Kevin 25% DT, so if they play it live it would be like a Kevin Moore's cover, which MP don't want to do because oft he differences between them, and yeah, after some research, Kev left becauseof MP
I cant Say Anything... i love you kevin...
Mirtohid 6 days ago
Moore's lyrics come alive in this song. When I listen to the Awake version, I have to remind myself that it is LaBrie singing.
kirbymaster5 3 weeks ago
porntoy is to dream theatre what brokenchair is to pink floyd.
irena7777777 4 weeks ago
i like kevin just a little better than rudess.also dont call derek a penis :c
theturkishgamer1 1 month ago
@theturkishgamer1 I think he was implying that Derek was very popular with the ladies.
BrianSou69 2 weeks ago
Was this available on some sort of Christmas CD released by DT...or is this something released by Kevin himself? I'd quite like to own this version...
fbhogg1234 1 month ago
@fbhogg1234 You can find this version on one of Kevin's solo albums "Music Meant to be Heard".
Jesusthedinosaurs 1 week ago
People named Kevin are problematic for Dream Theater.
MlKEPORNTOY 1 month ago
@MlKEPORNTOY I see wathya did there with Moore and La Brie at the same time
ab4foot11 1 month ago
@ab4foot11
Don't forget Kevin Shirley.
MlKEPORNTOY 1 month ago
@MlKEPORNTOY riiight. I totally forgot about him.
ab4foot11 1 month ago
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Kevin Moore is a faggot.
MlKEPORNTOY 2 months ago
@MlKEPORNTOY Obvious troll is obvious.
SomewhatRespectable 2 months ago
@MlKEPORNTOY Porn hate good music! Reminds me that you like Justify my love than this!
TheBrazenHell 1 month ago
beautiful.
ShepOz88 3 months ago
what would i give to be able to write songs like this!
FergusPateman 3 months ago
@FergusPateman I'd be happy to write something half as good.
caughtinaweb 3 months ago
i think kevin balanced all the technical skill of the rest of DT with his unique compositions, emotions, simple yet complex songs, his playing is just great with him on DT the band wouldnt have become progressive metal or mindless solos, it wouold have stayed DT
mksmrocks2 4 months ago 2
oh my god.... this is my favourite Dream Theater Song..
this song is pure emotions: at this time he was broken-hearted... he decided to leave the band...it was the last song he recorded with them... and when they recorded LaBrie's vocals for the song, they knew that Kevin is leaving... this is his swan song, his farewell to Dream Theater...
NickDrummerful 4 months ago
Jordan : Brain :: Kevin : Heart :: Derek : Penis
mikenh16 4 months ago 42
@mikenh16 TO be honest, derek ain't a penis.... he was there on a wrong time!
TheBrazenHell 1 month ago
this song shows that technical playing on the keyboard is not everything
Prosopagnosia11 4 months ago 6
kevin for emotion, derek for power, jordan for versatility... they may differ from their musical style but they're all awesome...
anthrmthrfckr 5 months ago 12
there are traces of OSI in this song demo, you can tell what he eventually implemented this style into YEAR later. amassing :D
tehatemachine 6 months ago
its sucks that they dont play this live
doorkman13 7 months ago
@doorkman13 well they did once a little recently
passion4drums 7 months ago
Obviously their best keyboard player, and one of the most talented keyboard players of all time
Doika86 8 months ago 7
I think its easy to pick favourites when listening to songs. This is one of the best DT songs ever. But the composition, leads, harmonies and piano parts in Scenes From a Memory and the Liquid Tension Experiment albums really show what Rudess is capable of. He's like the Guthrie Govan of keyboards for me, master of all arts.
Fuzzbuggy 8 months ago
kevin moore was actually awsome, but i believe jordan is better both in emotion and of coure ttechnique, which doesnt mean that kevin is bad
challengeleo 8 months ago
Kevin Moore STARTED this band. What do you mean probably the best? lol.
OpethPegeen 8 months ago
@OpethPegeen No he didn't. John, John, and Mike did.
