Dream Theater

Dream Theater in September 1985, when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band to fill their spare time while attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They then met a drummer, Mike Portnoy, in one of the rehearsal rooms at Berklee, and after two days of negotiations, they managed to invite Mike Portnoy to join. After that, they all want to fill two vacant places in the band, and Petrucci asked his band mates, Kevin Moore, to be a keyboard player. He agreed, and when Chris Collins are invited to become a vocalist, the band was complete.

With five members, they decided to name the band by the name of Majesty. According to the documentation DVD Score, five of them were lined up tickets for the Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center while listening to Rush with a boom box. Portnoy said that the ending of the song (Bastille Day) sounds very "Majestic". That's when they decided Majesty is a good name for a band, and remains good until now.

At the time - that time, Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung is still struggling with their studies, also with a part-time work and teaching. Their schedules become tight tips so they must decide between pursuing a career in music or end the band Majesty. But eventually Majesty win and they all came out of Berklee to concentrate on music career.

Petrucci commented about this in the documentation DVD Score, said that while it is very difficult to ask his parents to go to music school. And more difficult again to convince her parents that she should get out of school. Moore is also finally out of school, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate with the band.

they have released eight studio albums, four live recordings and one short album (EP). Their first album, When Dream And Day Unite recorded with Charlie Dominici as Kevin Moore as vocalist and keyboards player. Dominici was much older than any other member and want to play other music, so he then came out of the group. They then look for an ideal replacement for 2 years until finally met with James LaBrie, the vocalist of Canada through the auditions.

Together they recorded LaBrie Images And Words that catapulted their name into the international ranks with the hit "Pull Me Under" and "Another Day". Awake is their final album with Moore who was later replaced by Derek Sherinian for the album Falling Into Infinity. Sherinian also eventually be replaced by Jordan Rudess and this formation still persist to this day. They have launched a concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory and a double album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. In 2003 they decided to record a non-concept album Train Of Thought is heavily influenced by thrash metal groups like Metallica.

Their album titled Octavarium issued on June 7, 2005 and in addition is the eighth studio album also contains eight tracks. After Dream Theater Live album launch them in commemorating 20 years of Dream Theater formed, entitled Score recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall, U.S.. They again preparing to launch their ninth album by carrying the flag of the new record label Roadrunner Records ie, they have completed the Systematic Chaos album which includes 8 songs and will be launched on June 5, 2007 in the U.S..

Some of the unique songwriting technique has been performed by Dream Theater, which mostly occur in the future - the present, when they can experiment with their own record label. Starting with the Train of Thought, Dream Theater has begun to enter elements - tiny and hidden elements in their music, and includes such elements to the more fanatical enthusiasts. Characteristics of the most famous (commonly called "nuggets") hidden in the "In the Name of God", which is the Morse code of "eat my ass and balls" (eat my ass and my cock), which is the word - the famous words of Mike Portnoy . Since then, many enthusiasts - Dream Theater enthusiasts began trying to find things - little things that usually do not appeal to ordinary enthusiasts.