I saw DT perform this with him on the Awake tour. DS is a killer keyboard player. He has balls to his playing that is lacking in a lot of keyboard players. It's actually impossible to knock against any of the DT keyboardists as they're all amazing and I wish I could play as good as any of them. I really miss Kevin Moore's magic and his lyrical genius. DT misses his song writing. Derek was an amazing replacement and I think tonally the best of all the DT keyboardists. I've seen Jordan Rudess play solo and his technique is jaw dropping, but IMHO his tone and "wankery" don't emotionally connect with me. Jordan is an incomparable musician but I yearn for some of the other things that Kevin and Derek brought to the band.
I'd give you two thumbs up if I could. I totally agree in every way. I can only add that where Moore and Sherinian complemented the DT sound, I find that Rudess grates and dominates in ways that just ruin it for me. I only wish that Derek had stuck with the band. Who knows how great that might have been?
@@janiikavalko6223 you wrote a very nice writeup here… agree with you, kevin moore is missed. I wish he would do something else with chroma key.. or with Matheos.
If you make music on a high level yourself you cant not analyse - you will auto analyse everythings - if you then know the song you know how often Tony is fucking up here. Dosnt make it a bad performance since everyone (even Petrucci) dosnt play this cleanly through usually. Theres allways something wrong - nobody is perfect - if that woud be it woud sound like midi right? Truth is - Tony was ok for biggest part of the song but specally ending of the solo was totaly fucked - shit happens - move on.
@@dynamicdissonance4016 It's all subject to opinion. I can play not too bad myself i must admit. But I never thought Tony f*cked up anything in this solo.
If the talent these vurtuosoes have meant a bigger paycheck, they would do a lot bettter than all these pop wannabe artist that make music with computer. I am lucky enough to go see Mr. Mac in a month in Ottawa. How lucky would I be if all these guys were there???
Tony Mac the " Kick ass Shredder with Groove and Feel" smashing that 8 string Ibanez...... Love it ... A great version of a classic dream theater number .....
This is where it started, as a Sherinian Instrumental. When people badmouth FII and Sherinian, they're forgetting he wrote the best track on the album! Petrucci is responsible for most of the stuff people hate on.
Mac Alpine doesn't butcher anything, not with his level of experience. He has tremendously smooth control and note execution. Also he knows how to compensate.
I recommend everyone to listen to the first solo albums of Macalpine. Incredible technique and really good songs. What you can see here doesn't make justice of his playing. He is also a fine pianist.
We often forget that falling into infinity is a very good album, so unique... its sound is great as well as ist songs such as new millenium, lines in the sand, hell's kitchen
Man, it's so good to see how much fun they're having playing together. It's always such a treat to just see musicians enjoy getting lost in the music. Even on these songs they (Jerry Shayamalan and Mike) have been playing forever, it's still great to see how they're adding their own flavour and freshening it up.
Portnoy. OMG. This gigantic amount of talent combined with that cosmic amount of work makes mankinds best drummer. The song writing, the technique, the expression, the nuances, the enjoyment at its most enormouns level.
I Knew DT songs for the first time when DS was on Keyboards... I really like his stile , and for this song, TM was just fabulous on guitar! ES on Bass was impressive! Nice timeless register!!!! Thank you!!!
nycfunk Absolutely! I really enjoy listening to Tony and John but Tony is clearly the more versitile player. He did some great jazz-fusion albums with Dennis Chambers
Nailed it man. And another one that was doing it before it was cool, right along Tony was Vinnie f-ing Moore. To this day, these guys set the standard for inspiring prog metal guitar. hell... guitar in general.
Best drummer in the world would be in my opinion, Simon Philips. Simon can play paradiddles with his feet faster than most professional drummers including the late great Neil Peart.
This is one of my favorite DT songs. First time seeing it was at the House of Blues in Chicago with DT during the Awake tour. Then the kids grew up and I saw this lineup play this song with Jeff Scott Soto and Bublefoot in a Sons of Apollo Show. Amazing. This shred-monster McAlpine shows up and shreds on this video doing the song justice. Thank you for this performance. Epic.
I really love the guitar solo here (even if i don't particulary love the tone of the guitar) i liked the fact that this is not a note-for-note replica, the little changes of the rythm an the melody is really refreshing (same for the keyboard)
Tony doesn't tour with his band in my part of the world but he came here as the keyboardist in Vai's band. I went to that concert hoping to catch him playing the guitar just for a bit. Couldn't really care much for Vai. Lol.
Cuando escucho lo virtuosos que son. Siento inspiración y ganas de seguir practicando. When I listen to the virtues of these musicians, I just want to keep practicing. 🤘🎸🎵🎼
Kick ass job. Nice to see Tony playing with these guys. And Sheehan is down right monster on bass. I could tell Mike P. Was enjoying himself, that is good to see. Rock on guys.
I saw Shattered Fortress last year and blimey, hearing the DT songs with a different singer and MP on drums brought tears to my eyes. Massive concert. And Eric Gillette is a monster on guitar and vocals as well.