DTxOctavariumx 8 months ago
@DTxOctavariumx
He formed the band Majesty with childhood friends guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung, who had recruited drummer Mike Portnoy (a fellow Long Islander) during their short enrollment at Berklee College of Music. Singer Chris Collins handled vocal duties for Majesty, but he was subsequently replaced by Charlie Dominici (and eventually James LaBrie) and the band was renamed Dream Theater.
OpethPegeen 7 months ago
@OpethPegeen Majesty by guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, and drummer Mike Portnoy while the three of them were attending Berklee College of Music. Straight from their documentary..
DTxOctavariumx 7 months ago
@DTxOctavariumx yeah Opeth, Kevmo didnt form the band. it was formed as Majesty by Mike Portnoy, and he, JP, and John Myung were all original members, and it was in the damn documentary. the other shit you said about other members was right, but you have the concept of DT's beginnings false.it was re-named Dream Theater by MP,after his dads suggestion because it was the name of a movie theater his dad used to go to, called Dream Theater.go learn your stuff Opeth...Me and Octavarium are right....
Jmast3r6046 6 months ago
@OpethPegeen no. no he didn't start the band..
passion4drums 7 months ago
Whose that voice?
depry93 9 months ago
@depry93 kevin moore
FahadOrfali1993 8 months ago
@depry93 Kev's voice
ironcult666 8 months ago
Awesome!
sinistershawn2001 9 months ago
Hearing this is mind-blowing. Like a very primordial preview of Chroma Key.
ajringg 9 months ago 2
It's needless to compare Rudess with Moore.
Rudess is skilled well educated on his instrument, but Kevin not just plays, he feels the music and can make you feel the same emotions too.
Z04RD 10 months ago
@Z04RD Rudess can also play with a lot of emotion, but I haven't seem any pure Rudess songs in DT except for Overture from SDOIT. But I know what you mean, never in my life have I seen a song like this. I'd really like to see DT make a song like this again. The slow songs in their recent album are really mainstream-ish, and their more complex songs end up being more emotional than the slower ones. :/
VexusFlytrap 10 months ago
@VexusFlytrap
Rudess is awesome too, but he just doesn't fit in DT.
I mean, according to MY taste, as I like DT. I Miss Kevin really much from the band. And now Portnoy is gone too. But there is O.S.I., so it's fine for me. Only a new album would be greate from that project. :)
Z04RD 10 months ago
@Z04RD I think Jordan fits a lot more in DT. His solos and complex keyboard parts are part of what DT is. Though I know what you mean, the earlier albums felt magical in a way, its something I later saw in the song SDOIT. It looks like DT has now turned too comercial to go back to their older style, or at the very least, the more experimental approach of SFaM. Rudess has done several wonderful & simple keyboard parts, but is quite rare from him, he tends to complicate things most of the time.
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Rudess is awesome too, but he just doesn't fit in DT. I mean, according to MY taste, as I like DT.
I miss Kevin really much from the band. And now Portnoy is gone too. But there is O.S.I., so it's fine for me. Only a new album would be greate from that project. :)
Z04RD 10 months ago
Ive never heard kevin sing...beautiful. Does anyone know where the "ivory box" speech comes from?
amithabajan2 11 months ago
@amithabajan2
It's from a movie called A Room With A View.
Also, if you dig him singing, check out his band, O.S.I. In my humble opinion, it's way better than recent Dream Theater.
nhonho23 10 months ago
@amithabajan2 - It's from the 1985 movie "A Room With a View"
TAZorich 10 months ago
@amithabajan2 - It's from the 1985 movie "A Room With a View"
TAZorich 10 months ago
Rudess / Moore = both awesome
T7Champ 11 months ago
Rudess and Moore are both amazing.
I wish Moore would occasionally write some more lyrics for them. He's an amazing lyricist.
