Dream Theater "unplugged" - 03 - Lifting Shadows Off a Dream 

james labrie is the voice of dream theater thatll never change!

I had this performance in audio, I didn't know it was from this show. I LOOOOVE the intro. Everyone (including me) goes nuts when the song properly starts.

This song is pure melodic genius. Can it be that A7X fans are finally hearing something they never knew existed? I am a fan from 20 years of all 25. It's about time that Americans stop being told what is in style for the era and start liking great music. I like A7X and some of the melodic unisons are awesome. It's about the music and not the era people. Thank you A7X for paying tribute to great music and letting the music labels know that you will respect great musicianship to honor your friend.

just soiled my pants....Prog rock at its finest!! Every instrument oozes with such harmony and melody

To those who say that DT is just a souless, tastesless prog-metal band... Haven't really heard the melodic side of DT, obviously.

Derek Sherinian is the man, this is and was the best dream theatre. He later went on to create a great solo album black utopia as well as attack with Yngwie Malmsteen.

This is by far my favorite DT song! It's just so well written and composed! Myung is the man!

I love this song...It's amazing Dream Theater forever...and now I'm waiting for the live show here in Rome the 26th of October...yeah

Beautiful song by John Myung right here people. Simply the greatest bassist ever!!!!

I love the extended intro, very nice and tranquil :)

myung´s lyrics are he best, myung identifies me and makes me think much

wow, listen to these beautiful harmonics on bass on that jam before the intro, amazing

I LOVE THIS VERSION!!!

What a great Intro! Damn,... thats Emotion

thansk ffor takin the time to put these up, i love em

Thanks for sharing these, love them !

It's part of the extra footage off of the double features DVD "Images and Word Live in Tokyo / 5 Years in a Livetime" :)

MTV came up with the unplugged concept to demonstrate raw talent. When DT did it without their promotion or permission they must have been like... this is our show and we control everything so fuck these guys, even though they just made every band we've featured look like a bunch of amateurs.

yeah thanks...I saw the setlist. I think I'm gonna faint: Finally Free, Trial Of Tears, Pull Me Under. I can't wait to see them!

I love this song so much.

this is an increbible song, always has been

Gotta agree with you there.. LOVE that stuff!

Labries food poisoning incident happened in early 1995 maybe late 1994. this was recorded in 1998.

simply amazing

yeah ChiaraDedo, io nel 92 avevo solo 8 anni, ma se ne avessi avuto qualcuno in più sarei andato di brutto a un live di I&W

I know how you feel. It seems Myung very much communicates with emotion. But doesn't show it physically. But he definitely expresses it through song. He seems to say: We might be quiet, But we have big souls with lots of feeling.

I cant wait for their new album!

The best one IMO!

ありがとう！！tankxs!

Y la que siempre me ha gustado, por sobre todas las demás.

demaciado lindo este tema

Man I miss those MP harmonies

some of the elements from dream theater's songs sound almost marillionesque!

@jsga10 It doesn't matter. They are Dream Theater, this performance sounds awsome!

What a intro!

this is awesome

JAMES WAS SUPERB IN HIS WINTER ROSE DAYS AND WHEN DREAM AND DAY UNITE..I HATE HIS VOICE ON AWAKE..BUT I SENSE HIS POWER AND RANGE REVIVED ON THEIR SCORE CONCERT DVD..HE'S MY FAVORITE SINGER OF ALL TIME..HE'S UNIQUE

fuck all ..this is the best live song ever...the interlude its magestic!!!!

great bass intro

04:21 and so on is heavenly....

I don't hate James. But this song would have been much better with a raw piano, trying to emulate a jazz song... not his parts. It's about the decisions made for this particular song. Besides that, I love his work.

yeah...

Que intro mas buena !

James sounds amazing, here, considering he was in one of his worst periods.

Have it ! :D

@IronTheater95 And that's why the video title says "unplugged" - not unplugged.

it's a matter of candles. ;)

@deathscythekim729 You're fucking awesome man... just like Labrie is ! Thumbs up for you !!!

It says unplugged because a part of that show was unplugged. Maybe the clip here on youtube was mis-labeled or something though.

do agree really, but well, knowing DT this is actually the more likely to an unplugged.

Before James? Labrie has been with the band since 1990. the awake albums was released in 1994.

unplugged as hell ;)

loco demais

John IS epic ;) (I mean John Myung not Petrucci :P --- although Petucci is epic too... :P)

! ı had always thought sherinian is more feminine with the plucked eyebrows and so on :p

Guns in Rose

It's completely plugged.

they're plugged in... but it's awesome anyway.

@deathscythekim729 oops..i meant IMAGES AND WORDS

aja, correcto, ven velas, ya, "unplugged"

you're right. and he should never have that kind of hair again!

It looks like a Yamaha TRB1006. I might be wrong. Its hard to make out due to the poor lighting.

@VanishingDigital i mean Images & words.. okay I'm wrong calm down

can anyone tell me wich bass myung is playing?

as far as I know he's an Yamaha endorser, but I'm not sure wich one he's playing on this vid

I've been a fan of Dream Theater for over a decade...but most of Mike's drumming here is too hard hitting for a song like this. Thumbs up if you agree.

its that brooke shields singing?? :P

Dream teachers

MYUNG WITH A MICROPHONE :|?

@Royzilber Yeah that's right hahaha

muy muy chingon poca madre mexico

yeah, the ibanes was......abstract

great show, but whats unplugged about it?

what is that shirt james is wearing haha?

I thought the same !!! and i think my reaccion was also the same: wtf?

this is not unplugged I mean Petrucci is using his ELECTRIC Ibanez, how is that unplugged?

where can i find this dvd?

is this for sale in cd?

!!! d-did he sing or just say "thank you" at the end of the show???

I'm number 69,666......... sweet

Portnoy should calm down on this song...

Oh, Portnoy..

Lol... I just remembered that this song is before James.

myoung or petrucci? lol

omg, so i got caps-lock anger spams, i didn't know that disease existed, man you are such a brilliant doctor discovering new diseases. stop spamming, and, you reaaaaally need to get a life, fast.

@alanschamber hes great, but hes only rock, myung is all genres

WTF 3

@Royzilber ajajaja you coment is patetic...

Not so unplugged

That isn't very unplugged lol.

This song would be better without vocals :P