CompulsiveDesigns 11 months ago
Rudess > Moore
ErikJonssonMusic 11 months ago
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lolno
nhonho23 10 months ago
@nhonho23 lolyes
ErikJonssonMusic 10 months ago
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you naughty naughty boy
nhonho23 10 months ago
Thumbs up if you used this song to get over a break up!
nolman91 1 year ago 6
@nolman91 lol, fuck you :D
wallytalivan 11 months ago
@nolman91 I am certainly trying. For some reason, this is the only song I can listen to now.
nekezajebancije 8 months ago
is too P. Floyd-like....i love this song...
rudess84 1 year ago
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I'm better than Jordan Rudess, and i've never played keyboards in my life.
PetrucciJ 1 year ago
Sunday January 23rd, 2011..James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess..could it end up sounding like this? (minus the samples and Kev's vocal lines)
SoundscapeMN 1 year ago
What...the...fuck...How am I just now finding out about this awesomeness?
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123456789j38 1 year ago
It's a well known fact James LaBrie ruptured his vocal chords on the Awake tour pining for Kevin to come back and right him a decent tune.
vaijones2002 1 year ago
Dream theater is a band of two careers - Kevin Moore and Post-Kevin Moore. He defined the sound and style that put the band on the map. Respect to Dream Theater for continuing to grow after he left, but it always is and will be Kevin Moore! His keyboard solos are sublime. And I'm a guitarist/petrucci fan and listen to Kevins playing with excitement as much as Petruccis. Jordans are widdley and I don't get it. Sherinian, never was a fan. It's a well known fact that James Labrie ruptured his voca
vaijones2002 1 year ago
@vaijones2002 Exactly my opinion.
guitaralafreak 9 months ago
Without Kevin Moore, Dream Theater simply is not the same band. Kevin brought soul into that band and I'm missing him so much in their later works.
Kevin Moore is the greatest since no one else could express the feelings through keyboard as he did.
agmonser 1 year ago 3
Temper temper. There's a big diferance in being a musician and just a fan!
tuckandrollification 1 year ago
...so how about that Derek Sherinian?
Slashe50 1 year ago
@Slashe50 lol
freetrader0000 1 year ago
@Slashe50 Derek was good as well, but he only really did FIF and changed the keyboard solos in A Change of Seasons. Unfortunately he was just about shredding. He have some great sounds, but I personally feel he isn't as technical as Rudess but he did have a little more emotion. I miss whenever Dream Theater had very emotional songs like this... the closest they came to triggering some sort of emotion after Moore left was Disappear, Vacant, and the Best of Times, and they didn't even come close.
usernamessuck58 1 year ago
@usernamessuck58 He was probably the most fun out of them though :P
Slashe50 1 year ago
@Slashe50 I don't know, have you watched Jordan's YouTube videos yet? He's pretty hilarious in the ones that show him touring with DT and doing random stuff like going into truck stops and Wendy's.
usernamessuck58 1 year ago
@usernamessuck58 True enough, yeah. It's always funny though watching Sherinian humping his synth onstage while playing the intro to Lines in the Sand.
Slashe50 1 year ago
@Slashe50 Absolutely, of course, I did forget to mention that Derek did have most of my favorite keyboard solos. Lines in the sand and Just Let Me Breath had some of my favorite keyboard solos of all time.
usernamessuck58 1 year ago
This is probably the best Dream Theater song in my opinion. Kevin was just the best guy for the band in my opinion. I love Rudess, from a technical standpoint he's the best musician I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, but from an emotional standpoint he is nothing compared to Kevin.
I miss Kevin's work with Dream Theater, but he felt it necessary to leave so I must respect that.
usernamessuck58 1 year ago 50
Never really ment that was the worst one of them all... just was uneasy with the change.
tuckandrollification 1 year ago
This is so sick! Way better with Kevin on Vocals. OSI should do a remake of this song
trumpetswim10 1 year ago
As a "hopeless romantic" kid learning piano, this was my favorite "contimporary" song. Back then I didn't follow the line up of bands, but noticed a huge difference in the band around the Scense Form A Memory album and I must say... I thought I waisted my 18 dollors on it. It just wasn't the same "band" to me. Now that I'm 30, JR is without a doubt a big inspiration to me. But DT just isn't what I grew up listening to. I think I respect JR's solo stuff more then DT these days. Sorry.
tuckandrollification 1 year ago
@tuckandrollification
are you kidding?
Scenes from a memory is one of the best concept albums of the last 20 years
chuckawobbly 1 year ago
@chuckawobbly
Well, what can I say? Yes it was a good album. The "rock-musical" vibe it has is brilliant. But when you've loved works like "Images and Words" and "Falling into Infinity", "Scense from a Memory" just seemed like too big of a change in styles of writing to come from the same band. Don't get me wrong, they've produced some really great stuff with Rudess. The wizard has brought a new intelect to the group. It just all crashed with thier previous works.
tuckandrollification 1 year ago
@tuckandrollification
Interesting.
It is strage that you feel its a weaker album, as this was the first album that they had full creative control, without the label breathing down their neck and second guessing every move they had.
Still, Their earlier works are amazing as well.
chuckawobbly 1 year ago
@chuckawobbly actually the first was metropolis.... the studio started hammering them on this album
TOAOM123 1 year ago
@tuckandrollification I will rain down your throat with hot acid, dissolve your testicles, and turn your guts into snakes. Now, go away.
freetrader0000 1 year ago
how I miss Kevin, the feeling DT had was because of him, the mix of prog music and his perfect harmonies made what we all DT fans missed so much
xavierkayser 1 year ago 3
maybe the best song on the Awake album !
Rorre65 1 year ago
While Rudess is definitely the ultimate keyboardist now a days, I gotta say I prefer kevmo´s compositions, deep, emotional, yet somehow simple, smooth, and musically complex. Rudess style is great for live performances and rock/metal music, but utilmately I just prefer kevmo´s armonies and cool bass arrangements over Rudess technicall awesomeness
peasant2general 1 year ago 74
where can i get this?
stiffaction 1 year ago
"Do you really think I need you?!"
bartvariumDT 1 year ago
their best song
nanino09 1 year ago
Where I can find the demf on MP3?
MoonRise93 1 year ago
this is 100% kevin morre they shouldnt have realized this as a dream theater song cause its totally not, they should have let kevin kept it
evaleet 1 year ago
@evaleet mike portnoy put the song on the album to try to appease kevin
EpsilonX 1 year ago
@evaleet They've actually said that if they'd known he was leaving, they wouldn't have put it on the album.
ProjectBurncan 1 year ago
Why can't Ruddess and Moore both be good? Both have their strengths and weaknesses, you don't have to have a favourite for everything, you know.
Acceleretto 1 year ago 5
He sounds kinda like David Gilmour.
Sonofanoob 1 year ago 2
@Sonofanoob I was about to say the same thing
froggo787 1 year ago
Simply amazing. I believe Kevin Moore was DT's best keyboardist. Jordan is good, as in Derek, but neither of them have the creativity of Moore.
12ultramagnus 1 year ago 4
If you like Kevin Moore, feel free to visit my fan website: The Mooreatorium. Search for it on Google.
Mebert78 1 year ago
Thanks for posting, DT rules and this is one of my favorite songs.
9r9t3 1 year ago
very awesome, how the heck did you get a hold of this man?
3bertface01 1 year ago
I think Kevin Moore is almost crying here.
As much as I've heard, at this point in his life, his girlfriend broke up with him. He saw a catalogue of clothes or something, and there was a girl wearing something called a Space-Dye Vest.
I guess he fell in love with her, and wrote the whole song about it...
I could be completely wrong, though.
nekezajebancije 1 year ago
@nekezajebancije, That would certainly fit with the opening verse;
"Falling through pages of Martens on Angels
Feeling my heart pull west
I saw the future dressed as a stranger
Love in a Space-Dye vest"
and the later verse;
"Found a new girl I think we can make it
As long as she stays on the page".
Really saddening actually... makes ya wanna hug him.
TsetTsyung 1 year ago
Hehehe, true... A friend told me that story.
I don't know where he found it and I didn't, though. :)
Anyways, I think he was that kind of people who when is sad, everybody else has to be, too.
I think that's one of the reasons they 'kicked' him out of DT...
Again, I could be wrong. :)
nekezajebancije 1 year ago
@nekezajebancije Kevin Moore wrote this after the recent end of a relationship. She ended it with him and he wasn't ready to end it. He had all of this love left to give, but no one to give it to. He saw the picture of the girl modeling the Space Dye Vest in a catalog he borrowed from Lisa Martens (John Myung's girlfriend at the time/hence the lyric "Falling through pages of Martens on angels"). He "fell in love" with the beautiful girl, then he realized, "I don't even know her." Beautiful song.
dmdollinar08 1 year ago 4
That's cool.
Anyways, my friend told me that story, and I couldn't get him to tell me how he knows it. :)
Where did you hear about it?
nekezajebancije 1 year ago
Wow, I was wondering a long time what the title ment. Now it makes sense, thanks :) Amazing song, btw, really love it, one of my favourites from DT.
Wilq59r 1 year ago
Hehehe, no prob, I didn't even know it till recently either. :)
Yup, this song is really a great addition to the best DT songs.
nekezajebancije 1 year ago
I just can't believe how many times i listened to this song yesterday, probably around 30 times. I seem have these bouts of space-dye-vest-ism every few weeks.
never mind vocal perfection, this version seems more heartfelt, as i'm sure mike portnoy's version of "the best of times" is
basshred 1 year ago
And I'll smile and I'll learn to pretend
And I'll never be open again
And I'll have no more dreams to defend
And I'll never be open again
LinkinPark198902 1 year ago 3
perfect song!
eraldogjr 2 years ago 3
una delle più belle canzoni di questo gruppo...
Giudice80 2 years ago
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really cool liricks....and so perfect song....but his voice is horrible lol
lakabragris 2 years ago
It's a demo, dude... That's just normal. :)
Vratig 2 years ago
It's a demo and personally I like his singing style. Check out his first Chroma Key cd. Might change your mind...
danimal97520 1 year ago
Gotta agree . "Dead Air For Radios" is perhaps my all time favorite album.
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StepFreq94 2 years ago
Stop to compare with Rudess....lets talk only about KEVIN! and how is able to transfer deep emotion and feelings through his songs...the melancholy...
manuelfantoni78 2 years ago 43
i think the same way..there´s no need to compare this two wonderfulls musician. And you´re right, Kevin really tuch deep with his notes
brunocammarata 2 years ago 2
how to u guys get so stupid?
chromakey84 2 years ago
really cool and interesting, +1 to kevin
riichy01 2 years ago 2
yeah I like Kevin Moore, like in Images and words...
But Rudess is better
Xolkyr 2 years ago
Moore had some pretty nice calm stuff but he couldn't deliver what DT wanted for like the more heavier and progressive music! Thanks any way Moore for this great music! Thanks for Rudess for his music too!
carlos17slb 2 years ago 4
@carlos17slb maybe not the heavier stuff, but he wrote a lot of the complicated progressive ideas for images and awake. plus i think he added something to the band the other keyboardist dont, not to say they arent talented
ShipsAreBurned 1 year ago
@ShipsAreBurned : IMHO, Moore leaving DT hurt them more lyrically than instrumentally. Rudess is a more than sufficient replacement for Moore, but Moore was DT's best lyricist.
Portnoy is consistently above-average, Petrucci is consistently inconsistent, and Myung [who is a great lyricist!] tends to write free-verse, and the other DT band members don't want to bother with the effort of putting his words to music.
Lunarsight 1 year ago
I'd say Petrucci was pretty decent during Images, Under a Glass Moon was a pretty well written song, I'd say more towards Train of Thought was when his writing went downhill, Black Clouds has some moments but it's all pretty bad.
DMCMaster550 1 year ago
@DMCMaster550 you don't like Black Clouds at all?
thygodofrock190 1 year ago
@thygodofrock190 I love Black Clouds don't get me wrong. It just seems like DT is losing their inspiration, it seemed like Petrucci was picking straws when he came up with the lyrics. Rite of Passage probably had the best lyrics and the most meaning. Count though musically fantastic had some pretty bad lyrics, and no offense to Portnoy but Best of Times was kind of cheesy especially when one considers Change of Seasons. Musically Black Clouds kills lyrically it's pretty bland.
DMCMaster550 1 year ago
@DMCMaster550 Yeah, i see what you mean. You look at their earlier stuff and most of it is really deep, their newer songs seem to just have a 1 dimensional thing going on don't really know how to explain it
thygodofrock190 1 year ago
@thygodofrock190 Yeah it's all straight-forward and there's nothing wrong with it but comparing the grandiose meaningful songs like Under a Glass Moon, Learning to Live and Voices to Nightmare to Remember there's a big difference. Personally I thought Systematic Chaos was a return to form, In the Presence of Enemies had deeper sub-text than just the main story, same with Ministry of Lost Souls. Six Degrees was the last album that had the abstract multi-meaning lyrics like Blind Faith.
DMCMaster550 1 year ago
@DMCMaster550 i really like the lyrics to count of tuscany.
EpsilonX 1 year ago
@EpsilonX CoT probably had the best lyrics on the album next to Rite of Passage. So I'll agree with you.
DMCMaster550 1 year ago
@DMCMaster550 Okay ill admit that some of the lyrics were pretty strange, but you cant deny that otherwise it was an amazing album.
BrandonDeep 1 year ago
@BrandonDeep Oh don't get me wrong the album is in fact amazing, I'm just really disappointed at the lyrical downfall of DT. Hopefuly Petrucci isn't gonna be grasping at straws for song ideas.
DMCMaster550 1 year ago
@carlos17slb you're full of it. Awake is one of their heaviest albums, and after Kevin left it was followed up by Falling Into Infinity which is one of their lightest....!
omgitsaoe 1 year ago
Sounds like Mikael from Opeth
DefiantDeath666 2 years ago
I'm mistaked thinking that's it isn't James LaBrie singing???
I think the voice is a bit different here than the "Awake"...it's possible?
In fact, i love this voice much more.
ElPayasete 2 years ago
read the info friend.
MultipleScrotum 2 years ago
Thanx!
I liked Kevin Moore...but now, I like more.
I prefer Moore than Rudes: Not all is technique, i think the good taste is better than the speed or the technique.
Thanks again, and excuse me my english: I'm spanish.
ElPayasete 2 years ago 3
Awesome, some good points you made there friend. And your English is very good.
MultipleScrotum 2 years ago
@ElPayasete ... soooo true! according to me, dream theater lost it a few years after kevin left. i mean, the era with derek is ok but after that it's been a long way down to some "we really want to do more liquid tension insane albums"-attitude. dream theater will always be good to listen to and study when learning to play an instrument. but to just listen to? ... nah, not for me.
Anoraqnophobia 2 years ago
read the info buddy
LinkinPark198902 2 years ago
read the comments lol
yhnbgtujm 2 years ago
It drives me insane, when people like you say lol without giving it any meaning, or maybe without knowing the meanings of it, i think you just want to show that you have your own opinion too and are relly important, but actually it is less of intelligence
LinkinPark198902 2 years ago
sounds like you need a girlfriend.
arguing on the internet is only for retardet people with no lives
yhnbgtujm 2 years ago
The insult is hilarious, but if you're going to say I'm retarded, at least spell correctly word.
LinkinPark198902 2 years ago
"at least spell correctly word."
hahahahahhaa
yhnbgtujm 2 years ago
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LinkinPark198902 2 years ago
i could still read what you wrote because a mail was sent to me ;)
yhnbgtujm 2 years ago
Hahaha, I hate that, they should change that somehow. :)
nekezajebancije 1 year ago
kevin is good but james is just so much better
gurusage142 2 years ago
Hey RockRulez124, go suck a fuckin cock. you dont like DT, dont fuckin cry about it on here. another thing, go fuck yourself.
DT4L!!!
WorldAnarchy15 2 years ago
fucking truth,agree buddy
LinkinPark198902 2 years ago
dont know why people say dt died after "X" album...They've gone downhill a bit but in every album theres at least one song that blows everyones minds. Take the new one for instance and tell me that the count of tuscany isnt fucking epic. Or Octavarium, or In the Name of God.
olastrax2 2 years ago 5
Quoted for truth.
RiseFromAshesXI 2 years ago
Moore was great! My favorite songs are written by him!
Naruto1151 2 years ago 3
I like most of the stuff DT's done, even their new stuff. It's not as good as the old, but better than a lot of the other stuff that's coming out, and enjoyable.
Ralhill 2 years ago
I wonder whether if DT more recent albums had been their first albums and their first albums there more recent albums, would their be a reverse of opinion regarding which albums are the best? The first time a heard SFAM and IAW it blew my mind, as Id never heard anything like it- maybe the later albums seem less injoyable not because they are less so intrinsically, but because DT's style isnt completely novel anymore?
acerpalamtum 2 years ago
@acerpalamtum
i think DT would be yelled at for changing their style much the way metallica was.
EpsilonX 1 year ago
beautiful song.
Roderik46 2 years ago
I used to like DT but now I just can´t stand their music. For me DT died after SDOIT. It´s just my opinion and I respect if someone thinks that I´m wrong, but for me DT doesn´t deserve to play this song live, this song it´s too beatiful for them, although I prefer Jame´s voice than Moore´s.
amjch70 2 years ago
I can understand a half of your post. Yeah, I can see how people think DT died after SDOIT (some say after SFaM), but if DT "deserved" playing The Dark Side of the Moon, Comfortably Numb etc, they "deserve" playing a fairly nice song they're copyrighted for. It's quite sad they don't IMO, even sadder they haven't played the album the song's at because of this reason, but I'd deal with it XD
RockRulez124 2 years ago
check out the song octavarium. i agree DT have gone downhill but octavarium is in my opinion their best song
0ngus 2 years ago 2
Dt never played this song live btw...one of the only DT songs never played live
ringojam 2 years ago
Hell's Kitchen has never been played live in it's entirety
Sonarion 2 years ago
While Rudess is ultimately a better keyboardist, Moore is a phenomenal lyricist. They should've kept him around, at least to write songs.
eatyourmumshead 2 years ago 21
@eatyourmumshead They would have had to enslave him to keep him around...he quit...
SLonergan59 1 year ago 4
@eatyourmumshead Have you ever listened to O.S.I. (Office of Strategic Influence)?
davidoff013 1 year ago
@eatyourmumshead Unfortunately it wasn't them. Kevin wanted to do something different so he left. But you should check out the Chroma Key albums he did. "Dead Air For Radios" is easily one of the best albums I've ever heard. Easily.
danimal97520 1 year ago
@eatyourmumshead He left.
gnryeah 1 year ago
@eatyourmumshead Actually, when he was in DT his lyrics were amazing but if you listen to his post DT work like Chroma Key and OSI...his lyrics are rather lame for lack of a better term
blackrpg 1 year ago
@eatyourmumshead Moore didn't want to stay, so it wasn't a matter of "keeping him around".
cvg1099 1 year ago
@eatyourmumshead i agree, turns out EVERY one of my favorite (lyrically speaking) DT songs all turned out to be KevMo's work!
drummernathan123 1 year ago
good i liked it
Crawletas 2 years ago
Capolavoro!!!!!
ILVerro 2 years ago
good song
celedeox54 2 years ago
This song is in Kevin Moore's solo work album "Music meant to be heard" without any other instrument than voice or piano, the reason why DT don't play this live is because this song is mostly Kevin's he worte the whole piano melody, he wrote the lyrics, maybe the others helped a bit, but it's like 75% Kevin 25% DT, so if they play it live it would be like a Kevin Moore's cover, which MP don't want to do because oft he differences between them, and yeah, after some research, Kev left becauseof MP
Dapwner92 2 years ago